Isaiah 13:1 Cross References - Thomson

¹ A vision which Esaias son of Amos saw respecting Babylon.

¹ A vision which Esaias son of Amos saw, [which he saw respecting Judea and Jerusalem] in the reign of Ozias, and Joatham and Achaz and Hezekias, who reigned over Judea.

¹⁹ And Babylon, which is stiled Glorious, by the king of the Chaldeans, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorra.

⁴ that thou wilt take up this funeral song over the king of Babylon: [[c]the chorus] [c] How the extortioner is laid to rest! and a stop put to his demands! ⁵ The Lord hath broken the yoke of the sinners; the yoke of the rulers. ⁶ He smote a nation in wrath with an incurable wound; he smote a nation with a vengeful wound which did not spare. The confidant is gone to rest; ⁷ the whole earth shouteth for joy; ⁸ and the trees of Lebanon rejoice over thee; and the cedars of Lebanon say, "Since thou hast gone to rest, no feller is come up against us." ⁹ Hades from beneath was in uproar to meet thee; for thee were roused all the giants who had ruled the earth. Having roused from their thrones all the kings of nations, ¹⁰ they will all accost thee saying, "And art thou caught as we have been? And among us art thou enrolled? ¹¹ Is thy pomp come down to Hades; all thy great festivity?" Beneath thee they will strew corruption for a bed; and Worms shall be thy covering. ¹² How is Lucifer fallen from heaven! He who was harbinger of the morning; he who sent messages to all the nations is trampled down into the earth. ¹³ Thou indeed didst say in thy heart, I will ascend up into heaven; above the stars of heaven I will place my throne; I will seat myself on a lofty mountain; on the lofty mountains which face the north. ¹⁴ I will ascend above the clouds; I will be like the Most High. ¹⁵ But thou must now go down to the mansion of the dead; even down to the foundations of the earth. ¹⁶ They who see thee will express their amazement at thee and say, Is this the man who troubled the earth? who shook kings? ¹⁷ who made the World a desert? who, when he destroyed cities, never dismissed his captives? ¹⁸ All the kings of the nations have been composed to rest with honour, every man in his own house. ¹⁹ But thou shalt be cast out on the mountains, like an abominable corse, with dying crouds, pierced with the sword, descending down to the mansion of the dead. ²⁰ As a mantle stained with blood cannot be clean; for the same cause neither canst thou be clean. Because thou hast destroyed this land of mine, and hast slain this my people; thou shalt not be of long continuance. Wicked seed, ²¹ prepare thy sons for slaughter, for the sins of their fathers; that they may not rise and possess the land, and fill the World with wars. ²² I will indeed rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and destroy their name and remnant and seed. Thus saith the Lord, ²³ "I will lay Babylonia waste: that porcupines may inhabit it; and it shall be a desolation. And I will plunge it in the miry gulf of destruction.

²⁸ In the year in which king Achaz died, this Oracle was delivered.

¹ The Oracle against Moab. In the night Moab is destroyed; for by night is destroyed the bulwark of Moab.

¹ The Oracle against Damascus. Behold Damascus shall be removed from among cities, and shall be for desolation;

¹ A vision concerning Egypt. Behold the Lord is seated on a swift cloud; and he will come into Egypt; and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence; and the heart of the people shall melt within them.

