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Lamsa OT - Isaiah

"1 ¶ THE vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah:"

"2 ¶ Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the LORD has spoken, I have reared and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. 3 The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master’s crib; but Israel does not know, my people do not understand. 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, an offspring of evildoers, children that are corrupt; you have forsaken the LORD, you have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, you have gone away backward. 5 Why should you be stricken any more, and be chastised? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds and bruises, and swelling sores; they have not been closed, neither bound up, nor softened with oil. 7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. 8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. 9 Except the LORD of hosts had left to us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and we should have been like Gomorrah."

"10 ¶ Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah. 11 Of what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? says the LORD; I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I do not delight in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats. 12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain offerings to me; their savour is an abomination to me; in the new moons and sabbaths, you call an assembly; I do not eat that which is obtained wrongfully, and taken by force. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they are a burden to me; I am weary to bear them. 15 And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood."

"16 ¶ Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do good; seek justice, do good to the oppressed, plead for the fatherless, plead for the widows. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be like wool. 19 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; 20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it."

"21 ¶ How is the faithful city become a harlot! For once it was full of justice; and righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers. 22 Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water. 23 Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves; every one of them loves a bribe and runs after rewards; they plead not the cause of the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come before them. 24 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah, I will avenge myself of my adversaries, I will take vengeance upon my enemies; 25 And I will turn my hand against you, and purge away your rebellious men, and remove all your iniquities; 26 And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counsellors as at the beginning; afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city. 27 Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her captivity with righteousness. 28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and those who have forsaken the LORD shill perish. 29 For they shall be ashamed of the idols which they have desired, and they shall be confounded by the witchcraft which they have chosen. 30 For they shall be like an oak whose leaves have fallen, and like a garden that has no water. 31 And their strength shall be like cotton, and their works like a spark, and they shall both burn together, and there shall be none to quench them."

"2:1 ¶ THE word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem: 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established above the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall look to it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, 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 the LORD from Jerusalem. 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many peoples who are far off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into sickles: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 5 O house of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of the LORD."

"6 ¶ For thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are self-satisfied as in the olden days, and they practice augury like the Philistines, and they have reared many alien children. 7 Their land also is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; their land also is filled with horses, and there is no end to their chariots; 8 Their land also is filled with idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: 9 And the common man is humbled, and the mighty man is brought low; therefore forgive them not."

"10 ¶ Enter into the rocks, and hide in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. 11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of man shall be brought low, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. 12 For the day of the LORD shall be against every one that is proud and lofty, and against every one that is lifted up, that he shall be brought low; 13 And against all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and against all the oaks of Bashan, 14 And against all the high mountains, and against all the hills that are lifted up, 15 And against every high tower, and against every fenced wall, 16 And against all the ships of Tarshish, and against all the pleasant sights. 17 And the loftiness of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of man shall be brought low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. 18 And the idols shall utterly pass away. 19 And the people shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he arises to conquer the earth. 20 In that day a man shall cast away to the moles and to the bats his idols of gold and his idols of silver, which they made each one for themselves to worship, 21 To go into the caves of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he arises to conquer the earth. 22 Shun the man who is hasty for of what account is he?"

"3:1 ¶ FOR, behold, the LORD of hosts does take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, 2 The mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet and the diviner and the elder, 3 The captain of fifty and the honorable man and the counsellor and the skilful carpenter and the expert counsellor. 4 And I will appoint young men to be their princes, and mockers shall rule over them. 5 And the people shall oppress one another, every one his neighbor; and the young men shall provoke the elders, and the base men the honorable. 6 When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, and say to him, You have clothing, be our ruler, and govern this ruin; 7 In that day he shall answer, and say, I will not be a leader; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing; make me not a ruler over the people. 8 For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, provoking God in the majesty of his glory."

"9 ¶ Their hypocrisy witnesses against them; and they declare their sins like Sodom, they do not hide them. Woe to their soul! for they have wrought evil to themselves. 10 Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 11 Woe to the wicked! it shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given him. 12 The princes shall pluck my people out, and women shall rule over them. O my people, your leaders have caused you to err, and disturbed the way of your paths. 13 The LORD stands up to plead, and stands to judge his people. 14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof: for you have burned the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses. 15 Why did you sting my people, and shame the faces of the poor? says the LORD of hosts."

"16 ¶ Because the daughters of Zion have become haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks, and wanton eyes, making a tinkling with their feet, and thus provoking the LORD; 17 Therefore the LORD will bring low the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD shall lay bare their secret parts. 18 In that day the LORD will take away the beauty of their apparel; 19 And their adornments and their necklaces and the braids of their hair and their chains and their bonnets and their veils, 20 The paint of their faces, their earrings and their strings of beads 21 And the ornaments of their legs and their bracelets and nose rings, 22 The garments of varied colors and the mantles and the fine linens, the purple garments, 23 The long outer garments, the purple robes, the scarlet robes, the wardrobe of all their adornments. 24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of a sweet smell there shall be a stink; and instead of an ornamental girdle, a worker’s apron; and instead of curled hair, baldness; and instead of purple robes, a girding of sackcloth; for their beauty shall be destroyed. 25 Your mighty men shall fall by the sword, and your valiant men in the battle. 26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and her victory shall turn to defeat."

"4:1 ¶ AND in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel; only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach."

"2 ¶ In that day shall the glory and honor of the LORD shine forth, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for the remnant of Israel. 3 And it shall come to pass, that he who is left in Zion, and he who remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one who is written among the living in Jerusalem, 4 When the LORD shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the bloodshed from the midst of Jerusalem, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of purging. 5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, round about, a cloud by day, and the smoke and shining of a flaming fire by night; for the glory of the LORD shall be a shelter over all. 6 And there shall be a shelter for a shade in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a shelter from the storm and from the rain."

"5:1 ¶ NOW I will sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard on the corner of a fertile land; 2 He cultivated it and fenced it and planted it with the choicest vines, and built a watchtower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it; and he expected that it should bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes. 3 And now, O men of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem, judge between me and my vineyard. 4 What more could have been done to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I expected that it should bring forth grapes, it brought forth wild grapes. 5 And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard; I will demolish its tower, and it shall be for spoil; and break down its fence, and it shall be trodden down; 6 And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall spring up in it briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant; and I looked for justice, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry."

"8 ¶ Woe to those who trespass the boundaries between houses, who remove the landmarks between the fields, to steal the land, that they may dwell alone in the midst of the earth! 9 In my ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth, it has been heard, that many houses shall be desolate, because there will be no one to dwell in them. 10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah. 11 Woe to them who rise up early in the morning, and run after strong drink; that continue drinking until night, till wine inflames them! 12 They drink wine while listening to the harps, timbrels, tambourines, and flutes; but they do not regard the works of the LORD, neither consider the deeds of his hands. 13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their dead are multiplied because of the famine, and have been overcome with thirst. 14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged itself, and opened its mouth without measure: and the glorious men, the honorable men, and the mighty men shall descend into it. 15 And the mean man shall be humbled, and the mighty man shall be brought down, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled: 16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the Holy God shall be sanctified in righteousness. 17 Then shall the lambs feed there in their usual fashion, and the waste places that shall be rebuilt shall be the property of the rightful owners."

"18 ¶ Woe to them that spin out their iniquities like a long rope, and their sins are like a bridle on the neck of a heifer; 19 Who say, Let the LORD make speed, and hasten his works, that we may see them; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near, and let it come, that we may know it! 20 Woe to them who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight! 22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and strong men who mix strong drink; 23 Who justify the guilty because of his bribe, and take away justice from the righteous! 24 Therefore as the fire devours the stubble and the flame consumes the chaff, so they shall be consumed by the flame, and their root shall be as dust; and their blossom shall go up like chaff, because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts and despised the command of the Holy One of Israel. 25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he has stretched forth his hand against them, and has smitten them: and the mountains trembled; and their carcasses were like mud in the streets. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still. 26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from afar and will whistle to them from the end of the earth; and, behold, they shall come swiftly with speed. 27 They shall not be weary nor stumble, they shall not slumber nor sleep, neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the lace of their shoes be broken; 28 Their arrows are sharp and their bows are bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind. 29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, and like the young lions that roar, and take hold on the prey and carry it off; and none shall deliver it. 30 And in that day he shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea; and if they look to the land, behold, there shall be darkness and distress, and the light shall be darkened with thick darkness."

"6:1 ¶ IN the year that King Uzziah died I saw the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled his temple. 2 And above him stood the seraphim; each one had six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he did fly. 3 And one called to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory. 4 And the posts of the door shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke."

"5 ¶ Then I said, Woe is me, I am dismayed; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar; 7 And he touched my mouth and said to me, Lo, this has touched your lips; your iniquity is taken away, and your sins are forgiven. 8 And I heard the voice of the LORD, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me."

"9 ¶ And he said to me, Go, and tell this people, You can hear indeed, but understand not; and you can see indeed, but do not perceive. 10 For the heart of this people is darkened and their ears are heavy and their eyes closed, so that they may not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and be converted and be forgiven. 11 Then I said, How long, O LORD? And he said, Until the cities lie waste without inhabitants and the houses without men and the land be utterly desolate 12 And the LORD shall have cast off men far away and there shall be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. 13 And they that remain in it shall be a tenth, and again they shall be burned and shall be made like the terebinth or like an oak which is fallen from its stump. The holy seed is the source thereof."

"7:1 ¶ AND it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jothan, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Aram, and Pekah the son of Romaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. 2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Aram is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart and the heart of his people were moved, as the trees of the forest are moved with the wind. 3 Then the LORD said to Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool which is in the highway of the palace’s field; 4 And say to him, Take heed and be quiet; fear not, neither be frightened by these two weakening trouble-makers, by the fierce anger of Rezin, and by the son of Romaliah 5 Because Aram, Ephraim, and the son of Romaliah have taken evil counsel against you, saying, 6 Let us go up against Judah and destroy it, and let us make a breach in it and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal; 7 Thus says the LORD God: It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. 8 For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and after sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken, so that it will no longer be a people. 9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Romaliah’s son. If you do not believe, surely you shall not understand."

"10 ¶ Moreover the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying, 11 Ask for yourself a sign of the LORD your God; ask something in the depth, or in the height above. 12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD my God. 13 And he said, Hear now, O house of David; it is a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also? 14 Therefore the LORD himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know how to refuse the evil and choose the good. 16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land before whose two kings you are harassed shall be forsaken."

"17 ¶ The LORD shall bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father’s house days that have not come from the day when the king of Assyria parted Ephraim from Judah. 18 And it shall come to pass on that day that the LORD shall whistle for the flies that are in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt and for the bees that are in the land of Assyria. 19 And they shall come and shall rest all of them in the valley of Jathoth and in the holes of the rocks and in all the dens. 20 On that day shall the LORD shave with a sharp razor the region that is beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and he shall also shave off the beard. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day that a man shall rear a young cow and two sheep; 22 And it shall come to pass because of the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter; for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land. 23 And it shall come to pass in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines, worth a thousand silver pieces, shall become briers and thorns. 24 With arrows and with bows shall men come there, because all the land shall be filled with briers and thorns. 25 And on all the hills that once were ploughed with a plough, you shall not go for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall become pasture for cattle and for the treading of sheep."

"8:1 ¶ MOREOVER the LORD said to me, Take a large scroll and write on it plainly, To hasten the captivity, and to record the spoil. 2 And I took to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Berechiah. 3 Then I went to the prophetess; and she conceived and bore a son. Then the LORD said to me, Call his name Mesarhib-shabey-otakib-baz, Hasten to take away captives; speed to take away the spoil. 4 For before the child shall know how to cry, My father and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria. 5 The LORD spoke to me again, saying, 6 Forsasmuch as this people have refused the waters of Shiloah, that flow softly, and rejoice in Rezin and the son of Romaliah; 7 Now therefore, behold, the LORD brings up against them the waters of the river (Euphrates), many and strong, even the king of Assyria and all his glory; and he shall come up over all their brooks, and walk over all their fortified walls; 8 And he shall pass through Judah and shall sweep on and go over; he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel."

"9 ¶ Tremble, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all you of far countries; gird yourselves, and you shall be defeated. 10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand; for God is with us. 11 For the LORD spoke thus to me, as he held me and led me aside that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, 12 Do not say, A conspiracy, as this people has said conspiracy, neither shall you worship their idols nor be afraid of them. 13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; he is your God and he is your helper. 14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; and for a stone of offense and for a rock of stumbling to both the houses of Israel, for a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many of them shall stumble by them; they shall fall and be broken and be snared and be taken."

