
The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

   {1:1} The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning
Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah,
kings of Judah. {1:2} Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for
Jehovah hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they
have rebelled against me. {1:3} The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass
his master's crib; [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not
consider. {1:4} Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed
of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly! they have forsaken
Jehovah, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged
[and gone] backward. {1:5} Why will ye be still stricken, that ye
revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart
faint. {1:6} From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no
soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes: they
have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil.
{1:7} Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your
land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as
overthrown by strangers. {1:8} And the daughter of Zion is left as a
booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged
city. {1:9} Except Jehovah of hosts had left unto us a very small
remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto
Gomorrah. {1:10} Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear
unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. {1:11} What unto me is
the multitude of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah: I have had enough of
the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight
not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats. {1:12} When
ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to
trample my courts? {1:13} Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an
abomination unto me; new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies,-
I cannot away with iniquity and the solemn meeting. {1:14} Your new
moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto
me; I am weary of bearing them. {1:15} And when ye spread forth your
hands, 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, make
you 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 the
oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. {1:18} Come now,
and let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as
scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like
crimson, 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 hath
spoken it. {1:21} How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that
was 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 loveth
bribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless,
neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. {1:24} Therefore
saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will
ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies; {1:25} and
I will turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy dross, and
will take away all thy tin; {1:26} and I will restore thy judges as at
the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou
shalt be called The city of righteousness, a faithful town. {1:27} Zion
shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.
{1:28} But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be
together, and they that forsake Jehovah shall be consumed. {1:29} For
they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall
be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. {1:30} For ye shall
be 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; and
they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.



   {2:1} The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and
Jerusalem. {2:2} And it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the
mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the
mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall
flow unto it. {2:3} And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let
us 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: for
out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from
Jerusalem. {2:4} And he will judge between the nations, and will decide
concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into
plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift
up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. {2:5} O
house 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 are
filled [with customs] from the east, and [are] soothsayers like the
Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
{2:7} And their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any
end of their treasures; their land also is full of horses, neither is
there any end of their chariots. {2:8} Their land also is full of
idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own
fingers have made. {2:9} And the mean man is bowed down, and the great
man is brought low: therefore forgive them not. {2:10} Enter into the
rock, and hide thee in the dust, from before the terror of Jehovah, and
from the glory of his majesty. {2:11} The lofty looks of man shall be
brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and
Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day. {2:12} For there shall be a
day of Jehovah of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon
all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low; {2:13} and upon all
the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the
oaks of Bashan, {2:14} and upon all the high mountains, and upon all
the hills that are lifted up, {2:15} and upon every lofty tower, and
upon 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 be
bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and
Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day. {2:18} And the idols shall
utterly 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, and
from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the
earth. {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, to
the 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 of
Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake
mightily the earth. {2:22} Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his
nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?



   {3:1} For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away from
Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and
the whole stay of water; {3:2} the mighty man, and the man of war; the
judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the elder; {3:3} the
captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counsellor, and the
expert artificer, and the skilful enchanter. {3:4} And I will give
children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. {3:5} And
the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by
his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the old
man, and the base against the honorable. {3:6} When a man shall take
hold of his brother in the house of his father, [saying], Thou hast
clothing, 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 a
healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: ye shall not
make me ruler of the people. {3:8} For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah
is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah,
to provoke the eyes of his glory. {3:9} The show of their countenance
doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they
hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have done evil unto
themselves. {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} Woe
unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him]; for what his hands have
done shall be done unto him. {3:12} As for my people, children are
their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they that lead
thee 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; the
spoil of the poor is in your houses: {3:15} what mean ye that ye crush
my people, and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, Jehovah of
hosts. {3:16} Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are
haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and
mincing 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 the
daughters 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, and
the cauls, and the crescents; {3:19} the pendants, and the bracelets,
and the mufflers; {3:20} the headtires, and the ankle chains, and the
sashes, and the perfume-boxes, and the amulets; {3:21} the rings, and
the nose-jewels; {3:22} the festival robes, and the mantles, and the
shawls, 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, that
instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness; and instead of a
girdle, a rope; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of
a robe, a girding of sackcloth; branding instead of beauty. {3:25} Thy
men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. {3:26} And her
gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon
the 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 let
us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach. {4:2} In that
day shall the branch of Jehovah be beautiful and glorious, and the
fruit of the land shall be excellent and comely for them that are
escaped of Israel. {4:3} And it shall come to pass, that he that is
left 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 of
Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst
thereof, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning. {4:5}
And Jehovah will create over the whole habitation of mount Zion, and
over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a
flaming fire by night; for over all the glory [shall be spread] a
covering. {4:6} And there shall be a pavilion for a shade in the
day-time from the heat, and for a refuge and for a covert from storm
and from rain.





   {5:1} Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching
his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
{5:2} and he digged it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and
planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of
it, and also hewed out a winepress therein: and he looked that it
should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. {5:3} And
now, 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 my
vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it
should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? {5:5} And now
I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the
hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down the wall
thereof, 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 and
thorns: 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, and
the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but,
behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry. {5:8} Woe
unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there
be 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 houses
shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. {5:10} For
ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall
yield [but] an ephah. {5:11} Woe unto them that rise up early in the
morning, that they may follow strong drink; that tarry late into the
night, till wine inflame them! {5:12} And the harp and the lute, the
tabret and the pipe, and wine, are [in] their feasts; but they regard
not the work of Jehovah, neither have they considered the operation of
his hands. {5:13} Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack
of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude
are parched with thirst. {5:14} Therefore Sheol hath enlarged its
desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and
their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them,
descend [into it]. {5:15} And the mean man is bowed down, and the great
man is humbled, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled: {5:16} but
Jehovah of hosts is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is
sanctified in righteousness. {5:17} Then shall the lambs feed as in
their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers
eat. {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 make
speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel
of 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 put
darkness 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 own
eyes, and prudent in their own sight! {5:22} Woe unto them that are
mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink;
{5:23} that justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the
righteousness of the righteous from him! {5:24} Therefore as the tongue
of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the
flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go
up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and
despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. {5:25} Therefore is the
anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he hath stretched
forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them; and the mountains
tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the
streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is
stretched out still. {5:26} And he will lift up an ensign to the
nations 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 be
weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither
shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their
shoes be broken: {5:28} whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows
bent; their horses' hoofs shall be accounted as flint, and their wheels
as a whirlwind: {5:29} their roaring shall be like a lioness, they
shall roar like young lions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the
prey, 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 of
the 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 upon
a 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 he
covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he
did 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} And
the 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! for
I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the
midst 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 a
live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the
altar: {6:7} and he touched my mouth with it, and said, Lo, this hath
touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin
forgiven. {6:8} And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I
send, 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 understand
not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. {6:10} Make the heart of this
people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they
sea with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with
their 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} and
Jehovah have removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in
the midst of the land. {6:13} And if there be yet a tenth in it, it
also shall in turn be eaten up: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose
stock remaineth, when they are felled; so the holy seed is the stock
thereof.



   {7:1} And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the
son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah
the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war
against it, but could not prevail against it. {7:2} And it was told the
house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his
heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest
tremble with the wind. {7:3} Then said Jehovah unto Isaiah, Go forth
now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the
conduit 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 thy
heart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for
the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. {7:5}
Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have purposed evil
against thee, saying, {7:6} Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and
let us make a breach therein for us, and set up a king in the midst of
it, even the son of Tabeel; {7:7} thus saith the Lord Jehovah, It shall
not stand, neither shall it come to pass. {7:8} For the head of Syria
is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore
and five years shall Ephraim be broken in pieces, so that is shall not
be a people: {7:9} and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of
Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not
be 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, neither
will I tempt Jehovah. {7:13} And he said, Hear ye now, O house of
David: Is it a small thing for you to weary men, that ye will weary my
God also? {7:14} Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign:
behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his
name Immanuel. {7:15} Butter and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to
refuse the evil, and choose the good. {7:16} For before the child shall
know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings
thou abhorrest shall be forsaken. {7:17} Jehovah will bring upon thee,
and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not
come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah-[even] the king of
Assyria. {7:18} And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah
will hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of
Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. {7:19} And they
shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in
the clefts of the rocks, and upon all thorn-hedges, and upon all
pastures. {7:20} In that day will the Lord shave with a razor that is
hired 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 keep
alive 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 shall
eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in
the 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 thousand
silverlings, shall be for briers and thorns. {7:24} With arrows and
with bow shall one come thither, because all the land shall be briers
and 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 shall
be 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 write
upon it with the pen of a man, For Maher-shalal-hash-baz; {8:2} and I
will take unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and
Zechariah 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 his
name Maher-shalal-hash-baz. {8:4} For before the child shall have
knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of Damascus and
the 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 as
this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and
rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son; {8:7} now therefore, behold, the
Lord 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 over
all its channels, and go over all its banks; {8:8} and it shall sweep
onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach
even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the
breadth 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: gird
yourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in
pieces. {8:10} Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to
nought; 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 instructed
me not to walk in the way of this people, saying, {8:12} Say ye not, A
conspiracy, concerning all whereof this people shall say, A conspiracy;
neither fear ye their fear, nor be in dread [thereof]. {8:13} Jehovah
of hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him
be your dread. {8:14} And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone
of 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} And
many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and
be taken. {8:16} Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my
disciples. {8:17} And I will wait for Jehovah, that hideth his face
from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. {8:18} Behold, I and
the children whom Jehovah hath given me are for signs and for wonders
in Israel from Jehovah of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion. {8:19} And
when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits
and unto the wizards, that chirp and that mutter: should not a people
seek unto their God? on behalf of the living [should they seek] unto
the dead? {8:20} To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not
according to this word, surely there is no morning for them. {8:21} And
they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall
come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret
themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their
faces 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 the
former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land
of Naphtali; but in the latter time hath he made it glorious, by the
way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. {9:2} The
people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwelt
in 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 rejoice
when they divide the spoil. {9:4} For the yoke of his burden, and the
staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, thou hast broken as in
the day of Midian. {9:5} For all the armor of the armed man in the
tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be for burning, for
fuel of fire. {9:6} For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is
given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name
shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father,
Prince of Peace. {9:7} Of the increase of his government and of peace
there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom,
to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness
from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will
perform this. {9:8} The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath
lighted upon Israel. {9:9} And all the people shall know, [even]
Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in pride and in
stoutness of heart, {9:10} The bricks are fallen, but we will build
with hewn stone; the sycomores are cut down, but we will put cedars in
their place. {9:11} Therefore Jehovah will set up on high against him
the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies, {9:12} the
Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour
Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but
his hand is stretched out still. {9:13} Yet the people have not turned
unto 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 honorable
man, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the
tail. {9:16} For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they
that are led of them are destroyed. {9:17} Therefore the Lord will not
rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their
fatherless and widows; for every one is profane and an evil-doer, and
every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still. {9:18} For wickedness burneth as
the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns; yea, it kindleth in the
thickets 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; and
the 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 eat
on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every
man the flesh of his own arm: {9:21} Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim,
Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his
anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.



