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Rh blessing in the midst of the earth; for that the of hosts hath blessed him, saying: 'Blessed be Egypt My people and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel Mine inheritance.'

In the year that Tartan came into Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it; at that time the spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying: 'Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot.' And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

And the said: 'Like as My servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot to be for three years a sign and a wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia, so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. And they shall be dismayed and ashamed, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. And the inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day: Behold, such is our expectation, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?'

The burden of the wilderness of the sea.


 * As whirlwinds in the South sweeping on,
 * It cometh from the wilderness, from a dreadful land.
 * A grievous vision is declared unto me:
 * 'The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth.
 * Go up, O Elam! besiege, O Media!
 * All the sighing thereof have I made to cease.'
 * Therefore are my loins filled with convulsion;
 * Pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail;
 * I am bent so that I cannot hear;
 * I am affrighted so that I cannot see.
 * My heart is bewildered, terror hath overwhelmed me;
 * The twilight that I longed for hath been turned for me into trembling.
 * They prepare the table, they light the lamps, they eat, they drink—
 * 'Rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.'


 * For thus hath the Lord said unto me:
 * Go, set a watchman; let him declare what he seeth!
 * And when he seeth a troop, horsemen by pairs,
 * A troop of asses, a troop of camels,
 * He shall hearken diligently with much heed.
 * And he cried as a lion: 'Upon the watch-tower, O Lord,
 * I stand continually in the day-time,
 * And I am set in my ward all the nights.'
 * And, behold, there came a troop of men, horsemen by pairs.
 * And he spoke and said:
 * 'Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
 * And all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground.'
 * O thou my threshing, and the winnowing of my floor,
 * That which I have heard from the of hosts,
 * The God of Israel, have I declared unto you.

The burden of Dumah.


 * One calleth unto me out of Seir:
 * 'Watchman, what of the night?
 * Watchman, what of the night?'