"16 ¶ Bind up the testimony, seal the law, 17 And in my teaching I will wait for the LORD, who has turned away his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. 18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for a sign and for a wonder in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells on mount Zion. 19 And when they shall say to you, Inquire of men who have familiar spirits and of wise men who chirp and mutter, these men are not God’s people, who inquire of the dead concerning the living. 20 As for the law and the testimony, if they do not speak according to this word, it is because they do not receive a bribe for it. 21 And they shall pass through the land sorely beset and hungry; and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall be angry and will curse their king, and their God, and be haughty. 22 And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, tribulation and dimness shall scatter them; but he shall not afflict him who is in distress as in the former time."

"9:1 ¶ THE land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali have rejoiced; the mighty dominion, the way by the sea, the country beyond the river Jordan, and Galilee of the Gentiles have rejoiced. 2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined. 3 Thou hast multiplied the people, and thou hast increased its joy; they joy before thee as those who rejoice in the harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. 4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden and the staff of his shoulder and the rod of his oppressor, as in the days of Midian. 5 For every voice which is heard brings terror and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be for burning and fuel for fire. 6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder: and his name is called Wonderful Counsellor, The Mighty One, The Everlasting God, The Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and of his peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to establish it and to sustain it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this."

"8 ¶ The LORD has sent a word to Jacob, and it has lighted upon Israel. 9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and haughtiness of heart, 10 We shall lay bricks and hew stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. 11 Therefore the LORD shall cause the adversaries of Rezin to prevail against him, and incite his enemies, 12 The Edomites from the east and the Philistines from the west; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 13 For the people did not turn to him till they were devoured, neither did they seek the LORD of hosts. 14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, tail and head, in one day. 15 The elder and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail. 16 For the leaders of this people shall cause them to err and cause them to sink low. 17 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall he have mercy on their orphans and widows; for all of them are hypocrites and evildoers, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 18 For wickedness burns like the fire; it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and the chosen ones shall roll up like the lifting up of smoke. 19 Through the rebuke of the LORD of hosts the land trembles, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire; no man shall spare his brother. 20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and shall not be satisfied; they shall eat every man the flesh of his own kinsmen; 21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall devour Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still."

"10:1 ¶ WOE to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and who write unjust decrees; 2 To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that they may plunder the widows and that they may rob the fatherless! 3 And what will you do on the day of recompense and in the storm which shall come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your glory? 4 Without me you shall bow down under the prisoners, and you shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still."

"5 ¶ Ho, Assyrian! the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation. 6 I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against a wrathful people will I give him a charge, to take captives and to take spoil and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7 But he does not look so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and annihilate nations not a few. 8 For he says, Are not my princes altogether kings? 9 Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? 10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel those of Jerusalem and of Samaria; 11 And as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so will I do to Jerusalem and her idols. 12 Therefore it shall come to pass, that when the LORD has performed his whole work on mount Zion, and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his pride. 13 For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent, and I have removed the boundaries of the nations, and I have plundered their wealth, and subjugated the inhabited cities; 14 And my hand has found like a nest the riches of the peoples; and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken, I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved a wing or opened the mouth or chirped. 15 Shall the ax boast itself over him who hews with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself over him who saws with it? Or shall a rod exalt itself over him who lifts it up? 16 Therefore shall the LORD God of hosts send destruction upon his rich ones; and instead of his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; 18 And it shall consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful fields, both soul and body shall perish; and they shall be as if they never had been. 19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be so few that a child may write them down."

"20 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again trust upon him that smote them; but they shall trust in the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God. 22 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return; their number decreased, cut off, but flooded with righteousness. 23 For the LORD God of hosts shall bring destruction and make decrees throughout all the earth."

"24 ¶ Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: O my people that dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian, who shall smite you with his rod, and shall lift up his staff against you after the manner of Egypt. 25 For yet a very little while, and my indignation shall be accomplished, and my anger because of their destruction. 26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge against them according to the slaughter of Midian at mount Horeb; and as his staff was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt. 27 And it shall come to pass in that day that his burden shall be taken away from off your shoulder and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed from your neck because of your strength. 28 He has come to Anath, he has passed Megiddo; at Michmash he has laid up his supplies; 29 They have gone over the passage of Gibeah to Beth-bethan; Ramath is afraid; Gibeah of Saul has fled. 30 Lift up your voice, O daughter of Gallim; give ear, O Laish; answer me, O Anathoth. 31 Marmanah has been removed; the inhabitants of Gobin are resisting. 32 As yet he shall remain at Nob that day; he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion and against the hill of Jerusalem. 33 Behold, the LORD God of hosts shall overthrow the glorious ones with might; and the high ones of stature shall be humbled, and the haughty shall be brought down. 34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon with its glory shall fall."

"11:1 ¶ AND there shall come forth a shoot out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots; 2 And he shall be at peace, and the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the reverence of the LORD; 3 And shall shine forth in the reverence of the LORD; and he shall not judge after that which his eyes see, neither reprove after that which his ears hear; 4 But with justice shall he judge the poor, and reprove with uprightness 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. 5 Righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his waist. 6 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 ox shall feed together; and a little child shall lead them. 7 And the cow and the bear shall feed together; and their young ones shall grow up together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 And the suckling child shall play with the serpent, and the weaned child shall put his hand into the hole of the asp. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea."

"10 ¶ And on that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand as an ensign to the peoples; to him shall the Gentiles seek; and his rest shall be glorious. 11 And it shall come to pass in that day that the LORD shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people which are left from Assyria and from Egypt and from Pathros and from Ethiopia and from Elam and from Seir and from Hamath and from the islands of the sea. 12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. 13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be destroyed; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not oppress Ephraim. 14 But they shall fly upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the sea; they shall plunder them of the east together; they shall stretch out their hands against Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them. 15 And the LORD shall utterly dry up the sea of Egypt; and with his mighty wind he shall stretch his hand over the river, and shall smite it into seven streams, so that men may cross through it dryshod. 16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people which shall be left from Assyria; as it was in the day that Israel came up from the land of Egypt."

"12:1 ¶ AND you shall say in that day, O LORD, I will praise thee; though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou hast comforted me. 2 Behold, in God my Saviour I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD is my strength and my song; and he has become my salvation. 3 Therefore with joy shall you draw water out of the spring of salvation."

"4 ¶ And you shall say in that day, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the Gentiles, make mention that his name is exalted. 5 Sing to the LORD; for he has done excellent things; this is known in all the earth. 6 Rejoice and give praise, O inhabitant of Zion; for great is he that is in your midst, the Holy One of Israel."

"13:1 ¶ THE prophecy concerning the fall of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw. 2 Lift up a banner on high mountains, raise the voice to them, wave the hand, that they may enter the gates of the princes. 3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have called the mighty ones in my anger, even them that became strong with my excellency. 4 The noise of tumult on the mountains, like as of many peoples; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together; the LORD of hosts is performing wonders. 5 Warriors are coming from afar, and from the end of heaven, even the LORD and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land."

"6 ¶ Howl; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a plunder which is made suddenly. 7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt; 8 And they shall be afraid; terror and pangs shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail; they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. 9 Behold, the day of the LORD comes, which has no remedy, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to make the earth a desolation; and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its rising, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine. 11 And I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will bring low the haughtiness of the mighty. 12 I will make a man more precious than gold; even a man than the gold of Ophir. 13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall be moved out of its place, in the rebuke of the LORD of hosts, in the day of his fierce anger. 14 And they shall be like gazelles when they flee, and like sheep that have no one to gather them; every man shall turn to his own people, and every one flee to his own land. 15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that escapes shall fall by the sword. 16 Their children, shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled and their wives ravished. 17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver, and have no delight in gold. 18 The bows of young men shall be broken in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children."

"19 ¶ And Babylon, the glory of the kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldean’s excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation; neither shall the Arabians encamp there; neither shall the shepherds make their folds there. 21 But wild beasts shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. 22 And the screech-owls shall cry in their palaces, and jackals in their pleasant temples; its time is soon to come, and its days shall not be prolonged."

"14:1 ¶ FOR the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and will set them in their own land; and strangers shall accompany them, and they shall add to the house of Jacob. 2 And the Gentiles shall take them and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for men-servants and women-servants; and they shall take them captive, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. 3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give you rest from your sorrow and from your anger and from the hard bondage wherein you were made to serve."

"4 ¶ You shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the ruler ceased! the zealous one ceased! 5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked and the sceptre of the rulers. 6 He who smote the peoples in wrath, smiting without instruction, who chastised the peoples in anger and persecuted them without pity. 7 The whole earth is at rest and is quiet; they break forth into singing. 8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since you are felled, no hewer is come up to cut us down. 9 Sheol beneath is murmuring at your coming; it stirs up against you all the mighty men, even all the rulers of the earth whom you overthrew from their thrones. 10 All the kings of the nations shall answer and say to you, Are you also become weak as we? Are you become like us? 11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the noise of your harps is dead; the dust is spread under you, and the worms cover you. 12 How are you fallen from heaven! howl in the morning! for you have fallen down to the ground, O reviler of the nations. 13 For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will dwell also upon the high mountains in the outer regions of the north. 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 15 From henceforth you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the bottom of the pit. 16 Those who see you shall stare at you and consider you, saying, Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms; 17 Who made the world as a wilderness and destroyed its cities; who did not free his prisoners? 18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. 19 But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable person, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through by the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as corpses trodden under foot. 20 You shall not rejoice with them in the grave, because you have destroyed your land and slain your people; the offspring of the evildoer shall never rise again. 21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with war. 22 For I will rise up against them, says the LORD of hosts, and will cut off from Babylon the name, its offspring, the family, and its generation, says the LORD. 23 I will also make it a possession for owls, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the LORD of hosts."

"24 ¶ The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand; 25 I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot; then his yoke shall depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders. 26 This is the end that is purposed against all the earth; and this is the land that is stretched out against all the nations. 27 For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who can disannul it? And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? 28 The conquest of Philistia. In the year that King Ahaz died, came this burden. 29 Rejoice not, whole Philistia, because the rod of him that smote you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a viper, and its offspring shall be a fiery flying serpent. 30 And the first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant I shall slay. 31 Howl, O city; cry, O city; whole Philistia is in confusion; for there shall come from the north a smoke? and none shall be left in their feasts. 32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nations? That the LORD has founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall take refuge in it."

"15:1 ¶ THE prophecy concerning the fall of Moab. Because in the night the city of Moab is plundered and brought to silence; because in the night the defenses of Moab are despoiled and brought to silence; 2 They have gone up to the house of Ribon, to the high places, to weep; Moab shall howl over Nebo and over Medeba; on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off. 3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth; on the housetops and in their streets every one shall howl, weeping vehemently. 4 Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh; their voice shall be heard as far as Jazoth; therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his soul shall howl for him. 5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; they shall howl as they flee to Zoar; Moab was strong like a three year old heifer; for by the ascent of Luhith they shall go up with weeping; and in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction."

"6 ¶ For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the vegetation is withered away, and the green grass is dried up, there is no green thing. 7 Therefore what was left is gone, and that which they have stored shall they carry away over the brook of willows. 8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof as far as Eglaim, and the howling thereof to Beer-elim. 9 For the waters of Ribon are full of blood; and I will bring more upon Ribon, and I will plot against those who escape of Moab, and against the remnant of the land."

"16:1 ¶ THE prophecy concerning the rest of the land. I will send the son of the ruler of the land from the rock city of the wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Zion. 2 And he shall be like a bird that changes its nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be deserted at the fords of Arnon. 3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make your shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not him that wanders. 4 Let the outcasts of Moab dwell with you; be a shelter to them from the face of the spoiler; for the destroyer is at an end, and the spoiler ceases, the oppressors are consumed out of the land. 5 In mercy shall a throne be established, and he shall sit upon it, in truth in the tabernacle of David, a judge who seeks justice and hastens righteousness."

"6 ¶ We have heard of the majesty of Moab; he is very proud, even of his haughtiness and his wrath; his augurers so predict concerning him. 7 Therefore shall Moab howl; every one shall howl for Moab, for the foundations of the walls are destroyed; surely they groan like the sick. 8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the mighty men of the nations have broken down the branches thereof, they are come as far as Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness; its shoots spread out, they are gone over the sea. 9 Therefore I will cause you to weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water you with your tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh; for an oppressor has come against your harvest and the gathering of your grapes. 10 And gladness and joy are taken away out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no rejoicing, neither shall there be shouting: nor shall they tread out wine in the press; nor shall men tread out wine with their feet; for I have made the vine treaders to cease. 11 Therefore my heart shall lament like a harp for Moab, and my soul for the fortified walls which will be destroyed. 12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high places, that he shall come to the sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail. 13 This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning Moab since that time. 14 But now the LORD has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be despised, with all that great multitude of his people; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble."