   {10:1} Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the
writers that write perverseness; {10:2} to turn aside the needy from
justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows
may 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 the
desolation 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 down
under the prisoners, and shall fall under the slain. For all this his
anger 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 mine
indignation! {10:6} I will send him against a profane nation, and
against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the
spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of
the streets. {10:7} Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart
think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not
a 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 not
Samaria as Damascus? {10:10} As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the
idols, 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 do
to Jerusalem and her idols? {10:12} Wherefore it shall come to pass,
that, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and
on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of
Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. {10:13} For he hath said, By
the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have
understanding: and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have
robbed their treasures, and like a valiant man I have brought down them
that sit [on thrones]: {10:14} and my hand hath found as a nest the
riches 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 boast
itself against him that heweth therewith? shall the saw magnify itself
against him that wieldeth it? as if a rod should wield them that lift
it 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 fat
ones leanness; and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning
like the burning of fire. {10:17} And the light of Israel will be for a
fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his
thorns and his briers in one day. {10:18} And he will consume the glory
of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and it
shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth. {10:19} And the remnant of
the 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 of
Israel, and they that are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more
again lean upon him that smote them, but shall lean upon Jehovah, the
Holy One of Israel, in truth. {10:21} A remnant shall return, [even]
the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. {10:22} For though thy
people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, [only] a remnant of them
shall return: a destruction [is] determined, overflowing with
righteousness. {10:23} For a full end, and that determined, will the
Lord, Jehovah of hosts, make in the midst of all the earth. {10:24}
Therefore thus saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, O my people that
dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian, though he smite thee
with the rod, and lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of
Egypt. {10:25} For yet a very little while, and the indignation
[against thee] shall be accomplished, and mine anger [shall be
directed] to his destruction. {10:26} And Jehovah of hosts will stir up
against him a scourge, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of
Oreb: and his rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up after
the 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 from
off 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 Michmash
he layeth up his baggage; {10:29} they are gone over the pass; they
have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah trembleth; Gibeah of Saul is
fled. {10:30} Cry aloud with thy voice, O daughter of Gallim! hearken,
O Laishah! O thou poor Anathoth! {10:31} Madmenah is a fugitive; the
inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety. {10:32} This very day shall he
halt 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, will
lop 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 the
thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty
one.



   {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 Spirit
of Jehovah shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the
fear of Jehovah. {11:3} And his delight shall be in the fear of
Jehovah; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither
decide after the hearing of his ears; {11:4} but with righteousness
shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the
earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with
the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. {11:5} And
righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the
girdle of his loins. {11:6} And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and
the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young
lion 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 lie
down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. {11:8} And the
sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child
shall put his hand on the adder's den. {11:9} They shall not hurt nor
destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the
knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea. {11:10} And it shall
come to pass in that day, that the root of Jesse, that standeth for an
ensign of the peoples, unto him shall the nations seek; and his
resting-place shall be glorious. {11:11} And it shall come to pass in
that day, that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to
recover the remnant of his people, that shall remain, from Assyria, and
from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from
Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. {11:12} And
he will set up an ensign for the nations, and will assemble the
outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the
four corners of the earth. {11:13} The envy also of Ephraim shall
depart, and they that vex Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not
envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. {11:14} And they shall fly
down upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the west; together shall
they despoil the children of the east: they shall put forth their hand
upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them. {11:15}
And Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and
with his scorching wind will he wave his hand over the River, and will
smite 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 the
day 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 turned
away and thou comfortest me. {12:2} Behold, God is my salvation; I will
trust, and will not be afraid; for Jehovah, [even] Jehovah, is my
strength and song; and he is become my salvation. {12:3} Therefore with
joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. {12:4} And in
that day shall ye say, Give thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name,
declare his doings among the peoples, make mention that his name is
exalted. {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, thou
inhabitant of Zion; for great in the midst of thee is the Holy One of
Israel.



   {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 voice
unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the
nobles. {13:3} I have commanded my consecrated ones, yea, I have called
my mighty men for mine anger, even my proudly exulting ones. {13:4} The
noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! the noise
of a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Jehovah
of hosts is mustering the host for the battle. {13:5} They come from a
far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Jehovah, and the
weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. {13:6} Wail ye;
for the day of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty
shall it come. {13:7} Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every
heart of man shall melt: {13:8} and they shall be dismayed; pangs and
sorrows shall take hold [of them]; they shall be in pain as a woman in
travail: 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, and
to destroy the sinners thereof out of it. {13:10} For the stars of
heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the
sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause
its 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 arrogancy
of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the
terrible. {13:12} I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a
man than the pure gold of Ophir. {13:13} Therefore I will make the
heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in
the 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 sheep
that no man gathereth, they shall turn every man to his own people, and
shall flee every man to his own land. {13:15} Every one that is found
shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the
sword. {13:16} Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before
their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.
{13:17} Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not
regard 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 shall
have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare
children. {13:19} And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the
Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
{13:20} It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from
generation 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 shall
be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild
goats 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, and
her days shall not be prolonged.



   {14:1} For Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet
choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the sojourner shall
join 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 for
servants and for handmaids: and they shall take them captive whose
captives 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 rest
from thy sorrow, and from thy trouble, and from the hard service
wherein thou wast made to serve, {14:4} that thou shalt take up this
parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor
ceased! the golden city ceased! {14:5} Jehovah hath broken the staff of
the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers; {14:6} that smote the peoples in
wrath with a continual stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a
persecution that none restrained. {14:7} The whole earth is at rest,
[and] is quiet: they break forth into singing. {14:8} Yea, the
fir-trees rejoice at thee, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since
thou art laid low, no hewer is come up against us. {14:9} Sheol from
beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up
the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised
up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. {14:10} All they
shall answer and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art
thou 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 worms
cover thee. {14:12} How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of
the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low
the nations! {14:13} And thou saidst in thy heart, I will ascend into
heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit
upon the mount of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north;
{14:14} I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make
myself like the Most High. {14:15} Yet thou shalt be brought down to
Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit. {14:16} They that see thee
shall gaze at thee, they shall consider thee, [saying], Is this the man
that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; {14:17} that
made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that
let not loose his prisoners to their home? {14:18} All the kings of the
nations, all of them, sleep in glory, every one in his own house.
{14:19} But thou art cast forth away from thy sepulchre like an
abominable branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with
the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body
trodden under foot. {14:20} Thou shalt not be joined with them in
burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy
people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named for ever. {14:21}
Prepare ye slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their
fathers, that they rise not up, and possess the earth, and fill the
face 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, and
son and son's son, saith Jehovah. {14:23} I will also make it a
possession for the porcupine, and pools of water: and I will sweep it
with the besom of destruction, saith Jehovah of hosts. {14:24} Jehovah
of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought, so shall it
come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: {14:25} that I
will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him
under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden
depart from off their shoulder. {14:26} This is the purpose that is
purposed upon the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched
out 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 shall
turn 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 that
smote thee is broken; for out of the serpent's root shall come forth an
adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. {14:30} And the
first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in
safety; and I will kill thy root with famine, and thy remnant shall be
slain. {14:31} Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou art melted away, O
Philistia, all of thee; for there cometh a smoke out of the north, and
there is no straggler in his ranks. {14:32} What then shall one answer
the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah hath founded Zion, and in
her 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 to
Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab waileth over Nebo, and over
Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off. {15:3}
In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their
housetops, and in their broad places, every one waileth, weeping
abundantly. {15:4} And Heshbon crieth out, and Elealeh; their voice is
heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his
soul trembleth within him. {15:5} My heart crieth out for Moab; her
nobles [flee] unto Zoar, to Eglath-shelishi-yah: for by the ascent of
Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise
up a cry of destruction. {15:6} For the waters of Nimrim shall be
desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass faileth,
there is no green thing. {15:7} Therefore the abundance they have
gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away over
the brook of the willows. {15:8} For the cry is gone round about the
borders of Moab; the wailing thereof unto Eglaim, and the wailing
thereof unto Beer-elim. {15:9} For the waters of Dimon are full of
blood; for I will bring yet more upon Dimon, a lion upon them of Moab
that escape, and upon the remnant of the land.



   {16:1} Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the
wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. {16:2} For it shall
be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the
daughters 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 the
noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive. {16:4} Let mine
outcasts dwell with thee; as for Moab, be thou a covert to him from the
face 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 one
shall sit thereon in truth, in the tent of David, judging, and seeking
justice, and swift to do righteousness. {16:6} We have heard of the
pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; even of his arrogancy, and his
pride, and his wrath; his boastings are nought. {16:7} Therefore shall
Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail: for the raisin-cakes of
Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn, utterly stricken. {16:8} For the fields of
Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations
have broken down the choice branches thereof, which reached even unto
Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread
abroad, they passed over the sea. {16:9} Therefore I will weep with the
weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water thee with my
tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for upon thy summer fruits and upon thy
harvest the [battle] shout is fallen. {16:10} And gladness is taken
away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there
shall be no singing, neither joyful noise: no treader shall tread out
wine 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 parts
for Kir-heres. {16:12} And it shall come to pass, when Moab presenteth
himself, when he wearieth himself upon the high place, and shall come
to his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail. {16:13} This is
the word that Jehovah spake concerning Moab in time past. {16:14} But
now Jehovah hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a
hireling, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all
his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and of no
account.



   {17:1} The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from
being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. {17:2} The cities of
Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and
none shall make them afraid. {17:3} And the fortress shall cease from
Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria; they
shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith Jehovah of
hosts. {17:4} And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of
Jacob 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 standing
grain, and his arm reapeth the ears; yea, it shall be as when one
gleaneth ears in the valley of Rephaim. {17:6} Yet there shall be left
therein gleanings, as the shaking of an olive-tree, two or three
berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost
branches 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 have
respect to the Holy One of Israel. {17:8} And they shall not look to
the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have respect to
that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the
sun-images. {17:9} In that day shall their strong cities be as the
forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were
forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a
desolation. {17:10} For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation,
and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore thou
plantest pleasant plants, and settest it with strange slips. {17:11} In
the day of thy planting thou hedgest it in, and in the morning thou
makest thy seed to blossom; but the harvest fleeth away in the day of
grief 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 shall
rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and
they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the
mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
{17:14} At eventide, behold, terror; [and] before the morning they are
not. This is the portion of them that despoil us, and the lot of them
that rob us.



   {18:1} Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the
rivers of Ethiopia; {18:2} that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in
vessels of papyrus upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers,
to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning
onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the
rivers divide! {18:3} All ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers
on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and
when the trumpet is blown, hear ye. {18:4} For thus hath Jehovah said
unto me, I will be still, and I will behold in my dwelling-place, like
clear 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 flower
becometh a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with
pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away [and] cut
down. {18:6} They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the
mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall
summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon
them. {18:7} In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of
hosts [from] a people tall and smooth, even from a people terrible from
their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down,
whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Jehovah of
hosts, the mount Zion.



