18 *aWoe to the land shadowing bwith wings,

Which is beyond the rivers of cEthiopia:

2  dThat sendeth ambassadors by ethe sea,

Even in vessels of fbulrushes upon the waters, saying,

Go, ye gswift messengers,

To ha nation ||scattered and jpeeled,

hTo a people terrible kfrom their beginning hitherto;

||†hA nation meted out and trodden down,

||hWhose land the rivers have spoiled!

3  All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth,

See ye, when he nlifteth up an ensign on the mountains;

And when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

4  For so the Lord said unto me,

I will take my rest, and I will ||consider in omy dwelling place

Like a clear heat ||upon pherbs,

And like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

5  For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect,

And qthe sour grape is ripening in qthe flower,

He shall both cut off the sprigs with rpruning hooks,

And take away and cut down sthe branches.

6  tThey shall be left together unto uthe fowls of the mountains,

And to the beasts of the earth:

And uthe fowls shall summer upon them,

And all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

7  In that time vshall the present be brought unto the Lord of hosts

Of ha people ||scattered and peeled,

And from ha people terrible from their beginning hitherto;

hA nation meted out and trodden under foot,

hWhose land the rivers have spoiled,

To the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Zion.

12 And ain that day thou shalt say,

O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me,

Thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.

2  Behold, bGod is my salvation;

I will trust, and not be afraid:

For the cLord JEHOVAH is my dstrength and my song;

He also is become my salvation.

3  Therefore ewith joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

4  And ain that day shall ye say,

fPraise the Lord, ||fcall upon his name,

fgDeclare his doings among the people,

Make mention that hhis name is iexalted.

5  kSing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent things:

This is known in all the earth.

6  lCry out and lmshout, thou †inhabitant of Zion:

For great is nthe Holy One of Israel oin the midst of thee.

13 *The aburden of bBabylon, cwhich Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.

2  dLift ye up a banner eupon the fhigh mountain,

Exalt the voice unto them, gshake the hand,

That they may go into the gates of the nobles.

3  I have commanded hmy sanctified ones,

I have also called imy mighty ones for mine anger,

Even them kthat lrejoice in my highness.

4  The noise of la multitude in the mountains, †like as of a great people;

lA tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together:

The Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.

5  mThey come from a far country, from the end of heaven,

Even the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation,

nTo destroy the whole land.

6  oHowl ye; pqfor the day of the Lord is at hand;

qIt shall come ras a destruction from the Almighty.

7  Therefore shall all hands ||be faint,

And every man’s sheart shall melt:

8  And they shall be afraid: tpangs and usorrows shall take hold of them;

uvThey shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth:

They shall †be amazed †one at another;

Their faces shall be as †flames.

9  Behold, wthe day of the Lord cometh,

Cruel both with xwrath and fierce anger,

To lay the land desolate:

And xxhe shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

10  For the stars of heaven and ythe constellations thereof shall not zgive their light:

aThe sun shall be darkened in his going forth,

And athe moon shall not cause her light to shine.

11  And I will bpunish the world for their evil,

And the wicked for their iniquity;

And I will ccause the arrogancy of the proud to cease,

And will dlay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

12  eI will make a man fmore precious than gfine gold;

Even a man than hthe golden wedge of Ophir.

13  Therefore iI will shake the heavens,

And ithe earth shall remove out of her place,

In jthe wrath of the Lord of hosts,

And kin the day of his jfierce anger.

14  And it shall be as the chased roe,

And as a sheep that no man taketh up:

lThey shall every man turn to his own people,

And flee every one into his own land.

15  Every one that is found mshall be thrust through;

And every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

16  nTheir children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes;

oTheir houses shall be spoiled, and otheir wives ravished.

17  Behold, pI will stir up qthe Medes against them,

rWhich shall not regard silver;

And as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

18  sTheir bows also shall dash the young men to pieces;

And they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb;

tTheir eye shall not spare children.

19  And Babylon, uthe glory of kingdoms,

uThe beauty of vthe Chaldees’ uexcellency,

wShall be †as xwhen God overthrew ySodom and Gomorrah.

20  zIt shall never be inhabited,

Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation:

Neither shall athe Arabian pitch tent there;

Neither shall the shepherds bmake their fold there.

21  cBut †dwild beasts of the desert shall lie there;

And their houses shall be full of †doleful creatures;

And ||†dowls shall dwell there,

And desatyrs shall dance there.

22  And †dthe wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their ||fdesolate houses,

And gdragons in their hpleasant ipalaces:

And kher time is near to come,

And her days shall not be prolonged.

14 For the Lord awill have mercy on Jacob,

And bwill yet choose Israel,

And cset them in their own land:

And dthe strangers shall be joined with them,

And they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

2  And the people shall take them, and ebring them to their place:

And the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord

fFor servants and handmaids:

And they shall take them captives, †whose captives they were;

And gthey shall rule over their oppressors.

3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, 4 That thou shalt htake up this ||proverb against the king of Babylon, and say,

How hath the oppressor ceased! the ||igolden city ceased!

5  The Lord hath broken kthe staff lof the wicked, and klthe sceptre of the rulers.

6  He who smote the people in wrath with †a continual stroke,

He that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.

7  The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: mthey break forth into singing.

8  nYea, othe fir trees rejoice at thee, and opthe cedars of Lebanon, saying,

Since thou art laid down, no feller…