27 aIn that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword

Shall bpunish cdleviathan the ||piercing serpent,

Even cdleviathan that ecrooked serpent;

And he shall slay dthe dragon that is in the sea.

2  aIn that day fsing ye unto her,

gA vineyard of red wine.

3  hI the Lord do ikeep it;

I will water it jevery moment:

Lest any bhurt it, hI will ikeep it night and day.

4  kFury is not in me:

Who would lmset the briers and thorns against me in battle?

I would ||go through them, I would mburn them together.

5  Or let him take hold of nmy strength,

oThat he may make peace with me;

And he shall make peace with me.

6  He shall cause them that come of Jacob pto take root:

Israel shall qblossom and qbud,

And fill the face of the world with fruit.

7  Hath he smitten him, †ras he smote those that smote him?

Or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?

8  rsIn measure, ||when it shooteth forth, thou wilt tdebate with it:

||He stayeth his rough wind in the day of vthe east wind.

9  wBy this therefore shall xthe iniquity of Jacob be purged;

And this is all the fruit yto take away his sin;

When he maketh all the stones of the altar as zchalkstones that are beaten in sunder,

aThe groves and ||aimages shall not stand up.

10  Yet bthe defenced city shall be desolate,

And bcthe habitation dforsaken, and left blike a wilderness:

eThere shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down,

And consume fthe branches thereof.

11  When gthe boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off:

The women come, and hset them on fire:

For iit is a people of no understanding:

Therefore khe that made them will not have mercy on them,

And klhe that formed them will shew them no favour.

12  And it shall come to pass min that day,

That the Lord shall nubeat off from othe channel of pthe river qunto the stream of Egypt,

And ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

13  And it shall come to pass min that day,

That rthe great trumpet shall be blown,

And they shall come which were sready to perish in the land of Assyria,

And tthe outcasts in the land of Egypt,

And ushall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

28 *Woe to athe crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim,

Whose bglorious beauty is a fading flower,

bWhich are con the head of the fat valleys of them that are †overcome with wine!

2  Behold, the Lord hath da mighty and strong one,

Which as a tempest of ehail and a fdestroying gstorm,

As a flood of hmighty waters goverflowing,

Shall icast down to the earth with the hand.

3  aThe crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim,

Shall be trodden †under feet:

4  And bthe glorious beauty, bwhich is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower,

And as kthe hasty fruit before the summer;

Which when he that looketh upon it seeth,

While it is yet in his hand he †eateth it up.

5  lIn that day shall the Lord of hosts be for ma crown of glory,

And for a diadem of bbeauty, 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 nto the gate.

7  But they also ohave erred through wine, and pthrough strong drink are out of the way;

qThe 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 vision, they stumble in rjudgment.

8  For sall tables are full of vomit and filthiness,

So that there is no place clean.

9  tWhom shall he teach knowledge?

And whom shall he make to understand †doctrine?

uThem that are weaned from the milk,

And drawn from the breasts.

10  For precept ||must be upon precept, precept upon precept;

vLine upon line, line upon line;

Here a little, and there a little:

11  For wwith †xstammering lips and another tongue

||Will he speak to this people.

12  To whom he said,

yThis is the rest wherewith ye may cause zthe weary to rest;

And this is athe refreshing: wyet they would not hear.

13  But the word of the Lord was unto them

bPrecept upon precept, precept upon precept;

bLine upon line, line upon line;

Here a little, and there a little;

That they might go, and cfall backward, and cbe broken,

And csnared, and ctaken.

14  Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, dye scornful men,

That rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

15  Because ye have said, We have emade a covenant with death,

And ewith hell are we at agreement;

When fthe overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us:

For gwe have made lies our refuge,

And gunder falsehood have we hid ourselves:

16  Therefore thus saith the Lord God,

hBehold, I lay in Zion for a foundation ia stone,

jA tried stone, ia precious corner stone, ka sure foundation:

hlHe that believeth shall not make haste.

