The Book of the Prophet Isaiah
1:1The 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. 1:2Hear, O heavens, and
give ear, O earth; for Jehovah hath spoken: I have nourished and brought
up children, and they have rebelled against me. 1:3The ox knoweth his
owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel doth not know, my
people doth not consider. 1:4Ah 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. 1:5Why will ye be still stricken, that ye
revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
1:6From 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. 1:7Your 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. 1:8And the daughter of
Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of
cucumbers, as a besieged city. 1:9Except Jehovah of hosts had left unto
us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been
like unto Gomorrah. 1:10Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of
Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. 1:11What 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. 1:12When ye come to appear
before me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample my courts? 1:13Bring 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. 1:14Your new moons and your appointed
feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I am weary of bearing
them. 1:15And 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. 1:16Wash you, make you clean; put away the
evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 1:17learn to do well; seek justice,
relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 1:18Come 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. 1:19If
ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: 1:20but
if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth
of Jehovah hath spoken it. 1:21How is the faithful city become a
harlot! she that was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now
murderers. 1:22Thy silver is become dross, thy wine
mixed with water. 1:23Thy 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. 1:24Therefore 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; 1:25and I will turn my hand upon thee, and
thoroughly purge away thy dross, and will take away all thy tin; 1:26and
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. 1:27Zion shall be redeemed with justice,
and her converts with righteousness. 1:28But the destruction of transgressors
and sinners shall be together, and they that forsake Jehovah shall be
consumed. 1:29For they shall be ashamed of the oaks
which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye
have chosen. 1:30For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf
fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. 1:31And the strong shall
be as tow, and his work as a spark; and they shall both burn together, and
none shall quench them.
2:1The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz
saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2:2And 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. 2:3And 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. 2:4And 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. 2:5O
house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of Jehovah. 2:6For
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. 2:7And
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. 2:8Their land also is full of idols; they
worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have
made. 2:9And the mean man is bowed down, and the
great man is brought low: therefore forgive them not. 2:10Enter into the rock, and hide thee in
the dust, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his
majesty. 2:11The 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. 2:12For 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; 2:13and upon all the cedars of Lebanon,
that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, 2:14and
upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, 2:15and
upon every lofty tower, and upon every fortified wall, 2:16and
upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant imagery. 2:17And
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. 2:18And
the idols shall utterly pass away. 2:19And 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. 2:20In 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; 2:21to 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. 2:22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in
his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?
3:1For, 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; 3:2the mighty man, and the
man of war; the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the elder; 3:3the
captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counsellor, and the
expert artificer, and the skilful enchanter. 3:4And I will give
children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. 3:5And
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. 3:6When 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; 3:7in 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.
3:8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is
fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to
provoke the eyes of his glory. 3:9The 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. 3:10Say
ye of the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for
they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 3:11Woe unto the wicked!
it shall be ill with him; for what his hands have done shall
be done unto him. 3:12As 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. 3:13Jehovah standeth up to
contend, and standeth to judge the peoples. 3:14Jehovah 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: 3:15what mean ye that ye crush my people,
and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts. 3:16Moreover 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; 3:17therefore 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. 3:18In that day the Lord will take away
the beauty of their anklets, and the cauls, and the crescents; 3:19the
pendants, and the bracelets, and the mufflers; 3:20the headtires, and the
ankle chains, and the sashes, and the perfume-boxes, and the amulets; 3:21the
rings, and the nose-jewels; 3:22the festival robes, and the mantles,
and the shawls, and the satchels; 3:23the hand-mirrors, and the fine linen,
and the turbans, and the veils. 3:24And 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. 3:25Thy
men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. 3:26And
her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon
the ground.
4:1And 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.
4:2In
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. 4:3And 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; 4:4when
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. 4:5And 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. 4:6And 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.
5:1Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song
of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a
very fruitful hill: 5:2and 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. 5:3And
now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you,
betwixt me and my vineyard. 5:4What 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? 5:5And
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: 5:6and 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. 5:7For
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. 5:8Woe 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! 5:9In mine ears
saith Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate,
even great and fair, without inhabitant. 5:10For ten acres of
vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but
an ephah. 5:11Woe 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! 5:12And 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. 5:13Therefore my people are gone into
captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and
their multitude are parched with thirst. 5:14Therefore 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. 5:15And the mean man is bowed down, and
the great man is humbled, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled: 5:16but
Jehovah of hosts is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified
in righteousness. 5:17Then shall the lambs feed as in their
pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat. 5:18Woe
unto them that draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were
with a cart rope; 5:19that 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! 5:20Woe 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! 5:21Woe
unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
5:22Woe unto them that are mighty to drink
wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink; 5:23that justify the
wicked for a bribe, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from
him! 5:24Therefore 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. 5:25Therefore 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. 5:26And
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. 5:27None 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: 5:28whose arrows are sharp, and all their
bows bent; their horses' hoofs shall be accounted as flint, and their
wheels as a whirlwind: 5:29their 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. 5:30And
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.
6:1In the year that king Uzziah died I saw
the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled
the temple. 6:2Above 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. 6:3And one cried unto another, and said,
Holy, holy, holy, is Jehovah of hosts: the whole earth is full of his
glory. 6:4And the foundations of the thresholds
shook at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
6:5Then 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. 6:6Then 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: 6:7and he touched my mouth with it, and
said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away,
and thy sin forgiven. 6:8And 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. 6:9And he said, Go, and tell this people,
Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
6:10Make 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. 6:11Then said I, Lord, how long? And he
answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without
man, and the land become utterly waste, 6:12and Jehovah have
removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in the midst of the
land. 6:13And 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.
7:1And 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. 7:2And
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. 7:3Then 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; 7:4and
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. 7:5Because Syria, Ephraim,
and the son of Remaliah, have purposed evil against thee, saying, 7:6Let
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; 7:7thus
saith the Lord Jehovah, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
7:8For 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: 7:9and
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. 7:10And
Jehovah spake again unto Ahaz, saying, 7:11Ask thee a sign of
Jehovah thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. 7:12But
Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt Jehovah. 7:13And
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? 7:14Therefore the Lord
himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a
son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 7:15Butter and honey shall
he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good. 7:16For
before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the
land whose two kings thou abhorrest shall be forsaken. 7:17Jehovah 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. 7:18And
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. 7:19And 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. 7:20In 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. 7:21And it shall come to pass in that day,
that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep; 7:22and
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. 7:23And 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. 7:24With arrows and with bow shall one
come thither, because all the land shall be briers and thorns. 7:25And
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.
