will He take away and lop off.6They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains,And to the beasts of the earth;And the ravenous birds shall summer upon them,And all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
7In that time shall a present be brought unto the Lord of hosts of a people tall and of glossy skin, and from a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation that is sturdy and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Zion.
19The burden of Egypt.
Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud,And cometh unto Egypt;And the idols of Egypt shall be moved at His presence,And the heart of Egypt shall melt within it.2And I will spur Egypt against Egypt;And they shall fight every one against his brother,And everyone against his neighbour;City against city, and kingdom against kingdom.3And the spirit of Egypt shall be made empty within it;And I will make void the counsel thereof;And they shall seek unto the idols, and to the whisperers,And to the ghosts, and to the familiar spirits.4And I will give over the EgyptiansInto the hand of a cruel lord;And a fierce king shall rule over them,Saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts. 5And the waters shall fail from the sea,And the river shall be drained dry,6And the rivers shall become foul;The streams of Egypt shall be minished and dried up;The reeds and flags shall wither.7The mosses by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile,And all that is sown by the Nile,Shall become dry, be driven away, and be no more.8The fishers also shall lament,And all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn,And they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.9Moreover they that work in combed flax,And they that weave cotton, shall be ashamed.10And her foundations shall be crushed,All they that make dams shall be grieved in soul. 11The princes of Zoan are utter fools;The wisest counsellors of Pharaoh are a senseless counsel;How can ye say unto Pharaoh: 'I am the son of the wise,The son of ancient kings'?12Where are they, then, thy wise men?And let them tell thee now;And let them know what the Lord of hostsHath purposed concerning Egypt.13The princes of Zoan are become fools,The princes of Noph are deceived;They have caused Egypt to go astray,That are the corner-stone of her tribes.14The Lord hath mingled within herA spirit of dizziness;And they have caused Egypt to stagger in every work thereof,As a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.15Neither shall there be for Egypt any work,Which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.
16In that day shall Egypt be like unto women; and it shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which He shaketh over it. 17And the land of Judah shall become a terror unto Egypt, whensoever one maketh mention thereof to it; it shall be afraid, because of the purpose of the Lord of hosts, which He purposeth against it.
18In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the Lord of hosts; one shall be called The city of destruction. 19In 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. 20And 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 will send them a saviour, and a defender, who will deliver them. 21And the Lord shall make Himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day; yea, they shall worship with sacrifice and offering, and shall vow a vow unto the Lord, and shall perform it.
22And the Lord will smite Egypt, smiting and healing; and they shall return unto the Lord, and He will be entreated of them, and will heal them. 23In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians shall worship with the Assyrians.
24In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth; 25for that the Lord of hosts hath blessed him, saying: 'Blessed be Egypt My people and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel Mine inheritance.'
20In the year that Tartan came into Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it; 2at that time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying: 'Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot.' And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
3And the Lord said: 'Like as My servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot to be for three years a sign and a wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia, 4so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. 5And they shall be dismayed and ashamed, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. 6And the inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day: Behold, such is our expectation, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?'
21The burden of the wilderness of the sea.
As whirlwinds in the South sweeping on,It cometh from the wilderness, from a dreadful land.2A grievous vision is declared unto me:'The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth.Go up, O Elam! besiege, O Media!All the sighing thereof have I made to cease.'3Therefore are my loins filled with convulsion;Pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail;I am bent so that I cannot hear;I am affrighted so that I cannot see.4My heart is bewildered, terror hath overwhelmed me;The twilight that I longed for hath been turned for me into trembling.5They prepare the table, they light the lamps, they eat, they drink—'Rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.' 6For thus hath the Lord said unto me:Go, set a watchman; let him declare what he seeth!7And when he seeth a troop, horsemen by pairs,A troop of asses, a troop of camels,He shall hearken diligently with much heed.8And he cried as a lion: 'Upon the watch-tower, O Lord,I stand continually in the day-time,And I am set in my ward all the nights.'9And, behold, there came a troop of men, horsemen by pairs.And he spoke and said:'Fallen, fallen is Babylon;And all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground.'10O thou my threshing, and the winnowing of my floor,That which I have heard from the Lord of hosts,The God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
11The burden of Dumah.
One calleth unto me out of Seir:'Watchman, what of the night?Watchman, what of the night?'12The watchman said:'The morning cometh, and also the night—If ye will inquire, inquire ye; return, come.'
13The burden upon Arabia.
In the thickets in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites.14Unto him that is thirsty bring ye water!The inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitive with his bread.15For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword,And from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
16For thus hath the Lord said unto me: 'Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail; 17and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished; for the Lord, the God of Israel, hath spoken it.'
22The burden concerning the Valley of Vision.
What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops,2Thou that art full of uproar, a tumultuous city, a joyous town?Thy slain are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.3All thy rulers are fled together,Without the bow they are bound;All that are found of thee are bound together, they are fled afar off.4Therefore said I: 'Look away from me, I will weep bitterly;Strain not to comfort me, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.'5For it is a day of trouble, and of trampling, and of perplexity,From the Lord, the God of hosts, in the Valley of Vision;Kir shouting, and Shoa at the mount.6And
