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    The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

    {1:1} The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerningJudah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah,kings of Judah. {1:2} Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; forJehovah hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and theyhave rebelled against me. {1:3} The ox knoweth his owner, and the asshis master’s crib; [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth notconsider. {1:4} Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seedof evil-doers, children that deal corruptly! they have forsakenJehovah, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged[and gone] backward. {1:5} Why will ye be still stricken, that yerevolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heartfaint. {1:6} From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is nosoundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes: theyhave not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil.{1:7} Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; yourland, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, asoverthrown by strangers. {1:8} And the daughter of Zion is left as abooth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besiegedcity. {1:9} Except Jehovah of hosts had left unto us a very smallremnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like untoGomorrah. {1:10} Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give earunto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. {1:11} What unto me isthe multitude of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah: I have had enough ofthe burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delightnot in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats. {1:12} Whenye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, totrample my courts? {1:13} Bring no more vain oblations; incense is anabomination unto me; new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies,-I cannot away with iniquity and the solemn meeting. {1:14} Your newmoons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble untome; I am weary of bearing them. {1:15} And when ye spread forth yourhands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers,I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. {1:16} Wash you, makeyou clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes;cease to do evil; {1:17} learn to do well; seek justice, relieve theoppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. {1:18} Come now,and let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be asscarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red likecrimson, they shall be as wool. {1:19} If ye be willing and obedient,ye shall eat the good of the land: {1:20} but if ye refuse and rebel,ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Jehovah hathspoken it. {1:21} How is the faithful city become a harlot! she thatwas full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.{1:22} Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water. {1:23}Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one lovethbribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless,neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. {1:24} Thereforesaith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I willease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies; {1:25} andI will turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy dross, andwill take away all thy tin; {1:26} and I will restore thy judges as atthe first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thoushalt be called The city of righteousness, a faithful town. {1:27} Zionshall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.{1:28} But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall betogether, and they that forsake Jehovah shall be consumed. {1:29} Forthey shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shallbe confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. {1:30} For ye shallbe as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.{1:31} And the strong shall be as tow, and his work as a spark; andthey shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

    {2:1} The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah andJerusalem. {2:2} And it shall come to pass in the latter days, that themountain of Jehovah’s house shall be established on the top of themountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shallflow unto it. {2:3} And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and letus go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob;and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: forout of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah fromJerusalem. {2:4} And he will judge between the nations, and will decideconcerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords intoplowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not liftup sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. {2:5} Ohouse of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of Jehovah. {2:6}For thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they arefilled [with customs] from the east, and [are] soothsayers like thePhilistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.{2:7} And their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there anyend of their treasures; their land also is full of horses, neither isthere any end of their chariots. {2:8} Their land also is full ofidols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their ownfingers have made. {2:9} And the mean man is bowed down, and the greatman is brought low: therefore forgive them not. {2:10} Enter into therock, and hide thee in the dust, from before the terror of Jehovah, andfrom the glory of his majesty. {2:11} The lofty looks of man shall bebrought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, andJehovah alone shall be exalted in that day. {2:12} For there shall be aday of Jehovah of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and uponall that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low; {2:13} and upon allthe cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all theoaks of Bashan, {2:14} and upon all the high mountains, and upon allthe hills that are lifted up, {2:15} and upon every lofty tower, andupon every fortified wall, {2:16} and upon all the ships of Tarshish,and upon all pleasant imagery. {2:17} And the loftiness of man shall bebowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; andJehovah alone shall be exalted in that day. {2:18} And the idols shallutterly pass away. {2:19} And men shall go into the caves of the rocks,and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Jehovah, andfrom the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily theearth. {2:20} In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver,and their idols of gold, which have been made for them to worship, tothe moles and to the bats; {2:21} to go into the caverns of the rocks,and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror ofJehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shakemightily the earth. {2:22} Cease ye from man, whose breath is in hisnostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?

    {3:1} For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away fromJerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, andthe whole stay of water; {3:2} the mighty man, and the man of war; thejudge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the elder; {3:3} thecaptain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counsellor, and theexpert artificer, and the skilful enchanter. {3:4} And I will givechildren to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. {3:5} Andthe people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one byhis neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the oldman, and the base against the honorable. {3:6} When a man shall takehold of his brother in the house of his father, [saying], Thou hastclothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand; {3:7}in that day shall he lift up [his voice], saying, I will not be ahealer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: ye shall notmake me ruler of the people. {3:8} For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judahis fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah,to provoke the eyes of his glory. {3:9} The show of their countenancedoth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, theyhide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have done evil untothemselves. {3:10} Say ye of the righteous, that [it shall be] well[with him]; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. {3:11} Woeunto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him]; for what his hands havedone shall be done unto him. {3:12} As for my people, children aretheir oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they that leadthee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. {3:13}Jehovah standeth up to contend, and standeth to judge the peoples.{3:14} Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people,and the princes thereof: It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard; thespoil of the poor is in your houses: {3:15} what mean ye that ye crushmy people, and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, Jehovah ofhosts. {3:16} Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion arehaughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking andmincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet; {3:17}therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of thedaughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts. {3:18}In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, andthe cauls, and the crescents; {3:19} the pendants, and the bracelets,and the mufflers; {3:20} the headtires, and the ankle chains, and thesashes, and the perfume-boxes, and the amulets; {3:21} the rings, andthe nose-jewels; {3:22} the festival robes, and the mantles, and theshawls, and the satchels; {3:23} the hand-mirrors, and the fine linen,and the turbans, and the veils. {3:24} And it shall come to pass, thatinstead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness; and instead of agirdle, a rope; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead ofa robe, a girding of sackcloth; branding instead of beauty. {3:25} Thymen shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. {3:26} And hergates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit uponthe ground.

    {4:1} And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day,saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only letus be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach. {4:2} In thatday shall the branch of Jehovah be beautiful and glorious, and thefruit of the land shall be excellent and comely for them that areescaped of Israel. {4:3} And it shall come to pass, that he that isleft in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy,even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem; {4:4}when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters ofZion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midstthereof, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning. {4:5}And Jehovah will create over the whole habitation of mount Zion, andover her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of aflaming fire by night; for over all the glory [shall be spread] acovering. {4:6} And there shall be a pavilion for a shade in theday-time from the heat, and for a refuge and for a covert from stormand from rain.

    {5:1} Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touchinghis vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:{5:2} and he digged it, and gathered out the stones thereof, andplanted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst ofit, and also hewed out a winepress therein: and he looked that itshould bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. {5:3} Andnow, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you,betwixt me and my vineyard. {5:4} What could have been done more to myvineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that itshould bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? {5:5} And nowI will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away thehedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down the wallthereof, and it shall be trodden down: {5:6} and I will lay it waste;it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers andthorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.{5:7} For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, andthe men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but,behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry. {5:8} Woeunto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till therebe no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!{5:9} In mine ears [saith] Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many housesshall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. {5:10} Forten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shallyield [but] an ephah. {5:11} Woe unto them that rise up early in themorning, that they may follow strong drink; that tarry late into thenight, till wine inflame them! {5:12} And the harp and the lute, thetabret and the pipe, and wine, are [in] their feasts; but they regardnot the work of Jehovah, neither have they considered the operation ofhis hands. {5:13} Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lackof knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitudeare parched with thirst. {5:14} Therefore Sheol hath enlarged itsdesire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, andtheir multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them,descend [into it]. {5:15} And the mean man is bowed down, and the greatman is humbled, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled: {5:16} butJehovah of hosts is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One issanctified in righteousness. {5:17} Then shall the lambs feed as intheir pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wandererseat. {5:18} Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of falsehood,and sin as it were with a cart rope; {5:19} that say, Let him makespeed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counselof the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!{5:20} Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that putdarkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet,and sweet for bitter! {5:21} Woe unto them that are wise in their owneyes, and prudent in their own sight! {5:22} Woe unto them that aremighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink;{5:23} that justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away therighteousness of the righteous from him! {5:24} Therefore as the tongueof fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in theflame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall goup as dust; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, anddespised the word of the Holy One of Israel. {5:25} Therefore is theanger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he hath stretchedforth his hand against them, and hath smitten them; and the mountainstremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of thestreets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand isstretched out still. {5:26} And he will lift up an ensign to thenations from far, and will hiss for them from the end of the earth;and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly. {5:27} None shall beweary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neithershall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of theirshoes be broken: {5:28} whose arrows are sharp, and all their bowsbent; their horses’ hoofs shall be accounted as flint, and their wheelsas a whirlwind: {5:29} their roaring shall be like a lioness, theyshall roar like young lions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of theprey, and carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver.{5:30} And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring ofthe sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness [and]distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.

    {6:1} In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upona throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. {6:2}Above him stood the seraphim: each one had six wings; with twain hecovered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain hedid fly. {6:3} And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy,is Jehovah of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. {6:4} Andthe foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him that cried,and the house was filled with smoke. {6:5} Then said I, Woe is me! forI am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in themidst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King,Jehovah of hosts. {6:6} Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, having alive coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off thealtar: {6:7} and he touched my mouth with it, and said, Lo, this hathtouched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sinforgiven. {6:8} And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall Isend, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I; send me. {6:9}And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understandnot; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. {6:10} Make the heart of thispeople fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest theysea with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand withtheir heart, and turn again, and be healed. {6:11} Then said I, Lord,how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant,and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste, {6:12} andJehovah have removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many inthe midst of the land. {6:13} And if there be yet a tenth in it, italso shall in turn be eaten up: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whosestock remaineth, when they are felled; so the holy seed is the stockthereof.

    {7:1} And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, theson of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekahthe son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to waragainst it, but could not prevail against it. {7:2} And it was told thehouse of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And hisheart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the foresttremble with the wind. {7:3} Then said Jehovah unto Isaiah, Go forthnow to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of theconduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fuller’s field; {7:4}and say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither let thyheart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, forthe fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. {7:5}Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have purposed evilagainst thee, saying, {7:6} Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, andlet us make a breach therein for us, and set up a king in the midst ofit, even the son of Tabeel; {7:7} thus saith the Lord Jehovah, It shallnot stand, neither shall it come to pass. {7:8} For the head of Syriais Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescoreand five years shall Ephraim be broken in pieces, so that is shall notbe a people: {7:9} and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head ofSamaria is Remaliah’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall notbe established. {7:10} And Jehovah spake again unto Ahaz, saying,{7:11} Ask thee a sign of Jehovah thy God; ask it either in the depth,or in the height above. {7:12} But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neitherwill I tempt Jehovah. {7:13} And he said, Hear ye now, O house ofDavid: Is it a small thing for you to weary men, that ye will weary myGod also? {7:14} Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign:behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call hisname Immanuel. {7:15} Butter and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth torefuse the evil, and choose the good. {7:16} For before the child shallknow to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kingsthou abhorrest shall be forsaken. {7:17} Jehovah will bring upon thee,and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have notcome, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah-[even] the king ofAssyria. {7:18} And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovahwill hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers ofEgypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. {7:19} And theyshall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and inthe clefts of the rocks, and upon all thorn-hedges, and upon allpastures. {7:20} In that day will the Lord shave with a razor that ishired in the parts beyond the River, [even] with the king of Assyria,the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.{7:21} And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall keepalive a young cow, and two sheep; {7:22} and it shall come to pass,that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shalleat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left inthe midst of the land. {7:23} And it shall come to pass in that day,that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousandsilverlings, shall be for briers and thorns. {7:24} With arrows andwith bow shall one come thither, because all the land shall be briersand thorns. {7:25} And all the hills that were digged with the mattock,thou shalt not come thither for fear of briers and thorns; but it shallbe for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.

    {8:1} And Jehovah said unto me, Take thee a great tablet, and writeupon it with the pen of a man, For Maher-shalal-hash-baz; {8:2} and Iwill take unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, andZechariah the son of Jeberechiah. {8:3} And I went unto the prophetess;and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said Jehovah unto me, Call hisname Maher-shalal-hash-baz. {8:4} For before the child shall haveknowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of Damascus andthe spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.{8:5} And Jehovah spake unto me yet again, saying, {8:6} Forasmuch asthis people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, andrejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son; {8:7} now therefore, behold, theLord bringeth up upon them the waters of the River, strong and many,[even] the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it shall come up overall its channels, and go over all its banks; {8:8} and it shall sweeponward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reacheven to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill thebreadth of thy land, O Immanuel. {8:9} Make an uproar, O ye peoples,and be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: girdyourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken inpieces. {8:10} Take counsel together, and it shall be brought tonought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.{8:11} For Jehovah spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructedme not to walk in the way of this people, saying, {8:12} Say ye not, Aconspiracy, concerning all whereof this people shall say, A conspiracy;neither fear ye their fear, nor be in dread [thereof]. {8:13} Jehovahof hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let himbe your dread. {8:14} And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stoneof stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel,for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. {8:15} Andmany shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, andbe taken. {8:16} Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among mydisciples. {8:17} And I will wait for Jehovah, that hideth his facefrom the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. {8:18} Behold, I andthe children whom Jehovah hath given me are for signs and for wondersin Israel from Jehovah of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion. {8:19} Andwhen they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spiritsand unto the wizards, that chirp and that mutter: should not a peopleseek unto their God? on behalf of the living [should they seek] untothe dead? {8:20} To the law and to the testimony! if they speak notaccording to this word, surely there is no morning for them. {8:21} Andthey shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shallcome to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fretthemselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn theirfaces upward: {8:22} and they shall look unto the earth, and behold,distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness[they shall be] driven away.