17  Judgment also will I lay to bmthe line,

And righteousness to mthe plummet:

And nthe hail shall sweep away gthe refuge of lies,

And the waters shall foverflow gthe hiding place.

18  And eyour covenant with death shall be disannulled,

And eyour agreement with hell shall not stand;

fWhen the overflowing scourge shall pass through,

Then ye shall be †trodden down by it.

19  From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you:

For nnmorning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night:

And it shall be oa vexation only ||to understand pthe report.

20  For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it:

And qthe covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

21  For the Lord shall rise up ras in mount Perazim,

He shall be wroth sas in the valley of tGibeon,

That he may do his work, uhis strange work;

And bring to pass his act, his strange act.

22  Now therefore dbe ye not mockers,

Lest your bands be made strong:

For I have heard from the Lord God of hosts

wA 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 xbreak 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 ||rie in their †place?

26  ||For his God doth instruct him to ydiscretion, and doth teach him.

27  For the fitches are not threshed with za threshing instrument,

Neither is a cart awheel turned about upon the cummin;

But the fitches are aabeaten 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,

bWhich is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in cworking.

29 ||Woe to aAriel, to Ariel, ||the city bwhere David cdwelt!

Add ye year to year; let them †dkill esacrifices.

2  Yet I will distress aAriel,

And there shall be heaviness and sorrow:

And it shall be unto me as aAriel.

3  And I will ccamp against thee fround about,

And gwill lay siege against thee with ha mount,

And I will raise iforts against thee.

4  And kthou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground,

And lthy speech shall be low out of the dust,

And thy voice shall be, as of mone that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground,

And thy speech shall †mwhisper out of the dust.

5  Moreover the multitude of thy nstrangers shall be like small dust,

And the multitude of nthe terrible ones shall be oas chaff that passeth away:

Yea, it shall be pat an instant suddenly.

6  Thou shalt be qvisited of the Lord of hosts

With thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise,

With rstorm and tempest, and sthe flame of devouring fire.

7  tAnd the multitude of all the nations that fight against aAriel,

Even all that fight against her and her umunition, and that distress her,

Shall be vas a dream of a night vision.

8  It shall even be as when an hungry man vwdreameth, and, behold, he eateth;

But whe 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 xhis soul hath appetite:

So shall the multitude of all the nations be,

That fight against mount Zion.

9  Stay yourselves, and wonder;

||Cry ye out, and cry:

yThey are drunken, zbut not with wine;

They stagger, but not with strong drink.

10  For athe Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of bdeep sleep,

And hath cclosed your eyes:

The prophets and your †rulers, the seers hath he covered.

11  dAnd the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a ||book ethat is sealed,

Which men deliver to one that is learned,

Saying, Read this, I pray thee:

And he saith, I cannot; efor 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 not learned.

13  Wherefore the Lord said,

fForasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth,

And with their lips do ghonour me,

But have removed their heart far from me,

And their fear toward me is taught by hthe precept of men:

14  iTherefore, behold, †I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people,

Even a marvellous work and a wonder:

For jthe wisdom of their wise men shall perish,

And the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

15  Woe unto kthem that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord,

And their works are in the dark,

And lthey 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 mshall the work say of him that made it, He made me not?

Or shall nthe thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

17  Is it not oyet a very little while,

And pLebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field,

qAnd the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

18  And rin that day sshall the deaf hear the words of the book,

And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

19  tThe meek also †shall increase their joy in the Lord,

And uthe poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

20  For vthe terrible one wis brought to nought, and the xscorner wis consumed,

And all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

21  That make a man an offender for a word,

And lay a snare for yhim that reproveth in the gate,

And zturn aside the just afor a thing of nought.

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, bthe work of mine hands, in the midst of him,

cThey shall sanctify my name,

And sanctify the Holy One of Jacob,

And shall fear dthe God of Israel.

24  They also that erred in spirit †shall come to understanding,

And ethey that murmured shall learn fdoctrine.