¹ The vision of the Desert. As, when a whirlwind having passed through a desert, is rushing out of a desert, the sight from the land is terrible; ² this vision being also dreadful, was revealed to me. The treacherous dealeth treacherously; the transgressor transgresseth; the Elamites are upon me; and the elders of the Persians are coming against me. Am I now to groan and comfort myself? ³ For this cause my loins are filled with fainting; pangs have seized me like a woman in travail. I did wrong not to hear; I shuddered so that I could not see. ⁴ My heart is bewildered, transgression overwhelmeth me. My soul is on the brink of despair. ⁵ Prepare the table. Eat, drink ye chiefs. Having arisen prepare shields. ⁶ Because thus the Lord said to me, "Go set a watchman for thyself and proclaim what thou seest." ⁷ Thereupon I beheld a chariot with two riders, and a rider on an ass and a rider on a camel. ⁸ "Listen with the utmost attention, "said the Lord, "and call A fair breeze to the watch tower" I have kept my station all the day long, and by the camp I have stood the whole night; ⁹ and behold here cometh a man riding in a chariot, and addressing me he said, "It is fallen! Babylon is fallen! and all her images, and all the works of her hands are dashed on the ground." ¹⁰ Hear this ye who have been forsaken! and ye, who have been sorely grieved, hear what I have heard from the Lord of Hosts: what the God of Israel hath announced to us. ¹¹ The vision concerning Idumea. TO me one calleth from Seir, "Guard ye the fortifications, "

¹³ Thou mayst go to rest in the western forest, or in the way to Dedan.

¹ The Oracle concerning the valley of Sion. What aileth thee, that you are all now gone up to the house tops?

²⁵ Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, The man who is now fixed in a sure place shall be removed and taken away and shall fall; and the glory which is on him shall be utterly destroyed for the Lord hath spoken it.

¹⁴ Thus saith the Lord, the God who redeemed you, the Holy One of Israel; For your sakes I will send to Babylon, and rouse up all who are fleeing; and the Chaldeans shall be bound in ships.

¹ But now, hear, Jacob my servant, and thou Israel, whom I have chosen; ² Thus saith the Lord, the God who made thee, and who formed thee from the womb, still thou shalt be helped. Fear not, thou my servant Jacob, and thou, beloved Israel, whom I have chosen:

¹ Come down, sit on the ground, Virgin daughter of Babylon! Sit on the ground, daughter of the Chaldeans! for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate! ² Take a millstone and grind corn. Doff thy veil; uncover thy grey locks. Make bare thy leg: wade through rivers. ³ Thy shame shall be exposed; thy nakedness shall be seen. This vengeance I will take on thy account and no more deliver thee up to men. ⁴ Thy deliverer is the Lord of Hosts, his name is the Holy One of Israel. ⁵ Sit in compunction: enter into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans! thou shalt no more be called the strength of a kingdom. ⁶ I was angry with my people: thou didst pollute my heritage, I delivered them into thy hand: and thou didst shew them no mercy. The yoke of the aged thou madest very heavy, ⁷ and saidst, I shall be empress forever. These things did not enter thy heart; nor didst thou call to mind what might at last befal thee. ⁸ Now, therefore, hear these things, thou voluptuary! thou who art seated at ease, who thinkest thyself secure; who sayest in thy heart; "I am and there is none else. I shall not sit a widow, nor shall I know the loss of children." ⁹ But now upon thee shall come these two things, suddenly, in one day. The loss of children and widowhood shall come suddenly on thee, in the midst of thy sorcery, in the full strength of thy mighty enchantments. ¹⁰ Confiding in thy wickedness thou indeed saidst; "I am and there is none else." Know thou, the consciousness of these things and thy whoredom shall be thy shame. Thou indeed saidst in thy heart, "I am and there is none else;" ¹¹ but upon thee shall come destruction, and thou shalt not know; a pit; and into it thou shalt fall. Yes, upon thee shall come misery, of which thou shalt not be able to rid thyself: and destruction shall come upon thee suddenly of which thou wilt have no apprehension. ¹² Persist now in thine incantations and in thy manifold sorcery, which thou hast learned from thy youth: if thou canst be benefited by them. ¹³ Thou hast wearied thyself with thy counsels: let the astrologers now stand up and save thee; let them who gaze on the stars tell thee what is instantly coming upon thee. ¹⁴ Behold like brambles on a fire they shall all be burned up; and shall not deliver their own life from the flame. Seeing thou hast coals of fire, sit upon them; ¹⁵ will they give thee relief? Thou hast wearied thyself with this traffic from thy youth. The men have wandered away, every one to his own home; but for thee there shall be no safety.

