Isaiah 13-38
Holman Christian Standard Bible
An Oracle against Babylon
13 An oracle(A) against Babylon(B) that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:
2 Lift up a banner on a barren mountain.(C)
Call out to them.
Wave your hand, and they will go
through the gates of the nobles.
3 I have commanded My chosen ones;
I have also called My warriors,
who exult in My triumph,
to execute My wrath.(D)
4 Listen, a tumult on the mountains,
like that of a mighty people!
Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms,
like nations being gathered together!
The Lord of Hosts is mobilizing an army for war.
5 They are coming from a far land,
from the distant horizon—
the Lord and the weapons of His wrath—
to destroy the whole country.[a]
6 Wail! For the day of the Lord is near.(E)
It will come like destruction from the Almighty.(F)
7 Therefore everyone’s hands will become weak,
and every man’s heart will melt.
8 They will be horrified;
pain and agony will seize them;
they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.(G)
They will look at each other,
their faces flushed with fear.
9 Look, the day(H) of the Lord is coming—
cruel, with rage and burning anger—
to make the earth a desolation
and to destroy the sinners on it.(I)
10 Indeed, the stars of the sky and its constellations[b]
will not give their light.
The sun will be dark when it rises,
and the moon will not shine.(J)
11 I will bring disaster on the world,
and their own iniquity,(K) on the wicked.
I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant(L)
and humiliate the insolence of tyrants.
12 I will make man scarcer than gold,
and mankind more rare than the gold of Ophir.(M)
13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,
and the earth will shake from its foundations(N)
at the wrath of the Lord of Hosts,
on the day of His burning anger.
14 Like wandering gazelles
and like sheep without a shepherd,(O)
each one will turn to his own people,
each one will flee to his own land.
15 Whoever is found will be stabbed,
and whoever is caught will die by the sword.
16 Their children will be smashed to death before their eyes;(P)
their houses will be looted,
and their wives raped.
17 Look! I am stirring up the Medes against them,(Q)
who cannot be bought off with[c] silver
and who have no desire for gold.
18 Their bows will cut young men to pieces.
They will have no compassion on little ones;
they will not look with pity on children.
19 And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms,
the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans,
will be like Sodom and Gomorrah
when God overthrew them.(R)
20 It will never be inhabited
or lived in from generation to generation;(S)
a nomad will not pitch his tent there,
and shepherds will not let their flocks rest there.
21 But desert creatures will lie down there,
and owls will fill the houses.
Ostriches will dwell there,
and wild goats will leap about.(T)
22 Hyenas will howl in the fortresses,
and jackals, in the luxurious palaces.
Babylon’s time is almost up;
her days are almost over.
Israel’s Return
14 For the Lord will have compassion(U) on Jacob and will choose Israel again.(V) He will settle them on their own land.(W) The foreigner will join them and be united with the house of Jacob.(X) 2 The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess them as male and female slaves in the Lord’s land.(Y) They will make captives of their captors and will rule over their oppressors.
Downfall of the King of Babylon
3 When the Lord gives you rest from your pain,(Z) torment, and the hard labor(AA) you were forced to do, 4 you will sing this song of contempt about the king of Babylon(AB) and say:
How the oppressor has quieted down,
and how the raging[d] has become quiet!
5 The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,
the scepter of the rulers.
6 It struck the peoples in anger
with unceasing blows.
It subdued the nations in rage
with relentless persecution.
7 All the earth is calm and at rest;
people shout with a ringing cry.
8 Even the cypresses and the cedars of Lebanon
rejoice over you:(AC)
“Since you have been laid low,
no woodcutter has come against us.”
9 Sheol below is eager to greet your coming.
He stirs up the spirits of the departed for you—
all the rulers[e] of the earth.
He makes all the kings of the nations
rise from their thrones.
10 They all respond to you, saying:
“You too have become as weak as we are;
you have become like us!
11 Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol,
along with the music of your harps.
Maggots are spread out under you,
and worms cover you.”
12 Shining morning star,[f](AD)
how you have fallen from the heavens!(AE)
You destroyer of nations,
you have been cut down to the ground.
13 You said to yourself:
“I will ascend to the heavens;(AF)
I will set up my throne
above the stars of God.(AG)
I will sit on the mount of the gods’ assembly,
in the remotest parts of the North.[g](AH)
14 I will ascend above the highest clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.”
15 But you will be brought down to Sheol
into the deepest regions of the Pit.(AI)
16 Those who see you will stare at you;
they will look closely at you:
“Is this the man who caused the earth to tremble,
who shook the kingdoms,
17 who turned the world into a wilderness,(AJ)
who destroyed its cities
and would not release the prisoners to return home?”
18 All the kings of the nations
lie in splendor, each in his own tomb.
19 But you are thrown out without a grave,
like a worthless branch,
covered by those slain with the sword
and dumped into a rocky pit like a trampled corpse.
20 You will not join them in burial,
because you destroyed your land
and slaughtered your own people.
The offspring of evildoers
will never be remembered.(AK)
21 Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons,
because of the iniquity(AL) of their fathers.
They will never rise up to possess a land
or fill the surface of the earth with cities.
22 “I will rise up against them”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“and I will cut off from Babylon her reputation, remnant, offspring, and posterity”—this is the Lord’s declaration. 23 “I will make her a swampland and a region for screech owls,[h] and I will sweep her away with a broom of destruction.”
This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.
Assyria Will Be Destroyed
24 The Lord of Hosts has sworn:
As I have purposed, so it will be;
as I have planned it, so it will happen.(AM)
25 I will break Assyria(AN) in My land;
I will tread him down on My mountain.
Then his yoke will be taken from them,
and his burden will be removed from their shoulders.
26 This is the plan(AO) prepared
for the whole earth,
and this is the hand stretched out
against all the nations.
27 The Lord of Hosts Himself has planned it;
therefore, who can stand in its way?
It is His hand that is outstretched,
so who can turn it back?
An Oracle against Philistia
28 In the year that King Ahaz died,(AP) this oracle came:(AQ)
29 Don’t rejoice, all of you in Philistia,
because the rod of the one who struck you(AR) is broken.
For a viper will come from the root[i] of a snake,
and from its egg comes a flying serpent.(AS)
30 Then the firstborn(AT) of the poor will be well fed,
and the impoverished will lie down in safety,
but I will kill your root with hunger,
and your remnant will be slain.[j]
31 Wail, you gates!(AU) Cry out, city!
Tremble with fear,(AV) all Philistia!
For a cloud of dust is coming from the north,(AW)
and there is no one missing from the invader’s ranks.
32 What answer will be given to the messengers from that nation?
The Lord has founded Zion,(AX)
and His afflicted people find refuge in her.
An Oracle against Moab
15 An oracle against Moab:(AY)
Ar in Moab is devastated,(AZ)
destroyed in a night.
Kir in Moab is devastated,
destroyed in a night.
2 Dibon went up to its temple
to weep at its high places.
Moab wails on Nebo and at[k] Medeba.
Every head is shaved;
every beard is cut off.
3 In its streets they wear sackcloth;
on its rooftops and in its public squares everyone wails,
falling down and weeping.
4 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;
their voices are heard as far away as Jahaz.(BA)
Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out,
and they tremble.[l]
5 My heart cries out over Moab,
whose fugitives flee as far as Zoar,(BB)
to Eglath-shelishiyah;
they go up the slope of Luhith weeping;
they raise a cry of destruction
on the road to Horonaim.
6 The waters of Nimrim(BC) are desolate;
the grass is withered, the foliage is gone,
and the vegetation has vanished.
7 So they carry their wealth and belongings
over the Wadi of the Willows.(BD)
8 For their cry echoes
throughout the territory of Moab.
Their wailing reaches Eglaim;
their wailing reaches Beer-elim.
9 The waters of Dibon[m] are full of blood,(BE)
but I will bring on Dibon[n] even more than this—
a lion for those who escape from Moab,
and for the survivors in the land.(BF)
16 Send lambs to the ruler of the land,(BG)
from Sela in the desert(BH)
to the mountain of Daughter Zion.
2 Like a bird fleeing,
forced from the nest,
the daughters of Moab
will be at the fords of the Arnon.
3 Give us counsel and make a decision.
Shelter us at noonday
with shade that is as dark as night.
Hide the refugees;(BI)
do not betray the one who flees.
4 Let my refugees stay with you;
be a refuge for Moab[o] from the aggressor.
When the oppressor has gone,
destruction has ended,
and marauders have vanished from the land.
5 Then in the tent of David
a throne will be established by faithful love.(BJ)
A judge who seeks what is right
and is quick to execute justice
will sit on the throne forever.
6 We have heard of Moab’s pride(BK)—
how very proud he is—
his haughtiness, his pride, his arrogance,
and his empty boasting.
7 Therefore let Moab wail;
let every one of them wail for Moab.
