as ftraw is trodden down for | down, even the feet of the the dunghill. poor, and the steps of the II And he fhall fpread needy. forth his hands in the midft 7 The way of the juft is of them, as he that fwim-uprightness: thou most upmeth spreadeth forth his hands right, doft weigh the path of to fwim and he fhall bring the juft. down their pride together with the spoils of their hands. 12 And the fortrefs of the high fort of thy walls fhall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the duft. I CHAP. XXVI. N that day fhall this fong be fung in the land of Judah, We have a strong city, falvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. 2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. 3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whofe mind is ftayed on thee: because he trufteth in thee. 4 Truft ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord JEHOVAH is everlafting ftrength. 5For he bringeth down them that dwell on high, the lofty city he layeth it low, he layeth it low, even to the ground, he bringeth it even to the duft. 8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; the defire of our foul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. 9 With my foul have I defired thee in the night, yea, with my fpirit within me will I feek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteoufnefs. 10 Let favour be fhewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majefty of the Lord. II Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not fee: but they fhall fee, and be afhamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies fhall devour them. 12 Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us; for thou also haft wrought all our works in us. 13 O Lord our God, other 6 The foot fhall tread it lords befides thee have had dominion dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name. 14 They are dead, they fhall not live; they are deceased, they fhall not rife: therefore haft thou vifited and deftroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. 15 Thou haft increafed the nation, O Lord, thou haft increased the nation, thou art glorified; thou haft removed it far unto all the ends of the earth. 16 Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chaftening was upon them. 17 Like as a woman with child that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; fo have we been in thy fight, O Lord. 18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind, we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth, neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. 19 Thy dead men fhall live, together with my dead body fhall they arife: awake and fing, ye that dwell in duft: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth fhall caft 9 out the dead. 20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and fhut thy doors about thee: hide thyfelf as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpaft. 21 For behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth alfo fhall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her flain. CHAP. XXX. OE to the rebellious children, faith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add fin to fin: 2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not afked at my mouth; to ftrengthen themselves in the ftrength of Pharaoh, and to truft in the fhadow of Egypt! 3 Therefore shall the ftrength of Pharaoh be your fhame, and the truft in the fhadow of Egypt your confufion. 4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambaffadors came to Hanes. 5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a fhame, and alfo a reproach. : 6 The burden of the beasts of the fouth into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying ferpent, they will carry their riches upon the fhoulders of young affes, and their treafures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that fhall not profit them. 7 For the Egyptians fhall help in vain, and to no purpofe therefore have I cried concerning this, Their ftrength is to fit ftill. 8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: and truft in oppreffion and perverfenefs, and stay there on : 13 Therefore this iniquity fhall be to you as a breach ready to fall, fwelling out in a high wall, whofe breaking cometh fuddenly at an inftant. 14 And he fhall break it as the breaking of the potter's veffel, that is broken in pieces, he fhall not spare; fo that there fhall not be found in the burfting of it a fherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit. 15 For thus faith the Lord God, the Holy One of Ifrael, In returning and reft shall ye be faved, in quietness and in confidence fhall be your ftrength; and ye would not. 9 That this is a rebellious 16 But ye faid, No; for people, lying children, chil-we will flee upon horses; dren that will not hear the therefore fhall ye flee: and, law of the Lord: We will ride upon the swift; therefore fhall they that purfue you be swift. 10 Which fay to the feers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophefy not unto us right things, fpeak unto us fmooth things, prophefy deceits: 17 One thoufand fhall flee at the rebuke of one: at the rebuke of five fhall ye flee, till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an enfign on an hill. II Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Ifrael to ceafe from before us. 18 And therefore will 12 Wherefore thus faith the Lord wait that he may the Holy One of Ifrael, Be-be gracious unto you, and cause ye defpife this word, therefore will he be exalted, that that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment; bleffed are all they that wait for him. 19 For the people fhall dwell in Zion at Jerufalem: thou fhalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee, at the voice of thy cry; when he fhall hear it, he will anfwer thee. 20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adverfity, and the water of affiction, yet fhall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes fhall fee thy teachers: 21 And thine ears fhall hear a word behind thee, faying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. 22 Ye fhall defile alfo the covering of thy graven images of filver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt caft them away as a menftruous cloth; thou shalt fay unto it, Get thee hence. 23 Then fhall he give the rain of thy feed that thou fhalt fow the ground withal, and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day fhall thy cattle feed in large paf tures. 24 The oxen likewife and the young affes that ear the ground, fhall eat clean provender which hath been winnowed with the fhovel and with the fan. 25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and ftreams of waters, in the day of the great flaughter, when the towers fall. 26 Moreover, the light of the moon fhall be as the light of the fun, and the light of the fun fhall be sevenfold, as the light of feven days, in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the fstroke of their wound. 27 Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire. 28 And his breath as an overflowing fiream, fhall reach to the midst of the neck, to fift the nations with the fieve of vanity: and there fhall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, caufing them to err. 29 Ye fhall have a fong as in the night, when a holy folemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the the Mighty One of Ifrael. 30 And the Lord fhall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and fhall fhew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with fcattering, and tempeft, and hailftones. 31 For through the voice of the Lord fhall the Aflyrian be beaten down, which fmote with a rod. of a great rock in a weary land. 3 And the eyes of them that fee, fhall not be dim; and the ears of them that hear, fhall hearken. 4 The heart also of the rafh fhall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the ftammerers fhall be ready to fpeak plainly. 5 The vile perfon shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl faid to be bountiful. 32 And in every place 6 For the vile person will where the grounded staff shall speak villainy, and his heart pafs, which the Lord fhall lay will work iniquity, to pracupon him, it shall be with tife hypocrify, and to utter tabrets and harps: and in bat-error againft the Lord, to tles of fhaking will he fight make empty the foul of the with it. hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. 33 For Tophet is ordained of old: yea, for the king it is prepared, he hath made it deep and large; the pile thereof is fire and much wood: the breath of the Lord, like a ftream of brimftone, doth kindle it. 7 The inftruments also of the churl are evil: he devifeth wicked devices to deftroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy fpeaketh right. 8 But the liberal devifeth liberal things, and by liberal things fhall he stand. 9 Rife up, ye women that are at eafe, hear my voice, ye careless daughters, give ear unto my speech. 10 Many days and years fhall ye be troubled, ye carelefs women: for the vintage fhall fail, the gathering shall not |