rejected from thy grave as a despised branch, as the garment of them that are slain with the sword, which go down to the heaps of stones of hell, as a trodden down corpse.

Thou shalt not be buried like them: for thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: for the seed of the wicked shall never be remembered.

Let his children be slain for the iniquity of their fathers, that they rise not up, nor inherit the land, nor fill the earth with cities.

And I will come upon them, saith the LORD of hosts, and will cut off from Babylon their remnant, and their nephews, and their seed, saith the LORD,

And I will make them an inheritance to the hedgehogs, and a lake of waters, and will sweep them with a broom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.

The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, What is the matter? let it go as I think, and let it stand as I have it in mind,

And Assyria shall be broken in my land, and I will tread him down upon my mountains, that his yoke may be taken from them, and his burden from off their neck.

This is the stroke which he hath over all the earth, and this is the stretched out hand over all the nations.

For the LORD of hosts hath decreed it: who shall withstand it? And his hand is stretched out; who shall turn it?
(Isaiah)
Chapter 15
Devastation of the Philistines.

In the year that king Ahaz died was this the burden:

Rejoice not, all ye Philistines, that the rod that smote thee is broken. For out of the root of the serpent shall come a basilisk, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying dragon.

For the firstfruits of the needy shall feed, and the poor shall rest safely: but thy root will I kill with famine, and thy remnant shall he slain.

Howl, O gate; cry out, O city. All the Philistine country is cowardly: for from midnight there cometh a smoke, and there is none solitary in his tents.

And what shall the messengers of the Gentiles say now and then? Namely, Zion hath the LORD founded; and there shall the afflicted of his people have confidence.
(Isaiah)
Chapter 16
Plague and fall of the Moabites.
Ch. 15, v. 1: This is the burden upon Moab: Disturbance cometh by night upon Ar in Moab; she is gone. At night disturbance cometh upon Kir in Moab; it is gone.

They go up to Baith and Dibon unto the altars, and weep and wail over Nebo and Medbah in Moab. Every head is shaven, every beard is cut off.

In their streets they walk girded with sackcloth; in their housetops and in their streets they all howl, and go down weeping.

Heshbon and Eleale cry out, and they are heard in Jahaz. Wherefore the scaffolded of Moab mourn: for their soul is evil.

My heart crieth unto Moab; her fugitives flee from the heifer of three years, even unto Zoar: for they go up to Luhith, and weep; and in the way of Horonaim there is a cry of lamentation.

For the waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the hay is withered, and the grass withereth, and no green herb groweth.

For the goods which they have gathered, and the people which they have armed, are carried over the brook of the willows.

Cries are heard in the borders of Moab; they howl unto Eglaim, and howl at the spring of Elim.

For the waters of Dimon are full of blood. And I will bring more upon Dimon, both upon them that are preserved in Moab the Lion, and upon the remnant of the land.
Ch. 16. v. 1. Rather send, ye rulers of the land, lambs of Selah out of the wilderness unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

But as a bird fleeth, when it is driven out of the nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be, when they pass before Arnon.

Gather counsel, hold judgment; make thee the shadow of the noonday as of a night; hide the driven out, and report not the fugitive.

Let my exiles lodge with thee; O Moab, be thou their shield from the destroyer: then shall the driver be ended, and the destroyer cease, and the trespasser depart out of the land.

And a throne shall be prepared by grace, that one may sit upon it in the truth, in the tabernacle of David, to judge, and to seek judgment, and to promote righteousness.

And we hear of the arrogance of Moab, that it is almost great; that also their arrogance, and their pride, and their wrath, are greater than their might.

Therefore shall one Moabite howl over another; all of them shall howl. Over the foundations of the city of Kir-hareseth shall the crippled groan:

For Heshbon is become a desolate field; the vine of Sibmah is corrupt: the lords of the heathen have broken down the noble branches thereof, and are come unto Jaesher, and are moved in the wilderness: their festers are scattered, and are carried over the sea.

Therefore I weep for Jaeser, and for the vine of Sibmah, and shed many tears for Heshbon and Eleale. For there is a song fallen into thy summer, and into thy harvest, 10. Joy and gladness are ceased in the field; and in the vineyards there is no shouting or rejoicing. They press no wine in the winepresses: I have made an end of singing.

Therefore my heart murmureth over Moab like a harp, and my inward parts over Kir-hares.

Then shall it be seen how Moab is weary at the altars, and how he hath gone to his church to pray, and hath not prospered.

This is the thing which the LORD spake against Moab in those days.

And now the LORD speaketh, saying, In three years, as the years of a hired servant, shall the glory of Moab be few in multitude; and there shall be a little left, and not much.
(Isaiah)
Chapter 17
Burden of Damascus, the Israelites and Assyrians.

This is the burden of Damascus: behold, Damascus shall be no more a city, but a heap of stones broken down.

The cities of Aroer shall be desolate, and the flocks shall feed there, and no man shall drive them out.

And the fortress of Ephraim shall be finished: and the kingdom of Damascus, and the remnant of Syria, shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.

In that day shall the glory of Jacob be thin, and his fat body shall be lean.

For it shall be as when one gathered in corn in the harvest, and as when one gathered in ears with his arm, and as when one gathered in ears in the valley of Rephaim, 6. And there shall be a harvest in it, as when a tree of olive oil is shaken, and two and three berries remain in the top of the tree, or as when four or five fruits hang upon the branches, saith the LORD God of Israel.

In that day shall a man cleave unto him that made him; and his eyes shall be upon the Holy One in Israel.

And he shall not keep himself to the altars which his hands have made, neither shall he look upon that which his fingers have made, neither to groves, nor to images.

In that day shall the cities of their strength be as a branch and twig forsaken before the children of Israel, and shall be desolate.

For thou hast forgotten God thy salvation, and hast not remembered the rock of thy strength.
Therefore thou shalt plant pleasant plants, but thou shalt have laid a foothold for strangers.

In the time of planting thou shalt wait, that thy seed may grow in time: but in the harvest, when thou shalt inherit the almonds, thou shalt have the pains of a sorrowful man.

O woe unto the multitude of such great people! It will roar like the sea, and the tumult of the
people will rage like great waters.

Yea, as great waters rage, so shall the people rage. But he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far away: and he shall pursue them, as the wind doeth to the dust of the mountains, and as the storm doeth to the whirlwind of the wind.

At evening, behold, there is terror; and before morning they are no more. This is the reward of our robbers, and the inheritance of them that take away our own.
(Isaiah)
Chapter 18
The Moors Visitation and Conversion.

Woe to the land that flieth under the sails in the shadow, on this side the waters of the land of the Moors,

Which sendeth tidings by sea, and saileth upon the waters in vessels of reeds. Go ye, ye swift messengers, unto the people that are rent and spoiled, unto the people that are more abominable than any other, unto the people that are here and there measured out and trodden down, to whom the rivers of waters take their land.

All ye that dwell on the earth, and are seated in the land, shall see the banners cast up on the mountains, and hear the sound of the trumpets.

For thus saith the LORD unto me, I will keep still, and look in my seat, as a heat that driveth up the rain, and as a molten dew in the heat of harvest.

For before the harvest the crop shall be cut off, and the unripe fruit shall wither in the blossom; and the stalks shall be cut off with pruning hooks, and the vines put away, and cut down,

To let the fowls of the mountains and the beasts of the earth lie together, that the fowls may nest therein in summer, and that all