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Chapter 1:31 Verses
23 Isaiah
23-1:1 The Uision of Isaiah the sonne of Amoz, which hee sawe concerning Iudah and Ierusalem, in the dayes of Uzziah, Iotham, Ahaz, & Hezekiah kings of Iudah.
23-1:2 Heare, O heauens, and giue eare, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken; I haue nourished and brought vp children, and they haue rebelled against me.
23-1:3 The oxe knoweth his owner, and the asse his masters cribbe: but Israel doeth not know, my people doeth not consider.
23-1:4 Ah sinnefull nation, a people laden with iniquitie, a seede of euill doers, children that are corrupters: they haue forsaken the Lord, they haue prouoked the Holy one of Israel vnto anger, they are gone away backward.
23-1:5 Why should yee be stricken any more? yee will reuolt more and more: the whole head is sicke, and the whole heart faint.
23-1:6 From the sole of the foote, euen vnto the head, there is no soundnesse in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they haue not beene closed, neither bound vp, neither mollified with oyntment.
23-1:7 Your countrey is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your land, strangers deuoure it in your presence, and it is desolate as ouerthrowen by strangers.
23-1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged citie.
23-1:9 Except the Lord of hostes had left vnto vs a very small remnant, we should haue beene as Sodom, and we should haue bene like vnto Gomorrah.
23-1:10 Heare the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, giue eare vnto the Law of our God, yee people of Gomorrah.
23-1:11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices vnto me, sayth the Lord? I am full of the burnt offerings of rammes, and the fat of fedde beasts, and I delight not in the blood of bullockes, or of lambes, or of hee goates.
23-1:12 When ye come to appeare before mee, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
23-1:13 Bring no more vaine oblations, incense is an abomination vnto me: the new Moones, and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies I cannot away with; it is iniquitie, euen the solemne meeting.
23-1:14 Your new Moones, and your appointed Feasts my soule hateth: they are a trouble vnto me, I am weary to beare them.
23-1:15 And when ye spread foorth your handes, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when yee make many prayers I will not heare: your hands are full of blood.
23-1:16 Wash yee, make you cleane, put away the euill of your doings from before mine eyes, cease to doe euill,
23-1:17 Learne to doe well, seeke iudgement, relieue the oppressed, iudge the fatherlesse, plead for the widow.
23-1:18 Come now and let vs reason together, saith the Lord: though your sinnes be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimsin, they shall be as wooll.
23-1:19 If yee be willing and obedient, yee shall eate the good of the land.
23-1:20 But if yee refuse and rebell, yee shalbe deuoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
23-1:21 Howe is the faithfull citie become an harlot? it was full of iudgement, righteousnesse lodged in it; but now murtherers.
23-1:22 Thy siluer is become drosse, thy wine mixt with water.
23-1:23 Thy princes are rebellious and companions of theeues: euery one loueth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they iudge not the fatherlesse, neither doth the cause of the widowe come vnto them.
23-1:24 Therefore, saith the Lord, the Lord of hostes, the mighty one of Israel; Ah, I will ease me of mine aduersaries, and auenge me of mine enemies.
23-1:25 And I will turne my hand vpon thee, and purely purge away thy drosse, and take away all thy tinne.
23-1:26 And I will restore thy iudges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called the citie of righteousnesse, the faithfull citie.
23-1:27 Zion shall be redeemed with iudgement, and her conuerts with righteousnesse.
23-1:28 And the destruction of the transgressours and of the sinners shall be together: and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
23-1:29 For they shall be ashamed of the okes which yee haue desired, and yee shalbe confounded for the gardens that yee haue chosen.
23-1:30 For yee shall be as an oke whose leafe fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
23-1:31 And the strong shall be as towe, and the maker of it as a sparke, and they shall both burne together, and none shall quench them.
Isaiah 2:
Chapter 2:22 Verses
23 Isaiah
23-2:1 The word that Isaiah, the sonne of Amoz, sawe concerning Iudah and Ierusalem.
