CHAPTER XII.

1 And in that day thou shalt say:

I will sing to thee, O Jehovah;
Though thou wast angry with me,

Thine anger is turned away, and thou hast comforted me. 2 Behold! God is my salvation;

I will trust, and not be afraid;

For God Jehovah is my strength and song;

And he hath become1 my salvation.

3 Ye shall draw waters with joy

From the fountains of the Saviour.2

4 And in that day shall ye say:

Sing to Jehovah; call upon his name;

Make known his works among the peoples;
Proclaim that his name is exalted.

5 Sing to Jehovah ;

For he hath done glorious things;

And this hath been made known throughout all the earth.

6 Shout and sing,

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O inhabitress of Zion!

For great in the midst of thee

Is the Holy One of Israel.

CHAPTER XIII.

The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.

2 On a lofty mountain lift up a banner;

Raise the voice to them; shake the hand;

That they may enter into the gates of the nobles.

3 I have commanded my sanctified ones;

And for mine anger have I also called my mighty ones,
Who rejoice in my glory.

4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains,

As of a great people ;

The noise of the sound of kingdoms,

Of nations gathered together;

Jehovah of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.

5 Coming from a distant land,

From the end of heaven,

Jehovah and the vessels of his anger,

To destroy the whole land.

6 Howl ye, for the day of Jehovah is at hand;

As destruction from the Strong One1 shall it come. 7 Therefore shall all hands be weakened,

And every heart of man shall melt.

8 And they shall be afraid;

Pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them;
They shall be in pain like a woman in labour;
Every one shall be amazed at his neighbour;
Their faces shall be faces of flames.

9 Behold! the day of Jehovah shall come cruel;
Even indignation and the burning of anger,
To lay the land desolate,

And to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

10 Therefore the stars of heaven, and the constellations,
Shall not give their light;

The sun shall be darkened in his going forth,
And the moon shall not give forth her brightness.
11 And I will visit upon the world wickedness,
And upon the wicked their iniquity;

And I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease,
And I will lay low the loftiness of tyrants.

12 I will make a mortal more precious than fine gold,
And a man than the weight of the gold of Ophir.

13 Therefore I will shake the heavens,

And the earth shall be moved out of its place,

In the indignation of Jehovah of hosts,

And in the day of the fierceness of his anger.

14 And it shall be as a chased roe,

And a sheep which no man taketh up;
Every one shall look to his own people,
And every one shall flee to his own land.

15 Every one that is found shall be pierced through,

And every one that is joined to them shall fall by the sword. 16 Their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; Their houses shall be plundered,

And their wives shall be ravished.

17 Behold! I raise up against you the Medes,

Who shall not think of silver,

And shall not desire even gold.

18 And with their bows shall they dash in pieces the children; They shall not pity the fruit of the womb,

Nor shall their eye spare children.

19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,

And the ornament of the brightness of the Chaldeans, Shall be like God's overthrowing of Sodom and Gomorrah.

20 Never shall it be inhabited any more,

1 Or, From a strong destroyer.

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Nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation;

Nor shall the Arabian pitch his tent there,

Nor shall the shepherds make their flocks to lie down there.

21 But the Ziim shall lie down there;

And their houses shall be full of Ohim;

There shall the daughters of the ostrich dwell,

And there shall the satyrs dance.

22 And Iim shall cry in their splendid houses, And dragons in their delightful palaces; And her time is near at hand,

And her days shall not be prolonged.

CHAPTER XIV.

1 Jehovah will now pity Jacob,

And will yet choose Israel,

And will cause them to rest in their own land;
And the stranger shall be joined to them;
They shall be allied to the house of Jacob.

2 And the peoples shall take them,

And shall bring them to their own place,

And in the land of Jehovah shall the house of Israel
Possess them for servants and for handmaids ;

And they shall take them whose captives they were,
And shall rule over their oppressors.

And from the hard bondage which had been laid on thee.

4 Then against the king of Babylon

Shalt thou take up this proverb, and shalt say,

How hath the oppressor ceased!

How hath the city covetous of gold ceased!

5 Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked,

The sceptre of the rulers,

6 Which smote the nations in anger

With an incurable wound;

Which ruled over the nations with anger;
If any one suffered persecution,

He did not hinder it.

7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet; They have sung praise.

8 Yea, the fir-trees rejoice over thee,

And the cedars of Lebanon:

Since thou art laid down,

No feller hath come up against us.

9 Hell from beneath is moved on account of thee;

To meet thy coming

He hath stirred up the dead for thee,

And hath made to rise from their thrones

All the leaders of the earth,

All the kings of the nations.

10 All shall speak, and say to thee:

Art thou also become weak as we?

And art thou become like to us?

11 In the grave is laid thy splendour,

And the noise of thine instruments of music;
The worm is spread under thee,

And reptiles cover thee.

12 How art thou fallen from heaven,

O Lucifer, son of the dawn!

How art thou thrown down to the earth,

That didst cast the lot upon the nations! 1

13 But thou saidst in thy heart,

I will ascend to heaven;

In high places near the stars of God
Will I place my throne,

And will sit on the mountain of the testimony,
On the sides of the north.

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
And will be like the Most High.

15 But thou art brought down to the grave,

To the sides of the pit.

16 They that see thee shall bend forward,

And shall view thee attentively.

Is this the man that made the earth to tremble?

That shook the kingdoms?

17 That made the world as a wilderness;

That destroyed its cities?

That opened not the house to his prisoners?

18 All the kings of the nations, all of them, Lie in glory, each in his own house.

19 But thou art cast out of thy grave,
As an abominable branch,

As the garments of the slain
Who were killed with the sword,

Who go down to the pit;

As a carcase trodden under foot.

20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial;

Because thou hast laid waste thy land,

Thou hast slain thy people;

The seed of wicked men shall not be continually remembered.

1 Or, That didst weaken the nations.

21 Prepare slaughter for his children, For the iniquity of their fathers;

That they may not rise, and possess the land,

And fill the face of the world with cities.

22 For I will rise up against them, saith Jehovah of hosts, And the name and the remnant,

The son and the grandson,

Will I cut off, saith Jehovah.

23 And I will make it to be a possession of the hedgehog, And pools of water;

And I will sweep it with a besom, emptying it,

Saith Jehovah of hosts.

24 Jehovah of hosts hath sworn, saying,

If it hath not been as I thought,

And if it shall not stand as I purposed,
25 That in my land I will crush the Assyrian,
And on my mountains will tread him under foot;
And that his yoke shall depart from them,

And his burden be removed from their shoulder. 26 This is the purpose which is purposed on the whole earth; And this hand is stretched out on all the nations.

27 For Jehovah of hosts hath decreed, and who shall disannul it? His hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

28 In the year in which Ahaz the king died, was this burden. 29 Rejoice not, thou whole Palestina,

Because the rod of him that smote thee is broken;

For from the root of the adder shall spring a cockatrice,
And his fruit shall be a fiery serpent.

30 And the first-born of the poor shall feed,

And the needy shall lie down in safety;

And I will cause thy root to die with famine,

And he shall slay thy remnant.

31 Howl, O gate! cry, O city!

Thou whole Palestina art dissolved;

For smoke cometh from the north;

And no one shall be alone in his appointed day.

32 And what shall be answered to the messengers of the nations?

That Jehovah hath founded Zion,

And the poor of his people shall have confidence in her.