Isaiah, starting at chapter 31
{31:1} Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on
horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen
because they are very strong, but they don't look to the Holy One of
Israel, neither seek Yahweh! {31:2} Yet he also is wise, and will
bring evil, and will not call back his words, but will arise against
the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of those who work
iniquity. {31:3} Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their
horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Yahweh shall stretch out his
hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall
fall, and they all shall be consumed together. {31:4} For thus says
Yahweh to me, As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey,
if a multitude of shepherds are called forth against him, will not be
dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so
will Yahweh of Hosts come down to fight on Mount Zion, and on the hill
of it. {31:5} As birds hovering, so will Yahweh of Hosts protect
Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver [it], he will pass over and
preserve [it]. {31:6} Turn you to him from whom you have deeply
revolted, children of Israel. {31:7} For in that day they shall cast
away every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your
own hands have made to you for a sin. {31:8} The Assyrian shall fall
by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of men, shall devour him;
and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become
subject to forced labor. {31:9} His rock shall pass away by reason of
terror, and his princes shall be dismayed at the ensign, says Yahweh,
whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
{32:1} Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes
shall rule in justice. {32:2} A man shall be as a hiding-place from
the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry
place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land. {32:3} The eyes
of those who see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who hear
shall listen. {32:4} The heart of the rash shall understand knowledge,
and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
{32:5} The fool shall be no more called noble, nor the scoundrel be
highly respected. {32:6} For the fool will speak folly, and his heart
will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against
Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink
of the thirsty to fail. {32:7} The instruments of the churl are evil:
he devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even
when the needy speaks right. {32:8} But the noble devises noble
things; and in noble things shall he continue. {32:9} Rise up, you
women who are at ease, [and] hear my voice; you careless daughters,
give ear to my speech. {32:10} For days beyond a year shall you be
troubled, you careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the harvest
shall not come. {32:11} Tremble, you women who are at ease; be
troubled, you careless ones; strip yourselves, and make yourselves
naked, and gird [sackcloth] on your loins. {32:12} They shall strike
on the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. {32:13}
On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, on all
the houses of joy in the joyous city. {32:14} For the palace shall be
forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the
watch-tower shall be for dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a
pasture of flocks; {32:15} until the Spirit be poured on us from on
high, and the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful
field be esteemed as a forest. {32:16} Then justice shall dwell in the
wilderness; and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field.
{32:17} The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of
righteousness, quietness and confidence forever. {32:18} My people
shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in
quiet resting-places. {32:19} But it shall hail in the downfall of the
forest; and the city shall be utterly laid low. {32:20} Blessed are
you who sow beside all waters, who send forth the feet of the ox and
the donkey.
{33:1} Woe to you who destroy, and you weren't destroyed; and deal
treacherously, and they didn't deal treacherously with you! When you
have ceased to destroy, you shall be destroyed; and when you have made
an end of dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with
you. {33:2} Yahweh, be gracious to us; we have waited for you: be our
arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. {33:3}
At the noise of the thunder the peoples are fled; at the lifting up of
yourself the nations are scattered. {33:4} Your spoil shall be
gathered as the caterpillar gathers: as locusts leap shall men leap on
it. {33:5} Yahweh is exalted; for he dwells on high: he has filled
Zion with justice and righteousness. {33:6} There shall be stability
in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear
of Yahweh is your treasure. {33:7} Behold, their valiant ones cry
outside; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly. {33:8} The highways
lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases: [the enemy] has broken the
covenant, he has despised the cities, he doesn't regard man. {33:9}
The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers
away; Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their
leaves]. {33:10} Now will I arise, says Yahweh; now will I lift up
myself; now will I be exalted. {33:11} You shall conceive chaff, you
shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour
you. {33:12} The peoples shall be as the burning of lime, as thorns
cut down, that are burned in the fire. {33:13} Hear, you who are far
off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.
{33:14} The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the
godless ones: Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? who
among us can dwell with everlasting burning? {33:15} He who walks
righteously, and speaks blamelessly; he who despises the gain of
oppressions, who shakes his hands from taking a bribe, who stops his
ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking on evil:
{33:16} He shall dwell on high; his place of defense shall be the
munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given [him]; his waters shall
be sure. {33:17} Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they
shall see a land that reaches afar. {33:18} Your heart shall muse on
the terror: Where is he who counted, where is he who weighed [the
tribute]? where is he who counted the towers? {33:19} You shall not
see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can not
comprehend, of a strange language that you can not understand. {33:20}
Look on Zion, the city of our solemnities: your eyes shall see
Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be removed, the
stakes of it shall never be plucked up, neither shall any of the cords
of it be broken. {33:21} But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty,
a place of broad rivers and streams, in which shall go no galley with
oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. {33:22} For Yahweh is
our judge, Yahweh is our lawgiver, Yahweh is our king; he will save
us. {33:23} Your rigging is untied; they could not strengthen the foot
of their mast, they could not spread the sail: then was the prey of a
great spoil divided; the lame took the prey. {33:24} The inhabitant
shall not say, I am sick: the people who dwell therein shall be
forgiven their iniquity.
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