Israel's triumphant song

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9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

12 How art thou fallen from heaven, "O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

13 For thou hast said in thine heart, "I will ascend into heaven, "I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.

15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms?

17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. 19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet.

20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evil doers shall never be renowned. 21 Prepare slaughter for his children for

not rise, nor possess the land, nor fil face of the world with cities.

22 For I will rise up against them, the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Ba the name, and "remnant, and son nephew, saith the LORD.

23 I will also make it a possessic the bittern, and pools of water: and sweep it with the besom of destruction, the LORD of hosts.

24 The LORD of hosts hath swor ing, Surely as I have thought, so sl come to pass; and as I have purpo shall it stand:

25 That I will break the Assyrian land, and upon my mountains tread h der foot: then shall his yoke depart fr them, and his burden depart from of shoulders.

26 This is the purpose that is pu upon the whole earth: and this is the that is stretched out upon all the nat

27 For the LORD of hosts hath posed, and who shall disannul it? a hand is stretched out, and who shall back?

28 In the year that 'king Ahaz di this burden.

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29 Rejoice not thou, whole Pal because the rod of him that smote broken: for out of the serpent's roo come forth a 'cockatrice, and his fru be a fiery flying serpent.

30 And the firstborn of the poor feed, and the needy shall lie down i ty: and I will kill thy root with and he shall slay thy remnant.

31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou Palestina, art dissolved: for there sha from the north a smoke, and 10 none. alone in his "appointed times.

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32 What shall one then answer t sengers of the nation? That the Lo founded Zion, and 'the poor of his shall 12 trust in it.

18. 19. y ch. 34. 11. Zeph. 2. 14. z ch. 10. 27.

9. 12. & 23. 13. Ps. 33. 11. Prov. 19. 21. & 21, 30. ch. 43. 13. b 2 Kings 16. 20. c 2 Chr. 26. 6, Or, adder. 10 Or, he shall not be alone. 11 Or, assemblies. f Zeph. 3. 12. Zech. 11. 11. 19 Or, betake themselves unto 2.

The desolation of Moab. [B. c. 726.] burden of Moab. Because in the ght Ar of Moab is laid waste, and ht to silence; because in the night Moab is laid waste, and brought to

He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, zh places, to weep: Moab shall howl ebo, and over Medeba: on all their shall be baldness, and every beard cut

their streets they shall gird themwith sackcloth: on the tops of their and in their streets, every one shall 'weeping abundantly.

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nd Heshbon shall cry, 'and Elealeh; oice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: re the armed soldiers of Moab shall ; his life shall be grievous unto him. ly heart shall cry out for Moab; 'his s shall flee unto Zoar, a "heifer of ears old: for 'by the mounting up of with weeping shall they go it up; for way of Horonaim they shall raise up f 'destruction.

or the waters of Nimrim shall be te: for the hay is withered away, ss faileth, there is no green thing. herefore the abundance they have got d that which they have laid up, shall rry away to the "brook of the willows. or the cry is gone round about the of Moab; the howling thereof unto and the howling thereof unto Beer

r the waters of Dimon shall be full of for I will bring 'more upon Dimon, pon him that escapeth of Moab, and he remnant of the land.

CHAPTER XVI.

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The haughtiness of Moab.

*SEND ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from 'Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

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3 3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.

4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

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5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.

6 We have heard of the 'pride of Moab; he is very proud; even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

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7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye 'mourn; surely they are stricken.

8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

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9 Therefore "I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, "O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.

ride, 7 and hence his desolation and distress. 13 The

there be shouting: the treaders shall tread

Luke 1. 33.

CHAP. XVI. — a 2 Kings 3. 4. b 2 Kings 14. 7. 'Or, Petra. Heb. a rock. 2 Or, a nest forsaken. c Num. 21. 13. "Heb. Bring. • Heb. wringer. Heb. the treaders down. • Or, prepared. d Dan. 7. 14, 27. Mic. 4. 7. e Ps. 72. 2. & 96. 13. & 98. 9. f Jer. 48. 29. Zeph. 2. 10. h Jer. 48. 20. i 2 Kings 3. 25. mutter. 1 ver. 9. • Or, plucked up. m Jer. 48. 32, n ch. 15. 4. Or, the alarm is fallen upon, &c.

Judgments upon Syria.

out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.

11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh.

12 ¶ And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.

13 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.

14 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and 10 feeble.

Israel's enemies threa

7 At that day shall a man look to Maker, and his eyes shall have respe the Holy One of Israel.

8 And he shall not look to the altar work of his hands, neither shall respec which his fingers have made, either groves, or the 'images.

9¶ In that day shall his strong cit as a forsaken bough, and an uppe branch, which they left because of the dren of Israel: and there shall be d tion.

10 Because thou hast forgotten th of thy salvation, and hast not been m of the rock of thy strength, therefore thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt with strange slips:

11 In the day shalt thou make thy to grow, and in the morning shalt thou thy seed to flourish: but the harvests a heap in the day of grief and of des

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12 Woe to the multitude of people, which make a noise like the of the seas; and to the rushing of n that make a rushing like the rushi mighty waters!

13 The nations shall rush like the ing of many waters: but God shall * them, and they shall flee far off, and be chased as the chaff of the mou before the wind, and like a rolling before the whirlwind.

14 And behold at eventide trouble before the morning he is not. This portion of them that spoil us, and the them that rob us.

q ch. 15. 2. r ch. 21. 16. 10 Or, Am. 1. 3. Zech. 9. 1. 2 Kings 16. 9. b Jer. d ch. 10. 16. e Jer. 51. 33. f ch.24. 13.

h P's. 68, 19. * Or, removed in the day

k P's. 9. 5. CHAP. XVIII.-a ch. 20. 4, 5. b ver. 7.

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r so the LORD said unto me, I will y rest, and I will consider in my gplace like a clear heat upon herbs, e a cloud of dew in the heat of har

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ey shall be left together unto the the mountains, and to the beasts of h; and the fowls shall summer upon nd all the beasts of the earth shall upon them.

In that time shall the present be unto the LORD of hosts of a people ed and peeled, and from a people from their beginning hitherto; a meted out and trodden under foot, and the rivers have spoiled, to the 'the name of the LORD of hosts, the Zion.

CHAPTER XIX.

The counsel of her princes

against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

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3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

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4 And the Egyptians will I give over 'into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the LORD, the LORD of hosts.

5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. 6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks "of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, 5 and be no more.

8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

9 Moreover they that work in 'fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.

10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.

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of her people shall turn unto the Lord. 23 The coveEgypt, Assyria, and Israel. [B. c. 714.]

unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

12 'Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.

13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.

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