³³ Now if this people or a priest or a prophet should ask, "What is the burden of the Lord?" Thou shalt say to them, "You are that burden and I will cast you off, saith the Lord." ³⁴ As for the prophet and the priests and the people who say, "The burden of the Lord;" I will punish that man and his house. ³⁵ Thus you shall say every one to his neighbour and every one to his brother, "What hath the Lord answered," and, "What hath the Lord spoken." ³⁶ So mention no more the burden of the Lord: since every man's word shall be his burden. ³⁷ "But why hath the Lord our God spoken?" ³⁸ For this cause, saith the Lord our God, because you have used this expression, "The Burden of the Lord, "though I sent to you saying, You shall not say, "The Burden of the Lord."

¹² And when the seventy years are compleated I will execute vengeance on that nation, and make them an everlasting desolation. ¹³ I will indeed bring against that land all these words of mine which I have spoken against it; all the things which are written in this book which Jeremias prophesied against the nations, ¹⁴ [Omitted] ¹⁵ in the manner the Lord, the God of Israel said, "Take this cup of wine; this strong wine from my hand, and thou shalt make all the nations, to which I send thee, drink it. ¹⁶ And they shall drink and vomit and rave, because of the sword which I send among them. ¹⁷ So I took the cup out of the hand of the Lord and made all the nations drink to which the Lord sent me, ¹⁸ namely Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings of Juda, and his chiefs, to make them a desolation and a waste and an object of pity; ¹⁹ also Pharao king of Egypt and his servants and his nobles and all his people; ²⁰ and all the mixed people; and all the kings of the Philistines, [namely Ascalon and Gaza and Akkaron and the remnant of Azotus; ²¹ and Idumea and Moab and the children of Ammon; ²² and the kings of Tyre and the kings of Sidon; and the kings on the border of the sea; ²³ and Daidan and Thaiman and Ros, and all that had their foreheads shaven; ²⁴ and all the mixed people who dwell in the desert; ²⁵ and all the kings of Ailam and all the kings of the Persians ²⁶ and all the kings north of the sun, far and near, every one adjoining his brother, even all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.

