64 Oh that thou wouldest arend the heavens, that thou wouldest acome down,

That bthe mountains might flow down at thy presence,

2  As when †the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil,

To make thy name known to thine adversaries,

That the nations may tremble at thy presence!

3  When cthou didst terrible things which we looked not for,

aThou camest down, bthe mountains flowed down at thy presence.

4  For since the beginning of the world dmen have not heard, nor perceived by the ear,

Neither hath the eye ||seen, O God, beside thee,

eWhat he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

5  Thou fmeetest him that rejoiceth and gworketh righteousness,

hThose that remember thee in ithy ways:

Behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned:

kIn those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

6  But we are all as lan unclean thing,

And mall our righteousnesses are nas filthy rags;

And owe all pdo fade as a leaf;

And our iniquities, like the wind, have qtaken us away.

7  And there is none that rcalleth upon thy name,

That stirreth up himself to take hold of thee:

For sthou hast hid thy face from us,

And hast †consumed us, †because of our iniquities.

8  But now, O Lord, tthou art our father;

uWe are the clay, and vthou our potter;

And wwe all are the work of thy hand.

9  xBe not wroth very sore, O Lord,

yNeither remember iniquity for ever:

Behold, see, we beseech thee, zwe are all thy people.

10  aThy holy cities are a wilderness,

Zion is a wilderness, bJerusalem a desolation.

11  Our holy and our cbeautiful house,

Where our fathers praised thee,

dIs burned up with fire:

And all eour pleasant things are laid waste.

12  Wilt thou frefrain thyself for these things, O Lord?

gWilt thou fhold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

21The aburden of bthe desert of cthe sea.

As dwhirlwinds in the south pass through;

So eit cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

2  A †grievous vision is declared unto me;

fgThe treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and fthe spoiler spoileth.

Go up, hO Elam: besiege, iO Media;

All the sighing thereof khave I made to cease.

3  Therefore lare my loins filled with pain:

mPangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth:

I was nbowed down at the hearing of it;

I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

4  ||My heart panted, ofearfulness affrighted me:

pThe night of my qpleasure hath he †turned into fear unto me.

5  rPrepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink:

Arise, ye princes, and sanoint the shield.

6  For thus hath the Lord said unto me,

Go, set a watchman,

Let him declare what he seeth.

7  And he saw ta chariot with ua couple of horsemen,

A chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels;

And he hearkened vdiligently with much vheed:

8  And ||he cried, A lion:

My lord, wI stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime,

And wI am set in my ward ||whole nights:

9  And, behold, here cometh ta chariot of men, with ua couple of horsemen.

And he answered and said,

xBabylon is fallen, is fallen;

And yall the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.

10  O my zthreshing, and the †corn of amy floor:

That which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,

Have I declared unto you.

11  The bburden of cDumah.

He calleth to me out of dSeir,

Watchman, what of the night?

Watchman, what of the night?

12  The watchman said,

The morning cometh, and also the night:

If ye will inquire, inquire ye:

Return, ecome.

13  The bburden upon cfArabia.

In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge,

O ye gtravelling companies of hDedanim.

14  The inhabitants of the land of iTema ||brought water to him that was thirsty,

They kprevented with their bread him that fled.

15  For they fled ||†from the swords,

From the drawn sword, and from the bent bow,

And from the grievousness of war.

16  For thus hath the Lord said unto me,

Within a year, laccording to the years of an hireling,

And all the glory of mKedar shall fail:

17  And the residue of the number of †archers,

The mighty men of the children of mKedar, shall be diminished:

nFor the Lord God of Israel hath spoken it.

22*The aburden of bthe valley of cvision.

What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up dto the housetops?

2  Thou that art full of stirs,

A tumultuous city, ea joyous city:

Thy slain men are not slain with the sword,

Nor dead in battle.

3  fAll thy grulers are fled together, they are bound †by the archers:

All that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.

4  Therefore said I, hLook away from me; i†I will weep bitterly,

Labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

5  For it is ka day of trouble, and of ltreading down, and of mperplexity

nBy the Lord God of hosts in bthe valley of vision,

Breaking down the walls, and of ocrying to the mountains.

6  And pElam bare the quiver

With qchariots of men and horsemen,

And rKir †suncovered the shield.

7  And it shall come to pass, that †thy choicest valleys shall be full of qchariots,

And the horsemen shall set themselves in array ||at the gate.

8  And the discovered the covering of Judah,

And thou didst look in that day to uthe armour of vthe house of the forest.

9  wYe have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many:

And wxye gathered together the waters of ythe lower pool.

10  And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem,

And the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.

11  zYe made also a ditch between the two walls xfor the water of the old pool:

But ye have not looked unto athe maker thereof,

Neither had respect unto him that fashioned it aalong ago.

12  And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call bto weeping, and cto mourning,

And dto baldness, and eto girding with sackcloth:

13  And behold joy and gladness,

Slaying oxen, and killing sheep,

Eating flesh, and drinking wine:

fLet us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

14  And it was revealed gin mine ears by the Lord of hosts,

Surely this hiniquity shall not be purged from you itill ye die,

Saith the Lord God of hosts.

15 Thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto kShebna, lwhich is over the house, and say,

16  What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here,

mThat thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here,

||As he nthat heweth him out a sepulchre on high,

And that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?

17  Behold, ||the Lord will carry thee away with †a mighty captivity,

oAnd will surely cover thee.

18  He will surely pviolently turn and toss thee like qa ball

Into a †large country:

There shalt thou die,

And there the chariots of thy glory

Shall be the shame of thy lord’s house.

19  And I will drive thee from thy station,

And from thy rstate shall he rrpull thee down.

20  And it shall come to pass in that day,

That I will call my servant klEliakim the son of Hilkiah:

21  And sI will clothe him with thy robe,

And strengthen him …