    {9:1} But there shall be no gloom to her that was in anguish. In theformer time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the landof Naphtali; but in the latter time hath he made it glorious, by theway of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. {9:2} Thepeople that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dweltin the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.{9:3} Thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast increased their joy:they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoicewhen they divide the spoil. {9:4} For the yoke of his burden, and thestaff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, thou hast broken as inthe day of Midian. {9:5} For all the armor of the armed man in thetumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be for burning, forfuel of fire. {9:6} For unto us a child is born, unto us a son isgiven; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his nameshall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father,Prince of Peace. {9:7} Of the increase of his government and of peacethere shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom,to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousnessfrom henceforth even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts willperform this. {9:8} The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hathlighted upon Israel. {9:9} And all the people shall know, [even]Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in pride and instoutness of heart, {9:10} The bricks are fallen, but we will buildwith hewn stone; the sycomores are cut down, but we will put cedars intheir place. {9:11} Therefore Jehovah will set up on high against himthe adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies, {9:12} theSyrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devourIsrael with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, buthis hand is stretched out still. {9:13} Yet the people have not turnedunto him that smote them, neither have they sought Jehovah of hosts.{9:14} Therefore Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail,palm-branch and rush, in one day. {9:15} The elder and the honorableman, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is thetail. {9:16} For they that lead this people cause them to err; and theythat are led of them are destroyed. {9:17} Therefore the Lord will notrejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on theirfatherless and widows; for every one is profane and an evil-doer, andevery mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away,but his hand is stretched out still. {9:18} For wickedness burneth asthe fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns; yea, it kindleth in thethickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.{9:19} Through the wrath of Jehovah of hosts is the land burnt up; andthe people are as the fuel of fire: no man spareth his brother. {9:20}And one shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eaton the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat everyman the flesh of his own arm: {9:21} Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim,Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this hisanger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

    {10:1} Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to thewriters that write perverseness; {10:2} to turn aside the needy fromjustice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widowsmay be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!{10:3} And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in thedesolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help?and where will ye leave your glory? {10:4} They shall only bow downunder the prisoners, and shall fall under the slain. For all this hisanger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. {10:5}Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mineindignation! {10:6} I will send him against a profane nation, andagainst the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take thespoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire ofthe streets. {10:7} Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heartthink so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations nota few. {10:8} For he saith, Are not my princes all of them kings?{10:9} Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is notSamaria as Damascus? {10:10} As my hand hath found the kingdoms of theidols, whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;{10:11} shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so doto Jerusalem and her idols? {10:12} Wherefore it shall come to pass,that, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion andon Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king ofAssyria, and the glory of his high looks. {10:13} For he hath said, Bythe strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I haveunderstanding: and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and haverobbed their treasures, and like a valiant man I have brought down themthat sit [on thrones]: {10:14} and my hand hath found as a nest theriches of the peoples; and as one gathereth eggs that are forsaken,have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing,or that opened the mouth, or chirped. {10:15} Shall the axe boastitself against him that heweth therewith? shall the saw magnify itselfagainst him that wieldeth it? as if a rod should wield them that liftit up, [or] as if a staff should lift up [him that is] not wood.{10:16} Therefore will the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, send among his fatones leanness; and under his glory there shall be kindled a burninglike the burning of fire. {10:17} And the light of Israel will be for afire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour histhorns and his briers in one day. {10:18} And he will consume the gloryof his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and itshall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth. {10:19} And the remnant ofthe trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may write them.{10:20} And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant ofIsrael, and they that are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no moreagain lean upon him that smote them, but shall lean upon Jehovah, theHoly One of Israel, in truth. {10:21} A remnant shall return, [even]the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. {10:22} For though thypeople, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, [only] a remnant of themshall return: a destruction [is] determined, overflowing withrighteousness. {10:23} For a full end, and that determined, will theLord, Jehovah of hosts, make in the midst of all the earth. {10:24}Therefore thus saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, O my people thatdwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian, though he smite theewith the rod, and lift up his staff against thee, after the manner ofEgypt. {10:25} For yet a very little while, and the indignation[against thee] shall be accomplished, and mine anger [shall bedirected] to his destruction. {10:26} And Jehovah of hosts will stir upagainst him a scourge, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock ofOreb: and his rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up afterthe manner of Egypt. {10:27} And it shall come to pass in that day,that his burden shall depart from off thy shoulder, and his yoke fromoff thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed by reason of fatness.{10:28} He is come to Aiath, he is passed through Migron; at Michmashhe layeth up his baggage; {10:29} they are gone over the pass; theyhave taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah trembleth; Gibeah of Saul isfled. {10:30} Cry aloud with thy voice, O daughter of Gallim! hearken,O Laishah! O thou poor Anathoth! {10:31} Madmenah is a fugitive; theinhabitants of Gebim flee for safety. {10:32} This very day shall hehalt at Nob: he shaketh his hand at the mount of the daughter of Zion,the hill of Jerusalem. {10:33} Behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, willlop the boughs with terror: and the high of stature shall be hewn down,and the lofty shall be brought low. {10:34} And he will cut down thethickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mightyone.

    {11:1} And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse,and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit. {11:2} And the Spiritof Jehovah shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding,the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of thefear of Jehovah. {11:3} And his delight shall be in the fear ofJehovah; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neitherdecide after the hearing of his ears; {11:4} but with righteousnessshall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of theearth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth; and withthe breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. {11:5} Andrighteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness thegirdle of his loins. {11:6} And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, andthe leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the younglion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.{11:7} And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall liedown together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. {11:8} And thesucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned childshall put his hand on the adder’s den. {11:9} They shall not hurt nordestroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of theknowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea. {11:10} And it shallcome to pass in that day, that the root of Jesse, that standeth for anensign of the peoples, unto him shall the nations seek; and hisresting-place shall be glorious. {11:11} And it shall come to pass inthat day, that the Lord will set his hand again the second time torecover the remnant of his people, that shall remain, from Assyria, andfrom Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and fromShinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. {11:12} Andhe will set up an ensign for the nations, and will assemble theoutcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from thefour corners of the earth. {11:13} The envy also of Ephraim shalldepart, and they that vex Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall notenvy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. {11:14} And they shall flydown upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the west; together shallthey despoil the children of the east: they shall put forth their handupon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them. {11:15}And Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; andwith his scorching wind will he wave his hand over the River, and willsmite it into seven streams, and cause men to march over dryshod.{11:16} And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people,that shall remain, from Assyria; like as there was for Israel in theday that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

    {12:1} And in that day thou shalt say, I will give thanks unto thee,O Jehovah; for though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turnedaway and thou comfortest me. {12:2} Behold, God is my salvation; I willtrust, and will not be afraid; for Jehovah, [even] Jehovah, is mystrength and song; and he is become my salvation. {12:3} Therefore withjoy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. {12:4} And inthat day shall ye say, Give thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name,declare his doings among the peoples, make mention that his name isexalted. {12:5} Sing unto Jehovah; for he hath done excellent things:let this be known in all the earth. {12:6} Cry aloud and shout, thouinhabitant of Zion; for great in the midst of thee is the Holy One ofIsrael.

    {13:1} The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.{13:2} Set ye up an ensign upon the bare mountain, lift up the voiceunto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of thenobles. {13:3} I have commanded my consecrated ones, yea, I have calledmy mighty men for mine anger, even my proudly exulting ones. {13:4} Thenoise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! the noiseof a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Jehovahof hosts is mustering the host for the battle. {13:5} They come from afar country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Jehovah, and theweapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. {13:6} Wail ye;for the day of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almightyshall it come. {13:7} Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and everyheart of man shall melt: {13:8} and they shall be dismayed; pangs andsorrows shall take hold [of them]; they shall be in pain as a woman intravail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces[shall be] faces of flame. {13:9} Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh,cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, andto destroy the sinners thereof out of it. {13:10} For the stars ofheaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; thesun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not causeits light to shine. {13:11} And I will punish the world for [their]evil, and the wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the arrogancyof the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of theterrible. {13:12} I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even aman than the pure gold of Ophir. {13:13} Therefore I will make theheavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, inthe wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.{13:14} And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheepthat no man gathereth, they shall turn every man to his own people, andshall flee every man to his own land. {13:15} Every one that is foundshall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by thesword. {13:16} Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces beforetheir eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.{13:17} Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall notregard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. {13:18}And [their] bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shallhave no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not sparechildren. {13:19} And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of theChaldeans’ pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.{13:20} It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in fromgeneration to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there;neither shall shepherds make their flocks to lie down there. {13:21}But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shallbe full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wildgoats shall dance there. {13:22} And wolves shall cry in their castles,and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, andher days shall not be prolonged.

    {14:1} For Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, and will yetchoose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the sojourner shalljoin himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.{14:2} And the peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place;and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Jehovah forservants and for handmaids: and they shall take them captive whosecaptives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. {14:3}And it shall come to pass in the day that Jehovah shall give thee restfrom thy sorrow, and from thy trouble, and from the hard servicewherein thou wast made to serve, {14:4} that thou shalt take up thisparable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressorceased! the golden city ceased! {14:5} Jehovah hath broken the staff ofthe wicked, the sceptre of the rulers; {14:6} that smote the peoples inwrath with a continual stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with apersecution that none restrained. {14:7} The whole earth is at rest,[and] is quiet: they break forth into singing. {14:8} Yea, thefir-trees rejoice at thee, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Sincethou art laid low, no hewer is come up against us. {14:9} Sheol frombeneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth upthe dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raisedup from their thrones all the kings of the nations. {14:10} All theyshall answer and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? artthou become like unto us? {14:11} Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol,[and] the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and wormscover thee. {14:12} How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son ofthe morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay lowthe nations! {14:13} And thou saidst in thy heart, I will ascend intoheaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will situpon the mount of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north;{14:14} I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will makemyself like the Most High. {14:15} Yet thou shalt be brought down toSheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit. {14:16} They that see theeshall gaze at thee, they shall consider thee, [saying], Is this the manthat made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; {14:17} thatmade the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; thatlet not loose his prisoners to their home? {14:18} All the kings of thenations, all of them, sleep in glory, every one in his own house.{14:19} But thou art cast forth away from thy sepulchre like anabominable branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through withthe sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead bodytrodden under foot. {14:20} Thou shalt not be joined with them inburial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thypeople; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named for ever. {14:21}Prepare ye slaughter for his children for the iniquity of theirfathers, that they rise not up, and possess the earth, and fill theface of the world with cities. {14:22} And I will rise up against them,saith Jehovah of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, andson and son’s son, saith Jehovah. {14:23} I will also make it apossession for the porcupine, and pools of water: and I will sweep itwith the besom of destruction, saith Jehovah of hosts. {14:24} Jehovahof hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought, so shall itcome to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: {14:25} that Iwill break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread himunder foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burdendepart from off their shoulder. {14:26} This is the purpose that ispurposed upon the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretchedout upon all the nations. {14:27} For Jehovah of hosts hath purposed,and who shall annul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shallturn it back? {14:28} In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.{14:29} Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of thee, because the rod thatsmote thee is broken; for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth anadder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. {14:30} And thefirst-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down insafety; and I will kill thy root with famine, and thy remnant shall beslain. {14:31} Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou art melted away, OPhilistia, all of thee; for there cometh a smoke out of the north, andthere is no straggler in his ranks. {14:32} What then shall one answerthe messengers of the nation? That Jehovah hath founded Zion, and inher shall the afflicted of his people take refuge.

    {15:1} The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste,[and] brought to nought; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste,[and] brought to nought. {15:2} They are gone up to Bayith, and toDibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab waileth over Nebo, and overMedeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off. {15:3}In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on theirhousetops, and in their broad places, every one waileth, weepingabundantly. {15:4} And Heshbon crieth out, and Elealeh; their voice isheard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; hissoul trembleth within him. {15:5} My heart crieth out for Moab; hernobles [flee] unto Zoar, to Eglath-shelishi-yah: for by the ascent ofLuhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raiseup a cry of destruction. {15:6} For the waters of Nimrim shall bedesolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass faileth,there is no green thing. {15:7} Therefore the abundance they havegotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away overthe brook of the willows. {15:8} For the cry is gone round about theborders of Moab; the wailing thereof unto Eglaim, and the wailingthereof unto Beer-elim. {15:9} For the waters of Dimon are full ofblood; for I will bring yet more upon Dimon, a lion upon them of Moabthat escape, and upon the remnant of the land.

    {16:1} Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to thewilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. {16:2} For it shallbe that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall thedaughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon. {16:3} Give counsel,execute justice; make thy shade as the night in the midst of thenoonday; hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive. {16:4} Let mineoutcasts dwell with thee; as for Moab, be thou a covert to him from theface of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nought,destruction ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.{16:5} And a throne shall be established in lovingkindness; and oneshall sit thereon in truth, in the tent of David, judging, and seekingjustice, and swift to do righteousness. {16:6} We have heard of thepride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; even of his arrogancy, and hispride, and his wrath; his boastings are nought. {16:7} Therefore shallMoab wail for Moab, every one shall wail: for the raisin-cakes ofKir-hareseth shall ye mourn, utterly stricken. {16:8} For the fields ofHeshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nationshave broken down the choice branches thereof, which reached even untoJazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spreadabroad, they passed over the sea. {16:9} Therefore I will weep with theweeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water thee with mytears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for upon thy summer fruits and upon thyharvest the [battle] shout is fallen. {16:10} And gladness is takenaway, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards thereshall be no singing, neither joyful noise: no treader shall tread outwine in the presses; I have made the [vintage] shout to cease. {16:11}Wherefore my heart soundeth like a harp for Moab, and mine inward partsfor Kir-heres. {16:12} And it shall come to pass, when Moab presentethhimself, when he wearieth himself upon the high place, and shall cometo his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail. {16:13} This isthe word that Jehovah spake concerning Moab in time past. {16:14} Butnow Jehovah hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of ahireling, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with allhis great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and of noaccount.

    {17:1} The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away frombeing a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. {17:2} The cities ofAroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, andnone shall make them afraid. {17:3} And the fortress shall cease fromEphraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria; theyshall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith Jehovah ofhosts. {17:4} And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory ofJacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.{17:5} And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the standinggrain, and his arm reapeth the ears; yea, it shall be as when onegleaneth ears in the valley of Rephaim. {17:6} Yet there shall be lefttherein gleanings, as the shaking of an olive-tree, two or threeberries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmostbranches of a fruitful tree, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel. {17:7}In that day shall men look unto their Maker, and their eyes shall haverespect to the Holy One of Israel. {17:8} And they shall not look tothe altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have respect tothat which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or thesun-images. {17:9} In that day shall their strong cities be as theforsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which wereforsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be adesolation. {17:10} For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation,and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore thouplantest pleasant plants, and settest it with strange slips. {17:11} Inthe day of thy planting thou hedgest it in, and in the morning thoumakest thy seed to blossom; but the harvest fleeth away in the day ofgrief and of desperate sorrow. {17:12} Ah, the uproar of many peoples,that roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations,that rush like the rushing of mighty waters! {17:13} The nations shallrush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, andthey shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of themountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.{17:14} At eventide, behold, terror; [and] before the morning they arenot. This is the portion of them that despoil us, and the lot of themthat rob us.

    {18:1} Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond therivers of Ethiopia; {18:2} that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even invessels of papyrus upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers,to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginningonward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land therivers divide! {18:3} All ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellerson the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye; andwhen the trumpet is blown, hear ye. {18:4} For thus hath Jehovah saidunto me, I will be still, and I will behold in my dwelling-place, likeclear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.{18:5} For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flowerbecometh a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs withpruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away [and] cutdown. {18:6} They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of themountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shallsummer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter uponthem. {18:7} In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah ofhosts [from] a people tall and smooth, even from a people terrible fromtheir beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down,whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Jehovah ofhosts, the mount Zion.

