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28.18
ISAIAH
- 19As often as it passeth through, it shall take you;
- For morning by morning shall it pass through,
- By day and by night;
- And it shall be sheer terror to understand the message.
- 20For the bed is too short for a man to stretch himself;
- And the covering too narrow when he gathereth himself up.
- 21For the Lord will rise up as in mount Perazim,
- He will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon;
- That He may do His work, strange is His work,
- And bring to pass His act, strange is His act.
- 22Now therefore be ye not scoffers,
- Lest your bands be made strong;
- For an extermination wholly determined have I heard from the Lord, the God of hosts,
- Upon the whole land.
- 23Give ye ear, and hear my voice;
- Attend, and hear my speech.
- 24Is the plowman never done with plowing to sow,
- With the opening and harrowing of his ground?
- 25When he hath made plain the face thereof,
- Doth he not cast abroad the black cummin, and scatter the cummin,
- And put in the wheat in rows and the barley in the appointed place
- And the spelt in the border thereof?
- 26For He doth instruct him aright;
- His God doth teach him.
- 27For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing-sledge,
- Neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cummin;
- But the black cummin is beaten out with a staff,
- And the cummin with a rod.
- 28Is bread corn crushed?
- Nay, he will not ever be threshing it;
- And though the roller of his wagon and its sharp edges move noisily,
- He doth not crush it.
- 29This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts:
- Wonderful is His counsel, and great His wisdom.
- 29Ah, [1]Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped!
- Add ye year to year,
- Let the feasts come round!
- 2Then will I distress Ariel,
- And there shall be mourning and moaning;
- And she shall be unto Me as a hearth of God.
- 3And I will encamp against thee round about,
- And will lay siege against thee with a mound,
- And I will raise siege works against thee.
- 4And brought down thou shalt speak out of the ground,
- And thy speech shall be low out of the dust;
- And thy voice shall be as of a ghost out of the ground,
- And thy speech shall chirp out of the dust.
- 5But the multitude of thy foes shall be like small dust,
- And the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away;
- Yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly—
- 6There shall be a visitation from the Lord of hosts
- With thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise,
- ↑ That is, The hearth of God.
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