   {19:1} The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah rideth upon a swift
cloud, and cometh unto Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at
his 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 they
shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his
neighbor; city against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom. {19:3} And
the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy
the counsel thereof: and they shall seek unto the idols, and to the
charmers, 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 cruel
lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, Jehovah
of hosts. {19:5} And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river
shall be wasted and become dry. {19:6} And the rivers shall become
foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds
and flags shall wither away. {19:7} The meadows by the Nile, by the
brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, shall become
dry, be driven away, and be no more. {19:8} And the fishers shall
lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and
they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. {19:9} Moreover
they that work in combed flax, and they that weave white cloth, shall
be confounded. {19:10} And the pillars [of Egypt] shall be broken in
pieces; all they that work for hire [shall be] grieved in soul. {19:11}
The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest
counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am
the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? {19:12} Where then are
thy wise men? and let them tell thee now; and let them know what
Jehovah of hosts hath purposed concerning Egypt. {19:13} The princes of
Zoan are become fools, the princes of Memphis are deceived; they have
caused Egypt to go astray, that are the corner-stone of her tribes.
{19:14} Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of
her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work thereof, as
a drunken man staggereth in his vomit. {19:15} Neither shall there be
for 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 they
shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Jehovah of
hosts, which he shaketh over them. {19:17} And the land of Judah shall
become a terror unto Egypt; every one to whom mention is made thereof
shall be afraid, because of the purpose of Jehovah of hosts, which he
purposeth against it. {19:18} In that day there shall be five cities in
the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to
Jehovah 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 land
of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to Jehovah. {19:20} And it
shall be for a sign and for a witness unto Jehovah of hosts in the land
of Egypt; for they shall cry unto Jehovah because of oppressors, and he
will send them a saviour, and a defender, and he will deliver them.
{19:21} And Jehovah shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall
know Jehovah in that day; yea, they shall worship with sacrifice and
oblation, and shall vow a vow unto Jehovah, and shall perform it.
{19:22} And Jehovah will smite Egypt, smiting and healing; and they
shall return unto Jehovah, and he will be entreated of them, and will
heal them. {19:23} In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to
Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into
Assyria; and the Egyptians shall worship with the Assyrians. {19:24} In
that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a
blessing in the midst of the earth; {19:25} for that Jehovah of hosts
hath blessed them, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the
work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.



   {20:1} In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, when Sargon the
king 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 from
off thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. {20:3} And
Jehovah said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot
three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning
Ethiopia; {20:4} so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of
Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot,
and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. {20:5} And they
shall be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their
expectation, and of Egypt their glory. {20:6} And the inhabitant of
this coast-land shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation,
whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and
we, how shall we escape?



   {21:1} The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the
South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from a terrible
land. {21:2} A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous man
dealeth 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 upon
me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot
hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see. {21:4} My heart fluttereth,
horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned
into trembling unto me. {21:5} They prepare the table, they set the
watch, 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 him
declare what he seeth: {21:7} and when he seeth a troop, horsemen in
pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently
with much heed. {21:8} And he cried as a lion: O Lord, I stand
continually upon the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward
whole nights; {21:9} and, behold, here cometh a troop of men, horsemen
in pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all
the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground. {21:10} O
thou my threshing, and the grain of my floor! that which I have heard
from 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 watchman
said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire,
inquire ye: turn ye, come. {21:13} The burden upon Arabia. In the
forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites. {21:14}
Unto him that was thirsty they brought water; the inhabitants of the
land of Tema did meet the fugitives with their bread. {21:15} For they
fled 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 said
unto me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the
glory of Kedar shall fail; {21:17} and the residue of the number of the
archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be few; for
Jehovah, 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 art
full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; thy slain are not
slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle. {22:3} All thy
rulers fled away together, they were bound by the archers; all that
were 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 to
comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people. {22:5} For
it is a day of discomfiture, and of treading down, and of perplexity,
from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking
down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains. {22:6} And Elam bare
the quiver, with chariots of men [and] horsemen; and Kir uncovered the
shield. {22:7} And it came to pass, that thy choicest valleys were full
of 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 in
that day to the armor in the house of the forest. {22:9} And ye saw the
breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and ye gathered
together the waters of the lower pool; {22:10} and ye numbered the
houses 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 of
the old pool. But ye looked not unto him that had done this, neither
had ye respect unto him that purposed it long ago. {22:12} And in that
day did the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning,
and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: {22:13} and behold, joy
and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking
wine: let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die. {22:14} And
Jehovah of hosts revealed himself in mine ears, Surely this iniquity
shall not be forgiven you till ye die, saith the Lord, Jehovah of
hosts. {22:15} Thus saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, Go, get thee unto
this treasurer, even unto Shebna, who is over the house, [and say],
{22:16} What doest thou here? and whom has thou here, that thou hast
hewed 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 wrap
thee up closely. {22:18} He will surely wind thee round and round, [and
toss thee] like a ball into a large country; there shalt thou die, and
there shall be the chariots of thy glory, thou shame of thy lord's
house. {22:19} And I will thrust thee from thine office; and from thy
station shalt thou be pulled down. {22:20} And it shall come to pass in
that 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 thy
girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand; and he shall be
a 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 none
shall 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, the
offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all
the flagons. {22:25} In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, shall the
nail that was fastened in a sure place give way; and it shall be hewn
down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off; for
Jehovah hath spoken it.



   {23:1} The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is
laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of
Kittim it is revealed to them. {23:2} Be still, ye inhabitants of the
coast, thou whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have
replenished. {23:3} And on great waters the seed of the Shihor, the
harvest 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, the
stronghold of the sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth,
neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins. {23:5} When
the report cometh to Egypt, they shall be sorely pained at the report
of Tyre. {23:6} Pass ye over to Tarshish; wail, ye inhabitants of the
coast. {23:7} Is this your joyous [city], whose antiquity is of ancient
days, whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn? {23:8} Who hath
purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are
princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth? {23:9}
Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to
bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth. {23:10} Pass
through thy land as the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no
restraint any more. {23:11} He hath stretched out his hand over the
sea, he hath shaken the kingdoms: Jehovah hath given commandment
concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds thereof. {23:12} And he
said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin daughter of
Sidon: arise, pass over to Kittim; even there shalt thou have no rest.
{23:13} Behold, the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not; the
Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness; they set up
their 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 be
forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the
end of seventy years it shall be unto Tyre as in the song of the
harlot. {23:16} Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast
been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be
remembered. {23:17} And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy
years, 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 the
face of the earth. {23:18} And her merchandise and her hire shall be
holiness to Jehovah: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her
merchandise shall be for them that dwell before Jehovah, to eat
sufficiently, 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 inhabitants
thereof. {24:2} And it shall be, as with the people, so with the
priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so
with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the
creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with
the giver of interest to him. {24:3} The earth shall be utterly
emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.
{24:4} The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and
fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish. {24:5} The
earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have
transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting
covenant. {24:6} Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they
that dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the
earth are burned, and few men left. {24:7} The new wine mourneth, the
vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh. {24:8} The mirth of
tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the
harp ceaseth. {24:9} They shall not drink wine with a song; strong
drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. {24:10} The waste city is
broken 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 is
darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. {24:12} In the city is left
desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. {24:13} For thus
shall it be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking
of 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 of
Jehovah they cry aloud from the sea. {24:15} Wherefore glorify ye
Jehovah in the east, even the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, in
the isles of the sea. {24:16} From the uttermost part of the earth have
we heard songs: Glory to the righteous. But I said, I pine away, I pine
away, woe is me! the treacherous have dealt treacherously; yea, the
treacherous have dealt very treacherously. {24:17} Fear, and the pit,
and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. {24:18} And it
shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall
fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit
shall be taken in the snare: for the windows on high are opened, and
the foundations of the earth tremble. {24:19} The earth is utterly
broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is shaken violently.
{24:20} The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway to
and fro like a hammock; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy
upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again. {24:21} And it shall
come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will punish the host of the high
ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. {24:22} And
they 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 be
visited. {24:23} Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun
ashamed; for Jehovah of hosts will reign in mount Zion, and in
Jerusalem; and before his elders shall be glory.



   {25:1} O Jehovah, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise
thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, [even] counsels of old,
in faithfulness [and] truth. {25:2} For thou hast made of a city a
heap, 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 glorify
thee; a city of terrible nations shall fear thee. {25:4} For thou hast
been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his
distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the
blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. {25:5} As
the heat in a dry place wilt thou bring down the noise of strangers; as
the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the terrible ones shall
be brought low. {25:6} And in this mountain will Jehovah of hosts make
unto 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 that
covereth all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
{25:8} He hath swallowed up death for ever; and the Lord Jehovah will
wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will
he 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 waited
for 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 this
mountain will the hand of Jehovah rest; and Moab shall be trodden down
in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the water of the
dung-hill. {25:11} And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst
thereof, 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, laid
low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.



   {26:1} In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: we
have a strong city; salvation will he appoint for walls and bulwarks.
{26:2} Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth faith
may enter in. {26:3} Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose]
mind [is] stayed [on thee]; because he trusteth in thee. {26:4} Trust
ye in Jehovah for ever; for in Jehovah, [even] Jehovah, is an
everlasting rock. {26:5} For he hath brought down them that dwell on
high, the lofty city: he layeth it low, he layeth it low even to the
ground; he bringeth it even to the dust. {26:6} The foot shall tread it
down; even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy. {26:7} The
way of the just is uprightness: thou that art upright dost direct the
path 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], is
the desire of our soul. {26:9} With my soul have I desired thee in the
night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee earnestly: for
when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn
righteousness. {26:10} Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he
not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal
wrongfully, 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 devour
thine adversaries. {26:12} Jehovah, thou wilt ordain peace for us; for
thou 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 only
will we make mention of thy name. {26:14} [They are] dead, they shall
not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou
visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish.
{26:15} Thou hast increased the nation, O Jehovah, thou hast increased
the nation; thou art glorified; thou hast enlarged all the borders of
the land. {26:16} Jehovah, in trouble have they visited thee; they
poured out a prayer [when] thy chastening was upon them. {26:17} Like
as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is
in pain and crieth out in her pangs; so we have been before thee, O
Jehovah. {26:18} We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have
as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in
the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. {26:19}
Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye
that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is [as] the dew of herbs, and the
earth shall cast forth the dead. {26:20} Come, my people, enter thou
into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself for a
little moment, until the indignation be overpast. {26:21} For, behold,
Jehovah cometh forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the
earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and
shall no more cover her slain.



