18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.

19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.

20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant " Eliakim

the son of Hilkiah:

21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so dhe shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.

23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be 9 for a glorious throne to his father's house. 24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all 7 vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.

25 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, 70r, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: k for the LORD hath spoken it.

instruments of viole hver. 23. i ch. 13. 1. Rev. 17. 2 & 18. 3. 9. k ch. 1. 20.

Zech. 14. 20. ch. 13. 1.

n Jer. 25. 22

& 27.3

& 47. 4. Eze. 26. 228. 26. Am. 1. 9. Joel 3 4 Zech. 9, 2-4 o ver. 12

8 Heb. old.
9 Heb. silent.

p1 Ch. 13. 5.
10 Heb.
perverte th
the face
thereof.

4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins. 5 As at the report concerning Egypt, 11 Or, prince. so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.

6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.

q Eze. 2. 3. Hos. 4. 9.

Ge. 41. 45 marg.

The burden of Tyre.

10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more 2strength.

11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment 3against 4 the merchant city, to destroy the 5 strong holds thereof.

12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.

13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.

14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.

15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten fseventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years 6 shall Tyre sing as an harlot.

16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be 'holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for 8 durable clothing.

CHAPTER 24

BEHOLD, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and 10 turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the 11 priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. 3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.

4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, 12 the haughty people of the earth do languish.

5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, "broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

a ch. 16. 8, 9. Joel 1. 10, 12.

& P. 72. 18. Jer. 7. 34. deh. 37. 26.

Jer. 51. 37. e ch. 31. 11.

feh. 14. 24, 25. ch. 27. 5.

A ch. 4. 8.
ch. 17. 6.
jch. 1. 9.
k ch. 35. 10.

I ch. 2. 2, 3.

11 There is a crying for wine in them Pr. 63. 5. streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone..

12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and Jas the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.

14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.

15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.

Pro. 9. 2
Mt. 22. 4.

Lk. 14. 16.

1 Or, valleys.

n

Mal. 1. o ch. 11. 11 2 Heb. swallow up. 3 Heb. wing. 4 Heb, covered.

ch. 28. 20. Heb. Leanness to me, or, My secret to me.

9 ch. 21. 2.

1 Co. 15. 54.

s Rev. 7. 17.

Jer. 16. 13,44 Ge. 49. 18.

u ch. 2. 11.

ch. 26. 8.
Tit. 2 13.

16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, 5 My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacher-Pa ously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. 18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and - the foundations of the earth do shake. 19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.

20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be reinoved like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

21 And it shall come to pass din that day, that the LORD shall 8 punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

22 And they shall be gathered together, 9 as prisoners are gathered in the 10 pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be 11 visited.

23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and 14 before his ancients gloriously.

9. 14. ch. 15. 1.

x Ge. 7. 11.

2 Pa. 18. 7.

6 Or, threshed.

7 Or,
threshed in
Madmenah.
ch. 10. 31.
a ch. 19. 14.
b ch. 1. 8.
c ch. 26. 5.

d ch. 2 11.
8 Heb.
visit upon.
P. 76. 12.
9 Heb.
If ch. 2. 11.

with the
gathering

of prisoners. 10 Or, dungeon.

ch. 60, 18. 11 Or, found wanting.

20.

Ps. 118. 19, Mt. 24. 29. 12 Heb. truths.

Rev. 11. 15.

He. 12 22.

13 Heb.

peace, peace.

14 Or, there shall be glory before his ancients, 15 Or, thought, or, imagination, lch. 45. 17. m ch. 12. 2. 16 Heb. the

rock of ages.

LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; n ch. 25. 12.

and his salvation.

for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

2 For thou hast made dof a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.

4 For thou hast been 9 a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, ha refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people "at feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.

7 And he will 2 destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.

8He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.

9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; "we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, "we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be 6 trodden down under him, even as straw is 7 trodden down for the dunghill.

11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the 1 Heb, bloods. ground; he bringeth it even to the dust. 6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.

