28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out
of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall bea fiery flying serpent.
30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will
kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, artdissolved: for there shall come from the
north a smoke, and none shall bealone in his appointed times.
32 What shall onethen answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion,
and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
1 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, andbrought to silence;
because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, andbrought to silence;
2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and
over Medeba: on all their heads shall bebaldness, andevery beard cut off.
3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in
their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard evenunto Jahaz: therefore the
armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.
5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall fleeunto Zoar, an heifer of three years
old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of
Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth,
there is no green thing.
7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry
away to the brook of the willows.
8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the
howling thereof unto Beerelim.
9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon
him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.
1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the
daughter of Zion.
2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, sothe daughters of Moab shall
be at the fords of Arnon.
3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday;
hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the
spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of
the land.
5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the
tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he isvery proud: evenof his haughtiness, and his pride,
and his wrath: buthis lies shallnot beso.
7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth
shall ye mourn; surely they arestricken.
8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, andthe vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have
broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come evenunto Jazer, they wandered through
the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with
my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is
fallen.

10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there
shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their
presses; I have made their vintageshouting to cease.
11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.
12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall
come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.
13 This isthe word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.
14 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and
the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be
very small andfeeble.
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from beinga city, and it shall be a
ruinous heap.
2 The cities of Aroer areforsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall
make themafraid.
3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant
of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
4 And in that day it shall come to pass, thatthe glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the
fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm;
and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two orthree berries in
the top of the uppermost bough, four orfive in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the
LORD God of Israel.
7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of
Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect thatwhich
his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which
they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock
of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to
flourish: butthe harvest shall bea heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, whichmake a noise like the noise of the seas; and to
the rushing of nations, thatmake a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but Godshall rebuke them, and they
shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a
rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; andbefore the morning he isnot. This isthe portion of
them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which isbeyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying,
Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their
beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an
ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place
like a clear heat upon herbs, andlike a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower,

he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away andcut down the branches.
6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth:
and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
7 In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and
peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden
under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts,
the mount Zion.
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt:
and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the
midst of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his
brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, andkingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof:
and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and
to the wizards.
4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule
over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; andthe brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried
up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the
brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and
they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices andponds for fish.
11 Surely the princes of Zoan arefools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is
become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I amthe son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
12 Where arethey? where arethy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know
what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also
seduced Egypt, even they that arethe stay of the tribes thereof.
14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to
err in every work thereof, as a drunken manstaggereth in his vomit.
15 Neither shall there be anywork for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the
shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof
shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath
determined against it.
18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to
the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.
19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar
at the border thereof to the LORD.
20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for
they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a
great one, and he shall deliver them.
21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day,
and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.