Mourn, you who are completely devastated,
for the raisin cakes(BL) of Kir-hareseth.(BM)
8 For Heshbon’s terraced vineyards
and the grapevines of Sibmah have withered.
The rulers of the nations
have trampled its choice vines
that reached as far as Jazer(BN)
and spread to the desert.
Their shoots spread out
and reached the Dead Sea.(BO)
9 So I join with Jazer
to weep for the vines of Sibmah;
I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears.
Triumphant shouts have fallen silent[p]
over your summer fruit and your harvest.
10 Joy and rejoicing(BP) have been removed from the orchard;
no one is singing or shouting for joy in the vineyards.(BQ)
No one tramples grapes[q] in the winepresses.
I have put an end to the shouting.
11 Therefore I moan like the sound of a lyre for Moab,(BR)
as does my innermost being for Kir-heres.
12 When Moab appears on the high place,
when he tires[r] himself out(BS)
and comes to his sanctuary to pray,
it will do him no good.(BT)
13 This is the message that the Lord previously announced about Moab. 14 And now the Lord says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts years,(BU) Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, in spite of a very large population. And those who are left will be few and weak.”
An Oracle against Damascus
17 An oracle(BV) against Damascus:(BW)
Look, Damascus is no longer a city.
It has become a ruined heap.
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken;
they will be places for flocks.
They will lie down without fear.
3 The fortress disappears from Ephraim,(BX)
and a kingdom from Damascus.
The remnant of Aram will be
like the splendor of the Israelites.
This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.
Judgment against Israel
4 On that day
the splendor of Jacob will fade,
and his healthy body[s] will become emaciated.(BY)
5 It will be as if a reaper had gathered standing grain—
his arm harvesting the heads of grain—
and as if one had gleaned heads of grain
in the Valley of Rephaim.(BZ)
6 Only gleanings will be left in Israel,(CA)
as if an olive tree had been beaten—
two or three berries at the very top of the tree,
four or five on its fruitful branches.
This is the declaration of the Lord,
the God of Israel.
7 On that day people will look to their Maker and will turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.(CB) 8 They will not look to the altars(CC) they made with their hands or to the Asherahs and incense altars(CD) they made with their fingers.
9 On that day their strong cities will be
like the abandoned woods and mountaintops[t]
that were abandoned because of the Israelites;
there will be desolation.
10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation,
and you have failed to remember
the rock of your strength;(CE)
therefore you will plant beautiful plants
and set out cuttings from exotic vines.
11 On the day that you plant,
you will help them to grow,
and in the morning
you will help your seed to sprout,
but the harvest will vanish
on the day of disease and incurable pain.
Judgment against the Nations
12 Ah! The roar of many peoples—
they roar like the roaring of the seas.
The raging of the nations—
they rage like the raging of mighty waters.(CF)
13 The nations rage like the raging of many waters.(CG)
He rebukes them, and they flee far away,(CH)
driven before the wind like chaff on the hills(CI)
and like tumbleweeds before a gale.
14 In the evening—sudden terror!
Before morning—it is gone!
This is the fate of those who plunder us
and the lot of those who ravage us.
The Lord’s Message to Cush
18 Ah! The land of buzzing insect wings[u]
beyond the rivers of Cush(CJ)
2 sends couriers by sea,
in reed vessels on the waters.
Go, swift messengers,
to a nation tall and smooth-skinned,
to a people feared far and near,
a powerful nation with a strange language,[v]
whose land is divided by rivers.
3 All you inhabitants of the world
and you who live on the earth,
when a banner is raised on the mountains, look!
When a trumpet sounds, listen!
4 For, the Lord said to me:
I will quietly look out from My place,
like shimmering heat in sunshine,
like a rain cloud in harvest heat.
5 For before the harvest, when the blossoming is over
and the blossom becomes a ripening grape,
He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife,
and tear away and remove the branches.
6 They will all be left for the birds of prey on the hills
and for the wild animals of the land.
The birds will spend the summer on them,
and all the animals, the winter on them.
7 At that time a gift will be brought to Yahweh of Hosts from[w] a people tall and smooth-skinned,(CK) a people feared far and near, a powerful nation with a strange language, whose land is divided by rivers—to Mount Zion, the place of the name of Yahweh of Hosts.
An Oracle against Egypt
19 An oracle(CL) against Egypt:(CM)
Look, the Lord rides on a swift cloud(CN)
and is coming to Egypt.
Egypt’s idols will tremble before Him,(CO)
and Egypt’s heart will melt within it.(CP)
2 I will provoke Egypt against Egypt;
each will fight against his brother(CQ)
and each against his friend,
city against city, kingdom against kingdom.(CR)
3 Egypt’s spirit will be disturbed within it,
and I will frustrate its plans.
Then they will seek idols, ghosts,
spirits of the dead, and spiritists.(CS)
4 I will deliver Egypt into the hands of harsh masters,(CT)
and a strong king will rule it.
This is the declaration of the Lord God of Hosts.
5 The waters of the sea will dry up,
and the river will be parched and dry.
6 The channels will stink;
they will dwindle, and Egypt’s canals will be parched.
Reed and rush will die.[x]
7 The reeds by the Nile, by the mouth of the river,
and all the cultivated areas of the Nile
will wither, blow away, and vanish.
8 Then the fishermen will mourn.
All those who cast hooks into the Nile will lament,
and those who spread nets on the water will shrivel up.
9 Those who work with flax will be dismayed;(CU)
the combers and weavers will turn pale.[y]
10 Egypt’s weavers[z] will be dejected;
all her wage earners will be demoralized.
11 The princes of Zoan are complete fools;(CV)
Pharaoh’s wisest advisers give stupid advice!
How can you say to Pharaoh,
“I am one[aa] of the wise,
a student of eastern[ab] kings”?
12 Where then are your wise men?
Let them tell you and reveal
what the Lord of Hosts has planned against Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan have been fools;
the princes of Memphis are deceived.(CW)
Her tribal chieftains have led Egypt astray.
14 The Lord has mixed within her a spirit of confusion.
The leaders have made Egypt stagger in all she does,
as a drunkard staggers in his vomit.
15 No head or tail, palm or reed,(CX)
will be able to do anything for Egypt.
Egypt Will Know the Lord
16 On that day Egypt will be like women. She will tremble with fear because of the threatening hand of the Lord of Hosts when He raises it against her. 17 The land of Judah will terrify Egypt; whenever Judah is mentioned, Egypt will tremble because of what the Lord of Hosts has planned(CY) against it.
18 On that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear loyalty to the Lord of Hosts. One of the cities will be called the City of the Sun.[ac][ad]
19 On that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the center of the land of Egypt and a pillar to the Lord near her border.(CZ) 20 It will be a sign and witness to the Lord of Hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the Lord because of their oppressors, He will send them a savior and leader, and he will rescue them.(DA) 21 The Lord will make Himself known to Egypt, and Egypt will know the Lord on that day. They will offer sacrifices and offerings;(DB) they will make vows to the Lord and fulfill them. 22 The Lord will strike Egypt, striking and healing. Then they will return to the Lord and He will hear their prayers and heal them.
23 On that day there will be a highway(DC) from Egypt to Assyria. Assyria will go to Egypt, Egypt to Assyria, and Egypt will worship with Assyria.
24 On that day Israel will form a triple alliance with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing within the land. 25 The Lord of Hosts will bless them, saying, “Egypt My people, Assyria My handiwork,(DD) and Israel My inheritance are blessed.”(DE)
No Help from Cush or Egypt
20 In the year that the chief commander,(DF) sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod(DG) and attacked and captured it— 2 during that time the Lord had spoken through Isaiah(DH) son of Amoz, saying, “Go, take off your sackcloth[ae] and remove the sandals from your feet,” and he did so, going naked and barefoot(DI)— 3 the Lord said, “As My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot three years as a sign and omen against Egypt and Cush,(DJ) 4 so the king of Assyria will lead the captives of Egypt(DK) and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks—to Egypt’s shame. 5 Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.(DL) 6 And the inhabitants of this coastland will say on that day, ‘Look, this is what has happened to those we relied on and fled to for help to rescue us from the king of Assyria! Now, how will we escape?’”
A Judgment on Babylon
21 An oracle(DM) against the desert by the sea:(DN)
Like storms that pass over the Negev,
it comes from the desert, from the land of terror.
2 A troubling vision is declared to me:
“The treacherous one acts treacherously,(DO)
and the destroyer destroys.
Advance, Elam! Lay siege, you Medes!
I will put an end to all her groaning.”
3 Therefore I am[af] filled with anguish.
Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labor.(DP)
I am too perplexed to hear,
too dismayed to see.
4 My heart staggers;
horror terrifies me.
He has turned my last glimmer of hope[ag]
into sheer terror.(DQ)
5 Prepare a table,(DR) and spread out a carpet!
Eat and drink!
