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And light into darkness;

That change bitter into sweet,

And sweet into bitter!

 

²¹Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes,

And prudent in their own sight!

 

²²Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine,

And men of strength to mingle strong drink;

²³That justify the wicked for a reward,

And take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

²⁴Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble,

And as the chaff is consumed in the flame,

So their root shall be as rottenness,

And their blossom shall go up as dust;

Because they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts,

And contemned the word of the Holy One of Israel.

 

²⁵Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against His people,

And He hath stretched forth His hand against them, and hath smitten them,

And the hills did tremble,

And their carcasses were as refuse in the midst of the streets.

For all this His anger is not turned away,

But His hand is stretched out still.

 

²⁶And He will lift up an ensign to the nations from far,

And will hiss unto them from the end of the earth;

And, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly;

²⁷None shall be weary nor stumble among them;

None shall slumber nor sleep;

Neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed,

Nor the latchet of their shoes be broken;

²⁸Whose arrows are sharp,

And all their bows bent;

Their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint,

And their wheels like a whirlwind;

²⁹Their roaring shall be like a lion,

They shall roar like young lions, yea, they shall roar,

And lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe,

And there shall be none to deliver.

³⁰And they shall roar against them in that day

Like the roaring of the sea;

And if one look unto the land,

Behold darkness and distress,

And the light is darkened in the skies thereof.

6In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. ²Above Him stood the seraphim; each one had six wings: with twain he covered his face and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. ³And one called unto another, and said:

Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts;

The whole earth is full of His glory.

⁴And the posts of the door were moved at the voice of them that called, and the house was filled with smoke. ⁵Then said I:

Woe is me! for I am undone;

Because I am a man of unclean lips,

And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips;

For mine eyes have seen the King,

The Lord of hosts.

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