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Here is the message about Judah and Jerusalem that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz during the time when Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah reigned over Judah.

Verse ConceptsCommunicationGod, Revelation OfVisionsProphetic VisionsThose Who Saw VisionsKings of judah

How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

Verse ConceptsBabylonSpiritual HarlotryInjustice, Examples OfProstitutionHarlotswhores

Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and they that return of her with righteousness.

Verse ConceptsA Righteous Peopleredeemed

For you shall be like an oak withering its leaves, and like a garden where there is no water for her.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalWicked Described AsDry PlacesPeople WitheredOaks

Here is the message about Judah and Jerusalem that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz.

the hero and warrior,
the judge and prophet,
the fortune-teller and elder,

Verse ConceptsProphecy Abolishedheroes

And Jehovah will create over the whole habitation of mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory'shall be spread a covering.

Verse ConceptsGod, Glory OfGlory, Revelation OfDivine ManifestationsSmokeGod Appearing In FireCloud of glorysmokingzion

Therefore doth Sheol enlarge its desire, and open its mouth without measure; and her splendour shall descend into it, and her multitude, and her tumult, and all that is joyful within her.

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheThe Glory Of ManThe Fact Of Death

And {even if only a tenth part remain}, {again she will be destroyed} like terebinth or like [an] oak, which although felled, a tree stump [remains] in them. [The] seed of holiness [will be] her tree stump."

Verse ConceptsRemnantNames And Titles For The ChristianTreesStumps Of A TreeA Tenth Of People

And it will be in the days of Ahaz son of Jotham son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin, king of Aram came up, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, to Jerusalem, to war against her, and he was not able to fight against her.

Verse ConceptsList Of Kings Of IsraelTimes Of People

Let us go up against Judah, troubling her, and forcing our way into her, and let us put up a king in her, even the son of Tabeel:

Verse ConceptsSchismsMaking Kingsharassment

For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that you dread shall be forsaken by both her kings.

Verse ConceptsLand Becoming EmptyRejectionParents Being Wrongmanhood

And it hath come to pass, in that day, A man keepeth alive a heifer of the herd, And two of the flock,

Here I am with the children the Lord has given me to be signs and wonders in Israel from the Lord of Hosts who dwells on Mount Zion.

Verse ConceptsChildren Of GodProphetic SignsSpiritual AdoptionChildren In The FaithOther MiraclesSigns And Wonders Before ChristFamily Conflict

But there shall be no gloom to her that was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time hath he made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

Verse ConceptsHumilityComing Out Of DarknessDespair


“Is not Calno [conquered] like Carchemish [on the Euphrates]?
Is not Hamath [subdued] like Arpad [her neighbor]?
Is not Samaria [in Israel] like Damascus [in Aram]?

shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

Verse ConceptsGod Opposes Idolatry

And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound.

Verse ConceptsNestsWingsWings Of BirdsBird Soundsrelentless

So here is what the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, says: "My people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of Assyria, even though they beat you with a club and lift their cudgel against you as Egypt did.

Verse ConceptsSpecial Revelation

Give a loud cry, daughter of Gallim; let Laishah give ear; let Anathoth give answer to her.

Verse Conceptsdaughters

And the wolf will be living with the lamb, and the leopard will take his rest with the young goat; and the lion will take grass for food like the ox; and the young lion will go with the young ones of the herd; and a little child will be their guide.

Verse ConceptsLeopardMillennial KingdomLambsLionsAnimals, Types OfDeliverance From LionsWolvesChildren And The KingdomDeerPetsSleeping Peacefully

Lo! the day of Yahweh, coming in, Fierce and overflowing, and burning with anger, - To devote the earth to desolation, And her sinners, will he destroy out of it.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toSinnersAnger Of God, ConsequencesExterminationLand Becoming EmptyThe Fact Of That DayThe Coming Day Of God's Wrathwrath

For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.

Verse ConceptsConstellationsAstronomyMoonEclipsesSheddingOrionDarkening Sun Moon And StarsDarkness At The EndAstronomical SignsCosmic Disturbances

Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

Verse ConceptsGod ShakingThe Universe DestroyedThe Coming Day Of God's Wrath

And wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

Verse ConceptsPerils Of LuxuryPalacesAnimals, Types OfShort Time Till The End

“I will rise up against them”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“and I will cut off from Babylon her reputation, remnant, offspring, and posterity”—this is the Lord’s declaration.

