And few are the mortals, that are left in her. 7 The new wine mourneth; the vine languisheth; All, that were glad of heart, sigh.

8 The joyful sound of the tabor ceaseth;

The noise of exultation is no more;

The joyful sound of the harp ceaseth:

9 With songs they shall no more drink wine; The palm-wine shall be bitter to them that drink it. 10 The city is broken down; it is desolate :

Every house is obstructed, so that no one can enter. 11 There is a cry in the streets for wine; All gladness is passed away;

The joy of the whole land is banished.

12 Desolation is left in the city;

And with a great tumult the gate is battered down. 13 Yea thus shall it be in the very centre of the land, in the midst of the people;

As the shaking of the olive; as the gleaning, when the vintage is finished.

14 But these shall lift up their voice, they shall sing; The waters shall resound with the exaltation of JE

HOVAH.

15 Wherefore in the distant coasts, glorify ye JEHOVAH; In the distant coasts of the sea, the name of JE

HOVAH, the God of Israel.

16 From the uttermost part of the land, we have heard songs, Glory to the righteous!

But I said, Alas, my wretchedness, my wretched

ness!

Wo is me! the plunderers plunder;

Yea the plunderers still continue their cruel depredations.

17 The terror, the pit, and the snare,

Are upon thee, O inhabitant of the land:

18 And it shall be, that whoso fleeth from the terror, He shall fall into the pit;

And whoso escapeth from the pit,

He shall be taken in the snare:

For the floodgates from on high are opened;
And the foundations of the earth tremble.

19 The land is grievously shaken;

The land is utterly shattered to pieces;

The land is violently moved out of her place; 20 The land reeleth to and fro like a drunkard;

And moveth this way and that, like a lodge for a night:

For her iniquity lieth heavy upon her;

And she shall fall, and rise no more.

21 And it shall come to pass in that day,

JEHOVAH shall summon on high the host that is on high;

And on earth the kings of the earth:

22 And they shall be gathered together, as in a bundle, for the pit;

And shall be closely imprisoned in the prison:

And after many days, account shall be taken of them.

23 And the moon shall be confounded, and the sun shall be ashamed;

For JEHOVAH God of hosts shall reign,

On mount Sion, and in Jerusalem;

And before his ancients shall he be glorified.

CHAP. XXV.

1 O JEHOVAH, Thou art my God:

I will exalt thee; I will praise thy name:
For thou hast effected wonderful things;
Counsels of old time, promises immutably true.
2 For thou hast made the city a heap;

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The strongly fortified citadel a ruin:

The palace of the proud ones, that it should be no more a city;

That it never should be built up again.

Therefore shall the fierce people glorify thee;

The city of the formidable nations shall fear thee: 4 For thou hast been a defence to the poor;

A defence to the needy in his distress:

A refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat; When the blast of the formidable rages like a winter

storm.

5 As the heat in a parched land, the tumult of the proud shalt thou bring low;

As the heat by a thick cloud, the triumph of the formidable shall be humbled.

6 And JEHOVAH God of hosts shall make, For all the peoples, in this mountain,

A feast of delicacies, a feast of old wines:

Of delicacies exquisitely rich, of old wines perfectly refined.

7 And on this mountain shall he destroy

The covering, that covered the face of all the peoples;

And the veil, that was spread over all the nations. 8 He shall utterly destroy death for ever;

And the Lord JEHOVAH shall wipe away

from off all faces;

the tear

And the reproach of his people shall he remove from

off the whole earth:

For JEHOVAH hath spoken it.

Behold, this is our God;

We have trusted in him, and he hath saved us: This is JEHOVAH; we have trusted in him; We will rejoice, and triumph, in his salvation. 10 For the hand of JEHOVAH shall give rest upon mountain;

And Moab shall be threshed in his place,

this

As the straw is threshed under the wheels of the

car.

11 And he shall stretch out his hands in the midst

thereof,

As he, that sinketh, stretcheth out his hands to swim: But God shall bring down his pride with the sudden gripe of his hands.

12 And the bulwark of thy high walls shall he lay low;

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He shall bring them down to the ground; he shall lay them in the dust.

CHAP. XXVI.

IN that day shall this song

be sung:

In the land of Judah we have a strong city;

Salvation shall He establish for walls and bulwarks, 2 Open ye the gates, and let the righteous nation enter; 3 Constant in the truth, stayed in mind:

Thou shalt preserve them in perpetual peace,
Because they have trusted in thee.

4 Trust ye in JEHOVAH for ever;

For in JEHOVAH is never-failing protection.
5 For he hath humbled those, that dwell on high;
The lofty city, he hath brought her down:
He hath brought her down to the ground;
He hath levelled her with the dust.

6 The foot shall trample upon her;

The feet of the poor, the steps of the needy. 7 The way of the righteous is perfectly straight; Thou most exactly levellest the path of the righteous. 8 Even in the way of thy laws, O JEHOVAH, We have placed our confidence in thy name;

And in the remembrance of thee is the desire of our soul.

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9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night;

Yea, with

thee.

my inmost spirit in the morn have I sought

For when thy judgments are in the earth,

The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. 10 Though mercy be shewn to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness.

In the very land of rectitude he will deal perversely;

And will not regard the majesty of JEHOVAH.

11 JEHOVAH, thy hand is lifted up, yet will they not

see:

But they shall see, with confusion, thy zeal for thy people;

Yea, the fire shall burn up thine adversaries. 12 JEHOVAH, thou wilt ordain for us peace:

For even all our mighty deeds thou hast performed for us.

13 O JEHOVAH, our God!

Other lords, exclusive of thee, have had dominion

over us:

Thee only, and thy name, henceforth will we celebrate.

14 They are dead, they shall not live;

They are deceased tyrants, they shall not rise. Therefore hast thou visited, and destroyed them; And all memorial of them thou hast abolished. 15 Thou hast added to the nation, O JEHOVAH;

Thou hast added to the nation; thou art glorified: Thou hast extended far all the borders of the land. 16 O JEHOVAH, in affliction have we sought thee: We have poured out humble supplication, when thy chastisement was upon us.

17 As a woman, that hath conceived, when her delivery approacheth,

Is in anguish, crieth out aloud, in her travail; Thus have we been before thee, O JEHOVAH. 18 We have conceived; we have been in anguish; we have, as it were, brought forth wind:

Salvation is not wrought in the land;

Neither are the inhabitants of the world fallen. 19 Thy dead shall live; my deceased, they shall rise : Awake, and sing, ye that dwell in the dust!

For thy dew is as the dew of the dawn';

But the earth shall cast forth, as an abortion, the deceased tyrants.