8:1And Jehovah said unto me, Take thee a
great tablet, and write upon it with the pen of a man, For
Maher-shalal-hash-baz; 8:2and I will take unto me faithful
witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of
Jeberechiah. 8:3And I went unto the prophetess; and she
conceived, and bare a son. Then said Jehovah unto me, Call his name
Maher-shalal-hash-baz. 8:4For 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. 8:5And
Jehovah spake unto me yet again, saying, 8:6Forasmuch as this
people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in
Rezin and Remaliah's son; 8:7now 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; 8:8and 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. 8:9Make 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. 8:10Take counsel together, and it shall be
brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with
us. 8:11For Jehovah spake thus to me with a
strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people,
saying, 8:12Say ye not, A conspiracy, concerning
all whereof this people shall say, A conspiracy; neither fear ye their
fear, nor be in dread thereof. 8:13Jehovah of hosts, him
shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. 8:14And
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. 8:15And many shall stumble thereon, and
fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. 8:16Bind thou up the
testimony, seal the law among my disciples. 8:17And I will wait for
Jehovah, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for
him. 8:18Behold, 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. 8:19And 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? 8:20To
the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word,
surely there is no morning for them. 8:21And 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: 8:22and they shall look unto the earth,
and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick
darkness they shall be driven away.
9:1But 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. 9:2The 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. 9:3Thou 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. 9:4For 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. 9:5For all the armor of the armed man in
the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be for burning, for
fuel of fire. 9:6For 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. 9:7Of 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. 9:8The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it
hath lighted upon Israel. 9:9And all the people shall know,
even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in pride and
in stoutness of heart, 9:10The bricks are fallen, but we will
build with hewn stone; the sycomores are cut down, but we will put cedars
in their place. 9:11Therefore Jehovah will set up on high
against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies, 9:12the
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. 9:13Yet the people have not turned unto
him that smote them, neither have they sought Jehovah of hosts. 9:14Therefore Jehovah will cut off from
Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day. 9:15The
elder and the honorable man, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth
lies, he is the tail. 9:16For they that lead this people cause
them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. 9:17Therefore 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. 9:18For 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. 9:19Through 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. 9:20And 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: 9:21Manasseh, 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.
10:1Woe unto them that decree unrighteous
decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness; 10:2to 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! 10:3And 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? 10:4They 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. 10:5Ho Assyrian, the rod
of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation! 10:6I
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. 10:7Howbeit 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. 10:8For he saith, Are not my princes all
of them kings? 10:9Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not
Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? 10:10As my hand hath found
the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem
and of Samaria; 10:11shall I not, as I have done unto
Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? 10:12Wherefore 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. 10:13For 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: 10:14and 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. 10:15Shall 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. 10:16Therefore 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. 10:17And 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. 10:18And 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. 10:19And the remnant of
the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may write them. 10:20And 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. 10:21A remnant shall
return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. 10:22For 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. 10:23For a full end, and that determined,
will the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, make in the midst of all the earth. 10:24Therefore 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. 10:25For yet a very little while, and the
indignation against thee shall be accomplished, and mine anger
shall be directed to his destruction. 10:26And 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. 10:27And 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. 10:28He is come to Aiath, he is passed
through Migron; at Michmash he layeth up his baggage; 10:29they are gone over the pass; they
have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah trembleth; Gibeah of Saul is
fled. 10:30Cry aloud with thy voice, O daughter
of Gallim! hearken, O Laishah! O thou poor Anathoth! 10:31Madmenah is a fugitive; the
inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety. 10:32This very day shall
he halt at Nob: he shaketh his hand at the mount of the daughter of Zion,
the hill of Jerusalem. 10:33Behold, 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. 10:34And he will cut down
the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty
one.
11:1And there shall come forth a shoot out
of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit. 11:2And
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. 11:3And 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; 11:4but 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. 11:5And righteousness
shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of his
loins. 11:6And 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.
11:7And the cow and the bear shall feed;
their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw
like the ox. 11:8And the sucking child shall play on
the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the
adder's den. 11:9They 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. 11:10And 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.
11:11And 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. 11:12And 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.
11:13The 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. 11:14And 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. 11:15And 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. 11:16And 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.
12:1And 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. 12:2Behold, 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. 12:3Therefore with joy shall ye draw water
out of the wells of salvation. 12:4And 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. 12:5Sing unto Jehovah; for
he hath done excellent things: let this be known in all the earth. 12:6Cry
aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion; for great in the midst of thee
is the Holy One of Israel.
13:1The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah
the son of Amoz did see. 13:2Set 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. 13:3I have commanded my consecrated ones,
yea, I have called my mighty men for mine anger, even my proudly exulting
ones. 13:4The 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. 13:5They come from a far country, from the
uttermost part of heaven, even Jehovah, and the weapons of his
indignation, to destroy the whole land. 13:6Wail ye; for the day
of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come. 13:7Therefore shall all hands be feeble,
and every heart of man shall melt: 13:8and 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. 13:9Behold, 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. 13:10For 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. 13:11And 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. 13:12I will make a man more rare than fine
gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir. 13:13Therefore 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. 13:14And 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. 13:15Every one that is found shall be
thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword. 13:16Their infants also shall be dashed in
pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives
ravished. 13:17Behold, I will stir up the Medes
against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not
delight in it. 13:18And 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. 13:19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,
the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom
and Gomorrah. 13:20It 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. 13:21But 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. 13:22And 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.
14:1For 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. 14:2And 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. 14:3And 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, 14:4that thou shalt take up this parable
against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the
golden city ceased! 14:5Jehovah hath broken the staff of the
wicked, the sceptre of the rulers; 14:6that smote the peoples in wrath with a
continual stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that
none restrained. 14:7The whole earth is at rest, and
is quiet: they break forth into singing. 14:8Yea, the fir-trees
rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since
thou art laid low, no hewer is come up against us. 14:9Sheol 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. 14:10All they shall answer
and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like
unto us? 14:11Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol,
and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and
worms cover thee. 14:12How 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! 14:13And 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; 14:14I will ascend above the heights of
the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High. 14:15Yet thou shalt be
brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit. 14:16They 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; 14:17that made the world
as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that let not loose his
prisoners to their home? 14:18All the kings of the nations, all of
them, sleep in glory, every one in his own house. 14:19But 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. 14:20Thou 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.
14:21Prepare 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. 14:22And 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. 14:23I 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. 14:24Jehovah 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: 14:25that 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. 14:26This is the purpose that is purposed
upon the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all
the nations. 14:27For Jehovah of hosts hath purposed,
and who shall annul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn
it back? 14:28In the year that king Ahaz died was
this burden. 14:29Rejoice 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. 14:30And 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. 14:31Howl, 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. 14:32What 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.
