The Book of the Prophet Esay, called Isaiah

(The Scriptures) The Book of the Prophet Esay, called Isaiah
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1:1: The_{|This is the|} prophesy of Esay the son of Amos, which he shewed upon Juda and Jerusalem in the time of Oziah, Joatham, Ahaz, and Jehezekiah, kings of Juda.
1:2: Hear O heaven hearken O earth, for the LORD speaketh: I have nourished and brought up children, and they are fallen away from me.
1:3: An ox knoweth his lord,_|Lorde| and an Ass his master's stall, but Israel knoweth nothing, my people hath no understanding.
1:4: Alas for this sinful people, which are expert in blasphemies, a froward generation, unnatural children. They have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the holy one of Israel unto anger, and are gone backward.
1:5: Wherefore should ye be plagued any more? For ye are ever falling away. The whole head is sick, and the heart is very heavy.
1:6: From the sole of the foot unto the head, there is no whole part in all your body: but all are wounds, botches, sores and stripes, which can neither be helped, bound up, molified, nor eased with any ointment.
1:7: Your land lieth waste, your cities are brent up, your enemies devour your land, and ye must be fain to stand, and look upon it: and it is desolate, as it were with enemies in a battle.
1:8: Moreover the daughter of Sion is left alone like a cottage in a vineyard, like a watch house in time of war, like a besieged city.
1:9: And except the LORD of Hosts had left us a few alive: we should have been as Sodoma, and like unto Gomorra.
1:10: Hear the word of the LORD ye tyrants of Sodoma: and hearken unto the law of our God, thou people of Gomorra.
1:11: Why offer ye so many sacrifices unto me? I am discontent for the brentofferings of wethers, and with the fatness of fed beasts. I have no pleasure in the blood of bullocks, lambs, and goats.
1:12: When ye appear before me, who requireth you to tread within my porches?
1:13: Offer me no more oblations, for it is but lost labour. I abhor your incense. I may not away with your new moons, your Sabbaths and solempne days. Your fastings are also in vain.
1:14: I hate your new holy days and fastings, even from my very heart. They make me weary, I can not abide them.
1:15: Though ye hold out your hands, yet turn I my eyes from you. And though ye make many prayers, yet hear I nothing at all, for your hands are full of blood.
1:16: Wash you, make you clean, put away your evil thoughts out of my sight, cease from doing of evil and violence._{{Wash and be clean: put away the wickedness of your imaginations out of my sight. Cease to do evil and learn to do well.}}
1:17: Learn to do right, apply yourselves to equity, deliver the oppressed, help the fatherless to his right, let the widows complaint come before you._{{Study to do righteously and help the oppressed. Avenge the fatherless and defend the cause of widows.}}
1:18: Now go to (sayeth the LORD) we will walk together. Is it not so? Though your sins be as red as scarlet, shall they not be whiter than snow? And though they were like purple, shall they not be like white wool?_{{Come let us shew each his grief to other and make an atonement saith the LORD. And so though your sins be like to purple, they shall be made as white as snow, and though they be as red as scarlet, they shall be made like white wool.}}
1:19: Is it not so? If ye be loving and obedient, ye shall enjoy the best thing that groweth in the land._{{If ye will agree and hearken, ye shall eat the best of the land saith the Lord God.}}
1:20: But if ye be obstinate and rebellious, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for thus the LORD hath promised with his own mouth.
1:21: How happeneth it then that the righteous city (which was full of equity) is become unfaithful as an whore? righteousness dwelt in it, but now murder.
1:22: Thy silver is turned to dross, and thy wine mixt with water.
1:23: Thy princes are traitors and companions of thieves. They love gifts altogether, and follow rewards. As for the fatherless, they help him not to his right, neither will they let the widows causes come before them.
1:24: Therefore speaketh the Lord GOD_{|LORDE God|} of Hosts the mighty one of Israel: Ah, I must ease me of mine enemies, and avenge me upon them.
1:25: And therefore shall I lay my hand upon thee, and burn out thy dross from the finest and purest, and put out all thy lead,
1:26: and set thy judges again as they were sometime, and thy Senators as they were from the beginning. Then shalt thou be called the righteous city, the faithful city.
1:27: But Sion shall be redeemed with equity, and her captivity with righteousness.
1:28: For the transgressors and ungodly, and such as are become unfaithful unto the LORD, must altogether be utterly destroyed.
1:29: And except ye be ashamed of the oak trees wherein ye have so delighted, and of the gardens that ye have chosen:
1:30: Ye shall be as an oak whose leaves are fallen away, and as a garden that hath no moistness.
1:31: And as for the glory of these things, it shall be turned to dry straw, and he that made them to a spark. And they shall both burn together, so that no man shall be able to quench them.

2:1: Moreover this was the word that was opened unto Esay the son of Amos, upon Juda and Jerusalem._{{The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw in a vision, concerning Judah and Jerusalem.}}
2:2: It will be also in process of time: That the hill where the house of the LORD is builded, shall be the chief among the hills, and exalted above all little hills. And all the Heathen shall prease unto him. And the multitude of people shall go unto him,_{{It shall come to pass in the last days that the mount of the house of the LORD, shall be set in the top of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills: and all nations shall resort thereto.}}
2:3: speaking thus one unto another: up, let us go to the hill of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob: that he may shew us his way, and that we may walk in his paths. For the law shall come out of Sion, and the word of God from Jerusalem,_{{And much people shall go and say: come and let us go up to the hill of the LORD and unto the house of the God of Jacob: that he may teach us his ways, and that we may walk in his paths. For out of Sion shall come the law, and the word of God out of Jerusalem.}}
2:4: and shall give sentence among the Heathen, and shall reform the multitude of people: So that they shall break their swords and spears, to make scythes, sicles and saws thereof. From that time forth shall not one people lift up weapon against another, neither shall they learn to fight from thenceforth._{{And he shall be judge among the heathen and tell many nations their faults. And they shall turn their swords into mattocks and their spears into scythes. One nation shall not lift up a sword against another, neither shall they teach to war any more.}}
2:5: It is to thee that I cry (O house of Jacob) up, let us walk in the light of the LORD._{{O house of Jacob come and let us walk in the light of the LORD.}}
2:6: But thou art scattered abroad with thy people (O house of Jacob) for ye go far beyond your fathers, whether it be in Sorcerers (who ye had as the Philistines had) or in calkers of men's births, whereof ye have too many.
2:7: As soon as your land was full of silver and gold, and no end of your treasure: so soon as your land was full of strong horses and no end of your chariots:
2:8: Immediately was it full of Idols also, even works of your own hands, which ye yourselves have fashioned, and your fingers have made.
2:9: There kneeleth the man, there falleth the man down before thee, so that thou canst not bring him away from thence.
2:10: And therefore get thee soon in to some rock, and hide thee in the ground from the sight of the fearful judge, and from the glory of his Majesty:
2:11: Which casteth down the high looks of presumptuous persons, and bringeth low the pride of man, and he only shall be exalted in the day.
2:12: For the day of the LORD of Hosts shall go over all pride and presumption, upon all them that exalt themselves, and shall bring them all down:
2:13: upon all high stout Cedar trees of Libanus, and upon all the oaks of Basan,
2:14: upon all high hills, and upon all stout mountains,
2:15: upon all costly towers, and upon all strong walls,
2:16: upon all ships of the sea, and upon everything that is glorious and pleasant to look upon.
2:17: And it shall bring down the pride of man, and lay man's presumptuousness full low, and the LORD shall only have the victory in that day.
2:18: But the Idols shall utterly be rooted out.
2:19: Men shall creep into holes of stone, and into caves of the earth, from the sight of the fearful judge, and from the glory of his majesty: what time as he shall make him up to shake the earth.
2:20: Then, then shall man cast away his gods of silver and gold, (which he nevertheless had made to honour them) unto Moles and Backes,_|bats|
2:21: that he may the better creep into the caves and rocks, and into the cliffs of hard stones, from the sight of the fearful judge and from the glory of his Majesty.
2:22: Every man can eschew a person moved in anger, for what doth he wisely?

3:1: Even so shall the LORD of Hosts take away from Jerusalem and Juda, all possessions and power, all meat and drink,
3:2: the captain and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the wise and the aged man,
3:3: the worshipful of fifty year old, and the honorable: the Senators, and men of understanding: the masters of crafts and orators.
3:4: And I shall give you children to be your princes, (sayeth the LORD) and babes shall have the rule of you.
3:5: One shall ever be doing violence and wrong to another. The boy shall presume against the elder, and the vile person against the honorable.
3:6: Yea one shall take a friend of his own kindred by the bosom, and say: Thou hast clothing, thou shalt be our head, for thou mayest keep us from this fall and peril.
3:7: Then shall he swear and say: I can not help you. Moreover, there is neither meat nor clothing in my house, make me no ruler of the people.
3:8: For Jerusalem and Juda must decay, because that both their words and counsels are against the LORD, they provoke the presence of his Majesty unto anger.
3:9: The changing of their countenance betrayeth them, yea they declare their own sins themselves, as the Sodomites, and hide them not. Woe be unto their souls, for they shall be heavily rewarded.
3:10: Then shall they say: O happy are the godly, for they may enjoy the fruits of their studies.
3:11: But woe be unto the ungodly and unrighteous for they shall be rewarded after their works.
3:12: O my people, ribaudes oppress thee, and women have rule of thee. O my people, thy leaders deceive thee, and tread out the way of thy footsteps.
3:13: The LORD is here to commune_|comon| of the matter, and standeth to give judgement with the people.
3:14: The LORD shall come forth to reason with the Senators and princes of his people, and shall say thus unto them: It is ye that have burnt up my vineyard, the robbery of the poor is in your house.
3:15: Wherefore do ye oppress my people, and marred the faces of the innocents? thus shall the Lord GOD_{|LORDE God|} of Hosts revile them.
3:16: Moreover thus sayeth the LORD: Seeing the daughters of Sion are become so proud, and come in with stretched out necks, and with vain wanton eyes: seeing they come in tripping so nicely with their feet:
3:17: Therefore shall the Lord shave the heads of the daughters of Sion, and make their beauty bare in that day.
3:18: In that day shall the Lord take away the gorgeousness of their apparel, and spangles, chains, partlets,
3:19: and collars, bracelets and hooves,
3:20: the goodly flowered wide and broidered raiment, brushes and headbands,
3:21: rings and garlands,
3:22: holy day clothes and vails, kerchiefs and pins,
3:23: glasses and smocks, bonnets and taches.
3:24: And instead of good smell there shall be stink among them. And for their girdles there shall be lowse bands._|bonds| And for well set hair there shall be baldness. Instead of a stomacher, a sackcloth, and for their beauty witherdness and sunburning.
3:25: Their husbands and their mighty men shall perish with the sword in battle.
3:26: At that time shall their gates mourn and complain, and they shall sit as desolate folk upon the earth.