Verse ConceptsOblivionSurvivors DestroyedBabylon Left Desolate

“I will make her a swampland and a region for screech owls, and I will sweep her away with a broom of destruction.”

This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfPoolsThreateningsHedgehogsSweepingdistractions

What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah hath founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his people take refuge.

Verse ConceptsenvoyAnswering People

Here is a message about Moab: Indeed, in a night it is devastated, Ar of Moab is destroyed! Indeed, in a night it is devastated, Kir of Moab is destroyed!

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Strategies InDisastersDuring One Night

The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places, weeping: Moab is sounding her cry of sorrow over Nebo, and over Medeba: everywhere the hair of the head and of the face is cut off.

Verse ConceptsBaldness, Figurative UseBaldnessBeardsHeadsHigh PlacesKnives

And in their places without they girded themselves with sackcloth: upon her roofs and in her streets every one shall wail, going down into weeping.

Verse ConceptsProstrationRoofSackcloth And AshesSorrowRooftop

My heart crieth out for Moab; her nobles flee unto Zoar, to Eglath-shelishi-yah: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesLamentingRoadsPeoples Who Fled

For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the herb is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.

Verse ConceptsColors, GreendrynessGrassGrass Withered

For the cry hath gone round the borders of Moab, her howling to Eglaim, and her howling to Beer-elim.

For as for the daughters of Moab, they shall be as a trembling bird, that is put out of her nest: for they shall carry them unto Arnon.

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsArnonFordsRiver ArnonBirdswandering

Therefore shall, Moab, howl for, Moab, All that belong to her, shall wail, - For the ruins of Kir-hareseth, shall they moan out Utterly stricken!

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Expression OfLamentingDried Fruit

For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the nations have broken down its choicest vines, they have come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they have gone over the sea.

Verse ConceptsDestroying Vineyards

Now the Lord makes this announcement: "Within exactly three years Moab's splendor will disappear, along with all her many people; there will be just a few, insignificant survivors left."

Verse ConceptsInferiorityHirelingsPowerlessnessThree YearsSurvivors ThreatenedLosing Honour

Here is a message about Damascus: "Look, Damascus is no longer a city, it is a heap of ruins!

Verse ConceptsArchaeologyProphecies concerningsyriadamascus

Her towns are unpeopled for ever; there the flocks take their rest in peace, without fear.

Verse ConceptsEmpty CitiesPasturing The Flock


“The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
And the kingdom from Damascus
And the remnant of Aram (Syria);
They will be like the [departed] glory of [her ally] the children of Israel,”
Declares the Lord of hosts.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsFortsSurvivors FavouredNorthern Kingdom Of Israelsyriadamascus

Yet shall there be left therein, a gleaning. As in the beating of an olive-tree, - Two-three berries in the head of the tree-top, - Four - five, among her fruitful boughs, Declareth Yahweh God of Israel.

Verse ConceptsRemnantSmall RemnantsTwo Or ThreeOlive Trees

which sendeth her message over the sea in ships of reeds upon the water. Get ye hence, ye speedy messengers, to a nation that is scattered abroad and robbed of that they had: a fearful nation from their beginning hitherto; a nation trodden down by little and little, whose land the floods have spoiled.

Verse ConceptsBabylonenvoyPapyrusDivision Of WatersTall PeopleSea TravelBoatsWaters DividingFearing Other People

For thus said Jehovah unto me, 'I rest, and I look on My settled place, As a clear heat on an herb. As a thick cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

Verse ConceptsdewHeatHoly Spirit, Types OfHot WeatherGod Seeing All The EarthHerbsSunshine

Here is a message about Egypt: Look, the Lord rides on a swift-moving cloud and approaches Egypt. The idols of Egypt tremble before him; the Egyptians lose their courage.

Verse ConceptsChariotsMeltingGod RidingGroups TremblingLosing Courage

And the spirit of Egypt will be troubled in her, and I will make her decisions without effect: and they will be turning to the false gods, and to those who make hollow sounds, and to those who have control of spirits, and to those who are wise in secret arts.

Verse ConceptsadvisersHuman EmotionGuidance, Need For God'sHeart, HumanMediumsPessimismPlansSpiritsDivinationNecromancyLosing CourageOccultismOccult Being Powerless Before God

And her pillars shall be broken in pieces, and all workers for hire shall be sad of soul.

Verse ConceptsWagesPoolsMetaphorical Pillars

The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Memphis are deceived; they have caused Egypt to go astray, that are the corner-stone of her tribes.