Rise up, you princes, and oil the shields!
6 For the Lord has said to me,
“Go, post a lookout;
let him report what he sees.
7 When he sees riders—
pairs of horsemen,
riders on donkeys,
riders on camels—
he must pay close attention.”
8 Then the lookout[ah] reported,
“Lord, I stand on the watchtower all day,(DS)
and I stay at my post all night.
9 Look, riders come—
horsemen in pairs.”
And he answered, saying,
“Babylon has fallen,(DT) has fallen.
All the images of her gods
have been shattered on the ground.”(DU)
10 My people who have been crushed
on the threshing floor,(DV)
I have declared to you
what I have heard from the Lord of Hosts,
the God of Israel.
An Oracle against Dumah
11 An oracle(DW) against Dumah:[ai](DX)
One calls to me from Seir,(DY)
“Watchman, what is left of the night?
Watchman, what is left of the night?”
12 The watchman said,
“Morning has come, and also night.
If you want to ask, ask!
Come back again.”
An Oracle against Arabia
13 An oracle against Arabia:(DZ)
In the desert[aj] brush
you will camp for the night,
you caravans of Dedanites.(EA)
14 Bring water for the thirsty.
The inhabitants of the land of Tema(EB)
meet[ak] the refugees with food.
15 For they have fled from swords,
from the drawn sword,
from the bow that is strung,
and from the stress of battle.
16 For the Lord said this to me: “Within one year,(EC) as a hired worker counts years, all the glory of Kedar(ED) will be gone. 17 The remaining Kedarite archers will be few in number.” For the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.
An Oracle against Jerusalem
22 An oracle(EE) against the Valley of Vision:(EF)
What’s the matter with you?
Why have all of you gone up to the rooftops?(EG)
2 The noisy city, the jubilant town,(EH)
is filled with revelry.
Your dead did not die by the sword;
they were not killed in battle.
3 All your rulers have fled together,
captured without a bow.
All your fugitives were captured together;
they had fled far away.
4 Therefore I said,
“Look away from me! Let me weep bitterly!(EI)
Do not try to comfort me
about the destruction of my dear[al] people.”
5 For the Lord God of Hosts
had a day of tumult, trampling, and confusion(EJ)
in the Valley of Vision—
people shouting[am] and crying to the mountains;
6 Elam took up a quiver
with chariots and horsemen,[an]
and Kir(EK) uncovered the shield.
7 Your best valleys were full of chariots,
and horsemen were positioned at the gates.
8 He removed the defenses of Judah.
On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest.(EL) 9 You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the city of David.(EM) You collected water from the lower pool.(EN) 10 You counted the houses of Jerusalem so that you could tear them down to fortify the wall. 11 You made a reservoir between the walls(EO) for the waters of the ancient pool,(EP) but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider the One who created it long ago.
12 On that day the Lord God of Hosts
called for weeping,(EQ) for wailing, for shaven heads,
and for the wearing of sackcloth.
13 But look: joy and gladness,
butchering of cattle, slaughtering of sheep,
eating of meat, and drinking of wine—
“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”(ER)
14 The Lord of Hosts has directly revealed to me:(ES)
“This sin of yours will never[ao] be wiped out.”(ET)
The Lord God of Hosts has spoken.
An Oracle against Shebna
15 The Lord God of Hosts said: “Go to Shebna,(EU) that steward who is in charge of the palace, and say to him: 16 What are you doing here? Who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here, carving your tomb on the height and cutting a crypt for yourself out of rock?(EV) 17 Look, you strong man! The Lord is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you, 18 wind you up into a ball, and sling you into a wide land.[ap] There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will be—a disgrace to the house of your lord. 19 I will remove you from your office; you will be ousted from your position.
20 “On that day I will call for my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah.(EW) 21 I will clothe him with your robe and tie your sash around him. I will put your authority into his hand, and he will be like a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the House of Judah.(EX) 22 I will place the key(EY) of the House of David on his shoulder; what he opens, no one can close; what he closes, no one can open.(EZ) 23 I will drive him, like a peg, into a firm place. He will be a throne of honor for his father’s house. 24 They will hang on him the whole burden of his father’s house: the descendants and the offshoots—all the small vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar. 25 On that day”—the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“the peg that was driven into a firm place will give way, be cut off, and fall, and the load on it will be destroyed.” Indeed, the Lord has spoken.
An Oracle against Tyre
23 An oracle(FA) against Tyre:(FB)
Wail, ships of Tarshish,(FC)
for your haven has been destroyed.
Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.[aq](FD)
2 Mourn, inhabitants of the coastland,
you merchants of Sidon;(FE)
your agents have crossed the sea[ar]
3 on many waters.
Tyre’s revenue was the grain from Shihor—
the harvest of the Nile.
She was the merchant among the nations.(FF)
4 Be ashamed Sidon, the stronghold of the sea,
for the sea has spoken:
“I have not been in labor or given birth.
I have not raised young men
or brought up young women.”
5 When the news reaches Egypt,
they will be in anguish over the news about Tyre.(FG)
6 Cross over to Tarshish;
wail, inhabitants of the coastland!
7 Is this your jubilant city,
whose origin was in ancient times,
whose feet have taken her
to settle far away?
8 Who planned this against Tyre,
the bestower of crowns,
whose traders are princes,
whose merchants are the honored ones of the earth?
9 The Lord of Hosts planned it,
to desecrate all its glorious beauty,
to disgrace all the honored ones of the earth.
10 Overflow[as] your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish;
there is no longer anything to restrain you.[at]
11 He stretched out His hand over the sea;(FH)
He made kingdoms tremble.
The Lord has commanded
that the Canaanite fortresses be destroyed.
12 He said,
“You will not rejoice anymore,
ravished young woman, daughter of Sidon.
Get up and cross over to Cyprus(FI)—
even there you will have no rest!”
13 Look at the land of the Chaldeans—
a people who no longer exist.
Assyria destined it for desert creatures.
They set up their siege towers
and stripped its palaces.
They made it a ruin.
14 Wail, ships of Tarshish,
because your fortress is destroyed!
15 On that day Tyre will be forgotten for 70 years—the life span of one king. At the end of 70 years, what the song says about the prostitute will happen to Tyre:
16 Pick up your lyre,
stroll through the city,
prostitute forgotten by men.
Play skillfully,
sing many a song,
and you will be thought of again.
17 And at the end of the 70 years,(FJ) the Lord will restore Tyre(FK) and she will go back into business, prostituting herself with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. 18 But her profits and wages will be dedicated to the Lord. They will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live in the Lord’s presence, to provide them with ample food and sacred clothing.
The Earth Judged
24 Look, the Lord is stripping the earth bare
and making it desolate.
He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:
2 people and priest alike,
servant and master,
female servant and mistress,
buyer and seller,
lender and borrower,
creditor and debtor.
3 The earth will be stripped completely bare
and will be totally plundered,
for the Lord has spoken this message.(FL)
4 The earth mourns and withers;
the world wastes away and withers;
the exalted people of the earth waste away.
5 The earth is polluted by its inhabitants,(FM)
for they have transgressed teachings,
overstepped decrees,
and broken the everlasting covenant.(FN)
6 Therefore a curse has consumed the earth,(FO)
and its inhabitants have become guilty;
the earth’s inhabitants have been burned,
and only a few survive.
7 The new wine mourns;(FP)
the vine withers.
All the carousers now groan.
8 The joyful tambourines(FQ) have ceased.
The noise of the jubilant has stopped.
The joyful lyre has ceased.
9 They no longer sing and drink wine;
beer is bitter to those who drink it.
10 The city of chaos is shattered;(FR)
every house is closed to entry.(FS)
11 In the streets they cry[au] for wine.
All joy grows dark;
earth’s rejoicing goes into exile.
12 Only desolation remains in the city;
its gate has collapsed in ruins.
13 For this is how it will be on earth
among the nations:
like a harvested olive tree,
like a gleaning after a grape harvest.(FT)
14 They raise their voices, they sing out;
they proclaim in the west
the majesty of the Lord.
15 Therefore, in the east honor the Lord!
In the islands of the west
honor the name of Yahweh,
the God of Israel.
16 From the ends of the earth we hear songs:
The Splendor of the Righteous One.(FU)
But I said, “I waste away! I waste away![av]
Woe is me.”
The treacherous act treacherously;
the treacherous deal very treacherously.(FV)
17 Panic, pit, and trap await you(FW)
who dwell on the earth.(FX)
18 Whoever flees at the sound of panic
will fall into a pit,
and whoever escapes from the pit
will be caught in a trap.
For the windows are opened from heaven,(FY)
and the foundations of the earth are shaken.(FZ)
19 The earth is completely devastated;
the earth is split open;
the earth is violently shaken.
20 The earth staggers like a drunkard(GA)
and sways like a hut.
