Yesha`yahu, starting at chapter 34
{34:1} Come near, you nations, to hear; and listen, you peoples: let
the [1>]eretz[<1] hear, and the fullness of it; the world, and all
things that come forth from it. {34:2} For the LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD has a sacrifice in Botzrah, 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
the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of
Tziyon. {34:9} The streams of [Edom] shall be turned into
[2>]zehfet[<2], and the dust of it into sulfur, and the land of it
shall become burning [3>]zehfet[<3]. {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 [4>]ka`at[<4] 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 Lilit 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 the LORD, 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
Levanon shall be given to it, the excellency of Karmel and Sharon:
they shall see the glory of the LORD, 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 the LORD shall return, and come
with singing to Tziyon; 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 Hizkiyahu,
that Sancheriv king of Ashshur came up against all the fortified
cities of Yehudah, and took them. {36:2} The king of Ashshur sent
Ravshakeh from Lakhish to Yerushalayim to king Hizkiyahu 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 Elyakim the son of
Hilkiyah, who was over the household, and Shevna the [1>]Sofer[<1],
and Yo'ach, the son of Asaf, the recorder. {36:4} Ravshakeh said to
them, Say you now to Hizkiyahu, Thus says the great king, the king of
Ashshur, 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 Mitzrayim,
whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is
Par`oh king of Mitzrayim to all who trust on him. {36:7} But if you
tell me, We trust in the LORD our God: isn't that he, whose high
places and whose altars Hizkiyahu has taken away, and has said to
Yehudah and to Yerushalayim, You shall worship before this altar?
{36:8} Now therefore, please give pledges to my master the king of
Ashshur, 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 Mitzrayim for chariots and for horsemen? {36:10} Am I now
come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD
said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. {36:11} Then said
Elyakim and Shevna and Yo'ach to Ravshakeh, Please speak, to your
servants in the Arammian language; for we understand it: and don't
speak to us in the Yehudim' language, in the ears of the people who
are on the wall. {36:12} But Ravshakeh 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 Ravshakeh stood, and cried with
a loud voice in the Yehudim' language, and said, Hear you the words of
the great king, the king of Ashshur. {36:14} Thus says the king, Don't
let Hizkiyahu deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you:
{36:15} neither let Hizkiyahu make you trust in the LORD, saying, the
LORD will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the
hand of the king of Ashshur. {36:16} Don't listen to Hizkiyahu: for
thus says the king of Ashshur, Make your shalom 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
Hizkiyahu persuade you, saying, the LORD will deliver us. Has any of
the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king
of Ashshur? {36:19} Where are the gods of Hamat and Arpad? where are
the gods of Sefarvayim? and have they delivered Shomron 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 the LORD should
deliver Yerushalayim out of my hand? {36:21} But they held their
shalom, and answered him not a word; for the king's [2>]mitzvah[<2]
was, saying, Don't answer him. {36:22} Then came Elyakim the son of
Hilkiyah, who was over the household, and Shevna the [3>]Sofer[<3],
and Yo'ach, the son of Asaf, the recorder, to Hizkiyahu with their
clothes torn, and told him the words of Ravshakeh.
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Footnotes:
[1] {34:1} earth
[2] {34:9} pitch
[3] {34:9} pitch
[4] {34:11} pelican
[1] {36:3} scribe
[2] {36:21} commandment
[3] {36:22} scribe
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