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And the leopard shall lie down with the kid:

And the calf, and the young lion, and the fatling shall come

together;

And a little child shall lead them.

7 And the heifer and the she-bear shall feed together;

Together shall their young ones lie down ;

And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

8 And the suckling shall play upon the hole of the aspic;
And upon the den of the basilisk shall the new-weaned child
lay his hand.

9 They shall not hurt, nor destroy, in all my holy mountain;
For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of JEHOVAH,
As the waters that cover the depths of the sea.
10 And it shall come to pass in that day,

The root of Jesse, which standeth for an ensign to the peoples,
Unto him shall the nations repair,

And his resting-place shall be glorious.

11 And it shall come to pass in that day,

JEHOVAH shall again the second time put forth his hand,

To recover the remnant of his people;

That remaineth, from Assyria, and from Egypt;

And from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam ;

And from Shinear, and from Hamath, and from the western

regions.

12 And he shall lift up a signal to the nations;

And he shall gather the outcasts of Israel,
And the dispersed of Judah shall he collect,
From the four extremities of the earth.

15 And the jealousy of Ephraim shall cease;
And the enmity of Judah shall be no more:
Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah;

And Judah shall not be at enmity with Ephraim.

14 But they shall invade the borders of the Philistines westward : Together shall they spoil the children of the east:

On Edom and Moab they shall lay their hand;

And the sons of Ammon shall obey them.

15 And JEHOVAH shall smite with a drought the tongue of the E

gyptian sea;

And he shall shake his hand over the river with his vehement

wind:

And he shall strike it into seven streams,

And make them pass over it dry-shod.

16 And there shall be a high-way for the remnant of his people; Which shall remain from Assyria:

As it was unto Israel,

In the day when he came up from the land of Egypt.

CHAP. XII. 1 AND in that day thou shalt say :

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I will give thanks unto thee, O JEHOVAH: for though thou hast been angry with me,

Thine anger is turned away,

and thou hast comforted me.

Behold, God is my salvation;

I will trust, and not be afraid :

For my strength, and my song, is JEHOVAH;

And he is become unto me salvation.

3 And when ye shall draw waters with joy from the fountains of 4 salvation; in that day ye shall say:

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Give ye thanks to JEHOVAH; call upon his name;

Make known among the peoples his mighty deeds:
Record ye, how highly his name is exalted.

Sing ye JEHOVAH; for he hath wrought a stupendous work:
This is made manifest in all the earth.

Cry aloud, and shout for joy, O inhabitress of Sion;

For great in the midst of thee is the Holy One of Israel.

CHAP. XIII. 1 THE ORACLE CONCERNING BABYLON WHICH

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WAS REVEALED TO ISAIAH, THE SON OF AMOTS.

UPON a lofty mountain erect the standard;
Exalt the voice; beckon with the hand;

That they may enter the gates of princes.

s I have given a charge to mine enrolled warriors;

I have even called my strong ones to execute my wrath;
Those that exult in my greatness.

4 A sound of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people; A sound of the tumult of kingdoms, of nations gathered to

gether!

JEHOVAH, God of Hosts, mustereth the host for the battle.

5 They come from a distant land, from the end of the heavens; JEHOVAH, and the instruments of his wrath, to destroy the

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whole land.

Howl ye, for the day of JEHOVAH is at hand:

As a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

7 Therefore shall all hands be slackened;

And every heart of mortal shall melt; and they shall be ter

rified:

8 Torments and pangs shall seize them;

As a woman in travail, they shall be pained:

They shall look one upon another with astonishment :

Their countenances shall be like flames of fire.

9 Behold, the day of JEHOVAH cometh, inexorable; Even indignation, and burning wrath:

To make the land a desolation;

And her sinners he shall destroy from out of her.

10 Yea the stars of heaven, and the constellations thereof,

Shall not send forth their light:

The sun is darkened at his going forth,

And the moon shall not cause her light to shine. 11 And I will visit the world for its evil,

And the wicked for their iniquity:

And I will put an end to the arrogance of the proud; And I will bring down the haughtiness of the terrible. 12 I will make a mortal more precious than fine gold; Yea a man, than the rich ore of Ophir.

