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2.20
ISAIAH
- His idols of silver, and his idols of gold,
- Which they made for themselves to worship,
- To the moles and to the bats;
- 21To go into the clefts of the rocks,
- And into the crevices of the crags,
- From before the terror of the Lord,
- And from the glory of His majesty,
- When he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.
- 22Cease ye from man, in whose nostrils is a breath;
- For how little is he to be accounted!
- 3For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts,
- Doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah
- Stay and staff,
- Every stay of bread, and every stay of water;
- 2The mighty man, and the man of war;
- The judge, and the prophet, And the diviner, and the elder;
- 3The captain of fifty, and the man of rank,
- And the counsellor, and the cunning charmer, and the skilful enchanter.
- 4And I will give children to be their princes,
- And babes shall rule over them.
- 5And the people shall oppress one another,
- Every man his fellow, and every man his neighbour;
- The child shall behave insolently against the aged,
- And the base against the honourable,
- 6For a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father:
- 'Thou hast a mantle,
- Be thou our ruler,
- And let this ruin be under thy hand.'
- 7In that day shall he swear, saying:
- 'I will not be a healer;
- For in my house is neither bread nor a mantle;
- Ye shall not make me ruler of a people.'
- 8For Jerusalem is ruined,
- And Judah is fallen;
- Because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord,
- To provoke the eyes of His glory.
- 9The show of their countenance doth witness against them;
- And they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not.
- Woe unto their soul!
- For they have wrought evil unto themselves.
- 10Say ye of the righteous, that it shall be well with him;
- For they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
- 11Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him;
- For the work of his hands shall be done to him.
- 12As for My people, a babe is their master,
- And women rule over them.
- O My people, they that lead thee cause thee to err,
- And destroy the way of thy paths.
- 13The Lord standeth up to plead,
- And standeth to judge the peoples.
- 14The Lord will enter into judgment
- With the elders of His people, and the princes thereof:
- 'It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard;
- The spoil of the poor is in your houses;
- 15What mean ye that ye crush My people,
- And grind the face of the poor?'
- Saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts.
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