At
the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah the son of
Amoz,
saying,
Go
and loose the sackcloth from off thy
loins,
and
put off thy
shoe from thy foot.
And
he did so,
walking naked
and barefoot.
And
the Lord said,
Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder
upon Egypt and
upon
Ethiopia;
So
shall the king of
Assyria
lead away the Egyptians
prisoners,
and the Ethiopians captives,
young
and
old,
naked and barefoot,
even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
And
they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their
expectation, and
of Egypt their
glory.
And
the inhabitant
of
this isle shall say in that day,
Behold,
such is our expectation, whither we flee for help
to be delivered from the king of Assyria:
and
how shall we escape?
The burden of
the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in
the south pass through;
so it
cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
A
grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous
dealer
- dealeth treacherously,
and the spoiler spoileth.
Go
up,
O
Elam:
besiege, O
Media;
all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
Therefore are my loins
filled with pain:
pangs
have taken hold upon
me, as the pangs
of
a workman that
travaileth:
I
was bowed down at the hearing of it;
I
was dismayed at the seeing of it.
My
heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me:
the night of my
pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
Prepare
the table,
watch in
the watchtower,
eat,
drink:
arise,
ye
princes,
and anoint the shield.
For thus hath
the Lord said unto me,
Go,
set a
watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
And
he saw a chariot with a couple of
horsemen,
a
chariot
of asses,
and
a chariot of
camels;
and he hearkened diligently
with much heed:
And
he cried,
A lion:
My
lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime,
and I am set in my ward
whole nights:
And,
behold,
here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen.
And
he answered and said,
Babylon is fallen,
is
fallen;
and
all the graven images of her gods
he
hath
broken unto the ground.
O
my threshing,
and
the corn
of
my floor: that which - I have heard of
the Lord of hosts, the
God of Israel,
have I declared unto
you.
The
burden of Dumah.
He calleth to me out of Seir,
Watchman,
what of the night?
Watchman, what of the night?
The
watchman said,
The morning cometh,
and also the night:
if ye will inquire,
inquire ye:
return, come.
The burden upon Arabia.
In
the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge,
O
ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him
that was thirsty,
they
prevented
with their bread him that fled.
For
they fled
from the swords, from
the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness
of war.
For thus hath the Lord
said unto me,
Within a year,
according to the years of an hireling,
and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
And
the residue
of
the number of archers, the mighty men of the children
of
Kedar, shall be diminished:
for the Lord God
ISamuelyeaon of Israel hath spoken it.