    {19:1} The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah rideth upon a swiftcloud, and cometh unto Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall tremble athis presence; and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.{19:2} And I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and theyshall fight every one against his brother, and every one against hisneighbor; city against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom. {19:3} Andthe spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroythe counsel thereof: and they shall seek unto the idols, and to thecharmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.{19:4} And I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruellord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, Jehovahof hosts. {19:5} And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the rivershall be wasted and become dry. {19:6} And the rivers shall becomefoul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reedsand flags shall wither away. {19:7} The meadows by the Nile, by thebrink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, shall becomedry, be driven away, and be no more. {19:8} And the fishers shalllament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, andthey that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. {19:9} Moreoverthey that work in combed flax, and they that weave white cloth, shallbe confounded. {19:10} And the pillars [of Egypt] shall be broken inpieces; all they that work for hire [shall be] grieved in soul. {19:11}The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisestcounsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I amthe son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? {19:12} Where then arethy wise men? and let them tell thee now; and let them know whatJehovah of hosts hath purposed concerning Egypt. {19:13} The princes ofZoan are become fools, the princes of Memphis are deceived; they havecaused Egypt to go astray, that are the corner-stone of her tribes.{19:14} Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst ofher; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work thereof, asa drunken man staggereth in his vomit. {19:15} Neither shall there befor Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.{19:16} In that day shall the Egyptians be like unto women; and theyshall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Jehovah ofhosts, which he shaketh over them. {19:17} And the land of Judah shallbecome a terror unto Egypt; every one to whom mention is made thereofshall be afraid, because of the purpose of Jehovah of hosts, which hepurposeth against it. {19:18} In that day there shall be five cities inthe land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear toJehovah of hosts; one shall be called The city of destruction. {19:19}In that day shall there be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the landof Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to Jehovah. {19:20} And itshall be for a sign and for a witness unto Jehovah of hosts in the landof Egypt; for they shall cry unto Jehovah because of oppressors, and hewill send them a saviour, and a defender, and he will deliver them.{19:21} And Jehovah shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shallknow Jehovah in that day; yea, they shall worship with sacrifice andoblation, and shall vow a vow unto Jehovah, and shall perform it.{19:22} And Jehovah will smite Egypt, smiting and healing; and theyshall return unto Jehovah, and he will be entreated of them, and willheal them. {19:23} In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt toAssyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian intoAssyria; and the Egyptians shall worship with the Assyrians. {19:24} Inthat day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, ablessing in the midst of the earth; {19:25} for that Jehovah of hostshath blessed them, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria thework of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.

    {20:1} In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, when Sargon theking of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;{20:2} at that time Jehovah spake by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying,Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe fromoff thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. {20:3} AndJehovah said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefootthree years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerningEthiopia; {20:4} so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives ofEgypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot,and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. {20:5} And theyshall be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia theirexpectation, and of Egypt their glory. {20:6} And the inhabitant ofthis 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: andwe, how shall we escape?

    {21:1} The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in theSouth sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from a terribleland. {21:2} A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous mandealeth treacherously, and the destroyer destroyeth. Go up, O Elam;besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. {21:3}Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold uponme, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannothear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see. {21:4} My heart fluttereth,horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turnedinto trembling unto me. {21:5} They prepare the table, they set thewatch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.{21:6} For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman: let himdeclare what he seeth: {21:7} and when he seeth a troop, horsemen inpairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligentlywith much heed. {21:8} And he cried as a lion: O Lord, I standcontinually upon the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my wardwhole nights; {21:9} and, behold, here cometh a troop of men, horsemenin pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and allthe graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground. {21:10} Othou my threshing, and the grain of my floor! that which I have heardfrom Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.{21:11} The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir, Watchman,what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? {21:12} The watchmansaid, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire,inquire ye: turn ye, come. {21:13} The burden upon Arabia. In theforest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites. {21:14}Unto him that was thirsty they brought water; the inhabitants of theland of Tema did meet the fugitives with their bread. {21:15} For theyfled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow,and from the grievousness of war. {21:16} For thus hath the Lord saidunto me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all theglory of Kedar shall fail; {21:17} and the residue of the number of thearchers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be few; forJehovah, the God of Israel, hath spoken it.

    {22:1} The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now,that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? {22:2} O thou that artfull of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; thy slain are notslain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle. {22:3} All thyrulers fled away together, they were bound by the archers; all thatwere found of thee were bound together; they fled afar off. {22:4}Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; labor not tocomfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people. {22:5} Forit is a day of discomfiture, and of treading down, and of perplexity,from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of vision; a breakingdown of the walls, and a crying to the mountains. {22:6} And Elam barethe quiver, with chariots of men [and] horsemen; and Kir uncovered theshield. {22:7} And it came to pass, that thy choicest valleys were fullof chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.{22:8} And he took away the covering of Judah; and thou didst look inthat day to the armor in the house of the forest. {22:9} And ye saw thebreaches of the city of David, that they were many; and ye gatheredtogether the waters of the lower pool; {22:10} and ye numbered thehouses of Jerusalem, and ye brake down the houses to fortify the wall;{22:11} ye made also a reservoir between the two walls for the water ofthe old pool. But ye looked not unto him that had done this, neitherhad ye respect unto him that purposed it long ago. {22:12} And in thatday did the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning,and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: {22:13} and behold, joyand gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinkingwine: let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die. {22:14} AndJehovah of hosts revealed himself in mine ears, Surely this iniquityshall not be forgiven you till ye die, saith the Lord, Jehovah ofhosts. {22:15} Thus saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, Go, get thee untothis treasurer, even unto Shebna, who is over the house, [and say],{22:16} What doest thou here? and whom has thou here, that thou hasthewed thee out here a sepulchre? hewing him out a sepulchre on high,graving a habitation for himself in the rock! {22:17} Behold, Jehovah,like a [strong] man, will hurl thee away violently; yea, he will wrapthee up closely. {22:18} He will surely wind thee round and round, [andtoss thee] like a ball into a large country; there shalt thou die, andthere shall be the chariots of thy glory, thou shame of thy lord’shouse. {22:19} And I will thrust thee from thine office; and from thystation shalt thou be pulled down. {22:20} And it shall come to pass inthat day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:{22:21} and I will cloth him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thygirdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand; and he shall bea father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.{22:22} And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder;and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and noneshall open. {22:23} And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place;and he shall be for a throne of glory to his father’s house. {22:24}And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, theoffspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to allthe flagons. {22:25} In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, shall thenail that was fastened in a sure place give way; and it shall be hewndown, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off; forJehovah hath spoken it.

    {23:1} The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it islaid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land ofKittim it is revealed to them. {23:2} Be still, ye inhabitants of thecoast, thou whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, havereplenished. {23:3} And on great waters the seed of the Shihor, theharvest of the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the mart of nations.{23:4} Be thou ashamed, O Sidon; for the sea hath spoken, thestronghold of the sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth,neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins. {23:5} Whenthe report cometh to Egypt, they shall be sorely pained at the reportof Tyre. {23:6} Pass ye over to Tarshish; wail, ye inhabitants of thecoast. {23:7} Is this your joyous [city], whose antiquity is of ancientdays, whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn? {23:8} Who hathpurposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants areprinces, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth? {23:9}Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, tobring into contempt all the honorable of the earth. {23:10} Passthrough thy land as the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is norestraint any more. {23:11} He hath stretched out his hand over thesea, he hath shaken the kingdoms: Jehovah hath given commandmentconcerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds thereof. {23:12} And hesaid, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin daughter ofSidon: arise, pass over to Kittim; even there shalt thou have no rest.{23:13} Behold, the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not; theAssyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness; they set uptheir towers; they overthrew the palaces thereof; they made it a ruin.{23:14} Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for your stronghold is laid waste.{23:15} And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall beforgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after theend of seventy years it shall be unto Tyre as in the song of theharlot. {23:16} Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hastbeen forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest beremembered. {23:17} And it shall come to pass after the end of seventyyears, that Jehovah will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire,and shall play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon theface of the earth. {23:18} And her merchandise and her hire shall beholiness to Jehovah: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for hermerchandise shall be for them that dwell before Jehovah, to eatsufficiently, and for durable clothing.

    {24:1} Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste,and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitantsthereof. {24:2} And it shall be, as with the people, so with thepriest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, sowith her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with thecreditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so withthe giver of interest to him. {24:3} The earth shall be utterlyemptied, and utterly laid waste; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.{24:4} The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth andfadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish. {24:5} Theearth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they havetransgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlastingcovenant. {24:6} Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and theythat dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of theearth are burned, and few men left. {24:7} The new wine mourneth, thevine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh. {24:8} The mirth oftabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of theharp ceaseth. {24:9} They shall not drink wine with a song; strongdrink shall be bitter to them that drink it. {24:10} The waste city isbroken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in. {24:11}There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy isdarkened, the mirth of the land is gone. {24:12} In the city is leftdesolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. {24:13} For thusshall it be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shakingof an olive-tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done. {24:14}These shall lift up their voice, they shall shout; for the majesty ofJehovah they cry aloud from the sea. {24:15} Wherefore glorify yeJehovah in the east, even the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, inthe isles of the sea. {24:16} From the uttermost part of the earth havewe heard songs: Glory to the righteous. But I said, I pine away, I pineaway, woe is me! the treacherous have dealt treacherously; yea, thetreacherous have dealt very treacherously. {24:17} Fear, and the pit,and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. {24:18} And itshall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shallfall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pitshall be taken in the snare: for the windows on high are opened, andthe foundations of the earth tremble. {24:19} The earth is utterlybroken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is shaken violently.{24:20} The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway toand fro like a hammock; and the transgression thereof shall be heavyupon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again. {24:21} And it shallcome to pass in that day, that Jehovah will punish the host of the highones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. {24:22} Andthey shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit,and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they bevisited. {24:23} Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sunashamed; for Jehovah of hosts will reign in mount Zion, and inJerusalem; and before his elders shall be glory.

    {25:1} O Jehovah, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praisethy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, [even] counsels of old,in faithfulness [and] truth. {25:2} For thou hast made of a city aheap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city;it shall never be built. {25:3} Therefore shall a strong people glorifythee; a city of terrible nations shall fear thee. {25:4} For thou hastbeen a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in hisdistress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when theblast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. {25:5} Asthe heat in a dry place wilt thou bring down the noise of strangers; asthe heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the terrible ones shallbe brought low. {25:6} And in this mountain will Jehovah of hosts makeunto all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees,of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. {25:7}And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering thatcovereth all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.{25:8} He hath swallowed up death for ever; and the Lord Jehovah willwipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people willhe take away from off all the earth: for Jehovah hath spoken it. {25:9}And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waitedfor him, and he will save us: this is Jehovah; we have waited for him,we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. {25:10} For in thismountain will the hand of Jehovah rest; and Moab shall be trodden downin his place, even as straw is trodden down in the water of thedung-hill. {25:11} And he shall spread forth his hands in the midstthereof, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth [his hands] to swim; but[Jehovah] will lay low his pride together with the craft of his hands.{25:12} And the high fortress of thy walls hath he brought down, laidlow, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

    {26:1} In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: wehave a strong city; salvation will he appoint for walls and bulwarks.{26:2} Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth faithmay enter in. {26:3} Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose]mind [is] stayed [on thee]; because he trusteth in thee. {26:4} Trustye in Jehovah for ever; for in Jehovah, [even] Jehovah, is aneverlasting rock. {26:5} For he hath brought down them that dwell onhigh, the lofty city: he layeth it low, he layeth it low even to theground; he bringeth it even to the dust. {26:6} The foot shall tread itdown; even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy. {26:7} Theway of the just is uprightness: thou that art upright dost direct thepath of the just. {26:8} Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah,have we waited for thee; to thy name, even to thy memorial [name], isthe desire of our soul. {26:9} With my soul have I desired thee in thenight; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee earnestly: forwhen thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learnrighteousness. {26:10} Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will henot learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he dealwrongfully, and will not behold the majesty of Jehovah. {26:11}Jehovah, thy hand is lifted up, yet they see not: but they shall see[thy] zeal for the people, and be put to shame; yea, fire shall devourthine adversaries. {26:12} Jehovah, thou wilt ordain peace for us; forthou hast also wrought all our works for us. {26:13} O Jehovah our God,other lords besides thee have had dominion over us; but by thee onlywill we make mention of thy name. {26:14} [They are] dead, they shallnot live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thouvisited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish.{26:15} Thou hast increased the nation, O Jehovah, thou hast increasedthe nation; thou art glorified; thou hast enlarged all the borders ofthe land. {26:16} Jehovah, in trouble have they visited thee; theypoured out a prayer [when] thy chastening was upon them. {26:17} Likeas a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, isin pain and crieth out in her pangs; so we have been before thee, OJehovah. {26:18} We have been with child, we have been in pain, we haveas it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance inthe earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. {26:19}Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, yethat dwell in the dust; for thy dew is [as] the dew of herbs, and theearth shall cast forth the dead. {26:20} Come, my people, enter thouinto thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself for alittle moment, until the indignation be overpast. {26:21} For, behold,Jehovah cometh forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of theearth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, andshall no more cover her slain.

