20 And it shall be in that day, I will call my servant,

Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah.

21 And I will clothe him with thy raiment,

And will strengthen him with thy girdle,
And will deliver thy power into his hand;

And he shall be a father of the inhabitant of Jerusalem,

And of the house of Judah.

22 And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder;

He will open, and none shall shut;

He will shut, and none shall open.

23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place,

And to the house of his father he shall become a throne of glory. 24 And all the glory of his father's house,

Grandchildren and great-grandchildren,

All smaller vessels,

From vessels of cups to all vessels of musical instruments, They shall hang upon him.

25 In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts,

The nail fixed in a sure place shall be removed,

And shall be cut down, and shall fall;

And the burden which was upon it shall be cut off;

For Jehovah hath spoken it.

Howl, ye ships of Tarshish;

For desolation has been made,

So that there is no house,

That there is no entering in from the land of Chittim.
This was revealed to them.

2 Be silent, ye inhabitants of the islands,

The merchant of Sidon; they that crossed the sea;
Who supplied thee.

3 By great waters was the seed of the Nile;

Her fruits were the harvest of the river;

And she was a mart of nations.

4 Be ashamed, O Sidon;

For the sea hath spoken,

The strength of the sea, saying,

I have not conceived nor brought forth,
And I have not brought up young men,
And have not reared virgins.

5 As soon as the report shall reach the Egyptians,
They shall be grieved according to the report of Tyre.

6 Pass ye over to Tarshish;

Howl, ye inhabitants of the islands.

7 Is this your exulting city?

From ancient days is her antiquity.
Her feet shall carry her,

To travel into a distant country.

8 Who hath consulted this concerning crowning Tyre, Whose merchants are princes,

Whose traders are the nobles of the land?

9 Thus hath Jehovah of hosts decreed,

To profane the pride of all that are illustrious,

To bring into contempt all the renowned of the land. 10 Cross over from thy land, like a river,

To the daughter of Tarshish;

For there is no longer any girdle.

11 He laid his hand upon the sea, He shook kingdoms.

Jehovah hath commanded concerning Canaan,

To weaken her strength.

12 And he saith, O virgin daughter of Sidon,

When thou shalt be oppressed,

Thou shalt not add any more to rejoice.

Arise, that thou mayest pass over into Chittim;

Yet even there thou shalt not have rest.

13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans;

This was not a people;

Assyria founded it for the inhabitants of the wilderness;
They have reared its fortresses;

They have built its palaces;

He hath reduced it to desolation. 14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; For your strength is laid waste.

15 It shall come to pass in that day,

That Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years,

According to the days of one king;

At the end of seventy years

Shall Tyre have a song like that of a harlot.

16 Take a harp, go about the city,

O harlot, devoted to forgetfulness!

Make sweet melody, multiply song,

That thou mayest be kept in remembrance. 17 It shall then be at the end of seventy years, That Jehovah will visit Tyre;

And then shall she return to her hire,

And shall commit fornication

With all the kingdoms of the earth

Which are upon the earth.

18 Yet her merchandise and her hire

Shall be holy to Jehovah;

It shall not be treasured nor laid up;

But her merchandise shall be

For them that dwell before Jehovah,
That they may eat sufficiently,

And may have a thick covering.

CHAPTER XXIV.

1 Behold, Jehovah emptieth the earth,

Maketh it bare,

Overturneth its face,

And scattereth its inhabitants.

2 And it shall be, as the people, so the priest;

As the servant, so his master;

As the maid, so her mistress;

As the buyer, so the seller;

As the lender, so the borrower;

As the usurer, so he that giveth usury.1
3 By emptying shall the earth be emptied,
And by plundering shall it be plundered;
For Jehovah hath spoken this word.

4 The earth hath lamented, and hath fallen;

The world hath languished, and hath fallen;

They who were the lofty people of the earth have languished. 5 And the earth hath been deceitful under its inhabitants; Because they have transgressed the laws,

They have changed the ordinance,

They have broken the covenant of eternity.

6 Therefore hath the curse consumed the earth,

And its inhabitants are made desolate;

Therefore are the inhabitants of the earth burned,
And few men have been left.

7 The wine hath failed;

The vine hath languished;

All who were of joyful heart have groaned.

8 The joy of tabrets hath ceased,

The noise of them that exult is ended,

The mirth of the harp is silent.

9 They shall not drink wine with a song;

Strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

10 The city of vanity is broken down;

Every house is shut up, that none may enter.

11 There is a cry about wine in the streets;

VOL. II.

1 Or, As the creditor, so the debtor.

2 G

All joy is darkened;

The mirth of the land hath departed.

12 Desolation is left in the city,

And the gate is smitten with desolation.

13 For in the midst of the land,

In the midst of the peoples,

Thus shall it be as the shaking of an olive-tree,

And as the shaking of the grapes, when the vintage is ended. 14 They shall lift up their voice;

They shall shout for the majesty of the Lord;

They shall cry aloud from the sea.

15 Therefore glorify ye Jehovah in the valleys,

The name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the isles of the sea. 16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, Glory to the Righteous One!

And I said, I have leanness! I have leanness! Wo to me! The treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously;

With treachery have the treacherous dealers dealt treacherously.

17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare

Are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth!

18 And it shall come to pass,

That he who fleeth from the voice of fear

Shall fall into the pit,

And he who goeth up out of the midst of the pit

Shall be taken in the snare;

For the windows from on high are opened,

And the foundations of the earth are shaken.

19 By bruising is the earth bruised;

By breaking down is the earth broken down;
By shaking is the earth shaken.

20 With reeling doth the earth reel, like a drunkard;
And it shall be removed, like a tabernacle;
And its transgression shall be heavy upon it;
And it shall fall, and shall not add to rise again.

21 And it shall be in that day,

Jehovah will visit

Upon the high army on high,

And upon the kings of the earth on the earth.

22 And with gathering together shall they be gathered together

Like prisoners in a dungeon;

And they shall be shut up in a prison;

Afterwards at the end of many days shall they be visited.

23 The moon shall be confounded,

And the sun shall be ashamed,

When Jehovah of hosts shall reign
In Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem;
And before his elders glory.

CHAPTER XXV.

1 O Jehovah, thou art my God;

I will exalt thee;

I will praise thy name;

For thou hast done a wonderful thing;
Counsels which have been already decreed of old;
Firm truth.

2 For thou hast made of a city a heap;

A fortified city to be a ruin;

A palace of foreigners, that it may not be a city,
That it may never be built.

3 Therefore shall the mighty people glorify thee;
The city of the powerful nations shall fear thee.
4 For thou hast been strength to the poor;

Strength to the needy in his affliction ;
A refuge from the flood,

A shadow from the heat;

For the breath of the strong ones

Was as a storm2 against the wall.

5 As the heat in a dry place,

Thou wilt lay low the noise of foreigners,

As the heat by the shadow of a cloud;

The shouting of the strong ones wilt thou lay low.

6 And Jehovah of hosts will make

For all people in that mountain

A feast of fat things,

A feast of liquids purified,

Of fat things full of marrow,

Of liquids purified.

7 And he will destroy in that mountain

The face of the covering with which all nations were covered, And the veil which was spread over all nations.

8 He hath destroyed death eternally.

And the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from all faces, And will take away the disgrace of his people from all the earth; For Jehovah hath spoken it.

9 And it shall be said in that day :

Lo, this is our God;

1 Or, Of the violent ones.

2 Or, As a flood.

Or, The singing; or, The cutting off.