Earth’s rebellion weighs it down,
and it falls, never to rise again.
21 On that day(GB) the Lord will punish
the host of heaven above
and kings of the earth below.
22 They will be gathered together
like prisoners in a pit.(GC)
They will be confined to a dungeon;(GD)
after many days they will be punished.
23 The moon will be put to shame
and the sun disgraced,
because the Lord of Hosts will reign as king
on Mount Zion in Jerusalem,
and He will display His glory
in the presence of His elders.(GE)
Salvation and Judgment on That Day
25 Yahweh, You are my God;(GF)
I will exalt You. I will praise Your name,
for You have accomplished wonders,
plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.
2 For You have turned the city into a pile of rocks,(GG)
a fortified city, into ruins;
the fortress of barbarians(GH) is no longer a city;
it will never be rebuilt.
3 Therefore, a strong people will honor You.
The cities of violent nations will fear You.
4 For You have been a stronghold for the poor,
a stronghold for the needy(GI) person in his distress,
a refuge from the rain, a shade from the heat.(GJ)
When the breath of the violent
is like rain against a wall,
5 like heat in a dry land,
You subdue the uproar of barbarians.
As[aw] the shade of a cloud cools the heat of the day,
so He silences the song of the violent.
6 The Lord of Hosts will prepare a feast(GK)
for all the peoples on this mountain[ax](GL)—
a feast of aged wine, choice meat,[ay] finely aged wine.
7 On this mountain
He will destroy the burial shroud,
the shroud over all the peoples,
the sheet covering all the nations;(GM)
8 He will destroy death forever.(GN)
The Lord God will wipe away the tears
from every face(GO)
and remove His people’s disgrace(GP)
from the whole earth,
for the Lord has spoken.
9 On that day it will be said,
“Look, this is our God;
we have waited for Him, and He has saved us.
This is the Lord; we have waited for Him.
Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”(GQ)
10 For the Lord’s power will rest on this mountain.
But Moab(GR) will be trampled in his place[az]
as straw is trampled in a dung pile.
11 He will spread out his arms in the middle of it,
as a swimmer spreads out his arms to swim.
His pride will be brought low,
along with the trickery of his hands.(GS)
12 The high-walled fortress will be brought down,
thrown to the ground, to the dust.(GT)
The Song of Judah
26 On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
We have a strong city.
Salvation is established as walls and ramparts.(GU)
2 Open the gates
so a righteous nation can come in—
one that remains faithful.
3 You will keep the mind that is dependent on You
in perfect peace,(GV)
for it is trusting in You.
4 Trust in the Lord forever,
because in Yah, the Lord, is an everlasting rock!(GW)
5 For He has humbled those who live in lofty places—
an inaccessible city.(GX)
He brings it down; He brings it down to the ground;
He throws it to the dust.
6 Feet trample it,
the feet of the humble,
the steps of the poor.
God’s People Vindicated
7 The path of the righteous is level;(GY)
You clear a straight path for the righteous.
8 Yes, Yahweh, we wait for You
in the path of Your judgments.
Our desire is for Your name and renown.(GZ)
9 I long for You in the night;(HA)
yes, my spirit within me diligently seeks You,
for when Your judgments are in the land,
the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
10 But if the wicked man is shown favor,
he does not learn righteousness.
In a righteous land he acts unjustly
and does not see the majesty of the Lord.
11 Lord, Your hand is lifted up to take action,
but they do not see it.
They will see Your zeal for Your people,
and they will be put to shame.
The fire for Your adversaries will consume them!
12 Lord, You will establish peace for us,
for You have also done all our work for us.
13 Yahweh our God, lords other than You have ruled over us,
but we remember Your name alone.(HB)
14 The dead do not live;
departed spirits do not rise up.
Indeed, You have visited and destroyed them;
You have wiped out all memory of them.(HC)
15 You have added to the nation, Lord.(HD)
You have added to the nation; You are honored.
You have expanded all the borders of the land.(HE)
16 Lord, they went to You in their distress;(HF)
they poured out whispered prayers
because Your discipline fell on them.[ba]
17 As a pregnant woman about to give birth
writhes and cries out in her pains,(HG)
so we were before You, Lord.
18 We became pregnant, we writhed in pain;
we gave birth to wind.
We have won no victories on earth,
and the earth’s inhabitants have not fallen.
19 Your dead will live; their bodies[bb] will rise.(HH)
Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust!
For you will be covered with the morning dew,[bc]
and the earth will bring out the departed spirits.
20 Go, my people, enter your rooms
and close your doors behind you.
Hide for a little while until the wrath has passed.(HI)
21 For look, the Lord is coming from His place(HJ)
to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity.(HK)
The earth will reveal the blood shed on it
and will no longer conceal her slain.
Leviathan Slain
27 On that day the Lord with His harsh, great, and strong sword, will bring judgment on Leviathan,(HL) the fleeing serpent—Leviathan, the twisting serpent. He will slay the monster that is in the sea.(HM)
The Lord’s Vineyard
2 On that day
sing about a desirable vineyard:(HN)
3 I, Yahweh, watch over it;
I water it regularly.
I guard it night and day
so that no one disturbs it.
4 I am not angry,
but if it produces thorns and briers(HO) for Me,
I will fight against it, trample it,
and burn it to the ground.
5 Or let it take hold of My strength;
let it make peace with Me—
make peace with Me.
6 In days to come, Jacob will take root.(HP)
Israel will blossom and bloom(HQ)
and fill the whole world with fruit.
7 Did the Lord strike Israel
as He struck the one who struck Israel?(HR)
Was he killed like those killed by Him?
8 You disputed with her
by banishing and driving her away.[bd]
He removed her with His severe storm
on the day of the east wind.
9 Therefore Jacob’s iniquity(HS) will be purged in this way,
and the result of the removal of his sin will be this:(HT)
when he makes all the altar stones
like crushed bits of chalk,
no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.
10 For the fortified city will be deserted,
pastures abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness.
Calves will graze there,
and there they will spread out and strip its branches.
11 When its branches dry out, they will be broken off.
Women will come and make fires with them,
for they are not a people with understanding.(HU)
Therefore their Maker(HV) will not have compassion on them,
and their Creator will not be gracious to them.
12 On that day(HW)
the Lord will thresh grain from the Euphrates River
as far as the Wadi of Egypt,(HX)
and you Israelites will be gathered one by one.
13 On that day
a great trumpet(HY) will be blown,
and those lost in the land of Assyria will come,
as well as those dispersed in the land of Egypt;
and they will worship the Lord
at Jerusalem on the holy mountain.
Woe to Samaria
28 Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards,(HZ)
and to the fading flower of its beautiful splendor,
which is on the summit above the rich valley.
Woe to those overcome with wine.
2 Look, the Lord has a strong and mighty one(IA)—
like a devastating hail storm,
like a storm with strong flooding waters.
He will bring it across the land with His hand.
3 The majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards
will be trampled underfoot.
4 The fading flower of his beautiful splendor,
which is on the summit above the rich valley,
will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest.(IB)
Whoever sees it will swallow it
while it is still in his hand.
5 On that day
the Lord of Hosts will become a crown of beauty
and a diadem of splendor(IC)
to the remnant of His people,
6 a spirit of justice
to the one who sits in judgment,(ID)
and strength
to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
7 These also stagger because of wine
and stumble under the influence of beer:
priest and prophet stagger because of beer,
they are confused by wine.(IE)
They stumble because of beer,
they are muddled in their visions,
they stumble in their judgments.
8 Indeed, all their tables are covered with vomit;
there is no place without a stench.
9 Who is he[be] trying to teach?
Who is he[bf] trying to instruct?
Infants[bg] just weaned from milk?
Babies[bh] removed from the breast?
10 For he says: “Law after law, law after law,
line after line, line after line,
a little here, a little there.”[bi][bj]
11 So He will speak to this people
with stammering speech
and in a foreign language.(IF)
12 He had said to them:
“This is the place of rest,
let the weary rest;(IG)
this is the place of repose.”
But they would not listen.
13 Then the word of the Lord came to them:
“Law after law, law after law,
line after line, line after line,
a little here, a little there,”[bk][bl]
so they go stumbling backward,
to be broken, trapped, and captured.(IH)
A Deal with Death
14 Therefore hear the word of the Lord,(II) you mockers(IJ)
who rule this people in Jerusalem.
15 For you said, “We have cut a deal with Death,
and we have made an agreement with Sheol;
when the overwhelming scourge passes through,(IK)
it will not touch us,
because we have made falsehood our refuge
and have hidden behind treachery.”
16 Therefore the Lord God said:
“Look, I have laid a stone(IL) in Zion,
a tested stone,
a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation;(IM)
the one who believes will be unshakable.[bm](IN)
17 And I will make justice the measuring line
and righteousness the mason’s level.”(IO)
Hail will sweep away the false refuge,
and water will flood your hiding place.