¹ A word of the Lord which he spake against Babylon. ² Proclaim among the nations, publish and conceal not; say, Babylon is taken; Bel is confounded; the fearless, the luxurious Mairodach is delivered up. ³ For a nation is gone up against her from the north, which will make her land a desolation, so that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor beast. ⁴ In those days, even at that time, shall come up the children of Israel, they and the children of Juda together: walking slow and weeping they will march on seeking the Lord their God. ⁵ They will ask the way to Zion; for thitherward they will set their face; and they will come and flee to the Lord their God; for the everlasting covenant shall not be forgotten. ⁶ My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds caused them to stray. On the mountains they caused them to wander. From mountain to hill they roamed. They forgot their place of rest. ⁷ All that found them devoured them. Their enemies said, "Let us not spare them because they sinned against the Lord." He who gathered their fathers hath a pasture of righteousness: ⁸ remove out of Babylon and from the country of the Chaldeans, and go out and be like dragons before sheep. ⁹ For Lo! I am raising up against Babylon assemblies of nations from the north; and they shall be drawn up in array against her. Thence one shall be taken like the dart of a skilful warrior which shall not rebound in vain. ¹⁰ So Chaldea shall be for a prey. All that plunder it shall be satisfied. ¹¹ Because you rejoiced and triumphed when you were plundering my heritage; because you frisked about like calves in a pasture, and brandished your horns like bulls; ¹² your mother shall be greatly ashamed: she who brought you forth for prosperity shall be confounded. Being the hindmost of nations, ¹³ a desert because of the wrath of the Lord, she shall not be inhabited; but shall be entirely a desolation. Sorrow will cover the countenance of all who travel through Babylon; and at all their calamity they will express pity. ¹⁴ Set yourselves in array all around against Babylon. All ye who bend the bow shoot at her: spare not your arrows, ¹⁵ you must needs subdue her. Her hands are weakened; her bulwarks have fallen, and her wall is undermined. Because it is a vengeance from the Lord; execute vengeance on her. As she hath done, do ye to her. ¹⁶ Destroy utterly the seed of Babylon, him who handleth the sickle in harvest. Let them return from the face of the Grecian sword, every one to his own people; and let every one flee to his own land. ¹⁷ Israel was a wandering sheep. Lions scared him away. The first who devoured him was the king of Assur, and this last, the king of Babylon gnawed his bones. ¹⁸ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold I will execute vengeance on the king of Babylon and his land as I executed vengeance on the king of Assyria. ¹⁹ And I will bring back Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel, and on mount Ephraim, and on Galaad; and his soul shall be satisfied. ²⁰ In those days and at that time, search shall be made for the iniquity of Israel; but none shall remain: and for the sins of Juda; but none shall be found. For I will be merciful to them who are left. ²¹ With respect to this land, saith the Lord. Go up with bitterness against it and against them who dwell in it; take vengeance, sword, and destroy utterly; saith the Lord, and do according to all that I command thee. ²² A sound of battle and great distress in the land of the Chaldeans! ²³ How the hammer of the whole earth is broken and dashed to pieces! How Babylon is become a desolation among the nations! ²⁴ They will come upon thee and thou shalt not know; like Babylon itself and thou shalt be taken. Thou art found out and taken, because thou didst set thyself against the Lord. ²⁵ The Lord hath opened his arsenal and brought out the instruments of his wrath; because the Lord God hath a work to perform in the land of the Chaldeans. ²⁶ Because her time is come; open ye her treasuries, search her like a cave; and destroy her utterly. Let not a remnant of her be left. ²⁷ Lay waste all her fruits and let them go down to destruction. [p] Alas for them; for their day is come and the time of their visitation! ²⁸ Hark! a sound of men fleeing and escaping out of the land of Babylon to inform Sion of the vengeance of the Lord our God. ²⁹ [J] Issue these orders to many against Babylon; to every one bending a bow;" Encamp against her round about; let none escape out of her." Render to her according to her works; according to all that she hath done, do ye to her. Because she set herself against the Lord, the holy God of Israel, ³⁰ therefore her young men shall fall in her streets and all her mighty warriors shall be laid low, saith the Lord. ³¹ Behold I am against thee, thou essence of haughtiness, saith the Lord. Because thy day is come and the time of thy punishment; ³² therefore thy haughtiness shall be abated and fall, and none shall continue to support it. For I will kindle a fire in her forest, which shall devour all around her. ³³ Thus saith the Lord, The children of Israel and the children of Juda have both been oppressed; all who captivated them tyrannised over them. Because they refused to let them go; ³⁴ therefore their Redeemer; the Mighty One, whose name is The Lord Almighty will plead their cause with their adversaries. In order that he may remove this land out of the way he will sharpen for the inhabitants of Babylon ³⁵ a sword against the Chaldeans and against the inhabitants of Babylon; and against her grandees and against her counsellors; ³⁶ a sword against her warriors and they shall be destroyed; ³⁷ a sword against their horses and against their chariots; a sword against their warriors and the mixed multitude in the midst of her and they shall be like women; a sword against her treasures; and they shall be rifled; ³⁸ against them who are on her waters and they shall be exposed to shame. Because it is a land of the graven images and it was in these islands where they boasted; ³⁹ therefore imageries shall dwell in those islands and in her shall dwell the daughters of Sirens and she shall never more be inhabited. ⁴⁰ As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorra and the neighbouring cities, said the Lord, no man shall dwell there, nor shall a son of man make his abode there. ⁴¹ Behold a people is coming from the north, even a mighty nation, and many kings shall be roused up from the extremity of the earth ⁴² handling the bow and sword. They are haughty and will shew no mercy: their voice will roar like the sea. On horses they will come prancing, in array like fire, for battle against thee, daughter of Babylon. ⁴³ The king of Babylon heard the report of them and his hands were enfeebled; anguish seized him like the pangs of a woman in travail. ⁴⁴ Behold he will be like the lion which must go up from the swelling of Jordan to Gaitham, for I will speedily drive men from her, and set every youth against her: for who is like me and who can withstand me? And who is the shepherd who can stand before me? ⁴⁵ Therefore hear the counsel which the Lord hath taken against Babylon; and the determination he is come to against the Chaldean inhabitants, let all but the lambs of the flock to destroyed; let all but a pasture for them be made a desolation. ⁴⁶ For at the sound of the capture of Babylon the earth shall be shaken, and a scream shall be heard among the nations.

