Rotherham(i)
20 Alas! for them, Who call evil good, and good evil,––Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness, Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
21 Alas! for them, Who are wise in their own eyes,––And, in their own sight, are prudent.
22 Alas! for them, Who are heroes, to drink wine,––And men of valour, to mingle strong drink,
23 Who justify the lawless, for a bribe,––Whereas, the righteousness of the righteous, they take from him.
24 Therefore, As a tongue of fire, eateth up straw, And a flame reduceth, dry grass, to powder, Their root, like rottenness, shall become, And, their blossom, like dust, shall ascend,––Because they refused the law of Yahweh of hosts, And, the utterance of the Holy One of Israel, they despised.
25 For this cause, did the anger of Yahweh kindle, upon, his own people, And he stretched out his hand against them and smote them––So that the mountains, trembled, And, their dead bodies, served, for fuel, in the midst of the streets. For all this, hath his anger, not turned back, But, still, is his hand outstretched,
26 Therefore will he lift up an ensign to the nations afar off, And signal for him from the end of the earth,––And lo! with hot haste, will he come:
27 None shall be weary, and none shall stumble in his midst, He shall neither slumber nor sleep,––Nor shall be loosened, the girdle of his loins, Nor snapped, the thong of his sandals:
28 Whose arrows, are sharpened, and, all his bows, bent,––The hoofs of his horses, like flint, are accounted, And, his wheels, [are] like a storm–wind:
29 A roar, hath he, like a lioness,––He will roar like wild lions––And will growl, and lay hold on prey, and carry into safety, and there be none, to deliver.
30 Yea he will growl at him, in that day, like the growling of the sea,––Though he look hard for the land, lo! the darkness of distress, Yea, the light, hath grown dark in its clouds!