   {27:1} In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword
will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked
serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea. {27:2} In
that day: A vineyard of wine, sing ye unto it. {27:3} I Jehovah am its
keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it
night and day. {27:4} Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and
thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burn
them together. {27:5} Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he
may make peace with me; [yea], let him make peace with me. {27:6} In
days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; and
they shall fill the face of the world with fruit. {27:7} Hath he
smitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slain
according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them? {27:8} In
measure, when thou sendest them away, thou dost contend with them; he
hath 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, and
this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the
stones 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 the
fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like
the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down,
and consume the branches thereof. {27:11} When the boughs thereof are
withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them
on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made
them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will
show them no favor. {27:12} And it shall come to pass in that day, that
Jehovah will beat off [his fruit] from the flood of the River unto the
brook of Egypt; and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of
Israel. {27:13} And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great
trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come that were ready to perish
in the land of Assyria, and they that were outcasts in the land of
Egypt; 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 to
the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the
fat valley of them that are overcome with wine! {28:2} Behold, the Lord
hath 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 the
earth with the hand. {28:3} The crown of pride of the drunkards of
Ephraim shall be trodden under foot: {28:4} and the fading flower of
his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be
as the first-ripe fig before the summer; which when he that looketh
upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up. {28:5} In
that day will Jehovah of hosts become a crown of glory, and a diadem of
beauty, unto the residue of his people; {28:6} and a spirit of justice
to him that sitteth in judgment, and strength to them that turn back
the battle at the gate. {28:7} And even these reel with wine, and
stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong
drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink;
they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. {28:8} For all tables are
full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean].
{28:9} Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to
understand the message? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn
from the breasts? {28:10} For it is precept upon precept, precept upon
precept; 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 will
he 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 they
would not hear. {28:13} Therefore shall the word of Jehovah be unto
them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line
upon line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall
backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. {28:14} Wherefore hear
the word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that rule this people that is in
Jerusalem: {28:15} Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with
death, and with Sheol are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge
shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies
our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: {28:16}
therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I lay in Zion for a
foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner -[stone] of sure
foundation: he that believeth shall not be in haste. {28:17} And I will
make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail
shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the
hiding-place. {28:18} And your covenant with death shall be annulled,
and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing
scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
{28:19} As often as it passeth through, it shall take you; for morning
by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night: and it shall be
nought but terror to understand the message. {28:20} For the bed is
shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering
narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. {28:21} For Jehovah will
rise up as in mount Perazim, he will be wroth as in the valley of
Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass
his act, his strange act. {28:22} Now therefore be ye not scoffers,
lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I
heard 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 face
thereof, 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 instruct
him aright, [and] doth teach him. {28:27} For the fitches are not
threshed with a sharp [threshing] instrument, neither is a cart wheel
turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a
staff, and the cummin with a rod. {28:28} Bread [grain] is ground; for
he will not be always threshing it: and though the wheel of his cart
and his horses scatter it, he doth not grind it. {28:29} This also
cometh forth from Jehovah of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and
excellent in wisdom.



   {29:1} Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! add ye year
to 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 me
as Ariel. {29:3} And I will encamp against thee round about, and will
lay siege against thee with posted troops, and I will raise siege works
against thee. {29:4} And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak
out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust; and thy
voice shall be as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the
ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust. {29:5} But the
multitude of thy foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of
the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be in an
instant suddenly. {29:6} She shall be visited of Jehovah of hosts with
thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with whirlwind and
tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire. {29:7} And the multitude of
all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against
her and her stronghold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream, a
vision of the night. {29:8} And it shall be as when a hungry man
dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is
empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but
he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so
shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount
Zion. {29:9} Tarry ye and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they
are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong
drink. {29:10} For Jehovah hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep
sleep, and hath closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the
seers, hath he covered. {29:11} And all vision is become unto you as
the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is
learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot, for it
is sealed: {29:12} and the book is delivered to him that is not
learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I am not
learned. {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, but
have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a
commandment of men which hath been taught [them]; {29:14} therefore,
behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even
a marvellous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall
perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
{29:15} Woe unto them that hide deep their counsel from Jehovah, and
whose works are in the dark, and that say, Who seeth us? and who
knoweth us? {29:16} Ye turn things upside down! Shall the potter be
esteemed 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 hath
no understanding? {29:17} Is it not yet a very little while, and
Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field
shall be esteemed as a forest? {29:18} And in that day shall the deaf
hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of
obscurity and out of darkness. {29:19} The meek also shall increase
their joy in Jehovah, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy
One of Israel. {29:20} For the terrible one is brought to nought, and
the 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 for
him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of
nought. {29:22} Therefore thus saith Jehovah, who redeemed Abraham,
concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither
shall 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 awe
of the God of Israel. {29:24} They also that err in spirit shall come
to understanding, and they that murmur shall receive instruction.



   {30:1} Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, that take
counsel, 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 into
Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the
strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt! {30:3}
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge
in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. {30:4} For their princes are at
Zoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes. {30:5} They shall all be
ashamed because of a people that cannot profit them, that are not a
help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. {30:6} The burden of
the beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from
whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying
serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and
their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not
profit [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 it
may be for the time to come for ever and ever. {30:9} For it is a
rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law
of Jehovah; {30:10} that say to the seers, See not; and to the
prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth
things, prophesy deceits, {30:11} get you out of the way, turn aside
out 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 despise
this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely thereon;
{30:13} therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to
fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly in an
instant. {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 found
among the pieces thereof a sherd wherewith to take fire from the
hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern. {30:15} For thus said
the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall
ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. And
ye 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; therefore
shall 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 be
left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a
hill. {30:18} And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be gracious
unto you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon
you: for Jehovah is a God of justice; blessed are all they that wait
for him. {30:19} For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; thou
shalt weep no more; he will surely be gracious unto thee at the voice
of thy cry; when he shall hear, he will answer thee. {30:20} And though
the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction,
yet shall not thy teachers be hidden anymore, but thine eyes shall see
thy 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 the
overlaying of thy graven images of silver, and the plating of thy
molten 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 the
rain for thy seed, wherewith thou shalt sow the ground; and bread of
the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that
day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures; {30:24} the oxen likewise
and the young asses that till the ground shall eat savory provender,
which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork. {30:25} And
there shall be upon every lofty mountain, and upon every high hill,
brooks [and] streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when
the towers fall. {30:26} Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the
light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the
light of seven days, in the day that Jehovah bindeth up the hurt of his
people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. {30:27} Behold, the name
of Jehovah cometh from far, burning with his anger, and in thick rising
smoke: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a
devouring fire; {30:28} and his breath is as an overflowing stream,
that reacheth even unto the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of
destruction: and a bridle that causeth to err [shall be] in the jaws of
the peoples. {30:29} Ye shall have a song as in the night when a holy
feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to
come unto the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel. {30:30} And
Jehovah will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the
lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of [his] anger, and the
flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones.
{30:31} For through the voice of Jehovah shall the Assyrian be
dismayed; with his rod will he smite [him]. {30:32} And every stroke of
the 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 prepared
of old; yea, for the king it is made ready; he hath made it deep and
large; 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 on
horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen
because they are very strong, but they look not unto the Holy One of
Israel, neither seek Jehovah! {31:2} Yet he also is wise, and will
bring evil, and will not call back his words, but will arise against
the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of them that work
iniquity. {31:3} Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their
horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Jehovah shall stretch out his
hand, both he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall
fall, and they all shall be consumed together. {31:4} For thus saith
Jehovah 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 be
dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so
will Jehovah of hosts come down to fight upon mount Zion, and upon the
hill thereof. {31:5} As birds hovering, so will Jehovah of hosts
protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver [it], he will pass over
and preserve [it]. {31:6} Turn ye unto him from whom ye have deeply
revolted, O children of Israel. {31:7} For in that day they shall cast
away every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your
own hands have made unto you for a sin. {31:8} And the Assyrian shall
fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of men, shall devour
him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become
subject to taskwork. {31:9} And his rock shall pass away by reason of
terror, 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 princes
shall rule in justice. {32:2} And a man shall be as a hiding-place from
the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry
place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land. {32:3} And the
eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear
shall hearken. {32:4} And the heart of the rash shall understand
knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak
plainly. {32:5} The fool shall be no more called noble, nor the churl
said to be bountiful. {32:6} For the fool will speak folly, and his
heart will work iniquity, to practise profaneness, and to utter error
against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the
drink of the thirsty to fail. {32:7} And the instruments of the churl
are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying
words, even when the needy speaketh right. {32:8} But the noble
deviseth noble things; and in noble things shall he continue. {32:9}
Rise up, ye women that are at ease, [and] hear my voice; ye careless
daughters, give ear unto my speech. {32:10} For days beyond a year
shall ye be troubled, ye careless women; for the vintage shall fail,
the ingathering shall not come. {32:11} Tremble, ye women that are at
ease; be troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and
gird [sackcloth] upon your loins. {32:12} They shall smite upon the
breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. {32:13} Upon
the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all
the houses of joy in the joyous city. {32:14} For the palace shall be
forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the
watch-tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture
of flocks; {32:15} until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and
the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be
esteemed as a forest. {32:16} Then justice shall dwell in the
wilderness; and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field.
{32:17} And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of
righteousness, quietness and confidence for ever. {32:18} And my people
shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in
quiet resting-places. {32:19} But it shall hail in the downfall of the
forest; and the city shall be utterly laid low. {32:20} Blessed are ye
that sow beside all waters, that send forth the feet of the ox and the
ass.



   {33:1} Woe to thee that destroyest, and thou wast not destroyed; and
dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! When
thou hast ceased to destroy, thou shalt be destroyed; and when thou
hast made an end of dealing treacherously, they shall deal
treacherously with thee. {33:2} O Jehovah, be gracious unto us; we have
waited for thee: be thou our arm every morning, our salvation also in
the time of trouble. {33:3} At the noise of the tumult the peoples are
fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations are scattered. {33:4}
And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathereth: as
locusts leap shall men leap upon it. {33:5} Jehovah is exalted; for he
dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
{33:6} And there shall be stability in thy times, abundance of
salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of Jehovah is thy treasure.
{33:7} Behold, their valiant ones cry without; the ambassadors of peace
weep bitterly. {33:8} The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man
ceaseth: [the enemy] hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the
cities, he regardeth not man. {33:9} The land mourneth and languisheth;
Lebanon is confounded and withereth away; Sharon is like a desert; and
Bashan 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: your
breath is a fire that shall devour you. {33:12} And the peoples shall
be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the
fire. {33:13} Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that
are near, acknowledge my might. {33:14} The sinners in Zion are afraid;
trembling hath seized the godless ones: Who among us can dwell with the
devouring fire? who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?
{33:15} He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that
despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking a
bribe, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his
eyes from looking upon evil: {33:16} He shall dwell on high; his place
of 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 king
in his beauty: they shall behold a land that reacheth afar. {33:18} Thy
heart shall muse on the terror: Where is he that counted, where is he
that weighed [the tribute]? where is he that counted the towers?
{33:19} Thou shalt not see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech
that thou canst not comprehend, of a strange tongue that thou canst not
understand. {33:20} Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine
eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be
removed, the stakes whereof shall never be plucked up, neither shall
any of the cords thereof be broken. {33:21} But there Jehovah will be
with us in majesty, a place of broad rivers and streams, wherein shall
go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
{33:22} For Jehovah is our judge, Jehovah is our lawgiver, Jehovah is
our king; he will save us. {33:23} Thy tacklings are loosed; they could
not 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 that
dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.



   {34:1} Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples: let
the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world, and all things that
come forth from it. {34:2} For Jehovah hath indignation against all the
nations, and wrath against all their host: he hath utterly destroyed
them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. {34:3} Their slain also
shall 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 the
host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled
together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as the leaf
fadeth 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 shall
come 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 with
fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys
of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter
in the land of Edom. {34:7} And the wild-oxen shall come down with
them, and the bullocks with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken
with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. {34:8} For Jehovah
hath 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 the
dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning
pitch. {34:10} It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke
thereof shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall
lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. {34:11} But
the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the
raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of
confusion, and the plummet of emptiness. {34:12} They shall call the
nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its
princes shall be nothing. {34:13} And thorns shall come up in its
palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall
be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches. {34:14} And the wild
beasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat
shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall settle there, and
shall find her a place of rest. {34:15} There shall the dart-snake make
her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yea, there
shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate. {34:16} Seek ye
out 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 his
Spirit, it hath gathered them. {34:17} And he hath cast the lot for
them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall
possess it for ever; from generation to generation shall they dwell
therein.



