little, andthere a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
12 To whom he said, This isthe rest wherewithye may cause the weary to rest; and this isthe
refreshing: yet they would not hear.
13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line
upon line, line upon line; here a little, andthere a little; that they might go, and fall backward,
and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which isin
Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at
agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we
have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried
stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall
sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not
stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass
over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only tounderstand the report.
20 For the bed is shorter than that a mancan stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower
than that he can wrap himself in it.
21 For the LORD shall rise up as inmount Perazim, he shall be wroth as inthe valley of Gibeon,
that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the
Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter
the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, anddoth teach him.
27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned
about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
28 Bread cornis bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it withthe wheel
of his cart, nor bruise it withhis horsemen.
29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, whichis wonderful in counsel, andexcellent
in working.
1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city whereDavid dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill
sacrifices.
2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as
Ariel.
3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I
will raise forts against thee.
4 And thou shalt be brought down, andshalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be
low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the
ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the
terrible ones shall beas chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
6 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise,

with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her
and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
8 It shall even be as when an hungry mandreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and
his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh,
and, behold, he isfaint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be,
that fight against mount Zion.
9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they
stagger, but not with strong drink.
10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes:
the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men
deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is
sealed:
12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he
saith, I am not learned.
13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near mewith their mouth, and with
their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is
taught by the precept of men:
14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, evena
marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise menshall perish, and the
understanding of their prudent menshall be hid.
15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in
the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall
the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that
framed it, He had no understanding?
17 Isit not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the
fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see
out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
19 The meek also shall increase theirjoy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in
the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch
for iniquity are cut off:
21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate,
and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
22 Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob
shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
23 But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall
sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall
learn doctrine.
1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that
cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves
in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt
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4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
5 They were all ashamed of a people thatcould not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a
shame, and also a reproach.
6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come
the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the
shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people thatshall
not profit them.
7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this,
Their strength isto sit still.
8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to
come for ever and ever:
9 That this isa rebellious people, lying children, children thatwill not hear the law of the
LORD:
10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things,
speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from
before us.
12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in
oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall,
whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall
not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the
hearth, or to take water withalout of the pit.
15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved;
in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon
the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
17 One thousand shall fleeat the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be
left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be
exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD isa God of judgment: blessed areall
they that wait for him.
19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very
gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
20 And thoughthe Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall
not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This isthe way, walk ye in it, when ye
turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy
molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it,
Get thee hence.
23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of
the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in
large pastures.
24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which
hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers andstreams of
waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.