"17:1 ¶ THE prophecy concerning the fall of Damascus. Behold, Damascus shall cease to be a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 2 The cities of Adoer shall be forsaken; they shall be for flocks which shall lie down in them, and none shall harm them. 3 The might also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Ephraim will be like the glory of the children of Israel, says the LORD of hosts. 4 And in that day it shall come to pass that the glory of Jacob shall wane, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. 5 And it shall be as when the reaper harvests standing sheaves, and gathers the ears in his arms; and it shall be as he that gathers ears in the valley of Rephaim."

"6 ¶ Yet gleaning shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five on the outermost branches thereof, says the LORD God of Israel. 7 In that day a man shall trust in his Maker, and his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel. 8 And he shall not trust in the altars, the work of his hands and the work which his fingers have made, neither shall he look at the idols or the images."

"9 ¶ In that day shall his strong cities be like a desolate well, and like an emirate which was left destitute before the children of Israel; so you will become a desolation. 10 Because you have forgotten the God your Saviour, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength; therefore you shall plant pleasant plants and shall graft them with strange branches; 11 On the day that you plant them, they shall put forth blossoms, and in the morning your seed shall flourish, but the harvest shall be a ruin in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow."

"12 ¶ Woe to the armies of many people, which make a noise like the roaring of the seas! And to the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters! 13 He shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off and shall be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like dry grass before the whirlwind. 14 And behold at eveningtide violence; and before the morning they are no more. This is the portion of our oppressor, and the lot of those who plunder us."

"18:1 ¶ WOE to the land of shadowing wings which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; 2 That sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, saying, Go, you swift messengers, to a nation who will be plundered and uprooted, to a nation whose strength was within it hitherto; to a people who will be dishonored and trodden down, whose land the rivers have ruined! 3 All you inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, you shall see when the ensign shall be lifted up upon the mountains; and when he blows a trumpet, you shall hear. 4 For thus the LORD said to me: I will rest, and I will look from my dwelling place as midday heat upon the river and as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest. 5 For before the harvest, when the bud has perished and the grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the lean shoots with pruning hooks and take away and shake off the branches. 6 They shall be left together to the fowls of the mountains and to the beasts of the earth; and the birds shall gather upon them, and all the wild beasts of the earth, shall devour them. 7 At that time presents shall be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people plundered and uprooted, whose strength was within him hitherto; from a people dishonored and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, even to mount Zion."

"19:1 ¶ THE prophecy concerning the fall of Egypt. Behold, the LORD is riding upon swift clouds, and comes into Egypt; and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of the Egyptians shall melt in the midst of it. 2 And I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian; and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. 3 And the spirit of the Egyptian shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will blot out their counsel; and they shall inquire of idols and of the sorcerers and of those who have familiar spirits and of wizards. 4 And I will deliver the Egyptians into the hands of the cruel Medes; and a fierce king shall rule over them, says the LORD of hosts. 5 And they shall cut off the water from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. 6 And they shall divert the waters of the rivers, and shall diminish the great rivers; the reeds and rushes and papyrus shall wither. 7 The rushes by the river, and by the mouth of the river, and everything sown by the river shall wither, be driven away, and be no more. 8 The fishermen also shall lament, and all who cast hooks into the river shall mourn, and those who spread nets upon the water shall languish. 9 Moreover those who work in cotton, and those who comb cotton and weave with joy, shall be confounded. 10 And all those who make strong drink for the drinking of the people shall be humiliated. 11 Surely the princes of Zoan have become fools, the wise counsellors of King Pharaoh give foolish counsel; how can you say to Pharaoh, We are wise men, the sons of the ancient kings? 12 Where are your wise men? Let them tell you now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts has purposed against Egypt. 13 The princes of Zoan have become fools, the princes of Memphis have become haughty and have deceived Egypt, even the foundation of her families. 14 The LORD has mingled a spirit of deceit within her; and it has caused the Egyptian to err in all his works, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit. 15 Neither shall there be any leader for the Egyptians who can make head or tail of it, or tail or head. 16 On that day the Egyptian shall be like a woman, and he shall be afraid and tremble because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shakes against him. 17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror to the Egyptian; every one who makes mention of it shall be filled with dread because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts which he has determined against the Egyptian."

"18 ¶ In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt which speak the language of Canaan and swear by the LORD of hosts; one of them shall be called Haris, the city of destruction. 19 On that day there shall be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at its border to the LORD. 20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry to the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour and a judge, and he shall deliver them. 21 And the LORD shall be known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall offer sacrifices and oblations; yea, they shall vow a vow to the LORD and perform it. 22 And the LORD shall smite the Egyptians; he shall smite and heal them; and they shall return to the LORD, and he shall answer them and shall heal them. 23 In that day there shall be a highway from Egypt to Assyria and from Assyria to Egypt, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve the Assyrians. 24 In that day Israel shall be the third with Egyptians and with Assyrians, even a blessing in the midst of the land, 25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people and Assyria the work of my hands and Israel my heritage."

"20:1 ¶ IN the year that Tartan came to Ashdod (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him) and fought against Ashdod and took it, 2 At that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off your loins and put off your shoes from your feet. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. 3 And the Lord said, As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot, so shall there be signs and wonders for three years upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; 4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. 5 And they shall be defeated and ashamed of Ethiopia their trust, and of Egypt their glory. 6 And the inhabitants of this isle shall say on that day, Behold, here is our trust, to whom we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?"

"21:1 ¶ THE prophecy concerning the desert of the sea. As a whirlwind from the south, sweeping through from the wilderness; so it comes from a far off land. 2 A grievous vision is declared to me: the oppressor oppresses, and the plunderer plunders. Go up, O Elam, and the mountains of Media; all the sighing thereof I have made to cease. 3 Therefore my loins are filled with pain; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail; I was dismayed so that I could not hear, I was terrified so that I could not see. 4 My heart failed, pangs made me quake; the beauty of my pleasures has been turned into terror to me. 5 Prepare the tables, watch in the watchtowers, eat, drink; arise, O princes, and anoint the shields. 6 For thus has the LORD said to me: Go, set a watchman, that he may declare what he sees. 7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a rider on an ass and a rider on a camel; and he hearkened diligently with much heed; 8 Then the watchman cried into my ears, saying, I the LORD stand continually in the daytime, and I stand upon my watchtower every night. 9 And, behold, there came a man from the pair of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods are broken to the ground. 10 There is no one to reap and no one to thresh; that which I have heard of the LORD God of Israel, I have declared to you."

"11 ¶ The prophecy concerning Dumah. He called to me from Seir. Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? 12 The watchman says, The morning comes, and also the night; if you will inquire, inquire; you will come back again."

"13 ¶ The prophecy concerning Arabia. In the evening you shall lodge in the forest, in the highway of Dornim. 14 Meet the thirsty, bring water, O you inhabitants of the land of the south! Meet those who are fleeing with your bread. 15 For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword and from the bent bow and from the grievousness of war. 16 For thus has the LORD said to me: Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail; 17 And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished; for the LORD God of Israel has spoken it."

"22:1 ¶ THE prophecy concerning the valley of vision. What do you see here, that you are all gone up to the housetops? 2 The city is full of tumult, the mighty city is full of noise; your slain men are not slain with the sword nor dead in battle. 3 All your princes are fled together, they are surrounded by the archers; all that were found in you are bound together; they have fled to far off places. 4 Therefore said I, Leave me alone, I will weep bitterly; trouble not yourself to comfort me, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people. 5 For it is a day of trouble and of treading down and of weeping before the LORD God of hosts in the valley of vision; they have surveyed the walls, and shouted upon the mountains. 6 And Elam bore the quiver with the chariots of men and horsemen, and the shields were seen on the wall. 7 And it shall come to pass that your choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gates."

"8 ¶ And the defenses of Judah shall be laid bare, and you shall see on that day the armour of the house of the forest. 9 You have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many; and you have gathered together the waters of the lower pool. 10 And you have supplied the houses of Jerusalem with water, and you have broken down the houses to fortify the walls. 11 And you made ditches between the two walls for the water of the old pool; but you have not looked to the maker thereof, neither had respect to him who fashioned it long ago. 12 And in that day the LORD God of hosts called to weeping and to mourning and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth; 13 And behold joy and gladness, slaughtering oxen and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine; let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die. 14 And it was revealed in my ears by the LORD of hosts, saying, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till you die, says the LORD God of hosts."

"15 ¶ Thus says the LORD God of hosts: Go, get to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him, 16 What do you here? And what have you here, that you have hewn a tomb for yourself, as he who hews for himself a tomb on high and carves a habitation for himself in a rock? 17 Behold, O man, the LORD will surely cast you away, and will surely forsake you. 18 And he shall afflict you like the affliction of a company of soldiers besieged in a fortress from which there is no escape; there shall you die, and there the chariots of your glory shall be the shame of your master’s house. 19 And I will take away your glory, and will cast you down from your position. 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD, I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah; 21 And I will clothe him with your robe and will gird him with your girdle, and I will commit your government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. 22 And I will place upon his shoulder the keys of the house of David; so he shall open and none shall shut, and he shall shut and none shall open. 23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house. 24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, both the honorable men and the glorious men, and all small vessels, from instruments of music to the harp. 25 In that day, says the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in a sure place be removed and be overthrown and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be destroyed; for the LORD has spoken it."

"23:1 ¶ THE prophecy concerning the fall of Tyre. Howl, O ships of Tarshish! for he who brings merchandise is plundered; from the land of China the news has been revealed to us. 2 Be still, O inhabitants of the islands, the merchants of Zidon that passed over the sea. 3 Your commerce is on many waters, O offspring of merchants; the harvest of the river is her revenue, and she is a mart of nations. 4 Be ashamed, O Zidon; for the sea has spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I have neither been in travail nor have I given birth to children, neither have I reared young men nor brought up virgins. 5 When the news reaches Egypt, they will be in pain over the report of Tyre. 6 Pass over to Tarshish; howl, O you inhabitants of the islands. 7 Is this your mighty city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? Her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. 8 Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth? 9 The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to bring to an end the glory of every mighty man and to bring into dishonor all the honorable men of the earth. 10 Pass through your land like a river, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no one to drive you away. 11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms; the LORD has given a commandment against Canaan to destroy its mighty men. 12 And he said, You shall no more become mighty, O you oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon; arise, pass over to China; there also you shall have no rest. 13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this is the people, and not the Assyrians, who destroyed it; they appointed spies who spied on her palaces, and they brought it to ruin. 14 Howl, O ships of Tarshish; for your stronghold is plundered."

"15 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day that Tyre shall be forgotten for seventy years, according to the days of one king; after the end of seventy years they shall sing to Tyre a harlot’s song. 16 Take a harp, go about the city, O you harlot that has been forgotten; play sweet melodies, sing many songs, that you may be remembered. 17 And it shall come to pass at the end of seventy years that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her traffic and commit fornications with all the kingdoms that are upon the face of the earth. 18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be sanctified to the LORD; it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat abundantly, and replace their old garments with new ones."

"24:1 ¶ BEHOLD, the LORD shall destroy the earth and lay it waste and turn it upside down and scatter its inhabitants. 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor. 3 The land shall be utterly destroyed and utterly spoiled; for the LORD has spoken this word. 4 The earth howls and sits in mourning, the world wails and sits in mourning, the haughty people of the earth lament. 5 The earth also is defiled like its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the law, changed the ordinance, and nullified the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore the earth shall sit in mourning, and all its inhabitants shall be condemned; therefore all the inhabitants of the earth shall be destroyed, and a few men shall be left. 7 The grain mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh. 8 The mirth of the timbrels has ceased, the noise of those that rejoice has ended, the joy of the harp is over. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it. 10 The city is plundered, every wine cellar is shut up, so that no one may come in. 11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy has ended, the mirth of the land is gone. 12 The city is left in desolation, and its gates are broken with destruction."

"13 ¶ For thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the peoples, it shall be as the shaking of an olive tree and as the gleaning of grapes when the vintage is done. 14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea. 15 Therefore glorify the LORD with a song, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the islands of the sea."

"16 ¶ From the uttermost parts of the earth we have heard songs, even the glory of the righteous, saying, It is a mystery to me. it is a mystery to me, woe to me, the wicked have dealt treacherously, yea, the wicked have dealt very treacherously. 17 Fear and the pit and the snare are upon you, O inhabitants of the earth. 18 And it shall come to pass that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be caught in the snare; for the fountains from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake. 19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is utterly moved, the earth is staggering exceedingly. 20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard and shall be shaken like a booth, and its transgression shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall and not rise again. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day that the LORD shall punish the host of the lofty ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. 22 And they shall be gathered together as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days they shall be saved. 23 Then the moon shall be confounded and the sun ashamed, for the LORD of hosts shall reign on mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and will be glorified in the presence of his saints."

