²And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest: and as with the servant so with his master: as with the handmaid, so with her mistress: as with the buyer, so with the seller: as with the lender, so with the borrower: as with him that calleth for his money, so with him that oweth.

³With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.

⁴The earth mourned, and faded away, and is weakened: the world faded away, the height of the people of the earth is weakened.

⁵And the earth is infected by the inhabitants thereof: because they have transgressed the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they have broken the everlasting covenant.

⁶Therefore shall a curse devour the earth, and the inhabitants thereof shall sin: and therefore they that dwell therein shall be mad, and few men shall be left.

⁷The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away, all the merry have sighed.

⁸The mirth of timbrels hath ceased, the noise of them that rejoice is ended, the melody of the harp is silent.

⁹They shall not drink wine with a song: the drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

¹⁰The city of vanity is broken down, every house is shut up, no man cometh in.

¹¹There shall be a crying for wine in the streets: all mirth is forsaken: the joy of the earth is gone away.

¹²Desolation is left in the city, and calamity shall oppress the gates.

¹³For it shall be thus in the midst of the earth, in the midst of the people, as if a few olives, that remain, should be shaken out of the olive tree: or grapes, when the vintage is ended.

¹⁴These shall lift up their voice, and shall give praise: when the Lord shall be glorified, they shall make a joyful noise from the sea.

¹⁵Therefore glorify ye the Lord in instruction: the name of the Lord God of Israel in the islands of the sea.

¹⁶From the ends of the earth we have heard praises, the glory of the just one. And I said: My secret to myself, my secret to myself, woe is me: the prevaricators have prevaricated, and with the prevarication of transgressors they have prevaricated.

¹⁷Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, O thou inhabitant of the earth.

¹⁸And it shall come to pass, that he that shall flee from the noise of the fear, shall fall into the pit: and he that shall rid himself out of the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for the flood-gates from on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken.

¹⁹With breaking shall the earth be broken, with crushing shall the earth be crushed, with trembling shall the earth be moved.

²⁰With shaking shall the earth be shaken as a drunken man, and shall be removed as the tent of one night: and the iniquity thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.

²¹And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord shall visit upon the host of heaven on high, and upon the kings of the earth, on the earth.

²²And they shall be gathered together as in the gathering of one bundle into the pit, and they shall be shut up there in prison: and after many days they shall be visited.

²³And the moon shall blush, and the sun shall be ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, and shall be glorified in the sight of his ancients.

Chapter 25

O Lord, thou art my God, I will exalt thee, and give glory to thy name: for thou hast done wonderful things, thy designs of old faithful, amen.

²For thou hast reduced the city to a heap, the strong city to ruin, the house of strangers, to be no city, and to be no more built up for ever.

³Therefore shall a strong people praise thee, the city of mighty nations shall fear thee.

⁴Because thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress: a refuge from the whirlwind, a shadow from the heat. For the blast of the mighty is like a whirlwind beating against a wall.

⁵Thou shalt bring down the tumult of strangers, as heat in thirst: and as with heat under a burning cloud, thou shalt make the branch of the mighty to wither away.

⁶And the Lord of hosts shall make unto all people in this mountain, a feast of fat things, a feast of wine, of fat things full of marrow, of wine purified from the lees.

⁷And he shall destroy in this mountain the face of the bond with which all people were tied, and the web that he began over all nations.

⁸He shall cast death down headlong for ever: and the Lord God shall wipe away tears from every face, and the reproach of his people he shall take away from off the whole earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.

⁹And they shall say in that day: Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord, we have patiently waited for him, we shall rejoice and be joyful in his salvation.

¹⁰For the hand of the Lord shall rest in this mountain: and Moab shall be trodden down under him, as straw is broken in pieces with the wain.

¹¹And he shall stretch forth his hands under him, as he that swimmeth stretcheth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down his glory with the dashing of his hands.

¹²And the bulwarks of thy high walls shall fall, and be brought low, and shall be pulled down to the ground, even to the dust.

Chapter 26

In that day shall this canticle be sung in the land of Juda. Sion the city of our strength a saviour, a wall and a bulwark shall be set therein.

²Open ye the gates, and let the just nation, that keepeth the truth, enter in.

³The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep peace: peace, because we have hoped in thee.

⁴You have hoped in the Lord for evermore, in the Lord God mighty for ever.

⁵For he shall bring down them that dwell on high, the high city he shall lay low. He shall bring it down even to the ground, he shall pull it down even to the dust.

⁶The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.

⁷The way of the just is right, the path of the just is right to walk in.

⁸And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently waited for thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the desire of the soul.

⁹My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit within me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn justice.

¹⁰Let us have pity on the wicked, but he will not learn justice: in the land of the saints he hath done wicked things, and he shall not see the glory of the Lord.

¹¹Lord, let thy hand be exalted, and let them not see: let the envious people see, and be confounded: and let fire devour thy enemies.

¹²Lord, thou wilt give us peace: for thou hast wrought all our works for us.

¹³O Lord our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us, only in thee let us remember thy name.

¹⁴Let not the dead live, let not the giants rise again: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and hast destroyed all their memory.

¹⁵Thou hast been favourable to the nation, O Lord, thou hast been favourable to the nation: art thou glorified? thou hast removed all the ends of the earth far off.

¹⁶Lord, they have sought after thee in distress, in the tribulation of murmuring thy instruction was with them.

¹⁷As a woman with child, when she draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs: so are we become in thy presence, O Lord.

¹⁸We have conceived, and been as it were in labour, and have brought forth wind: we have not wrought salvation on the earth, therefore the inhabitants of the earth have not fallen.

¹⁹Thy dead men shall live, my slain shall rise again: awake, and give praise, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is the dew of the light: and the land of the giants thou shalt pull down into ruin.

²⁰Go, my people, enter into thy chambers, shut thy doors upon thee, hide thyself a little for a moment, until the indignation pass away.

²¹For behold the Lord will come out of his place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against him: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall cover her slain no more.

Chapter 27

In that day the Lord with his hard, and great, and strong sword shall visit leviathan the bar serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and shall slay the whale that is in the sea.

²In that day there shall be singing to the vineyard of pure wine.

³I am the Lord that keep it, I will suddenly give it drink: lest any hurt come to it, I keep it night and day.

⁴There is no indignation in me: who shall make me a thorn and a brier in battle: shall I march against it, shall I set it on fire together?

⁵Or rather shall it take hold of my strength, shall it make peace with me, shall it make peace with me?

⁶When they shall rush in unto Jacob, Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with seed.

⁷Hath he struck him according to the stroke of him that struck him? or is he slain, as he killed them that were slain by him?

⁸In measure against measure, when it shall be cast off, thou shalt judge it. He hath meditated with his severe spirit in the day of heat.

⁹Therefore upon this shall the iniquity of the house of Jacob be forgiven: and this is all the fruit, that the sin thereof should be taken away, when he shall have made all the stones of the altar, as burnt stones broken in pieces, the groves and temples shall not stand.

¹⁰For the strong city shall be desolate, the beautiful city shall be forsaken, and shall be left as a wilderness: there the calf shall feed, and there shall he lie down, and shall consume its branches.

¹¹Its harvest shall be destroyed with drought, women shall come and teach it: for it is not a wise people, therefore he that made it, shall not have mercy on it: and he that formed it, shall not spare it.

¹²And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord will strike from the…

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