¹ Thus said the Lord. Behold against Babylon and against the Chaldean inhabitants I am raising up a hot destroying wind. ² And against Babylon I will send scorners who will treat her with scorn and waste her land. Woe shall surround Babylon on all sides on the day of her affliction. ³ Let him, who bendeth the bow, bend it; and him, who hath armour put it on; shew no compassion to her youths, and destroy utterly all her host. ⁴ And let the wounded fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and those who are pierced through, fall in her streets. ⁵ [p] Since Israel and Juda are not quite forsaken by their God, the Lord Almighty, on account of their land being filled with iniquity by reason of the sanctuaries of Israel; ⁶ flee out of Babylon and save every one his life and be not involved, in her iniquity. For the time of her punishment is come from the Lord, and he is rendering to her a recompence. ⁷ Babylon was a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, furnishing a plentiful draught to all the nations. Of her wine the nations drank, therefore they reeled. ⁸ But Babylon is suddenly fallen and broken. Utter a lamentation for her. Get balm for her deadly wound; perhaps she may be cured. ⁹ [c] We have administered, medicines to Babylon, but she is not healed. Let us leave her and depart every one to his own land: for her judgment hath reached to heaven and mounted up to the stars. ¹⁰ The Lord hath published his decree. Come let us proclaim in Sion the works of the Lord our God. ¹¹ [p] Prepare the arrows. Fill the quivers. The Lord hath stirred up the spirit of the king of the Medes. For his wrath is against Babylon to destroy her utterly. For it is the vengeance of the Lord; the avengement of his people. ¹² On the walls of Babylon erect a standard; set the watch; have arms ready. Because the Lord hath undertaken; therefore he will accomplish what he hath spoken against the inhabitants of Babylon; ¹³ against them who dwell on many waters, and against the multitude of her treasures. Thine end is come, it is come indeed into thy bowels: ¹⁴ for the Lord hath sworn by his arm, "I will fill thee with men as with locusts; and they who go down shall utter a sound against thee." ¹⁵ [c] The Lord is he who made the earth by his power, who fitted up the World by his wisdom. By his understanding he stretched out the heaven. ¹⁶ At his voice there was in heaven a sound of water, and he brought up clouds from the extremity of the earth. He made the lightning for rain and brought out light from his treasuries. ¹⁷ Every man by knowledge became stupefied, every melter of gold was put to shame for his graven images; for their molten images were falsehoods, there is no breath in them. ¹⁸ They are works of vanity and objects of derision. In the time of their visitation they shall perish. ¹⁹ The portion of Jacob is not such as these, for he who formed all things is his inheritance: his name is the Lord. ²⁰ [J] Thou art dispersing for rne implements oi' war, but in thee I will disperse nations and remove kings out of thee; ²¹ and in thee I will disperse the horse and his rider; ²² and in thee I will disperse chariots and charioteers; and in thee I will disperse the youth and the virgin; and in thee I will disperse the husband and the wife; ²³ and in thee I will disperse the shepherd and the flock; and in thee I will disperse the husbandman and his husbandry; and in thee I will disperse the generals and leaders of armies, ²⁴ and retribute to Babylon and all the Chaldean inhabitants all the evils which they have done to Sion in your sight, saith the Lord. ²⁵ Behold I am against thee, corrupted mountain which corruptest the whole earth, and I will stretch out my hand against thee and roll thee down on rocks; and I will make thee like a mountain which hath been burned to ashes, ²⁶ so that they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner nor a stone for a foundation. For thou shalt be a desolation for ever, saith the Lord. ²⁷ Erect a standard in the land. Sound a trumpet among the nations. ²⁸ Prepare the nations against her. Issue orders against her. Carry them, kings, from me even to the Achanazeans. Erect towers against her. Bring up against her, cavalry like a multitude of locusts. Bring up against her nations, the king of the Medes and of the whole earth; his generals and all the leaders of his army. ²⁹ [p] The earth was in commotion and oppressed with toil, because the determination of the Lord against Babylon had roused it, to make the land of Babylon a desolation and uninhabitable. ³⁰ The warriors of Babylon declined to fight. They will sit still there during a siege. Their mighty power is broken. ³¹ They are become like women. Her habitations are burned with fire. Her bars are broken. Courier will run to meet courier and messenger to meet messenger to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken; For thus said the Lord, the houses of the king of Babylon shall be threshed like a floor full of ripe grain. Yet a little while and her harvest will come. [c] She devoured me; she chewed me to pieces: thick darkness overwhelmed me. ³² that the passages one after another are forced; that the barriers are burned with fire and his warriors are fleeing. Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon swallowed Die down; like a dragon he tilled his belly with my dainties. They have cast me up.

