18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceful mansion, And in habitations secure,

And in resting places undisturbed.

19 But the hail shall fall, and the forest be brought down; And the city shall be laid level with the plain.

20 Blessed are ye, who sow your seed in every well-watered place ; Who send forth the foot of the ox and the ass.

CHAP. XXXIII.

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1 WO unto thee, thou spoiler, who hast not been spoiled thyself;

And thou plunderer, who hast not been plundered :
When thou hast ceased to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled;

When thou art weary of plundering, they shall plunder thee.

O JEHOVAH, have mercy on us; we have trusted in thee; Be thou our strength every morning;

Even our salvation in the time of distress.

From thy terrible voice the peoples fled;

When thou didst raise thyself up, the nations were dispersed. 4 But your spoil shall be gathered, as the locust gathereth;

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As the catterpillar runneth to and fro, so shall they run, and seize it.

JEHOVAH is exalted; yea, he dwelleth on high:

He hath filled Sion with judgement and justice.

6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, The possession of continued salvation;

The fear of JEHOVAH, this shall be thy treasure.

Behold the mighty men raise a grievous cry;

The messengers of peace weep bitterly.

8 The high ways are desolate; the traveller ceaseth:

He hath broken the covenant; he hath rejected the offered

cities;

Of men he maketh no account.

9 The land mourneth, it languisheth ;

Libanus is put to shame, it withereth :

Sharon is become like a desert;

And Bashan and Carmel are stripped of their beauty.

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Now will I arise, saith JEHOVAH;

Now will I lift myself up on high; now will I be exalted. 11 Ye shall conceive chaff; ye shall bring forth stubble ;

And my spirit like fire shall consume you.

12 And the peoples shall be burned, as the lime is burned; As the thorns are cut up, and consumed in the fire.

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Hear, O ye that are afar off, my doings;

And acknowledge, O ye that are near, my power. 14 The sinners in Sion are struck with dread; Terror hath seized the hypocrites :

Who among us can abide this consuming fire?

Who among us can abide these continued burnings ?

15 He who walketh in perfect righteousness, and speaketh right

things;

Who detesteth the lucre of oppression;

Who shaketh his hands from bribery;

Who stoppeth his ears to the proposal of blood-shed;
Who shutteth his eyes against the appearance of evil :

16 His dwelling shall be in the high places;

The strong holds of the rocks shall be his lofty fortress:
His bread shall be duly furnished; his waters shall not fail.

17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty;

They shall see thine own land far extended. 18 Thine heart shall reflect on the past terror:

Where is now the accomptant? where the weigher of tribute? Where is he, that numbered the towers ?

19 Thou shalt see no more that barbarous people;

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The people of a deep speech, which thou couldst not hear; And of a stammering tongue, which thou couldst not understand. Thou shalt see Sion, the city of our solemn feasts;

Thine eyes shall behold Jerusalem,

The quiet habitation, the tabernacle unshaken :

Whose stakes shall not be plucked up for ever,

And of whose cords none shall be broken.

21 But the glorious name of JEHOVAH shall be unto us, A place of confluent streams, of broad rivers;

Which no oared ship shall pass,

Neither shall any mighty vessel go through.

22 For JEHOVAH is our judge; JEHOVAH is our law-giver: JEHOVAH is our king: he shall save us.

23 Thy sails are loose; they cannot make them fast;

Thy mast is not firm; they cannot spread the ensign.
Then shall a copious spoil be divided;

Even the lame shall seize the prey.

24 Neither shall the inhabitant say, I am disabled with sickness : The people, that dwelleth therein, is freed from the punishment of their iniquity.

CHAP. XXXIV.

1 Draw near, O ye nations, and hearken;

And attend unto me, O ye peoples!

Let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof:

The world, and all that spring from it.

2 For the wrath of JEHOVAH is kindled against all the nations; And his anger against all the orders thereof:

He hath devoted them; he hath given them up to slaughter.

3 And their slain shall be cast out;

And from their carcases their stink shall ascend;

And the mountains shall melt down with their blood.