13 Wherefore I will make the heavens tremble:

And the earth shall be shaken out of her place :
In the indignation of JEHOVAH God of Hosts;
And in the day of his burning anger.

14 And the remnant shall be as a roe chased;

And as sheep, when there is none to gather them together; They shall look, every one towards his own people; And they shall flee, every one to his own land. 15 Every one, that is overtaken, shall be thrust through: And all that are collected in a body shall fall by the sword. 16 And their infants shall be dashed before their eyes: Their houses shall be plundered, and their wives ravished. 17 Behold, I raise up against them the Medes;

Who shall hold silver of no account;

And as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

18 Their bows shall dash the young men ;

And on the fruit of the womb they shall have no mercy :
Their eye shall have no pity even on the children.

19 And Babylon shall become, she that was the beauty of kingdoms,

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The glory of the pride of the Chaldeans,

As the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah by the hand of God. 20 It shall not be inhabited for ever;

Nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation :
Neither shall the Arabian pitch his tent there:

Neither shall the shepherds make their folds there.

21 But there shall the wild beasts of the deserts lodge ;
And howling monsters shall fill their houses:

And there shall the daughters of the ostrich dwell;
And there shall the satyrs hold their revels.

22 And wolves shall howl to one another in their palaces ;
And dragons in their voluptuous pavilions.

And her time is near to come;

And her days shall not be prolonged.

CHAP. XIV.

1 FOR JEHOVAH will have compassion on Jacob.

And will yet choose Israel.

And he shall give them rest upon their own land:

And the stranger shall be joined unto them,

And shall cleave unto the house of Jacob.

2 And the nations shall take them, and bring them into their own place;

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And the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of JE

HOVAH,

As servants, and as handmaids:

And they shall take them captive, whose captives they were;
And they shall rule over their oppressors.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that JEHOVAH shall give thee rest from thine affliction, and from thy disquiet, and 4 from the hard servitude, which was laid upon thee: and thou shalt pronounce this parable upon the king of Babylon; and shalt say:

HOW hath the oppressor ceased! the exactress of gold

ceased!

5 JEHOVAH hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of

the rulers.

6 He that smote the peoples in wrath, with a stroke unremitted : He that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none

hindereth.

7 The whole earth is at rest, is quiet; they burst forth into a joy

ful shout:

8 Even the fir-trees rejoice over thee, the cedars of Libanus:

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Since thou art fallen, no feller hath come up against us.

Hades from beneath is moved because of thee, to meet thee at thy coming:

He rouseth for thee the mighty dead, all the great chiefs of the earth;

He maketh to rise up from their thrones, all the kings of the nations.

10 All of them shall accost thee, and shall say unto thee:

Art thou, even thou too, become weak as we? art thou made

like unto us?

11 Is then thy pride brought down to the grave; the sound of thy sprightly instruments ?

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Is the vermin become thy couch, and the earth-worm thy cov ering ?

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the

Morning!

Art cut down to the earth, thou that didst subdue the nations! 13 Yet thou didst say in thy heart: I will ascend the heavens ; Above the stars of God I will exalt my throne;

And I will sit upon the mount of the divine presence, on the sides of the north:

14 I will ascend above the highths of the clouds: I will be like the

Most High.

15 But thou shalt be brought down to the grave, to the sides of the

pit,

16 Those that see thee shall look attentively at thee; they shall well consider thee:

Is this the man, that made the earth to tremble; that shook the

kingdoms ?

17 That made the world like a desert; that destroyed the cities? That never dismissed his captives to their own home?

18 All the kings of the nations, all of them,

Lie down in glory, each in his own sepulchre :

19 But thou art cast out of the grave, as the tree abominated; Clothed with the slain, with the pierced by the sword,

With them that go down to the stones of the pit; as a trodden

carcase.

20 Thou shalt not be joined unto them in burial;

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