18 Your deal with Death will be dissolved,
and your agreement with Sheol will not last.
When the overwhelming scourge passes through,
you will be trampled.
19 Every time it passes through,
it will carry you away;
it will pass through every morning—
every day and every night.
Only terror(IP) will cause you
to understand the message.[bn]
20 Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on,
and its cover too small to wrap up in.
21 For the Lord will rise up as He did at Mount Perazim.(IQ)
He will rise in wrath, as at the Valley of Gibeon,(IR)
to do His work, His strange work,
and to perform His task, His disturbing task.
22 So now, do not mock,
or your shackles will become stronger.
Indeed, I have heard from the Lord God of Hosts
a decree of destruction for the whole land.(IS)
God’s Wonderful Advice
23 Listen and hear my voice.
Pay attention and hear what I say.
24 Does the plowman plow every day to plant seed?
Does he continuously break up and cultivate the soil?
25 When he has leveled its surface,
does he not then scatter black cumin and sow cumin?
He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots,
with spelt as their border.
26 His God teaches him order;
He instructs him.
27 Certainly black cumin is not threshed
with a threshing board,
and a cart wheel is not rolled over the cumin.
But black cumin is beaten out with a stick,
and cumin with a rod.
28 Bread grain is crushed,
but is not threshed endlessly.
Though the wheel of the farmer’s cart rumbles,
his horses do not crush it.
29 This also comes from the Lord of Hosts.
He gives wonderful advice;
He gives great wisdom.(IT)
Woe to Jerusalem
29 Woe to Ariel,[bo] Ariel,
the city where David camped!(IU)
Continue year after year;
let the festivals recur.
2 I will oppress Ariel,
and there will be mourning and crying,
and she will be to Me like an Ariel.[bp]
3 I will camp in a circle around you;
I will besiege you with earth ramps,
and I will set up my siege towers against you.
4 You will be brought down;
you will speak from the ground,
and your words will come from low in the dust.
Your voice will be like that of a spirit from the ground;(IV)
your speech will whisper from the dust.
5 Your many foes[bq] will be like fine dust,(IW)
and many of the ruthless, like blowing chaff.
Then suddenly, in an instant,(IX)
6 you will be visited by the Lord of Hosts
with thunder, earthquake, and loud noise,
storm, tempest, and a flame of consuming fire.(IY)
7 All the many nations(IZ)
going out to battle against Ariel—
all the attackers, the siege works against her,
and those who oppress her—
will then be like a dream, a vision in the night.(JA)
8 It will be like a hungry one who dreams he is eating,
then wakes and is still hungry;
and like a thirsty one who dreams he is drinking,
then wakes and is still thirsty, longing for water.
So it will be for all the many nations
who go to battle against Mount Zion.
9 Stop and be astonished;
blind yourselves and be blind!
They are drunk,[br] but not with wine;
they stagger,[bs] but not with beer.(JB)
10 For the Lord has poured out on you
an overwhelming urge to[bt] sleep;(JC)
He has shut your eyes—the prophets,
and covered your heads—the seers.(JD)
11 For you the entire vision will be like the words of a sealed document.(JE) If it is given to one who can read and he is asked to read it,[bu] he will say, “I can’t read it, because it is sealed.” 12 And if the document is given to one who cannot read and he is asked to read it,[bv] he will say, “I can’t read.”
13 The Lord said:
Because these people approach Me with their mouths(JF)
to honor Me with lip-service[bw]—
yet their hearts are far from Me,
and their worship consists of man-made rules
learned by rote—
14 therefore I will again confound these people
with wonder after wonder.(JG)
The wisdom of their wise men will vanish,(JH)
and the understanding of the perceptive will be hidden.
15 Woe to those who go to great lengths
to hide their plans from the Lord.(JI)
They do their works in darkness,
and say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”(JJ)
16 You have turned things around,
as if the potter were the same as the clay.
How can what is made say about its maker,
“He didn’t make me”?(JK)
How can what is formed
say about the one who formed it,
“He doesn’t understand what he’s doing”?
17 Isn’t it true that in just a little while
Lebanon will become an orchard,
and the orchard will seem like a forest?(JL)
18 On that day the deaf will hear(JM)
the words of a document,
and out of a deep darkness
the eyes of the blind will see.
19 The humble will have joy
after joy in the Lord,
and the poor people will rejoice(JN)
in the Holy One of Israel.(JO)
20 For the ruthless one will vanish,
the scorner will disappear,(JP)
and all those who lie in wait with evil intent
will be killed—
21 those who, with their speech,
accuse a person of wrongdoing,
who set a trap at the gate for the mediator,
and without cause deprive the righteous of justice.(JQ)
22 Therefore, the Lord who redeemed Abraham(JR) says this about the house of Jacob:
Jacob will no longer be ashamed
and his face will no longer be pale.
23 For when he sees his children,
the work of My hands within his nation,
they will honor My name,
they will honor the Holy One of Jacob(JS)
and stand in awe of the God of Israel.(JT)
24 Those who are confused will gain understanding,
and those who grumble will accept instruction.
Condemnation of the Egyptian Alliance
30 Woe to the rebellious children!(JU)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
They carry out a plan,(JV) but not Mine;
they make an alliance,
but against My will,
piling sin on top of sin.
2 They set out to go down to Egypt(JW)
without asking My advice,
in order to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection
and take refuge in Egypt’s shadow.(JX)
3 But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame,
and refuge in Egypt’s shadow your disgrace.(JY)
4 For though his[bx] princes are at Zoan(JZ)
and his messengers reach as far as Hanes,
5 everyone will be ashamed
because of a people who can’t help.
They are of no benefit, they are no help;
they are good for nothing but shame and reproach.(KA)
6 An oracle(KB) about the animals of the Negev:[by]
Through a land of trouble and distress,
of lioness and lion,
of viper and flying serpent,(KC)
they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys
and their treasures on the humps of camels,
to a people who will not help them.
7 Egypt’s help is completely worthless;
therefore, I call her:
Rahab Who Just Sits.(KD)
8 Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence
and inscribe it on a scroll;
it will be for the future,
forever and ever.
9 They are a rebellious people,
deceptive children,(KE)
children who do not want to obey the Lord’s instruction.
10 They say to the seers, “Do not see,”
and to the prophets,
“Do not prophesy the truth to us.
Tell us flattering things.(KF)
Prophesy illusions.
11 Get out of the way!
Leave the pathway.
Rid us of the Holy One of Israel.”(KG)
12 Therefore the Holy One of Israel says:
“Because you have rejected this message
and have trusted in oppression and deceit,
and have depended on them,
13 this iniquity(KH) of yours will be
like a spreading breach,
a bulge in a high wall
whose collapse will come in an instant—suddenly!
14 Its collapse will be like the shattering
of a potter’s jar,(KI) crushed to pieces,
so that not even a fragment of pottery
will be found among its shattered remains—
no fragment large enough to take fire from a hearth
or scoop water from a cistern.”
15 For the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, has said:
“You will be delivered by returning and resting;
your strength will lie in quiet confidence.
But you are not willing.”
16 You say, “No!
We will escape on horses”—
therefore you will escape!—
and, “We will ride on fast horses”—
but those who pursue you will be faster.(KJ)
17 One thousand will flee at the threat of one,(KK)
at the threat of five you will flee,
until you alone remain
like a solitary pole on a mountaintop
or a banner on a hill.
The Lord’s Mercy to Israel
18 Therefore the Lord is waiting to show you mercy,
and is rising up to show you compassion,(KL)
for the Lord is a just God.
All who wait patiently for Him are happy.
19 For you people will live on Zion in Jerusalem and will never cry again. He will show favor to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears, He will answer you. 20 The Lord will give you meager bread and water during oppression,(KM) but your Teacher[bz] will not hide Himself[ca] any longer. Your eyes will see your Teacher,[cb] 21 and whenever you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”(KN) 22 Then you will defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, and call them filth.
23 Then He will send rain for your seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.(KO) 24 The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder scattered with winnowing shovel(KP) and fork. 25 Streams flowing with water will be on every high mountain and every raised hill on the day of great slaughter when the towers fall. 26 The moonlight will be as bright as the sunlight, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter(KQ)—like the light of seven days—on the day(KR) that the Lord bandages His people’s injuries and heals the wounds He inflicted.(KS)
Annihilation of the Assyrians
27 Look, Yahweh[cc] comes from far away,
His anger burning and heavy with smoke.[cd]
His lips are full of fury,
and His tongue is like a consuming fire.
28 His breath is like an overflowing torrent(KT)
that rises to the neck.(KU)
He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction
and to put a bridle on the jaws of the peoples
to lead them astray.(KV)
29 Your singing will be like that
on the night of a holy festival,
and your heart will rejoice
like one who walks to the music of a flute,
going up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the Rock of Israel.(KW)
30 And the Lord will make the splendor of His voice heard
and reveal His arm(KX) striking in angry wrath
and a flame of consuming fire,
in driving rain, a torrent, and hailstones.