"25:1 ¶ O LORD, thou art my God; I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, and given faithful counsel from afar, amen. 2 For thou hast reduced a city to a heap, the fortified city to a ruin; the palace of the strangers and the city are never to be built again. 3 Therefore many peoples shall praise thee, the city of the mighty nations shall worship thee. 4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a helper to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat; for the blast of the mighty ones is as a storm against the wall. 5 Thou shalt blot out the pride of aliens as the shadow at noonday, and as the heat is blotted out by the shade of a cloud; thus the branch of the mighty ones shall be humbled."

"6 ¶ And on this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make for all peoples a lavish feast, a feast of old and rich wines, from the things that belong to our heavenly Saviour and the Mighty One. 7 And he will destroy on this mountain the prestige of the ruler who ruled over all the peoples, because of the slaughter which was made among all the peoples. 8 He will swallow up death in victory for ever; and the LORD God of hosts will wipe away the tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people he shall take away from off all the earth; for the LORD has spoken it."

"9 ¶ And it shall be said on that day, Lo, this is the LORD our God; we have waited for him, and he shall save us; this is the LORD our God, we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. 10 For on this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down with the threshing sled. 11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as a swimmer spreads forth his hands to swim; and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their bands. 12 And the fortress of treason of your rebellious men and your strong walls he shall tear down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust."

"26:1 ¶ IN that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: O city whose salvation has prevailed, build the walls and the bulwarks; 2 Open the gates, that the righteous peoples who keep faith and that the truth may enter in. 3 Thou wilt keep us in perfect peace, for in thee we have trusted, O LORD, for ever and ever. 4 For the LORD God is an everlasting strength;"

"5 ¶ He brings down those that dwell on high; the lofty city, he shall lay it low, even to the ground; he brings it even to the dust. 6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy. 7 The way of the humble is straight; the path of the righteous is straight and level. 8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is for thy name, and to remembrance of thee. 9 My soul has desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early; for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. 10 The wicked has gone far off that he may not learn righteousness; chastisement in the land brings correction; the wicked shall not behold the majesty of the LORD. 11 O LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see; but they shall see and be ashamed for the zeal of the people; yea, let the fire of the oven devour thine enemies."

"12 ¶ O LORD, thou wilt give us peace; for thou also hast wrought all our works for us. 13 O LORD our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us; but thy name alone will we mention; 14 For they do not raise the dead, they do not raise the mighty men; therefore thou hast visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. 15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation; thou hast removed it afar and scattered it to all the ends of the earth. 16 O LORD, in distress have they sought thee, and in siege they muttered the incantation invoking thy discipline. 17 Like a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, and is in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD. 18 We have been with child, we have been in pain like those who brought forth wind; save us lest we perish in the earth, lest the inhabitants of the world come to an end. 19 Thy dead men shall live, their dead bodies shall arise. Those who dwell in the dust shall awake and sing, for thy dew is a dew of light, and the land of the giants thou shalt overthrow."

"20 ¶ Come, my people, enter into your chambers and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves as it were for a little time, until my indignation has passed away. 21 For, behold, the LORD is coming out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; and the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain."

"27:1 ¶ IN that day the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword shall punish Leviathan, the piercing serpent, even Leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. 2 In that day sing to Israel of a vineyard of wine. 3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it continually; I will visit it and keep it night and day. 4 You have no hedge; who then did set in you the briers and the thorns? I will blow at the vineyard from near and will burn it together. 5 Or let Israel take hold of my strength, and I will make peace for him, peace will I give him. 6 He shall cause those that come of Jacob to take root; Israel shall blossom and bud and fill the face of the world with fruit."

"7 ¶ Has the LORD smitten the oppressor as he smote those who smote him? Or is he slain according to the slaughter of those who are slain by him? 8 In measure by which he has measured, will you judge him; in that which he has devised, in fierce anger on a day of blasting heat. 9 By this, therefore, shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven; and with all this fruit his sin will be taken away; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk-stones that are broken in pieces; likewise, the images and idols shall not stand up. 10 For the strong city shall be forlorn and deserted and forsaken and left desolate like a wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down and consume its grass. 11 When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off; the women come and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding; therefore he who made them will not have mercy on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor. 12 And it shall come to pass in that day that the LORD shall stir up the people from the channel of the river Euphrates to the river of Egypt, and you shall be gathered one to another, O children of Israel! 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, the great trumpet shall be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Egypt and those who were scattered in the land of Assyria shall come in and worship the LORD in the land of the LORD, even on his holy mountain in Jerusalem."

"28:1 ¶ WOE to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, and woe to the shameful diadem of the strength of his glory, which dominates at the entrance of the fertile valley of those that are overcome with wine! 2 Behold, the strength and the might of the LORD are like a storm of hail and like a destroying whirlwind, and as a flood of mighty waters overflowing; I will give rest to this land by your hands: 3 The crown of the proud and of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot; 4 And the shameful garland of the strength of his glory, which dominates at the entrance of the fertile valley, shall be as the firstfruits before the summer, which he who sees it picks up at once and devours. 5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory and for a diadem of beauty to the remnant of his people, 6 And for a spirit of justice to him that sits in judgment, and for strength to those who turn away the battle from the gate. 7 But these also have erred with wine, and with strong drink are gone astray; the priests and the prophets have erred with strong drink, they are overcome with wine, they stagger with strong drink, they err in judgment with drunkenness, they eat immoderately. 8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean."

"9 ¶ To whom shall he teach knowledge? And whom shall he make to understand the report? Those who are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breasts. 10 For filth is upon filth, filth upon filth; vomit upon vomit, vomit upon vomit; a little here, a little there; 11 For with a difficult speech and with an alien tongue will he speak to this people. 12 For I have said to them, This is the place of my rest, wherewith I may cause the weary to rest; and this is the place of tranquillity; but they would not listen. 13 So the word of the LORD was to them filth upon filth, filth upon filth, vomit upon vomit, vomit upon vomit; a little here, a little there; that they might return and fall backward and be broken and snared and taken."

"14 ¶ Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O you scornful men, who rule this people that is in Jerusalem: 15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have made an agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come to us; for we have placed our hope in lies, and under falsehood we have hid ourselves; 16 Therefore thus says the LORD God: Behold, I lay in Zion a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation; he who believes shall not be afraid. 17 And I will make justice to the measuring line, and righteousness to the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. 18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it. 19 From the time that it passes through, it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night; and it shall be a terror only to understand the report. 20 For the cloth is too short, and the warp grows weak and is insufficient for a garment. 21 For the LORD shall rise up as in a mountain pass, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his works, his strange works, and bring to pass his acts, his strange acts. 22 Now therefore do not mock, lest your chastisement be severe; for I have heard from the LORD of hosts that he will bring destruction and judgment upon the whole earth."

"23 ¶ Give ear and hear my voice; hearken and hear my speech. 24 Does the plowman plow all day to sow? Does he open and harrow his ground? 25 Does he not, after he has leveled its surface, scatter the dill and sow cummin, and put in wheat and barley, and rye in its borders? 26 For his God does instruct him to discretion, and does teach him. 27 For dill is not threshed under the feet of oxen, nor is a threshing instrument turned about upon cummin, but dill is beaten out with a staff, and cummin with a rod. 28 Grain is threshed for our sakes because man would not otherwise be threshing it, nor break it with many wheels of his threshing instruments, nor crush it under the feet of his oxen. 29 This also comes forth from the LORD of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in instruction."

"29:1 ¶ WOE to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! Add year to year; let them keep festivals. 2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and lamentations; and it shall be to me as Ariel. 3 And I will encamp against you round about, and I will lay a siege against you with ramparts, and I will raise forts against you. 4 And you shall be brought down, and shall speak from the earth, and your words shall be low out of the dust, and your voice shall be heard from the ground like that of a diviner, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust. 5 Moreover the multitude of your oppressors shall be like fine dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as the chaff that passes away; yea, it shall be in an instant, suddenly. 6 You shall be visited by the LORD of hosts with earthquakes, thunder, and great noise, with storm and tempest and the flame of devouring fire. 7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Zion, even all the armies and multitudes that distress her, shall be as a vision in the night. 8 And it shall even be as when a hungry man dreams that he is eating, and when he awakes he is weary and famished; or as when a thirsty man dreams that he is drinking, but when he awakes, he is faint, with his thirst not quenched; so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against mount Zion."

"9 ¶ They are dumbfounded and amazed; they are troubled and stagger; they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For the LORD has poured out upon them a spirit of deep sleep, and it has closed their eyes, and also the eyes of the prophets and rulers, and the seers, who see the hidden things. 11 And the vision of all is become to them as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is learned, saying, Read this, and he says, I cannot; for it is sealed: 12 And the book is given to him who is not learned, saying, Read this, and he says, I am not learned. 13 Therefore the LORD said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their reverence toward me is taught by the precepts and doctrine of men; 14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to set apart this people by a great wonder, and in a marvelous manner, and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be taken away. 15 Woe to them who act perversely to hide their counsel from the LORD; and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? And, Who knows what we do corruptly? 16 Surely you are esteemed as the potter’s clay; for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? Or shall the thing formed say of him that formed it, He has not fashioned me wisely?"

"17 ¶ Behold, a little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be reared as a forest. 18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of darkness and obscurity. 19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the needy shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. 20 For the oppressor is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that incite to iniquity are cut off, 21 Those who cause men to sin by the word, and lay a snare for him that reproves, and turn aside the righteous into darkness. 22 Therefore thus says the LORD, who saved Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now grow pale. 23 But when his children see the work of my hands in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob and shall glorify the God of Israel. 24 The foolish ones also whose spirit erred shall come to understanding, and fools shall learn to be obedient."

"30:1 ¶ WOE to the rebellious children, says the LORD, who take counsel, but not of me; and who offer wine offerings, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin; 2 Who start to go down to Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth, to strengthen themselves by the strength of Pharaoh, and to take shelter in the shadow of Egypt! 3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be to your shame, and the shelter of the shadow of Egypt to your confusion. 4 For while Pharaoh is in Zoan, his princes and ambassadors shall act deceitfully. 5 They go to a people that cannot profit them, neither be a help nor a profit, but shame and reproach. 6 The prophecy concerning the oppressors of the south: Into a land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lion and the young lion, the viper and the fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the backs of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them. 7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain and in falsehood; therefore I have warned them, for this their trust is in vain."

"8 ¶ Now come, write it on these tablets and on the book of their covenant, that it may be for the time to come, for a testimony for ever and ever; 9 For this is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the LORD; 10 Who have said to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not to us reproof; speak to us deception, prophesy lies; 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. 12 Therefore thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel: Because you have despised this word and trusted in oppression and have complained and yet trusted in it; 13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall and as a high wall whose breaking comes suddenly at an instant. 14 And its breaking is as the breaking of the potter’s vessel that is broken in pieces, without pity; so that there shall not be found in its fragments a shard to take fire from the hearth or to take water with it out of the cistern. 15 Therefore thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel: When you will repent and rest you will be saved; in quietness and in hope shall be your strength; but you would not listen. 16 But you said, Not so, for we will ride upon horses, and will flee upon swift ones; therefore you shall flee, and your pursuers shall be swift. 17 A thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall you flee till you are left as a beacon on the top of a mountain and as an ensign on a hill."

"18 ¶ Therefore the LORD will begin to be gracious to you, and therefore he will be exalted that he may have mercy upon you; for the LORD is a God of judgment; blessed are all those who wait for him. 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; you shall weep no more; he will be very gracious to you at the voice of your cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer you. 20 And though the LORD give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet he will not gather any more those who have caused you to err, and your eyes shall see the misfortune of those who have caused you to err; 21 And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk in it, and do not turn aside, either to the right hand or to the left. 22 And you shall defile the silver which is overlaid on your idols, and the ornament of your molten images of gold; you shall cast them away like unclean water of a menstrous woman; and you shall take them outside like rubbish. 23 Then he shall give rain to your seed, with which you shall sow the ground; and grain of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fertile and plentiful; on that day shall your cattle graze in rich pastures. 24 The oxen and the young bullocks that till the ground shall eat clean provender which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. 25 And there shall be upon every high mountain and upon every high hill, flowing streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter when the towers fall. 26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD binds up the breach of his people and heals the pain of their wound."

