Isaiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 433

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14 but now the message of the EvER~ fragments will be despicable and Within three years, unhonoured. like the engagement of a hired sere Ons 22. GDI]: @1mm uf Qamuzms. Damask as a City will perish And become but a minous heap! Arar‘s towns be abandoned to ilocks, Who repose and are never disturbed. And the Fortress will cease to be Ephraim’s,-··- And Empire pass from Damask ; And Aram be shattered like glorious Israel-; The LORD of the Armies decrees. And then ]acob’s glory shall fail! In that day his fat bodyshall waste; As when reapers gather the corn, And crop oH` the heads by their arm, T hey will pick up the heads in the Vale of Rephaim l But, like on a shook Olive, shall gleanings be left, Two or three on high boughs, Four or five berries on twigs of the tree, Says .Israe1’s L1FE—G1vmG Gon! Then Man will seek help from his MAKER, And his eyes ISRAEIJS HOLY respect, And not help at the Altars of Idols Which his hands and his Bngers have made, And respect not the Saints or the Fiends, At that time your strong Cities will be Like the strongholds the Amorites made, When they fled before Israel’s sons, Will be turned into desolate wastes l You forgot your victorious GOD, Nor remembered the Rock of your strength ; So you plant goodly plants, And you sow select seed, 'I`o—day make your hedge, Your seed sprouts in the morn, But the orop fails in harvest, And hopeless men mourn. ODE 2 3. @12 Ziatz of the iiuzbitz (lliunfthzrurg lfnrzlulir. Woe! you Confederate Nations, who roar like great seas l Roar and rush on the Peoples as rush rolling waters, Yes! you rush on the Nations like great waters sweep ;= But repulsed they ily far, Chased like chaff by the wind on the mountains, And like the dry leaves from the face of the whirlwind At eve, see their terrors, by morn they have vanished! Such, the tate ot our plunderers and lot of our spoilers. 433

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