23-2:2 And it shall come to passe in the last dayes, that the mountaine of the Lords house shall be established in the top of the mountaines, and shall be exalted aboue the hilles; and all nations shall flow vnto it.
23-2:3 And many people shall goe & say; Come yee and let vs go vp to the mountaine of the Lord, to the house of the God of Iacob, and he will teach vs of his wayes, and we will walke in his pathes: for out of Zion shall goe forth the lawe, and the word of the Lord from Ierusalem.
23-2:4 And hee shall iudge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beate their swords into plow-shares, and their speares into pruning hookes: nation shall not lift vp sword against nation, neither shall they learne warre any more.
23-2:5 O house of Iacob, come yee, and let vs walke in the light of the Lord.
23-2:6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Iacob; because they be replenished from the East, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselues in the children of strangers.
23-2:7 Their land also is full of siluer and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures: their land is also full of horses; neither is there any end of their charets.
23-2:8 Their land also is full of idoles: they worship the worke of their owne hands, that which their owne fingers haue made.
23-2:9 And the meane man boweth downe, and the great man humbleth himselfe; therefore forgiue them not.
23-2:10 Enter into the rocke, and hide thee in the dust, for feare of the Lord, and for the glory of his Maiestie.
23-2:11 The loftie lookes of man shalbe humbled, and the hautines of men shalbe bowed downe: and the Lord alone shalbe exalted in that day.
23-2:12 For the day of the Lord of hostes shall bee vpon euery one that is proud and loftie, and vpon euery one that is lifted vp, and he shalbe brought low;
23-2:13 And vpon all the Cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted vp; and vpon all the okes of Bashan,
23-2:14 And vpon all the high mountaines, and vpon all the hilles that are lifted vp,
23-2:15 And vpon euery high tower, and vpon euery fenced wall,
23-2:16 And vpon all the ships of Tarshish, and vpon all pleasant pictures.
23-2:17 And the loftinesse of man shall be bowed downe, and the hautinesse of men shalbe made low: and the Lord alone shalbe exalted in that day.
23-2:18 And the idoles hee shall vtterly abolish.
23-2:19 And they shall goe into the holes of the rocks, and into the caues of the earth for feare of the Lord, and for the glory of his Maiestie; when hee ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
23-2:20 In that day a man shall cast his idoles of siluer, and his idoles of golde which they made each one for himselfe to worship, to the moules and to the battes:
23-2:21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rockes, for feare of the Lord, and for the glorie of his Maiestie; when hee ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
23-2:22 Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrels: for wherein is hee to be accounted of?
Isaiah 3:
Chapter 3:26 Verses
23 Isaiah
23-3:1 For behold, the Lord, the Lord of hostes doeth take away from Ierusalem, and from Iudah, the stay and the staffe, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
23-3:2 The mighty man, and the man of warre; the Iudge and the Prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
23-3:3 The captaine of fiftie, and the honourable man, and the counseller, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent oratour.
23-3:4 And I will giue children to bee their Princes, and babes shall rule ouer them.
23-3:5 And the people shall be oppressed, euery one by another, and euery one by his neighbour: the childe shall behaue himselfe proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
23-3:6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruine bee vnder thy hand:
23-3:7 In that day shall he sweare, saying, I will not be an healer: for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
23-3:8 For Ierusalem is ruined, & Iudah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to prouoke the eyes of his glorie.
23-3:9 The shew of their countenance doeth witnesse against them, and they declare their sinne as Sodom, they hide it not: woe vnto their soule, for they haue rewarded euill vnto themselues.
23-3:10 Say yee to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eate the fruit of their doings.
23-3:11 Woe vnto the wicked, it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his handes shalbe giuen him.
23-3:12 As for my people, children are their oppressours, and women rule ouer them: O my people, they which lead thee, cause thee to erre, and destroy the way of thy paths.
23-3:13 The Lord standeth vp to plead, and standeth to iudge the people.
23-3:14 The Lord will enter into iudgement with the ancients of his people, and the Princes thereof: for ye haue eaten vp the Uineyard; the spoile of the poore is in your houses.
