¹ And Joseph fell upon the faces of his father, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

² And Joseph commanded his servants the healers to embalm his father; and the healers embalmed Israel.

³ And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of the embalmed; and the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

⁴ And the days of weeping for him had passed, and Joseph spoke to^▵ the house of Pharaoh, saying, If, I pray^◦, I have·​·found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray^◦, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

⁵ My father made me promise, saying, Behold, I^▵ die; in my sepulcher which I have dug·​·out for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. And now, I pray^◦, let me go·​·up, and bury my father, and I will return.

⁶ And Pharaoh said, Go·​·up, and bury thy father, according as^◦ he made thee promise.

⁷ And Joseph went·​·up to bury his father; and with^◦ him went·​·up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

⁸ and all the house of Joseph, and his brothers, and his father’s house; only their infants, and their flocks, and their herds, they left^◦ in the land of Goshen.

⁹ And there went·​·up with him both^◦ chariots and^◦ horsemen; and the camp was very heavy.

¹⁰ And they came to^◦ the threshing·​·floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, and they wailed there a very great and heavy wailing; and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

¹¹ And the dweller in the land, the Canaanite, saw the mourning in the threshing·​·floor called Atad, and they said, This is a heavy mourning for the Egyptians. Therefore he called the name of it Abelmizraim^*, which is at the crossing of the Jordan.

¹² And his sons did to him thus^◦, as^◦ he had commanded them;

¹³ and his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession^◦ of a sepulcher, from Ephron the Hittite, upon the faces of Mamre.

¹⁴ And Joseph returned into Egypt, he^◦ and his brothers, and all that went·​·up with^◦ him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

¹⁵ And the brothers of Joseph saw that their father was·​·dead, and they said, Perhaps Joseph will hate^◦ us, and returning will return to us all the evil with which we recompensed him.

¹⁶ And they commanded Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before his death, saying,

¹⁷ Thus you shall say to Joseph, I pray^◦, bear I pray^◦, the transgression of thy brothers, and their sin, for they recompensed evil to thee; and now bear, I pray^◦, the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to^▵ him.

¹⁸ And his brothers also went and fell down before him; and they said, Behold, we are thy servants.

¹⁹ And Joseph said to^▵ them, Fear ye not; for am I^◦ in· God’s ·stead?

²⁰ And you^◦ thought evil against me, but God thought it for good, so·​·that it would be done as it is this day, to cause many people to live.

²¹ And now fear ye not; I^▵ will sustain you, and your infants. And he comforted them, and spoke on their heart.

²² And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he^◦ and his father’s house; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.

²³ And Joseph saw the sons of Ephraim to the third generation; also the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh were·​·born on the knees of Joseph.

²⁴ And Joseph said to^▵ his brothers, I^▵ die; and visiting God will visit you, and will make you go·​·up from this land to^▵ the land which was promised to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

²⁵ And Joseph promised of the sons of Israel, saying, Visiting God will visit you, and you shall make· my bones ·go·​·up from hence.

²⁶ And Joseph died, a son of a hundred and ten years; and they embalmed him, and he was set in an ark in Egypt.

¹ Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;

² to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

³ What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

⁴ They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

⁵ Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

⁶ I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

⁷ However he doesn't mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.

⁸ For he says, "Aren't all of my princes kings?

⁹ Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath like Arpad? Isn't Samaria like Damascus?"

¹⁰ As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

¹¹ shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

¹² Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks.

¹³ For he has said, "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.

¹⁴ My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, have I gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped."

¹⁵ Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

¹⁶ Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.

¹⁷ The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in One day.

¹⁸ He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.

¹⁹ The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.

²⁰ It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

²¹ A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

²² For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

²³ For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, in the midst of all the earth.

²⁴ Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, says "My people who dwell in Zion, don't be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did.

²⁵ For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction."

²⁶ Yahweh of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt.

²⁷ It will happen in that day, that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

²⁸ He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.

²⁹ They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.

³⁰ Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!

³¹ Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.

³² This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

³³ Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.

³⁴ He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.