   {35:1} The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; and the desert
shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. {35:2} It shall blossom
abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing; the glory of Lebanon
shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon: they shall
see the glory of Jehovah, the excellency of our God. {35:3} Strengthen
ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. {35:4} Say to them
that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will
come [with] vengeance, [with] the recompense of God; he will come and
save you. {35:5} Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the
ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. {35:6} Then shall the lame man
leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing; for in the
wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. {35:7}
And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground
springs of water: in the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall
be 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 unclean
shall not pass over it; but it shall be for [the redeemed]: the
wayfaring men, yea fools, shall not err [therein]. {35:9} No lion shall
be there, nor shall any ravenous beast go up thereon; they shall not be
found there; but the redeemed shall walk [there]: {35:10} and the
ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and
everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness
and 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 fortified
cities of Judah, and took them. {36:2} And the king of Assyria sent
Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great
army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of
the fuller's field. {36:3} Then came forth unto him Eliakim the son of
Hilkiah, 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 dost
thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me? {36:6} Behold, thou
trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, whereon
if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh
king 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 and
whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and to
Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar? {36:8} Now therefore, I
pray thee, give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will
give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set
riders upon them. {36:9} How then canst thou turn away the face of one
captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on
Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? {36:10} And am I now come up
without Jehovah against this land to destroy it? Jehovah said unto me,
Go up against this land, and destroy it. {36:11} Then said Eliakim and
Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants
in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in
the 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, and
to thee, to speak these words? [hath he] not [sent me] to the men that
sit upon the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water
with you? {36:13} Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in
the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the
king of Assyria. {36:14} Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive
you; for he will not be able to deliver you: {36:15} neither let
Hezekiah make you trust in Jehovah, saying, Jehovah will surely deliver
us; 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 of
his vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one the
waters of his own cistern; {36:17} until I come and take you away to a
land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread
and vineyards. {36:18} Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying,
Jehovah will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered
his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? {36:19} Where are the
gods of Hamath and Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have
they delivered Samaria out of my hand? {36:20} Who are they among all
the gods of these countries, that have delivered their country out of
my 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's
commandment was, saying, Answer him not. {36:22} Then came Eliakim the
son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and
Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes
rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.



   {37:1} And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he
rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the
house of Jehovah. {37:2} And he sent Eliakim, who was over the
household, 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 of
trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to
the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. {37:4} It may be
Jehovah thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of
Assyria his master hath sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke
the words which Jehovah thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy
prayer for the remnant that is left. {37:5} So the servants of king
Hezekiah came to Isaiah. {37:6} And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall
ye say to your master, Thus saith Jehovah, Be not afraid of the words
that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria
have blasphemed me. {37:7} Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he
shall hear tidings, and shall return unto his own land; and I will
cause him to fall by the sword in his own land. {37:8} So Rabshakeh
returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he
had heard that he was departed from Lachish. {37:9} And he heard say
concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come out to fight against
thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
{37:10} Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not
thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not
be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. {37:11} Behold, thou
hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by
destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered? {37:12} Have the
gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed,
Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in
Telassar? {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} And
Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read
it; and Hezekiah went up unto the house of Jehovah, and spread it
before Jehovah. {37:15} And Hezekiah prayed unto Jehovah, saying,
{37:16} O Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, that sittest [above] the
cherubim, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the
earth; thou hast made heaven and earth. {37:17} Incline thine ear, O
Jehovah, and hear; open thine eyes, O Jehovah, and see; and hear all
the 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 the
countries, and their land, {37:19} and have cast their gods into the
fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and
stone; therefore they have destroyed them. {37:20} Now therefore, O
Jehovah our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the
earth may know that thou art Jehovah, even thou only. {37:21} Then
Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah,
the God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib
king of Assyria, {37:22} this is the word which Jehovah hath spoken
concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion hath despised thee and
laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head
at thee. {37:23} Whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? and against whom
hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even]
against the Holy One of Israel. {37:24} By thy servants hast thou
defied the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am I
come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of
Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice
fir-trees thereof; and I will enter into its farthest height, the
forest 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 it
of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be
thine to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. {37:27}
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and
confounded; 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 is
grown up. {37:28} But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and
thy coming in, and thy raging against me. {37:29} Because of thy raging
against 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} And
this shall be the sign unto thee: ye shall eat this year that which
groweth of itself, and in the second year that which springeth of the
same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and
eat the fruit thereof. {37:31} And the remnant that is escaped of the
house 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 mount
Zion they that shall escape. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform
this. {37:33} Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the king of
Assyria, He shall not come unto this city, nor shoot an arrow there,
neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound
against it. {37:34} By the way that he came, by the same shall he
return, 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 my
servant David's sake. {37:36} And the angel of Jehovah went forth, and
smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five
thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were
all dead bodies. {37:37} So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and
went 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 Adrammelech
and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into
the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.



   {38:1} In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the
prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith
Jehovah, Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
{38:2} Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto
Jehovah, {38:3} and said, Remember now, O Jehovah, I beseech thee, how
I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have
done 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 to
Hezekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father, I have heard
thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days
fifteen years. {38:6} And I will deliver thee and this city out of the
hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city. {38:7} And
this shall be the sign unto thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do
this thing that he hath spoken: {38:8} behold, I will cause the shadow
on the steps, which is gone down on the dial of Ahaz with the sun, to
return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the dial
whereon 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 instruments
All the days of our life in the house of Jehovah.

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



   {39:1} At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of
Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he
had 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 the
gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his
armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in
his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not.
{39:3} Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto
him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And
Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from
Babylon. {39:4} Then said he, What have they seen in thy house? And
Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is
nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them. {39:5} Then
said 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 that
which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be
carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith Jehovah. {39:7} And of
thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they
take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of
Babylon. {39:8} Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of
Jehovah which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be
peace 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 warfare
is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she hath received
of Jehovah's hand double for all her sins. {40:3} The voice of one that
crieth, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of Jehovah; make level in
the 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 be
made level, and the rough places a plain: {40:5} and the glory of
Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the
mouth 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 the
goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. {40:7} The grass
withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth
upon it; surely the people is grass. {40:8} The grass withereth, the
flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever. {40:9} O
thou 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 with
strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah,
Behold, your God! {40:10} Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come as a
mighty one, and his arm will rule for him: Behold, his reward is with
him, and his recompense before him. {40:11} He will feed his flock like
a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his
bosom, [and] will gently lead those that have their young. {40:12} Who
hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out
heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a
measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a
balance? {40:13} Who hath directed the Spirit of Jehovah, or being his
counsellor hath taught him? {40:14} With whom took he counsel, and who
instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him
knowledge, 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 small
dust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little
thing. {40:16} And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts
thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering. {40:17} All the nations are as
nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and
vanity. {40:18} To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will
ye compare unto him? {40:19} The image, a workman hath cast [it], and
the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth [for it] silver
chains. {40:20} He that is too impoverished for [such] an oblation
chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilful
workman to set up a graven image, that shall not be moved. {40:21} Have
ye not known? have yet not heard? hath it not been told you from the
beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
{40:22} [It is] he that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the
inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the
heavens 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 the
earth as vanity. {40:24} Yea, they have not been planted; yea, they
have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth:
moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind
taketh 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 up
your eyes on high, and see who hath created these, that bringeth out
their host by number; he calleth them all by name; by the greatness of
his 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 hid
from 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 is
weary; there is no searching of his understanding. {40:29} He giveth
power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth
strength. {40:30} Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the
young men shall utterly fall: {40:31} but they that wait for Jehovah
shall 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 renew
their strength: let them come near; then let them speak; let us come
near together to judgment. {41:2} Who hath raised up one from the east,
whom he calleth in righteousness to his foot? he giveth nations before
him, and maketh him rule over kings; he giveth them as the dust to his
sword, as the driven stubble to his bow. {41:3} He pursueth them, and
passeth 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 the
beginning? 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 draw
near, and come. {41:6} They help every one his neighbor; and [every
one] saith to his brother, Be of good courage. {41:7} So the carpenter
encourageth the goldsmith, [and] he that smootheth with the hammer him
that smiteth the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good; and he
fasteneth it with nails, that it should not be moved. {41:8} But thou,
Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my
friend, {41:9} thou whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the
earth, and called from the corners thereof, and said unto thee, Thou
art my servant, I have chosen thee and not cast thee away; {41:10} Fear
thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will
strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with
the right hand of my righteousness. {41:11} Behold, all they that are
incensed against thee shall be put to shame and confounded: they that
strive with thee shall be as nothing, and shall perish. {41:12} Thou
shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contend with
thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of
nought. {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, thou
worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith Jehovah, and
thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. {41:15} Behold, I have made
thee [to be] a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; thou shalt
thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as
chaff. {41:16} Thou shalt winnow them, and the wind shall carry them
away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt rejoice in
Jehovah, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. {41:17} The poor
and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for
thirst; I, Jehovah, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not
forsake them. {41:18} I will open rivers on the bare heights, and
fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a
pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. {41:19} I will put in
the 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-tree
together: {41:20} that they may see, and know, and consider, and
understand together, that the hand of Jehovah hath done this, and the
Holy One of Israel hath created it. {41:21} Produce your cause, saith
Jehovah; 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 ye
are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold
it together. {41:24} Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of
nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you. {41:25} I have raised
up one from the north, and he is come; from the rising of the sun one
that calleth upon my name: and he shall come upon rulers as upon
mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay. {41:26} Who hath declared it
from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say,
[He is] right? yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none
that showeth, yea, there is none that heareth your words. {41:27} [I am
the] first [that saith] unto Zion, Behold, behold them; and I will give
to 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 I
ask of them, can answer a word. {41:29} Behold, all of them, their
works are vanity [and] nought; their molten images are wind and
confusion.



