In peace and confidence shall be your strength;
But ye would not.

16 And ye said, No, but we will flee on horses;
Therefore shall ye flee;

We will ride on the swift;

Therefore they that shall pursue you shall be more swift. 17 A thousand as one from the face of the rebuke of one, From the face of the rebuke of five shall ye flee,

Until ye shall be left

As the mast of a ship on the top of a mountain,
And as a banner on a hill.

18 Therefore will Jehovah wait for you,
That he may have compassion on you;
And therefore will he be exalted,
That he may have compassion on you;
For Jehovah is a God of judgment:
Blessed are all they that wait for him.

19 Surely the people in Zion shall dwell in Jerusalem:
Weeping thou shalt not weep;

With compassion will he have compassion on thee;
At the voice of thy cry, as soon as he shall hear it,
He will answer thee.

20 When the Lord shall have given to you

Bread of anguish

And water of affliction,

Thy rain shall not be withheld,

And thine eyes shall see thy rain.

21 Then shall thine ears hear a word behind thee,

Saying, This is the way;

Walk ye in it;

Whether ye go to the right,

Or go to the left.

22 Then shall ye profane

The covering of the graven images of thy silver,

And the covering of thy molten gold;

And thou shalt put it away from thee as a menstruous cloth,
And shalt say to it, Depart.1

23 Then will he give rain to thy seed,

When thou shalt have sowed the ground,

And bread of the produce of the earth;

And it shall be plentiful and fat;

And in that day thy cattle

Shall feed in large pastures.

24 Thine oxen also,

And the young asses that labour the ground,

1 Or, Begone!

Shall eat clean provender,

Which shall be winnowed with the shovel

And with the sieve.

25 And it shall come to pass,

That on every high mountain,
And on every lofty hill,

Shall be streams, streams of waters,

In the day of the great slaughter

When the towers shall have fallen.

26 And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,

As the light of seven days,

In the day when Jehovah

Shall have bound up the breach of his people,

And shall have healed the stroke of their wound.

27 Behold! the name of Jehovah cometh

From a distant place :

His face burneth,

And the burden is heavy ;

His lips are full of indignation,

And his tongue as a devouring fire.

28 And his breath, as an overflowing torrent,
Shall divide even to the neck;

To sift the nations with a useless sieve;
And on the cheeks of the peoples
There shall be a bridle causing to err.

29 You shall have a song, as in the night

When a festival is kept,

And gladness of heart,

As of him that moveth to a pipe,

That he may come to the mountain of Jehovah,

To the Mighty One of Israel.

30 And Jehovah shall cause to be heard the power of his voice,

And shall cause to be seen the descent of his arm,

With rage of countenance,

And with the flame of devouring fire,

With scattering, with flood, and with hailstones.

31 Verily by the voice of Jehovah shall the Assyrian be crushed, Who smote with a rod.

32 And in every passage shall be the fastened staff,

Which Jehovah shall lay upon him

With tabrets and harps,

And with battles of lifting up

Shall he fight against her.

33 For Tophet is ordained since yesterday;

Yea, for the king it is prepared:

He hath made it deep and large;

The pile of it is fire, and much wood;

The breath of Jehovah, like a torrent of brimstone,
Doth kindle it.

CHAPTER XXXI.

1 Wo to them that go down into Egypt for help,
And who rely on horses,

And who trust to chariots, because they are numerous,
And to horses, because they are very strong,
And have not looked to the Holy One of Israel,
Nor have sought Jehovah.

2 Yet he also is wise:

Therefore he will bring evil,

And will not make void his words;

He will rise up against the house of the evil-doers,
And against the aid of the workers of vanity.

3 And verily the Egyptian is a man, and not God;
And his horses are flesh, and not spirit.

Therefore, as soon as Jehovah shall stretch out his arm,
The helper shall fall,

And he who is helped shall fall down,

And all shall fail together.

4 For thus hath Jehovah said to me:

As the lion roareth,

And the young lion for his prey,

Against whom, if a multitude of shepherds be gathered to

gether,

He shall not be alarmed by their cry,

And shall not humble himself on account of their noise;

Thus will Jehovah of hosts come down

To fight for Mount Zion,

And for its hill.

5 As birds which fly,

So will Jehovah of hosts defend Jerusalem;
Defending, he will deliver it,

And passing over, he will preserve it.

6 Return ye,

As ye have made a deep revolt,

O children of Israel !

7 For in that day shall a man cast away

The idols of his silver,

And the idols of his gold,

Which your hands have made for you, a sin.

8 Then shall the Assyrian fall by the sword, not of a mighty

man;

And the sword, not of a man, shall devour him;

And by flight shall he seek safety from the face of the sword, And his young men shall melt away.

9 He shall pass to his stronghold through fear,

And his princes shall tremble at the banner, saith Jehovah, Who hath a fire1 in Zion,

And who hath a furnace in Jerusalem.

CHAPTER XXXII.

1 Behold! a king shall reign in righteousness, And princes shall rule in judgment.

2 And that man shall be

As a hiding-place from the wind,

As a covert from the rain,

As streams of waters on dry ground,

As the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

3 Then the eyes of them that see shall not be closed up,

And the ears of them that hear shall hearken.

4 And the heart of fools shall be eagerly directed to knowledge, And the tongue of stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

5 No longer shall the base man be called liberal,

Nor shall the parsimonious man be called bountiful.

6 For the vile person will speak vileness,

And his heart will contrive iniquity,

To commit wickedness,

That he may utter mockery against Jehovah,

That he may make empty the hungry soul,

And that he may withhold drink from him that is thirsty. 7 The instruments of the covetous man are evil;2

He contriveth wickednesses,

That he may deceive the simple by lying words,

And that he may speak against the poor man in judgment.

8 But the liberal man shall devise liberal things, And in acting liberally he shall make progress.

9 Ye women at ease, arise;

Hear my voice, ye careless daughters;

Hearken to my speech.

10 Days above a year shall ye tremble, ye careless women; For the vintage shall fail,

And the gathering shall not come.

11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease;

1 Or, Who is to him a fire.

VOL. II.

Or, The measures are evil.

2 H

Be troubled, ye careless women;

Strip you, make you bare, gird your limbs. 12 Mourning over the udders,

Over the pleasant fields,

Over the fruitful vine.

13 There shall come up the thorn and brier

On the land of my people,

Even on all the houses of gladness in the city of rejoicing. 14 For the palace shall be forsaken;

The noise of the city shall be left;

The tower and the fortress

Shall be reduced to dens for ever,

Where wild asses may delight themselves,

And where flocks may feed.

15 Till the Spirit be poured out upon you from on high, And the wilderness become a cultivated field,

And the cultivated field be reckoned like a forest.

16 And judgment shall dwell in the wilderness,

And justice shall have its abode in the cultivated field. 17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; The effect of righteousness shall be

Safety and quietness for ever.

18 And my people shall dwell in a tabernacle of peace, And in safe dwellings,

And in quiet resting-places.

19 And in coming down the hail shall turn aside on the forest,

And the city shall be situated in a low place.

20 Blessed are ye who sow on all waters,

Who send forth the feet of the ox and of the ass.

END OF VOLUME SECOND.

EDINBURGH T. CONSTABLE, PRINTER TO HER MAJESTY.