Isaiah 64
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?
Isaiah 17–25
Behold, Damascus is taken away cfrom being a city,
And it shall be a ruinous heap.
2 dThe cities of Aroer are forsaken:
They shall be for flocks,
Which eshall lie down, and efnone shall make them afraid.
3 gThe fortress also shall hcease from Ephraim,
And gthe kingdom from bDamascus, and the remnant of Syria:
They shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts.
4 And in that day it shall come to pass,
That gthe glory of Jacob shall be made thin,
And ithe fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
5 And it shall be jas when the harvestman gathereth the corn,
And reapeth the ears with his arm;
And it shall be as he that gathereth ears in kthe valley of Rephaim.
6 lYet mngleaning grapes shall be left in it, mas the shaking of an olive tree,
oTwo or three berries in the top of pthe uppermost bough,
qFour or five in rthe outmost fruitful branches thereof,
Saith the Lord God of Israel.
7 At that day shall a man look to shis Maker,
And his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars, tthe work of his hands,
Neither shall respect that which his fingers have made,
Either uvthe groves, or the ||vimages.
9 In that day shall his strong cities be
As a forsaken wbough, and pan uppermost branch,
xWhich they left because of the children of Israel:
And there shall be desolation.
10 Because thou hast forgotten ythe God of thy salvation,
And hast not been mindful of zthe rock of thy strength,
Therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants,
And shalt set it with strange slips:
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow,
And in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish:
But the harvest shall be ||a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the ||multitude of many people,
Which bmake a noise like athe noise of the seas;
And to athe rushing of nations,
That make a rushing like athe rushing of ||cmighty waters!
13 aThe nations shall rush like athe rushing of many waters:
But God shall drebuke them, and they shall flee far off,
And shall be chased eas the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
And like ||fa rolling thing before gthe whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble;
And before the morning he is not.
hThis is the portion of them that spoil us,
And the lot of them that rob us.
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.
Behold, cthe Lord rideth upon a dswift cloud, and shall come into Egypt:
And dthe idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence,
And ethe heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will †set the Egyptians against the Egyptians:
And they shall fight every one against his brother, and fevery one against his neighbour;
City against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt †shall fail in the midst thereof;
And I will †destroy the counsel thereof:
And they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers,
And to gthem that have familiar spirits, and to gthe wizards.
4 And the Egyptians will I ||give over into the hand of ha cruel lord;
And ha fierce king shall rule over them,
Saith ithe Lord, the Lord of hosts.
5 And the waters shall jfail from kthe sea,
And lthe river mshall be wasted and dried up.
6 And they shall turn the rivers far away;
And nthe brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up:
The reeds and oflags shall pwither.
7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks,
And every thing sown by the brooks,
Shall wither, ppbe driven away, †and be no more.
8 qThe fishers also shall mourn,
And all they that cast rangle into the brooks shall lament,
And they that spread nets upon the waters sshall languish.
9 Moreover they that work in tfine flax,
And they that weave ||networks, …