Isaiah 23–25

The ^aburden of ^bTyre.

^cHowl, ye ships of Tarshish;

For it is laid waste, ^dso that there is no house, ^dno entering in:

From the land of ^eChittim it is revealed to them.

²Be ^fstill, ^gye inhabitants of the isle;

Thou whom the merchants of ^hZidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

³And by great waters the seed of ⁱSihor,

The harvest of the river, is her revenue;

And ^kshe is a mart of nations.

⁴Be thou ashamed, O ^hZidon: for the sea hath spoken,

Even the strength of the sea, saying,

I travail not, nor bring forth children,

Neither do I ^lnourish up young men, nor ^lbring up virgins.

⁵As at the report concerning Egypt,

So shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.

⁶Pass ye over to ^cTarshish; howl, ^gye inhabitants of the isle.

⁷Is this your ^mjoyous city, whose antiquity is of ⁿancient days?

Her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

⁸Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city,

Whose merchants are princes, whose ⁿⁿtraffickers are the honourable of the earth?

⁹The Lord of hosts hath purposed it,

To stain the pride of all ^oglory,

And to ^pbring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

¹⁰Pass through thy land as ^qa river, O daughter of ^cTarshish:

There is no more ^rstrength.

¹¹He stretched out his hand over the sea, ^she shook the kingdoms:

The Lord hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.

¹²And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice,

O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon:

Arise, pass over to ^eChittim;

There also shalt thou have no rest.

¹³Behold the land of ^tthe Chaldeans;

This people was not,

Till the Assyrian founded it for ^uthem that dwell in the wilderness:

They set up the ^vtowers thereof,

They raised up the palaces thereof;

And he brought it ^wto ruin.

^14cHowl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.

¹⁵And it shall come to pass in that day,

That Tyre shall be forgotten ^xseventy years,

According to the days of ^xxone king:

^yAfter the end of seventy years ^yshall Tyre sing as a harlot.

^16zTake a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten;

^aMake sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

¹⁷And it shall come to pass ^yafter the end of seventy years,

That the Lord will ^aavisit Tyre,

And ^yshe shall turn to her hire,

And ^bshall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world

Upon the face of the earth.

¹⁸And her merchandise and her hire shall be ^choliness to the Lord:

It shall not be treasured nor laid up;

For ^dher merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the Lord,

To eat ^esufficiently, and for durable clothing.

XXIV.Behold, ^athe Lord ^bcmaketh the earth empty, and ^cmaketh it waste,

And turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

²And it shall be, ^eas with the people, so with the priest;

As with the servant, so with his master;

As with the maid, so with her mistress;

^fAs with the buyer, so with the seller;

As with the lender, so with the borrower;

^gAs with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

^3hThe land shall be ^butterly emptied, and utterly spoiled:

ⁱFor the Lord hath spoken this word.

⁴The earth mourneth and fadeth away,

The world ^jlanguisheth and fadeth away,

The haughty people of the earth ^jdo languish.

⁵The ^kearth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof;

Because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance,

^lBroken the everlasting covenant.

⁶Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth,

And they that dwell therein ^mare desolate:

Therefore the inhabitants of the earth ⁿare burned,

And ^ofew men left.

^7pThe new wine mourneth, the vine ^jlanguisheth,

All the merryhearted do sigh.

^8qThe mirth of ^rtabrets ^sceaseth, ^tthe noise of them that rejoice endeth,

The joy of ^rthe harp ^sceaseth.

⁹They shall not drink wine with a song;

Strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

¹⁰The city of ^uconfusion is broken down:

Every house is shut up, ^vthat no man may come in.

¹¹There is ^wa crying ^xfor wine in the streets;

All joy is darkened,

The mirth of ^hthe land is gone.

¹²In the city is left desolation,

And the gate is smitten with destruction.

¹³When thus it shall be in the midst of ^hthe land among the people,

There shall be ^yas the shaking of an olive tree,

And ^zas the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.

¹⁴They shall lift up their voice, ^athey shall sing,

For the majesty of the Lord, they shall cry aloud ^bfrom the sea.

¹⁵Wherefore glorify ye the Lord in the ^cfires,

Even ^dthe name of the Lord God of Israel in ^ethe isles of the sea.

¹⁶From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard ^eesongs, even ^fglory to the righteous.

But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me!

^gThe treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously;

Yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

^17hFear, and the pit, and the ⁱsnare,

Are upon thee, ^jO inhabitant of the earth.

^18hAnd it shall come to pass, that ^khe who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit;

And he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare:

For ^lthe windows from on high are open,

And ^mthe foundations of the earth do shake.

¹⁹The earth ⁿis utterly broken down,

The earth ^ois clean dissolved,

The earth is moved exceedingly.

²⁰The earth shall ^preel to and fro like a drunkard,

And shall be removed like ^qa cottage;

And the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it;

And it shall fall, and not rise again.

²¹And it shall come to pass ^rin that day,

That the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are ^son high,

And ^tthe kings of the earth upon the earth.

²²And they shall be gathered together, as ^uprisoners are gathered in the pit,

And shall be shut up in the ^uprison,

And ^vafter many days shall they be ^wvisited.

^23xThen ^ythe moon shall be confounded, and ^ythe sun ashamed,

When ^zthe Lord of hosts shall reign

In ^amount Zion, and in Jerusalem,

And before his ^bancients gloriously.

XXV.O Lord, thou art my God;

^aI will exalt thee, I will praise thy name;

For ^cthou hast done ^cdwonderful things;

Thy counsels ^eof old are faithfulness and truth.

²For thou hast made ^fof a city a heap;

Of ^fa defenced city ^ga ruin:

^hA palace of strangers ⁱto be no city;

It shall never be built.

³Therefore shall the strong people ^jglorify thee,

^kThe city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.

⁴For thou hast been ^la strength to the poor,

A strength to the needy in his distress,

^mA refuge from the storm, ^mna shadow from the heat,

When the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

⁵Thou shalt bring down ^othe noise of strangers,

As the heat in ^pa dry place;

Even the heat ^qwith the shadow of a cloud:

^rThe branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

⁶And in ^sthis mountain shall ^tthe Lord of hosts make ^uunto all people

^tA feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees,

Of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.

⁷And he will destroy in ^sthis mountain

The face of the covering cast ^tover all people,

And ^uthe vail that is spread ^tover all nations.

^8vHe will swallow up death in ^wvictory;

And ^xthe Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces;

And the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth:

^yFor the Lord hath spoken it.

⁹And it shall be said ^zin that day,

Lo, this is our God;

^aWe have waited for him, and he will save us:

This is the Lord; ^awe have waited for him,

^bWe will be glad and rejoice ^bin his salvation.

¹⁰For in ^sthis mountain shall the hand of the Lord ^crest,

And ^dMoab shall be trodden down ^eunder him,

Even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.

¹¹And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them,

As he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim:

And he shall bring down their pride

Together with the spoils of their hands.

¹²And the fortress of ^gthe high fort of thy walls shall he ^gbring down,

^gLay low, and ^gbring to the ground, even to the dust.

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