23-3:15 What meane yee that yee beat my people to pieces, and grinde the faces of the poore, saith the Lord God of hosts?
23-3:16 Moreouer the Lord saith; Because the daughters of Zion are hautie, and walke with stretched forth necks, and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they goe, and making a tinkeling with their feet:
23-3:17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crowne of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discouer their secret parts.
23-3:18 In that day the Lord will take away the brauery of their tinckling ornaments about their feete, and their caules, and their round tyres like the Moone.
23-3:19 The chaines, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
23-3:20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legges, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earerings,
23-3:21 The rings, and nose-iewels,
23-3:22 The changeable sutes of apparell, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pinnes,
23-3:23 The glasses, and the fine linnen, and the hoods, and the vailes.
23-3:24 And it shall come to passe, that in steade of sweete smell, there shall bee stinke; and in stead of a girdle, a rent; and in stead of well set haire, baldnesse; and in stead of a stomacher, a girding of sackecloth; and burning, in stead of beautie.
23-3:25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mightie in the warre.
23-3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourne; and she being desolate, shall sit vpon the ground.
Isaiah 4:
Chapter 4:6 Verses
23 Isaiah
23-4:1 And in that day seuen women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eate our owne bread, & weare our owne apparell: onely let vs be called by thy name, to take away our reproch.
23-4:2 In that day shall the Branch of the Lord be beautifull and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shalbe excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
23-4:3 And it shall come to passe, that hee that is left in Zion, and hee that remaineth in Ierusalem, shall be called Holy, euen euery one that is written among the liuing in Ierusalem,
23-4:4 When the Lord shall haue washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall haue purged the blood of Ierusalem from the middest thereof, by the spirit of iudgement, and by the spirit of burning.
23-4:5 And the Lord will create vpon euery dwelling place of mount Zion, and vpon her assemblies a cloude, and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for vpon all the glory shall be a defence.
23-4:6 And there shalbe a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a couert from storme and from raine.
Isaiah 5:
Chapter 5:30 Verses
23 Isaiah
23-5:1 Now will I sing to my welbeloued, a song of my beloued touching his vineyard: my wellbeloued hath a vineyard in a very fruitfull hill.
23-5:2 And hee fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a towre in the middest of it, and also made a winepresse therein: and he looked that it should bring foorth grapes, and it brought foorth wilde grapes.
23-5:3 And now, O inhabitants of Ierusalem, and men of Iudah, Iudge, I pray you, betwixt me and my Uineyard.
23-5:4 What could haue beene done more to my Uineyard, that I haue not done in it? Wherefore when I looked that it should bring foorth grapes, brought it foorth wilde grapes?
23-5:5 And now goe to; I will tell you what I will doe to my Uineyard, I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten vp; and breake downe the wall thereof, and it shall be troden downe.
23-5:6 And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned, nor digged, but there shall come vp briars and thornes: I will also command the cloudes, that they raine no raine vpon it.
23-5:7 For the Uineyard of the Lord of hostes is the house of Israel, and the men of Iudah his pleasant plant: and he looked for iudgement, but beholde oppression; for righteousnesse, but behold a crie.
23-5:8 Woe vnto them that ioyne house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth.
23-5:9 In mine eares said the Lord of hostes, Of a trueth many houses shall be desolate, euen great and faire without inhabitant.
23-5:10 Yea ten acres of vineyard shall yeeld one Bath, and the seed of an Homer shall yeeld an Ephah.
23-5:11 Woe vnto them that rise vp earely in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, that continue vntill night, till wine enflame them.
23-5:12 And the harpe and the viole, the tabret and pipe, and wine are in their feasts: but they regard not the worke of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
23-5:13 Therefore my people are gone into captiuitie, because they haue no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, aud their multitude dried vp with thirst.
23-5:14 Therefore hell hath enlarged her selfe, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pompe, and hee that reioyceth, shall descend into it.
23-5:15 And the meane man shall bee brought downe, and the mightie man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the loftie shall be humbled.
23-5:16 But the Lord of hosts shalbe exalted in iudgement, and God that is holy, shall bee sanctified in righteousnesse.