Verse ConceptsCornerstoneMemphisFoolish PeopleStrong Delusion

Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholDrunkenness, Figurative OfBewildermentStaggeringPuzzlementuncertaintydrunkards

On that day Egypt will be like women. She will tremble with fear because of the threatening hand of the Lord of Hosts when He raises it against her.

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodPowerlessnessEffeminacyGod's HandWaving The HandGroups TremblingWeak WomenTerror Of GodGod's Hands In Opposition

On that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the center of the land of Egypt and a pillar to the Lord near her border.

Verse ConceptsAltars To The LordObelisksborders

Here is a message about the Desert by the Sea: Like strong winds blowing in the south, one invades from the desert, from a land that is feared.

Verse ConceptsWhirlwindsVisions From God

A vision of fear comes before my eyes; the worker of deceit goes on in his false way, and the waster goes on making waste. Up! Elam; to the attack! Media; I have put an end to her sorrow.

Verse ConceptsProphetic Visionstraitors

For this cause, are my loins filled with anguish, Pangs, have seized me, as the pangs of her that is giving birth, - I writhe so that I cannot hear, I tremble, so that I cannot see:

Verse ConceptsAgony, Of BodyBodyPunishment, Nature OfLabour Pains

And behold, there cometh a chariot of men; horsemen by pairs. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.

Verse ConceptsBabylonThe Prophecy Towards BabylonDestruction Of BabylonBabylon DestroyedPutting Away Other GodsAbandoning Idols

Here is a message about Dumah: Someone calls to me from Seir, "Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?"

Verse ConceptsProphecies concerning

Here is a message about Arabia: In the thicket of Arabia you spend the night, you Dedanite caravans.

Verse ConceptsForestsCaravans

Here is a message about the Valley of Vision: What is the reason that all of you go up to the rooftops?

Verse ConceptsHousetopsRooftop

What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewn thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth out his sepulchre on high, cutting out in the rock a habitation for himself?

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheHeightToolsWorldly Ambition Examples

On that day, {declares} Yahweh of hosts, the peg that was driven will move away into a secure place, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that [was] on her will be cut off. For Yahweh has spoken.'"

Verse ConceptsTentsPegs

Here is a message about Tyre: Wail, you large ships, for the port is too devastated to enter! From the land of Cyprus this news is announced to them.

Verse ConceptsSeafaringShips

And on great waters, the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the market of the nations.

Verse ConceptsMarkets


Be ashamed, O Sidon [mother-city of Tyre, now like a widow bereaved of her children];
For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying,
“I have neither labored nor given birth [to children];
I have neither brought up young men nor reared virgins.”

Verse ConceptsConfidence In God, Produces BoldnessBirth Not Being Possible

Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? Her feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

Verse ConceptsHistory Of NationsFar From Here

Who hath counselled this against Tyre, The crowning one, whose traders are princes, Her merchants the honoured of earth?'

Verse ConceptsTradeCommerceGod's Plans

The Lord who commands armies planned it -- to dishonor the pride that comes from all her beauty, to humiliate all the dignitaries of the earth.

Verse ConceptsendHumilitySuperiorityHumbling The ProudGod Opposes The ProudGod's Plans

His hand He hath stretched out over the sea, He hath caused kingdoms to tremble, Jehovah hath charged concerning the merchant one, To destroy her strong places.

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodKingdomsGod's HandDestruction Of StrongholdsGod's Hands Stretched Out

Lo, the land of the Chaldeans -- this people was not, Asshur founded it for the Ziim, They raised its watch-towers, They lifted up her palaces, -- He hath appointed her for a ruin!

Verse ConceptsRuinsThe Prophecy Towards AssyriaThe Prophecy Towards Babylon

Now in that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the prostitute’s song:

Verse ConceptsAge, Span Of Life70 To 80 YearsLifespanForgetting Peoplewhores

"Take thy lute," say men to her, "and go about the city, thou unknown wench: make pastime with sweet melody, whereby thou mayest be had in remembrance."

Verse ConceptsHarpsRemembering PeopleForgetting People

And it shall come to pass at the end of seventy years, that Jehovah will visit Tyre; and she will return to her hire, and will commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the earth upon the face of the ground.

Verse ConceptsHiring70 To 80 YearsGod Visiting

And her merchandise and her hire shall be holy to Jehovah: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before Jehovah, to eat and be sufficed, and for excellent clothing.

Verse ConceptsMerchandiseStoring Treasure On EarthWages Of A Prostitute

Look! Yahweh [is] about to lay the earth waste and [is] about to devastate it, and he will twist her surface, and he will scatter her inhabitants.

