And the rapacious bird shall summer upon

it:

And every wild beast of the earth shall winter upon it.

7 At that time shall a gift be brought to JEHOVAH the God of

Hosts,

From a people stretched out in length, and smoothed;

And from a people terrible from the first, and hitherto ;

A nation meted out by line, and trodden down,

Whose land the rivers have nourished;

To the place of the name of JEHOVAH God of Hosts, to mount Sion.

CHAP. XIX.

1 THE ORACLE CONCERING EGYPT.

BEHOLD, JEHOVAH rideth

On a swift cloud, and cometh to Egypt!

And the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence; And the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of her. 2 And I will excite Egyptians against Egyptians,

And they shall fight, every man against his brother, and every man against his neighbour :

City against city, kingdom against kingdom.

.3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of her;

And I will swallow up her counsel:

And they shall seek to the idols, and to the sorcerers,

And to the necromancers, and to the wizards.

4 And I will give up Egypt bound into the hands of cruel lords;" And a fierce king shall rule over them: Saith the Lord JEHOVAH God of Hosts. 5 Then shall the waters fail from the sea, And the river shall be wasted and dried

6 And the streams shall become putrid;

up.

The canals of Egypt shall be emptied and dried up.

The reed and the lotus shall wither:

7 The meadow by the canal, even at the mouth of the canal,

And all that is sown by the canal,

Shall wither, be blasted, and be no more.

8 And the fishers shall mourn, and lament;

All those that cast the hook in the river,

And those, that spread nets on the face of the waters, shall lan

guish.

9 And they that work the fine flax shall be confounded,

M

And they that weave net-work.

10 And her stores shall be broken up;

Even of all that make a gain of pools for fish.

11 Surely, the princes of Zoan are fools ;

The wise counsellors of Pharaoh have counselled a brutish counsel.

How will ye boast unto Pharaoh :

I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings ? 12 Where are they; where, thy wise men? let them come; And let them tell thee now, and let them declare,

What JEHOVAH God of Hosts hath determined against Egypt. 13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived;

They have caused Egypt to err, even the chief pillars of her tribes.

14 JEHOVAH hath mingled in the midst of them a spirit of giddi

ness;

And they have caused Egypt to err in all her works,

As a drunkard staggereth in his vomit :

15 Nor shall there be any work in Egypt,

Which the head or tail, the branch or rush, may perform..

16 In that day the Egyptians shall be as women:

And they shall tremble and fear,

At the shaking of the hand of JEHOVAH God of Hosts,
Which he shall shake over them.

17 And the land of Judah shall become a terror to the Egyptians:

If any one mention it unto them, they shall fear;
Because of the counsel of JEHOVAH God of Hosts,
Which he hath counselled against them.

18 In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt,
Speaking the language of Canaan,

And swearing unto JEHOVAH God of Hosts:

One of them shall be called the City of the Sun. 19 In that day, there shall be an altar to JEHOVAH, In the midst of the land of Egypt;

And a pillar by the border thereof to JEHOVAH 20 And it shall be for a sign, and for a witness,

TO JEHOVAH God of Hosts in the land of Egypt :
That, when they cried unto JEHOVAH because of
He sent unto them a saviour, and a vindicator, and he deliver-

oppressors,

ed them.

21 And JEHOVAH shall be known to Egypt,

And the Egyptians shall know JEHOVAH in that day;
And they shall serve him with sacrifice and oblation,

And they shall vow a vow unto JEHOVAH, and shall perform it, 22 And JEHOVAH shall smite Egypt, smiting and healing her ;

And they shall turn unto JEHOVAH, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.

23 In that day, there shall be a high way from Egypt to Assyria; And the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian in

to Assyria:

And the Egyptian shall worship with the Assyrian. 24 In that day, Israel shall be reckoned a third,

Together with Egypt and Assyria;

A blessing in the midst of the earth:

25 Whom JEHOVAH God of Hosts hath blessed, saying, Blessed be my people, Egypt;

And Assyria, the work of my hands;

And Israel, mine inheritance.

CHAP. XX. 1 IN the year, that Tharthan marched to Ashdod ; whither he was sent by Sargon king of Assyria; (and he 2 fought against Ashdod, and took it:) at that time JEHOVAH spake by Isaiah, the son of Amots, saying:

Go, loose the sackcloth from off thy loins;

And put off thy shoes from thy feet.

3 And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. And JEHOVAH said:

As my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot;

A sign and a prodigy of three years,

Upon Egypt and upon Cush:

So shall the king of Assyria lead

The captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Cush,

The young and the old, naked and barefoot;

With their hind-parts discovered, to the shame of the Egyp

tians.

5 And they [of Ashdod] shall be terrified, and ashamed of

6

Cush in whom they trusted,

And of Egypt, in whom they gloried.

And the inhabitant of this country shall say, in that day:
Behold, such is the object of our trust,

To whom we fled for succour,

That we might be delivered from the king of Assyria!
How then shall we escape?

CHAP. XXI.

1 THE ORACLE CONCERNING

THE SEA.

THE DESERT OF

LIKE the southern tempests violently rushing along, From the desert he cometh, from the terrible country. 2 A dreadful vision! it is revealed unto me:

The plunderer is plundered, and the destroyer is destroyed! Go up, O Elam; form the siege, O Media!

I have put an end to all her vexations.

3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain:

Anguish hath seized me, as the anguish of a woman in travail. I am convulsed, so that I cannot hear; I am astonished, so that I cannot see.

4 My heart is bewildered; terrors have scared me:

The evening, for which I longed, hath he turned into horror. 5 The table is prepared, the watch is set; they eat, they drink Rise, O ye princes; anoint the shield.

6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me:

Go, set a watchman on his station;

Whatever he shall see let him report unto thee. 7 And he saw a chariot with two riders;

A rider on an ass, a rider on a camel.

And he observed diligently with extreme diligence.
8 And he that looked out on the watch cried aloud ;
O my Lord, I keep my station all the day long;
And on my ward have I continued every night.

9 And behold, here cometh a man, one of the two riders :
And he answereth, and sayeth, Babylon is fallen, is fallen;
And all the graven idols of her gods are broken to the ground.
O my threshing, and the corn of my floor!

10

What I have heard from JEHOVAH God of Hosts, the God of

Watchman, what from the night?
Watchman, what from the night?

12 The watchman replieth :

The morning cometh, and also the night.
If ye will inquire, inquire ye: come again.

13

0

THE ORACLE CONCERNING ARABIA.

IN the forest, at even, shall ye lodge,
ye caravans of Dedan!

14 To meet the thirsty bring ye forth water,
O Inhabitants of the southern country;
With bread prevent the fugitive.

15 For from the face of the sword they shall flee:
From the face of the drawn sword;

And from the face of the bended bow;
And from the face of the grievous war.

16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me:
Within yet a year, as the years of an hireling,
Shall all the glory of Kedar be consumed :

17 And the remainder of the number of the mighty bow-men,
Of the sons of Kedar, shall be diminished:

For JEHOVAH the God of Israel hath spoken it.

CHAP. XXII.

VISION.

1 THE ORACLE CONCERNING THE VALLEY OF

WHAT aileth thee now, that all thine inhabitants are gone

up to the house-tops ?

20 thou, that wast full of noise,

A tumultuous city, a joyous city!

Thy slain were not slain by the sword,

Neither did they die in battle.

S All thy leaders have gone off together; they are fled from the

bow;

All that were found in thee are fled together, they are gone far

away.

4 Wherefore I said: Turn away from me; I will weep bitterly: Strive not to comfort me for the desolation of the daughter of

my people.