    {27:1} In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong swordwill punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crookedserpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea. {27:2} Inthat day: A vineyard of wine, sing ye unto it. {27:3} I Jehovah am itskeeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep itnight and day. {27:4} Wrath is not in me: would that the briers andthorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burnthem together. {27:5} Or else let him take hold of my strength, that hemay make peace with me; [yea], let him make peace with me. {27:6} Indays to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; andthey shall fill the face of the world with fruit. {27:7} Hath hesmitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slainaccording to the slaughter of them that were slain by them? {27:8} Inmeasure, when thou sendest them away, thou dost contend with them; hehath removed [them] with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.{27:9} Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, andthis is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all thestones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, [so that]the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more. {27:10} For thefortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, likethe wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down,and consume the branches thereof. {27:11} When the boughs thereof arewithered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set themon fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that madethem will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them willshow them no favor. {27:12} And it shall come to pass in that day, thatJehovah will beat off [his fruit] from the flood of the River unto thebrook of Egypt; and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children ofIsrael. {27:13} And it shall come to pass in that day, that a greattrumpet shall be blown; and they shall come that were ready to perishin the land of Assyria, and they that were outcasts in the land ofEgypt; and they shall worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

    {28:1} Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and tothe fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of thefat valley of them that are overcome with wine! {28:2} Behold, the Lordhath a mighty and strong one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm,as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, will he cast down to theearth with the hand. {28:3} The crown of pride of the drunkards ofEphraim shall be trodden under foot: {28:4} and the fading flower ofhis glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall beas the first-ripe fig before the summer; which when he that lookethupon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up. {28:5} Inthat day will Jehovah of hosts become a crown of glory, and a diadem ofbeauty, unto the residue of his people; {28:6} and a spirit of justiceto him that sitteth in judgment, and strength to them that turn backthe battle at the gate. {28:7} And even these reel with wine, andstagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strongdrink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink;they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. {28:8} For all tables arefull of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean].{28:9} Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make tounderstand the message? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawnfrom the breasts? {28:10} For it is precept upon precept, precept uponprecept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little.{28:11} Nay, but by [men of] strange lips and with another tongue willhe speak to this people; {28:12} to whom he said, This is the rest,give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet theywould not hear. {28:13} Therefore shall the word of Jehovah be untothem precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, lineupon line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fallbackward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. {28:14} Wherefore hearthe word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that rule this people that is inJerusalem: {28:15} Because ye have said, We have made a covenant withdeath, and with Sheol are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourgeshall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made liesour refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: {28:16}therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I lay in Zion for afoundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner -[stone] of surefoundation: he that believeth shall not be in haste. {28:17} And I willmake justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hailshall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow thehiding-place. {28:18} And your covenant with death shall be annulled,and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowingscourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.{28:19} As often as it passeth though, it shall take you; for morningby morning shall it pass through, by day and by night: and it shall benought but terror to understand the message. {28:20} For the bed isshorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the coveringnarrower than that he can wrap himself in it. {28:21} For Jehovah willrise up as in mount Perazim, he will be wroth as in the valley ofGibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to passhis act, his strange act. {28:22} Now therefore be ye not scoffers,lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of destruction have Iheard from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, upon the whole earth. {28:23}Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. {28:24}Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he [continually]open and harrow his ground? {28:25} When he hath levelled the facethereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin,and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place,and the spelt in the border thereof? {28:26} For his God doth instructhim aright, [and] doth teach him. {28:27} For the fitches are notthreshed with a sharp [threshing] instrument, neither is a cart wheelturned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with astaff, and the cummin with a rod. {28:28} Bread [grain] is ground; forhe will not be always threshing it: and though the wheel of his cartand his horses scatter it, he doth not grind it. {28:29} This alsocometh forth from Jehovah of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, andexcellent in wisdom.

    {29:1} Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! add ye yearto year; let the feasts come round: {29:2} then will I distress Ariel,and there shall be mourning and lamentation; and she shall be unto meas Ariel. {29:3} And I will encamp against thee round about, and willlay siege against thee with posted troops, and I will raise siege worksagainst thee. {29:4} And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speakout of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust; and thyvoice shall be as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of theground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust. {29:5} But themultitude of thy foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude ofthe terrible ones as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be in aninstant suddenly. {29:6} She shall be visited of Jehovah of hosts withthunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with whirlwind andtempest, and the flame of a devouring fire. {29:7} And the multitude ofall the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight againsther and her stronghold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream, avision of the night. {29:8} And it shall be as when a hungry mandreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul isempty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; buthe awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: soshall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mountZion. {29:9} Tarry ye and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: theyare drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strongdrink. {29:10} For Jehovah hath poured out upon you the spirit of deepsleep, and hath closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, theseers, hath he covered. {29:11} And all vision is become unto you asthe words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that islearned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot, for itis sealed: {29:12} and the book is delivered to him that is notlearned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I am notlearned. {29:13} And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw nigh[unto me], and with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, buthave removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is acommandment of men which hath been taught [them]; {29:14} therefore,behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, evena marvellous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shallperish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.{29:15} Woe unto them that hide deep their counsel from Jehovah, andwhose works are in the dark, and that say, Who seeth us? and whoknoweth us? {29:16} Ye turn things upside down! Shall the potter beesteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him that made it,He made me not; or the thing formed say of him that formed it, He hathno understanding? {29:17} Is it not yet a very little while, andLebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful fieldshall be esteemed as a forest? {29:18} And in that day shall the deafhear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out ofobscurity and out of darkness. {29:19} The meek also shall increasetheir joy in Jehovah, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the HolyOne of Israel. {29:20} For the terrible one is brought to nought, andthe scoffer ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity are cut off;{29:21} that make a man an offender in [his] cause, and lay a snare forhim that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing ofnought. {29:22} Therefore thus saith Jehovah, who redeemed Abraham,concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neithershall his face now wax pale. {29:23} But when he seeth his children,the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name;yea, they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall stand in aweof the God of Israel. {29:24} They also that err in spirit shall cometo understanding, and they that murmur shall receive instruction.

    {30:1} Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, that takecounsel, but not of me; and that make a league, but not of my Spirit,that they may add sin to sin, {30:2} that set out to go down intoEgypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in thestrength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt! {30:3}Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refugein the shadow of Egypt your confusion. {30:4} For their princes are atZoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes. {30:5} They shall all beashamed because of a people that cannot profit them, that are not ahelp nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. {30:6} The burden ofthe beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, fromwhence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flyingserpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, andtheir treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall notprofit [them]. {30:7} For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose:therefore have I called her Rahab that sitteth still. {30:8} Now go,write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that itmay be for the time to come for ever and ever. {30:9} For it is arebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the lawof Jehovah; {30:10} that say to the seers, See not; and to theprophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooththings, prophesy deceits, {30:11} get you out of the way, turn asideout of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.{30:12} Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despisethis word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely thereon;{30:13} therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready tofall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly in aninstant. {30:14} And he shall break it as a potter’s vessel is broken,breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be foundamong the pieces thereof a sherd wherewith to take fire from thehearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern. {30:15} For thus saidthe Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shallye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. Andye would not: {30:16} but ye said, No, for we will flee upon horses;therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; thereforeshall they that pursue you be swift. {30:17} One thousand [shall flee]at the threat of one; at the threat of five shall ye flee: till ye beleft as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on ahill. {30:18} And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be graciousunto you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy uponyou: for Jehovah is a God of justice; blessed are all they that waitfor him. {30:19} For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; thoushalt weep no more; he will surely be gracious unto thee at the voiceof thy cry; when he shall hear, he will answer thee. {30:20} And thoughthe Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction,yet shall not thy teachers be hidden anymore, but thine eyes shall seethy teachers; {30:21} and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee,saying, This is the way, walk ye in it; when ye turn to the right hand,and when ye turn to the left. {30:22} And ye shall defile theoverlaying of thy graven images of silver, and the plating of thymolten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as an unclean thing;thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. {30:23} And he will give therain for thy seed, wherewith thou shalt sow the ground; and bread ofthe increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In thatday shall thy cattle feed in large pastures; {30:24} the oxen likewiseand the young asses that till the ground shall eat savory provender,which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork. {30:25} Andthere shall be upon every lofty mountain, and upon every high hill,brooks [and] streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, whenthe towers fall. {30:26} Moreover the light of the moon shall be as thelight of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as thelight of seven days, in the day that Jehovah bindeth up the hurt of hispeople, and healeth the stroke of their wound. {30:27} Behold, the nameof Jehovah cometh from far, burning with his anger, and in thick risingsmoke: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as adevouring fire; {30:28} and his breath is as an overflowing stream,that reacheth even unto the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve ofdestruction: and a bridle that causeth to err [shall be] in the jaws ofthe peoples. {30:29} Ye shall have a song as in the night when a holyfeast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe tocome unto the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel. {30:30} AndJehovah will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show thelighting down of his arm, with the indignation of [his] anger, and theflame of a devouring fire, with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones.{30:31} For through the voice of Jehovah shall the Assyrian bedismayed; with his rod will he smite [him]. {30:32} And every stroke ofthe appointed staff, which Jehovah shall lay upon him, shall be with[the sound of] tabrets and harps; and in battles with the brandishing[of his arm] will he fight with them. {30:33} For a Topheth is preparedof old; yea, for the king it is made ready; he hath made it deep andlarge; the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of Jehovah,like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

    {31:1} Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and rely onhorses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemenbecause they are very strong, but they look not unto the Holy One ofIsrael, neither seek Jehovah! {31:2} Yet he also is wise, and willbring evil, and will not call back his words, but will arise againstthe house of the evil-doers, and against the help of them that workiniquity. {31:3} Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and theirhorses flesh, and not spirit: and when Jehovah shall stretch out hishand, both he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shallfall, and they all shall be consumed together. {31:4} For thus saithJehovah unto me, As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey,if a multitude of shepherds be called forth against him, will not bedismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: sowill Jehovah of hosts come down to fight upon mount Zion, and upon thehill thereof. {31:5} As birds hovering, so will Jehovah of hostsprotect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver [it], he will pass overand preserve [it]. {31:6} Turn ye unto him from whom ye have deeplyrevolted, O children of Israel. {31:7} For in that day they shall castaway every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which yourown hands have made unto you for a sin. {31:8} And the Assyrian shallfall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of men, shall devourhim; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall becomesubject to taskwork. {31:9} And his rock shall pass away by reason ofterror, and his princes shall be dismayed at the ensign, saith Jehovah,whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

    {32:1} Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princesshall rule in justice. {32:2} And a man shall be as a hiding-place fromthe wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dryplace, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land. {32:3} And theeyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hearshall hearken. {32:4} And the heart of the rash shall understandknowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speakplainly. {32:5} The fool shall be no more called noble, nor the churlsaid to be bountiful. {32:6} For the fool will speak folly, and hisheart will work iniquity, to practise profaneness, and to utter erroragainst Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause thedrink of the thirsty to fail. {32:7} And the instruments of the churlare evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lyingwords, even when the needy speaketh right. {32:8} But the nobledeviseth noble things; and in noble things shall he continue. {32:9}Rise up, ye women that are at ease, [and] hear my voice; ye carelessdaughters, give ear unto my speech. {32:10} For days beyond a yearshall ye be troubled, ye careless women; for the vintage shall fail,the ingathering shall not come. {32:11} Tremble, ye women that are atease; be troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, andgird [sackcloth] upon your loins. {32:12} They shall smite upon thebreasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. {32:13} Uponthe land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon allthe houses of joy in the joyous city. {32:14} For the palace shall beforsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and thewatch-tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pastureof flocks; {32:15} until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, andthe wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field beesteemed as a forest. {32:16} Then justice shall dwell in thewilderness; and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field.{32:17} And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect ofrighteousness, quietness and confidence for ever. {32:18} And my peopleshall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and inquiet resting-places. {32:19} But it shall hail in the downfall of theforest; and the city shall be utterly laid low. {32:20} Blessed are yetthat sow beside all waters, that send forth the feet of the ox and theass.

    {33:1} Woe to thee that destroyest, and thou wast not destroyed; anddealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! Whenthou hast ceased to destroy, thou shalt be destroyed; and when thouhast made an end of dealing treacherously, they shall dealtreacherously with thee. {33:2} O Jehovah, be gracious unto us; we havewaited for thee: be thou our arm every morning, our salvation also inthe time of trouble. {33:3} At the noise of the tumult the peoples arefled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations are scattered. {33:4}And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathereth: aslocusts leap shall men leap upon it. {33:5} Jehovah is exalted; for hedwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with justice and righteousness.{33:6} And there shall be stability in thy times, abundance ofsalvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of Jehovah is thy treasure.{33:7} Behold, their valiant ones cry without; the ambassadors of peaceweep bitterly. {33:8} The highways lie waste, the wayfaring manceaseth: [the enemy] hath broken the covenant, he hath despised thecities, he regardeth not man. {33:9} The land mourneth and languisheth;Lebanon is confounded and withereth away; Sharon is like a desert; andBashan and Carmel shake off [their leaves]. {33:10} Now will I arise,saith Jehovah; now will I lift up myself; now will I be exalted.{33:11} Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: yourbreath is a fire that shall devour you. {33:12} And the peoples shallbe as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in thefire. {33:13} Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye thatare near, acknowledge my might. {33:14} The sinners in Zion are afraid;trembling hath seized the godless ones: Who among us can dwell with thedevouring fire? who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?{33:15} He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he thatdespiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking abribe, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth hiseyes from looking upon evil: {33:16} He shall dwell on high; his placeof defence shall be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given[him]; his waters shall be sure. {33:17} Thine eyes shall see the kingin his beauty: they shall behold a land that reacheth afar. {33:18} Thyheart shall muse on the terror: Where is he that counted, where is hethat weighed [the tribute]? where is he that counted the towers?{33:19} Thou shalt not see the fierce people, a people of a deep speechthat thou canst not comprehend, of a strange tongue that thou canst notunderstand. {33:20} Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thineeyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not beremoved, the stakes whereof shall never be plucked up, neither shallany of the cords thereof be broken. {33:21} But there Jehovah will bewith us in majesty, a place of broad rivers and streams, wherein shallgo no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.{33:22} For Jehovah is our judge, Jehovah is our lawgiver, Jehovah isour king; he will save us. {33:23} Thy tacklings are loosed; they couldnot strengthen the foot of their mast, they could not spread the sail:then was the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame took the prey.{33:24} And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people thatdwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.

    {34:1} Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples: letthe earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world, and all things thatcome forth from it. {34:2} For Jehovah hath indignation against all thenations, and wrath against all their host: he hath utterly destroyedthem, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. {34:3} Their slain alsoshall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up;and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. {34:4} And all thehost of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolledtogether as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as the leaffadeth from off the vine, and as a fading [leaf] from the fig-tree.{34:5} For my sword hath drunk its fill in heaven: behold, it shallcome down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.{34:6} The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat withfatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneysof rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughterin the land of Edom. {34:7} And the wild-oxen shall come down withthem, and the bullocks with the bulls: and their land shall be drunkenwith blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. {34:8} For Jehovahhath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.{34:9} And the streams of [Edom] shall be turned into pitch, and thedust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burningpitch. {34:10} It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smokethereof shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shalllie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. {34:11} Butthe pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and theraven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line ofconfusion, and the plummet of emptiness. {34:12} They shall call thenobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all itsprinces shall be nothing. {34:13} And thorns shall come up in itspalaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shallbe a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches. {34:14} And the wildbeasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goatshall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall settle there, andshall find her a place of rest. {34:15} There shall the dart-snake makeher nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yea, thereshall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate. {34:16} Seek yeout of the book of Jehovah, and read: no one of these shall be missing,none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and hisSpirit, it hath gathered them. {34:17} And he hath cast the lot forthem, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shallpossess it for ever; from generation to generation shall they dwelltherein.