4 And all the host of heaven shall waste away :
And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll:
And all their host shall wither;

As the withered leaf falleth from the vine,
And as the blighted fruit from the fig-tree.

5 For my sword is made bare in the heavens :
Behold, on Edom it shall descend;

And on the people justly by me devoted to destruction. 6 The sword of JEHOVAH is glutted with blood;

It is pampered with fat:

With the blood of lambs, and of goats;

With the fat of the reins of rams;

For JEHOVAH celebrateth a sacrifice in Botsrah,

And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

7 And the wild goats shall fall down with them;

And the bullocks, together with the bulls :

And their own land shall be drunken with their blood,

And their dust shall be enriched with fat.

8 For it is the day of vengeance to JEHOVAH:

The year of recompence to the defender of the cause of Sion.

9 And her torrents shall be turned into pitch,

And her dust into sulphur;

And her whole land shall become burning pitch: 10 By night or by day it shall not be extinguished; For ever shall her smoke ascend:

From generation to generation she shall lie desert; To everlasting ages no one shall pass through her ; 11 But the pelican and the porcupine shall inherit her;

And the owl and the raven shall inhabit there:

And He shall stretch over her the line of devastation,

And the plummet of emptiness over her scorched plains, 12 No more shall they boast the renown of the kingdom; And all her princes shall utterly fail.

13 And in her palaces shall spring up thorns;

The nettle and the bramble, in her fortresses:
And she shall become an habitation for dragons,

A court for the daughters of the ostrich.

14 And the jackals and the mountain-cats shall meet one another;
And the satyr shall call to his fellow :
There also the screech-owl shall pitch;
And shall find for herself a place of rest.

15 There shall the night-raven make her nest, and lay her eggs; And she shall hatch them, and gather her young under her

shadow:

There also shall the vultures be gathered together;

Every one of them shall join her mate.

16 Consult ye the book of JEHOVAH, and read:

Not one of these shall be missed;

Not a female shall lack her mate:

For the mouth of JEHOVAH hath given the command;
And his spirit itself hath gathered them.

17 And he hath cast the lot for them;

And his hand hath meted out their portion by the line :
They shall possess the land for a perpetual inheritance;
From generation to generation shall they dwell therein.

CHAP. XXXV. 1 THE desert, and the waste, shall be glad :
And the wilderness shall rejoice, and flourish:

2 Like the rose s all it beautifully flourish;

And the well-watered plain of Jordan shall rejoice:
The glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it,
The beauty of Carmel and of Sharon;

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These shall behold the glory of Jehovah,
The majesty of our God.

Strengthen ye the feeble hands,

And confirm ye the tottering knees.

4 Say ye to the faint-hearted; Be ye strong; Fear ye not; behold your God!

Vengeance will come; the retribution of God: He himself will come, and will deliver you. 5 Then shall be unclosed the eyes of the blind And the ears of the deaf shall be opened: 6 Then shall the lame bound like the hart,

;

And the tongue of the dumb shall sing:
For in the wilderness shall burst forth waters,
And torrents in the desert:

7 And the glowing sand shall become a pool,
And the thirsty soil bubbling springs:

And in the haunt of dragons shall spring forth
The grass, with the reed, and the bulrush.

8 And a highway shall be there;

And it shall be called the way of holiness:

No unclean person shall pass through it:

But He himself shall be with them, walking in the way,
And the foolish shall not err therein.

9 No lion shall be there;

Nor shall the tyrant of the beasts come up

Neither shall he be found there;

But the redeemed shall walk in it.

thither:

10 Yea the ransomed of JEHOVAH shall return;

They shall come to Sion with triumph;

And perpetual gladness shall crown their heads.
Joy and gladness shall they obtain ;

And sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

CHAP. XXXVI. 1 IN the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Senacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fenced cities of 2 Judah, and took them. And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh, from Lachish to Jerusalem, to the king Hezekiah, with a great body of forces: and he presented himself at the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway that leads to the fuller's field. 3 Then came out unto him Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was