15:1The 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. 15:2They 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.
15:3In their streets they gird themselves
with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, every one
waileth, weeping abundantly. 15:4And 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. 15:5My 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. 15:6For the waters of Nimrim shall be
desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass faileth, there
is no green thing. 15:7Therefore the abundance they have
gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away over the
brook of the willows. 15:8For the cry is gone round about the
borders of Moab; the wailing thereof unto Eglaim, and the wailing thereof
unto Beer-elim. 15:9For 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.
16:1Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the
land from Selah to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
16:2For it shall be that, as wandering
birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords
of the Arnon. 16:3Give counsel, execute justice; make
thy shade as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts;
betray not the fugitive. 16:4Let 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. 16:5And 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. 16:6We
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. 16:7Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab,
every one shall wail: for the raisin-cakes of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn,
utterly stricken. 16:8For 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. 16:9Therefore 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. 16:10And 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. 16:11Wherefore my heart
soundeth like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-heres. 16:12And 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. 16:13This is the word that Jehovah spake
concerning Moab in time past. 16:14But 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.
17:1The burden of Damascus. Behold,
Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
17:2The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they
shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them
afraid. 17:3And 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.
17:4And 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. 17:5And 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. 17:6Yet
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.
17:7In that day shall men look unto their
Maker, and their eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. 17:8And
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. 17:9In 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.
17:10For 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. 17:11In 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. 17:12Ah, 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! 17:13The 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. 17:14At 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.
18:1Ah, the land of the rustling of wings,
which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; 18:2that 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! 18:3All 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. 18:4For
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. 18:5For 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. 18:6They 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. 18:7In 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.
19:1The 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. 19:2And 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. 19:3And 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. 19:4And 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. 19:5And the waters shall fail from the
sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry. 19:6And the rivers shall
become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the
reeds and flags shall wither away. 19:7The 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. 19:8And 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. 19:9Moreover they that work in combed
flax, and they that weave white cloth, shall be confounded. 19:10And the pillars of Egypt shall
be broken in pieces; all they that work for hire shall be grieved
in soul. 19:11The 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? 19:12Where then are thy wise men? and let
them tell thee now; and let them know what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed
concerning Egypt. 19:13The 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. 19:14Jehovah 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. 19:15Neither shall there be for Egypt any
work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do. 19:16In 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. 19:17And 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. 19:18In 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. 19:19In 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. 19:20And 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. 19:21And 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. 19:22And Jehovah will smite Egypt, smiting
and healing; and they shall return unto Jehovah, and he will be entreated
of them, and will heal them. 19:23In 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.
19:24In that day shall Israel be the third
with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth; 19:25for that Jehovah of hosts hath
blessed them, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of
my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
20:1In the year that Tartan came unto
Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against
Ashdod and took it; 20:2at 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. 20:3And 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; 20:4so 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. 20:5And they shall be dismayed and
confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their
glory. 20:6And 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?
21:1The burden of the wilderness of the
sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it cometh from the
wilderness, from a terrible land. 21:2A 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. 21:3Therefore 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. 21:4My heart fluttereth, horror hath
affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling
unto me. 21:5They prepare the table, they set the
watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield. 21:6For
thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman: let him declare what
he seeth: 21:7and when he seeth a troop, horsemen in
pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently
with much heed. 21:8And 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; 21:9and, 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.
21:10O 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. 21:11The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto
me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
21:12The watchman said, The morning
cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: turn ye, come.
21:13The burden upon Arabia. In the forest
in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites. 21:14Unto him that was thirsty they
brought water; the inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitives
with their bread. 21:15For they fled away from the swords,
from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of
war. 21:16For thus hath the Lord said unto me,
Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of
Kedar shall fail; 21:17and 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.
22:1The burden of the valley of vision.
What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? 22:2O
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. 22:3All
thy rulers fled away together, they were bound by the archers; all that
were found of thee were bound together; they fled afar off. 22:4Therefore said I, Look away from me, I
will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the
daughter of my people. 22:5For 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. 22:6And Elam bare the quiver, with
chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield. 22:7And
it came to pass, that thy choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the
horsemen set themselves in array at the gate. 22:8And he took away the
covering of Judah; and thou didst look in that day to the armor in the
house of the forest. 22:9And ye saw the breaches of the city of
David, that they were many; and ye gathered together the waters of the
lower pool; 22:10and ye numbered the houses of
Jerusalem, and ye brake down the houses to fortify the wall; 22:11ye 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.
22:12And in that day did the Lord, Jehovah
of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to
girding with sackcloth: 22:13and 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. 22:14And 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. 22:15Thus saith the Lord, Jehovah of
hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, who is over the
house, and say, 22:16What 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! 22:17Behold, Jehovah, like a strong
man, will hurl thee away violently; yea, he will wrap thee up closely. 22:18He 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. 22:19And I will thrust thee from thine
office; and from thy station shalt thou be pulled down. 22:20And it shall come to pass in that
day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: 22:21and 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. 22:22And 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. 22:23And 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.
22:24And 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. 22:25In 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.
23:1The 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. 23:2Be still, ye
inhabitants of the coast, thou whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over
the sea, have replenished. 23:3And on great waters the seed of the
Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the mart of
nations. 23:4Be 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.
23:5When the report cometh to Egypt, they
shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre. 23:6Pass ye over to
Tarshish; wail, ye inhabitants of the coast. 23:7Is this your joyous
city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her
afar off to sojourn? 23:8Who hath purposed this against Tyre,
the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are
the honorable of the earth? 23:9Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to
stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of
the earth. 23:10Pass through thy land as the Nile, O
daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint any more. 23:11He hath stretched out his hand over
the sea, he hath shaken the kingdoms: Jehovah hath given commandment
concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds thereof. 23:12And 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. 23:13Behold, 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. 23:14Howl, ye ships of
Tarshish; for your stronghold is laid waste. 23:15And 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. 23:16Take a harp, go about the city, thou
harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that
thou mayest be remembered. 23:17And 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. 23:18And 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.