4:1: Then shall seven wives take hold of one man, and say: We will lay all our meat and clothing together in common, only that we may be called thy wives, and that this shameful reproof may be taken from us.
4:2: After that time shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and mighty, and the fruit of the earth shall be fair and pleasant for those Israelites that shall spring thereof.
4:3: Then shall the remnant in Sion and the remnant at Jerusalem be called holy: namely all such as are written among the living at Jerusalem:
4:4: What time as the Lord_|LORDE| shall wash away the desolation of the daughters of Sion, and purge the blood out from Jerusalem with the wind of his smoke and fire.
4:5: Moreover upon all the dwellings of the hill of Sion and upon their whole congregation, shall the LORD provide a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for all their glory shall be preserved.
4:6: And Jerusalem shall be a tabernacle for a shadow because of heat in the day time, and place and refuge where a man may keep him for weather and rain.

5:1: Now well then, I will sing my beloved friend a song of his vineyard. My beloved friend hath a vineyard in a very fruitful plenteous ground.
5:2: This he hedged, this he walled round about, and planted it with goodly grapes. In the middest of it builded he a tower, and made a wine press therein. And afterward when he looked that it should bring him grapes, it brought forth thorns.
5:3: I shew you now my cause (O ye Citizens of Jerusalem and whole Juda:) Judge, I pray you, betwixt me: and my vineyard.
5:4: What more could have been done for it, that I have not done? Wherefore than hath it given thorns, where I looked to have had grapes of it?
5:5: Well, I shall tell you how I will do with my vineyard: I will take the hedge from it, that it may perish, and break down the wall, that it may be trodden under foot.
5:6: I will lay it waste, that it shall neither be twisted nor cut, but bear thorns and briers. I will also forbid the clouds, that they shall not rain upon it.
5:7: As for the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts it is the house of Israel, and whole Juda his fair planting. Of these he looked for equity, but see there is wrong: for righteousness; Lo; It is but misery.
5:8: Woe be unto you that join one house to another, and bring one land so nigh unto another, till ye can get no more ground. Will ye dwell upon the earth alone?
5:9: The LORD of Hosts roundeth me thus in mine ear: shall not many greater and more gorgeous houses be so waste, that no man shall dwell in them?
5:10: And ten acres of vines shall give but a Quart, and thirty bushels of seed shall give but three.
5:11: Woe unto them that rise up early to use themselves in drunkenness, and yet at night are more superfluous with wine.
5:12: In those companies are harps and lutes, tabrets and pipes, and wine. But they regard not the work of the LORD, and consider not the operation of his hands.
5:13: Therefore cometh my folk also in captivity, because they have no understanding. Their glory shall be mixt with hunger, and their pride shall be marred for thirst.
5:14: Therefore gapeth hell, and openeth her mouth marvelous wide: that pride boasting_|boosting| and wisdom, with such as rejoice therein, may descend into it.
5:15: Thus shall man have a fall, he shall be brought low, and the high looks of the proud laid down.
5:16: But the LORD of Hosts, that holy God: shall be exalted and untouched, when he shall declare his equity and righteousness after this manner:
5:17: Then shall the lambs eat their appointed fodder, and shall feed plentiously in the mountains.
5:18: Woe be unto vain persons, that draw wickedness unto them, as it were with a cord: and sin, as it were with a cart rope.
5:19: Which use to speak on this manner: Let him make haste now, and go forth with his work, that we may see it. Let that counsel of the holy one of Israel come, and draw nye, that we may know it.
5:20: Woe be unto them that call evil good, and good evil: which make darkness light, and light darkness, that make sour sweet, and sweet sour.
5:21: Woe be unto them that are wise in their own sight, and think themselves to have understanding.
5:22: Woe be unto them that are cunning men to sup out wine and expert to set up drunkenness.
5:23: These give sentence with the ungodly for rewards, but condemn the just cause of the righteous.
5:24: Therefore like as fire licketh up the straw, and as the flame consumeth the stubble: Even so (when their root is full) their blossom shall vanish away like dust or smoke: for they despise the law of the LORD of Hosts, and blaspheme the word of the holy maker of Israel.
5:25: Therefore is the wrath of the LORD kindled also against his people, and he shaketh his hand at them: yea he shall smite so, that the hills shall tremble. And their carcasses shall lie in the open streets, like mire. After all this, the wrath of God shall not cease, but he shall stretch his hand wider.
5:26: And he shall give a token unto a strange people, and call unto them in a far country: and behold, they shall come hastily with speed.
5:27: There is not one faint or feeble among them, no not a sluggish nor slippery person. There shall not one of them put off the girdle from his loins, nor loose_|lowse| the latchet of his shoe.
5:28: Their arrows are sharp, and their bows bent. Their horses' hoofs are like flint, and their cart wheels like a stormy wind.
5:29: Their cry is as it were of a lion, and the roaring of them like lion's whelps. They shall roar, and haunch up the prey, and no man shall recover it or get it from them.
5:30: In that day they shall be so fierce upon them, as the sea. And if we look unto the land, behold, it shall be all darkness and sorrow. If we look to heaven: behold, it shall be dark with careful desperation.

6:1: In the same year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord_|LORDE| sitting upon an high and glorious seat, and his train filled the palace.
6:2: From above flakerd the Seraphins, where of every one had six wings. With twain each covered his face, with twain his feet, and with twain did he fly.
6:3: They cried also each one to other on this manner: holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of Hosts. The whole world is full of his glory.
6:4: Yea the joists_|geastes| and doorcheecks_|doorchekes| moved at their crying, and the house was full of smoke.
6:5: Then I said: O woe is me. For I am astonied: that I (which am a man of unclean lips, and dwell among people that hath unclean lips also) should see the King and LORD of Hosts with mine eyes.
6:6: Then flew one of the Seraphins unto me, having a hot coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with the tongs,
6:7: and touched my mouth, and said: Lo, this hath touched thy mouth, and thine unrighteousness is taken away, and thy sin is forgiven.
6:8: After this I heard the voice of the Lord_|LORDE| taking advisement on this manner: Whom shall I send, and who will be our messenger? Then I said: Here am I, send me.
6:9: And so he said: Go, and tell this people: Ye shall hear indeed, but ye shall not understand, ye shall plainly see, and not perceive.
6:10: Harden the heart of this people, stop_{stoppe} their ears, and shut their eyes, that they see not with their eyes, hear not with their ears, and understand not with their heart, and convert and be healed.
6:11: Then spake I: Lord,_|LORDE| how long? And he answered: Until the cities be utterly without inhabiters, and the houses without men, till the land be also desolate, and lie unbuilded.
6:12: For the LORD shall take the men far away, so that the land shall lie waste.
6:13: Nevertheless, the tenth part shall remain therein, for it shall convert and be fruitful. And likewise as the Terebintes and Oak trees bring forth their fruits, so shall the holy seed have fruit.

7:1: It happened in the time of Ahaz the son of Joatham, which was the son of Oziah, king of Juda: that Razin the king of Syria, and Phakeh the son of Romeliah, king of Israel: went up toward Jerusalem to besiege it, but wanne it not.
7:2: Now when the house of David (that is Ahaz) heard word thereof, that Syria and Ephraim were confederate together: His heart quaked (yea and the hearts also of his people) like as a tree in the field, that is moved with the wind.
7:3: Then said GOD unto Esay: Go meet Ahaz, (thou, thy son Sear Jasub) at the head of the over pole, in the foot path by the fuller's ground,
7:4: and say unto him, take heed to thyself and be still, but fear not, neither be fainthearted, for these two tails: that is: for these two smoking firebrands, the wrath and furriousness of Rezin the Sirian and Romelies' son:
7:5: because that the king of Siria, Ephraim, and Romelies' son have wickedly conspired against thee,
7:6: saying: We will go down into Juda, vex them, and bring them under us, and set a king there, even the son of Tabeel.
7:7: For thus sayeth the Lord GOD_{|LORDE God|} there to; It shall not so go forth, neither come so to pass:
7:8: For the head city of the Sirians is Damascus, but the head of Damascus is Razin. And after five and threscore year, shall Ephraim be no more a people.
7:9: And the chief city of Ephraim is Samaria, but the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. And if ye believe not, there shall no promise be kept with you.
7:10: Moreover, GOD spake unto Ahaz, saying:
7:11: require a token of the LORD thy God, whether it be toward the depth beneath or toward the height above._{{Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God, from alow beneath, or from on high above.}}
7:12: Then said Ahaz: I will require none, neither will I tempt the LORD._{{But Ahaz answered I will not ask, neither will tempt the LORD.}}
7:13: The Lord_|LORDE| answered: Then hear to, ye of the house of David: Is it not enough for you, that ye be grievous unto men, but ye must grieve my God also?_{{Wherefore the LORD said: Hearken ye of the house of David: Is it so small a thing for you, to be grievous to men, but that ye should also be painful unto God?}}
7:14: And therefore the Lord shall give you a token of himself: Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Emmanuel._{{neverthelater yet the Lord, he will give you a sign. Behold a virgin shall be with child, and shall bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.}}
7:15: Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know the evil, and choose the good._{{He shall eat butter and honey, that he may have understanding to refuse the evil and to choose the good.}}
7:16: But or ever the child come to knowledge, to eschew the evil and chose the good: The land (that thou art so afraid for) shall be desolate of both her kings.
7:17: The LORD also shall send a time upon thee, upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, (such as never came since the time that Ephraim departed from Juda) thorow the king of the Assyrians.
7:18: For at the same time shall the LORD whistle for the flys that are about the water of Egypt, and for the Bees in the Assirian land.
7:19: These shall come, and shall light all in the valleys, and in the vaults_|vowtes| of stone, upon all green things, and in all corners.
7:20: At the same time shall the Lord_|LORDE| shave the hair of the head and the feet and the beard clean off, with the razor that he shall pay them withal beyond the water: namely, with the king of the Assirians.
7:21: At the same time shall a man live with a cow, and two sheep.
7:22: Then because of the abundance of milk, he shall make butter and eat it. So that every one which remaineth in the land, shall eat butter and honey.
7:23: At the same time all vineyards (though there be a thousand vines in one, and were sold for a thousand silverlings) shall be turned to briers and thorns.
7:24: Like as they shall come into the land with arrows and bows, so shall all the land become briers and thorns.
7:25: And as for all hills that now are hewn down, thou shalt not come upon them, for fear of briers and thorns. But the cattle shall be driven thither, and the sheep shall feed there.