    {35:1} The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; and the desertshall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. {35:2} It shall blossomabundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing; the glory of Lebanonshall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon: they shallsee the glory of Jehovah, the excellency of our God. {35:3} Strengthenye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. {35:4} Say to themthat are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God willcome [with] vengeance, [with] the recompense of God; he will come andsave you. {35:5} Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and theears of the deaf shall be unstopped. {35:6} Then shall the lame manleap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing; for in thewilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. {35:7}And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty groundsprings of water: in the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shallbe grass with reeds and rushes. {35:8} And a highway shall be there,and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the uncleanshall not pass over it; but is shall be for [the redeemed]: thewayfaring men, yea fools, shall not err [therein]. {35:9} No lion shallbe there, nor shall any ravenous beast go up thereon; they shall not befound there; but the redeemed shall walk [there]: {35:10} and theransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; andeverlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladnessand joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

    {36:1} Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah,that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortifiedcities of Judah, and took them. {36:2} And the king of Assyria sentRabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a greatarmy. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway ofthe fuller’s field. {36:3} Then came forth unto him Eliakim the son ofHilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah,the son of Asaph, the recorder. {36:4} And Rabshakeh said unto them,Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria,What confidence is this wherein thou trustest? {36:5} I say, [thy]counsel and strength for the war are but vain words: now on whom dostthou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me? {36:6} Behold, thoutrustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, whereonif a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaohking of Egypt to all that trust on him. {36:7} But if thou say unto me,We trust in Jehovah our God: is not that he, whose high places andwhose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and toJerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar? {36:8} Now therefore, Ipray thee, give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I willgive thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to setriders upon them. {36:9} How then canst thou turn away the face of onecaptain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust onEgypt for chariots and for horsemen? {36:10} And am I now come upwithout Jehovah against this land to destroy it? Jehovah said unto me,Go up against this land, and destroy it. {36:11} Then said Eliakim andShebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servantsin the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us inthe Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.{36:12} But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master, andto thee, to speak these words? [hath he] not [sent me] to the men thatsit upon the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own waterwith you? {36:13} Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice inthe Jews’ language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, theking of Assyria. {36:14} Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceiveyou; for he will not be able to deliver you: {36:15} neither letHezekiah make you trust in Jehovah, saying, Jehovah will surely deliverus; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.{36:16} Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria,Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and eat ye every one ofhis vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one thewaters of his own cistern; {36:17} until I come and take you away to aland like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of breadand vineyards. {36:18} Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying,Jehovah will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations deliveredhis land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? {36:19} Where are thegods of Hamath and Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and havethey delivered Samaria out of my hand? {36:20} Who are they among allthe gods of these countries, that have delivered their country out ofmy hand, that Jehovah should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? {36:21}But they held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king’scommandment was, saying, Answer him not. {36:22} Then came Eliakim theson of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, andJoah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothesrent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

    {37:1} And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that herent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into thehouse of Jehovah. {37:2} And he sent Eliakim, who was over thehousehold, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests,covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. {37:3}And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day oftrouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come tothe birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. {37:4} It may beJehovah thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king ofAssyria his master hath sent to defy the living God, and will rebukethe words which Jehovah thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thyprayer for the remnant that is left. {37:5} So the servants of kingHezekiah came to Isaiah. {37:6} And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shallye say to your master, Thus saith Jehovah, Be not afraid of the wordsthat thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyriahave blasphemed me. {37:7} Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and heshall hear tidings, and shall return unto his own land; and I willcause him to fall by the sword in his own land. {37:8} So Rabshakehreturned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for hehad heard that he was departed from Lachish. {37:9} And he heard sayconcerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come out to fight againstthee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,{37:10} Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let notthy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall notbe given into the hand of the king of Assyria. {37:11} Behold, thouhast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, bydestroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered? {37:12} Have thegods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed,Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were inTelassar? {37:13} Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad,and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? {37:14} AndHezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and readit; and Hezekiah went up unto the house of Jehovah, and spread itbefore Jehovah. {37:15} And Hezekiah prayed unto Jehovah, saying,{37:16} O Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, that sittest [above] thecherubim, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of theearth; thou hast made heaven and earth. {37:17} Incline thine ear, OJehovah, and hear; open thine eyes, O Jehovah, and see; and hear allthe words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to defy the living God. {37:18}Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all thecountries, and their land, {37:19} and have cast their gods into thefire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood andstone; therefore they have destroyed them. {37:20} Now therefore, OJehovah our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of theearth may know that thou art Jehovah, even thou only. {37:21} ThenIsaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah,the God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacheribking of Assyria, {37:22} this is the word which Jehovah hath spokenconcerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion hath despised thee andlaughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her headat thee. {37:23} Whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? and against whomhast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even]against the Holy One of Israel. {37:24} By thy servants hast thoudefied the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am Icome up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts ofLebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choicefir-trees thereof; and I will enter into its farthest height, theforest of its fruitful field; {37:25} I have digged and drunk water,and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.{37:26} Hast thou not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed itof ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should bethine to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. {37:27}Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed andconfounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb,as the grass on the housetops, and as a field [of grain] before it isgrown up. {37:28} But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, andthy coming in, and thy raging against me. {37:29} Because of thy ragingagainst me, and because thine arrogancy is come up into mine ears,therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips,and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest. {37:30} Andthis shall be the sign unto thee: ye shall eat this year that whichgroweth of itself, and in the second year that which springeth of thesame; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, andeat the fruit thereof. {37:31} And the remnant that is escaped of thehouse of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.{37:32} For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of mountZion they that shall escape. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will performthis. {37:33} Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the king ofAssyria, He shall not come unto this city, nor shoot an arrow there,neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a moundagainst it. {37:34} By the way that he came, by the same shall hereturn, and he shall not come unto this city, saith Jehovah. {37:35}For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for myservant David’s sake. {37:36} And the angel of Jehovah went forth, andsmote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and fivethousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these wereall dead bodies. {37:37} So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, andwent and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. {37:38} And it came to pass,as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelechand Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped intothe land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.

    {38:1} In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah theprophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saithJehovah, Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.{38:2} Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed untoJehovah, {38:3} and said, Remember now, O Jehovah, I beseech thee, howI have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and havedone that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. {38:4}Then came the word of Jehovah to Isaiah, saying, {38:5} Go, and say toHezekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father, I have heardthy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy daysfifteen years. {38:6} And I will deliver thee and this city out of thehand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city. {38:7} Andthis shall be the sign unto thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will dothis thing that he hath spoken: {38:8} behold, I will cause the shadowon the steps, which is gone down on the dial of Ahaz with the sun, toreturn backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the dialwhereon it was gone down.

    {38:9} The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick,and was recovered of his sickness.
    {38:10} I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of

    Sheol
    I am deprived of the residue of my years.{38:11} I said, I shall not see Jehovah, [even] Jehovah in the land of

    the living:I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.{38:12} My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a

    shepherd’s tent:I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the

    loom
    From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.{38:13} I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all

    my bones:From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.{38:14} Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter;I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail [with looking] upward:O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.{38:15} What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath

    done it:I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.{38:16} O Lord, by these things men live;And wholly therein is the life of my spirit:Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.{38:17} Behold, [it was] for [my] peace [that] I had great bitterness:But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of

    corruption;For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.{38:18} For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee:They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.{38:19} The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day:The father to the children shall make known thy truth.{38:20} Jehovah is [ready] to save me:Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instrumentsAll the days of our life in the house of Jehovah.

    {38:21} Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and layit for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover. {38:22} Hezekiahalso had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house ofJehovah?

    {39:1} At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king ofBabylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that hehad been sick, and was recovered. {39:2} And Hezekiah was glad of them,and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and thegold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of hisarmor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing inhis house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not.{39:3} Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said untohim, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? AndHezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even fromBabylon. {39:4} Then said he, What have they seen in thy house? AndHezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there isnothing among my treasures that I have not showed them. {39:5} Thensaid Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Jehovah of hosts: {39:6}Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in thy house, and thatwhich thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall becarried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith Jehovah. {39:7} And ofthy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall theytake away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king ofBabylon. {39:8} Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word ofJehovah which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall bepeace and truth in my days.

    {40:1} Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. {40:2}Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry unto her, that her warfareis accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she hath receivedof Jehovah’s hand double for all her sins. {40:3} The voice of one thatcrieth, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of Jehovah; make level inthe desert a highway for our God. {40:4} Every valley shall be exalted,and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the uneven shall bemade level, and the rough places a plain: {40:5} and the glory ofJehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for themouth of Jehovah hath spoken it. {40:6} The voice of one saying, Cry.And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all thegoodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. {40:7} The grasswithereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah blowethupon it; surely the people is grass. {40:8} The grass withereth, theflower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever. {40:9} Othou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up on a high mountain;O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice withstrength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah,Behold, your God! {40:10} Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come as amighty one, and his arm will rule for him: Behold, his reward is withhim, and his recompense before him. {40:11} He will feed his flock likea shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in hisbosom, [and] will gently lead those that have their young. {40:12} Whohath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted outheaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in ameasure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in abalance? {40:13} Who hath directed the Spirit of Jehovah, or being hiscounsellor hath taught him? {40:14} With whom took he counsel, and whoinstructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught himknowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding? {40:15} Behold,the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the smalldust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very littlething. {40:16} And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beaststhereof sufficient for a burnt-offering. {40:17} All the nations are asnothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, andvanity. {40:18} To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness willye compare unto him? {40:19} The image, a workman hath cast [it], andthe goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth [for it] silverchains. {40:20} He that is too impoverished for [such] an oblationchooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilfulworkman to set up a graven image, that shall not be moved. {40:21} Haveye not known? have yet not heard? hath it not been told you from thebeginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?{40:22} [It is] he that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and theinhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out theheavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;{40:23} that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of theearth as vanity. {40:24} Yea, they have not been planted; yea, theyhave not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth:moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwindtaketh them away as stubble. {40:25} To whom then will ye liken me,that I should be equal [to him]? saith the Holy One. {40:26} Lift upyour eyes on high, and see who hath created these, that bringeth outtheir host by number; he calleth them all by name; by the greatness ofhis might, and for that he is strong in power, not one is lacking.{40:27} Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hidfrom Jehovah, and the justice [due] to me is passed away from my God?{40:28} Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The everlasting God,Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither isweary; there is no searching of his understanding. {40:29} He givethpower to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increasethstrength. {40:30} Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and theyoung men shall utterly fall: {40:31} but they that wait for Jehovahshall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles;they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

    {41:1} Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the peoples renewtheir strength: let them come near; then let them speak; let us comenear together to judgment. {41:2} Who hath raised up one from the east,whom he calleth in righteousness to his foot? he giveth nations beforehim, and maketh him rule over kings; he giveth them as the dust to hissword, as the driven stubble to his bow. {41:3} He pursueth them, andpasseth on safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.{41:4} Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from thebeginning? I, Jehovah, the first, and with the last, I am he. {41:5}The isles have seen, and fear; the ends of the earth tremble; they drawnear, and come. {41:6} They help every one his neighbor; and [everyone] saith to his brother, Be of good courage. {41:7} So the carpenterencourageth the goldsmith, [and] he that smootheth with the hammer himthat smiteth the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good; and hefasteneth it with nails, that is should not be moved. {41:8} But thou,Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham myfriend, {41:9} thou whom I have taken hold of from the ends of theearth, and called from the corners thereof, and said unto thee, Thouart my servant, I have chosen thee and not cast thee away; {41:10} Fearthou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I willstrengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee withthe right hand of my righteousness. {41:11} Behold, all they that areincensed against thee shall be put to shame and confounded: they thatstrive with thee shall be as nothing, and shall perish. {41:12} Thoushalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contend withthee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing ofnought. {41:13} For I, Jehovah thy God, will hold thy right hand,saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. {41:14} Fear not, thouworm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith Jehovah, andthy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. {41:15} Behold, I have madethee [to be] a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; thou shaltthresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills aschaff. {41:16} Thou shalt winnow them, and the wind shall carry themaway, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt rejoice inJehovah, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. {41:17} The poorand needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth forthirst; I, Jehovah, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will notforsake them. {41:18} I will open rivers on the bare heights, andfountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness apool of water, and the dry land springs of water. {41:19} I will put inthe wilderness the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree;I will set in the desert the fir-tree, the pine, and the box-treetogether: {41:20} that they may see, and know, and consider, andunderstand together, that the hand of Jehovah hath done this, and theHoly One of Israel hath created it. {41:21} Produce your cause, saithJehovah; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.{41:22} Let them bring forth, and declare unto us what shall happen:declare ye the former things, what they are, that we may consider them,and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come. {41:23}Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that yeare gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and beholdit together. {41:24} Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is ofnought; an abomination is he that chooseth you. {41:25} I have raisedup one from the north, and he is come; from the rising of the sun onethat calleth upon my name: and he shall come upon rulers as uponmortar, and as the potter treadeth clay. {41:26} Who hath declared itfrom the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say,[He is] right? yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is nonethat showeth, yea, there is none that heareth your words. {41:27} [I amthe] first [that saith] unto Zion, Behold, behold them; and I will giveto Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings. {41:28} And when I look,there is no man: even among them there is no counsellor, that, when Iask of them, can answer a word. {41:29} Behold, all of them, theirworks are vanity [and] nought; their molten images are wind andconfusion.