31 Assyria will be shattered by the voice of the Lord.
He will strike with a rod.
32 And every stroke of the appointed[ce] staff
that the Lord brings down on him
will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres;
He will fight against him with brandished weapons.
33 Indeed! Topheth has been ready(KY)
for the king for a long time now.
Its funeral pyre is deep and wide,
with plenty of fire and wood.
The breath of the Lord,(KZ) like a torrent of brimstone,
kindles it.
The Lord, the Only Help
31 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help(LA)
and who depend on horses!
They trust in the abundance of chariots
and in the large number of horsemen.(LB)
They do not look(LC) to the Holy One of Israel
and they do not seek the Lord’s help.
2 But He also is wise and brings disaster.(LD)
He does not go back on what He says;(LE)
He will rise up against the house of wicked men
and against the allies of evildoers.
3 Egyptians are men, not God;
their horses are flesh, not spirit.
When the Lord raises His hand to strike,
the helper will stumble
and the one who is helped will fall;
both will perish together.
4 For this is what the Lord said to me:
As a lion or young lion growls over its prey(LF)
when a band of shepherds is called out against it,
and is not terrified by their shouting
or subdued by their noise,
so the Lord of Hosts will come down
to fight on Mount Zion
and on its hill.(LG)
5 Like hovering birds,
so the Lord of Hosts will protect Jerusalem(LH)—
by protecting it, He will rescue it,
by sparing it, He will deliver it.
6 Return to the One the Israelites have greatly rebelled against.(LI) 7 For on that day, every one of you will reject the silver and gold idols that your own hands have sinfully made.(LJ)
8 Then Assyria will fall,
but not by human sword;
a sword will devour him,
but not one made by man.(LK)
He will flee from the sword;
his young men will be put to forced labor.(LL)
9 His rock[cf] will pass away because of fear,(LM)
and his officers will be afraid because of the signal flag.(LN)
This is the Lord’s declaration—whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.(LO)
The Righteous Kingdom Announced
32 Indeed, a king will reign righteously,
and rulers will rule justly.(LP)
2 Each will be like a shelter from the wind,
a refuge from the rain,(LQ)
like streams of water(LR) in a dry land
and the shade of a massive rock in an arid land.
3 Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed,
and the ears of those who hear will listen.(LS)
4 The reckless mind will gain knowledge,
and the stammering tongue(LT) will speak clearly and fluently.
5 A fool will no longer be called a noble,(LU)
nor a scoundrel said to be important.
6 For a fool speaks foolishness
and his mind plots iniquity.
He lives in a godless way
and speaks falsely about the Lord.
He leaves the hungry empty
and deprives the thirsty of drink.(LV)
7 The scoundrel’s weapons are destructive;
he hatches plots to destroy the needy with lies,
even when the poor says what is right.
8 But a noble person plans noble things;
he stands up for noble causes.
9 Stand up, you complacent women;(LW)
listen to me.
Pay attention to what I say,
you overconfident daughters.
10 In a little more than a year
you overconfident ones will shudder,
for the vintage will fail
and the harvest will not come.
11 Shudder, you complacent ones;
tremble, you overconfident ones!
Strip yourselves bare(LX)
and put sackcloth around your waists.
12 Beat your breasts in mourning(LY)
for the delightful fields and the fruitful vines,(LZ)
13 for the ground of my people
growing thorns and briers,(MA)
indeed, for every joyous house in the joyful city.
14 For the palace will be forsaken,
the busy city abandoned.
The hill and the watchtower will become
barren places forever,
the joy of wild donkeys,
and a pasture for flocks,
15 until the Spirit from heaven is poured out on us.(MB)
Then the desert will become an orchard,
and the orchard will seem like a forest.(MC)
16 Then justice will inhabit the wilderness,
and righteousness will dwell in the orchard.
17 The result of righteousness will be peace;(MD)
the effect of righteousness
will be quiet confidence forever.
18 Then my people will dwell in a peaceful place,
in safe and secure dwellings.
19 But hail will level the forest,[cg](ME)
and the city will sink into the depths.(MF)
20 Those who sow seed are happy
beside abundant waters;(MG)
they let ox and donkey range freely.(MH)
The Lord Rises Up
33 Woe, you destroyer never destroyed,
you traitor never betrayed!
When you have finished destroying,
you will be destroyed.
When you have finished betraying,
they will betray you.(MI)
2 Lord, be gracious to us! We wait for You.(MJ)
Be our strength every morning
and our salvation in time of trouble.(MK)
3 The peoples flee at the thunderous noise;(ML)
the nations scatter when You rise in Your majesty.
4 Your spoil will be gathered as locusts are gathered;
people will swarm over it like an infestation of locusts.
5 The Lord is exalted, for He dwells on high;
He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
6 There will be times of security for you—
a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.
The fear of the Lord is Zion’s treasure.(MM)
7 Listen! Their warriors cry loudly in the streets;
the messengers of peace weep bitterly.(MN)
8 The highways are deserted;
travel has ceased.
An agreement has been broken,(MO)
cities[ch] despised,
and human life disregarded.
9 The land mourns and withers;(MP)
Lebanon is ashamed and decayed.
Sharon is like a desert;
Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
10 “Now I will rise up,”(MQ) says the Lord.
“Now I will lift Myself up.
Now I will be exalted.
11 You will conceive chaff;(MR)
you will give birth to stubble.
Your breath is fire that will consume you.
12 The peoples will be burned to ashes,
like thorns cut down and burned in a fire.
13 You who are far off, hear what I have done;
you who are near,(MS) know My strength.”
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid;
trembling seizes the ungodly:
“Who among us can dwell with a consuming fire?(MT)
Who among us can dwell with ever-burning flames?”
15 The one who lives righteously
and speaks rightly,(MU)
who refuses gain from extortion,
whose hand never takes a bribe,
who stops his ears from listening to murderous plots[ci]
and shuts his eyes to avoid endorsing evil[cj](MV)—
16 he will dwell on the heights;
his refuge will be the rocky fortresses,
his food provided, his water assured.
17 Your eyes will see the King in His beauty;(MW)
you will see a vast land.(MX)
18 Your mind will meditate on the past terror:
“Where is the accountant?[ck]
Where is the tribute collector?[cl]
Where is the one who spied out our defenses?”[cm]
19 You will no longer see the barbarians,
a people whose speech is difficult to comprehend—
who stammer in a language that is not understood.(MY)
20 Look at Zion, the city of our festival times.
Your eyes will see Jerusalem,
a peaceful pasture,(MZ) a tent that does not wander;
its tent pegs will not be pulled up
nor will any of its cords be loosened.(NA)
21 For the majestic One, our Lord, will be there,(NB)
a place of rivers and broad streams
where ships that are rowed will not go,
and majestic vessels will not pass.(NC)
22 For the Lord is our Judge,
the Lord is our lawgiver,(ND)
the Lord is our King.
He will save us.(NE)
23 Your ropes are slack;
they cannot hold the base of the mast
or spread out the flag.
Then abundant spoil will be divided,
the lame will plunder it,
24 and none there will say, “I am sick.”
The people who dwell there
will be forgiven(NF) their iniquity.(NG)
The Judgment of the Nations
34 You nations, come here and listen;
you peoples, pay attention!(NH)
Let the earth hear, and all that fills it,
the world and all that comes from it.(NI)
2 The Lord is angry with all the nations—
furious with all their armies.(NJ)
He will set them apart for destruction,(NK)
giving them over to slaughter.
3 Their slain will be thrown out,
and the stench of their corpses will rise;(NL)
the mountains will flow[cn] with their blood.(NM)
4 All[co] the heavenly bodies(NN) will dissolve.
The skies will roll up like a scroll,(NO)
and their stars will all wither
as leaves wither on the vine,
and foliage on the fig tree.(NP)
The Judgment of Edom
5 When My sword has drunk its fill[cp](NQ) in the heavens,
it will then come down on Edom(NR)
and on the people I have set apart for destruction.
6 The Lord’s sword is covered with blood.
It drips with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams.(NS)
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,(NT)
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 The wild oxen will be struck[cq] down with them,
and young bulls with the mighty bulls.
Their land will be soaked with[cr] blood,
and their soil will be saturated with fat.
8 For the Lord has a day of vengeance,(NU)
a time of paying back Edom
for its hostility against Zion.
9 Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,
her soil into sulfur;(NV)
her land will become burning pitch.