8:1: Moreover the LORD said unto me: Take thee a great leaf, and write in it, as men do with a pen, that he speed him to rob, and haste him to spoil.
8:2: And immediately I called unto me faithful witnesses, Uriah the priest, and Zachariah the son of Barachiah.
8:3: After that went I unto the Prophetess, that now had conceived and born a son. Then said the LORD to me: give him this name: Maherschalal hashbas, that is: (a speedy robber: an hasty spoiler).
8:4: For why, or ever the child shall have knowledge to say: Abi and Im, (that is father, and mother): shall the riches of Damascus and the substance of Samaria be taken away, thorow the king of the Assirians.
8:5: The LORD spake also unto me, saying:
8:6: For so much as the people refuseth the still running water of Silo, and put their delight in Razin and Romelie's son:
8:7: Behold the Lord shall bring mighty and great floods of water upon them: namely, the king of the Assirians with all his power. Which shall pour out his furriousness upon every man, and run_|renne| over all their banks.
8:8: And shall break in upon Juda, increasing in power, till he get him by the throat. He shall fill also the wideness of thy land with his broad wings, O Emmanuel.
8:9: Go together ye people, and gather you, hearken to all ye of far countries. Muster you, and gather you: muster you and gather you,
8:10: take your counsel together, yet must your counsel come to nought: go in hand withal, yet shall it not prosper. Except Emmanuel: (that is God) be with us.
8:11: For the LORD chastised me, and took me by the hand, and warned me, saying unto me: that I should not walk in the ways of this people. He said moreover:
8:12: round with none of them, whosoever say: yonder people are bound together. Nevertheless fear them not, neither be afraid of them,
8:13: but sanctify the LORD of Hosts, let him be your fear and dread.
8:14: For he is the sanctifying, and stone to stumble at, the rock to fall upon, a snare and net to both the houses: to Israel, and the inhabiters of Jerusalem.
8:15: And many shall stumble, fall, and be broken upon him: yea they shall be snared and taken.
8:16: Now lay the witness together (said the Lord)_|LORDE| and seal the law with my disciples.
8:17: Thus I wait upon the LORD that hath turned his face from the house of Jacob, and I look unto him.
8:18: But lo, as for me, and the children which the LORD hath given me: we are a token and a wonder in Israel, for the LORD of Hosts' sake, which dwelleth upon the hill of Sion.
8:19: And therefore if they say unto you: ask counsel at the soothsayers, witches, charmers and conjurers, then make them this answer: Is there a people any where, that asketh not counsel at his God: whether it be concerning the dead, or the living?
8:20: If any man want light, let him look upon the law and the testimony whether they speak not after this meaning.
8:21: If he do not this he stumbleth and suffereth hunger. And if he suffer hunger, he is out of patience, and blasphemeth his king and his God. Then looketh he upward, and downward to the earth,
8:22: and behold, there is trouble and darkness vexation is round about him, and the cloud of error. And out of such adversity, shall he not escape.

9:1: Even like as in time past it hath been well seen, that the land of Zabulon and the land of Nephtali (where thorow the sea way goeth over Jordan in to the land of Galilee) was at the first in little trouble, but afterward sore vexed.
9:2: Nevertheless the people that have dwelt in darkness, shall see a great light. As for them that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them shall the light shine.
9:3: Shalt thou multiply the people, and not increase the joy also? They shall rejoice before thee even as men make merry in harvest, and as men that have gotten the victory, when they deal the spoil.
9:4: For thou shalt break the yoke of the people's burthen: the staff of his shoulder and the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of_|at| Madian.
9:5: Moreover all temerarious and seditious power (yea where there is but a coat filled with blood) shall be burnt, and fed the fire.
9:6: For unto us a child shall be born, and unto us a son shall be given. Upon his shoulders shall the kingdom lie, and he shall be called with his own name: the wonderous giver of counsel, the mighty God, the everlasting father, the Prince of peace,
9:7: he shall make no end to increase the kingdom and peace, and shall sit upon the seat of David and in his kingdom, to set up the same, to stablish it with equity and righteousness, from thence forth for evermore. This shall the jealousy of the LORD of hosts bring to pass.
9:8: The Lord sent a word in to Jacob, the same is come in to Israel.
9:9: And the people also of Ephraim, and they that dwell in Samaria, can say with pride and high stomachs, on this manner:
9:10: The tile work is fallen down, but we will build it with harder stones. The Mulberry timber is broken, but we shall set it up again with Cedar.
9:11: Nevertheless, the LORD shall prepare Razin the enemy against them, and so order their adversaries,
9:12: that the Sirians shall lay hold upon them before, and the Philistines behind, and so devour Israel with open mouth. After all this, the wrath of the Lord shall not cease, but yet his hand shall be stretched out still.
9:13: For the people turneth not unto him, that chastiseth them, neither do they seek the LORD of Hosts.
9:14: Therefore the LORD shall root out of Israel both head and tail, branch and twig in one day.
9:15: By the head, is understand_{|understonde|} the Senator and honorable man, and by the tail, the Prophet that preacheth lies.
9:16: For all they which enforme the people that they be in a right cause, such be deceivers. Such as men think also to be perfect among these, are but cast away.
9:17: Therefore shall the Lord_|LORDE| have no pleasure in their young men, neither favour their fatherless and widows. For they are all together hypocrites and wicked, and all their mouths speak folly. After all this shall not the Lord's_|LORDEs| wrath cease, but yet his hand shall be stretched out still.
9:18: For the ungodly burn, as a fire in the briers and thorns: And as it were out of a fire in a wood or a red_|read| bush, so ascendeth the smoke of their pride.
9:19: For this cause shall the wrath of the LORD of Hosts fall upon the land, and the people shall be consumed, as it were with fire, no man shall spare his brother.
9:20: If a man do turn him to the right hand, he shall famish, or to the left hand to eat, he shall not have enough. Every man shall eat the flesh of his own arm:
9:21: Manasses shall eat Ephraim and Ephraim Manasses, and they both shall eat Juda. After all this shall not the Lord's_|LORDES| wrath cease, but yet shall his hand be stretched out still.

10:1: Woe be unto you that make unrighteous laws, and devise things, which be too hard for to keep:
10:2: wherethorow the poor are oppressed, on every side, and the innocents of my people are therewith robbed of judgement: that widows may be your prey, and that ye may rob the fatherless.
10:3: What will ye do in time of the visitation and destruction, that shall come from far? To whom will ye run_|renne| for help? Or to whom will ye give your honour, that he may keep it?
10:4: That ye come not among the prisoners, or lie among the dead? After all this shall not the wrath of the Lord_|LORDE| cease, but yet shall his hand be stretched out still.
10:5: Woe be also unto Assur, which is a staff of my wrath, in whose hand is the rod of my punishment.
10:6: For I shall send him among those hypocritical_|ypocritish| people, among the people that have deserved my disfavour shall I send him: that he may utterly rob them, spoil them, and tread them down like the mire in the street.
10:7: Howbeit, his meaning is not so, neither thinketh his heart of this fashion. But he imagineth only, how he may overthrow and destroy much people,
10:8: for he sayeth: Are not my princes all kings?
10:9: Is not Calno as easy to win, as Charchamis? Is it harder to conquer Antiochia than Arphad? or is it lighter to overcome Damascus than Samaria?
10:10: As who say: I were able to win the kingdom of the Idolaters and their gods, but not Jerusalem and Samaria.
10:11: Shall I not do unto Jerusalem and their Images, as I did unto Samaria and their Images?
10:12: Wherefore the Lord_|LORDE| sayeth: As soon as I have performed my whole work upon the hill of Sion and Jerusalem, then will I also visit the noble and stout king of Assiria, with his wisdom and pride.
10:13: For he standeth thus in his own conceit: This do I, thorow the power of my own hand, and thorow my wisdom: For I am wise, I am he that remove the lands of the people, I rob their princes: and (like one of the worthies) I drive them from their high seats.
10:14: My hand hath found out the Hosts of the people, as it were a nest. And like as eggs, that were laid here and there, are gathered together: So do I gather all countries. And there is no man, that dare be so bold, as to touch a feather, that dare open his mouth, or once whisper.
10:15: But doth the axe boost itself, against him that heweth therewith? or doth the saw make any cracking, against him that ruleth it? That were even like, as if the rod did exalt itself against him that beareth it: or as though the staff should magnify itself, as who say: it were not wood.
10:16: Therefore shall the LORD of Hosts send him poverty in his riches, and burn up his power, as it were with a fire.
10:17: But the light of Israel shall be that fire, and his Sanctuary shall be the flame, and it shall kindle, and burn up his thorns and briers in one day.
10:18: Yea all the glory of his woods and fields shall be consumed with body and soul. As for himself, he shall be as one chased away.
10:19: The trees also of his field shall be of such a number that a child may tell them.
10:20: After that day shall the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped out of the house of Jacob, seek no more comfort at him that smote them, but shall comfort themselves with faithfulness and truth in the LORD, the holy one of Israel.
10:21: The remnant, yea and the Posterity of Jacob, shall convert unto God the mighty one.
10:22: For though thy people (O Israel) be as the sand of the sea, yet shall but the remnant of them only convert unto him. Perfect is the judgement of him that floweth in righteousness,
10:23: and therefore the LORD of Hosts shall perfectly fulfil the thing, that he hath determined in the middest of the whole world.
10:24: Therefore thus sayeth the Lord GOD_{|LORDE God|} of Hosts: Thou my people, that dwellest in Sion, be not afraid for the king of the Assirians: He shall wag his staff at thee, yea and beat thee with the rod, as the Egyptians did some time:
10:25: But soon after, shall my wrath and mine indignation be fulfilled against their blasphemies.
10:26: Moreover the LORD of Hosts shall prepare a scourge for him, like as was the punishment of Madian upon the mount of Oreb. And he shall lift up his rod over the sea, as he did sometime over the Egyptians.
10:27: Then shall his burthen be taken from thy shoulders, and his yoke from thy neck, yea the same yoke shall be corrupt for very fatness.
10:28: He shall come to Aiath, and go thorow toward Migron. But at Machmas shall he muster his Host,
10:29: and go over the fiord. Gabaah shall be their resting place, Rhamah shall be afraid, Gabaah Saul shall flee away.
10:30: The voice of the noise of thy horses, (O daughter of Gallim) shall be heard unto Laish and to Anathoth, which also shall be in trouble.
10:31: Madmena shall tremble for fear, but the citizens of Gabin are manly,
10:32: yet shall he remain at Nob that day. After that, shall he lift up his hand against the mount Sion, against the hill of Jerusalem.
10:33: But see, the Lord GOD_{|LORde God|} of Hosts shall take away the proud from thence, with fear. He shall hew down the proud, and fell the high minded.
10:34: The thorns of the wood shall be rooted out with iron, and Libanus shall have a mighty fall.

