Isaiah 2:1–24:23
The word that aIsaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 aaAnd it shall come to pass bin the last days,
That cthe mountain of the Lord’s house shall be ||destablished in the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills;
And efall nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say,
gCome ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
And he will hteach us of his ways,
And we will walk in his paths:
For iout of Zion shall go forth the law,
And fthe word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations,
And shall rebuke many people:
And kthey shall beat their swords into lplowshares,
kAnd their spears into ||mpruninghooks:
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
nNeither shall they learn war any more.
And let us owalk in the light of the Lord.
6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob,
Because they be replenished ||pfrom the east,
And are qsoothsayers rlike the Philistines,
And they ||splease themselves in the children of strangers.
7 Their land also is tfull of silver and gold,
Neither is there any end of their treasures;
Their land is also ufull of horses,
Neither is there any end of their chariots:
8 Their land also is vfull of widols;
They worship the work of their own hands,
That which their own fingers have made:
9 And xthe mean man boweth down,
And xthe great man yhumbleth himself:
Therefore forgive them not.
10 zEnter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust,
zaFor fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty.
11 bThe lofty looks of man shall be humbled,
And the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down,
And cthe Lord alone shall be exalted din that day.
12 For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is eproud and lofty,
And upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be ebrought low:
13 And upon all fthe cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up,
And upon all gthe oaks of Bashan,
14 And hupon all the high mountains,
And hupon all the hills that are lifted up,
And upon every fenced wall,
16 And upon all ithe ships of Tarshish,
And upon all †pleasant pictures.
17 And jthe loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
And the haughtiness of men shall be made low:
And the Lord alone shall be exalted jin that day.
18 And k||the widols he shall utterly abolish.
19 And lthey shall go into the mholes of the rocks,
And into the caves of †the earth,
lFor fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty,
When he ariseth nto shake terribly the earth.
20 dIn that day oa man shall cast †his widols of silver, and his widols of gold,
||Which they made each one for himself to worship,
To the moles and to pthe bats;
21 lTo go into qthe clefts of the rocks,
And into rthe tops of the ragged rocks,
lFor fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty,
When he ariseth nto shake terribly the earth.
22 sCease ye from man, twhose breath is in his nostrils:
For wherein is he to be accounted of?
3 For, behold, athe Lord, the Lord of hosts,
bDoth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah cthe stay and the staff,
The whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
2 dThe mighty man, and the man of war,
The judge, and the prophet, and ethe prudent, and the ancient,
3 The captain of fifty, and †the honourable man,
And the counseller, and fthe cunning artificer, and the ||eloquent orator.
4 And hI will give children to be their princes,
And ibabes shall rule over them.
5 And the people shall be joppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour:
The child shall kbehave himself proudly against the ancient,
And the base against the honourable.
6 When la man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying,
Thou hast clothing, be thou our mruler,
And let this nruin be under thy hand:
7 oIn that day shall he †swear, saying,
I will not be an †healer;
For in my house is neither bread nor clothing:
Make me not a mruler of the people.
8 For Jerusalem nis ruined, and Judah is fallen:
Because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord,
pTo provoke the eyes of his glory.
9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them;
And they qdeclare their sin ras Sodom, they hide it not.
Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
10 Say ye to the righteous, sthat it shall be twell with him:
For uthey shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11 Woe unto the wicked! vit shall be ill with him:
For wthe reward of his hands shall be †given him.
12 As for my people, hchildren are their joppressors,
And women rule over them.
O my people, ||they which lead thee cause thee to err,
And †destroy the way of thy paths.
13 The Lord xstandeth up yto plead,
And standeth to judge the people.
14 The Lord zwill enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof:
For ye have ||eaten up athe vineyard;
The spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What mean ye that ye bbeat my people to pieces,
And grind the faces of the poor?
Saith the Lord God of hosts.
cBecause dthe daughters of Zion are haughty,
And walk with stretched forth necks and †wanton eyes,
Walking and ||mincing as they go,
And emaking a tinkling with their feet:
17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of dthe daughters of Zion,
And the Lord will †fdiscover their secret parts.