10 It will never go out—day or night.
Its smoke will go up forever.(NW)
It will be desolate, from generation to generation;
no one will pass through it forever and ever.(NX)
11 The desert owl[cs] and the screech owl[ct] will possess it,
and the great owl and the raven will dwell there.(NY)
The Lord will stretch out a measuring line
and a plumb line over her
for her destruction and chaos.(NZ)
12 No nobles will be left to proclaim a king,
and all her princes will come to nothing.
13 Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns;
her fortified cities, with thistles and briers.(OA)
She will become a dwelling for jackals,
an abode[cu] for ostriches.(OB)
14 The desert creatures will meet hyenas,
and one wild goat will call to another.
Indeed, the screech owl will stay there
and will find a resting place for herself.
15 The sand partridge[cv] will make her nest there;
she will lay and hatch her eggs
and will gather her brood under her shadow.
Indeed, the birds of prey will gather there,
each with its mate.(OC)
16 Search and read the scroll of the Lord:(OD)
Not one of them will be missing,
none will be lacking its mate,
because He has ordered it by my[cw] mouth,
and He will gather them by His Spirit.
17 He has ordained a lot for them;
His hand allotted their portion with a measuring line.
They will possess it forever;(OE)
they will dwell in it from generation to generation.
The Ransomed Return to Zion
35 The wilderness and the dry land will be glad;
the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.[cx][cy](OF)
2 It will blossom abundantly
and will also rejoice with joy and singing.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,
the splendor of Carmel and Sharon.(OG)
They will see the glory of the Lord,(OH)
the splendor of our God.(OI)
3 Strengthen the weak hands,
steady the shaking knees!(OJ)
4 Say to the cowardly:
“Be strong; do not fear!
Here is your God; vengeance is coming.(OK)
God’s retribution is coming; He will save you.”(OL)
5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened,
and the ears of the deaf unstopped.(OM)
6 Then the lame will leap like a deer,(ON)
and the tongue of the mute will sing for joy,(OO)
for water will gush in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert;(OP)
7 the parched ground will become a pool of water,
and the thirsty land springs of water.(OQ)
In the haunt of jackals,(OR) in their lairs,
there will be grass, reeds, and papyrus.
8 A road will be there and a way;(OS)
it will be called the Holy Way.(OT)
The unclean will not travel on it,(OU)
but it will be for the one who walks the path.(OV)
Even the fool will not go astray.
9 There will be no lion there,
and no vicious beast will go up on it;
they will not be found there.
But the redeemed will walk on it,
10 and the redeemed of the Lord will return(OW)
and come to Zion with singing,
crowned with unending joy.
Joy and gladness will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee.(OX)
Sennacherib’s Invasion
36 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah,(OY) Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. 2 Then the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh, along with a massive army, from Lachish(OZ) to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. The Assyrian stood near the conduit of the upper pool, by the road to the Fuller’s Field.(PA) 3 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary,(PB) and Joah son of Asaph, the court historian, came out to him.
4 The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah:
The great king, the king of Assyria, says this: What are you relying on?[cz] 5 I[da] say that your strategy and military preparedness are mere words. What are you now relying on that you have rebelled against me?(PC) 6 Look, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff(PD) that will enter and pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. This is how Pharaoh king of Egypt is to all who trust in him.(PE) 7 Suppose you say to me, ‘We trust in the Lord our God.’ Isn’t He the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You are to worship at this altar’?(PF)
8 Now make a deal with my master, the king of Assyria. I’ll give you 2,000 horses if you’re able to supply riders for them! 9 How then can you drive back a single officer among the weakest of my master’s officers and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen?(PG) 10 Have I attacked this land to destroy it without the Lord’s approval? The Lord said to me, ‘Attack this land and destroy it.’”
11 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic,(PH) since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew[db] within earshot of the people who are on the wall.”
12 But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men who are sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”
13 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew:[dc]
Listen to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! 14 This is what the king says: “Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you,(PI) for he cannot deliver you. 15 Don’t let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the Lord, saying, ‘The Lord will certainly deliver us! This city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.’”
16 Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: “Make peace[dd] with me and surrender to me. Then every one of you may eat from his own vine and his own fig tree(PJ) and drink water from his own cistern 17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 18 Beware that Hezekiah does not mislead you by saying, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’(PK) Has any one of the gods of the nations(PL) delivered his land from the power of the king of Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad?(PM) Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my power?(PN) 20 Who among all the gods of these lands ever delivered his land from my power? So will the Lord deliver Jerusalem.”
21 But they kept silent; they didn’t say anything, for the king’s command was, “Don’t answer him.”(PO) 22 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the court historian, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him the words of the Rabshakeh.
Hezekiah Seeks Isaiah’s Counsel
37 When King Hezekiah heard their report,(PP) he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth,(PQ) and went to the Lord’s temple. 2 Then he sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and the leading priests, who were wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. 3 They said to him, “This is what Hezekiah says: ‘Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace,(PR) for children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.(PS) 4 Perhaps Yahweh your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria sent to mock the living God,(PT) and will rebuke him for the words that Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore offer a prayer for the surviving remnant.’”(PU)
5 So the servants of King Hezekiah went to Isaiah, 6 who said to them, “Tell your master this, ‘The Lord says: Don’t be afraid(PV) because of the words you have heard, which the king of Assyria’s attendants have blasphemed Me with.(PW) 7 I am about to put a spirit(PX) in him and he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’”(PY)
Sennacherib’s Letter
8 When the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish,(PZ) he returned and found him fighting against Libnah.(QA) 9 The king had heard this about Tirhakah king of Cush:(QB) “He has set out to fight against you.” So when he heard this, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10 “Say this to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Don’t let your God, whom you trust, deceive you(QC) by promising that Jerusalem won’t be handed over to the king of Assyria. 11 Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries: they completely destroyed them. Will you be rescued? 12 Did the gods of the nations(QD) that my predecessors destroyed rescue them—Gozan,(QE) Haran,(QF) Rezeph, and the Edenites in Telassar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, or Ivvah?’”
Hezekiah’s Prayer
14 Hezekiah took the letter from the messengers, read it, then went up to the Lord’s temple and spread it out before the Lord.(QG) 15 Then Hezekiah prayed(QH) to the Lord:
16 Lord of Hosts, God of Israel, who is enthroned above the cherubim,(QI) You are God(QJ)—You alone(QK)—of all the kingdoms of the earth.(QL) You made the heavens and the earth.(QM) 17 Listen closely, Lord, and hear;(QN) open Your eyes, Lord, and see.(QO) Hear all the words that Sennacherib has sent to mock the living God.(QP) 18 Lord, it is true that the kings of Assyria have devastated all these countries and their lands. 19 They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods(QQ) but made by human hands(QR)—wood and stone.(QS) So they have destroyed them. 20 Now, Lord our God, save us from his power so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the Lord(QT)—You alone.(QU)
God’s Answer through Hezekiah
21 Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “The Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22 this is the word the Lord has spoken against him:
Virgin Daughter Zion(QV)
despises you and scorns you:
Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head(QW)
behind your back.[de]
23 Who is it you have mocked(QX) and blasphemed?
Who have you raised your voice against
and lifted your eyes in pride?(QY)
Against the Holy One of Israel!(QZ)
24 You have mocked the Lord through[df] your servants.
You have said, “With my many chariots(RA)
I have gone up to the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of Lebanon.
I cut down its tallest cedars,
its choice cypress trees.
I came to its distant heights,
its densest forest.
25 I dug wells[dg] and drank water.
I dried up all the streams of Egypt
with the soles of my feet.”(RB)
26 Have you not heard?(RC)
I designed it long ago;
I planned it in days gone by.(RD)
I have now brought it to pass,
and you have crushed fortified cities(RE)
into piles of rubble.
27 Their inhabitants have become powerless,
dismayed, and ashamed.
They are plants of the field,
tender grass,
grass on the rooftops,
blasted by the east wind.[dh]
28 But I know[di] your sitting down,
your going out and your coming in,(RF)
and your raging against Me.
29 Because your raging against Me
and your arrogance have reached My ears,(RG)
I will put My hook in your nose(RH)
and My bit in your mouth;(RI)
I will make you go back
the way you came.
30 “‘This will be the sign for you:(RJ) This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what grows from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 31 The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root(RK) downward and bear fruit upward. 32 For a remnant(RL) will go out from Jerusalem and survivors, from Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will accomplish this.’(RM)
33 “Therefore, this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria:
He will not enter this city
or shoot an arrow there
or come before it with a shield
or build up an assault ramp against it.
34 He will go back
the way he came,
and he will not enter this city.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Defeat and Death of Sennacherib
36 Then(RP) the angel of the Lord(RQ) went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies! 37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and left. He returned home and lived in Nineveh.(RR)
38 One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat.(RS) Then his son Esar-haddon(RT) became king in his place.