11:1: After this there shall come a rod forth of the Kindred of Jesse, and a blossom out of his root._{{There shall come a rod out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch shall spring out of his root.}}
11:2: The spirit of the LORD shall light it: the spirit of wisdom, and understanding: the spirit of counsel, and strength: the spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of God:_{{And on him shall light the spirit of the LORD: the spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the spirit of counsel and of strength, the spirit of know!edge and of reverence, and it shall make him savour of the fear of the LORde.}}
11:3: and shall make him fervent in the fear of GOD. For he shall not give sentence, after the thing that shall be brought before his eyes, neither reprove a matter at the first hearing:_{{And he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes: neither shall rebuke after the hearing of his ears.}}
11:4: but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and with holiness shall he reform the simple of the world. He shall smite the world with the staff of his mouth, and with the breath of his mouth shall he slay the wicked._{{But he shall judge the causes of the poor with righteousness, and shall rebuke with equity for the humble of the earth. And he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall slay the wicked.}}
11:5: Righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, truth and faithfulness, the girding up of his reins._{{And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.}}
11:6: Then shall the wolf dwell with the lamb, and the Leopard shall lie down by the goat. Bullocks, Lions and cattle shall keep company together, so that a little child shall drive them forth.
11:7: The cow and the Bear shall feed together, and their young ones shall lie together. The Lion shall eat straw like the ox, or the cow.
11:8: The child while he sucketh, shall have a desire to the serpents nest, and when he is weaned, he shall put his hand in to the Cockatrice' den.
11:9: No man shall do evil to another, no man shall destroy another, in all the hill of my Sanctuary. For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, even as though the water of the sea flowed over the earth.
11:10: Then shall the Gentiles enquire after the root of Jesse, (which shall be set up for a token unto the Gentiles) for his dwelling shall be glorious.
11:11: At the same time shall the Lord_|LORDE| take in hand again, to conquer the remnant of his people, (which are left alive) From the Assirians, Egyptians, Arabians, Morians, Elamites, Caldeies, Antiochians and Islands of the sea.
11:12: And he shall set up a token among the Gentiles, and gather together the dispersed of Israel, yea and the outcasts of Juda from the four corners of the world.
11:13: The hatred of Ephraim and the enmity of Judah shall be clean rooted out. Ephraim shall bear no evil will to Judah, and Judah shall not hate Ephraim:
11:14: but they both together shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the West: and spoil them together that dwell toward the East. The Idumites and the Moabites shall let their hands fall, and the Ammonites shall be obedient unto them.
11:15: The LORD also shall cleave the tongues of the Egyptian's sea, and with a mighty wind shall he lift up his hand over Nilus, and shall smite his seven streams and make men go over dry shod.
11:16: And thus shall he make a way for his people, that remaineth from the Assirians, like as it happened to the Israelites, what time they departed out of the land of Egypt.

12:1: So that then thou shalt say: O LORD, I thank thee, for thou wast displeased at me, but thou hast refrained thy wrath, and hast mercy upon me._{{I will praise thee O LORD, that though thou were angry with me, yet thine anger is turned, and thou hast comfort me.}}
12:2: Behold, God is my health, in whom I trust, and am not afraid. For the LORD GOD_{|LORDE God|} is my strength, and my praise, he also shall be my refuge._{{Behold God is my salvation: I will be bold therefore and not fear. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my praise whereof I sing: and is become my saviour.}}
12:3: Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of the Savioure,_{{And ye shall draw water in gladness out of the wells of salvation.}}
12:4: and then shall ye say: Lets us give thanks unto the LORD,_|lorde| and call upon his name, and declare his counsels among the people, and keep them in remembrance, for his name is excellent._{{And ye shall say in that day: give thanks unto the LORD: call on his name: make his deeds known among the heathen: remember that his name is high.}}
12:5: O sing praises unto the LORD, for he doth great things, as it is known in all the world._{{Lift up. Sing unto the LORD, for he hath done excellently, and that is known thorowout all the world.}}
12:6: Cry out, and be glad, thou that dwellest in Sion, for great is thy prince: the holy one of Israel._{{Cry and shout thou inhabiter of Sion, for great among you is the holy of Israel.}}

13:1: This is the heavy burthen of Babylon, which Esay the son of Amos did see.
13:2: Make some tokens to the high hills, call unto them, hold up your hand, that the princes may go in at the door.
13:3: For I will send for my deputies and my giants (sayeth the LORD) and in my wrath I will call for such, as triumph in my glory.
13:4: With that, me thought I heard in the mountains, a noise, like as it had been of a great people: and a rushing, as though the kingdoms of all nations had come together. (And the LORD of Hosts was the Captain of the whole army)
13:5: As they had come not only out of far countries, but also from the ends of the heavens: Even the LORD himself with the ministers of his wrath, to destroy the whole land.
13:6: Mourn therefore, for the day of the LORD is at hand, and cometh as a destroyer from the Almighty.
13:7: Then shall all hands be letten down, and all men's hearts shall melt away,
13:8: they shall stand in fear, carefulness and sorrow shall come upon them, and they shall have pain, as a woman that travaileth with child. One shall ever be abashed of another, and their faces shall burn like the flame.
13:9: For lo, the day of the LORD shall come, terrible, full of indignation and wrath: to make the land waste, and to root out the sin thereof.
13:10: For the stars and planets of heaven shall not give their light, the sun shall be quenched in the rising, and the moon will not shine with his light.
13:11: And I will punish the wickedness of the world, and the sins of the ungodly, sayeth the LORD. The high stomachs of the proud will I take away, and will lay down the boasting_|boosting| of tyrants.
13:12: I will make a man dearer than fine gold, and a man to be more worth, than a golden wedge of Ophir.
13:13: Moreover I will so shake the heaven, that the earth shall remove out of her place. Thus shall it go with Babylon in the wrath of the LORD of Hosts in the day of his fearful indignation.
13:14: And Babylon shall be as an hunted or chased doe, and as a flock without a shepherd. Every man shall turn to his own people, and flee each one into his own land.
13:15: Who so is found alone, shall be shot thorow: And who so gather together, shall be destroyed with the sword.
13:16: Their children shall be slain before their eyes, their houses spoiled, and their wives ravished.
13:17: For lo, I shall bring up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver, nor be desirous of gold.
13:18: Then shall young men's bows be knapped asunder. The Medes shall have no pity upon women with child, and their faces shall not spare the children.
13:19: And Babylon (that glory of kingdoms and beauty of the Caldees' honor) shall be destroyed, even as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorra.
13:20: It shall never be more inhabited, neither shall there be any more dwelling there, from generation to generation. The Arabians shall make no more tents there, neither shall the shepherds make their folds there any more:
13:21: but wild beasts shall lie there, and the houses shall be full of great Owls. Ostriches shall dwell there, and apes shall dance there:
13:22: the little owls shall cry in the palaces, one after another, and Dragons shall be in their pleasant parlors. And as for Babylon's time, it is at hand, and her days may not be long absent:

14:1: But the LORD will be merciful unto Jacob, and will take up Israel again, and set them in their own land. Strangers shall cleave unto them, and get them to the house of Jacob.
14:2: They shall take the people, and carry them home with them. And the house of Israel shall have them in possession for servants and maidens in the land of the LORD. They shall take those prisoners, whose captives they had been afore: and rule those that had oppressed them.
14:3: When the LORD now shall bring thee to rest, from the travail, fear, and hard bondage that thou wast laden with all:
14:4: Then shalt thou use this mockage upon the king of Babylon, and say: How happeneth that the oppressor leaveth off? Is the gold tribute come to an end?
14:5: Doubtless the LORD hath broken the staff of the ungodly, and the scepter of the lordly.
14:6: Which when he is wroth, smiteth the people with durable strokes, and in his wonders he persecuteth them, and tameth them continually.
14:7: And therefore the whole world is at rest and quietness, and men sing for joy.
14:8: Yea even the fir trees and Cedars of Libanus rejoice at thy fall, saying: Now that thou art laid down, there come no more up to destroy us.
14:9: Hell also trembleth at thy coming, all mighty men and princes of the earth, step forth before thee. All kings of the earth stand up from their seats,
14:10: that they may all (one after another) sing and speak unto thee. Art thou wounded also as we? art thou become like unto us?
14:11: Thy pomp and thy pride is gone down to hell: Moths shall be laid under thee, and worms shall be thy covering.
14:12: How art thou fallen from heaven, (O Lucifer) thou fair morning child? hast thou gotten a fall even to the ground, thou that (notwithstanding) didst subdue the people?
14:13: And yet thou thoughtest in thine heart: I will climb up into heaven, and make my seat above the stars of God, I will sit upon the glorious mount toward the North,
14:14: I will climb up above the clouds, and will be like the highest of all.
14:15: Yet dare I lay, that thou shalt be brought down to the deep of hell.
14:16: They that see thee, shall narrowly look upon thee, and think in themselves, saying: Is this the man, that brought all lands in fear, and made the kingdoms afraid:
14:17: Is this he that made the world in a manner waste, and laid the cities to the ground, which let not his prisoners go home?
14:18: How happeneth it, that the kings of all people lie, every one at home in his own palace, with worship,
14:19: and thou art cast out of thy grave like a wild branch: like as dead men's raiment that are shot thorow with the sword: as they that go down to the stones of the deep: as a dead corpse_|coarse| that is trodden under feet:
14:20: and art not buried with them? Even because that thou hast wasted thy land, and destroyed thy people. For the generation of the wicked shall be without honour, forever.
14:21: There shall a way be sought to destroy their children, for their fathers' wickedness: They shall not rise up again to possess the land, and fill the world full of castles and towns.
14:22: I will stand up against them, (sayeth the LORD of Hosts) and root out the name and generation of Babylon (sayeth the LORD)
14:23: and will give it to the Otters, and will make water puddles of it; and I will sweep them out with the besom of destruction, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.
14:24: The LORD of Hosts hath sworn an oath, saying: It shall come to pass as I have determined: and shall be fulfilled as I have devised.
14:25: The Assyrians shall be destroyed in my land, and upon my mountains_{|mountaytaines|} will I tread them under foot. Where thorow his yoke shall come from you, and his burthen shall be taken from your shoulders.
14:26: This device hath God taken thorow the whole world, and thus is his hand stretched out over all people.
14:27: For if the LORD of Hosts determine a thing, who will disannul it? And if he stretch forth his hand, who will hold it in again?
14:28: The same year that king Ahaz died, God threatened by Esay on this manner:
14:29: Rejoice not (thou whole Palestina) as though the rod of him that beateth thee were broken: For out of the serpent's root, there shall wax a cockatrice, and the fruit shall be a fiery worm.
14:30: But the poor shall feed of the best things, and the simple shall dwell in safety. Thy roots will I destroy with hunger, and it shall slay thy remnant.
14:31: Mourn ye ports, weep ye cities, and fear thou (O whole Palestina) for there shall come from the North a smoke, whose power no man may abide.
14:32: Who shall then maintain the messages of the Gentiles? But the LORD stablisheth Sion, and the poor of my people shall put their trust in him.