"27 ¶ Behold, the name of the LORD comes from afar, his wrath burns and his train is glorious; his lips are full of indignation and his tongue as a devouring fire; 28 And his breath as an overflowing torrent shall reach up to the neck to confuse the nations because of their erring vanity, and because of the bridle which is in the jaws of the nations, which causes them to err. 29 You shall have a song, even a garland which is sanctified in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one walks rejoicing to come to the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel. 30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall show the striking of his arm with the indignation of his anger and with the flame of a devouring fire, with the rainstorm and tempest and hailstones. 31 For from before the excellency of the LORD shall the Assyrian be defeated and smitten with a rod. 32 And in all his works, the staff of affliction which the LORD shall lay upon him shall be with tabrets and harps; and with a fierce battle he shall fight against him. 33 For he has prepared his punishment of old; yea, it is prepared to be executed; he has made it deep and large in his dwelling place; the wood and the fire are plentiful; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, does kindle it."

"31:1 ¶ WOE to those who go down to Egypt for help and trust in horses and rely on chariots because they are many, and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they do not trust in the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD! 2 Yet in his wisdom, he will bring a calamity, and will not alter his words; but will arise against the house of evildoers and against the help of those who work iniquity. 3 Now the Egyptians are men and not God; and their horses are flesh and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both the helper shall be overthrown, and he that is helped shall fall down, and they all shall be annihilated together. 4 For thus has the LORD spoken to me: As the lion, even the young lion, roars over his prey when a multitude of shepherds shout against him, is not afraid of their voice nor terrified by their multitude; so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion and for the hill thereof. 5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts alight on Jerusalem; he shall alight to deliver, rescue, and help."

"6 ¶ Repent, O children of Israel, for you have made your punishment severe. 7 For in that day every man shall despise the idols of gold and the idols of silver which your own hands have made for yourselves for a sin. 8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not with the sword of men; neither the sword of mighty men shall devour him; but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited. 9 And he shall dwell in his rocky habitation, and his princes shall be defeated from before the standard, says the LORD, whose fire is in Zion and his furnace in Jerusalem."

"32:1 ¶ BEHOLD, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice. 2 And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind and as a shelter from the tempest; as streams of waters in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. 3 And the eyes of those who see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who hear shall hearken. 4 The heart of the imprudent shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of stammerers shall hasten to speak plainly. 5 The fool shall be no more called ruler, nor shall the vain man be called a saviour. 6 For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy and to utter error, to make empty the soul of the hungry and to deprive the thirsty of drink. 7 The instruments of the vain person are evil; he devises wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the testimony of the needy is right. 8 But a great person devises great things, and on his greatness shall he stand."

"9 ¶ Rise up, O you rich women; hear my voice, O you daughters that publish glad tidings, give ear to my speech. 10 The days of the year shall be angry against those who publish glad tidings, for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. 11 Tremble, O you rich women; be troubled, O you who publish glad tidings; strip, and make yourselves bare and gird sackcloth upon your loins. 12 Mourn and beat upon your breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. 13 Upon the land of my people shall grow up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of mirth in the mighty city; 14 Because the palace is forsaken; the multitude of the city is deserted; and the beautiful houses have become dens for ever, thorns, and a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; 15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest. 16 Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. 17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for ever. 18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceful habitation and in sure tabernacles and in a resting place of hope. 19 And hail shall come down on the forest, and the city shall be made low like a plain. 20 Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, the place which is trodden under the feet of the ox and the ass."

"33:1 ¶ WOE to you that plunder, but you shall not plunder, and let no one deal treacherously among you; for when you seek to plunder, they will plunder you; and when you seek to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with you. 2 O LORD, be gracious to us; for in thee is our trust; be thou our helper every morning, our salvation also in the time of distress. 3 At the noise of thy tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered. 4 Henceforth your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar; as a swarm of locusts when it is gathered together. 5 The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he has filled Zion with justice and righteousness. 6 And faith shall be the stability of your times, and your salvation in a place of refuge; wisdom and knowledge and the reverence of the LORD is his treasure. 7 If he should be seen by them they shall howl violently; the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly. 8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases, and the covenant is broken; the cities are despised, and there is no regard for man. 9 The earth mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and confounded; Sharon has become like a desert plain; and Bashan and Carmel are desolate. 10 Now I will arise, says the LORD; now I will be exalted; now I will lift up myself. 11 You shall conceive thorns, you shall bring forth stubble; your breath, as fire, shall devour you. 12 And the peoples shall be as the burning of lime; as thorns that are gathered together shall they be burned in the fire."

"13 ¶ Hear, you who are far off, what I have clone; and you who are near, acknowledge my might. 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the heathen. Who among us shall dwell with devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? 15 He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly; he who despises treachery and oppression, who refuses to accept a bribe, who stops his ears that he may not hear of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes that he may not see evil. 16 He shall dwell on high; his place of defense shall be the precipice of rocks; his bread shall be given him; his water shall be sure. 17 Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty; they shall behold the lands that are far off. 18 Your heart shall learn reverence. Where is the scribe? Where is the weigher? Where is he who counted towers for a mighty people? 19 You shall not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech, of a stammering tongue, so that he cannot be understood. 20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities; your eyes shall see Jerusalem a rich habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be shaken to and fro; whose pegs shall never be removed, neither shall any of its cords be broken. 21 For there the name of the LORD is glorious to us; he will be for us a place of light, an enlightenment, and an open space made by the hand; wherein the authority of a prince shall not reign, neither shall the mighty one be able to invade it. 22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; and he is our Saviour. 23 Your riggings are loosed; they could not well hold straight their mast, they could not spread the sail; until they have divided the prey, a multitude of lame shall take it. 24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick; the people who dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity."

"34:1 ¶ COME near, O you peoples, to hear; and hearken, O you nations; let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all that dwell in it. 2 For the indignation of the LORD is against all the nations, and his fury against all their armies, that he may destroy them and deliver them to the slaughter. 3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stink of their corpses shall come up, and the mountains shall be drenched with their blood. 4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falls from off the vine and as a falling of premature figs from the fig tree. 5 For my sword shall be sharpened in heaven; behold, it shall come down upon the Edomites and upon a people that is condemned in judgment. 6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with the blood, and with the fatness of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. 7 And unicorns shall fall with them, and bullocks with the bulls; and the land shall be soaked with their blood, and the soil enriched with their fatness. 8 For it is the day of the LORD’S vengeance and the year of recompense for the cause of Zion,"

"9 ¶ And its streams shall be turned into pitch and its soil into brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch. 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; its smoke shall go up for ever; and it shall lie waste from generation to generation; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. 11 But pelicans and owls shall possess it; ravens and ostriches shall dwell in it; and he shall stretch out upon it the measuring line of the sword, and there shall be no joy in it. 12 They shall no more call it a kingdom there, and all her princes shall perish. 13 And thorns shall sprout up in her palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of dragons and a pasture for ostriches. 14 And insane men shall meet in it, and demoniacs shall cry out one to another; there has the screech owl perched and found for herself a place of rest. 15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay and hatch and gather under her shadow; there shall vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate. 16 Seek out the book of the LORD, and read; no one of these shall fail, none sought for her mate; but he with his own mouth has commanded, and his spirit it has gathered them. 17 And he has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them by the measuring line; they shall possess it for ever; from generation to generation they shall dwell in it."

"35:1 ¶ THE parched wilderness shall be glad, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus. 2 It shall rejoice like a mountain goat; the glory and honor of Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon; they shall see the glory of the LORD and the excellency of our God, an admonition and comfort for the weak, for a Saviour is coming to save them. 3 Strengthen the weak hands and make firm the feeble knees. 4 Say to those who are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not; behold, your God the avenger is coming, even God the Saviour is coming to save you."

"5 ¶ Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 6 Then shall the lame man leap as a hart and the tongue of the dumb shall be loosed; for waters are bursting forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert. 7 And the desolate land shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water; in the habitation of dragons shall grow grass with reeds and rushes. 8 And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; and there shall be no road beside it; fools shall not err therein. 9 No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast go up on it; they shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk therein; 10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away."

"36:1 ¶ NOW it came to pass in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. 2 Then the king of Assyria sent the Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the ascent of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the palace’s field. 3 And there went out to him Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was steward of the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder. 4 And the Rab-shakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: What source of confidence is this wherein you trust? 5 Saying, I am an eloquent speaker, and have counsel and strength for war; now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? 6 Behold, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, in the Egyptian; on which, when a man lean, it will go into his hand and pierce it; so is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who trust in him. 7 But if you say to me, We trust in the LORD our God; what has Hezekiah gained, in removing the shrines on the high places, and the altars, and in saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, You shall worship before one altar? 8 Now therefore make an alliance with my lord, king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you have riders to set upon them. 9 How then can you turn away the face of one of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust in the Egyptian to give you chariots and horsemen? 10 And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it."

"11 ¶ Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rab-shakeh, Speak to your servants in the Aramaic language; for we understand it; and do not speak to us in the Jews’ language, in the presence of the people who are standing on the wall. 12 But the Rab-shakeh said to them, My master has not sent me to you and to your master to speak these words, but to the men who sit on the wall, that they may not eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you. 13 Then the Rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language and said, Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria. 14 Thus says the king: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you; for he shall not be able to deliver you. 15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us; this city shall not be delivered into the hands of the king of Assyria. 16 Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: Do me a favor, and come out to me; and eat every one of his vines and every one of his fig tree and drink every one the waters of his own cistern; 17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and oil, a land of olive orchards and vineyards. 18 Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? Where are the gods of Sepharvim? And have they delivered Samaria out of my hands? 20 Who is he among all the gods of these lands that has delivered his land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? 21 But they held their peace and answered him not a word; for the king had commanded, saying, Do not answer him. 22 Then Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was steward of the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of the Rab-shakeh."

"37:1 ¶ AND it came to pass, when King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the LORD. 2 And he sent Eliakim, who was steward of the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah, the prophet, the son of Amoz. 3 And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah: This is a day of distress and of rebuke and of anger; for the children have come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. 4 It may be the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove him on account of the words which the LORD your God has heard; wherefore beseech and pray for the remnant that is left. 5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6 And Isaiah said to them, Thus shall you say to your master: Thus says the LORD: Be not afraid of the words that you have heard, wherewith the messengers of the king of Assyria have blasphemed in my presence. 7 Behold, I will send a blast against him, and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land."

"8 ¶ So the Rab-shakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. 9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He has come forth to fight with you. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10 Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you, saying, Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hands of the king of Assyria. 11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shall you be delivered? 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, even Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, the inhabitants of Eden, and them of Bedlassar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath and the king of Arphad and the king of the city of Sepharvim and of Dena and of Aka? 14 And Hezekiah received the letters from the hand of the messengers and read them; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD and spread them before the LORD. 15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, saying, 16 O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, who sittest above the cherubim, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth. 17 Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he hath sent to reproach the living God. 18 Of a truth, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands; 19 And have burned their lands and their gods with fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, of wood, of silver, and of stone; therefore they have destroyed them. 20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hands, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the God, even thou only."

"21 ¶ Then Isaiah, the prophet, the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: All that you have prayed before me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria have I heard; 22 This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him: The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you and laughs you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem wags her head at you. 23 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel! 24 By the hand of your messengers you have reproached the LORD, and you have said, By the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof; and I will enter into the height of its border, to the forest of Carmel. 25 I will dig, and drink water; and with the hoofs of my horses will I dry up all the great rivers. 26 Have you not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of the days of old, that I have prepared it? Now I have brought it to pass, that you should be laid waste and desolate as when fortified cities are in ruin, 27 Whose inhabitants were weak, and were defeated and confounded, and became like the grass of the field and the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, as tender blades of wheat blasted before it is grown up. 28 I know your conduct and your going out and your coming in and your daring threat in my presence. 29 Because you have dared in my presence and your blasphemous words have come up into my ears, therefore I will put a hook in your nose and a bit between your lips, and I will cause you to return by the way by which you came. 30 And this shall be a sign for you: You shall eat this year such as grows of itself; and the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year you shall sow and reap and plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 31 And the remnant that survives of the house of Judah shall again return, and shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward; 32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion; the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this. 33 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not enter this city nor shoot an arrow there nor come before it with shields nor cast siege-works against it. 34 But by the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not enter this city, says the LORD. 35 For I will defend this city and save it for my own sake and for my servant David’s sake. 36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth and smote in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand: and when the soldiers arose early in the morning, behold, their comrades were all dead. 37 So Sennacherib departed and went and returned and dwelt at Nineveh. 38 And it came to pass as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god that Adrammeleck and Sharezar, his sons, slew him with the sword; and they escaped to the land of Kardo, and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead."