24:1Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth
empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth
abroad the inhabitants thereof. 24:2And 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. 24:3The earth shall be utterly emptied,
and utterly laid waste; for Jehovah hath spoken this word. 24:4The
earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the
lofty people of the earth do languish. 24:5The earth also is
polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the
laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. 24:6Therefore 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. 24:7The
new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh. 24:8The
mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy
of the harp ceaseth. 24:9They shall not drink wine with a song;
strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 24:10The waste city is
broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 24:11There is a crying in the streets
because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
24:12In the city is left desolation, and
the gate is smitten with destruction. 24:13For 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. 24:14These shall lift up their voice, they
shall shout; for the majesty of Jehovah they cry aloud from the sea. 24:15Wherefore glorify ye Jehovah in the
east, even the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the isles of the
sea. 24:16From 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. 24:17Fear, and the pit,
and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. 24:18And 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. 24:19The earth is utterly broken, the
earth is rent asunder, the earth is shaken violently. 24:20The 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. 24:21And 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. 24:22And 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. 24:23Then 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.
25:1O 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. 25:2For
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. 25:3Therefore shall a
strong people glorify thee; a city of terrible nations shall fear thee. 25:4For
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. 25:5As 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. 25:6And
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. 25:7And he will destroy in this mountain
the face of the covering that covereth all peoples, and the veil that is
spread over all nations. 25:8He 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. 25:9And 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. 25:10For 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. 25:11And 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. 25:12And the high fortress
of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground,
even to the dust.
26:1In 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. 26:2Open ye the gates, that the righteous
nation which keepeth faith may enter in. 26:3Thou wilt keep
him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on
thee; because he trusteth in thee. 26:4Trust ye in Jehovah
for ever; for in Jehovah, even Jehovah, is an everlasting rock. 26:5For
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.
26:6The foot shall tread it down; even the
feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy. 26:7The way of the just is
uprightness: thou that art upright dost direct the path of the just. 26:8Yea, 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. 26:9With 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. 26:10Let 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. 26:11Jehovah, 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. 26:12Jehovah, thou wilt ordain peace for
us; for thou hast also wrought all our works for us. 26:13O
Jehovah our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us; but
by thee only will we make mention of thy name. 26:14They 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. 26:15Thou hast increased the nation, O
Jehovah, thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified; thou hast
enlarged all the borders of the land. 26:16Jehovah, in trouble
have they visited thee; they poured out a prayer when thy
chastening was upon them. 26:17Like 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. 26:18We 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. 26:19Thy 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. 26:20Come, my people, enter thou into thy
chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself for a little moment,
until the indignation be overpast. 26:21For, 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.
27:1In 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. 27:2In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing
ye unto it. 27:3I Jehovah am its keeper; I will water
it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. 27:4Wrath 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. 27:5Or else let him take hold of my
strength, that he may make peace with me; yea, let him make peace
with me. 27:6In days to come shall Jacob take root;
Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the face of the world
with fruit. 27:7Hath 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? 27:8In 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. 27:9Therefore 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. 27:10For 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.
27:11When 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. 27:12And 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. 27:13And 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.
28:1Woe 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! 28:2Behold, 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.
28:3The crown of pride of the drunkards of
Ephraim shall be trodden under foot: 28:4and 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. 28:5In that day will Jehovah of hosts
become a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his
people; 28:6and a spirit of justice to him that
sitteth in judgment, and strength to them that turn back the battle at the
gate. 28:7And 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. 28:8For all tables are
full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place
clean. 28:9Whom 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? 28:10For it is precept upon precept,
precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there
a little. 28:11Nay, but by men of strange
lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people; 28:12to 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. 28:13Therefore 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. 28:14Wherefore hear the
word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem:
28:15Because 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: 28:16therefore 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. 28:17And 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. 28:18And 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. 28:19As 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. 28:20For 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. 28:21For 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. 28:22Now 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. 28:23Give ye ear, and hear my voice;
hearken, and hear my speech. 28:24Doth he that ploweth to sow plow
continually? doth he continually open and harrow his ground? 28:25When 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? 28:26For his God doth instruct him aright,
and doth teach him. 28:27For 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. 28:28Bread 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. 28:29This also cometh
forth from Jehovah of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in
wisdom.
29:1Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David
encamped! add ye year to year; let the feasts come round: 29:2then will I distress Ariel, and there
shall be mourning and lamentation; and she shall be unto me as Ariel. 29:3And
I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee
with posted troops, and I will raise siege works against thee. 29:4And
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. 29:5But 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. 29:6She
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. 29:7And 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. 29:8And 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. 29:9Tarry ye and wonder; take your
pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger,
but not with strong drink. 29:10For 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. 29:11And 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: 29:12and the book is delivered to him that
is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I am not
learned. 29:13And 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; 29:14therefore, 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. 29:15Woe 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? 29:16Ye 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? 29:17Is 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? 29:18And 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. 29:19The meek also shall
increase their joy in Jehovah, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the
Holy One of Israel. 29:20For the terrible one is brought to
nought, and the scoffer ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity are
cut off; 29:21that 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. 29:22Therefore thus saith
Jehovah, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob shall
not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale. 29:23But 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. 29:24They also that err in spirit shall
come to understanding, and they that murmur shall receive instruction.
30:1Woe 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, 30:2that 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! 30:3Therefore shall the strength of
Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your
confusion. 30:4For their princes are at Zoan, and
their ambassadors are come to Hanes. 30:5They 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. 30:6The 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. 30:7For
Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her
Rahab that sitteth still. 30:8Now 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. 30:9For it is a rebellious people, lying
children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah; 30:10that say to the seers, See not; and
to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth
things, prophesy deceits, 30:11get you out of the way, turn aside
out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. 30:12Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of
Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and
perverseness, and rely thereon; 30:13therefore 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. 30:14And 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. 30:15For 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: 30:16but 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. 30:17One 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. 30:18And 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. 30:19For 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. 30:20And 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; 30:21and 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. 30:22And 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. 30:23And 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; 30:24the 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. 30:25And 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. 30:26Moreover 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. 30:27Behold, 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; 30:28and 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. 30:29Ye 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. 30:30And 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. 30:31For through the voice of Jehovah
shall the Assyrian be dismayed; with his rod will he smite him. 30:32And 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. 30:33For 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.
31:1Woe 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! 31:2Yet 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. 31:3Now
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. 31:4For 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. 31:5As
birds hovering, so will Jehovah of hosts protect Jerusalem; he will
protect and deliver it, he will pass over and preserve it.
31:6Turn ye unto him from whom ye have
deeply revolted, O children of Israel. 31:7For 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. 31:8And 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. 31:9And 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.