15:1: This is the heavy burthen upon Moab: Ar of Moab was destroyed (as me thought) in the night season: The walls of Moab perished in the night, and vanished away:
15:2: They went to Bajth, and Dibon in the high places, for to weep: Moab did mourn from Nebo to Medba: All their heads were polled, and all their beards shaven.
15:3: In their streets were they girded about with sackcloth. In all the tops of their houses and streets was there nothing, but mourning and weeping.
15:4: Hesebon and Eleale cried, that their voice was heard unto Jahaz. The worthies also of Moab bleared and cried for very sorrow of their minds:
15:5: Woe is my heart for Moab's sake. They fled unto the city of Zoar, which is like a fair fruitful bullock, they went up to Luhith, weeping. The way toward Horonaim was full of lamentation for the hurt.
15:6: The waters of Nimrim were dried up, the grass was withered, and the herbs destroyed, and what necessary green thing there was beside.
15:7: In like manner the thing that was left them of their substance, they carried it by water to Araby.
15:8: The cry went over the whole land of Moab: from Eglaim unto Beer, was there nothing but mourning.
15:9: The waters of Dimon were full of blood, for the enemy had sent thither a bond of men, which as a lion lay await for the remnant of the land, and for them that were escaped.

16:1: Then sent the lords of the land a man of war, from the rock that lieth toward the desert, unto the hill of the daughter Sion.
16:2: (For as for the daughters of Moab, they were as it had been a trembling bird, that is put out of her nest, by the fury of Arnon.) which messenger said:
16:3: gather your counsel, come together, cover us with your shadow in the midday, as the night doth: hide the chased, and bewray not them that are fled,
16:4: let the persecuted Moabites dwell among you, be our open refuge against the destroyer: for the adversary oppresseth us, the robber undoeth us, and the tyrant driveth us out of our land.
16:5: But the throne of your kingdom is full of grace, therefore he that sitteth upon it with faithfulness and truth in the house of David, know the thing, and do his diligence to help shortly, according to equity and righteousness.
16:6: As for Moab's pride (shall they answer) it is well known. And all thought they be excellent proud, arrogant and high minded: yet is their strength nothing like.
16:7: And therefore Moab complaineth unto Moab, where thorow they come all to mourn: and now that they be smitten, they take their device beneath by the brick wall, and make their complaint.
16:8: The suburbs also of Hesebon were made waste, and the princes of the Gentiles hewed down the vineyards of Sibma, which were planted with noble grapes, and spread unto Jazer, and went unto the end of the desert, whose branches stretched their fellows forth beyond the sea.
16:9: Therefore I mourned for Jazer, and for the vineyards of Sibma with great sorrow. I poured my tears upon Hesebon and Eleale, for all their songs were laid down, in their harvest and gathering of their grapes:
16:10: Mirth and cheer was gone out of the field and vineyards, in so much, that no man was glad nor sung. There went no treader into the winepress, their merry cheer was laid down.
16:11: Wherefore my belly rumbled (as it had been a lute) for Moab's sake, and mine inward members, for the brick wall's sake.
16:12: For it happened thus also: when Moab saw that she was turned upside down: she went up an high_{hye} in to her Sanctuary, to make her prayer there, but she might not be helped.
16:13: This is the device, which the LORD took in hand at the time against Moab.
16:14: But now the LORD sayeth thus: In three years shall the power of Moab with their pomp_|pope| (which is great) be minished, like as the burthen of a hired servant. And as for the remnant of them, they shall be less than a few, and not reckoned much worth.

17:1: This is the heavy burthen upon Damascus: Behold, Damascus shall be no more a city, but a heap of broken stones.
17:2: The cities of Aroer shall be waste: the cattle shall lie there, and no man shall fraye them away.
17:3: Ephraim shall no more be strong, and Damascus shall no more be a kingdom. And as for the glory of the remnant of the Syrians, it shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.
17:4: At that time also shall the glory of Jacob be very poor, and his fatness lean.
17:5: It shall happen to them, as when one sheareth in the harvest, which cutteth his handfull with the sickle, and when one gathereth the sheaves together in the valley, of Raphaim,
17:6: there remaineth yet some ears over: Or as when one shaketh an olive tree, which sendeth but two or three olive berries above in the top, and four or five in the branches. Thus the LORD God of Israel hath spoken.
17:7: Then shall man convert again unto his maker, and turn his eyes to the holy one of Israel.
17:8: And shall not turn to the altars that are the work of his own hands, neither shall he look upon groves and images, which his fingers have wrought.
17:9: At the same time shall their strong cities be desolate, like as were once the forsaken plows and corn, which they forsook, for fear of the children of Israel.
17:10: So shalt thou (O Damascus) be desolate, because thou hast forgotten God thy Saviour, and hast not called to remembrance the rock of thy strength. Wherefore thou hast also set a fair plant, and grafted a strange branch.
17:11: In the day when thou didst plant it, it was great, and gave soon the fruit of thy seed: But in the day of harvest, thou shalt reap an heap of sorrows and miseries.
17:12: Woe be to the multitude of much people, that rush in like the sea, and to the heap of folk, that run_|renne| over all like great waters.
17:13: For though so many people increase as the flowing waters and though they be armed, yet they flee far off, and vanish away like the dust with the wind upon an hill, and as the whirlwind thorow a storm.
17:14: Though they be fearful at night, yet in the morning it is gone with them. This is their portion, that do us harm, and heritage of them, that rob us.

18:1: Woe be unto the land of flying ships, which is of this side the flood of Ethiopia:
18:2: which sendeth her message over the sea in ships of reeds upon the water: and sayeth: go soon, and do your message unto a strange and hard folk: to a fearful people, and to a people that is further than this: to a desperate and pilled folk, whose land is divided from us with rivers of water.
18:3: Yea all ye that sit in the compass of the world, and dwell upon the earth: when the token shall be given upon the mountains, then look up: and when the horn bloweth, then harken to,
18:4: for thus hath the LORD said unto me. I laid me down, and pondered the matter in my house, at the Noon day when it was hot: And there fell a misling shower, like a dew, as it happeneth in Harvest.
18:5: But the fruits were not yet ripe cut off, and the grapes were but young and green. Then one smote off, the grapes with an hook, yea he hewed down also the boughs and the branches, and did cast them away.
18:6: And thus they were laid waste, for the fowls of the mountains, and for the beasts of the earth together. So that the fowls sat there upon, and the beasts of the earth wintered there.
18:7: Then shall there be a present brought to the LORD of Hosts: even that hard folk, that fearful folk, and that further is than this: that desperate and pilled folk (whose land is divided from us with floods of water) unto the place of the name of the LORD of Hosts: even unto the hill of Sion.

19:1: This is the heavy burthen upon Egypt: Behold, the LORD will ride upon a swift cloud, and come into Egypt. And the gods of Egypt shall tremble at his coming, and the heart of Egypt shall quake within her.
19:2: For thus sayeth the LORD: I will stir up the Egyptians one against another among themselves, so that one shall be ever against his brother and neighbour, yea one city against another, and one kingdom against another.
19:3: And Egypt shall be choked in herself. When they ask counsel at their gods, at their prophets, at their soothsayers and witches: then will I bring their counsel to naught.
19:4: I will deliver Egypt also into the hands of grievous rulers, and a cruel king shall have the rule of them._{{(sayeth the Lord GOD of Hosts)}}
19:5: The water of the sea shall be drawn out, Nilus shall sink away, and be drunk up.
19:6: The rivers also shall be drawn out, the wells shall decrease and dry away.
19:7: Reed and rush shall fail, the grass by the waters side or upon the river bank, yea and whatsoever is sown by the waters, shall be withered, destroyed, and brought to naught.
19:8: The fishers shall mourn, all such as cast angles in the water, shall complain, and they that spread their nets in the water, shall be faint hearted.
19:9: Such as labour upon flax and silk, shall come to poverty, and they also that weave fine works.
19:10: All the pounds of Egypt, all the policy of their Moats and ditches shall come to naught.
19:11: Yea the indiscreet princes of Zoan, the counsel of the wise Senators of Pharaoh, shall turn to foolishness: Those that dare boast and say of Pharaos behalf: I am come of wise people,
19:12: I am come of the old regal Progeny. But where are now thy wise men? Let them tell thee and shew thee, what the LORD of Hosts hath taken in hand against Egypt.
19:13: Fools are those princes of Zoan, and proud are the princes of Noph: yea they deceive Egypt with their nobility of their stock.
19:14: For the LORD hath made Egypt drunken with the spirit of error, and they shall use it in all matters: even like as a drunken man goeth spewing about.
19:15: For Egypt shall lack good counsel, so that they shall know not what to do, neither beginning nor end, neither upon the land nor water.
19:16: Then shall the Egyptians be like unto women, afraid and astounded, at the lifting up of the head, which the LORD of Hosts shall lift up over them.
19:17: The land of Juda also shall make the Egyptians afraid, who so doth but speak upon it, shall put them in fear: And that because of the counsel, which the LORD of Hosts hath devised against them.
19:18: Then shall the five cities of Egypt speak with the Canaanites tongue, and swear by the LORD of Hosts, and Heliopolis shall be one of them.
19:19: At the same time shall the LORD of Hosts have an altar in the middest of the land of Egypt, with this title thereby: Unto the LORD.
19:20: This shall be a token or testimony unto the LORD of Hosts in the land of Egypt, when they shall cry unto him, because of those that oppress them: that he shall send them a Captain and a Saviour to deliver them.
19:21: Moreover, Egypt shall be brought unto the LORD, and the Egyptians also shall know the LORD at the same time: they shall do him reverence with peace offerings, and with meat offerings: they shall promise him offerings: yea and pay him also.
19:22: Thus the LORD shall smite Egypt, and heal it again: and so shall they turn to the LORD, and he also shall have mercy upon them, and save them.
19:23: Then shall there be a common way out of Egypt into Assyria. The Assyrians shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptians into Assyria. The Egyptians also and the Assyrians shall both have one God's service.
19:24: Then shall Israel with honour be the third to Egypt and Assur.
19:25: And the LORD of Hosts shall bless them, saying: Blissed is my people of the Egyptians, Assur is the work of my hands, but Israel is mine inheritance.

