5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the
laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate:
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp
ceaseth.
9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
11 There isa crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall beas the
shaking of an olive tree, andas the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry
aloud from the sea.
15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, eventhe name of the LORD God of Israel in the
isles of the sea.
16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, evenglory to the righteous. But I
said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously;
yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, areupon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, thathe who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the
pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the
windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved
exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the
transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, thatthe LORD shall punish the host of the high ones
that areon high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, asprisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut
up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign
in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
1 O LORD, thou artmy God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done
wonderful things; thycounsels of old arefaithfulness andtruth.
2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; ofa defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no
city; it shall never be built.
3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge
from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones isas a storm
againstthe wall.
5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; eventhe heat with
the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a
feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the
vail that is spread over all nations.
8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all

faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath
spoken it.
9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this isour God; we have waited for him, and he will save
us: this isthe LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under
him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth
forth his handsto swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their
hands.
12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, andbring to the
ground, evento the dust.
1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will
Godappoint forwalls and bulwarks.
2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
3 Thou wilt keep himin perfect peace, whosemind isstayed on thee: because he trusteth in
thee.
4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH iseverlasting strength:
5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it
low, evento the ground; he bringeth it evento the dust.
6 The foot shall tread it down, eventhe feet of the poor, andthe steps of the needy.
7 The way of the just isuprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of oursoul is
to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee
early: for when thy judgments arein the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn
righteousness.
10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yetwill he not learn righteousness: in the land of
uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
11 LORD, whenthy hand is lifted up, they will not see: butthey shall see, and be ashamed for
theirenvy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.
13 O LORD our God, otherlords beside thee have had dominion over us: butby thee only will we
make mention of thy name.
14 They aredead, they shall not live; they aredeceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou
visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified:
thou hadst removed itfar untoall the ends of the earth.
16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer whenthy chastening was
upon them.
17 Like as a woman with child, thatdraweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and
crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we
have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19 Thy dead menshall live, together withmy dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye
that dwell in dust: for thy dew is asthe dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself
as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their
iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the
piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that isin the
sea.
2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest anyhurt it, I will keep it night and
day.
4 Fury isnot in me: who would set the briers andthorns against me in battle? I would go
through them, I would burn them together.
5 Or let him take hold of my strength, thathe may make peace with me; andhe shall make
peace with me.
6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the
face of the world with fruit.
7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? oris he slain according to the
slaughter of them that are slain by him?
8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the
day of the east wind.
9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this isall the fruit to take away
his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the
groves and images shall not stand up.
10 Yet the defenced city shall bedesolate, andthe habitation forsaken, and left like a
wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches
thereof.
11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, andset
them on fire: for it isa people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have
mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
12 And it shall come to pass in that day, thatthe LORD shall beat off from the channel of the
river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, thatthe great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall
come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt,
and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty isa fading
flower, which areon the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, whichas a tempest of hail anda destroying
storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
4 And the glorious beauty, which ison the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and
as the hasty fruit before the summer; which whenhe that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet
in his hand he eateth it up.
5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto
the residue of his people,
6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that
turn the battle to the gate.
7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest
and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of
the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble injudgment.
8 For all tables are full of vomit andfilthiness, so that there isno place clean.
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that
areweaned from the milk, anddrawn from the breasts.
10 For precept must beupon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a