³⁵ [p] Let the inhabitants of Sion say, My troubles and my miseries be upon Babylon! and let Jerusalem say, My blood be upon the Chaldean inhabitants! ³⁶ [J] For this cause, thus saith the Lord, Behold I will judge thine adversary and avenge thy cause; and I will drain off her sea and make her fountain dry, ³⁷ and Babylon shall be a desolation and shall not be inhabited. ³⁸ Because they roused together like lions and like lions' whelps; ³⁹ in their heat I will give them a draught and make them drunk; that they may be stupefied and sleep a perpetual sleep and never awake, saith the Lord. ⁴⁰ [p] Down, down with them, like lambs to slaughter and like rams and he goats. ⁴¹ How the boast of the whole earth is hunted and taken! how Babylon has become a desolation among the nations! ⁴² The sea came up against Babylon with its roaring waves, and she is overwhelmed. ⁴³ Her cities are become like a land without water, an untrodden desert. Not an individual can dwell there: nor can a son of man lodge in her. ⁴⁴ [J] I will indeed punish Babylon and bring forth out of her mouth what she hath swallowed. And the nations shall no more be gathered together to her; nor shall the victims of the whole earth fall by Babylon. ⁴⁵ Away from her country, ⁴⁶ [Omitted] ⁴⁷ [Omitted] ⁴⁸ [Omitted] ⁴⁹ [Omitted] ⁵⁰ ye who have escaped; and tarry not; ye who are far off, remember the Lord; and let Jerusalem recur to your mind. ⁵¹ [c] We are ashamed; because we have heard our reproach, disgrace hath covered our face; strangers have entered our sanctuaries; into the house of the Lord. ⁵² [J] Therefore behold the days are coming, saith the Lord, when I will execute vengeance on her graven images, and among all them her wounded shall fall in that land. ⁵³ For though Babylon should mount up to heaven; though she fortify her walls with all her might, from me shall come forth those who shall destroy her, saith the Lord. ⁵⁴ [p] A sound of screaming in Babylon! and great destruction in the land of the Chaldeans! ⁵⁵ For the Lord hath utterly destroyed Babylon, and put an end to her din, which was like the sound of great waters. Her din he hath given up to destruction.