20:1: In the same year that Tharthan came unto Asdod, where Sargon the king of the Assyrians sent him, what time as he also besieged Asdod, and wan it the same season:
20:2: Then spake the LORD unto Esay the son of Amoz, saying: Go and loose_|lowse| off that sackcloth from thy loins, and put off thy shoes from thy feet. And so he did, going naked and barefoot.
20:3: Then said the LORD: where as my servant Esay goeth naked and barefoot, it is a token and signifying of the thing, that after three years shall come upon Egypt and Ethiopia.
20:4: For even thus shall the king of the Assyrians drive both young and old, as prisoners naked and barefoot, out of Egypt and Ethiopia. And shall discover the shame of Egypt.
20:5: They shall be also at their wits end, and ashamed one of another: the Egyptians of the Morians, and the Morians of the Egyptians, at the sight of their glory.
20:6: Moreover they that dwell in the Isles shall see even the same day: behold, this is our hope, to whom we fled to seek help, that we might be delivered from the king of the Assyrians. How will we escape?

21:1: This is the heavy burthen of the waste sea: A grievous vision was shewed unto me, like as when a storm of wind and rain rusheth in from the wilderness, that terrible land.
21:2: Who so may deceive (said the voice) let him deceive: Who so may destroy, let him destroy. Up Elam, besiege it O Madai, for I well still all their groanings.
21:3: With this, the reines of my back were full of pain: Pangs came upon me, as upon a woman in her travail. When I heard it, I was abashed: and when I looked up, I was afraid.
21:4: Mine heart panted, I trembled for fear. The darkness made me fearful in my mind.
21:5: Yea soon make ready the table, (said this voice) keep the watch, eat and drink: Up ye Captains, take you to your shield,
21:6: for thus the Lord hath charged me: Go thy way, and set a watchman, that he may tell what he seeth.
21:7: And when he had waited dilengently, he saw two horsemen: the one riding upon an Ass, the other upon a camel.
21:8: And the lion cried: lord,_|LORDE| I have stand waiting all the whole day, and have kept my watch all the night.
21:9: With that came there one riding upon a chariot, which answered, and said: Babylon is fallen, she is turned upside down, and all the images of her gods are smitten to the ground.
21:10: This (O my fellow thresshers and fanners) have I heard of the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, to shew it unto you.
21:11: The heavy burthen of Dumah. One of Seir, cried unto me: watchman what hast thou espyed by night? Watchman, what hast thou espyed by night?
21:12: The watchman answered: The day breaketh on, and the night is coming: If your request be earnest, then ask and come again.
21:13: The heavy burthen upon Arabia. At even ye shall abide in the wood, in the way toward Dedanim.
21:14: Meet the thirsty with water (o ye citizens of Hema) meet_|mete| those with bread that are fled.
21:15: For they shall run away from the weapon, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the great battle.
21:16: For thus hath the Lord_|LORDE| spoken unto me, over a year shall all the power of Cedar be gone, like as when the office of an hired servant goeth out:
21:17: And the remnant of the good Archers of Cedar, shall be very few: For the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.

22:1: The heavy burthen upon the valley of visions. What hast thou there to do, that thou climbest up in to the house top,
22:2: O thou city of miracles, seditious and willful: seeing, thy slain men are neither killed with sword, nor dead in battle?
22:3: For all thy Captains gat them to their horses from the ordinance, yea they are all together ridden away, and fled far off.
22:4: When I perceived that, I said: away from me, that I may weep bitterly. Take no labour for to comfort me, as touching the destruction of my people.
22:5: For this is the day of the LORD of Hosts, where in he will plague, tread down, and weed out the valley of visions, and break down the walls, with such a crack, that it shall give a sound in the mountains.
22:6: I saw the Elamites take the quivers to cart and to horse, and that the walls were bare from harness.
22:7: Thy goodly valleys were full of chariots, and the horse men made them soon to besiege the gates.
22:8: Then was the covering of Judah put from thence, and then was seen the siege of the timber house.
22:9: There shall ye see the rifts in the walls of the city of David, whereof there shall be many. Ye shall gather together the waters of the lower pool,
22:10: and tell the houses of Jerusalem, and break of some of them to keep the walls.
22:11: And ye shall make a pit betwixt the twain walls of the water of the old pool, and nothing regard him, that took it in hand, and made it.
22:12: And at the same time shall the LORD of Hosts call men to weeping, mourning, to baldness and a putting on of sackcloth.
22:13: But they to fulfill their lust and willfulness, slaughter oxen: they kill sheep, they eat costly meat, and drink wine, let us eat and drink, to morrow we shall die.
22:14: Nevertheless, when the LORD of Hosts heard of it, he said: yea, if this wickedness of yours shall be remitted, ye must die for it. This hath the Lord GOD_{|LORDE God|} of Hosts spoken.
22:15: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD_{|LORDE God|} of Hosts: Go in to the treasury unto Sobna the governor, and say to him:
22:16: What hast thou here to do? and from whence comest thou? that thou hast made thee a grave here? For he had caused a costly tomb of stone to be made for himself, and a place to lie in to be hewn out of a rock.
22:17: Behold, the LORD shall cast thee out by violence, he will deck thee of another fashion, and put upon thee a strange cloth.
22:18: He shall carry thee into a far country, like a ball with his hands. There shalt thou die, there shall the pomp of thy chariots have an end: thou villain of the house of thy lord:
22:19: I will shoot_|shute| thee out of thine office, and put thee from thine estate.
22:20: After this will I call my servant Eliakim the son of Helkiah,
22:21: and array him with thy coat, and gird him with thy girdle, and I will give thy power in to his hand. He shall be a father of the citizens of Jerusalem, and of the kindred of Judah.
22:22: I will also lay the key of David's house upon his shoulders, and if he open, no man shall shut: and if he do shut, no man shall open.
22:23: I will fasten him to a nail in the place of the most high_|hie| faithfulness, and he shall be upon the glorious throne of his father's house.
22:24: They shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, of the children and children's children, all apparel small and great, all instruments of measure and music.
22:25: This shall come to pass (sayeth the LORD of Hosts) when the nail that is fastened to the place of the highest faithfulness, shall be plucked_|plukt| off. And when the weight that hangeth upon it, shall fall, be broken, and hewn in pieces. For the LORD himself hath said it.

23:1: An heavy burthen upon Tyrus. Mourn ye ships of Tharsis, for she is thrown down to the ground, and conquered of them that are come from Cethim.
23:2: The indwellers of the Islands, the merchants of Sidon, and they that occupied the sea, (of whom thou wast full sometime) are at a point.
23:3: For by sea were there fruits brought unto thee, and all manner of corn by water. Thou wast the common market of all people.
23:4: Sidon is sorry for it, yea and all the power of the sea complaineth, and sayeth: O that I had never traveled with child, that I had never born any, that I had neither nourished boy, nor brought up daughter.
23:5: As soon as Egypt perceiveth it, she will be as sorry as Tyrus it self.
23:6: Go over the sea, mourn ye that dwell in the Isles.
23:7: Is not that the glorious city, which hath been of long antiquity? Whose natives dwelling far off, commend her so greatly?
23:8: Who hath devised such things upon Tyrus the crown of all cities, whose merchants and Captains were the highest and principal of the world?
23:9: Even the LORD of Hosts hath devised it, that he may put down all pomp, and minish all the Glory of the world.
23:10: Go thorow thy land (O thou daughter of the sea) as men go over the water, and there is not a girdle more.
23:11: Thus the LORD that removeth the kingdoms, hath taken in hand against that mighty Canaan to root_|rote| it out: hath stretched out his hand over the sea,
23:12: and said: From hence forth shalt thou make no more mirth, O thou daughter of Sidon: for thou shalt be put down of the Cethens. Stand up therefore, and go where the enemy will carry thee, where thou shalt also have no rest.
23:13: Behold, (for thine example) The Chaldees were such a people, that no man was like them, Assur builded them: he set up his castles and palaces, and broke them down again.
23:14: And therefore mourn (ye ships of the sea) for your power shall be thrown down.
23:15: After that, shall the seventy years of Tyrus (even as long as their kings life was) be forgotten. And after seventy years, it shall happen to Tyrus as with an harlot that playeth upon a lute.
23:16: Take thy lute (say men to her) and go about the city, thou art yet an unknown wench, make pastime with divers ballads,_|balettes| whereby thou mayest come into acquaintance.
23:17: Thus shall it happen after seventy years. The LORD shall visit the city of Tyrus, and it shall come again to her merchandise, and shall occupy with all the kingdoms that be in the world.
23:18: But all her occupying and wining shall be hallowed unto the LORD. For then shall they lay up nothing behind them nor upon heaps: but the merchandise of Tirus shall belong to the citizens of the LORD, to the feeding and sustaining of the hungry, and to the clothing of the aged.

