Isaiah, starting at chapter 34
{34:1} Come near, you nations, to hear; and listen, you peoples: let
the earth hear, and the fullness of it; the world, and all things that
come forth from it. {34:2} For Yahweh has indignation against all the
nations, and wrath against all their host: he has utterly destroyed
them, he has delivered them to the slaughter. {34:3} Their slain also
shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up;
and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. {34:4} All the
host of the sky shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled
together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as the leaf
fades from off the vine, and as a fading [leaf] from the fig tree.
{34:5} For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky: behold, it shall
come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, to judgment. {34:6}
The sword of Yahweh is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness,
with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of
rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in
the land of Edom. {34:7} The wild-oxen shall come down with them, and
the bulls with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken with blood,
and their dust made fat with fatness. {34:8} For Yahweh has a day of
vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. {34:9} The
streams of [Edom] shall be turned into pitch, and the dust of it into
sulfur, and the land of it shall become burning pitch. {34:10} It
shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke of it shall go up for
ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall
pass through it forever and ever. {34:11} But the pelican and the
porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell
therein: and he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the
plummet of emptiness. {34:12} They shall call the nobles of it to the
kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be
nothing. {34:13} Thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and
thistles in the fortresses of it; and it shall be a habitation of
jackals, a court for ostriches. {34:14} The wild animals of the desert
shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow;
yes, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place
of rest. {34:15} There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay,
and hatch, and gather under her shade; yes, there shall the kites be
gathered, everyone with her mate. {34:16} Seek you out of the book of
Yahweh, and read: no one of these shall be missing, none shall want
her mate; for my mouth, it has commanded, and his Spirit, it has
gathered them. {34:17} He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has
divided it to them by line: they shall possess it forever; from
generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
{35:1} The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; and the desert
shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. {35:2} It shall blossom
abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing; the glory of
Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon:
they shall see the glory of Yahweh, the excellency of our God. {35:3}
Strengthen you the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. {35:4}
Tell those who are of a fearful heart, Be strong, don't be afraid:
behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, [with] the recompense of
God; he will come and save you. {35:5} Then the eyes of the blind
shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. {35:6}
Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the mute
shall sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams
in the desert. {35:7} The glowing sand shall become a pool, and the
thirsty ground springs of water: in the habitation of jackals, where
they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. {35:8} A highway shall
be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness. The
unclean shall not pass over it, but is shall be for for him who walks
in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there. {35:9} No lion shall be
there, nor shall any ravenous animal go up thereon; they shall not be
found there; but the redeemed shall walk [there]: {35:10} and the
ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and
everlasting joy shall be on their heads: they shall obtain gladness
and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
{36:1} Now it happened in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that
Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities
of Judah, and took them. {36:2} The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh
from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a great army. He stood
by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.
{36:3} Then came forth to him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over
the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the
recorder. {36:4} Rabshakeh said to them, Say you now to Hezekiah, Thus
says the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this in
which you trust? {36:5} I say, [your] counsel and strength for the war
are but vain words: now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled
against me? {36:6} Behold, you trust on the staff of this bruised
reed, even on Egypt, whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand,
and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.
{36:7} But if you tell me, We trust in Yahweh our God: isn't that he,
whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has
said to Judah and to Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar?
{36:8} Now therefore, please give pledges to my master the king of
Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on
your part to set riders on them. {36:9} How then can you turn away the
face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your
trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? {36:10} Am I now come up
without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, Go
up against this land, and destroy it. {36:11} Then said Eliakim and
Shebna and Joah to Rabshakeh, Please speak, to your servants in the
Syrian language; for we understand it: and don't speak to us in the
Jews' language, in the ears of the people who are on the wall. {36:12}
But Rabshakeh said, Has my master sent me to your master, and to you,
to speak these words? [has he] not [sent me] to the men who sit on the
wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?
{36:13} Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews'
language, and said, Hear you the words of the great king, the king of
Assyria. {36:14} Thus says the king, Don't let Hezekiah deceive you;
for he will not be able to deliver you: {36:15} neither let Hezekiah
make you trust in Yahweh, saying, Yahweh will surely deliver us; this
city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. {36:16}
Don't listen to Hezekiah: for thus says the king of Assyria, Make your
peace with me, and come out to me; and eat you everyone of his vine,
and everyone of his fig tree, and drink you everyone the waters of his
own cistern; {36:17} until I come and take you away to a land like
your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and
vineyards. {36:18} Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Yahweh
will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land
out of the hand of the king of Assyria? {36:19} Where are the gods of
Hamath and Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they
delivered Samaria out of my hand? {36:20} Who are they among all the
gods of these countries, that have delivered their country out of my
hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? {36:21} But
they held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's
commandment was, saying, Don't answer him. {36:22} Then came Eliakim
the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe,
and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their
clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
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