Isaias

13 And the people hath not turned unto him that smiteth them, neither have they sought the LORD of hosts.

14 And the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and rush, in one day.

15 The elder and honourable, he is the head: and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

16 And the leaders of this people cause them to err; and those of them that are led are swallowed up.

17 Therefore the Lord shall not rejoice over its young men, neither shall have mercy on its fatherless and widows; for every one thereof is impious and an evil doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

18 For wickedness burned as a fire: briers and thorns it devoured, and it kindled the thickets of the forest, and they were. whirled upward with a lifting-up of smoke.

19 With the wrath of the LORD of Hosts is the land turned black, and the people are become as food for fire; they spared not a man his brother.

20 And one snatched on the right hand, and was hungry; and ate on the left hand, and they were not satisfied: every man the flesh of his arm did they eat:

21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Mahasseh: they together against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

X. 1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to scribes that prescribe oppression:

2 To turn aside the weak from judgment, and to strip the right from the poor of I my people, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may prey on orphans.

3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the ruin that cometh from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

4 (Nought remains), but to crouch under the prisoners, and fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

5 Ah, Asshur, the rod of mine anger, and a staff is it in. their hand, mine indignation.

6 I will send him against an impious nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to spoil the spoil and to prey on the prey, and to make them a treading down like the mire of the streets.

7 And he, he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to work destruction, and to cut off nations not a few.

8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?

9 Is not Calno as Carchemish, or Hamath as Arpad, or Samaria as Damascus?

10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the false— and their images were more than Jerusalem and— rr Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her false gods, so do to Jerusalem and her offences?

12 And it shall be, when the Lord hath finished his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will visit upon the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glorying of his loftiness of eyes.