32:1Behold, a king shall reign in
righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice. 32:2And 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. 32:3And
the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear
shall hearken. 32:4And the heart of the rash shall
understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to
speak plainly. 32:5The fool shall be no more called
noble, nor the churl said to be bountiful. 32:6For 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. 32:7And the instruments of
the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with
lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. 32:8But the noble deviseth
noble things; and in noble things shall he continue. 32:9Rise up, ye women that
are at ease, and hear my voice; ye careless daughters, give ear
unto my speech. 32:10For days beyond a year shall ye be
troubled, ye careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering
shall not come. 32:11Tremble, ye women that are at ease;
be troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird
sackcloth upon your loins. 32:12They shall smite upon the breasts for
the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. 32:13Upon the land of my
people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in
the joyous city. 32:14For 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; 32:15until 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. 32:16Then justice shall dwell in the
wilderness; and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field. 32:17And the work of righteousness shall
be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence for
ever. 32:18And my people shall abide in a
peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.
32:19But it shall hail in the downfall of
the forest; and the city shall be utterly laid low. 32:20Blessed are yet that
sow beside all waters, that send forth the feet of the ox and the ass.
33:1Woe 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. 33:2O Jehovah, be gracious unto us; we
have waited for thee: be thou our arm every morning, our salvation also in
the time of trouble. 33:3At the noise of the tumult the peoples
are fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations are scattered. 33:4And
your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathereth: as locusts leap
shall men leap upon it. 33:5Jehovah is exalted; for he dwelleth on
high: he hath filled Zion with justice and righteousness. 33:6And
there shall be stability in thy times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and
knowledge: the fear of Jehovah is thy treasure. 33:7Behold, their valiant
ones cry without; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly. 33:8The
highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: the enemy hath
broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth not man. 33:9The
land mourneth and languisheth; Lebanon is confounded and withereth away;
Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their
leaves. 33:10Now will I arise, saith Jehovah; now
will I lift up myself; now will I be exalted. 33:11Ye shall conceive
chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall
devour you. 33:12And the peoples shall be as the
burnings of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire. 33:13Hear, ye that are far off, what I
have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might. 33:14The 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? 33:15He 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: 33:16He 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. 33:17Thine eyes shall see
the king in his beauty: they shall behold a land that reacheth afar. 33:18Thy 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? 33:19Thou 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. 33:20Look 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. 33:21But 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. 33:22For Jehovah is our judge, Jehovah is
our lawgiver, Jehovah is our king; he will save us. 33:23Thy 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. 33:24And the inhabitant shall not say, I
am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
34:1Come 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. 34:2For 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. 34:3Their 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. 34:4And 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. 34:5For my sword hath
drunk its fill in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon
the people of my curse, to judgment. 34:6The 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. 34:7And 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. 34:8For
Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of
Zion. 34:9And the streams of Edom shall
be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land
thereof shall become burning pitch. 34:10It 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. 34:11But 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.
34:12They shall call the nobles thereof to
the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be
nothing. 34:13And 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. 34:14And 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. 34:15There 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. 34:16Seek 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. 34:17And 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.
35:1The wilderness and the dry land shall
be glad; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. 35:2It
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. 35:3Strengthen ye the weak hands, and
confirm the feeble knees. 35:4Say 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.
35:5Then the eyes of the blind shall be
opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 35:6Then 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. 35:7And
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. 35:8And 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. 35:9No lion shall be
there, nor shall any ravenous beast go up thereon; they shall not be found
there; but the redeemed shall walk there: 35:10and 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.
36:1Now 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. 36:2And 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. 36:3Then 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. 36:4And 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? 36:5I
say, thy counsel and strength for the war are but vain words: now
on whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me? 36:6Behold, 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. 36:7But 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? 36:8Now 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. 36:9How
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? 36:10And 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. 36:11Then 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. 36:12But 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? 36:13Then 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. 36:14Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah
deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you: 36:15neither 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. 36:16Hearken 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; 36:17until 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. 36:18Beware 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? 36:19Where are the gods of Hamath and
Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria
out of my hand? 36:20Who 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? 36:21But they held their
peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was,
saying, Answer him not. 36:22Then 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.
37:1And 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. 37:2And 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.
37:3And 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. 37:4It 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. 37:5So
the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 37:6And 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. 37:7Behold, 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. 37:8So Rabshakeh returned,
and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard
that he was departed from Lachish. 37:9And 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, 37:10Thus 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. 37:11Behold, thou hast heard what the
kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and
shalt thou be delivered? 37:12Have 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? 37:13Where is the king of Hamath, and the
king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?
37:14And 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. 37:15And Hezekiah prayed
unto Jehovah, saying, 37:16O 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. 37:17Incline 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. 37:18Of a truth, Jehovah,
the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries, and their land, 37:19and 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. 37:20Now 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. 37:21Then 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, 37:22this 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. 37:23Whom 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. 37:24By 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; 37:25I have digged and drunk water, and
with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt. 37:26Hast 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. 37:27Therefore 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. 37:28But I know thy
sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against
me. 37:29Because 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. 37:30And 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. 37:31And the remnant that is escaped of
the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
37:32For 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. 37:33Therefore 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. 37:34By the way that he came, by the same
shall he return, and he shall not come unto this city, saith Jehovah. 37:35For I will defend this city to save
it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake. 37:36And 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. 37:37So Sennacherib king of Assyria
departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. 37:38And 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.
38:1In 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. 38:2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the
wall, and prayed unto Jehovah, 38:3and 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. 38:4Then came the word of Jehovah to
Isaiah, saying, 38:5Go, 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. 38:6And
I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria;
and I will defend this city. 38:7And this shall be the sign unto thee
from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do this thing that he hath spoken: 38:8behold, 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.
38:9The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah,
when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.
38:10I said, In the noontide of my days I
shall go into the gates of Sheol:
I am deprived of the residue of my years.
38:11I 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.
38:12My 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.
38:13I 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.
38:14Like 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.
38:15What 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.
38:16O Lord, by these things men live;
And wholly therein is the life of my spirit:
Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.
38:17Behold, 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.
38:18For Sheol cannot praise thee, death
cannot celebrate thee:
They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
38:19The living, the living, he shall
praise thee, as I do this day:
The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
38:20Jehovah 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.
38:21Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a
cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall
recover. 38:22Hezekiah also had said, What is the
sign that I shall go up to the house of Jehovah?
39:1At 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. 39:2And 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. 39:3Then 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. 39:4Then 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. 39:5Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the
word of Jehovah of hosts: 39:6Behold, 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. 39:7And 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. 39:8Then 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.
