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Isaiah 2
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Isaiah 3
1 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from
Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and
the whole stay of water.
2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet,
and the prudent, and the ancient,
3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the
counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall
rule over them.
5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and
every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against
the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
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 ruin be
under thy hand:
7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for
in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their
tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his
glory.
9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and
they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for
they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for
they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward
of his hands shall be given him.
12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule
over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy
the way of thy paths.
13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the
people.
14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his
people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil
of the poor is in your houses.
15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the
faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
16 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion
are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and
mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
17 Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head
of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their
secret parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their
tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires
like the moon,
19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands,
and the tablets, and the earrings,
21 The rings, and nose jewels,
22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples,
and the crisping pins,
23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there
shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair
baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning
instead of beauty.
25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall
sit upon the ground.
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Lamentations 1
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Lamentations 2
1 How hath the LORD covered the daughter
of Zion with a cloud in his anger,
and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered
not his footstool in the day of his anger!
2 The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and
hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down
to the ground: he hath polluted the
kingdom and the princes thereof.
3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he
hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob
like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand
as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle
of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
5 The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath
swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath
increased in the daughter of Judah
mourning and lamentation.
6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were
of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath
caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath
despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
7 The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his
sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her
palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a
solemn feast.
8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of
Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand
from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
9 Her gates are sunk into
the ground; he hath destroyed and
broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is
no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
10 The elders of the daughter
of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up
dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the
virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver
is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children
and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they
swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured
out into their mothers' bosom.
13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I
liken to thee, O daughter of
Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of
Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and
they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have
seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag
their head at the daughter of
Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty,
The joy of the whole earth?
16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they
hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this
is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
17 The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled
his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and
hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath
set up the horn of thine adversaries.
18 Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of the daughter of
Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself
no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches
pour out thine heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up thy
hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in
the top of every street.
20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall
the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and
the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 The young and the old lie on the ground
in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast
slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so
that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I
have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
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