"38:1 ¶ IN those days Hezekiah became deathly sick, and Isaiah, the prophet, the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, Thus says the LORD: Set your house in order; for you shall die, and not live. 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying, 3 Remember now, O LORD, 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 bitterly. 4 Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying, 5 Go and say to Hezekiah, king of Judah, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add fifteen years to your days. 6 And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city. 7 And this shall be a sign to you from the LORD that the LORD will do this thing that he has spoken: 8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down on the sundial of Ahaz your father, ten degrees backward. So the shadow of the sun returned the ten degrees by which it had gone down."

"9 ¶ The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and was recovered of his sickness: 10 I said, In the midst of my days I shall die, at the gates of Sheol I am deprived of the rest of my years. 11 I said, I shall not see the LORD in the land of the living; I shall behold man no more among the inhabitants of the world. 12 My age is departed and removed from me as a shepherd’s tent; my life has shrunk like a shoelace and as a weaver’s web which is nearly ready to be cut off; from morning even to night thou hast delivered me to my fate. 13 Like a swallow twittering, so did I chatter; I did mourn like a dove; I have lifted my eyes on high; O LORD, deliver me and comfort me. 14 What shall I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it, and has caused my sleep to flee because of the bitterness of my soul; 15 When the LORD is against men, shall they live? But because of the life of my spirit, heal me and make me to live. 16 Behold, it was for peace that I had great bitterness; but thou hast been pleased with my soul, that it may not waste in corruption; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. 17 For Sheol cannot thank thee, death cannot praise thee; those that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. 18 But the living shall give thanks to thee, as I do this day; the father to the children shall make known thy truth. 19 The LORD shall save us; therefore we will sing his songs all the days of our life in the house of the LORD. 20 And Hezekiah said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD? 21 And Isaiah said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it as a plaster upon the boil and he shall recover, 22 "

"39:1 ¶ AT that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and presents to Hezekiah; for he had heard that he had been sick and was healed. 2 And Hezekiah was glad to receive them, and showed them his treasure house, the silver and the gold and the spices and the precious ointment 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 did not show them. 3 Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him. What did these men say to you? And from whence did they come to you? And Hezekiah said, They have come from a far country to me, even from Babylon. 4 Then said he, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah answered, They have seen all the things that are in my house; I have left nothing in my house that I have not showed them."

"5 ¶ Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hosts: 6 Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left, says the LORD. 7 And some of your sons that shall issue from you, whom you shall beget, they shall take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. 8 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which you have spoken. For there shall be peace and truth in my days."

"40:1 ¶ COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, says your God. 2 Speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry to her, for she was filled with violence and delighted in sin; and she has received from the LORD’S hand double punishment for all her sins."

"3 ¶ The voice of him that cries in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the steep place shall be made straight, and the rough places smooth; 5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it. 6 The voice says, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field; 7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely this people is like the grass. 8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand for ever."

"9 ¶ O Zion, that brings good tidings, get you up upon the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that brings good tidings, lift up your voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say to the cities of Judah, Behold your God! 10 Behold, the LORD God will come with might, and his arm with strength; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. 11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd; he shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom, and shall feed again those who give suck."

"12 ¶ Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and meted out heaven with a span and gathered the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance? 13 Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD or who has been to him a counsellor? 14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him and made him to understand the path of justice and taught him knowledge and showed him the way of understanding? 15 Behold, the nations are like a drop out of a bucket, and are counted as the dipping of the balance; behold, the isles shall be cast away like fine dust. 16 And Lebanon is not sufficient for the fuel, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. 17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him for destruction and the sword."

"18 ¶ To whom then will you liken God? Or to what likeness will you compare him? 19 Is he an image which the carpenter has made and the goldsmith has overlaid with gold and fastened with silver chains? 20 He selects wood that is not worm-eaten; then chooses a carpenter, who fashions it with his skill, to make an image that will not be moved. 21 Have you not heard? Have you not known? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 It is he who sits upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens as a curtain and spreads them as a tent to dwell in; 23 Who brings princes to nought; and makes the judges of the earth as if they were nothing. 24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown; yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth; and he shall blow upon them and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. 25 To whom then will you liken me, or to whom shall I be equal? says the Holy One. 26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold: who has created these things? Who brings out their host by number; he called them all by name, by the greatness of his glory and the strength of his power; not one is missing."

"27 ¶ Why do you say, O Jacob, and say, O Israel, My way is hidden from the LORD and justice is not rendered by my God? 28 Have you not known, have you not heard, that God is the LORD for ever, who has created the ends of the earth? that he does not faint, neither is weary? and that there is no searching of his understanding? 29 He gives power to the weary, and to them that are stricken with disease he increases strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall helplessly stumble; 31 But they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall grow wings as a dove; they shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint."

"41:1 ¶ KEEP silence, O you islands; and let the people renew their strength; let them come near; then let them speak; let them come near together to judgment. 2 Who has stirred up the righteous one from the east, and hastened him on? The nations shall surrender before him, and kings shall be confounded. He gave them as the dust to his sword and as driven stubble to his bow. 3 He shall pursue them, then make peace; and he shall not pass that way on foot. 4 Who has prepared and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first and the last; I am he. 5 The islands saw it, and were afraid; and the ends of the earth were afraid, and they drew near and came. 6 They helped every one his neighbor; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage. 7 The carpenter encourages the goldsmith, and he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying, It is ready for the soldering; and they fasten it with nails, that it should not be moved. 8 But now, Israel, you are my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the descendants of Abraham my friend, whom I have strengthened. 9 I have called you from the ends of the earth and from among the prophets, and said to you, You are my servant; I have chosen you, and have not rejected you;"

"10 ¶ Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I have strengthened you, and have also helped you, yea, I will also uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness. 11 All those that reproach you shall be ashamed and confounded; they shall be as nothing; and those who strive with you shall perish. 12 You shall seek them that strive with you, but you shall not find them; they that war against you shall be as if they were nothing. 13 For I am the LORD your God, the strengthener of your right hand. I have said to you, Fear not; I am your helper. 14 Fear not, O you helpless men of Jacob, O you remnant of Israel! I am your helper, says the LORD, and your Saviour, the Holy One of Israel. 15 Behold, I have made you as a new threshing instrument having teeth; a thing which tears and crushes to pieces; you shall thresh the mountains and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff. 16 You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and you shall rejoice in the LORD and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel. 17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is dried with thirst, I the LORD will answer them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. 18 I will open rivers in the mountains and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness pools of water, and the dry land springs of water. 19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedars, the acacia tree, the myrtle, and the olive tree; I will set in the desert the cypress and the pine and the box tree together; 20 That they may see and know and consider and understand that the hand of the LORD has done this and the Holy One of Israel has created it."

"21 ¶ Bring near your cause, says the LORD; bring near your counsels, says the King of Jacob. 22 Let them come near and show us the things that are to come; show us the former things, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare to us the things that are to come. 23 Show us the wonders that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; yea, do good, or do evil, that we may relate it and behold it together. 24 Behold, you are nothing, and your works are corrupt; choosing you is an abomination. 25 I have stirred up one from the north, and he shall come from the rising of the sun, and shall call on my name; and the princes shall come, and shall be trodden down like mortar, and as the potter treads clay. 26 Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? And beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? Yea, there is none that shows, yea, there is none that declares, yea, there is none that hears your words. 27 These things are the chief concern of Zion; behold, I will give to Jerusalem one that brings good tidings. 28 For I beheld, and there was no man who could meditate about these things, that I might ask him, and that he might give me an answer. 29 Behold, they are all nothing; their works are vanity; their images are wind and vanity."

"42:1 ¶ BEHOLD, my servant, whom I uphold, my elect in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon him; he shall bring forth justice to the Gentiles. 2 He shall not cry, nor make a sound, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. 3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and a flickering lamp he shall not extinguish; he shall truly bring forth judgment. 4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged till he has set justice in the earth; and the islands shall wait for his law."

"5 ¶ Thus says the LORD God, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread forth the earth and all that is in it, he who gives breath to the people upon it, and spirit to those who walk therein; 6 I the LORD have called you in righteousness and have held your hand and have strengthened you and have given you for a covenant to the people and for a light to the Gentiles; 7 That you may open the eyes of the blind, to release prisoners from bondage, and bring out of the prison house those who sit in darkness. 8 I am the LORD; that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. 9 Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things do I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them. 10 Sing to the LORD a new song, and his praise from the ends of the earth, you that go down to the sea and all that is therein; the islands and those who dwell in them. 11 Let the wilderness and its towns rejoice; let Kedar be meadows; let the inhabitants of the steep rocks sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. 12 Let them give glory to the LORD and declare his praise in the islands."

"13 ¶ The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up zealousness like a man of war; he shall shout and become valiant; he shall slay his enemies. 14 I have for a long time held my peace; I have kept silent, I have been patient like a woman in travail; I have remained speechless and completely confounded. 15 I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. 16 And I will lead the blind by a way that they know not; and in the paths that they have not known I will make them walk; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things have I done to them and have not forsaken them. 17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, who trust in graven images, who say to molten images, You are our gods."

"18 ¶ Hear, O you deaf! And understand and see, O you blind! 19 Who is blind but my servant? Who is deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as the ruler? and blind as the LORD’S servant? 20 I gave you counsel, but you observed it not; I opened your ears, but you heard not. 21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law and make it honorable. 22 But this is a people robbed and downtrodden; all the young men are snared, and they are hid in prison houses; they have become a prey, and there is none to deliver; and trampled upon, and there is none to restore. 23 Who among you will give ear to this? Who will hearken to the other counsel? 24 Who gave Jacob to be trod under foot and Israel for a spoil? Was it not the LORD, because we have sinned against him? For we would not walk in his ways, neither were we obedient to his law. 25 Therefore he has poured upon them the fury of his anger and the fierceness of battle; and it has set them on fire round about, yet they knew it not; and it burned them, yet they laid it not to heart."

"43:1 ¶ BUT now thus says the LORD, who created you, O Jacob, and he who formed you, O Israel: Fear not; for I have saved you, I have called you by your name because you are mine. 2 When you shall pass through the sea, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon you. 3 For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Saviour; I gave Egypt for your sake, and Ethiopia and Sheba for you. 4 Because you are precious in my sight, you have been honorable and I have loved you; therefore I have given men for your sake and nations for your life. 5 Fear not; for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, and gather you from the west; 6 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back; bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; 7 Even every one who is called by my name; for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him and I have made him."

"8 ¶ Bring forth the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears. 9 Let all the peoples be gathered together and let all the nations be assembled; who among you can declare this and show us the former things? Let them bring forth their witnesses that they may be justified; or let them hear and say, It is truth. 10 You are my witnesses, says the LORD, and my servants whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he; before me there was no God created, neither shall there be after me. 11 I, even I, am the LORD; and besides me there is no lord. 12 I have declared that I have saved, and I have proclaimed that there is no strange god among you; therefore you are my witnesses, says the LORD, that I am God. 13 Yea, from the first day I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hands; what I will do, who can stop it?"

"14 ¶ Thus says the LORD, your Saviour, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon and have brought back all the fugitives and the Chaldeans who glory in their ships. 15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King. 16 Thus says the LORD, who has made a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters; 17 Who brings forth the chariots and horses and a mighty army; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise, they are extinguished like a flickering lamp: 18 Remember not the former things, neither consider the things of old. 19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth and you shall know it. I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. 20 The beasts of the field shall glorify me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert to provide drink to my people, my chosen. 21 This people whom I have chosen for myself, they shall drink."

"22 ¶ But you have not called me, O Jacob; for I have called you, O Israel. 23 You have not brought me lambs of your burnt offerings; neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with request offerings, nor wearied you with demands for incense. 24 You have bought me no sweet cane with money, neither have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened me with your sins, you have wearied me with your iniquities. 25 I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake and will not remember your sins any more. 26 Put me in remembrance; let us plead together; that you may be justified. 27 Your first father has sinned, and your rulers have transgressed against me. 28 Your princes have profaned the sanctuary; therefore I have given Jacob to the curse and Israel to reproaches."

"44:1 ¶ NOW hearken to me, O Jacob, my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen; 2 Thus says the LORD that made you and formed you from the womb and helped you: Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and you, Israel, whom I have chosen. 3 For I will give water in a parched ground and streams on the dry land; I will pour my spirit upon your descendants and my blessings upon your offspring; 4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the running streams. 5 One shall say, I am the LORD’S; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand to the LORD and surname himself by the name of Israel. 6 Thus says the LORD the King of Israel, and his Saviour, the LORD of hosts: I am the first and I am the last; and besides me there is no God. 7 And who is like me? Let him announce it and set it in order and declare it, since I placed the people on the earth for ever. And let them show the wonders that are coming. 8 Fear not, neither be alarmed; have not I announced to you from former time, and have declared it? You are my witnesses, that there is no God besides me, and no mighty one whom I do not know."

