16 Wherefore JEHOVAH the Lord of hosts shall

send

Upon his fat ones leanness;

And under his glory shall he kindle

A burning as of a conflagration.

17 And the light of Israel shall become a fire,
And his Holy One a flame;

And he shall burn, and consume his thorn,
And his brier in one day.

18 Even the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field,

From the soul even to the flesh, shall he con

sume;

And it shall be, as when one fleeth out of the fire.

19 And the remainder of the trees of his forest shall be a small number,

20

So that a child may write them down.

And it shall come to pass in that day,
No more shall the remnant of Israel,
And the escaped of the house of Jacob,
Lean upon him, that smote them:
But shall lean upon JEHOVAH,

The Holy One of Israel, in truth.

21 A remnant shall return, a remnant of Jacob, Unto God the Mighty.

22 For though thy people, O Israel, shall be as the

sand of the sea,

A remnant of them only shall return.

The consummation decided, overfloweth with

strict justice;

23 For a full and decisive decree

24

Shall JEHOVAH the Lord of hosts accomplish in the midst of the land.

Wherefore thus saith JEHOVAH the Lord of hosts:

Fear not, O my people, that dwellest in Sion, because of the Assyrian :

With his staff indeed shall he smite thee,

And his rod shall he lift up against thee, in the way of Egypt.

25 But yet a very little time, and mine indignation shall cease;

And mine anger in their destruction:

26 And JEHOVAH God of hosts shall raise up against him a scourge,

Like the stroke upon Midian at the rock of Oreb, And like the rod which he lifted up over the sea; Yea he will lift it up, after the manner of Egypt. 27 And it shall come to pass in that day,

28

His burden shall be removed from off thy shoulder,

And his yoke off thy neck:

Yea the yoke shall perish from off your shoulders.

He is come to Aiath; he hath passed to
Migron;

At Michmas he will deposite his baggage.

29 They have passed the strait; Geba is their
lodging for the night:

Ramah is frightened; Gibeah of Saul fleeth.
30 Cry aloud with thy voice, O daughter of Gallim ;
Hearken unto her, O Laish; answer her, O
Anathoth.

31 Madmena is gone away; the inhabitants of Ge-
bim flee amain.

32 Yet this day shall he abide in Nob:

33

He shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Sion;

Against the hill of Jerusalem.

Behold JEHOVAH, the Lord of hosts,

Shall lop, the flourishing branch with a dreadful crash;

And the high of stature shall be cut down,

And the lofty shall be brought low:

34 And he shall hew the thickets of the forest with iron,

CHAP. 1

XI.

And Lebanon shall fall by a mighty hand.

BUT there shall spring forth a rod from the trunk of Jesse ;

And a cion from his roots shall become fruitful. 2 And the spirit of JEHOVAH shall rest upon him; The spirit of wisdom, and understanding ;

The spirit of counsel, and strength;

The spirit of the knowledge, and the fear of
JEHOVAH.

3 And he shall be of quick discernment in the fear of JEHOVAH :

So that not according to the sight of his eyes shall he judge;

Nor according to the hearing of his ears shall he reprove.

4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, And with equity shall he work conviction in the meek of the earth.

And he shall smite the earth with the blast of his mouth.

And with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked one.

5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins; And faithfulness the cincture of his reins.

6

Then shall the wolf take up his abode with

the lamb ;

And the leopard shall lie down with the kid : And the calf, and the young lion, and the fatling shall come together;

And a little child shall lead them.

7 And the heifer and the she-bear shall feed together;

Together shall their young ones lie down ;

And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

8 And the suckling shall play upon the hole of the aspic ;

And upon the den of the basilisk shall the newweaned child lay his hand.

9 They shall not hurt, nor destroy, in all my holy mountain;

10

For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of
JEHOVAH,

As the waters that cover the depths of the sea.
And it shall come to pass in that day,

The root of Jesse, which standeth for an ensign
to the peoples,

Unto him shall the nations repair,

And his resting-place shall be glorious. 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, JEHOVAH shall, again the second time put forth his hand,

To recover the remnant of his people;

That remaineth, from Assyria, and from Egypt;
And from Pathros, and from Cush, and from
Elam;

And from Shinear, and from Hamath, and from
the western regions.

12 And he shall lift up a signal to the nations;
And he shall gather the outcasts of Israel,
And the dispersed of Judah shall he collect,
From the four extremities of the earth.
13 And the jealousy of Ephraim shall cease;
And the enmity of Judah shall be no more:
Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah;

And Judah shall not be at enmity with Ephraim. 14 But they shall invade the borders of the Philistines westward: