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that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until, be please.

5 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple-tree: there thy mother brought thee forth; there she brought thee forth that bare thee.

9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver; and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.

10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour. 11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers: every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.

12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before

61 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehe-me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two ment flame. hundred.

7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

8 We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.

14 ¶ Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

¶ The Book of the Prophet ISAIAH.
CHAP. I.

THE vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz,
which he saw concerning Judah and
Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham,
Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the LORD hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new-moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with: it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

14 Your new-moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that 16 Wash you, make you clean ; put away are corrupters! they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel the evil of your doings from before mine unto anger, they are gone away back-eyes: cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do weil; seek judgment; reward. 5¶ Why should ye be stricken any more?lieve the oppressed; judge the fatherless; ye will revolt more and more. The whole plead for the widow. head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodoin, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah :

18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

21 T How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:

23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:

11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood 25 And I will turn my hand upon tree, of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats. and purely purge away thy dross, and take 12 When ye come to appear before me,away all thy tin:

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3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law,and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

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12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up, and he shall be brought low:

13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty', when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of? CHAP. III.

OR behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from and from Judah, the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,

4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people; and they shall beat their swords into plow-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.

5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neigh

6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people she house of Jacob, because they be replenish-bour: the child shall behave himself proudly ed from the east, and are soothsayers like the against the ancient, and the base against Philistines, and they please themselves in the the honourable. children of strangers.

7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:

6 When a man shall take hold of his bro ther, of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:

7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will

8 Their land also is full of idols, they wor-not be an healer; for in my house is neither ship the work of their own hands, that which bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of their own fingers have made: the people.

9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.

8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.

91 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their

11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, sin as Sodom, they hide it not: woe unto and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto down; and the LORD alone shall be exalted themselves. in that day.

10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him; for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

12 As for my people, children are their loppressors, and women rule over them. O my

people, they which lead thee cause thee to the shining of a flaming fire by night : for err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.

14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

upon all the glory shall be a defence.

6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a sha dow in the day-time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain. CHAP. V.

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15 What mean ye that ye beat my people Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song

to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

16 Moreover, the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-forth necks, and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

17 Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.

18 In that day the LORD will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,

19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,

20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the head-bands, and the tablets, and the ear-rings,

21 The rings, and nose jewels,

of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a wine-press therein: and he 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, when 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 the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down :

6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be 22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the pruned nor digged; but there shall come up mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping-briers and thorns: I will also command the pins, clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.

24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well-set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.

25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.

26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she, being desolate, shall sit upon the ground.

CHAP. IV.

women

AND
ND in that day seven women shall take
our own bread, and wear our own apparel;
only let us be called by thy name, to take
away our reproach.

2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent 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, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem : 4 When the LORD shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the by the spirit of burning. midst thereof, by the spirit of judgment, and

dwelling-place of mount Zion, and upon her And the LORD will create upon every assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and

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7 For the 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 house to house, that lay field 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 bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

11 1 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge; and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

15 And the mean man shall be brought and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, 16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted

fn judgment, and God, that is holy, shall be sanctified in righteousness.

17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

18 1 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with

a cart-rope:

19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!

20 T Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

5 ¶ Then said 1, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:

7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

8 Also I heard the voice of the LORD, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I, send me.

9 And he said, Go and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and

22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong see ye indeed, but perceive not. drink :

10 Make the heart of this people fat, and 23 Which justify the wicked for reward, make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; and take away the righteousness of the righ-lest they see with their eyes, and hear with teous from him! their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff,so their 11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom answered, Until the cities be wasted without shall go up as dust: because they have cast inhabitant, and the houses without man, and away the law of the LORD of hosts, and de- the land be utterly desolate,

spised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 12 And the LORD have removed men far 25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kin-away, and there be a great forsaking in the dled against his people, and he hath stretch-midst of the land.

ed forth his hand against them, and hath 13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and shall return, and shall be eaten : as a teil-tree, their carcases were torn in the midst of the and as an oak, whose substance is in them, streets. For all this his anger is not turned when they cast their leaves, so the holy seed away, but his hand is stretched out still. shall be the substance thereof. CHAP. VII.

26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and behold, they shall come with speed swiftly.

AND it came to pass, in the days of Ahaz

the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Sy27 None shall be weary nor stumble among ria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor against it, but could not prevail against it. the latchet of their shoes be broken. 2 And it was told the house of David, say28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their ing, Syria is confederate with Ephraim: and bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted his heart was moved, and the heart of his like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind. people, as the trees of the wood are moved

29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they with the wind. shall roar like young lions; yea, they shall 3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall car- now to meet Ahaz, thou and Shear-jashub ry it away safe, and none shall deliver it. thy son, at the end of the conduit of the up30 And in that day they shall roar against per pool, in the highway of the fuller's field; them like the roaring of the sea: and if one 4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be look unto the land, behold darkness and sor-quiet; fear not, neither be faint-hearted for row; and the light is darkened in the heavens the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for thereof. the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

CHAP. VI.

5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,

IN the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one 6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and had six wings; with twain he covered his let us make a breach therein for us, and set a face, and with twain he covered his feet, and king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal: with twain he did fly. 7 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.

3 And one cried unto_another, and said, Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.

8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within

threescore and five years shall Ephraim be record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the broken, that it be not a people. son of Jeberechiah.

9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.

10 ¶ Moreover, the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,

11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. 12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.

13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?

14 Therefore the LORD himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

7 Now therefore, behold, the LORD bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory; and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks. 8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over; he shall reach even to the neck: and the stretching out of his wings re-shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Im

15 Butter and honey shall be eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

16 For before the child shall know to fuse the evil, and choose the good, the land manuel. that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird your selves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.

10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand for God is with us.

11 ¶ For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me, that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,

12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.

13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for

20 In the same day shall the LORD shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of ofhead, and the hair of the feet: and it shall fence, to both the houses of Israel; for a gin also consume the beard. and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

17 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.

18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria:

19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son: then said the LORD to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz: 4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus, and the spoil of Samaria, shall be taken away before the king of Assyria. 5 ¶ The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,

6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;

21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow and two sheep: 22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give, that he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.

23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.

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24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

CHAP. VIII.

MOREOVER, the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Maher-shalal-|

hash-baz.

15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and will look for him.

18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me, are for signs, and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

25 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the tread-should not a people seek unto their God? for ing of lesser cattle.

the living to the dead?

20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

21 And they shall pass through it hardly be stead and hungry: and it shall come to pass,

2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to that, when they shall be hungry, they shall

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19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter;

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