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Prophecy of Isaias 895

9 Behold, the day of the Lord shall come, a eration: neither shall the Arabian pitch his tents
cruel day, and full of indignation, and of wrath, there, nor shall shepherds rest there.
and fury, to lay the land desolate, and to destroy 21 But wild beasts shall rest there, and their
the sinners thereof out of it. houses shall be filled with serpents, and ostriches
10 For the stars of heaven, and their bright- shall dwell there, and the hairy ones shall dance
ness shall not display their light: the sun shall there:
be darkened in his rising, and the moon shall not 22 And owls shall answer one another there,
shine with her light. in the houses thereof, and sirens in the temples
11 And I will visit the evils of the world, and of pleasure.
against the wicked for their iniquity: and I will
make the pride of infidels to cease, and will bring
down the arrogancy of the mighty. Chapter 14
12 A man shall be more precious than gold,
yea a man than the finest of gold. Her time is near at hand, and her days shall not
13 For this I will trouble the heaven: and the be prolonged. For the Lord will have mercy on
earth shall be moved out of her place, for the Jacob, and will yet choose out of Israel, and will
indignation of the Lord of hosts, and for the day make them rest upon their own ground: and the
of his fierce wrath. stranger shall be joined with them, and shall ad-
14 And they shall be as a doe fleeing away, here to the house of Jacob.
and as a sheep: and there shall be none to gather 2 And the people shall take them, and bring
them together: every man shall turn to his own them into their place: and the house of Israel
people, and every one shall flee to his own land. shall possess them in the land of the Lord for
15 Every one that shall be found, shall be servants and handmaids: and they shall make
slain: and every one that shall come to their aid, them captives that had taken them, and shall
shall fall by the sword. subdue their oppressors.
16 Their inhabitants shall be dashed in pieces 3 And it shall come to pass in that day,
before their eyes: their houses shall be pillaged, that when God shall give thee rest from thy
and their wives shall be ravished. labour, and from thy vexation, and from the
17 Behold I will stir up the Medes against hard bondage, wherewith thou didst serve be-
them, who shall not seek silver, nor desire gold: fore,
18 But with their arrows they shall kill the 4 Thou shalt take up this parable against
children, and shall have no pity upon the suck- the king of Babylon, and shalt say: How is
lings of the womb, and their eye shall not spare the oppressor come to nothing, the tribute hath
their sons. ceased?
19 And that Babylon, glorious among king- 5 The Lord hath broken the staff of the
doms, the famous pride of the Chaldeans, shall wicked, the rod of the rulers,
be even as the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gom- 6 That struck the people in wrath with an
orrha. incurable wound, that brought nations under in
20 It shall no more be inhabited for ever, and fury, that persecuted in a cruel manner.
it shall not be founded unto generation and gen- 7 The whole earth is quiet and still, it is glad