⁵⁷ For misery is come upon Babylon. Her warriors are taken. Their bow is confounded; for God rendereth them retribution. [J] The Lord rendereth them retribution; and he will make utterly drunk her leaders and her wise men and her generals, saith the king whose name is The Lord Almighty. ⁵⁸ Thus saith the Lord, The wall of Babylon was made broad; It shall be totally demolished and her lofty gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall not labour in vain, though the nations may at first fail. ⁵⁹ The word which the Lord commanded Jeremias the prophet to deliver to Saraias son of Nerias son of Maasias when he was going from Sedekias king of Juda to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Saraias had the charge of the homage gifts. ⁶⁰ When Jeremias bad written in a book all the evils which were to come upon Babylon, even all the words above written against Babylon, ⁶¹ Jeremias said to Saraias; When thou art come to Babylon and shalt have seen and read all these words, ⁶² then thou shalt say, "O Lord, Lord, thou hast spoken against this place, that thou wilt destroy it utterly, so that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor beast; for it shall be a desolation forever." ⁶³ And when thou hast finished reading the book, then thou shalt tye a stone to it and throw it into the midst of the Euphrates, ⁶⁴ and say, "So shall Babylon sink and rise no more by reason of the evils which I bring upon it".

¹⁰ Say respecting them, Thus saith the Lord, Lord; With respect to him who is the chief, and the ruler in Jerusalem, even to all the house of Israel, who are among them

⁶ Whereupon the king's countenance changed and his thoughts troubled him and the joints of his loins were loosened and his knees smote one against another.

²⁸ Phares; Thy kingdom is taken away and given to Medes and Persians.

¹ The sentence on Ninive. The book of the vision of Nahum, the Elkosite.

¹ The vision which Ambakum the prophet saw.

¹ A Burden of the word of the Lord. In the land of Sedrach and Damascus is his sacrifice, because the Lord hath an eye over men, particularly over all the tribes of Israel:

¹ The burden of the word of the Lord against Israel. The Lord who stretcheth out the heaven and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him,

¹ The charge of the word of the Lord to Israel by the ministry of his messenger. Lay it up in your hearts I beseech you.

¹ Then one of the seven angels who had the seven vials came to me and talked with me, saying to me, Come let me shew thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth on the many waters, ² with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. ³ And he carried me away in spirit to a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast full of blasphemous names, which had seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ And the woman was clad in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls; and she had in her hand a golden cup full of the abominations and impurity of her fornication; ⁵ and on her forehead there was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, the mother of the harlots and the abominations of the earth. ⁶ And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus; and when I saw her I expressed my astonishment with great amaze. ⁷ And the angel said to me, Why art thou amazed? I will tell thee the mystery of this woman and of the beast which carrieth her, which hath seven heads and ten horns. ⁸ The beast which thou sawest was and is not and is soon to ascend out of the bottomless gulf and go to destruction; and the inhabitants of the earth, whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will wonder when they see the beast, because it was and is not although indeed it is. ⁹ Let the mind which hath wisdom attend. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth ¹⁰ and they are seven kings. Five have fallen, and one is and the other is not yet come; and when he hath come he must continue but a little while; ¹¹ and the beast, which was and is not, is itself the eighth and is of the seven and goeth to destruction; ¹² and the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but are about to take authority as kings one short period of time with the beast. ¹³ These have one mind and will transfer their power and authority to the beast. ¹⁴ These will make war against the lamb, and the lamb will overcome them; for he is Lord of lords and King of kings; and they who are with him are called and chosen and faithful. ¹⁵ Then he saith to me, The waters which thou sawest where the harlot sitteth are peoples, and multitudes and nations and tongues: ¹⁶ and with regard to the ten horns which thou sawest on the beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her desolate and naked and devour her flesh, and burn her with fire. ¹⁷ For God hath put it into their hearts to execute his sentence and to execute one design and to give their kingdom to the beast until the words of God are accomplished. ¹⁸ Now the woman which thou sawest is that great city which hath sovereignty over the kings of the earth.