    {42:1} Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my souldelighteth: I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justiceto the Gentiles. {42:2} He will not cry, nor lift up his voice, norcause it to be heard in the street. {42:3} A bruised reed will he notbreak, and a dimly burning wick will he not quench: he will bring forthjustice in truth. {42:4} He will not fail nor be discouraged, till hehave set justice in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law.{42:5} Thus saith God Jehovah, he that created the heavens, andstretched them forth; he that spread abroad the earth and that whichcometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, andspirit to them that walk therein: {42:6} I, Jehovah, have called theein righteousness, and will hold thy hand, and will keep thee, and givethee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; {42:7}to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon,and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house. {42:8} I amJehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another,neither my praise unto graven images. {42:9} Behold, the former thingsare come to pass, and new things do I declare; before they spring forthI tell you of them. {42:10} Sing unto Jehovah a new song, and hispraise from the end of the earth; ye that go down to the sea, and allthat is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. {42:11} Letthe wilderness and the cities thereof lift up [their voice], thevillages that Kedar doth inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, letthem shout from the top of the mountains. {42:12} Let them give gloryunto Jehovah, and declare his praise in the islands. {42:13} Jehovahwill go forth as a mighty man; he will stir up [his] zeal like a man ofwar: he will cry, yea, he will shout aloud; he will do mightily againsthis enemies. {42:14} I have long time holden my peace; I have beenstill, and refrained myself: [now] will I cry out like a travailingwoman; I will gasp and pant together. {42:15} I will lay wastemountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make therivers islands, and will dry up the pools. {42:16} And I will bring theblind by a way that they know not; in paths that they know not will Ilead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked placesstraight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them. {42:17}They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly put to shame, thattrust in graven images, that say unto molten images, Ye are our gods.{42:18} Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. {42:19} Whois blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I send? who isblind as he that is at peace [with me], and blind as Jehovah’s servant?{42:20} Thou seest many things, but thou observest not; his ears areopen, but he heareth not. {42:21} It pleased Jehovah, for hisrighteousness’ sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable. {42:22}But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snaredin holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, andnone delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore. {42:23} Who isthere among you that will give ear to this? that will hearken and hearfor the time to come? {42:24} Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel tothe robbers? did not Jehovah? he against whom we have sinned, and inwhose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient unto hislaw. {42:25} Therefore he poured upon him the fierceness of his anger,and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire round about, yet heknew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

    {43:1} But now thus saith Jehovah that created thee, O Jacob, and hethat formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee; I havecalled thee by thy name, thou art mine. {43:2} When thou passestthrough the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, theyshall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shaltnot be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. {43:3} For Iam Jehovah thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour; I have givenEgypt as thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in thy stead. {43:4} Since thouhast been precious in my sight, [and] honorable, and I have loved thee;therefore will I give men in thy stead, and peoples instead of thylife. {43:5} Fear not; for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed fromthe east, and gather thee from the west; {43:6} I will say to thenorth, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back; bring my sons fromfar, and my daughters from the end of the earth; {43:7} every one thatis called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I haveformed, yea, whom I have made. {43:8} Bring forth the blind people thathave eyes, and the deaf that have ears. {43:9} Let all the nations begathered together, and let the peoples be assembled: who among them candeclare this, and show us former things? let them bring theirwitnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, It istruth. {43:10} Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and my servant whomI have chosen; that ye may know and believe me, and understand that Iam he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be afterme. {43:11} I, even I, am Jehovah; and besides me there is no saviour.{43:12} I have declared, and I have saved, and I have showed; and therewas no strange [god] among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saithJehovah, and I am God. {43:13} Yea, since the day was I am he; andthere is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who canhinder it? {43:14} Thus saith Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One ofIsrael: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring down allof them as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of theirrejoicing. {43:15} I am Jehovah, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel,your King. {43:16} Thus saith Jehovah, who maketh a way in the sea, anda path in the mighty waters; {43:17} who bringeth forth the chariot andhorse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shallnot rise; they are extinct, they are quenched as a wick): {43:18}Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.{43:19} Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; shallye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers inthe desert. {43:20} The beasts of the field shall honor me, the jackalsand the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, and riversin the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen, {43:21} thepeople which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.{43:22} Yet thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast beenweary of me, O Israel. {43:23} Thou hast not brought me of thy sheepfor burnt-offerings; neither hast thou honored me with thy sacrifices.I have not burdened thee with offerings, nor wearied thee withfrankincense. {43:24} Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money,neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices; but thouhast burdened me with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thineiniquities. {43:25} I, even I, am he that blotteth out thytransgressions for mine own sake; and I will not remember thy sins.{43:26} Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set thou forth[thy cause], that thou mayest be justified. {43:27} Thy first fathersinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me. {43:28}Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will makeJacob a curse, and Israel a reviling.

    {44:1} Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel, who I havechosen: {44:2} Thus saith Jehovah that made thee, and formed thee fromthe womb, who will help thee: Fear not, O Jacob my servant; and thou,Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. {44:3} For I will pour water upon himthat is thirsty, and streams upon the dry ground; I will pour my Spiritupon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: {44:4} and theyshall spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses. {44:5}One shall say, I am Jehovah’s; and another shall call [himself] by thename of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto Jehovah,and surname [himself] by the name of Israel. {44:6} Thus saith Jehovah,the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts: I am the first,and I am the last; and besides me there is no God. {44:7} And who, asI, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, sinceI established the ancient people? and the things that are coming, andthat shall come to pass, let them declare. {44:8} Fear ye not, neitherbe afraid: have I not declared unto thee of old, and showed it? and yeare my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? yea, there is no Rock; Iknow not any. {44:9} They that fashion a graven image are all of themvanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and theirown witnesses see not, nor know: that they may be put to shame. {44:10}Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable fornothing? {44:11} Behold, all his fellows shall be put to shame; and theworkmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let themstand up; they shall fear, they shall be put to shame together. {44:12}The smith [maketh] an axe, and worketh in the coals, and fashioneth itwith hammers, and worketh it with his strong arm: yea, he is hungry,and his strength faileth; he drinketh no water, and is faint. {44:13}The carpenter stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with a pencil;he shapeth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compasses,and shapeth it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of aman, to dwell in a house. {44:14} He heweth him down cedars, and takeththe holm-tree and the oak, and strengtheneth for himself one among thetrees of the forest: he planteth a fir-tree, and the rain doth nourishit. {44:15} Then shall it be for a man to burn; and he taketh thereof,and warmeth himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread: yea, hemaketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, andfalleth down thereto. {44:16} He burneth part thereof in the fire; withpart thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied; yea,he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire.{44:17} And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image;he falleth down unto it and worshippeth, and prayeth unto it, andsaith, Deliver me; for thou art my god. {44:18} They know not, neitherdo they consider: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see;and their hearts, that they cannot understand. {44:19} And none callethto mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I haveburned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon thecoals thereof; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make theresidue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of atree? {44:20} He feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned himaside; and he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie inmy right hand? {44:21} Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel; forthou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel,thou shalt not be forgotten of me. {44:22} I have blotted out, as athick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return untome; for I have redeemed thee. {44:23} Sing, O ye heavens, for Jehovahhath done it; shout, ye lower parts of the earth; break forth intosinging, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for Jehovahhath redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel. {44:24} Thussaith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb: Iam Jehovah, that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavensalone; that spreadeth abroad the earth (who is with me?); {44:25} thatfrustrateth the signs of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; thatturneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish; {44:26}that confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel ofhis messengers; that saith of Jerusalem, She shall be inhabited; and ofthe cities of Judah, They shall be built, and I will raise up the wasteplaces thereof; {44:27} that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dryup thy rivers; {44:28} That saith of Cyrus, [He is] my shepherd, andshall perform all my pleasure, even saying of Jerusalem, She shall bebuilt; and of the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.

    {45:1} Thus saith Jehovah to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose righthand I have holden, to subdue nations before him, and I will loose theloins of kings; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall notbe shut: {45:2} I will go before thee, and make the rough placessmooth; I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and cut in sunderthe bars of iron; {45:3} and I will give thee the treasures ofdarkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest knowthat it is I, Jehovah, who call thee by thy name, even the God ofIsrael. {45:4} For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel my chosen, Ihave called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hastnot known me. {45:5} I am Jehovah, and there is none else; besides methere is no God. I will gird thee, though thou hast not known me;{45:6} that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from thewest, that there is none besides me: I am Jehovah, and there is noneelse. {45:7} I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, andcreate evil. I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things. {45:8} Distil,ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: letthe earth open, that it may bring forth salvation, and let it causerighteousness to spring up together; I, Jehovah, have created it.{45:9} Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among thepotsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it,What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? {45:10} Woe unto himthat saith unto a father, What begettest thou? or to a woman, With whattravailest thou? {45:11} Thus saith Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel,and his Maker: Ask me of the things that are to come; concerning mysons, and concerning the work of my hands, command ye me. {45:12} Ihave made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, havestretched out the heavens; and all their host have I commanded. {45:13}I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all hisways: he shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, notfor price nor reward, saith Jehovah of hosts. {45:14} Thus saithJehovah, The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and theSabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall bethine: they shall go after thee, in chains they shall come over; andthey shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee,[saying], Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is noGod. {45:15} Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God ofIsrael, the Saviour. {45:16} They shall be put to shame, yea,confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion together that aremakers of idols. {45:17} [But] Israel shall be saved by Jehovah with aneverlasting salvation: ye shall not be put to shame nor confoundedworld without end. {45:18} For thus saith Jehovah that created theheavens, the God that formed the earth and made it, that established itand created it not a waste, that formed it to be inhabited: I amJehovah; and there is none else. {45:19} I have not spoken in secret,in a place of the land of darkness; I said not unto the seed of Jacob,Seek ye me in vain: I, Jehovah, speak righteousness, I declare thingsthat are right. {45:20} Assemble yourselves and come; draw neartogether, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledgethat carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god thatcannot save. {45:21} Declare ye, and bring [it] forth; yea, let themtake counsel together: who hath showed this from ancient time? who hathdeclared it of old? have not I, Jehovah? and there is no God elsebesides me, a just God and a Saviour; there is none besides me. {45:22}Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God,and there is none else. {45:23} By myself have I sworn, the word isgone forth from my mouth [in] righteousness, and shall not return, thatunto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. {45:24} Only inJehovah, it is said of me, is righteousness and strength; even to himshall men come; and all they that were incensed against him shall beput to shame. {45:25} In Jehovah shall all the seed of Israel bejustified, and shall glory.

    {46:1} Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols are upon thebeasts, and upon the cattle: the things that ye carried about are madea load, a burden to the weary [beast]. {46:2} They stoop, they bow downtogether; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are goneinto captivity. {46:3} Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all theremnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from theirbirth, that have been carried from the womb; {46:4} and even to old ageI am he, and even to hoar hairs will I carry [you]; I have made, and Iwill bear; yea, I will carry, and will deliver. {46:5} To whom will yelike me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like? {46:6}Such as lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance,they hire a goldsmith, and he maketh it a god; they fall down, yea,they worship. {46:7} They bear it upon the shoulder, they carry it, andset it in its place, and it standeth, from its place shall it notremove: yea, one may cry unto it, yet can it not answer, nor save himout of his trouble. {46:8} Remember this, and show yourselves men;bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors. {46:9} Remember the formerthings of old: for I am God, and there is none else; [I am] God, andthere is none like me; {46:10} declaring the end from the beginning,and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done; saying, Mycounsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure; {46:11} calling aravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country;yea, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, Iwill also do it. {46:12} Hearken unto me, ye stout-hearted, that arefar from righteousness: {46:13} I bring near my righteousness, it shallnot be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry; and I will placesalvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

    {47:1} Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon;sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: forthou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. {47:2} Take themillstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train,uncover the leg, pass through the rivers. {47:3} Thy nakedness shall beuncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, andwill spare no man. {47:4} Our Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts is his name,the Holy One of Israel. {47:5} Sit thou silent, and get thee intodarkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be calledThe mistress of kingdoms. {47:6} I was wroth with my people, I profanedmine inheritance, and gave them into thy hand: thou didst show them nomercy; upon the aged hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. {47:7} Andthou saidst, I shall be mistress for ever; so that thou didst not laythese things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter endthereof. {47:8} Now therefore hear this, thou that art given topleasures, that sittest securely, that sayest in thy heart, I am, andthere is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neithershall I know the loss of children: {47:9} but these two things shallcome to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, andwidowhood; in their full measure shall they come upon thee, in themultitude of thy sorceries, and the great abundance of thineenchantments. {47:10} For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness; thouhast said, None seeth me; thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hathperverted thee, and thou hast said in thy heart, I am, and there isnone else besides me. {47:11} Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thoushalt not know the dawning thereof: and mischief shall fall upon thee;thou shalt not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come uponthee suddenly, which thou knowest not. {47:12} Stand now with thineenchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thouhast labored from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, ifso be thou mayest prevail. {47:13} Thou art wearied in the multitude ofthy counsels: let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthlyprognosticators, stand up, and save thee from the things that shallcome upon thee. {47:14} Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fireshall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power ofthe flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.{47:15} Thus shall the things be unto thee wherein thou hast labored:they that have trafficked with thee from thy youth shall wander everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save thee.

    {48:1} Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name ofIsrael, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by thename of Jehovah, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not intruth, nor in righteousness {48:2} (for they call themselves of theholy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; Jehovah of hostsis his name): {48:3} I have declared the former things from of old;yea, they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them: suddenly I didthem, and they came to pass. {48:4} Because I knew that thou artobstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; {48:5}therefore I have declared it to thee from of old; before it came topass I showed it thee; lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath donethem, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.{48:6} Thou hast heard it; behold all this; and ye, will ye not declareit? I have showed thee new things from this time, even hidden things,which thou hast not known. {48:7} They are created now, and not from ofold; and before this day thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldestsay, Behold, I knew them. {48:8} Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thouknewest not; yea, from of old thine ear was not opened: for I knew thatthou didst deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor fromthe womb. {48:9} For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for mypraise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. {48:10}Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have chosen thee inthe furnace of affliction. {48:11} For mine own sake, for mine ownsake, will I do it; for how should [my name] be profaned? and my glorywill I not give to another. {48:12} Hearken unto me, O Jacob, andIsrael my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. {48:13}Yea, my hand hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right handhath spread out the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand uptogether. {48:14} Assemble yourselves, all ye, and hear; who among themhath declared these things? He whom Jehovah loveth shall perform hispleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the Chaldeans. {48:15}I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him; I have brought him, andhe shall make his way prosperous. {48:16} Come ye near unto me, hear yethis; from the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the timethat it was, there am I: and now the Lord Jehovah hath sent me, and hisSpirit. {48:17} Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, the Holy One ofIsrael: I am Jehovah thy God, who teacheth thee to profit, who leadeththee by the way that thou shouldest go. {48:18} Oh that thou hadsthearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, andthy righteousness as the waves of the sea: {48:19} thy seed also hadbeen as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grainsthereof: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.{48:20} Go ye forth from Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans; with avoice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of theearth: say ye, Jehovah hath redeemed his servant Jacob. {48:21} Andthey thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; he caused thewaters to flow out of the rock for them; he clave the rock also, andthe waters gushed out. {48:22} There is no peace, saith Jehovah, to thewicked.