   {42:1} Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul
delighteth: I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice
to the Gentiles. {42:2} He will not cry, nor lift up his voice, nor
cause it to be heard in the street. {42:3} A bruised reed will he not
break, and a dimly burning wick will he not quench: he will bring forth
justice in truth. {42:4} He will not fail nor be discouraged, till he
have set justice in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law.
{42:5} Thus saith God Jehovah, he that created the heavens, and
stretched them forth; he that spread abroad the earth and that which
cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and
spirit to them that walk therein: {42:6} I, Jehovah, have called thee
in righteousness, and will hold thy hand, and will keep thee, and give
thee 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 am
Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another,
neither my praise unto graven images. {42:9} Behold, the former things
are come to pass, and new things do I declare; before they spring forth
I tell you of them. {42:10} Sing unto Jehovah a new song, and his
praise from the end of the earth; ye that go down to the sea, and all
that is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. {42:11} Let
the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up [their voice], the
villages that Kedar doth inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let
them shout from the top of the mountains. {42:12} Let them give glory
unto Jehovah, and declare his praise in the islands. {42:13} Jehovah
will go forth as a mighty man; he will stir up [his] zeal like a man of
war: he will cry, yea, he will shout aloud; he will do mightily against
his enemies. {42:14} I have long time holden my peace; I have been
still, and refrained myself: [now] will I cry out like a travailing
woman; I will gasp and pant together. {42:15} I will lay waste
mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the
rivers islands, and will dry up the pools. {42:16} And I will bring the
blind by a way that they know not; in paths that they know not will I
lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places
straight. 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, that
trust 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} Who
is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I send? who is
blind 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 are
open, but he heareth not. {42:21} It pleased Jehovah, for his
righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable. {42:22}
But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared
in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, and
none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore. {42:23} Who is
there among you that will give ear to this? that will hearken and hear
for the time to come? {42:24} Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to
the robbers? did not Jehovah? he against whom we have sinned, and in
whose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient unto his
law. {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 he
knew 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 he
that formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee; I have
called thee by thy name, thou art mine. {43:2} When thou passest
through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they
shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt
not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. {43:3} For I
am Jehovah thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour; I have given
Egypt as thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in thy stead. {43:4} Since thou
hast been precious in my sight, [and] honorable, and I have loved thee;
therefore will I give men in thy stead, and peoples instead of thy
life. {43:5} Fear not; for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from
the east, and gather thee from the west; {43:6} I will say to the
north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back; bring my sons from
far, and my daughters from the end of the earth; {43:7} every one that
is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have
formed, yea, whom I have made. {43:8} Bring forth the blind people that
have eyes, and the deaf that have ears. {43:9} Let all the nations be
gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled: who among them can
declare this, and show us former things? let them bring their
witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, It is
truth. {43:10} Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and my servant whom
I have chosen; that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I
am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after
me. {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 there
was no strange [god] among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith
Jehovah, and I am God. {43:13} Yea, since the day was I am he; and
there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who can
hinder it? {43:14} Thus saith Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of
Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring down all
of them as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their
rejoicing. {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, and
a path in the mighty waters; {43:17} who bringeth forth the chariot and
horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall
not 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; shall
ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in
the desert. {43:20} The beasts of the field shall honor me, the jackals
and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers
in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen, {43:21} the
people 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 been
weary of me, O Israel. {43:23} Thou hast not brought me of thy sheep
for burnt-offerings; neither hast thou honored me with thy sacrifices.
I have not burdened thee with offerings, nor wearied thee with
frankincense. {43:24} Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money,
neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices; but thou
hast burdened me with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine
iniquities. {43:25} I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy
transgressions 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 father
sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me. {43:28}
Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make
Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling.



   {44:1} Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel, who I have
chosen: {44:2} Thus saith Jehovah that made thee, and formed thee from
the 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 him
that is thirsty, and streams upon the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit
upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: {44:4} and they
shall 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 the
name 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, as
I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since
I established the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and
that shall come to pass, let them declare. {44:8} Fear ye not, neither
be afraid: have I not declared unto thee of old, and showed it? and ye
are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? yea, there is no Rock; I
know not any. {44:9} They that fashion a graven image are all of them
vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their
own 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 for
nothing? {44:11} Behold, all his fellows shall be put to shame; and the
workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them
stand 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 it
with 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 a
man, to dwell in a house. {44:14} He heweth him down cedars, and taketh
the holm-tree and the oak, and strengtheneth for himself one among the
trees of the forest: he planteth a fir-tree, and the rain doth nourish
it. {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, he
maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and
falleth down thereto. {44:16} He burneth part thereof in the fire; with
part 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, and
saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god. {44:18} They know not, neither
do they consider: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see;
and their hearts, that they cannot understand. {44:19} And none calleth
to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have
burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the
coals thereof; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the
residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a
tree? {44:20} He feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him
aside; and he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in
my right hand? {44:21} Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel; for
thou 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 a
thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto
me; for I have redeemed thee. {44:23} Sing, O ye heavens, for Jehovah
hath done it; shout, ye lower parts of the earth; break forth into
singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for Jehovah
hath redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel. {44:24} Thus
saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb: I
am Jehovah, that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens
alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth (who is with me?); {44:25} that
frustrateth the signs of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that
turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish; {44:26}
that confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of
his messengers; that saith of Jerusalem, She shall be inhabited; and of
the cities of Judah, They shall be built, and I will raise up the waste
places thereof; {44:27} that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry
up thy rivers; {44:28} That saith of Cyrus, [He is] my shepherd, and
shall perform all my pleasure, even saying of Jerusalem, She shall be
built; and of the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.



   {45:1} Thus saith Jehovah to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right
hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him, and I will loose the
loins of kings; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not
be shut: {45:2} I will go before thee, and make the rough places
smooth; I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and cut in sunder
the bars of iron; {45:3} and I will give thee the treasures of
darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know
that it is I, Jehovah, who call thee by thy name, even the God of
Israel. {45:4} For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my chosen, I
have called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast
not known me. {45:5} I am Jehovah, and there is none else; besides me
there 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 the
west, that there is none besides me: I am Jehovah, and there is none
else. {45:7} I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and
create evil. I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things. {45:8} Distil,
ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let
the earth open, that it may bring forth salvation, and let it cause
righteousness to spring up together; I, Jehovah, have created it.
{45:9} Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among the
potsherds 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 him
that saith unto a father, What begettest thou? or to a woman, With what
travailest thou? {45:11} Thus saith Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel,
and his Maker: Ask me of the things that are to come; concerning my
sons, and concerning the work of my hands, command ye me. {45:12} I
have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have
stretched 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 his
ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not
for price nor reward, saith Jehovah of hosts. {45:14} Thus saith
Jehovah, The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the
Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be
thine: they shall go after thee, in chains they shall come over; and
they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee,
[saying], Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no
God. {45:15} Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of
Israel, the Saviour. {45:16} They shall be put to shame, yea,
confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion together that are
makers of idols. {45:17} [But] Israel shall be saved by Jehovah with an
everlasting salvation: ye shall not be put to shame nor confounded
world without end. {45:18} For thus saith Jehovah that created the
heavens, the God that formed the earth and made it, that established it
and created it not a waste, that formed it to be inhabited: I am
Jehovah; 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 things
that are right. {45:20} Assemble yourselves and come; draw near
together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge
that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that
cannot save. {45:21} Declare ye, and bring [it] forth; yea, let them
take counsel together: who hath showed this from ancient time? who hath
declared it of old? have not I, Jehovah? and there is no God else
besides 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 is
gone forth from my mouth [in] righteousness, and shall not return, that
unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. {45:24} Only in
Jehovah, it is said of me, is righteousness and strength; even to him
shall men come; and all they that were incensed against him shall be
put to shame. {45:25} In Jehovah shall all the seed of Israel be
justified, and shall glory.



   {46:1} Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols are upon the
beasts, and upon the cattle: the things that ye carried about are made
a load, a burden to the weary [beast]. {46:2} They stoop, they bow down
together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone
into captivity. {46:3} Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the
remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from their
birth, that have been carried from the womb; {46:4} and even to old age
I am he, and even to hoar hairs will I carry [you]; I have made, and I
will bear; yea, I will carry, and will deliver. {46:5} To whom will ye
like 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, and
set it in its place, and it standeth, from its place shall it not
remove: yea, one may cry unto it, yet can it not answer, nor save him
out of his trouble. {46:8} Remember this, and show yourselves men;
bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors. {46:9} Remember the former
things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; [I am] God, and
there is none like me; {46:10} declaring the end from the beginning,
and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done; saying, My
counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure; {46:11} calling a
ravenous 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, I
will also do it. {46:12} Hearken unto me, ye stout-hearted, that are
far from righteousness: {46:13} I bring near my righteousness, it shall
not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry; and I will place
salvation 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: for
thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. {47:2} Take the
millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train,
uncover the leg, pass through the rivers. {47:3} Thy nakedness shall be
uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and
will 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 into
darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called
The mistress of kingdoms. {47:6} I was wroth with my people, I profaned
mine inheritance, and gave them into thy hand: thou didst show them no
mercy; upon the aged hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. {47:7} And
thou saidst, I shall be mistress for ever; so that thou didst not lay
these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end
thereof. {47:8} Now therefore hear this, thou that art given to
pleasures, that sittest securely, that sayest in thy heart, I am, and
there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither
shall I know the loss of children: {47:9} but these two things shall
come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and
widowhood; in their full measure shall they come upon thee, in the
multitude of thy sorceries, and the great abundance of thine
enchantments. {47:10} For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness; thou
hast said, None seeth me; thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath
perverted thee, and thou hast said in thy heart, I am, and there is
none else besides me. {47:11} Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou
shalt not know the dawning thereof: and mischief shall fall upon thee;
thou shalt not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come upon
thee suddenly, which thou knowest not. {47:12} Stand now with thine
enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou
hast labored from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if
so be thou mayest prevail. {47:13} Thou art wearied in the multitude of
thy counsels: let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly
prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from the things that shall
come upon thee. {47:14} Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire
shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of
the 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 every
one 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 of
Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the
name of Jehovah, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in
truth, nor in righteousness {48:2} (for they call themselves of the
holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; Jehovah of hosts
is 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 did
them, and they came to pass. {48:4} Because I knew that thou art
obstinate, 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 to
pass I showed it thee; lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done
them, 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 declare
it? 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 of
old; and before this day thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest
say, Behold, I knew them. {48:8} Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou
knewest not; yea, from of old thine ear was not opened: for I knew that
thou didst deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from
the womb. {48:9} For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my
praise 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 in
the furnace of affliction. {48:11} For mine own sake, for mine own
sake, will I do it; for how should [my name] be profaned? and my glory
will I not give to another. {48:12} Hearken unto me, O Jacob, and
Israel 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 hand
hath spread out the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up
together. {48:14} Assemble yourselves, all ye, and hear; who among them
hath declared these things? He whom Jehovah loveth shall perform his
pleasure 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, and
he shall make his way prosperous. {48:16} Come ye near unto me, hear ye
this; from the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time
that it was, there am I: and now the Lord Jehovah hath sent me, and his
Spirit. {48:17} Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of
Israel: I am Jehovah thy God, who teacheth thee to profit, who leadeth
thee by the way that thou shouldest go. {48:18} Oh that thou hadst
hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and
thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: {48:19} thy seed also had
been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains
thereof: 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 a
voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the
earth: say ye, Jehovah hath redeemed his servant Jacob. {48:21} And
they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; he caused the
waters to flow out of the rock for them; he clave the rock also, and
the waters gushed out. {48:22} There is no peace, saith Jehovah, to the
wicked.



