offshoot,In the raiment of the slain, that are thrust through with the sword,That go down to the pavement of the pit,As a carcass trodden under foot.20Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial,Because thou hast destroyed thy land,Thou hast slain thy people;The seed of evil-doers shall notBe named for ever.21Prepare ye slaughter for his childrenFor the iniquity of their fathers;That they rise not up, and possess the earth,And fill the face of the world with cities.
22And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and offshoot and offspring, saith the Lord. 23I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
24The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying:Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass;And as I have purposed, so shall it stand,25That I will break Asshur in My land,And upon My mountains tread him under foot;Then shall his yoke depart from off them,And his burden depart from off their shoulder.26This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth;And this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.27For the Lord of hosts hath purposed,And who shall disannul it?And His hand is stretched out,And who shall turn it back?
28In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
29Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of thee,Because the rod that smote thee is broken:For out of the serpent's root shall come forth a basilisk,And his fruit shall be a flying serpent.30And the first-born of the poor shall feed,And the needy shall lie down in safety;And I will kill thy root with famine,And thy remnant shall be slain31Howl, O gate; cry, O city;Melt away, O Philistia, all of thee;For there cometh a smoke out of the north,And there is no straggler in his ranks.32What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation?That the Lord hath founded Zion,And in her shall the afflicted of His people take refuge.
15The burden of Moab.
For in the night that Ar of Moab is laid waste,He is brought to ruin;For in the night that Kir of Moab is laid waste,He is brought to ruin.2He is gone up to Baith, and to Dibon,To the high places, to weep;Upon Nebo, and upon Medeba, Moab howleth;On all their heads is baldness,Every beard is shaven.3In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth;On their housetops, and in their broad places,Every one howleth, weeping profusely.4And Heshbon crieth out, and Elealeh;Their voice is heard even unto Jahaz;Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud;His soul is faint within him.5My heart crieth out for Moab;Her fugitives reach unto Zoar,A heifer of three years old;For by the ascent of LuhithWith weeping they go up;For in the way of HoronaimThey raise up a cry of destruction.6For the Waters of Nimrim shall be desolate;For the grass is withered away, the herbage faileth,There is no green thing.7Therefore the abundance they have gotten,And that which they have laid up,Shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.8For the cry is gone round aboutThe borders of Moab;The howling thereof unto Eglaim,And the howling thereof unto Beerelim.9For the waters of Dimon are full of blood;For I will bring yet more upon Dimon,A lion upon him that escapeth of Moab,And upon the remnant of the land. 16Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the landFrom the crags that are toward the wilderness,Unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.2For it shall be that, as wandering birds,As a scattered nest,So shall the daughters of Moab beAt the fords of Arnon.3'Give counsel, execute justice;Make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday;Hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive.4Let mine outcasts dwell with thee;As for Moab, be thou a covert to him from the face of the spoiler.'For the extortion is at an end, spoiling ceaseth,They that trampled down are consumed out of the land;5And a throne is established through mercy,And there sitteth thereon in truth, in the tent of David,One that judgeth, and seeketh justice, and is ready in righteousness. 6We have heard of the pride of Moab;He is very proud;Even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his arrogancy,His ill-founded boastings.7Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab,Every one shall wail; for the sweet cakes of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn,Sorely stricken.8For the fields of Heshbon languish,And the vine of Sibmah,Whose choice plants did overcomeThe lords of nations;They reached even unto Jazer,They wandered into the wilderness;Her branches were spread abroad,They passed over the sea.9Therefore I will weep with the weeping of JazerFor the vine of Sibmah;I will water thee with my tears,O Heshbon, and Elealeh;For upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvestThe battle shout is fallen.10And gladness and joy are taken awayOut of the fruitful field;And in the vineyards there shall be no singing,Neither shall there be shouting;No treader shall tread out wine in the presses;I have made the vintage shout to cease.11Wherefore my heart moaneth like a harp for Moab,And mine inward parts for Kir-heres.
12And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab hath wearied himself upon the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail
13This is the word that the Lord spoke concerning Moab in time past. 14But now the Lord hath spoken, saying: 'Within three years, as the years of a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall wax contemptible for all his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and without strength.'
17The burden of Damascus.
Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city,And it shall be a ruinous heap.2The cities of Aroer are forsaken;They shall be for flocks,Which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.3The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim,And the kingdom from Damascus;And the remnant of Aram shall be as the glory of the children of Israel,Saith the Lord of hosts. 4And it shall come to pass in that day,That the glory of Jacob shall be made thin,And the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.5And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the standing corn,And reapeth the ears with his arm;Yea, it shall be as when one gleaneth earsIn the valley of Rephaim.6Yet there shall be left therein gleanings,As at the beating of an olive-tree,Two or three berriesIn the top of the uppermost bough,Four or five in the branches of the fruitful tree,Saith the Lord, the God of Israel. 7In that day shall a man regard his Maker,And his eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel.8And he shall not regard the altars,The work of his hands,Neither shall he look to that which his fingers have made,Either the Asherim, or the sun-images.
9In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken places, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel, after the manner of woods and lofty forests; and it shall be a desolation.
10For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation,And thou hast not been mindful of the Rock of thy stronghold;Therefore thou didst plant plants of pleasantness,And didst set it with slips of a stranger;11In the day of thy planting thou didst make it to grow,And in the morning thou didst make thy seed to blossom—A heap of boughs in the day of griefAnd of desperate pain. 12Ah, the uproar of many peoples,That roar like the roaring of the seas;And the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!13The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters;But He shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off,And shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind,And like the whirling dust before the storm.14At eventide behold terror;And before the morning they are not.This is the portion of them that spoil us,And the lot of them that rob us. 18Ah, land of the buzzing of wings,Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;2That sendeth ambassadors by the sea,Even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters!Go, ye swift messengers,To a nation tall and of glossy skin,To a people terrible from their beginning onward;A nation that is sturdy and treadeth down,Whose land the rivers divide!3All ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the earth,When an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye;And when the horn is blown, hear ye. 4For thus hath the Lord said unto me:I will hold Me still, and I will look on in My dwelling-place,Like clear heat in sunshine,Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.5For before the harvest, when the blossom is over,And the bud becometh a ripening grape,He will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks,And