    {49:1} Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye peoples, from far:Jehovah hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hathhe made mention of my name: {49:2} and he hath made my mouth like asharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me: and he hath mademe a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he kept me close: {49:3} and hesaid unto me, Thou art my servant; Israel, in whom I will be glorified.{49:4} But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength fornought and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Jehovah,and my recompense with my God. {49:5} And now saith Jehovah that formedme from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, andthat Israel be gathered unto him (for I am honorable in the eyes ofJehovah, and my God is become my strength); {49:6} yea, he saith, It istoo light a thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up thetribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will alsogive thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvationunto the end of the earth. {49:7} Thus saith Jehovah, the Redeemer ofIsrael, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom thenation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise;princes, and they shall worship; because of Jehovah that is faithful,[even] the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee. {49:8} Thus saithJehovah, In an acceptable time have I answered thee, and in a day ofsalvation have I helped thee; and I will preserve thee, and give theefor a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make theminherit the desolate heritages: {49:9} saying to them that are bound,Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shallfeed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.{49:10} They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat norsun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them will lead them, even bysprings of water will he guide them. {49:11} And I will make all mymountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted. {49:12} Lo, theseshall come from far; and, lo, these from the north and from the west;and these from the land of Sinim. {49:13} Sing, O heavens; and bejoyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for Jehovahhath comforted his people, and will have compassion upon his afflicted.{49:14} But Zion said, Jehovah hath forsaken me, and the Lord hathforgotten me. {49:15} Can a woman forget her sucking child, that sheshould not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, these mayforget, yet will not I forget thee. {49:16} Behold, I have graven theeupon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.{49:17} Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made theewaste shall go forth from thee. {49:18} Lift up thine eyes round about,and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. AsI live, saith Jehovah, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all aswith an ornament, and gird thyself with them, like a bride. {49:19}For, as for thy waste and thy desolate places, and thy land that hathbeen destroyed, surely now shalt thou be too strait for theinhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. {49:20}The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears, The placeis too strait for me; give place to me that I may dwell. {49:21} Thenshalt thou say in thy heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I havebeen bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wanderingto and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone;these, where were they? {49:22} Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, Iwill lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my ensign to thepeoples; and they shall bring thy sons in their bosom, and thydaughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. {49:23} And kingsshall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers:they shall bow down to thee with their faces to the earth, and lick thedust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah; and they thatwait for me shall not be put to shame. {49:24} Shall the prey be takenfrom the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered? {49:25} But thussaith Jehovah, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, andthe prey of the terrible shall be delivered; for I will contend withhim that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. {49:26}And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and theyshall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and allflesh shall know that I, Jehovah, am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, theMighty One of Jacob.

    {50:1} Thus saith Jehovah, Where is the bill of your mother’sdivorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my creditors isit to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold,and for your transgressions was your mother put away. {50:2} Wherefore,when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer?Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no powerto deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers awilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die forthirst. {50:3} I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I makesackcloth their covering. {50:4} The Lord Jehovah hath given me thetongue of them that are taught, that I may know how to sustain withwords him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakenethmine ear to hear as they that are taught. {50:5} The Lord Jehovah hathopened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned awaybackward. {50:6} I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to themthat plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.{50:7} For the Lord Jehovah will help me; therefore have I not beenconfounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know thatI shall not be put to shame. {50:8} He is near that justifieth me; whowill content with me? let us stand up together: who is mine adversary?let him come near to me. {50:9} Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me;who is he that shall condemn me? behold, all they shall wax old as agarment, the moth shall eat them up. {50:10} Who is among you thatfeareth Jehovah, that obeyeth the voice of his servant? he that walkethin darkness, and hath no light, let him trust in the name of Jehovah,and rely upon his God. {50:11} Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, thatgird yourselves about with firebrands; walk ye in the flame of yourfire, and among the brands that ye have kindled. This shall ye have ofmy hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.

    {51:1} Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye thatseek Jehovah: look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the holdof the pit whence ye were digged. {51:2} Look unto Abraham your father,and unto Sarah that bare you; for when he was but one I called him, andI blessed him, and made him many. {51:3} For Jehovah hath comfortedZion; he hath comforted all her waste places, and hath made herwilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah; joyand gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice ofmelody. {51:4} Attend unto me, O my people; and give ear unto me, O mynation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish myjustice for a light of the peoples. {51:5} My righteousness is near, mysalvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the peoples; theisles shall wait for me, and on mine arm shall they trust. {51:6} Liftup your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for theheavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old likea garment; and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but mysalvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not beabolished. {51:7} Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, thepeople in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men,neither be ye dismayed at their revilings. {51:8} For the moth shalleat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; butmy righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation unto allgenerations. {51:9} Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah;awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Is itnot thou that didst cut Rahab in pieces, that didst pierce the monster?{51:10} Is it not thou that driedst up the sea, the waters of the greatdeep; that madest the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to passover? {51:11} And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come withsinging unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: theyshall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and sighing shall fleeaway. {51:12} I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, thatthou art afraid of man that shall die, and of the son of man that shallbe made as grass; {51:13} and hast forgotten Jehovah thy Maker, thatstretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; andfearest continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor,when he maketh ready to destroy? and where is the fury of theoppressor? {51:14} The captive exile shall speedily be loosed; and heshall not die [and go down] into the pit, neither shall his bread fail.{51:15} For I am Jehovah thy God, who stirreth up the sea, so that thewaves thereof roar: Jehovah of hosts is his name. {51:16} And I haveput my words in thy mouth, and have covered thee in the shadow of myhand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of theearth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people. {51:17} Awake, awake,stand up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk at the hand of Jehovah the cupof his wrath; thou hast drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, anddrained it. {51:18} There is none to guide her among all the sons whomshe hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by thehand among all the sons that she hath brought up. {51:19} These twothings are befallen thee, who shall bemoan thee? desolation anddestruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort thee?{51:20} Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets,as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Jehovah, therebuke of thy God. {51:21} Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, anddrunken, but now with wine: {51:22} Thus saith thy Lord Jehovah, andthy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken outof thy hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of mywrath; thou shalt no more drink it again: {51:23} and I will put itinto the hand of them that afflict thee, that have said to thy soul,Bow down, that we may go over; and thou hast laid thy back as theground, and as the street, to them that go over.

    {52:1} Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thybeautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth thereshall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. {52:2}Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit [on thy throne], O Jerusalem:loose thyself from the bonds of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.{52:3} For thus saith Jehovah, Ye were sold for nought; and ye shall beredeemed without money. {52:4} For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Mypeople went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and theAssyrian hath oppressed them without cause. {52:5} Now therefore, whatdo I here, saith Jehovah, seeing that my people is taken away fornought? they that rule over them do howl, saith Jehovah, and my namecontinually all the day is blasphemed. {52:6} Therefore my people shallknow my name: therefore [they shall know] in that day that I am he thatdoth speak; behold, it is I. {52:7} How beautiful upon the mountainsare the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace,that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation, thatsaith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! {52:8} The voice of thy watchmen!they lift up the voice, together do they sing; for they shall see eyeto eye, when Jehovah returneth to Zion. {52:9} Break forth into joy,sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem; for Jehovah hath comfortedhis people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. {52:10} Jehovah hath made barehis holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of theearth have seen the salvation of our God. {52:11} Depart ye, depart ye,go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midstof her; cleanse yourselves, ye that bear the vessels of Jehovah.{52:12} For ye shall not go out in haste, neither shall ye go byflight: for Jehovah will go before you; and the God of Israel will beyour rearward. {52:13} Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shallbe exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high. {52:14} Like as manywere astonished at thee (his visage was so marred more than any man,and his form more than the sons of men), {52:15} so shall he sprinklemany nations; kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which hadnot been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heardshall they understand.

    {53:1} Who hath believed our message? and to whom hath the arm ofJehovah been revealed? {53:2} For he grew up before him as a tenderplant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form norcomeliness; and when we see him, there is no beauty that we shoulddesire him. {53:3} He was despised, and rejected of men; a man ofsorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide theirface he was despised; and we esteemed him not. {53:4} Surely he hathborne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem himstricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. {53:5} But he was wounded forour transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisementof our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. {53:6}All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his ownway; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. {53:7} He wasoppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth; as a lambthat is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearersis dumb, so he opened not his mouth. {53:8} By oppression and judgmenthe was taken away; and as for his generation, who [among them]considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for thetransgression of my people to whom the stroke [was due]? {53:9} Andthey made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death;although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.{53:10} Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath put him to grief:when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his]seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shallprosper in his hand. {53:11} He shall see of the travail of his soul,[and] shall be satisfied: by the knowledge of himself shall myrighteous servant justify many; and he shall bear their iniquities.{53:12} Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and heshall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soulunto death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bare thesin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

    {54:1} Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth intosinging, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: formore are the children of the desolate than the children of the marriedwife, saith Jehovah. {54:2} Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let themstretch forth the curtains of thy habitations; spare not: lengthen thycords, and strengthen thy stakes. {54:3} For thou shalt spread aboardon the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall possess thenations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. {54:4} Fear not;for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thoushalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thyyouth; and the reproach of thy widowhood shalt thou remember no more.{54:5} For thy Maker is thy husband; Jehovah of hosts is his name: andthe Holy One of Israel is thy Redeemer; the God of the whole earthshall he be called. {54:6} For Jehovah hath called thee as a wifeforsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is castoff, saith thy God. {54:7} For a small moment have I forsaken thee; butwith great mercies will I gather thee. {54:8} In overflowing wrath Ihid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting lovingkindnesswill I have mercy on thee, saith Jehovah thy Redeemer. {54:9} For thisis [as] the waters of Noah unto me; for as I have sworn that the watersof Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I willnot be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. {54:10} For the mountains maydepart, and the hills be removed; but my lovingkindness shall notdepart from thee, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, saithJehovah that hath mercy on thee. {54:11} O thou afflicted, tossed withtempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set thy stones in faircolors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. {54:12} And I will makethy pinnacles of rubies, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thyborder of precious stones. {54:13} And all thy children shall be taughtof Jehovah; and great shall be the peace of thy children. {54:14} Inrighteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far fromoppression, for thou shalt not fear; and from terror, for it shall notcome near thee. {54:15} Behold, they may gather together, but not byme: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall because ofthee. {54:16} Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the fire ofcoals, and bringeth forth a weapon for his work; and I have created thewaster to destroy. {54:17} No weapon that is formed against thee shallprosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thoushalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of Jehovah, andtheir righteousness which is of me, saith Jehovah.

    {55:1} Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and hethat hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milkwithout money and without price. {55:2} Wherefore do ye spend money forthat which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not?hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let yoursoul delight itself in fatness. {55:3} Incline your ear, and come untome; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlastingcovenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. {55:4} Behold, Ihave given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander tothe peoples. {55:5} Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowestnot; and a nation that knew not thee shall run unto thee, because ofJehovah thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorifiedthee. {55:6} Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found; call ye upon himwhile he is near: {55:7} let the wicked forsake his way, and theunrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and hewill have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantlypardon. {55:8} For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are yourways my ways, saith Jehovah. {55:9} For as the heavens are higher thanthe earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts thanyour thoughts. {55:10} For as the rain cometh down and the snow fromheaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and makethit bring forth and bud, and giveth seed to the sower and bread to theeater; {55:11} so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: itshall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which Iplease, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. {55:12}For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: themountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing; andall the trees of the fields shall clap their hands. {55:13} Instead ofthe thorn shall come up the fir-tree; and instead of the brier shallcome up the myrtle-tree: and it shall be to Jehovah for a name, for aneverlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

    {56:1} Thus saith Jehovah, Keep ye justice, and do righteousness;for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.{56:2} Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man thatholdeth it fast; that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, andkeepeth his hand from doing any evil. {56:3} Neither let the foreigner,that hath joined himself to Jehovah, speak, saying, Jehovah will surelyseparate me from his people; neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am adry tree. {56:4} For thus saith Jehovah of the eunuchs that keep mysabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast mycovenant: {56:5} Unto them will I give in my house and within my wallsa memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will givethem an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. {56:6} Also theforeigners that join themselves to Jehovah, to minister unto him, andto love the name of Jehovah, to be his servants, every one that keepeththe sabbath from profaning it, and holdeth fast my covenant; {56:7}even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in myhouse of prayer: their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall beaccepted upon mine altar; for my house shall be called a house ofprayer for all peoples. {56:8} The Lord Jehovah, who gathereth theoutcasts of Israel, saith, Yet will I gather [others] to him, besideshis own that are gathered. {56:9} All ye beasts of the field, come todevour, [yea], all ye beasts in the forest. {56:10} His watchmen areblind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, theycannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. {56:11} Yea, thedogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherdsthat cannot understand: they have all turned to their own way, each oneto his gain, from every quarter. {56:12} Come ye, [say they], I willfetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to-morrowshall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure.

    {57:1} The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; andmerciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous istaken away from the evil [to come]. {57:2} He entereth into peace; theyrest in their beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness. {57:3}But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of theadulterer and the harlot. {57:4} Against whom do ye sport yourselves?against whom make ye a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? are ye notchildren of transgression, a seed of falsehood, {57:5} ye that inflameyourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; that slay thechildren in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? {57:6} Amongthe smooth [stones] of the valley is thy portion; they, they are thylot; even to them hast thou poured a drink-offering, thou hast offeredan oblation. Shall I be appeased for these things? {57:7} Upon a highand lofty mountain hast thou set thy bed; thither also wentest thou upto offer sacrifice. {57:8} And behind the doors and the posts hast thouset up thy memorial: for thou hast uncovered [thyself] to another thanme, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee acovenant with them: thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it. {57:9}And thou wentest to the king with oil, and didst increase thy perfumes,and didst send thine ambassadors far off, and didst debase thyself evenunto Sheol. {57:10} Thou wast wearied with the length of thy way; yetsaidst thou not, It is in vain: thou didst find a quickening of thystrength; therefore thou wast not faint. {57:11} And of whom hast thoubeen afraid and in fear, that thou liest, and hast not remembered me,nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of long time,and thou fearest me not? {57:12} I will declare thy righteousness; andas for thy works, they shall not profit thee. {57:13} When thou criest,let them that thou hast gathered deliver thee; but the wind shall takethem, a breath shall carry them all away: but he that taketh refuge inme shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain. {57:14}And he will say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up thestumbling-block out of the way of my people. {57:15} For thus saith thehigh and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy: Idwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contriteand humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revivethe heart of the contrite. {57:16} For I will not contend for ever,neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would faint before me,and the souls that I have made. {57:17} For the iniquity of hiscovetousness was I wroth, and smote him; I hid [my face] and was wroth;and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart. {57:18} I have seenhis ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comfortsunto him and to his mourners. {57:19} I create the fruit of the lips:Peace, peace, to him that is far off and to him that is near, saithJehovah; and I will heal him. {57:20} But the wicked are like thetroubled sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.{57:21} There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

    {58:1} Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, anddeclare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacobtheir sins. {58:2} Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways:as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance oftheir God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to drawnear unto God. {58:3} Wherefore have we fasted, [say they], and thouseest not? [wherefore] have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest noknowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find [your own] pleasure,and exact all your labors. {58:4} Behold, ye fast for strife andcontention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye fast not thisday so as to make your voice to be heard on high. {58:5} Is such thefast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is itto bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes underhim? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Jehovah?{58:6} Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds ofwickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed gofree, and that ye break every yoke? {58:7} Is it not to deal thy breadto the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thyhouse? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thouhide not thyself from thine own flesh? {58:8} Then shall thy lightbreak forth as the morning, and thy healing shall spring forthspeedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory ofJehovah shall by thy rearward. {58:9} Then shalt thou call, and Jehovahwill answer; thou shalt cry, and he will say, Here I am. If thou takeaway from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger,and speaking wickedly; {58:10} and if thou draw out thy soul to thehungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall thy light rise indarkness, and thine obscurity be as the noonday; {58:11} and Jehovahwill guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in dry places, andmake strong thy bones; and thou shalt be like a watered garden, andlike a spring of water, whose waters fail not. {58:12} And they thatshall be of thee shall build the old waste places; thou shalt raise upthe foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called Therepairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. {58:13} Ifthou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on myholy day; and call the sabbath a delight, [and] the holy of Jehovahhonorable; and shalt honor it, not doing thine own ways, nor findingthine own pleasure, nor speaking [thine own] words: {58:14} then shaltthou delight thyself in Jehovah; and I will make thee to ride upon thehigh places of the earth; and I will feed thee with the heritage ofJacob thy father: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.

