Isaiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 429

ISAIAH. ODE xg, Boox I. C;;_ ;3_ They come from a land at a distance, From the boundary of Heaven, And the LORD with His weapon of anger, To punish your land. Howl l for the day of the LORD is arriving! Like a robber for plunder it comes! Therefore all hands hang down, And each man’s heart will melt, Will be terrified, tortured, and writhe In anguish like women in childbirthl Each his friend will atfright. 4 Face flaming to face, ‘ Look! the LORD°S day has come! Fierce, o’erwhelming, and furious with anger, To turn the Earth into a waste, And the wicked destroy upon l1er.’ gm Then the stars of the skies and the planets Will no longer shine with their light. In darkness the Sun will come forth, And the Moon will not give out her beam,

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When I visit her sin on the world, And on the Wicked their crime.

Make the pride of the haughty to cease, And the might of the terrible fall. gg And make mortals more precious than gold, And mankind than the purest from Ophir: For the Heavens will tremble, earth shake from her place At the LORD OF H0s’1‘s’ anger and day of fierce wrath; They shall be like a stag, or a Shepherdless Bock, Each to his Nation will fly, And everyone march to his land, And all met will be stabbed, All caught by the sword; 16 Their children ilung down in their sight, Their homes plundered and ravished their wives. For I will raise on them the Medes, Whom silver will never restrain, And who have no desire for gold. :8 Their Archers will break the young men; Nor pity the fruit of the womb, Nor their eyes have regard to a child, And Babel, the Swell 1 of the Kingdoms, The crown of the pride of Kaldees, Like Gomorah and Sodom whom GOD overwhelmed, Not inhabited ever 2o Or dwelt in for ages, Nor camp there the Arabs, Nor Shepherds there pasture, 21 But Wild Beasts shall cower, With yells fill their houses, And Daughters of Woe shall resid e,¤ Ch. 13, v. xg. It is strange that this 2 Ch. 13, v. 2:. Daughters of Woe is the dern l lis the n ic name for the Ostrich , in Heb mosang term oy accurate poetrew, translation o Isaiah’s Hebrew *3};, Tzbi, owing to the sobbing wail uttered by that bird at night. to swell, to swell up, say the Lexicons. 429