<p class="poetry">They are unfamiliar with peace;p> <p class="poetry">their deeds are unjust.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They use deceitful methods,p> <p class="poetry">and whoever deals with them is unfamiliar with peace.<n id="2" />p>

&#8220;For just as the new heavens and the new earth I am about to make will remain standing before me,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;so your descendants and your name will remain.

<p class="poetry">Now I will inform youp> <p class="poetry">what I am about to do to my vineyard:p> <p class="poetry">I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">It was reported to the family<n id="1" /> of David, &#8220;Syria has allied with<n id="2" /> Ephraim.&#8221; They and their people were emotionally shaken, just as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.<n id="3" />

So the <sc>Lordsc> told Isaiah, &#8220;Go out with your son Shear-jashub<n id="1" /> and meet Ahaz at the end of the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">At that time<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.<n id="2" />

for before the child knows how to cry out, &#8216;My father&#8217; or &#8216;My mother,&#8217; the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria<n id="1" /> will be carried off by the king of Assyria.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

So look, the sovereign master<n id="1" /> is bringing up against them the turbulent and mighty waters of the Euphrates River<n id="2" /> &#8211; the king of Assyria and all his majestic power. It will reach flood stage and overflow its banks.<n id="3" />

It will spill into Judah, flooding and engulfing, as it reaches to the necks of its victims. He will spread his wings out over your entire land,<n id="1" /> O Immanuel.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Manasseh fought against<n id="1" /> Ephraim,p> <p class="poetry">and Ephraim against Manasseh;p> <p class="poetry">together they fought against Judah.p> <p class="poetry">Despite all this, his anger does not subside,p> <p class="poetry">and his hand is ready to strike again.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The poor will graze in my pastures;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the needy will rest securely.p> <p class="poetry">But I will kill your root by famine;p> <p class="poetry">it will put to death all your survivors.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">They went up to the temple,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the people of Dibon went up to the high places to lament.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Because of what happened to Nebo and Medeba,<n id="3" /> Moab wails.p> <p class="poetry">Every head is shaved bare,p> <p class="poetry">every beard is trimmed off.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Be ashamed, O Sidon,p> <p class="poetry">for the sea<n id="1" /> says this, O fortress of the sea:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I have not gone into laborp> <p class="poetry">or given birth;p> <p class="poetry">I have not raised young menp> <p class="poetry">or brought up young women.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">At that time<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> will punishp> <p class="poetry">with his destructive,<n id="2" /> great, and powerful swordp> <p class="poetry">Leviathan the fast-moving<n id="3" /> serpent,p> <p class="poetry">Leviathan the squirming serpent;p> <p class="poetry">he will kill the sea monster.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">For the <sc>Lordsc> will rise up, as he did at Mount Perazim,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he will rouse himself, as he did in the Valley of Gibeon,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">to accomplish his work,p> <p class="poetry">his peculiar work,p> <p class="poetry">to perform his task,p> <p class="poetry">his strange task.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Once he has leveled its surface,p> <p class="poetry">does he not scatter the seed of the caraway plant,p> <p class="poetry">sow the seed of the cumin plant,p> <p class="poetry">and plant the wheat, barley, and grain in their designated places?<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Grain is crushed,p> <p class="poetry">though one certainly does not thresh it forever.p> <p class="poetry">The wheel of one&#8217;s wagon rolls over it,p> <p class="poetry">but his horses do not crush it.p>

<p class="poetry">For people will live in Zion;p> <p class="poetry">in Jerusalem<n id="1" /> you will weep no more.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">When he hears your cry of despair, he will indeed show you mercy;p> <p class="poetry">when he hears it, he will respond to you.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">He will water the seed you plant in the ground,p> <p class="poetry">and the ground will produce crops in abundance.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">At that time<n id="2" /> your cattle will graze in wide pastures.p>

<p class="bodytext">Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn in grief<n id="1" /> and reported to him what the chief adviser had said.