   {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 hath
he made mention of my name: {49:2} and he hath made my mouth like a
sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me: and he hath made
me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he kept me close: {49:3} and he
said 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 for
nought 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 formed
me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and
that Israel be gathered unto him (for I am honorable in the eyes of
Jehovah, and my God is become my strength); {49:6} yea, he saith, It is
too light a thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the
tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also
give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation
unto the end of the earth. {49:7} Thus saith Jehovah, the Redeemer of
Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the
nation 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 saith
Jehovah, In an acceptable time have I answered thee, and in a day of
salvation have I helped thee; and I will preserve thee, and give thee
for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them
inherit the desolate heritages: {49:9} saying to them that are bound,
Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall
feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.
{49:10} They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor
sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them will lead them, even by
springs of water will he guide them. {49:11} And I will make all my
mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted. {49:12} Lo, these
shall 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 be
joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for Jehovah
hath comforted his people, and will have compassion upon his afflicted.
{49:14} But Zion said, Jehovah hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath
forgotten me. {49:15} Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she
should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, these may
forget, yet will not I forget thee. {49:16} Behold, I have graven thee
upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
{49:17} Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee
waste shall go forth from thee. {49:18} Lift up thine eyes round about,
and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As
I live, saith Jehovah, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all as
with 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 hath
been destroyed, surely now shalt thou be too strait for the
inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. {49:20}
The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears, The place
is too strait for me; give place to me that I may dwell. {49:21} Then
shalt thou say in thy heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have
been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering
to 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, I
will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my ensign to the
peoples; and they shall bring thy sons in their bosom, and thy
daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. {49:23} And kings
shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers:
they shall bow down to thee with their faces to the earth, and lick the
dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah; and they that
wait for me shall not be put to shame. {49:24} Shall the prey be taken
from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered? {49:25} But thus
saith Jehovah, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and
the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; for I will contend with
him 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 they
shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all
flesh shall know that I, Jehovah, am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the
Mighty One of Jacob.



   {50:1} Thus saith Jehovah, Where is the bill of your mother's
divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my creditors is
it 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 power
to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a
wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for
thirst. {50:3} I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make
sackcloth their covering. {50:4} The Lord Jehovah hath given me the
tongue of them that are taught, that I may know how to sustain with
words him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth
mine ear to hear as they that are taught. {50:5} The Lord Jehovah hath
opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away
backward. {50:6} I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them
that 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 been
confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that
I shall not be put to shame. {50:8} He is near that justifieth me; who
will 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 a
garment, the moth shall eat them up. {50:10} Who is among you that
feareth Jehovah, that obeyeth the voice of his servant? he that walketh
in 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, that
gird yourselves about with firebrands; walk ye in the flame of your
fire, and among the brands that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of
my hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.



   {51:1} Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that
seek Jehovah: look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hold
of 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, and
I blessed him, and made him many. {51:3} For Jehovah hath comforted
Zion; he hath comforted all her waste places, and hath made her
wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah; joy
and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of
melody. {51:4} Attend unto me, O my people; and give ear unto me, O my
nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish my
justice for a light of the peoples. {51:5} My righteousness is near, my
salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the peoples; the
isles shall wait for me, and on mine arm shall they trust. {51:6} Lift
up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the
heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like
a garment; and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my
salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be
abolished. {51:7} Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the
people 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 shall
eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but
my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation unto all
generations. {51:9} Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah;
awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Is it
not 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 great
deep; that madest the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass
over? {51:11} And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with
singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they
shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and sighing shall flee
away. {51:12} I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that
thou art afraid of man that shall die, and of the son of man that shall
be made as grass; {51:13} and hast forgotten Jehovah thy Maker, that
stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and
fearest continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor,
when he maketh ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the
oppressor? {51:14} The captive exile shall speedily be loosed; and he
shall 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 the
waves thereof roar: Jehovah of hosts is his name. {51:16} And I have
put my words in thy mouth, and have covered thee in the shadow of my
hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the
earth, 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 cup
of his wrath; thou hast drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and
drained it. {51:18} There is none to guide her among all the sons whom
she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the
hand among all the sons that she hath brought up. {51:19} These two
things are befallen thee, who shall bemoan thee? desolation and
destruction, 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, the
rebuke of thy God. {51:21} Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and
drunken, but now with wine: {51:22} Thus saith thy Lord Jehovah, and
thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out
of thy hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my
wrath; thou shalt no more drink it again: {51:23} and I will put it
into 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 the
ground, and as the street, to them that go over.



   {52:1} Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy
beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there
shall 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 be
redeemed without money. {52:4} For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, My
people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the
Assyrian hath oppressed them without cause. {52:5} Now therefore, what
do I here, saith Jehovah, seeing that my people is taken away for
nought? they that rule over them do howl, saith Jehovah, and my name
continually all the day is blasphemed. {52:6} Therefore my people shall
know my name: therefore [they shall know] in that day that I am he that
doth speak; behold, it is I. {52:7} How beautiful upon the mountains
are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace,
that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation, that
saith 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 eye
to eye, when Jehovah returneth to Zion. {52:9} Break forth into joy,
sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem; for Jehovah hath comforted
his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. {52:10} Jehovah hath made bare
his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the
earth 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 midst
of her; cleanse yourselves, ye that bear the vessels of Jehovah.
{52:12} For ye shall not go out in haste, neither shall ye go by
flight: for Jehovah will go before you; and the God of Israel will be
your rearward. {52:13} Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall
be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high. {52:14} Like as many
were 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 sprinkle
many nations; kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had
not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard
shall they understand.



   {53:1} Who hath believed our message? and to whom hath the arm of
Jehovah been revealed? {53:2} For he grew up before him as a tender
plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor
comeliness; and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should
desire him. {53:3} He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of
sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their
face he was despised; and we esteemed him not. {53:4} Surely he hath
borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him
stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. {53:5} But he was wounded for
our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement
of 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 own
way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. {53:7} He was
oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth; as a lamb
that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers
is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. {53:8} By oppression and judgment
he 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 the
transgression of my people to whom the stroke [was due]? {53:9} And
they 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 shall
prosper in his hand. {53:11} He shall see of the travail of his soul,
[and] shall be satisfied: by the knowledge of himself shall my
righteous servant justify many; and he shall bear their iniquities.
{53:12} Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he
shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul
unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bare the
sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.



   {54:1} Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into
singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for
more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married
wife, saith Jehovah. {54:2} Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them
stretch forth the curtains of thy habitations; spare not: lengthen thy
cords, and strengthen thy stakes. {54:3} For thou shalt spread aboard
on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall possess the
nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. {54:4} Fear not;
for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou
shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy
youth; 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: and
the Holy One of Israel is thy Redeemer; the God of the whole earth
shall he be called. {54:6} For Jehovah hath called thee as a wife
forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast
off, saith thy God. {54:7} For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but
with great mercies will I gather thee. {54:8} In overflowing wrath I
hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting lovingkindness
will I have mercy on thee, saith Jehovah thy Redeemer. {54:9} For this
is [as] the waters of Noah unto me; for as I have sworn that the waters
of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will
not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. {54:10} For the mountains may
depart, and the hills be removed; but my lovingkindness shall not
depart from thee, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, saith
Jehovah that hath mercy on thee. {54:11} O thou afflicted, tossed with
tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set thy stones in fair
colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. {54:12} And I will make
thy pinnacles of rubies, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy
border of precious stones. {54:13} And all thy children shall be taught
of Jehovah; and great shall be the peace of thy children. {54:14} In
righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from
oppression, for thou shalt not fear; and from terror, for it shall not
come near thee. {54:15} Behold, they may gather together, but not by
me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall because of
thee. {54:16} Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the fire of
coals, and bringeth forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the
waster to destroy. {54:17} No weapon that is formed against thee shall
prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou
shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of Jehovah, and
their righteousness which is of me, saith Jehovah.



   {55:1} Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he
that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price. {55:2} Wherefore do ye spend money for
that 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 your
soul delight itself in fatness. {55:3} Incline your ear, and come unto
me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting
covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. {55:4} Behold, I
have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to
the peoples. {55:5} Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest
not; and a nation that knew not thee shall run unto thee, because of
Jehovah thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified
thee. {55:6} Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found; call ye upon him
while he is near: {55:7} let the wicked forsake his way, and the
unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he
will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly
pardon. {55:8} For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your
ways my ways, saith Jehovah. {55:9} For as the heavens are higher than
the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than
your thoughts. {55:10} For as the rain cometh down and the snow from
heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh
it bring forth and bud, and giveth seed to the sower and bread to the
eater; {55:11} so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it
shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I
please, 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: the
mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing; and
all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands. {55:13} Instead of
the thorn shall come up the fir-tree; and instead of the brier shall
come up the myrtle-tree: and it shall be to Jehovah for a name, for an
everlasting 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 that
holdeth it fast; that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and
keepeth his hand from doing any evil. {56:3} Neither let the foreigner,
that hath joined himself to Jehovah, speak, saying, Jehovah will surely
separate me from his people; neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a
dry tree. {56:4} For thus saith Jehovah of the eunuchs that keep my
sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my
covenant: {56:5} Unto them will I give in my house and within my walls
a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give
them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. {56:6} Also the
foreigners that join themselves to Jehovah, to minister unto him, and
to love the name of Jehovah, to be his servants, every one that keepeth
the 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 my
house of prayer: their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be
accepted upon mine altar; for my house shall be called a house of
prayer for all peoples. {56:8} The Lord Jehovah, who gathereth the
outcasts of Israel, saith, Yet will I gather [others] to him, besides
his own that are gathered. {56:9} All ye beasts of the field, come to
devour, [yea], all ye beasts in the forest. {56:10} His watchmen are
blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they
cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. {56:11} Yea, the
dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds
that cannot understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one
to his gain, from every quarter. {56:12} Come ye, [say they], I will
fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to-morrow
shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure.



   {57:1} The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and
merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is
taken away from the evil [to come]. {57:2} He entereth into peace; they
rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness. {57:3}
But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the
adulterer 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 not
children of transgression, a seed of falsehood, {57:5} ye that inflame
yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; that slay the
children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? {57:6} Among
the smooth [stones] of the valley is thy portion; they, they are thy
lot; even to them hast thou poured a drink-offering, thou hast offered
an oblation. Shall I be appeased for these things? {57:7} Upon a high
and lofty mountain hast thou set thy bed; thither also wentest thou up
to offer sacrifice. {57:8} And behind the doors and the posts hast thou
set up thy memorial: for thou hast uncovered [thyself] to another than
me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a
covenant 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 even
unto Sheol. {57:10} Thou wast wearied with the length of thy way; yet
saidst thou not, It is in vain: thou didst find a quickening of thy
strength; therefore thou wast not faint. {57:11} And of whom hast thou
been 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; and
as 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 take
them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he that taketh refuge in
me 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 the
stumbling-block out of the way of my people. {57:15} For thus saith the
high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy: I
dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite
and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive
the 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 his
covetousness 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 seen
his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts
unto 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, saith
Jehovah; and I will heal him. {57:20} But the wicked are like the
troubled 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, and
declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob
their 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 of
their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw
near unto God. {58:3} Wherefore have we fasted, [say they], and thou
seest not? [wherefore] have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no
knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find [your own] pleasure,
and exact all your labors. {58:4} Behold, ye fast for strife and
contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye fast not this
day so as to make your voice to be heard on high. {58:5} Is such the
fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it
to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under
him? 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 of
wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go
free, and that ye break every yoke? {58:7} Is it not to deal thy bread
to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy
house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou
hide not thyself from thine own flesh? {58:8} Then shall thy light
break forth as the morning, and thy healing shall spring forth
speedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of
Jehovah shall by thy rearward. {58:9} Then shalt thou call, and Jehovah
will answer; thou shalt cry, and he will say, Here I am. If thou take
away 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 the
hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall thy light rise in
darkness, and thine obscurity be as the noonday; {58:11} and Jehovah
will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in dry places, and
make strong thy bones; and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and
like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. {58:12} And they that
shall be of thee shall build the old waste places; thou shalt raise up
the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called The
repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. {58:13} If
thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my
holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, [and] the holy of Jehovah
honorable; and shalt honor it, not doing thine own ways, nor finding
thine own pleasure, nor speaking [thine own] words: {58:14} then shalt
thou delight thyself in Jehovah; and I will make thee to ride upon the
high places of the earth; and I will feed thee with the heritage of
Jacob 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 iniquities
have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his
face from you, so that he will not hear. {59:3} For your hands are
defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have
spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness. {59:4} None sueth in
righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth: they trust in vanity, and
speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. {59:5}
They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of
their eggs dieth; and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
{59:6} Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover
themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the
act of violence is in their hands. {59:7} Their feet run to evil, and
they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of
iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths. {59:8} The way
of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their goings: they
have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth not know
peace. {59:9} Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth
righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness;
for brightness, but we walk in obscurity. {59:10} We grope for the wall
like the blind; yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at
noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead
men. {59:11} We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look
for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from
us. {59:12} For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our
sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for
our iniquities, we know them: {59:13} transgressing and denying
Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression
and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
{59:14} And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth
afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot
enter. {59:15} Yea, truth is lacking; and he that departeth from evil
maketh himself a prey. And Jehovah saw it, and it displeased him that
there was no justice. {59:16} And he saw that there was no man, and
wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought
salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it upheld him. {59:17} And
he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation
upon his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and
was clad with zeal as a mantle. {59:18} According to their deeds,
accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his
enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense. {59:19} So shall they
fear the name of Jehovah from the west, and his glory from the rising
of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of
Jehovah driveth. {59:20} And a Redeemer will come to Zion, and unto
them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith Jehovah. {59:21} And
as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith Jehovah: my Spirit that
is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not
depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of
the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith Jehovah, from henceforth and for
ever.



