Isaiah 24–27

24^*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.

25^*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 an 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.

26^*aIn that day ^bshall this song be sung in the land of Judah;

We have a strong city;

^cSalvation will God appoint for walls and ^dbulwarks.

^2eOpen ye the gates,

^eThat the righteous nation which keepeth the ^†truth may enter in.

³Thou wilt keep him ^fin ^†perfect peace,

Whose ^||mind is ^gstayed on thee:

Because ^hhe trusteth in thee.

⁴Trust ye in the Lord ⁱfor ever:

For in ^kthe Lord JEHOVAH is ^†everlasting strength:

⁵For ^lhe bringeth down them that dwell on high;

^lmThe lofty city, he layeth it low;

^lHe layeth it low, even to the ground;

^lHe bringeth it even to the dust.

⁶The foot shall tread it down,

Even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

⁷The way of the just is ⁿuprightness:

^oThou, most upright, dost ^pweigh the path of the just.

⁸Yea, ^qin the way of thy judgments, O Lord, ^rshave we waited for thee;

The desire of ^sour soul is ^tto ^uthy name, and ^qto ^uthe remembrance of thee.

⁹With my soul have I desired thee ^vin the night;

Yea, with my spirit within me will I ^wseek thee early:

For when ^xthy judgments are in the earth,

The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

^10yLet ^zfavour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness:

In ^athe land of uprightness will he deal unjustly,

And ^bwill not behold the majesty of the Lord.

¹¹Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, ^bThey will not see:

But they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy ^||at the people;

Yea, ^cthe fire of thine enemies shall devour them.

¹²Lord, thou wilt ordain ^dPeace ^efor us:

For ^fthou also hast wrought all our works ^||in us.

¹³O Lord our God,

^ffOther lords beside thee have had dominion over us:

But ^gby thee only will we make mention of thy name.

¹⁴They are dead, they shall not live;

They are ^ggdeceased, they shall not rise:

^hTherefore hast thou ⁱvisited and destroyed them,

And ^kmade all their memory to perish.

^15lThou hast increased the nation, O Lord,

Thou hast increased the nation: ^mthou art glorified:

Thou hadst ⁿremoved it far unto all ^othe ends of the earth.

¹⁶Lord, ^pIn trouble have they visited thee,

They poured out a ^†prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

^17qLike as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery,

Is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs;

So have we been in thy sight, O Lord.

¹⁸We have been with child, we have been in pain,

We have as it were brought forth wind;

We have not wrought any deliverance in the earth;

Neither have ^rthe inhabitants of the world ^sfallen.

^19tThy dead men shall live,

Together with my dead body shall they arise.

^tAwake and sing, ^tye that dwell in dust:

For ^uthy dew is as the dew of ^vherbs,

And the earth shall cast out ^ggthe dead.

²⁰Come, my people, ^wenter thou into thy chambers,

And shut thy doors about thee:

Hide thyself as it were ^xfor a little ^ymoment,

^zUntil the indignation be overpast.

^21aFor, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place

To ^bpunish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:

The earth also shall disclose her ^†blood,

And ^cshall no more cover her slain.

27^aIn that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword

Shall ^bpunish ^cdleviathan the ^||piercing serpent,

Even ^cdleviathan that ^ecrooked serpent;

And he shall slay ^dthe dragon that is in the sea.

^2aIn that day ^fsing ye unto her,

^gA vineyard of red wine.

^3hI the Lord do ⁱkeep it;

I will water it ^jevery moment:

Lest any ^bhurt it, ^hI will ⁱkeep it night and day.

^4kFury is not in me:

Who would ^lmset the briers and thorns against me in battle?

I would ^||go through them, I would ^mburn them together.

⁵Or let him take hold of ⁿmy strength,

^oThat he may make peace with me;

And he shall make peace with me.

⁶He shall cause them that come of Jacob ^pto take root:

Israel shall ^qblossom and ^qbud,

And fill the face of the world with fruit.

⁷Hath he smitten him, ^†ras he smote those that smote him?

Or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?

^8rsIn measure, ^||when it shooteth forth, thou wilt ^tdebate with it:

^||He stayeth his rough wind in the day of ^vthe east wind.

^9wBy this therefore shall ^xthe iniquity of Jacob be purged;

And this is all the fruit ^yto take away his sin;

When he maketh all the stones of the altar as ^zchalkstones that are beaten in sunder,

^aThe groves and ^||aimages shall not stand up.

¹⁰Yet ^bthe defenced city shall be desolate,

And ^bcthe habitation ^dforsaken, and left ^blike a wilderness:

^eThere shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down,

And consume ^fthe branches thereof.

¹¹When ^gthe boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off:

The women come, and ^hset them on fire:

For ⁱit is a people of no understanding:

Therefore ^khe that made them will not have mercy on them,

And ^klhe that formed them will shew them no favour.

¹²And it shall come to pass ^min that day,

That the Lord shall ^nubeat off from ^othe channel of ^pthe river ^qunto the stream of Egypt,

And ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

¹³And it shall…