40:1Comfort ye, comfort ye my people,
saith your God. 40:2Speak 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. 40:3The voice of one that crieth, Prepare
ye in the wilderness the way of Jehovah; make level in the desert a
highway for our God. 40:4Every 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: 40:5and the glory of Jehovah shall be
revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Jehovah
hath spoken it. 40:6The 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. 40:7The grass withereth, the flower
fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people
is grass. 40:8The grass withereth, the flower
fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever. 40:9O 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! 40:10Behold, 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. 40:11He 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. 40:12Who 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? 40:13Who hath directed the Spirit of
Jehovah, or being his counsellor hath taught him? 40:14With 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? 40:15Behold, 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. 40:16And Lebanon is not
sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a
burnt-offering. 40:17All the nations are as nothing before
him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity. 40:18To whom then will ye liken God? or
what likeness will ye compare unto him? 40:19The image, a workman
hath cast it, and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and
casteth for it silver chains. 40:20He 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. 40:21Have 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? 40:22It 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; 40:23that bringeth princes to nothing;
that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. 40:24Yea, 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. 40:25To whom then will ye
liken me, that I should be equal to him? saith the Holy One. 40:26Lift 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. 40:27Why 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? 40:28Hast 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. 40:29He giveth power to the faint; and to
him that hath no might he increaseth strength. 40:30Even the youths shall
faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 40:31but 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.
41:1Keep 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. 41:2Who 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. 41:3He pursueth them, and
passeth on safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet. 41:4Who
hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I,
Jehovah, the first, and with the last, I am he. 41:5The isles have seen,
and fear; the ends of the earth tremble; they draw near, and come. 41:6They help every one his neighbor; and
every one saith to his brother, Be of good courage. 41:7So
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. 41:8But
thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my
friend, 41:9thou 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; 41:10Fear 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. 41:11Behold, 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. 41:12Thou 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. 41:13For I, Jehovah thy God, will hold thy
right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. 41:14Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men
of Israel; I will help thee, saith Jehovah, and thy Redeemer is the Holy
One of Israel. 41:15Behold, 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. 41:16Thou 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. 41:17The 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. 41:18I
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. 41:19I 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: 41:20that 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. 41:21Produce your cause,
saith Jehovah; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
41:22Let 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. 41:23Declare 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. 41:24Behold, ye are of
nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth
you. 41:25I 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. 41:26Who 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. 41:27I am the first
that saith unto Zion, Behold, behold them; and I will give to
Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings. 41:28And when I look,
there is no man: even among them there is no counsellor, that, when I ask
of them, can answer a word. 41:29Behold, all of them, their works are
vanity and nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.
42:1Behold, 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. 42:2He will not cry, nor lift up his
voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street. 42:3A bruised reed will he
not break, and a dimly burning wick will he not quench: he will bring
forth justice in truth. 42:4He will not fail nor be discouraged,
till he have set justice in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his
law. 42:5Thus 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: 42:6I,
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; 42:7to open the blind eyes, to bring out
the prisoners from the dungeon, and them that sit in darkness out of the
prison-house. 42:8I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my
glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven images. 42:9Behold, the former things are come to
pass, and new things do I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of
them. 42:10Sing 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. 42:11Let 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. 42:12Let them give glory unto Jehovah, and
declare his praise in the islands. 42:13Jehovah 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. 42:14I
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. 42:15I 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. 42:16And 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. 42:17They 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. 42:18Hear, ye deaf; and
look, ye blind, that ye may see. 42:19Who 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? 42:20Thou seest many
things, but thou observest not; his ears are open, but he heareth not. 42:21It pleased Jehovah, for his
righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable. 42:22But 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. 42:23Who is there among you that will give
ear to this? that will hearken and hear for the time to come? 42:24Who 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. 42:25Therefore 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.
43:1But 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. 43:2When 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. 43:3For 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. 43:4Since 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. 43:5Fear not; for I am
with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the
west; 43:6I 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; 43:7every one that is called by my name,
and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yea, whom I have
made. 43:8Bring forth the blind people that have
eyes, and the deaf that have ears. 43:9Let 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. 43:10Ye 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. 43:11I, even I, am Jehovah; and besides me
there is no saviour. 43:12I 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. 43:13Yea, 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? 43:14Thus 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. 43:15I am Jehovah, your Holy One, the
Creator of Israel, your King. 43:16Thus saith Jehovah, who maketh a way
in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; 43:17who 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): 43:18Remember ye not the former things,
neither consider the things of old. 43:19Behold, 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. 43:20The 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, 43:21the people which I formed for myself,
that they might set forth my praise. 43:22Yet thou hast not
called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel. 43:23Thou 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.
43:24Thou 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. 43:25I, even I, am he that blotteth out
thy transgressions for mine own sake; and I will not remember thy sins. 43:26Put me in remembrance; let us plead
together: set thou forth thy cause, that thou mayest be justified.
43:27Thy first father sinned, and thy
teachers have transgressed against me. 43:28Therefore I will
profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and
Israel a reviling.
44:1Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant, and
Israel, who I have chosen: 44:2Thus 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. 44:3For 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: 44:4and
they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses. 44:5One
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. 44:6Thus 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. 44:7And 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. 44:8Fear 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. 44:9They 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.
44:10Who hath fashioned a god, or molten
an image that is profitable for nothing? 44:11Behold, 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. 44:12The 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. 44:13The 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. 44:14He 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.
44:15Then 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. 44:16He 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. 44:17And 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. 44:18They know not, neither do they
consider: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their
hearts, that they cannot understand. 44:19And 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? 44:20He 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? 44:21Remember 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. 44:22I have blotted out,
as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return
unto me; for I have redeemed thee. 44:23Sing, 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. 44:24Thus 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?); 44:25that frustrateth the signs of the
liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh
their knowledge foolish; 44:26that 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; 44:27that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I
will dry up thy rivers; 44:28That 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.
45:1Thus 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: 45:2I 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; 45:3and 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. 45:4For
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. 45:5I
am Jehovah, and there is none else; besides me there is no God. I will
gird thee, though thou hast not known me; 45:6that 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. 45:7I form the light, and
create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Jehovah, that doeth
all these things. 45:8Distil, 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. 45:9Woe 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? 45:10Woe unto him that saith unto a
father, What begettest thou? or to a woman, With what travailest thou? 45:11Thus 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. 45:12I
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. 45:13I
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. 45:14Thus 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. 45:15Verily thou art a God that hidest
thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour. 45:16They shall be put to
shame, yea, confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion together
that are makers of idols. 45:17But Israel shall be saved by
Jehovah with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be put to shame nor
confounded world without end. 45:18For 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. 45:19I 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. 45:20Assemble 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. 45:21Declare 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. 45:22Look unto me, and be ye saved, all
the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else. 45:23By 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. 45:24Only 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. 45:25In Jehovah shall all
the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
46:1Bel 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. 46:2They stoop, they bow down together;
they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
46:3Hearken 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; 46:4and
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. 46:5To
whom will ye like me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be
like? 46:6Such 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. 46:7They 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. 46:8Remember this, and
show yourselves men; bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors. 46:9Remember the former things of old: for
I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like
me; 46:10declaring 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; 46:11calling 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.
