Isaias

23 Whom hast thou reproached and reviled? and against whom hast thou raised high thy voice? thou hast lifted up thine eyes on high against the Holy One of Israel.

24 By the hand of thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I have ascended the height of the mountains, the recesses of Lebanon; and I will cut down the ’loftiness of his cedars, the choice of his fir-trees; and I will come into the height of his border, the forest of his garden-land.

25 I have digged, and drunk waters; and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the canals of Mazor. ’

26 Hast thou not heard? from long ago I made it, from ancient days I formed it; now have I brought it to pass, and thou hast been (destined) to lay waste, as ruinous heaps, fortified cities.

27 And their inhabitants were short of hand, they were dis- mayed and ashamed: they were (as) grass of the field, and green ’algke, grass of the hoUse tops, and a cornfield before it stands in stalk

28 And thy down-sitting, and thy going out and thy coming in I know, andthy rage, against me.

29 Because thy rage against me and. thy recklessness is come up into mine ears, I will put my ring in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

30 And this shall be the sign unto thee: ye shall eat this year that which groweth of itself, and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.

31 And the escaped of the house of Judah that are left, shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.