26 Moreover 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 that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his
people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning withhis anger, and the burden
thereof isheavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the
nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall bea bridle in the jaws of the people, causing
themto err.
29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night whena holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as
when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of
his arm, with the indignation of hisanger, and withthe flame of a devouring fire, with
scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, whichsmote with a
rod.
32 And inevery place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him,
itshall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
33 For Tophet isordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made itdeep andlarge:
the pile thereof isfire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth
kindle it.
1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because
they aremany; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy
One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
2 Yet he also iswise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise
against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
3 Now the Egyptians aremen, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD
shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down,
and they all shall fail together.
4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey,
when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, hewill not be afraid of their voice,
nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for
mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it;
andpassing over he will preserve it.
6 Turn ye unto him fromwhom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your
own hands have made unto you fora sin.
8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a
mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be
discomfited.
9 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the
ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire isin Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers
of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers
shall be ready to speak plainly.
5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to bebountiful.

6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy,
and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the
drink of the thirsty to fail.
7 The instruments also of the churl areevil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor
with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my
speech.
10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the
gathering shall not come.
11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you
bare, and gird sackclothupon yourloins.
12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns andbriers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in
the joyous city:
14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and
towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and
the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and
assurance for ever.
18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet
resting places;
19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
20 Blessed areye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thitherthe feet of the ox and the
ass.
1 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wastnot spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they
dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and
when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our
salvation also in the time of trouble.
3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were
scattered.
4 And your spoil shall be gathered likethe gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and
fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and
righteousness.
6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, andstrength of salvation: the
fear of the LORD ishis treasure.
7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath
despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
9 The earth mourneth andlanguisheth: Lebanon is ashamed andhewn down: Sharon is like a
wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, asfire, shall devour you.
12 And the people shall be asthe burnings of lime: asthorns cut up shall they be burned in the
fire.

13 Hear, ye that arefar off, what I have done; and, ye that arenear, acknowledge my might.
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us
shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of
oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing
of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall bethe munitions of rocks: bread shall be
given him; his waters shall besure.
17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where isthe scribe? where isthe receiver? where ishe
that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a
stammering tongue, that thou canstnot understand.
20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet
habitation, a tabernacle thatshall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be
removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
21 But there the glorious LORD will beunto us a place of broad rivers andstreams; wherein
shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
22 For the LORD isour judge, the LORD isour lawgiver, the LORD isour king; he will save us.
23 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread
the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall beforgiven
theiriniquity.
1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is
therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
2 For the indignation of the LORD isupon all nations, and hisfury upon all their armies: he hath
utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the
mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a
scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling
figfrom the fig tree.
5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the
people of my curse, to judgment.
6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, andwith the blood of
lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah,
and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land
shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
8 For it isthe day of the LORD'S vengeance, andthe year of recompences for the controversy of
Zion.
9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and
the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from
generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in
it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall bethere, and all her
princes shall be nothing.