46:12Hearken unto me, ye stout-hearted,
that are far from righteousness: 46:13I 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.
47:1Come 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. 47:2Take the millstones, and grind meal;
remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the
rivers. 47:3Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea,
thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man. 47:4Our
Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. 47:5Sit
thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for
thou shalt no more be called The mistress of kingdoms. 47:6I
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. 47:7And 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. 47:8Now 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: 47:9but 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.
47:10For 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. 47:11Therefore 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. 47:12Stand 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. 47:13Thou 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. 47:14Behold, 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. 47:15Thus 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.
48:1Hear 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): 48:3I 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. 48:4Because I knew that thou art
obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; 48:5therefore 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. 48:6Thou 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. 48:7They are created now,
and not from of old; and before this day thou heardest them not; lest thou
shouldest say, Behold, I knew them. 48:8Yea, 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. 48:9For my name's sake will I defer mine
anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
48:10Behold, I have refined thee, but not
as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. 48:11For 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. 48:12Hearken unto me, O Jacob, and Israel
my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. 48:13Yea, 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. 48:14Assemble 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. 48:15I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have
called him; I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous. 48:16Come 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. 48:17Thus 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. 48:18Oh that thou hadst
hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy
righteousness as the waves of the sea: 48:19thy 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. 48:20Go 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. 48:21And 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. 48:22There is no peace, saith Jehovah, to
the wicked.
49:1Listen, 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: 49:2and 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: 49:3and
he said unto me, Thou art my servant; Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
49:4But 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. 49:5And
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); 49:6yea, 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. 49:7Thus 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. 49:8Thus 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: 49:9saying 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. 49:10They 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. 49:11And I will make all my mountains a
way, and my highways shall be exalted. 49:12Lo, these shall come
from far; and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from
the land of Sinim. 49:13Sing, 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. 49:14But Zion said, Jehovah hath forsaken
me, and the Lord hath forgotten me. 49:15Can 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. 49:16Behold, I have graven thee upon the
palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me. 49:17Thy children make haste; thy
destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee. 49:18Lift 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. 49:19For, 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. 49:20The 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. 49:21Then 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? 49:22Thus 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. 49:23And 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. 49:24Shall the prey be taken from the
mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered? 49:25But 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. 49:26And 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.
50:1Thus 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. 50:2Wherefore, 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. 50:3I clothe the heavens
with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. 50:4The 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. 50:5The Lord Jehovah hath
opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.
50:6I 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. 50:7For 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. 50:8He 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. 50:9Behold, 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. 50:10Who 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. 50:11Behold, 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.
51:1Hearken 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. 51:2Look 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. 51:3For 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. 51:4Attend 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. 51:5My 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. 51:6Lift 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. 51:7Hearken 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. 51:8For
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. 51:9Awake, 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? 51:10Is 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? 51:11And 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. 51:12I, 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; 51:13and 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?
51:14The captive exile shall speedily be
loosed; and he shall not die and go down into the pit, neither
shall his bread fail. 51:15For I am Jehovah thy God, who
stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar: Jehovah of hosts is
his name. 51:16And 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. 51:17Awake, 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. 51:18There 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. 51:19These two things are befallen thee,
who shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the
sword; how shall I comfort thee? 51:20Thy 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. 51:21Therefore hear now
this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but now with wine: 51:22Thus 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: 51:23and 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.
52:1Awake, 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. 52:2Shake thyself from the dust; arise,
sit on thy throne, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bonds of thy
neck, O captive daughter of Zion. 52:3For thus saith Jehovah, Ye were sold
for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. 52:4For 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. 52:5Now
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. 52:6Therefore my people
shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am
he that doth speak; behold, it is I. 52:7How 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! 52:8The 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. 52:9Break forth into joy, sing together,
ye waste places of Jerusalem; for Jehovah hath comforted his people, he
hath redeemed Jerusalem. 52:10Jehovah 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. 52:11Depart 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. 52:12For 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. 52:13Behold, my servant
shall deal wisely, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very
high. 52:14Like as many were astonished at thee
(his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the
sons of men), 52:15so 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.
53:1Who hath believed our message? and to
whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed? 53:2For 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. 53:3He 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. 53:4Surely he hath borne
our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken,
smitten of God, and afflicted. 53:5But 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. 53:6All
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. 53:7He 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. 53:8By 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? 53:9And 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. 53:10Yet 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. 53:11He 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. 53:12Therefore 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.
54:1Sing, 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. 54:2Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let
them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitations; spare not: lengthen
thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes. 54:3For 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. 54:4Fear 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. 54:5For 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. 54:6For
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. 54:7For a small moment
have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. 54:8In
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. 54:9For 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. 54:10For 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. 54:11O thou afflicted, tossed with
tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set thy stones in fair colors,
and lay thy foundations with sapphires. 54:12And I will make thy
pinnacles of rubies, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy border of
precious stones. 54:13And all thy children shall be taught
of Jehovah; and great shall be the peace of thy children. 54:14In 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. 54:15Behold, they may
gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against
thee shall fall because of thee. 54:16Behold, 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. 54:17No 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.
55:1Ho, 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. 55:2Wherefore 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. 55:3Incline 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. 55:4Behold, I have given
him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.
55:5Behold, 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. 55:6Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found;
call ye upon him while he is near: 55:7let 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.
55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah. 55:9For as the heavens are
higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my
thoughts than your thoughts. 55:10For 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; 55:11so 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.
55:12For 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.
55:13Instead 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.
56:1Thus saith Jehovah, Keep ye justice,
and do righteousness; for my salvation is near to come, and my
righteousness to be revealed. 56:2Blessed 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. 56:3Neither 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. 56:4For
thus saith Jehovah of the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the
things that please me, and hold fast my covenant: 56:5Unto 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. 56:6Also 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; 56:7even 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. 56:8The
Lord Jehovah, who gathereth the outcasts of Israel, saith, Yet will I
gather others to him, besides his own that are gathered. 56:9All
ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the
forest. 56:10His watchmen are blind, they are all
without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming,
lying down, loving to slumber. 56:11Yea, 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. 56:12Come 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.