24:1: Behold, the LORD shall waste and plague the world, he shall make the face of the earth desolate, and scatter abroad the inhabiters thereof.
24:2: Then shall the priest be as the people, the master as the servant, the dame like the maid, the seller like the buyer, he that lendeth upon usury, like him that borroweth upon usury, the creditor, as the debtor.
24:3: Yea miserably shall the world be wasted and clean destroyed. For the LORD hath so determined in himself.
24:4: The earth shall be heavy and decay: The face of the earth shall perish and fall away, the proud people of the world shall come to naught.
24:5: For the earth is corrupt of her indwellers. For why they have offended the law, changed the ordinances, and made the everlasting testament of none effect.
24:6: And therefore shall the curse devour the earth: for they that dwell thereon, have sinned, wherefore they shall be brent also, and those that remain, shall be very few.
24:7: The sweet wine shall mourn, the grapes shall be weak, and all that have been merry in heart, shall sigh.
24:8: The mirth of tabrets shall be laid down, the cheer of the joyful shall cease, and the pleasure of lutes shall have an end:
24:9: there shall no more wine be drunk with mirth, the beer shall be bitter to them that drink it,
24:10: the wicked cities shall be broken down, all houses shall be shut, that no man may come in.
24:11: In the streets shall there be lift up a cry because of wine, all men's cheer shall vanish away, and all joy of the earth shall pass.
24:12: Desolation shall remain in the cities, and the gates shall be smitten with wasteness.
24:13: For it shall happen unto all lands and to all people, like as when a man smiteth down the olives, that are left upon the tree: or seeketh after grapes, when the wine gathering is out.
24:14: And those same (that remain) shall lift up their voice, and be glad, and shall magnify the glory of the LORD, even from the sea
24:15: and praise the name of the LORD God of Israel in the valleys and Islands.
24:16: We heard songs sung to the praise of the righteous, from all the ends of the world. Therefore I must speak: O mine unfruitfulness, O my poverty. Woe is me, all is full of sinners, which offend of purpose and malice.
24:17: And therefore (O thou that dwellest upon the earth) there is at hand for thee, fear, pit and snare.
24:18: Who so escapeth the terrible cry, shall fall in to the pit. And if he come out of the pit, he shall be taken with the snare. For the windows above shall be opened, and the foundation of the earth shall move.
24:19: The earth shall give a great crack, it shall have a sore ruin, and take an horrible fall.
24:20: The earth shall stagger_|stacker| like a drunken man, and be taken away like a tent. Her_|His| misdeeds shall lie so heavy upon her, that she must fall, and never rise up again.
24:21: At the same time shall the LORD muster together the high_|hie| host above, and the kings of the world upon the earth.
24:22: These shall be coupled together as prisoners be, and shall be shut in one ward and punished innumerable days.
24:23: The Moon and the Sun shall be ashamed, when the LORD of Hosts shall rule them at Jerusalem upon the mount Sion, before and with his excellent counsel.

25:1: O LORD, thou art my God, I will praise thee, and magnify thy name: For thou bringest marvelous things to pass, according to thine old counsels, truly and steadfastly.
25:2: Thou makest of towns, heap of stone: and of head cities, broken walls: The palaces of the wicked destroyest thou out of the city, that they shall never be builded again.
25:3: Therefore the very rude people must magnify thee, and the cities of the cruel Heathen must fear thee.
25:4: For thou art the poor man's help, and strength for the needful in his necessity. Thou art a defense against evil weather, a shadow against the heat. But unto the presumptuous, thou art like a strong whirl wind, that casteth down the boasting_|boosting| of the ungodly:
25:5: thou keepest men from heat, with the shadow of thy clouds, thou cuttest off the branches of tyrants.
25:6: Moreover, the LORD of Hosts shall once prepare a feast for all people upon the hill: A plenteous, costly, pleasant feast, of fat and well fed beasts, of sweet and most pure things.
25:7: Upon the hill shall he take away the side vale that hangeth before the face of all people, and the covering wherewith all Gentiles are covered.
25:8: As for death he shall utterly consume it. The Lord GOD_{|LORDE God|} shall wipe away the tears from all faces, and take away the confusion of his people thorow the whole world. For the LORD himself hath said it.
25:9: At the same time shall it be said: Lo, this is our God in whom we put our trust, and he hath healed us. This is the LORD that we have waited for: Let us rejoice and delight in his health.
25:10: For the hand of the LORD ceaseth upon this hill. But Moab shall be threshed down under him, like as the straw is trodden under feet in a dung hill.
25:11: For he shall stretch out his hands upon him, like as a swimmer doth to swim. And with the power of his hands shall he cast down his high pomp.
25:12: As for his strongholds and high walls: he shall bow them, cast them down, and sell them to the ground in to dust.

26:1: Then shall this song be sung in the land of Judah. We have a strong city, the walls and the ordinance shall keep us.
26:2: Open the gates, that the good people may go in, which laboureth for the truth.
26:3: And thou, which art the doer and hast the matter in hand: shall provide for peace, even the peace that men hope for in thee.
26:4: Hope still in the LORD, for in the LORD GOD is everlasting strength.
26:5: For why? It is he, that bringeth low the high minded citizens, and casteth down the proud cities. He casteth them to the ground, yea even in to the mire,
26:6: that they may be trodden under the feet of the simple, and with the steps of the poor.
26:7: Thou (LORD) considerest the path of the righteous, whether it be right, whether the way of the righteous be right.
26:8: Therefore (LORD) we have a respect unto the way of thy judgements, thy name and thy remembrance rejoice the soul.
26:9: My soul lusteth after thee all the night long, and my mind hasteth freely to thee. For as soon as thy judgment is known to the world, then the inhabiters of the earth learn righteousness.
26:10: But the ungodly (though he have received grace) yet learneth he not righteousness, but in that place where he is punished, he offendeth, and feareth not the glory of the LORD.
26:11: LORD, they will not see thine high hand, but they shall see it, and be confounded: when thou shalt devour them with the wrath of the people, and with the fire of thine enemies.
26:12: But unto us, O LORD, provide for peace: for thou workest in us all our works.
26:13: O LORD our God, though such lords have domination upon us as know not thee: yet grant that we may only hope in thee, and keep thy name in remembrance.
26:14: The malicious tyrants when they die, are neither in life nor in the resurrection, for thou visitest them and rootest them out, and destroyest all the memorial of them.
26:15: Again, thou increasest the people, O LORD, thou increasest the people thou shalt be praised and magnified in all the ends of the world.
26:16: The people that seek unto thee in trouble, that same adversity which they complain of is unto them a chastening before thee.
26:17: Like as a wife with child (when her travail cometh upon her) is ashamed, cryeth and suffereth the pain: Even so are we, O LORD, in thy sight.
26:18: We are with child, we travail, and bear, and with the spirit we bring forth health, where thorow the earth is undestroyed, and the inhabiters of the world perish not.
26:19: But as for thy dead men and ours, that be departed, they are in life and resurrection. They lie in the earth, they wake, and have joy: for thy dew is a dew of life and light. But the place of the malicious Tyrants is fallen away.
26:20: So go now my people into thy chamber, and shut the door to thee, and suffer now the twinkling of an eye, till the wrath be overpast.
26:21: For behold, the LORD will go out of his habitation, and visit the wickedness of them that dwell upon earth. He will discover the blood that she hath devoured, she shall never hide them, that she hath murdered.

27:1: Then the LORD with his heavy, great, and long sword shall visit Leviathan that invincible serpent: even Leviathan that crooked serpent, and shall slay the whalfish in the sea.
27:2: At the same time shall men sing of the vineyard of Muscatel.
27:3: I the LORD keep it, and water it in due season. I watch day and night, that no man break into it. I hear no evil will in my mind.
27:4: Who will compel me, that I greatly forgetting all faithfulness, should burn it up at once with thorns and bushes?
27:5: Or who will enforce me to keep or make peace?
27:6: It will come to this point, that Jacob shall be rooted again, and Israel shall be green, and bear flowers, and they shall fill the whole world with their fruit.
27:7: Smiteth he not his smiter, as even as he is smitten himself: Destroyeth he not the murderers, as he is murdered?
27:8: Every man recompenseth with the measure that he receiveth: He museth upon his sore wind, as upon the days of extreme heat.
27:9: And therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be thus reconciled. And so shall he take away all the fruit of his sins. As for altar stones, he shall make them all as stones beaten to powder: the groves and Idols shall not stand.
27:10: The strong cities shall be desolate, and the fair cities shall be left like a wilderness. The cattle shall feed and lie there, and the sheep shall eat it up.
27:11: Their harvest shall be brent, their wives which were their beauty, when they came forth: shall be defiled. For it is a people without understanding, and therefore he that created them, shall not favour them and he that made them shall not be merciful to them.
27:12: In that time shall the LORD shoot from the swift water of Euphrates, unto the river of Egypt. And there shall the children be chosen out one by one.
27:13: Then shall the great trumpet be blown, so that those which have been destroyed in the Assirians land, and those that be scattered abroad in Egypt: shall come and worship the LORD at Jerusalem, upon the holy mount.