"9 ¶ The makers of images are all of them vanity; and there is no profit in the works which they desire to make; the craftsmen who make them are witnesses, for they see not, nor hear, nor know. 10 Therefore let them be ashamed, those who make gods or graven and molten images that are profitable for nothing. 11 Behold, all their craftsmen are dumb men; let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; they shall be ashamed and confounded together; 12 The carpenter sharpens an iron instrument, he shapes the image with a plane and fashions it with a chisel and works it with the strength of his arm; yea, he becomes hungry and also thirsty, he drinks no water and is faint. 13 The carpenter selects a piece of wood, and stretches out his rule; he marks it out with a line; he fashions it with planes and makes it into the likeness of a man, according to the beauty of a man; 14 Then he makes it to stand in the house, a piece of wood which was cut down out of the forest, something which the rain has nourished, 15 A thing for men to use as fuel; they take some of it and heat the oven and bake bread; yea, they also make a god of it and worship it; yea, they make it a graven image and worship it. 16 Half of it they burn in the fire; and on its coals they roast meat, and they eat and are satisfied; they also warm themselves and say, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire; 17 And of the rest they make a god, even a graven image; and they worship it and pray to it and say, Deliver us; for thou art our god. 18 They have not known nor understood; for the vision of their eyes is shut that they cannot see, and the understanding of their hearts, so that they cannot understand. 19 And they considered not in their heart, neither did they know nor did they reason, saying, Half of it we burned in the fire; yea, also we have baked bread on its coals; we have roasted meat and eaten it; and from the rest of it we have made for ourselves an idol of wood and worshipped it. 20 Their imagination is dull; they are surely gone astray, and cannot deliver themselves, nor say, Our right hand has wrought falsehood."

"21 ¶ Remember these things, O Jacob and Israel, for you are my servant; I have formed you; you are my servant; O Israel, from henceforth forget me not. 22 I have blotted out your iniquities as a thick mist, and your sins as a cloud; return to me, for I have saved you. 23 Sing, O you heavens; for the LORD has done it; shout, O you foundations of the earth; break forth into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree therein! For the LORD has saved Jacob and glorified himself in Israel. 24 Thus says the LORD, who saved you and who formed you from the womb and helped you: I am the LORD who made all things; who stretched out the heavens alone; who spread out the earth by myself; 25 Who makes void the signs of the diviners and despises their divinations; who turns wise men backward and makes their knowledge foolish; 26 Who confirms the word of his servant and performs the counsel of his messengers: who said to Jerusalem, You shall be inhabited, and to the cities of Judah, You shall be built and I will raise up the ruins thereof; 27 Who said to the deep, Be dry, and who dried up the rivers; 28 Who said of Cyrus, He is my shepherd and shall perform all my pleasure; even saying to Jerusalem, You shall be built; and to the temple, Your foundations shall be laid."

"45:1 ¶ THUS says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have upheld, to subdue nations before him: I will loose the loins of kings, to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut; 2 I will go before you, and make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of brass and cut asunder the bars of iron; 3 And I will give you the treasures that are hidden in darkness and the buried riches of the secret places that you may know that I, the LORD, who call you by your name, am the God of Israel. 4 For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my elect, I have even called you by your name; I have surnamed you, though you have not known me."

"5 ¶ I am the LORD, and there is none else; there is no God besides me; I have girded you, though you have not known me. 6 That they may know from the rising of the sun and from the west that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is none else. 7 I form light and create darkness; I make peace and create hardship; I the LORD do all these things. 8 Drop down, O heavens, from above, and let the clouds pour down righteousness; let the earth open and let salvation be multiplied and let righteousness spring up; I the LORD have created these things. 9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker! An earthen vessel that strives with him who made it from the earth! Does the clay say to the potter, What are you making? Or am I not the work of your hands? 10 Woe to him who says to his father, What are you begetting? Or to his mother, What have you conceived?"

"11 ¶ Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, the LORD of hosts is his name: Ask me of things to come concerning my children; and concerning the work of my hands, command me. 12 I have made the earth and created man upon it; I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. 13 I have stirred man up in righteousness, and I will make smooth all his ways; he shall build my city and shall send my exiles back, not for a price nor for a bribe, says the LORD of hosts. 14 Thus says the LORD: The labor of Egypt and the merchants of Ethiopia and of Sheba, men of stature, shall come over to you and shall be yours; they shall come after you; in chains shall they come over, and they shall fall down before you, and shall make supplication to you, saying, Surely God is in you, and there is no other God. 15 Truly thou art a shelter, O God, the God of Israel, and his Saviour. 16 They who walk in confusion and make idols are all ashamed and confounded together; 17 But the salvation of Israel is by the LORD, the Saviour of the world; you shall not be ashamed nor confounded for ever and ever. 18 For thus says the LORD who created the heavens (he is the God who formed the earth and made it; he has established it; he did not create it in vain, but that his creation might dwell in it): I am the LORD; and there is none else. 19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth; I said not to the descendants of Jacob, Seek me in vain; I the LORD speak righteousness; I declare things that are right."

"20 ¶ Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you who are delivered of the nations; they have no knowledge who carry a graven image of wood and pray to a god that cannot save. 21 Tell and draw near and consult together; who has declared this from ancient time? Was it not I, the LORD from the beginning? And there is no other God besides me; a just God and Saviour; there is none besides me. 22 Draw near to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am the LORD, and there is none else. 23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness and shall not return, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. 24 And they shall say, In the LORD is righteousness; even to him shall mighty men come; and all who reproach thee shall be ashamed. 25 In the LORD shall all the descendants of Israel be justified and shall glory."

"46:1 ¶ BEL has fallen down, Nebo is overthrown; their idols were loaded as burdens upon beasts, yea, upon weary beasts and cattle. 2 They were overthrown, they have fallen down together; they could not rescue those who carried them, but they themselves are gone into captivity. 3 Hearken to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, even those who are borne in the belly and who still are carried in the womb: 4 Even to your old age I am he; and even to gray hairs I will endure. I have made and I will sustain; even I will carry and will deliver."

"5 ¶ To whom will you liken me and make me equal and compare me, that we may be alike? 6 To those who go astray, who pour out gold from their bags and weigh silver in the balance and hire a goldsmith; and they make it a god; they worship it, and they also pray to it? 7 They bear it upon their shoulders, they carry it and set it in its place, and it cannot rise up from its place; they also pray to it, but it does not answer them nor save them from their troubles. 8 Remember these things and discern; bring it again to your mind, O you transgressors! 9 Remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other god; and there is none like me, 10 Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure, 11 Calling a ruler swift as a bird from the east, the man who executes my counsel from a far land; yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it. 12 Hearken to me, O you stubborn of heart, that are far from righteousness; 13 My righteousness is near; it shall not be far off, my salvation shall not tarry; and I will give salvation in Zion and for Israel my glory."

"47:1 ¶ COME down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground; there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called tender and delicate. 2 Take the millstone and grind flour; remove your veil, cut off your white hair, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers. 3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, your shame shall be seen; I will execute vengeance upon you, and I will not meet you as a man. 4 As for our Saviour, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. 5 Sit silent and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called, The mightiest of kingdoms. 6 I was angry with my people, for they have polluted my inheritance, so I delivered them into your hands; you showed them no mercy; upon the elders have you very heavily laid your yoke."

"7 ¶ And you said, I shall be a mighty one for ever; so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the end thereof. 8 Now therefore let her hear these things, she who is given to pleasures, who dwells in tranquillity, who says in her 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; 9 But these two plagues shall come upon you in a moment, in one day: the loss of children and widowhood; they shall come upon you suddenly, for the multitude of your sorceries, and for the multitude of your magicians. 10 For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, None sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge have misled you; and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me. 11 Therefore evil shall come upon you in the early morning, and you shall not know from whence it rises; and mischief shall fall upon you and you shall not be able to put it off; and desolation shall come upon you suddenly, which you shall not know. 12 Stand now with your magicians and with the multitude of your sorceries in which you have labored from your youth; perhaps you may be able to profit, perhaps you may strengthen yourself. 13 You are wearied in the multitude of your thoughts. Let now the Chaldeans stand up and save you, those who gaze into the heavens and at the stars; let them foretell by the moon the things that shall come upon you. 14 Behold, they have become as stubble which is consumed by the fire; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame; there are no coals to warm them, nor fire to sit before. 15 Thus have become to you your merchants with whom you have labored from your youth: they have wandered every one to his quarter, and there is none to save you."

"48:1 ¶ HEAR these things, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and are come forth from the loins of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth nor in righteousness. 2 For they are called out of the holy city and they rely upon the God of Israel; the LORD of hosts is his name. 3 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them to you; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass. 4 Because I knew that you are obstinate and your neck is an iron sinew and your brow brass; 5 I have made them known to you from of old; before they came to pass I declared them to you, lest you should say, My idols did them; and my graven images and my molten images have saved me. 6 I have heard and seen all these things; and will you not declare them? I have proclaimed to you new things from this time, even hidden things, and you did not know them. 7 They are created now, and not of old; even before the day when you did not hear of them, lest you should say, Behold, I knew them. 8 Yea, you have neither heard nor known of them; nor were your ears opened of old; for I knew that you surely would lie and that you were called a wicked one from the womb."

"9 ¶ For my name’s sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I keep you, and I will not destroy you. 10 Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have purified you in the furnace of affliction. 11 For my own sake, will I do it, that my name may not be polluted and that I may not give my glory to another. 12 Hearken to me, O Jacob and Israel, whom I called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. 13 My hand has laid the foundations of the earth, and my right hand has stretched out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand up together. 14 Assemble, all of you, and listen; who is there among you who can declare these things? The LORD has loved him, that he may do his will on Babylon and on the land of the Chaldeans. 15 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have also called him; I have brought him and I have made his way prosperous."

"16 ¶ Come near to me, listen to this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the creation, there am I; and now the LORD God, and his Spirit, has sent me. 17 Thus says the LORD, your Saviour, the Holy One of Israel: I am the LORD your God who teaches you not to do wrong, who leads you by the way that you should go. 18 O that you had hearkened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea; 19 Your descendants also would have been as the sand, and the offspring of your loins like the gravel thereof; their name would not perish nor be destroyed from before me. 20 Go forth from Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans; with a voice of singing declare this, proclaim it, and publish it even to the ends of the earth; say, The LORD has saved his servant Jacob. 21 They thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he bored through the rock, and the waters gushed out. 22 There is no peace to the wicked, says the LORD."

"49:1 ¶ LSTEN to me, O isles; hearken to me, O you nations, the LORD has called me from afar; from the womb, and from the body of my mother has he made mention of my name. 2 He has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand has he hid me and made me a chosen arrow; in his quiver has he hid me, 3 And said to me, You are my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. 4 I have not said to the descendants of Jacob that I have labored in vain, nor that I have spent my strength for nought. Surely my judgment is before the LORD, and my work before my God. 5 Now, thus says the LORD, who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel together; I am glorified in the eyes of the LORD, and my God has become my strength. 6 And he said: It is a small thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the scions of Israel; I have given you to be a light to the Gentiles, that you might be my salvation to the ends of the earth."

"7 ¶ Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel and his Saviour, to him whose soul is despised, to him who is abhorred by the people and by the servants of the rulers: Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship him, because of the LORD who is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel who has chosen you. 8 Thus says the LORD: In an acceptable time I have answered you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you; and I have formed you and have given you for a covenant to the people and a light to the Gentiles, to establish the earth, to cause you to possess the desolate heritages; 9 That you may say to the prisoners, Go forth; to those who are shut up, Show yourselves. Come out. They shall feed in the paths and their pastures shall be in all highways. 10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the sultry heat nor the sun smite them; for he who is merciful to them shall lead them, and by the springs of water shall he bring them. 11 And I will make all mountains to be highways, and the highways shall be exalted. 12 Behold, these shall come from afar, and 1o, these from the north and from the islands of the sea, and these from the coast of Sinim."

"13 ¶ Sing, O heavens, and be joyful, O earth, and break forth into singing, O mountains; for the LORD has comforted his people and will have mercy upon his afflicted. 14 But Zion said, The LORD has forsaken me and the LORD has forgotten me. 15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, but I will not forget you. 16 Behold, I have inscribed you upon the palms of my hands; your fortified walls are continually before me. 17 Your sons who caused your destruction and those who laid you waste shall make haste to go forth from you."