8 Yea, din the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

9 With my soul have I desired thee & in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteous

ness.

10k Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.

11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.

12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works 6in us.

13 O LORD our God, Pother lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but 9 by thee only will we make mention of thy name.

14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.

16 LORD, "in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a 10prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

a ch. 2. 11. ver. 2, 12, 13. Ps. 58. 2. P. 74. 13, 14.

ch. 51. 9. Rev. 12. 3 2 Or, crossing like a bar.

d ch. 64. 5.

e Ne. 1. 11. fch. 5, 1 & 26, 1.

Ps. 80. 8. ch. 1. 22. h Ps. 77. 2. Cant. 3. 1.

i Pa. 121. 4, 5. ch. 9. 18 3 Or, march

against.

k Ecc. 8. 12.

ch. 25. 4.

m Ps. 143. 10. n ch. 37. 31. Hos. 14. 5. 4 Or, toward thy people. 5 Heb.

r ch. 17. 8,
2 Ki. 23.
6-11
Ecc. 9. 5.

9 Or,
sun images.
t ch. 9. 3.

u ch. 7. 21-25

& 17. 2 & 32. 14. v Hos. 5. 15.

10 Heb.
secret speech.
w Deu. 32, 28.
Jer. 8. 7.

y Deu. 32. 6.
ch. 17. 7.
z ver. 1.

17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD. 18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought ch. 13. 8. forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. 19 dThy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

20 Come, my people, 9 enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

a ch. 11. 15. ¿ 2 Ch. 7. 8. e P. 17. 14.

d Dan. 12 2.

Eph. 5. 14.
Lev. 25. 9.
Mt. 24. 31.

Rev. 11. 15. fch. 16. 3.

Mt. 6. 8.
ch. 2. 2

Zech. 14. 16.
i ver. 3.
Mi. 1. 3.
Jude 14.

21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of k ver. 4.

Israel shall be gathered.

the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

CHAPTER 27

aTN that day the LORD with his sore IN and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the 2piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

2 In that day fsing ye unto her, "A vineyard of red wine.

3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would 3go through them, I would burn them together.

5 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.

6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

7 Hath he smitten him, 5 as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?

8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: 8 he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. 9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder," the groves and images shall not stand up.

10 Yet the defenced city shall be deso late, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: "there shall the calf And there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for "it is a people of no understanding; therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of "the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

CHAPTER 28

W drunkards of Ephraim, whose & glo

OE to the crown of pride, to the

rious beauty is a fading flower, which

The woe on Ephraim,

are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine !

2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of "hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden 3 under feet: 4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he 5 eateth it up.

1 Heb. broken

a ch. 30, 30 & 32. 19.

2 Heb.

a

treading down to it. 3 Heb. with feet 4 Or, when he shall make you to understand doctrine.

5 Heb. swalloweth

6 ch. 2 11.

c 2 Sn. 5. 20. 1 Ch. 14. 11. d Jos. 10. 10, 12. Or,

2 8a. 5. 25. 1 Ch. 14. 16. e Judg. 5. 8. f Pro. 20. 1. Hos. 4. 11. ch. 19. 14 ch.56. 10, 12. ch. 10. 23.

5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, 6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate. 7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in 7 Or, vision, they stumble in judgment.

Job 34. 10.
Jer. 6. 10.

6 Heb. the
hearing?

hath been. 8 Or, the wheat in the

principal place, and barley in the appointed place. 9 Or, spelt. Eze. 4. 9. 10 Heb. border?

8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. 9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand 6 doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. 10 For precept 7must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, fine upon line; here a little, and there a 11 Or, And little:

11 For with 12stammering lips and another tongue 13 will he speak to this people.

he bindeth it in such sort as his God doth teach him.

12 To whom he said, This is the rest 1 Co. 14. 21. wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

12 Heb. stammerings of lips. 13 Or, he hath spoken. m Ps. 92. 5.

13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be 140, 0 broken, and snared, and taken.

