The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

 1 ^aWoe unto them that decree ^bunrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

 2 To turn aside the needy from ^ajudgment, and to take away the right from the ^bpoor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

 3 And what will ye do in the day of ^avisitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

 4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

 5 ¶O ^aAssyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

 6 I will send him against an ^ahypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

 7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither ^adoth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

 8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?

 9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

 10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

 11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will ^apunish ^bthe fruit of the stout heart of the king of ^cAssyria, and the glory of his high looks.

 13 For he saith, By the ^astrength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:

 14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

 15 ^aShall the axe ^bboast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that ^cshaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.

 16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his ^afat ones leanness; and under ^bhis glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his ^athorns and his briers in one day;

 18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both ^asoul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.

 19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.

 20 ¶And it shall come to pass in ^athat day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are ^bescaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again ^cstay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

 21 The ^aremnant shall ^breturn, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.

 22 For though thy people Israel be as the ^asand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall ^breturn: ^cthe ^dconsumption ^edecreed shall overflow with righteousness.

 23 For the Lord God of hosts shall ^amake a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.

 24 ¶Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall ^asmite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of ^bEgypt.

 25 For yet a very little ^awhile, and the ^bindignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.

 26 And the Lord of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of ^aMidian at the rock of ^bOreb: and as his ^crod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of ^dEgypt.

 27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his ^aburden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the ^byoke shall be destroyed because of the ^canointing.

 28 ^aHe is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:

 29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.

 30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.

 31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.

 32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

 33 Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall lop the bough with ^aterror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the ^bhaughty shall be humbled.

 34 And he shall cut down the ^athickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall ^bby a mighty one.