2 That walk to go down into Egypt and have not asked at my mouth to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh and to trust in the shadow of Egypt
3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion
4 For his princes were at Zoan and his ambassadors came to Hanes
5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them nor be an help nor profit but a shame and also a reproach
6 The burden of the beasts of the south into the land of trouble and anguish from whence come the young and old lion the viper and fiery flying serpent they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses and their treasures upon the bunches of camels to a people that shall not profit them
7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose therefore have I cried concerning this Their strength is to sit still
8 Now go write it before them in a table and note it in a book that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever
9 That this is a rebellious people lying children children that will not hear the law of the LORD
10 Which say to the seers See not and to the prophets Prophesy not unto us right things speak unto us smooth things prophesy deceits
11 Get you out of the way turn aside out of the path cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us
12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel Because ye despise this word and trust in oppression and perverseness and stay thereon
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall swelling out in a high wall whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant
14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces he shall not spare so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth or to take water withal out of the pit
15 For thus saith the Lord GOD the Holy One of Israel In returning and rest shall ye be saved in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength and ye would not
16 But ye said No for we will flee upon horses therefore shall ye flee and We will ride upon the swift therefore shall they that pursue you be swift
17 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one at the rebuke of five shall ye flee till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain and as an ensign on an hill
18 And therefore will the LORD wait that he may be gracious unto you and therefore will he be exalted that he may have mercy upon you for the LORD is a God of judgment blessed are all they that wait for him
19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem thou shalt weep no more he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry when he shall hear it he will answer thee 20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more but thine eyes shall see thy teachers 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee saying This is the way walk ye in it when ye turn to the right hand and when ye turn to the left 22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver and the ornament of thy molten images of gold thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth thou shalt say unto it Get thee hence
23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed that thou shalt sow the ground withal and bread of the increase of the earth and it shall be fat and plenteous in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures 24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan 25 And there shall be upon every high mountain and upon every high hill rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter when the towers fall 26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold as the light of seven days in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people and healeth the stroke of their wound
27 Behold the name of the LORD cometh from far burning with his anger and the burden thereof is heavy his lips are full of indignation and his tongue as a devouring fire
28 And his breath as an overflowing stream shall reach to the midst of the neck to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people causing them to err
29 Ye shall have a song as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept and gladness of heart as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD to the mighty One of Israel
30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard and shall shew the lighting down of his arm with the indignation of his anger and with the flame of a devouring fire with scattering and tempest and hailstones __
31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down which smote with a rod
32 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass which the LORD shall lay upon him it shall be with tabrets and harps and in battles of shaking will he fight with it
33 For Tophet is ordained of old yea for the king it is prepared he hath made it deep and large the pile thereof is fire and much wood the breath of the LORD like a stream of brimstone doth kindle it