14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, "ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

15 Because ye have said, We have made & covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing Scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

Jer. 32. 19, n ver. 22. ch. 29. 20.

Ariel, that is, the lion of God.

o ver. 2, 7. Eze. 43 15, 16.

15 Or,
of the city.
p 2 Sa. 5. 9.
Heb.

cut off the heads [of g1 Pe. 26 Ge. 49. 24.

Pa. 118. 22. ch. 8. 14. 8 Lk. 23. 35

16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation "a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: "he that be- t1 Co. 3. IL lieveth shall not make haste. Ro. 10. 11.

v 2 Ki. 21. 13. w ch. 8. 19.

17 Judgment also will I lay to "the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and 17 Heb. peep, the hail shall sweep away the refuge of

or, chirp.

and on the city Ariel.

lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be 2 trodden down by it.

19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth das in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

24 Doth the plowman plow all day to Sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the 9rie in their 10 place?

26 11 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

28 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

CHAPTER 29

14 OE to "Ariel, to Ariel, 15 the city

Where David dwelt, add ye year

to year; let them 16 kill sacrifices.

2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.

3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.

4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of "one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall 17 whisper out of the dust.

7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her k munition, and that distress her, shall be as am P. 73, 20. dream of a night vision.

Job 20. 8.

n ch. 19. 25 & 60. 21.

2 Co. 5. 5.

Ex. 24. 10. ch. 41. 17 & 45, 3

& 48. 1. Lk. 1. 68. Gal. 6. 16.

8 It shall even be as when an hungry. Mt. 6. 9. man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion. 9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; 2 cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, "but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your 4rulers, the seers hath he covered.

2 Or
take your
pleasure,
and riot.

3 Heb.
know under-
ch. 19. 14.
standing.

rch. 51. 21.

Ro. 11. 8.

t ch. 29. 15.

eh. 6. 10. v ch. 25. 7. 4 Heb. heads.

15.

11 "And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a 5 book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is Deu. 29. 19. learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee:2 Co. 3. 14, and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: 12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am notch. 31. 1. learned.

13 Wherefore the Lord said, "Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

14 Therefore, behold, I will 6 proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? 16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay for k shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

17 Is it not yet a very little while, and "Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

5 Or, letter. y ch. 8. 16. Dan. 12. 4.

a Nu. 27. 21. 1 Ki. 22. 7. Jer. 21. 2.

ch. 20. 5.

Jer. 37, 5, 7.
Eze. 33. 31.

Mt. 15. 8, 9. Mk. 7. 6, 7. d Jer. 2. 26.

Col. 2. 22. 6 Heb. add. fch. 13. 1. 9 ch. 51. 9.

Eze. 29. 3.

Deu. 8. 15.

i Jer. 49. 7. Ob. 8.

1 Co. 1. 19. jeh. 30. 1.

7 Or, to her.

k ch. 45. 9.

Hab. 2, 2. 8 Heb. the latter day.

m Deu, 32. 20. ch. 1. 4. ver. 1.

n ch. 10. 34

ch. 32. 15. P1 Sa. 9. 9.

9 ch. 2. 11.

r ch. 35. 5. Mt. 11. 5.

Am. 2. 12

18 And in that day "shall the deaf Jer. 11. 21. hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

& 7. 13. Mi. 2. 6.

1 Ki. 22. 13.

22 Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax_pale.

23 But when he seeth his children, "the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.

24 They also that erred in spirit shall 3 come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.

WOR

CHAPTER 30

TOE to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that "cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, "that they may add sin to sin:

2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not "asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. 4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

5 dThey were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

6 The burden of the beasts of the south into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried 7 concerning this, Their strength is to sit still

8 Now go, write it before them a table, and note it in a book, that may be for 8 the time to come for ver and ever:

9 That this is a rebellious people, I children, children that will not hear law of the LORD:

10 Which say to the Pseers, See D and to the prophets, Prophesy not us right things, speak unto us smo things, prophesy deceits:

11 Get you out of the way, turn a

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the

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