28:1: Woe be to the crown of pride, to the drunken Ephraimites, and to the fading flower, to the glory of his pomp,_|pope| that is upon the top of the plentious valley: which men be overladen with wine.
28:2: Behold, the strength and power of the Lord_|LORDE| shall break into the land on every side, like a tempest of hail,_|hale| that beareth down strongholds, and like an horrible, mighty and overflowing water.
28:3: And the proud crown of the drunken Ephraimites, shall be trodden under foot.
28:4: And as for the fading flower, the glory of his pomp, which is upon the top of the plentious valley: it shall happen unto him, as to an untimely fruit before the harvest come. Which as soon as it is seen, is by and by devoured, or ever it come well in a man's hand.
28:5: And then shall the LORD of Hosts be a joyful crown, and a glorious garland unto the remnant of his people.
28:6: Unto the lowly, he shall be a spirit of judgement, and unto them that drive away the enemies from the gates, he shall be a spirit of strength.
28:7: But they go wrong by the reason of wine, they fall and stacker because of strong drink. Yea even the priests and prophets themselves go amiss, they are drunken with wine, and weak brained thorow strong drink. They err in seeing, and in judgement they fail.
28:8: For all tables are so full of vomit and filthiness, that no place is clean.
28:9: What is he among them, that can teach, instruct or inform the children, which are weeded from suck or taken from the breasts: of any other fashion than:
28:10: Command that may be commanded, bid that may be bidden, forbid that may be forbidden, keep back that may be kept back, here a little, there a little.
28:11: And therefore the LORD also shall speak with lisping lips and with a strange language unto this people, to whom he spake afore of this manner:
28:12: This shall bring rest, if one refresh the weary, yea this shall bring rest. But they had no will to hear.
28:13: And therefore the LORD shall answer their stubborness._{|stubbournes|} (Command that may be commanded, bid that may be bidden, forbid that may be forbidden, keep back that may be kept back, here a little, there a little.) That they may go forth, fall backward, be bruised, snared, and taken.
28:14: Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye mockers that rule the Lord's_|LORDES| people, which is at Jerusalem.
28:15: For ye comfort yourselves thus: Tush, death and we are at point, and as for hell, we have made a condition with it, that though there break out any sore plague, it shall not come upon us. For with deceit will we escape, and with nimbleness will we defend ourselves.
28:16: Therefore thus sayeth the Lord GOD:_{|LORDE God|} Behold, I will lay a stone in Sion, a great stone, a costly corner stone, for a sure foundation: that who so putteth his trust in him, shall not be confounded.
28:17: Righteousness will I set up again in the balance, and judgement in the weights. The tempest of hail shall take away your refuge, that ye have to deceive withal: and the overflowing waters shall break down your strongholds of dissimulation.
28:18: Thus the appointment that ye have made with death, shall be done away: and the condition that ye made with hell, shall not stand._{stode} When the great destruction goeth thorow, it shall all to tread you. It shall take you quite away before it.
28:19: For it shall go forth early in the morning, and continue only that day and that night. And the very fear only shall teach you, when ye hear it.
28:20: For the bed shall be so narrow that a man can not lie upon it: And the covering too small, that a man may not wind himself therein.
28:21: For the LORD shall step forth as he did upon the mount Perazim, and shall take on as he did upon the dale of Gabaon: that he may bring forth his device, his strange device: and fulfill his work, his wonderful work.
28:22: And therefore make no mocks at it, that your captivity increase not: for I have heard the Lord GOD_{|LORDE God|} of Hosts say, that there shall come a sudden destruction and plague upon the whole earth.
28:23: Take heed, and hear my voice, ponder and mark my words well.
28:24: Goeth not the husbandman ever in due season earnestly to his land? He moweth and ploweth his ground to sow.
28:25: And when he hath made it plain, he soweth it with fetches or comin. He soweth the wheat and Barley in their place, Milium and Rye also in their place.
28:26: And that he may do it right, his God teacheth him and sheweth him.
28:27: For he treadeth not the fitches out with a waine, neither bringeth he the cart here and there over the comin, but he thresheth the fitches out with a flayle, and the comin with a rod.
28:28: As for the wheat, he grindeth it to make bread thereof; In as much as he can not bring it to pass with treading out. For neither the bruising that the cart wheels make, nor his beasts can grind it.
28:29: This and such like things come of the LORD of Hosts which is marvelous in counsel, and great in righteousness.

29:1: Woe be unto thee O Ariel, thou city that David wan. Take ye yet some years, and let some feasts yet pass over:
29:2: then shall Ariel be besieged, so that she shall be heavy and sorrowful, and shall be unto me even as a lion.
29:3: For I will lay siege to thee round about, and keep thee in with towers, and grave up dikes against thee.
29:4: And thou shalt be brought low, and speak out of the earth, and thy words shall go humbly out of the ground.
29:5: Thy voice shall come out of the earth, like the voice of a witch, and thy talking shall groan out of the mire. For the multitude of thine enemies shall be like meal dust. And the number of Tyrants shall be as the dust that the wind taketh away suddenly.
29:6: Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of Hosts with thunder, earthquake, and with a great crack, with the whirl wind, tempest, and with the flame of a consuming fire.
29:7: But now the multitude of all the people, that went out against Ariel: the whole host, the strongholds, and siege: is like a dream which appeareth in the night.
29:8: It is like as when an hungry man dreameth that he is eating, and when he awaketh, he hath nothing: like as when a thirsty man dreameth that he is drinking, and when he awaketh he is faint, and his soul unpatient. So is the multitude of all people that muster themselves against the hill of Sion.
29:9: But ye shall be at your wits end, ye shall be abashed: ye shall stagger, and reel to and fro. Ye shall be drunken, but not of wine. Ye shall fall, but not thorow drunkenness:
29:10: For the LORD shall give you an hard sleeping spirit, and hold down your eyes: namely your Prophets and heads which should see, them shall he cover.
29:11: And all visions shall be unto you, as the words that stand in a sealed letter, when one offereth it to a man that is learned, and sayeth: read us this letter. Then he answereth: I can not read it, for it is shut.
29:12: But if it be given to one that is not learned, or say unto him: read this letter: Then sayeth he I can not read.
29:13: Therefore thus sayeth the Lord:_|LORDE| For so much as this people draweth nye me with their mouth, and praiseth me highly with their lips, where as their heart nevertheless is far from me, and the fear which they owe unto me, that turn they to men's laws and doctrines,
29:14: therefore will I also shew unto this people a marvelous, terrible, and great thing (Namely this:) I will destroy the wisdom of their wise, and the understanding of their learned men shall perish.
29:15: Woe be unto them that seek so deep, to hide their imagination before the LORD, which rehearse their counsels in the darkness, and say: who seeth us, or who knoweth us?
29:16: Which imagination of yours is even as when the potter's clay taketh advisement, as though the work might say to the workmaster: make me not, or as when an earthen vessel sayeth of the potter: he understandeth not.
29:17: See ye not that it is hard by, that Libanus shall be turned in to Charmel, and that Charmel shall be taken as a wood?
29:18: Then shall deaf men understand the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see without any cloud or darkness.
29:19: The oppressed shall hold a merry feast in the LORD, and the poor people shall rejoice in the holy one of Israel.
29:20: Then shall the furious people cease, and the mockers shall be put away, and all they that do wrong shall be plucked_|rooted| out,
29:21: such as labour to draw men unto sin: and that deceive him, which reproveth them in the gate, and such as turn good persons to vanity.
29:22: And therefore the LORD (even the defender of Abraham) sayeth thus unto the house of Jacob: Now shall not Jacob be ashamed, nor his face confounded,
29:23: when he seeth among his children (whom my hands have made) such as hallow my name among them: that they may sanctify the holy one of Jacob, and fear the God of Israel.
29:24: And that they which afore time were of an erroneous spirit, have now understanding, and that such as before could not speak, are now learned in my law.

30:1: Woe be unto those shrinking children (sayeth the LORD) which seek counsel, but not at me: which take a web in hand, but not after my will: that they may heap one sin upon another.
30:2: They go down into Egypt, (and ask me no counsel) to seek help at he power of Pharaoh, and comfort in the shadow of the Egyptians.
30:3: But Pharaoh's help shall be your confusion, and the comfort in the Egyptian's shadow shall be your own shame.
30:4: Your rulers have been at Zoan, and your messengers came unto Hanes.
30:5: But ye shall all be ashamed of the people that may not help you, which shall not bring you strength or comfort, but shame and confusion.
30:6: Your beasts have born burthens upon their backs toward the South, thorow the way that is full of peril and trouble, because of the lion and lioness,_{|lyo and lyones|} of the Cockatrice and shooting_|shutynge| dragon. Yea the Mules bare your substance, and the Camels brought your treasure upon their crooked backs, unto a people that can not help you.
30:7: For the Egyptian's help shall be but vain and lost. Therefore I told you also that your pride should have an end.
30:8: Wherefore go hence and write them this in their tables, and note it in a book: that it may remain by their posterity, and be still kept.
30:9: For it is an obstinate people, unfaithful children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD.
30:10: They dare say to the Prophets: Intromit yourselves with nothing, and unto the Soothsayers: tell us of nothing for to come, but speak friendly words unto us, and preach us false things.
30:11: Tread out of the way, go out of the path, turn the holy one of Israel from us.
30:12: Therefore thus sayeth the holy one of Israel: In so much as ye have cast off your beauty, and comforted yourselves with power and nimbleness, and put your confidence therein:
30:13: therefore shall ye have this mischief again for your destruction and fall, like as an high wall, that falleth because of some rift (or blast) whose breaking cometh suddenly.
30:14: And your destruction shall be like as an earthen pot, which breaketh no man touching it, yea and breaketh so sore, that a man shall not find a shever of it to fetch fire in, or to take water withal out of the pit.
30:15: For the Lord GOD,_{|LORDE God|} even the holy one of Israel hath promised this: With still sitting and rest shall ye be healed, in quietness and hope shall your strength lie.
30:16: Notwithstanding ye regard it not, but ye will say: No, for thus are we constrained to flee upon horses. And therefore shall ye flee, we must ride upon swift beasts, and therefore your persecutors shall yet be swifter.
30:17: A thousand of you shall flee for one, or at the most for five, which do but only give you evil words: until ye be desolate, as a ship mast upon an high mountain, and as a beacon upon an hill.
30:18: Yet standeth the LORD waiting, that he may have mercy upon you, and lifteth himself up, that he may receive you to grace. For the LORD God is righteous. Happy are all they that wait for him.
30:19: For thus (O thou people of Sion and ye citizens of Jerusalem) shall ye never be in heaviness, for doubtless he will have mercy upon thee. As soon as he heareth the voice of thy cry, he will help thee.
30:20: The Lord_{|LORDE God|} giveth you the bread of adversity, and the water of trouble. But thine instructor flyeth not far from thee, if thine eyes look unto thine instructor,
30:21: and thine ears harken to his word, that cryeth after thee and sayeth: this is the way, go this, and turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.
30:22: Moreover, if ye destroy the silver works of your Idols, and cast away the golden coapes that ye deck them withal (as filthiness) and say get you hence:
30:23: Then will he give rain to the seed, that ye shall sow in the earth, and give you bread of the increase of the earth, so that all shall be plenteous and abundant. Thy cattle also shall he feed in the broad meadows,
30:24: yea thine oxen and Mules that till the ground, shall eat good fodder, which is purged with the fan.
30:25: Goodly rivers shall flow out of all his mountains and hills. In the day of the great slaughter when the towers shall fall,
30:26: the moon shall shine as the sun, and the sunshine shall be seven fold, and have as much shine, as in seven days beside. In that day shall the LORD bind up the bruised sores of his people, and heal their wounds.
30:27: Behold, the glory of the LORD shall come from far, his face shall burn, that no man shall be able to abide it, his lips shall wag for very indignation, and his tongue shall be as a consuming fire.
30:28: His breath like a vehement flood of water, which goeth up to the throat. That he may take away the people, which have turned themselves unto vanity, and the bridle of error, that lieth in other folks chaws.
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