18 gIn that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their etinkling ornaments about their feet,
And htheir ||cauls, and their iround tires like the moon,
19 The ||chains, and the bracelets, and the ||mufflers,
20 kThe bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and lthe headbands,
And the †tablets, and mthe earrings,
21 nThe rings, and onose jewels,
22 pThe changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles,
And qthe wimples, and rthe crisping pins,
23 rrThe glasses, and sthe fine linen,
And tthe hoods, and uthe vails.
24 And it shall come to pass, that vinstead of sweet smell there shall be wstink;
And instead of a girdle a rent;
And instead of hwell set hair vxbaldness;
And instead of a stomacher ya girding of sackcloth;
And burning zinstead of beauty.
25 Thy men shall fall by the sword,
And thy †mighty in the war.
26 And aher gates shall blament and mourn;
And she being ||†desolate cshall sit upon the ground.
4 And ain that day bseven women cshall take hold of done man, saying,
We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel:
Only †let us be called by thy name,
2 aIn that day shall eethe branch of the Lord be †beautiful and glorious,
And the fruit of the earth shall be ffexcellent and comely
†For them that are escaped of Israel.
3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion,
And he that remaineth in Jerusalem,
hShall be called holy,
Even every one ithat is written ||among the living in Jerusalem:
4 jWhen the Lord shall have washed away the filth of kthe daughters of Zion,
And shall have lpurged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof
llBy the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
5 And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion,
And upon her assemblies,
mA cloud and smoke by day,
And nthe shining mof a flaming fire by night:
For ||upon all the glory shall be †a defence.
6 And there shall be oa tabernacle pfor a shadow in the daytime from the heat,
And qfor a place of refuge, and for ra covert from storm and from rain.
5 Now will I sing to amy wellbeloved ba song of my beloved touching chis vineyard.
aMy wellbeloved hath a vineyard in †a very fruitful hill:
2 And dhe ||fenced it, and egathered out the stones thereof,
And dplanted it with fthe choicest vine,
And dbuilt a tower in the midst of it,
And dalso †made ga winepress therein:
And hhe looked that it should bring forth grapes,
And it brought forth wild grapes.
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah,
Judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
4 What could have been done more to my vineyard,
That I have not done in it?
Wherefore, hwhen I looked that it should bring forth grapes,
Brought it forth wild grapes?
5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard:
I will take away ithe hedge thereof, and jit shall be eaten up;
And kbreak down the wall thereof, and it shall be †trodden down:
It shall not be pruned, nor digged;
But there shall come up lbriers and thorns:
I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
7 For mthe vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel,
And the men of Judah †his pleasant plant:
And he looked for judgment, but behold †oppression;
For righteousness, but behold a cry.
8 Woe unto them that join ohouse to house,
That lay ofield to field, till there be no place,
That †they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
9 ||In mine ears said the Lord of hosts,
†Of a truth many houses shall be desolate,
Even great and fair, without inhabitant.
10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one pbath,
And qthe seed of pan homer shall yield pan ephah.
11 rWoe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink;
sThat continue until night, till wine ||tinflame them!
12 And uvthe harp, and uwthe viol, the uvxytabret, and uypipe,
And wine, are in their feasts:
But zthey regard not athe work of the Lord,
zNeither aconsider bthe operation of his hands.
13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, cbecause they have no knowledge:
And †their honourable men are famished,
And their multitude dried up with thirst.
14 Therefore dhell hath enlarged herself,
And eopened fher mouth without measure:
And their glory, and fftheir multitude, and their gpomp,
And ffhe that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
15 And hthe mean man shall be brought down,
And the mighty man shall be humbled,
And the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
16 But ithe Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment,
And ||†God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
17 Then shall the lambs feed after jtheir manner,
And the waste places of kthe fat ones shall lstrangers eat.
18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity,
And msin as it were with a cart rope:
19 nThat say, Let …