    {59:1} Behold, Jehovah’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save;neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: {59:2} but your iniquitieshave separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid hisface from you, so that he will not hear. {59:3} For your hands aredefiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips havespoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness. {59:4} None sueth inrighteousness, and none pleadeth in truth: they trust in vanity, andspeak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. {59:5}They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth oftheir eggs dieth; and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.{59:6} Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they coverthemselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and theact of violence is in their hands. {59:7} Their feet run to evil, andthey make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts ofiniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths. {59:8} The wayof peace they know not; and there is no justice in their goings: theyhave made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth not knowpeace. {59:9} Therefore is justice far from us, neither dothrighteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness;for brightness, but we walk in obscurity. {59:10} We grope for the walllike the blind; yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble atnoonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as deadmen. {59:11} We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we lookfor justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off fromus. {59:12} For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and oursins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as forour iniquities, we know them: {59:13} transgressing and denyingJehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppressionand revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.{59:14} And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness standethafar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannotenter. {59:15} Yea, truth is lacking; and he that departeth from evilmaketh himself a prey. And Jehovah saw it, and it displeased him thatthere was no justice. {59:16} And he saw that there was no man, andwondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm broughtsalvation unto him; and his righteousness, it upheld him. {59:17} Andhe put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvationupon his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, andwas clad with zeal as a mantle. {59:18} According to their deeds,accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to hisenemies; to the islands he will repay recompense. {59:19} So shall theyfear the name of Jehovah from the west, and his glory from the risingof the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath ofJehovah driveth. {59:20} And a Redeemer will come to Zion, and untothem that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith Jehovah. {59:21} Andas for me, this is my covenant with them, saith Jehovah: my Spirit thatis upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall notdepart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out ofthe mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith Jehovah, from henceforth and forever.

    {60:1} Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of Jehovahis risen upon thee. {60:2} For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth,and gross darkness the peoples; but Jehovah will arise upon thee, andhis glory shall be seen upon thee. {60:3} And nations shall come to thylight, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. {60:4} Lift up thineeyes round about, and see: they all gather themselves together, theycome to thee; thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall becarried in the arms. {60:5} Then thou shalt see and be radiant, and thyheart shall thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the seashall be turned unto thee, the wealth of the nations shall come untothee. {60:6} The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedariesof Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come; they shall bringgold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praises of Jehovah.{60:7} All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee,the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee; they shall come up withacceptance on mine altar; and I will glorify the house of my glory.{60:8} Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to theirwindows? {60:9} Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships ofTarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their goldwith them, for the name of Jehovah thy God, and for the Holy One ofIsrael, because he hath glorified thee. {60:10} And foreigners shallbuild up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in mywrath I smote thee, but in my favor have I had mercy on thee. {60:11}Thy gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut daynor night; that men may bring unto thee the wealth of the nations, andtheir kings led captive. {60:12} For that nation and kingdom that willnot serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterlywasted. {60:13} The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, thefir-tree, the pine, and the box-tree together, to beautify the place ofmy sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious. {60:14}And the sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee;and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the solesof thy feet; and they shall call thee The city of Jehovah, The Zion ofthe Holy One of Israel. {60:15} Whereas thou hast been forsaken andhated, so that no man passed through thee, I will make thee an eternalexcellency, a joy of many generations. {60:16} Thou shalt also suck themilk of the nations, and shalt suck the breast of kings; and thou shaltknow that I, Jehovah, am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty Oneof Jacob. {60:17} For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I willbring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron. I will also makethy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. {60:18} Violenceshall no more be heard in thy land, desolation nor destruction withinthy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gatesPraise. {60:19} The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither forbrightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but Jehovah will beunto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. {60:20} Thy sunshall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself; forJehovah will be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourningshall be ended. {60:21} Thy people also shall be all righteous; theyshall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work ofmy hands, that I may be glorified. {60:22} The little one shall becomea thousand, and the small one a strong nation; I, Jehovah, will hastenit in its time.

    {61:1} The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovahhath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent meto bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, andthe opening [of the prison] to them that are bound; {61:2} to proclaimthe year of Jehovah’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; tocomfort all that mourn; {61:3} to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion,to give unto them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, thegarment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be calledtrees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may beglorified. {61:4} And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raiseup the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, thedesolations of many generations. {61:5} And strangers shall stand andfeed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and yourvine-dressers. {61:6} But ye shall be named the priests of Jehovah; menshall call you the ministers of our God: ye shall eat the wealth of thenations, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. {61:7} Insteadof your shame [ye shall have] double; and instead of dishonor theyshall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shallpossess double; everlasting joy shall be unto them. {61:8} For I,Jehovah, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will givethem their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenantwith them. {61:9} And their seed shall be known among the nations, andtheir offspring among the peoples; all that see them shall acknowledgethem, that they are the seed which Jehovah hath blessed. {61:10} I willgreatly rejoice in Jehovah, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for hehath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me withthe robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with agarland, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. {61:11} Foras the earth bringeth forth its bud, and as the garden causeth thethings that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord Jehovah willcause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

    {62:1} For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’ssake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness,and her salvation as a lamp that burneth. {62:2} And the nations shallsee thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory, and thou shalt becalled by a new name, which the mouth of Jehovah shall name. {62:3}Thou shalt also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah, and aroyal diadem in the hand of thy God. {62:4} Thou shalt no more betermed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate:but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah; for Jehovahdelighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. {62:5} For as ayoung man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee; and as thebridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice overthee. {62:6} I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem; theyshall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that are Jehovah’sremembrancers, take ye no rest, {62:7} and give him no rest, till heestablish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. {62:8}Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength,Surely I will no more give thy grain to be food for thine enemies; andforeigners shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou hast labored:{62:9} but they that have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Jehovah;and they that have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of mysanctuary. {62:10} Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the wayof the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones;lift up an ensign for the peoples. {62:11} Behold, Jehovah hathproclaimed unto the end of the earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion,Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and hisrecompense before him. {62:12} And they shall call them The holypeople, The redeemed of Jehovah: and thou shalt be called Sought out, Acity not forsaken.

    {63:1} Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments fromBozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, marching in the greatnessof his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. {63:2}Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him thattreadeth in the winevat? {63:3} I have trodden the winepress alone; andof the peoples there was no man with me: yea, I trod them in mineanger, and trampled them in my wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkledupon my garments, and I have stained all my raiment. {63:4} For the dayof vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.{63:5} And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered thatthere was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation untome; and my wrath, it upheld me. {63:6} And I trod down the peoples inmine anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out theirlifeblood on the earth. {63:7} I will make mention of thelovingkindnesses of Jehovah, [and] the praises of Jehovah, according toall that Jehovah hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward thehouse of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to hismercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. {63:8}For he said, Surely, they are my people, children that will not dealfalsely: so he was their Saviour. {63:9} In all their affliction he wasafflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and inhis pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all thedays of old. {63:10} But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit:therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] himself fought againstthem. {63:11} Then he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] hispeople, [saying], Where is he that brought them up out of the sea withthe shepherds of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit in themidst of them? {63:12} that caused his glorious arm to go at the righthand of Moses? that divided the waters before them, to make himself aneverlasting name? {63:13} that led them through the depths, as a horsein the wilderness, so that they stumbled not? {63:14} As the cattlethat go down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah caused them torest; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.{63:15} Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thyholiness and of thy glory: where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? theyearning of thy heart and thy compassions are restrained toward me.{63:16} For thou art our Father, though Abraham knoweth us not, andIsrael doth not acknowledge us: thou, O Jehovah, art our Father; ourRedeemer from everlasting is thy name. {63:17} O Jehovah, why dost thoumake us to err from thy ways, and hardenest our heart from thy fear?Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. {63:18}Thy holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries havetrodden down thy sanctuary. {63:19} We are become as they over whomthou never barest rule, as they that were not called by thy name.

    {64:1} Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldestcome down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence, {64:2} aswhen fire kindleth the brushwood, [and] the fire causeth the waters toboil; to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations maytremble at thy presence! {64:3} When thou didst terrible things whichwe looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains quaked at thypresence. {64:4} For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived bythe ear, neither hath the eye seen a God besides thee, who worketh forhim that waiteth for him. {64:5} Thou meetest him that rejoiceth andworketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold,thou wast wroth, and we sinned: in them [have we been] of long time;and shall we be saved? {64:6} For we are all become as one that isunclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and weall do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.{64:7} And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth uphimself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us, andhast consumed us by means of our iniquities. {64:8} But now, O Jehovah,thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we allare the work of thy hand. {64:9} Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah,neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, look, we beseech thee, weare all thy people. {64:10} Thy holy cities are become a wilderness,Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. {64:11} Our holyand our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned withfire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste. {64:12} Wilt thourefrain thyself for these things, O Jehovah? wilt thou hold thy peace,and afflict us very sore?

    {65:1} I am inquired of by them that asked not [for me]; I am foundof them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nationthat was not called by my name. {65:2} I have spread out my hands allthe day unto a rebellious people, that walk in a way that is not good,after their own thoughts; {65:3} a people that provoke me to my facecontinually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks;{65:4} that sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; thateat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;{65:5} that say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me, for I am holierthan thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all theday. {65:6} Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence,but will recompense, yea, I will recompense into their bosom, {65:7}your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saithJehovah, that have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed meupon the hills; therefore will I first measure their work into theirbosom. {65:8} Thus saith Jehovah, As the new wine is found in thecluster, and one saith, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it: sowill I do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all.{65:9} And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah aninheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, and myservants shall dwell there. {65:10} And Sharon shall be a fold offlocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, formy people that have sought me. {65:11} But ye that forsake Jehovah,that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for Fortune, andthat fill up mingled wine unto Destiny; {65:12} I will destine you tothe sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter; because when Icalled, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but ye didthat which was evil in mine eyes, and chose that wherein I delightednot. {65:13} Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, my servantsshall eat, but ye shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, butye shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall beput to shame; {65:14} behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart,but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for vexation ofspirit. {65:15} And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto mychosen; and the Lord Jehovah will slay thee; and he will call hisservants by another name: {65:16} so that he who blesseth himself inthe earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that swearethin the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the formertroubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.{65:17} For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and theformer things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. {65:18} Butbe ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create; for, behold, Icreate Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. {65:19} And I willrejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and there shall be heard inher no more the voice of weeping and the voice of crying. {65:20} Thereshall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath notfilled his days; for the child shall die a hundred years old, and thesinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed. {65:21} And theyshall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards,and eat the fruit of them. {65:22} They shall not build, and anotherinhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of atree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy thework of their hands. {65:23} They shall not labor in vain, nor bringforth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Jehovah,and their offspring with them. {65:24} And it shall come to pass that,before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, Iwill hear. {65:25} The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and thelion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent’s food.They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith Jehovah.

    {66:1} Thus saith Jehovah, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is myfootstool: what manner of house will ye build unto me? and what placeshall be my rest? {66:2} For all these things hath my hand made, and[so] all these things came to be, saith Jehovah: but to this man will Ilook, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and thattrembleth at my word. {66:3} He that killeth an ox is as he thatslayeth a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as he that breaketh a dog’sneck; he that offereth an oblation, [as he that offereth] swine’sblood; he that burneth frankincense, as he that blesseth an idol. Yea,they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in theirabominations: {66:4} I also will choose their delusions, and will bringtheir fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when Ispake, they did not hear: but they did that which was evil in mineeyes, and chose that wherein I delighted not. {66:5} Hear the word ofJehovah, ye that tremble at his word: Your brethren that hate you, thatcast you out for my name’s sake, have said, Let Jehovah be glorified,that we may see your joy; but it is they that shall be put to shame.{66:6} A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, avoice of Jehovah that rendereth recompense to his enemies. {66:7}Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she wasdelivered of a man-child. {66:8} Who hath heard such a thing? who hathseen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation bebrought forth at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forthher children. {66:9} Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bringforth? saith Jehovah: shall I that cause to bring forth shut [thewomb]? saith thy God. {66:10} Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be gladfor her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye thatmourn over her; {66:11} that ye may suck and be satisfied with thebreasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delightedwith the abundance of her glory. {66:12} For thus saith Jehovah,Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of thenations like an overflowing stream: and ye shall suck [thereof]; yeshall be borne upon the side, and shall be dandled upon the knees.{66:13} As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; andye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. {66:14} And ye shall see [it], andyour heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like the tendergrass: and the hand of Jehovah shall be known toward his servants; andhe will have indignation against his enemies. {66:15} For, behold,Jehovah will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like thewhirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke withflames of fire. {66:16} For by fire will Jehovah execute judgment, andby his sword, upon all flesh; and the slain of Jehovah shall be many.{66:17} They that sanctify themselves and purify themselves [to go]unto the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, andthe abomination, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together,saith Jehovah. {66:18} For I [know] their works and their thoughts:[the time] cometh, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and theyshall come, and shall see my glory. {66:19} And I will set a sign amongthem, and I will send such as escape of them unto the nations, toTarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to theisles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen myglory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations. {66:20} Andthey shall bring all your brethren out of all the nations for anoblation unto Jehovah, upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters,and upon mules, and upon dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem,saith Jehovah, as the children of Israel bring their oblation in aclean vessel into the house of Jehovah. {66:21} And of them also will Itake for priests [and] for Levites, saith Jehovah. {66:22} For as thenew heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain beforeme, saith Jehovah, so shall your seed and your name remain. {66:23} Andit shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from onesabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saithJehovah. {66:24} And they shall go forth, and look upon the dead bodiesof the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall notdie, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be anabhorring unto all flesh.

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