Verse ConceptsChaosWasteScattering The PeoplesDestruction Of The World

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with him from whom usury is taken.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Institution In Ot TimesServants Of PeopleLike People In CharacterLending And Borrowingservanthoodmistresspriests

For the earth is corrupt of her indwellers. For why? They have offended the law, changed the ordinances, and broken the everlasting covenant.

Verse ConceptsCovenant breakersCovenant, God's with NoahGod, The EternalEcological ConcernsPolluting The LandBreaking The CovenantBreaking God's LawDefilement

The earth staggereth - staggereth like a drunken man, And rocketh to and fro like a night-hut, - So shall be heavy upon her, her transgression, And she shall fall and not again rise.

Verse ConceptsStaggeringGod Making DrunkThings Fallingrebelliondrunkards

At that time they will say, "Look, here is our God! We waited for him and he delivered us. Here is the Lord! We waited for him. Let's rejoice and celebrate his deliverance!"

Verse ConceptsJoy, And Human ExperienceLast DaysTrust, Importance OfTrustworthinessGiving UpHe Is Our GodRejoicing When Someone Is SavedA New Day


“Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter,
The one that remains faithful and trustworthy.

Verse ConceptsAdmission Into God's PresenceThe Act Of OpeningOpening GatesA Righteous People

For he has thrown down [the] inhabitants of [the] height, he lays low [the] lofty city. He lays it low to [the] ground; he throws her to [the] dust.

Verse ConceptsHumiliationHumilityPride, Results OfHumbling The ProudDestruction Of CitiesPutting Things Down

As a woman with child, that draweth near her delivery, is in travail, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been before thee, Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsWomen's Strengthchildbearing

For behold, Jehovah cometh out of his place to visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth upon them; and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with NoahBlood, as symbol of guiltBlood, as basis of lifePunishment, By GodReward, DivineSin, God's Judgment OnVeilsSin Made Known

In that day the Lord will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent
With His fierce and great and mighty sword [rescuing Israel from her enemy],
Even Leviathan the twisted serpent;
And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.

Verse ConceptsLeviathanDay of the LORDDragonsSeaSnakesNames And Titles For SatanBeastsCosmic CreaturesDinosaursPunishmentMoving OnThe Seafitnessrelentless

Wrath not to me: who shall distribute to me the sharp point of the thorn in battle? I will rush upon her; I will set her on fire together.

Verse ConceptsBriersThornsWeedsBurning Plants

In measure, when sending her away, didst thou contend with her: he hath taken her away with his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

Verse ConceptseastOut Of The EastPeople ExiledThe East Wind

For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little. ...

Verse ConceptsLearning MethodsGraduallyA Little BitGod's OrdersStudyingorder

He who said to them, “Here is rest, give rest to the weary,”
And, “Here is repose,” but they would not listen.

Verse ConceptsRest, SpiritualRejection Of God's CallSelf WillGod Giving RestResttiredmovement

And the word of Jehovah was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little: that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

Verse ConceptsGraduallyReprobatesGod's OrdersExposition Of The ScripturesFalling Backwards

For he treadeth not the fitches out with a waine, neither bringeth he the cart here and there over the cumin, but he thresheth the fitches out with a flail, and the cumin with a rod.

Verse ConceptsHerbs And SpicesSticksCummin

And the multitude of all the nations that war against Ariel, even all that war against her and her fortifications, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.

Verse ConceptsLike A Dream

For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I named her, Arrogance, that doeth nothing.

Verse ConceptsProtection, Not Found InExterminationNothingUseless Labour

Then will ye defile - The overlaying of thy graven images of silver, And the coating of thy molten image, of gold, - Thou wilt cash them away, as a woman the token of her sickness, Begone! shalt thou say thereto,

Verse ConceptsGoldMenstruationOverlaid With SilverAbandoning IdolsUnclean Things

And every stroke of his punishing rod that the LORD brings down on them will be to the sound of tambourines and harps, as he fights against her in battle with a brandished arm.

Verse ConceptsHarpsMusicMusical Instruments, types ofMusic To Celebratedrums

For thus said Jehovah unto me: 'As growl doth the lion and the young lion over his prey, Called against whom is a multitude of shepherds, From their voice he is not affrighted, And from their noise he is not humbled; So come down doth Jehovah of Hosts To war on mount Zion, and on her height.

Verse ConceptsNoiseShepherds, As Kings And LeadersStock Keeping