57:1The 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. 57:2He
entereth into peace; they rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his
uprightness. 57:3But draw near hither, ye sons of the
sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot. 57:4Against 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, 57:5ye
that inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; that slay
the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? 57:6Among 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? 57:7Upon a high and lofty mountain hast
thou set thy bed; thither also wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. 57:8And
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. 57:9And 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. 57:10Thou 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. 57:11And 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? 57:12I will declare thy righteousness; and
as for thy works, they shall not profit thee. 57:13When 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. 57:14And he will say, Cast ye up, cast ye
up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my
people. 57:15For 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. 57:16For 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. 57:17For 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. 57:18I have seen his ways,
and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and
to his mourners. 57:19I 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. 57:20But the wicked are like the troubled
sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt. 57:21There is no peace, saith my God, to
the wicked.
58:1Cry 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. 58:2Yet 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. 58:3Wherefore 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. 58:4Behold, 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. 58:5Is
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?
58:6Is 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? 58:7Is
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? 58:8Then 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. 58:9Then 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; 58:10and 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; 58:11and 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. 58:12And 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. 58:13If 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: 58:14then 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.
59:1Behold, Jehovah's hand is not
shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot
hear: 59:2but your iniquities have separated
between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, so
that he will not hear. 59:3For your hands are defiled with blood,
and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue
muttereth wickedness. 59:4None sueth in righteousness, and none
pleadeth in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive
mischief, and bring forth iniquity. 59:5They 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. 59:6Their 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. 59:7Their 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. 59:8The 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. 59:9Therefore is justice far from us,
neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold,
darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity. 59:10We 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.
59:11We 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. 59:12For 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: 59:13transgressing and
denying Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking
oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of
falsehood. 59:14And justice is turned away backward,
and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in the street,
and uprightness cannot enter. 59:15Yea, 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. 59:16And 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. 59:17And 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. 59:18According to their deeds, accordingly
he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the
islands he will repay recompense. 59:19So 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. 59:20And a Redeemer will come to Zion, and
unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith Jehovah. 59:21And 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.
60:1Arise, shine; for thy light is come,
and the glory of Jehovah is risen upon thee. 60:2For, 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. 60:3And
nations shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy
rising. 60:4Lift 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. 60:5Then 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. 60:6The 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. 60:7All 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. 60:8Who are these that fly as a cloud, and
as the doves to their windows? 60:9Surely 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. 60:10And 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. 60:11Thy 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. 60:12For that nation and kingdom that will
not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
60:13The 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. 60:14And 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. 60:15Whereas 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. 60:16Thou 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. 60:17For 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. 60:18Violence 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. 60:19The 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. 60:20Thy 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. 60:21Thy 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. 60:22The little one shall become a
thousand, and the small one a strong nation; I, Jehovah, will hasten it in
its time.
61:1The 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; 61:2to
proclaim the year of Jehovah's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God;
to comfort all that mourn; 61:3to 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.
61:4And 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. 61:5And strangers shall
stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your
vine-dressers. 61:6But 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. 61:7Instead 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. 61:8For 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. 61:9And 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. 61:10I 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. 61:11For 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.
62:1For 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. 62:2And
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. 62:3Thou shalt also be a crown of beauty
in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. 62:4Thou 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. 62:5For 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. 62:6I 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, 62:7and
give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise
in the earth. 62:8Jehovah 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: 62:9but 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. 62:10Go 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. 62:11Behold, 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. 62:12And they shall call them The holy
people, The redeemed of Jehovah: and thou shalt be called Sought out, A
city not forsaken.
63:1Who 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. 63:2Wherefore art thou red in thine
apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winevat? 63:3I
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. 63:4For the day of vengeance was in my
heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. 63:5And 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. 63:6And I trod down the peoples in mine
anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood
on the earth. 63:7I 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. 63:8For
he said, Surely, they are my people, children that will not deal falsely:
so he was their Saviour. 63:9In 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. 63:10But they rebelled, and grieved his
holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and himself
fought against them. 63:11Then 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? 63:12that caused his
glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? that divided the waters
before them, to make himself an everlasting name? 63:13that led them through
the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they stumbled not? 63:14As 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. 63:15Look 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. 63:16For 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. 63:17O 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. 63:18Thy holy people
possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down
thy sanctuary. 63:19We are become as they over whom thou
never barest rule, as they that were not called by thy name.
64:1Oh that thou wouldest rend the
heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at
thy presence, 64:2as 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! 64:3When thou didst terrible things which
we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains quaked at thy presence.
64:4For 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. 64:5Thou 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? 64:6For 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. 64:7And
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. 64:8But now, O Jehovah, thou art our
Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of
thy hand. 64:9Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah,
neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, look, we beseech thee, we are
all thy people. 64:10Thy holy cities are become a
wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 64:11Our holy and our beautiful house,
where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant
places are laid waste. 64:12Wilt thou refrain thyself for these
things, O Jehovah? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
65:1I 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. 65:2I
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; 65:3a people that provoke
me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense
upon bricks; 65:4that sit among the graves, and lodge
in the secret places; that eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable
things is in their vessels; 65:5that 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. 65:6Behold, it is written before me: I
will not keep silence, but will recompense, yea, I will recompense into
their bosom, 65:7your 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. 65:8Thus 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. 65:9And 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. 65:10And 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. 65:11But ye that forsake Jehovah, that
forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for Fortune, and that fill
up mingled wine unto Destiny; 65:12I 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. 65:13Therefore 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; 65:14behold, my servants shall sing for
joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for
vexation of spirit. 65:15And 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: 65:16so 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. 65:17For, behold, I create
new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be
remembered, nor come into mind. 65:18But be ye glad and rejoice for ever
in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and
her people a joy. 65:19And 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. 65:20There 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. 65:21And they shall build houses, and
inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
65:22They 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. 65:23They 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. 65:24And it shall come to pass that,
before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will
hear. 65:25The 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.
66:1Thus 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? 66:2For 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. 66:3He 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: 66:4I 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. 66:5Hear 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. 66:6A voice of tumult from
the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Jehovah that rendereth
recompense to his enemies. 66:7Before she travailed, she brought
forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man-child. 66:8Who
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. 66:9Shall 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. 66:10Rejoice ye with
Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with
her, all ye that mourn over her; 66:11that 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. 66:12For 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. 66:13As one whom his mother comforteth, so
will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. 66:14And 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. 66:15For, 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. 66:16For by fire will Jehovah execute
judgment, and by his sword, upon all flesh; and the slain of Jehovah shall
be many. 66:17They 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. 66:18For 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. 66:19And 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. 66:20And 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. 66:21And of them also will I take for
priests and for Levites, saith Jehovah. 66:22For 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. 66:23And 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. 66:24And 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.
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