Hezekiah’s Illness and Recovery
38 In those days Hezekiah became terminally ill.(RU) The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Put your affairs in order,[dj](RV) for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”[dk]
2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord. 3 He said, “Please, Lord, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and wholeheartedly,(RW) and have done what pleases You.”[dl](RX) And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4 Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah: 5 “Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I am going to add 15 years to your life.[dm](RY) 6 And I will deliver you and this city from the power of the king of Assyria; I will defend this city.(RZ) 7 This is the sign to you(SA) from the Lord that He will do what[dn] He has promised:[do] 8 I am going to make the sun’s shadow that goes down on Ahaz’s stairway go back by 10 steps.”(SB) So the sun’s shadow[dp] went back the 10 steps it had descended.
9 A poem by Hezekiah king of Judah after he had been sick and had recovered from his illness:
10 I said: In the prime[dq] of my life[dr](SC)
I must go to the gates of Sheol;(SD)
I am deprived of the rest of my years.
11 I said: I will never see the Lord,
the Lord in the land of the living;(SE)
I will not look on humanity any longer
with the inhabitants of what is passing away.[ds]
12 My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me
like a shepherd’s tent.(SF)
I have rolled up my life like a weaver;(SG)
He cuts me off from the loom.[dt](SH)
You make an end of me from day until night.(SI)
13 I thought until the morning:
He will break all my bones like a lion;
You make an end of me day and night.
14 I chirp like a swallow or a crane;
I moan like a dove.(SJ)
My eyes grow weak looking upward.
Lord, I am oppressed; support me.(SK)
15 What can I say?
He has spoken to me,
and He Himself has done it.
I walk along slowly all my years(SL)
because of the bitterness of my soul,(SM)
16 Lord, because of these promises people live,(SN)
and in all of them is the life of my spirit as well;
You have restored me to health(SO)
and let me live.(SP)
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:5 Or earth
- Isaiah 13:10 Or Orions
- Isaiah 13:17 Lit who have no regard for
- Isaiah 14:4 DSS; Hb uncertain
- Isaiah 14:9 Lit rams
- Isaiah 14:12 Or Day Star, son of the dawn
- Isaiah 14:13 Or of Zaphon
- Isaiah 14:23 Or hedgehogs
- Isaiah 14:29 Or stock
- Isaiah 14:30 DSS, Syr, Tg; MT reads and he will kill
- Isaiah 15:2 Or wails over Nebo and over
- Isaiah 15:4 Lit out, he trembles within himself
- Isaiah 15:9 DSS, some LXX mss, Vg; MT reads Dimon
- Isaiah 15:9 DSS, some LXX mss, Vg; MT reads Dimon
- Isaiah 16:4 Or you; Moab—be a refuge for him
- Isaiah 16:9 Or Battle cries have fallen
- Isaiah 16:10 Lit wine
- Isaiah 16:12 DSS read place, he will tire
- Isaiah 17:4 Lit and the fat of his flesh
- Isaiah 17:9 Some Hb mss read like the Horesh and the Amir; LXX reads like the Amorites and the Hivites
- Isaiah 18:1 Or of sailing ships
- Isaiah 18:2 Hb obscure
- Isaiah 18:7 DSS, LXX, Vg; MT omits from
- Isaiah 19:6 Or wilt, or become black
- Isaiah 19:9 DSS, Tg; MT reads weavers of white cloth
- Isaiah 19:10 Or foundations
- Isaiah 19:11 Lit a son
- Isaiah 19:11 Lit a son of ancient
- Isaiah 19:18 Some Hb mss, DSS, Sym, Tg, Vg, Arabic; other Hb mss read of Destruction; LXX reads of Righteousness
- Isaiah 19:18 = the ancient Egyptian city Heliopolis
- Isaiah 20:2 Lit off the sackcloth from your loins
- Isaiah 21:3 Lit Therefore my loins are
- Isaiah 21:4 Lit my twilight
- Isaiah 21:8 DSS, Syr; MT reads Then a lion
- Isaiah 21:11 Some Hb mss, LXX read Edom
- Isaiah 21:13 LXX, Syr, Tg, Vg read desert at evening
- Isaiah 21:14 LXX, Syr, Tg, Vg read meet as a command
- Isaiah 22:4 Lit of the daughter of my
- Isaiah 22:5 Or Vision—a tearing down of a wall, or Vision—Kir raged; Hb obscure
- Isaiah 22:6 Lit chariots of man
- Isaiah 22:14 Lit will not until you die
- Isaiah 22:18 Hb obscure
- Isaiah 23:1 Hb Kittim
- Isaiah 23:2 DSS; MT reads Sidon, whom the seafarers have filled
- Isaiah 23:10 DSS, LXX read Work
- Isaiah 23:10 Or longer any harbor
- Isaiah 24:11 Lit streets she cries
- Isaiah 24:16 Hb obscure
- Isaiah 25:5 Lit In
- Isaiah 25:6 = Mount Zion
- Isaiah 25:6 Lit wine, fat full of marrow
- Isaiah 25:10 Or trampled under Him
- Isaiah 26:16 Hb obscure
- Isaiah 26:19 Lit live; my body they
- Isaiah 26:19 Lit For your dew is a dew of lights
- Isaiah 27:8 Hb obscure
- Isaiah 28:9 Or He
- Isaiah 28:9 Or He
- Isaiah 28:9 Lit Those
- Isaiah 28:9 Lit Those
- Isaiah 28:10 Hb obscure
- Isaiah 28:10 Perhaps the mockers of v. 9 are mimicking the prophet’s words as baby talk.
- Isaiah 28:13 Hb obscure
- Isaiah 28:13 The Lord quotes the mockers' words in v. 10 to represent the unintelligible language of the Assyrian invaders.
- Isaiah 28:16 Lit will not hurry
- Isaiah 28:19 Or The understanding of the message will cause sheer terror
- Isaiah 29:1 Or Altar Hearth, or Lion of God; Hb obscure
- Isaiah 29:2 Or Altar Hearth, or Lion of God; Hb obscure
- Isaiah 29:5 Lit foreigners
- Isaiah 29:9 LXX, Tg, Vg read Be drunk
- Isaiah 29:9 Tg, Vg read wine; stagger
- Isaiah 29:10 Lit you a spirit of
- Isaiah 29:11 Lit If one gives it to one who knows the document, saying, “Read this, please”
- Isaiah 29:12 Lit who does not know the document, saying, “Read this, please”
- Isaiah 29:13 Lit their mouth and honor Me with its lips
- Isaiah 30:4 Or Judah’s
- Isaiah 30:6 Or Southland
- Isaiah 30:20 Or teachers
- Isaiah 30:20 Or themselves
- Isaiah 30:20 Or teachers
- Isaiah 30:27 Lit the name Yahweh
- Isaiah 30:27 Hb obscure
- Isaiah 30:32 Some Hb mss read punishing
- Isaiah 31:9 Perhaps the Assyrian king
- Isaiah 32:19 Hb obscure
- Isaiah 33:8 DSS read witnesses
- Isaiah 33:15 Lit to bloods
- Isaiah 33:15 Lit eyes from seeing evil
- Isaiah 33:18 Lit counter
- Isaiah 33:18 Lit weigher
- Isaiah 33:18 Lit who counts towers
- Isaiah 34:3 Or melt, or dissolve
- Isaiah 34:4 DSS read And the valleys will be split, and all
- Isaiah 34:5 DSS read sword will appear
- Isaiah 34:7 Or will go
- Isaiah 34:7 Or will drink its fill of
- Isaiah 34:11 Or The pelican
- Isaiah 34:11 Or the hedgehog
- Isaiah 34:13 DSS, LXX, Syr, Tg; MT reads jackals, grass
- Isaiah 34:15 Or The arrow snake, or The owl
- Isaiah 34:16 Some Hb mss; other Hb mss, DSS, Syr, Tg read His
- Isaiah 35:1 Or meadow saffron
- Isaiah 35:1 Not the modern flower but a common wildflower in northern Israel
- Isaiah 36:4 Lit What is this trust that you trust
- Isaiah 36:5 DSS read You
- Isaiah 36:11 Lit Judahite
- Isaiah 36:13 Lit Judahite
- Isaiah 36:16 Lit a blessing
- Isaiah 37:22 Lit behind you
- Isaiah 37:24 Lit by the hand of
- Isaiah 37:25 DSS add in foreign lands
- Isaiah 37:27 DSS; MT reads rooftops, field before standing grain
- Isaiah 37:28 DSS read know your rising up and
- Isaiah 38:1 Lit Command your house
- Isaiah 38:1 Lit live
- Isaiah 38:3 Lit what is good in Your eyes
- Isaiah 38:5 Lit days
- Isaiah 38:7 Lit this thing
- Isaiah 38:7 Lit said
- Isaiah 38:8 Lit And the sun
- Isaiah 38:10 Lit quiet
- Isaiah 38:10 Lit days
- Isaiah 38:11 Some Hb mss, Tg read of the world
- Isaiah 38:12 Lit thrum
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