   {60:1} Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of Jehovah
is risen upon thee. {60:2} For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth,
and gross darkness the peoples; but Jehovah will arise upon thee, and
his glory shall be seen upon thee. {60:3} And nations shall come to thy
light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. {60:4} Lift up thine
eyes round about, and see: they all gather themselves together, they
come to thee; thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be
carried in the arms. {60:5} Then thou shalt see and be radiant, and thy
heart shall thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea
shall be turned unto thee, the wealth of the nations shall come unto
thee. {60:6} The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries
of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come; they shall bring
gold 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 with
acceptance 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 their
windows? {60:9} Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of
Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold
with them, for the name of Jehovah thy God, and for the Holy One of
Israel, because he hath glorified thee. {60:10} And foreigners shall
build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my
wrath 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 day
nor night; that men may bring unto thee the wealth of the nations, and
their kings led captive. {60:12} For that nation and kingdom that will
not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly
wasted. {60:13} The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the
fir-tree, the pine, and the box-tree together, to beautify the place of
my 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 soles
of thy feet; and they shall call thee The city of Jehovah, The Zion of
the Holy One of Israel. {60:15} Whereas thou hast been forsaken and
hated, so that no man passed through thee, I will make thee an eternal
excellency, a joy of many generations. {60:16} Thou shalt also suck the
milk of the nations, and shalt suck the breast of kings; and thou shalt
know that I, Jehovah, am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One
of Jacob. {60:17} For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will
bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron. I will also make
thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. {60:18} Violence
shall no more be heard in thy land, desolation nor destruction within
thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates
Praise. {60:19} The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for
brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but Jehovah will be
unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. {60:20} Thy sun
shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself; for
Jehovah will be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning
shall be ended. {60:21} Thy people also shall be all righteous; they
shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of
my hands, that I may be glorified. {60:22} The little one shall become
a thousand, and the small one a strong nation; I, Jehovah, will hasten
it in its time.



   {61:1} The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah
hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me
to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and
the opening [of the prison] to them that are bound; {61:2} to proclaim
the year of Jehovah's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to
comfort 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, the
garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called
trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be
glorified. {61:4} And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise
up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the
desolations of many generations. {61:5} And strangers shall stand and
feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your
vine-dressers. {61:6} But ye shall be named the priests of Jehovah; men
shall call you the ministers of our God: ye shall eat the wealth of the
nations, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. {61:7} Instead
of your shame [ye shall have] double; and instead of dishonor they
shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall
possess double; everlasting joy shall be unto them. {61:8} For I,
Jehovah, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give
them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant
with them. {61:9} And their seed shall be known among the nations, and
their offspring among the peoples; all that see them shall acknowledge
them, that they are the seed which Jehovah hath blessed. {61:10} I will
greatly rejoice in Jehovah, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he
hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with
the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with a
garland, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. {61:11} For
as the earth bringeth forth its bud, and as the garden causeth the
things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord Jehovah will
cause 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's
sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness,
and her salvation as a lamp that burneth. {62:2} And the nations shall
see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory, and thou shalt be
called 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 a
royal diadem in the hand of thy God. {62:4} Thou shalt no more be
termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate:
but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah; for Jehovah
delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. {62:5} For as a
young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee; and as the
bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over
thee. {62:6} I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem; they
shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that are Jehovah's
remembrancers, take ye no rest, {62:7} and give him no rest, till he
establish, 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; and
foreigners 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 my
sanctuary. {62:10} Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way
of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones;
lift up an ensign for the peoples. {62:11} Behold, Jehovah hath
proclaimed unto the end of the earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion,
Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his
recompense before him. {62:12} And they shall call them The holy
people, The redeemed of Jehovah: and thou shalt be called Sought out, A
city not forsaken.



   {63:1} Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from
Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, marching in the greatness
of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. {63:2}
Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that
treadeth in the winevat? {63:3} I have trodden the winepress alone; and
of the peoples there was no man with me: yea, I trod them in mine
anger, and trampled them in my wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled
upon my garments, and I have stained all my raiment. {63:4} For the day
of 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 that
there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto
me; and my wrath, it upheld me. {63:6} And I trod down the peoples in
mine anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their
lifeblood on the earth. {63:7} I will make mention of the
lovingkindnesses of Jehovah, [and] the praises of Jehovah, according to
all that Jehovah hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the
house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his
mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. {63:8}
For he said, Surely, they are my people, children that will not deal
falsely: so he was their Saviour. {63:9} In all their affliction he was
afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in
his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the
days of old. {63:10} But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit:
therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] himself fought against
them. {63:11} Then he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his
people, [saying], Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with
the shepherds of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit in the
midst of them? {63:12} that caused his glorious arm to go at the right
hand of Moses? that divided the waters before them, to make himself an
everlasting name? {63:13} that led them through the depths, as a horse
in the wilderness, so that they stumbled not? {63:14} As the cattle
that go down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah caused them to
rest; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
{63:15} Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy
holiness and of thy glory: where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the
yearning of thy heart and thy compassions are restrained toward me.
{63:16} For thou art our Father, though Abraham knoweth us not, and
Israel doth not acknowledge us: thou, O Jehovah, art our Father; our
Redeemer from everlasting is thy name. {63:17} O Jehovah, why dost thou
make 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 have
trodden down thy sanctuary. {63:19} We are become as they over whom
thou never barest rule, as they that were not called by thy name.



   {64:1} Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest
come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence, {64:2} as
when fire kindleth the brushwood, [and] the fire causeth the waters to
boil; to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may
tremble at thy presence! {64:3} When thou didst terrible things which
we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains quaked at thy
presence. {64:4} For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by
the ear, neither hath the eye seen a God besides thee, who worketh for
him that waiteth for him. {64:5} Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and
worketh 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 is
unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and we
all 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 up
himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us, and
hast 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 all
are the work of thy hand. {64:9} Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah,
neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, look, we beseech thee, we
are all thy people. {64:10} Thy holy cities are become a wilderness,
Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. {64:11} Our holy
and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with
fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste. {64:12} Wilt thou
refrain 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 found
of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation
that was not called by my name. {65:2} I have spread out my hands all
the 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 face
continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks;
{65:4} that sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; that
eat 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 holier
than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the
day. {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, saith
Jehovah, that have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me
upon the hills; therefore will I first measure their work into their
bosom. {65:8} Thus saith Jehovah, As the new wine is found in the
cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it: so
will 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 an
inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, and my
servants shall dwell there. {65:10} And Sharon shall be a fold of
flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for
my people that have sought me. {65:11} But ye that forsake Jehovah,
that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for Fortune, and
that fill up mingled wine unto Destiny; {65:12} I will destine you to
the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter; because when I
called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but ye did
that which was evil in mine eyes, and chose that wherein I delighted
not. {65:13} Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, my servants
shall eat, but ye shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but
ye shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be
put 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 of
spirit. {65:15} And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my
chosen; and the Lord Jehovah will slay thee; and he will call his
servants by another name: {65:16} so that he who blesseth himself in
the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth
in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former
troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.
{65:17} For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the
former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. {65:18} But
be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create; for, behold, I
create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. {65:19} And I will
rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and there shall be heard in
her no more the voice of weeping and the voice of crying. {65:20} There
shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not
filled his days; for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the
sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed. {65:21} And they
shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards,
and eat the fruit of them. {65:22} They shall not build, and another
inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a
tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the
work of their hands. {65:23} They shall not labor in vain, nor bring
forth 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, I
will hear. {65:25} The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the
lion 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 my
footstool: what manner of house will ye build unto me? and what place
shall 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 I
look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and that
trembleth at my word. {66:3} He that killeth an ox is as he that
slayeth a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as he that breaketh a dog's
neck; he that offereth an oblation, [as he that offereth] swine's
blood; he that burneth frankincense, as he that blesseth an idol. Yea,
they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their
abominations: {66:4} I also will choose their delusions, and will bring
their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I
spake, they did not hear: but they did that which was evil in mine
eyes, and chose that wherein I delighted not. {66:5} Hear the word of
Jehovah, ye that tremble at his word: Your brethren that hate you, that
cast 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, a
voice of Jehovah that rendereth recompense to his enemies. {66:7}
Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was
delivered of a man-child. {66:8} Who hath heard such a thing? who hath
seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation be
brought forth at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth
her children. {66:9} Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring
forth? saith Jehovah: shall I that cause to bring forth shut [the
womb]? saith thy God. {66:10} Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad
for her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that
mourn over her; {66:11} that ye may suck and be satisfied with the
breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted
with 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 the
nations like an overflowing stream: and ye shall suck [thereof]; ye
shall 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; and
ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. {66:14} And ye shall see [it], and
your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like the tender
grass: and the hand of Jehovah shall be known toward his servants; and
he will have indignation against his enemies. {66:15} For, behold,
Jehovah will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the
whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with
flames of fire. {66:16} For by fire will Jehovah execute judgment, and
by 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, and
the 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 they
shall come, and shall see my glory. {66:19} And I will set a sign among
them, and I will send such as escape of them unto the nations, to
Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the
isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my
glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations. {66:20} And
they shall bring all your brethren out of all the nations for an
oblation 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 a
clean vessel into the house of Jehovah. {66:21} And of them also will I
take for priests [and] for Levites, saith Jehovah. {66:22} For as the
new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before
me, saith Jehovah, so shall your seed and your name remain. {66:23} And
it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one
sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith
Jehovah. {66:24} And they shall go forth, and look upon the dead bodies
of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not
die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an
abhorring unto all flesh.