"18 ¶ Lift up your eyes round about and behold; they all gather themselves together and come to you. As I live, says the LORD, you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and you shall be adorned like a bride. 19 For your waste and your desolate places and the land of your destruction shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall flee away. 20 The children which you shall have during the time of your bereavement shall say again in your ears, The place is too narrow for us; make room for us to dwell. 21 Then you shall say in your heart, Who has borne me these? For, behold, I have been bereaved and barren, a captive, and wandering to and fro. And who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; and these children, where have they been? 22 Thus says the LORD God: Behold, I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles and set up my standard to the nations; and they shall bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. 23 And kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers; they shall bow down to you with their faces to the ground and shall lick the dust off your feet; and you shall know that I am the LORD; for they who wait for me shall not be ashamed."

"24 ¶ Can the prey be taken away from the mighty, or a giant’s captives be delivered? 25 For thus says the LORD: Even the prey of the mighty shall be taken away, and the captives of the mighty shall be delivered; and I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children. 26 And I will cause your oppressors to eat their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood as with new wine; and all men shall know that I the LORD am your Saviour and your Helper, the Mighty One of Jacob."

"50:1 ¶ THUS says the LORD: Where is the bill of the divorcement of your mother, whom I have put away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. 2 Why, when I came, was there no man? When I called was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot save? 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 they die of thirst. 3 I clothe the heavens with darkness and make sackcloth their covering."

"4 ¶ The LORD God has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak and declare a word to the weary; he wakens me in the morning; in the morning he causes my ears to hear the teaching. 5 The LORD God has opened my ears, and I have not turned back to the evil way, neither have I been rebellious. 6 I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to those who slap on the face; I turned not my face from shame and spitting. 7 For the LORD God has helped me; therefore I am not confounded; therefore I have hardened my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. 8 For he who justifies me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me. 9 Behold, the LORD God will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? Lo, they all shall wear out as a garment; the moth shall eat them up."

"10 ¶ Who is among you who reveres the LORD? Let him listen to the voice of his servant. He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in the name of the LORD and be saved by his God. 11 Behold, all of you are like kindling wood and the sparks of the kindling. Walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks that you have kindled. This shall you have of my hands: you shall lie down in sorrow."

"51:1 ¶ LISTEN to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the LORD; look to the mountain from which you were hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you were digged. 2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who conceived you; for he was alone, and I called him and blessed him and multiplied him. 3 For the LORD will build Zion; he will build all her waste places; he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be heard in the midst of her, thanksgiving and the voice of singing."

"4 ¶ Hearken to me, O people; and give ear to me, O nations; for a law shall go forth from me, and my justice is a light to the Gentiles. 5 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth and my arms shall judge the peoples; the islands shall wait for me and on my arm shall they trust. 6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look also upon the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wear out like a garment, and they who dwell in it shall perish in like manner; but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not pass away. 7 Hearken to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear not the reproach of men, neither be afraid of their revilings. 8 For the moth shall eat them up like wool and like a garment; but my righteousness shall be for ever and my salvation from generation to generation."

"9 ¶ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake as in the ancient days, as in the generations of old. Surely it was thou that didst decree a severe sentence that didst slay the dragon. 10 It was thou that didst dry the sea, the waters of the great deep; that didst make the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over. 11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. 12 I, even I, am he that comforts you, says the LORD; who are you, that you should be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man that dries up like grass; 13 And you have forgotten the LORD your Maker, who stretched forth the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth; and have been afraid continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, who was ready to destroy? And now where is the fury of the oppressor? 14 The oppressor hastened to destroy the mighty ones, but they shall not die or be destroyed, neither shall their bread fail. 15 For I am the LORD your God who rebukes the sea, and its waves are calm; the LORD of hosts is his name. 16 And I have put my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of my hand, because I stretched forth the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth and said to Zion, You are my people."

"17 ¶ Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, because you have drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; you have drunk to the dregs of the cup of trembling, and drained it. 18 There is none to comfort her among all the sons whom she has borne; neither is there any of all the sons that she has brought up that takes her by the hand. 19 These two things are come to you; who shall be sorry for you? You shall have plunder, destruction, famine, and sword; who shall comfort you? 20 Your sons have fainted, they lie at every street corner, they are faded like a wilted beet; they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of your God. 21 Therefore hear now this, O you afflicted and drunken, but not with wine; 22 Thus says your LORD, the LORD, and your God, who pleads the cause of his people: Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of trembling, and you shall drink no more of the cup of my fury; 23 But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, Bow down that we may go over you; and you have made your people like the ground and like the street to them that passed by."

"52:1 ¶ AWAKE, awake, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean. 2 Shake yourself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem; loose the bands from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion. 3 For thus says the LORD: You were sold for nought; and you shall be redeemed without money. 4 For thus says the LORD God: My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian carried them away with violence. 5 Now therefore, what have I here, says the LORD, that my people have been carried away for nought? Their rulers make them to wail, says the LORD; and my name continually all the day is blasphemed. 6 Therefore my people shall know my name in that day; for it is I who spoke; behold, it is I."

"7 ¶ How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings glad tidings of peace; who publishes good tidings of good, and who declares salvation; who says to Zion, Your God reigns! 8 Your watchmen shall lift up their voices; with the voice together shall they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion. 9 Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for the LORD has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem. 10 The LORD has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. 11 Depart, depart, go out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go out of the midst of her; purge yourselves, you who bear the vessels of the LORD. 12 For you shall not go out with haste nor go by flight; for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will gather you together."

"13 ¶ Behold, my servant shall understand, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. 14 Many were amazed at him; for his appearance was marred more than that of any man, and his form more than that of the sons of men; 15 So shall he purify many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they understand."

"53:1 ¶ WHO has believed our report. And to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? 2 For he grew up before him like an infant and like a root out of the dry ground; he had no form nor comeliness; and when we saw that he had no beauty, we denied him. 3 He is despised and humbled of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and we turned our faces away from him; we despised him and we esteemed him not."

"4 ¶ Surely he has borne our sorrows and carried our griefs; but we considered him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was slain for our sins, he was afflicted for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his wounds we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have strayed; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the sins of us all. 7 He drew near and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; he was led as a lamb to the slaughter; and as an ewe before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment; and who can describe his anguish? For he was cut off out of the land of the living; and some of the evil men of my people struck him. 9 He made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, although he had done no iniquity, neither was there any deceit in his mouth."

"10 ¶ Yet it pleased the LORD to afflict him; he has put him to grief; he laid down his life as an offering for sin, that posterity may see, and his days shall be prolonged, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 11 He shall see the reward of the travail of his soul, and be satisfied with the knowledge; he shall justify the righteous; for he is a servant of many, and he shall bear their sins. 12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he has poured out his life to death; and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sins of many, and died the death of transgressors."

"54:1 ¶ GIVE praise, O barren, you who did not bear; break forth into singing and rejoice, you who have not travailed with child; for more are the children of the barren than the children of her that is beloved by her husband, says the LORD. 2 Enlarge the place of your tents, and stretch forth the curtains of your habitations; spare not, lengthen your cords and strengthen your tent pegs; 3 For you shall expand on the right hand and on the left; and your descendants shall inherit the Gentiles and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. 4 Fear not, for you shall not be ashamed; neither shall you be rebuked, for you shall not be put to shame; you shall forget the shame of your youth and shall not remember the reproach of your widowhood any more. 5 For your LORD shall do thus to you; the LORD of hosts is his name, and your Saviour the Holy One of Israel; the God of the whole earth shall he be called."

"6 ¶ For the LORD has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and as a wife forsaken from her youth, says your God. 7 For in a little anger I have forsaken you; but with my great mercies I will gather you. 8 In a raging wrath I hid my face from you; but with my everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you, says the LORD, your Saviour. 9 This is like the days of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I would not be angry with you nor rebuke you. 10 For the mountains shall be brought low and the hills bent downward; but my kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of your peace be removed, says the LORD, the Merciful One."

"11 ¶ O you afflicted one, tempest-tossed and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beryl, and lay your foundations with sapphires. 12 And I will make your walls of jasper and your gates of crystal and your borders of precious stones. 13 And all your children shall learn of me; and great shall be the peace of your children. 14 In righteousness shall you be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from ruin, for destruction shall not come near you. 15 All those who are brought back by my hand shall enter into you; and they shall be as a place of refuge to your inhabitants. 16 Behold, I have created the smith who blows the coals in the fire and brings forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the ravager to destroy. 17 No weapon that is fashioned against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment, you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, says the LORD."

"55:1 ¶ NO, every one that thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2 Wherefore do you spend money for that which is not bread? And your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and you shall eat that which is good, and your soul shall be delighted in delicacies. 3 Incline your ear, and come to me; listen to me, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. 4 Behold, I have given you for a witness to the Gentiles, a ruler and leader to the nations. 5 For you shall call nations that you know not, and nations that knew you not shall run to you because of the LORD your God, and because of the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you."

"6 ¶ Seek the LORD; and when you find him, call upon him while he is near; 7 Let the sinner forsake his way, and the wicked man his thoughts; and let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 8 For my thoughts are not like your thoughts, neither are my ways like your ways, says the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10 For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and returns not thither, but waters the earth and makes it bring forth and sprout and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater; 11 So shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth; it shall not return to me void, but it shall do what I please and it shall accomplish that for which I sent it. 12 For you 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 field shall clap their hands. 13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off."

"56:1 ¶ THUS says the LORD: Keep judgment, and do justice; for my salvation will come soon and my righteousness will be revealed. 2 Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who lays hold on it; he who also keeps the sabbath that he may not profane it, and guards his hands from doing any evil."

"3 ¶ Do not let the son of the stranger who follows the LORD speak, saying, The LORD has utterly separated me from his people; neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. 4 For thus says the LORD: To the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths and choose the things that please me and take hold of my covenant, 5 I will give to them in my house and within my walls a place and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off. 6 Also to the sons of the strangers who follow the LORD, to serve him and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one who keeps from profaning the sabbath and takes hold of my covenant, 7 Even them I will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples. 8 Thus says the LORD God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel: Yet I will gather others to him, besides those who were gathered to him."

"9 ¶ All the beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all you beasts in the forest. 10 All that are blind can see, but they know not; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; they see, but they lie down and slumber. 11 Yea, they are greedy dogs that can never have enough, they are so wicked that they cannot understand; they all have turned aside to their own way, every one for his own gain and his own advantage. 12 Come, they say, let us get wine, and let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more will be left over for us."

"57:1 ¶ BEHOLD, the righteous man has perished, and no one lays it to heart; and pious men are taken away, none considering that the righteous man is taken away from the evil to come. 2 And when peace comes, they shall relax, and make progress."

"3 ¶ But you draw near hither, you sons of the afflicted one, the offspring of the adulterer and the whore. 4 Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you open your mouth wide and draw out the tongue? Are you not children of iniquity, an offspring of falsehood, 5 Comforting yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying children as sacrifices in the valleys under the cliffs of the rocks? 6 Your portion and your heritage is in the parts of the valleys; even upon them you have poured a drink offering, you have offered meal offerings. Should I receive comfort in these things? 7 Upon high and lofty mountains you have set your bed; even thither you went up to offer sacrifices. 8 Behind the doors also and on the posts you have inscribed your remembrance; for you are carried away from me, and you are gone up, and you have enlarged your bed, and you have become one of them; you have loved their bed where you saw their nakedness. 9 And you did praise the kings with frankincense, and did increase your perfumes, and you did send your messengers far off, and you have brought yourself low, even down to Sheol. 10 You are wearied in the multitude of your corrupt ways; yet you did not say, I will cease; you have wasted away yourself with the guilt of your hands, therefore you did not make supplication. 11 And of whom have you been in dread and fear, that you have lied against me and have not remembered me nor laid it to your heart? Behold, I am the Holy One of old, and you did not revere me. 12 I will declare my righteousness, and your works shall not profit you."

"13 ¶ When you cry, let those who gather around you deliver you; but the wind shall carry them all away, and the whirlwind shall take them; but those who put their trust in me shall inherit the land and shall possess my holy mountain; 14 And shall say, Clear up, clear up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblocks out of the path of my people. 15 For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, whose abode is high and holy, to the meek and the distressed in spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of those who are in pain: 16 I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit proceeds from before me, and the breath, I have made it."

"17 ¶ Because of the iniquity of her treachery I was wroth and smote her; but she backslid and was wroth, and went away groaning in her heart. 18 I have seen her ways, and I have healed her and have comforted her, and I have given comfort to her and to her mourners. 19 I create the speech of the lips: peace, peace to those who are afar off and to those who are near, says the LORD; and I will heal them. 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, for it cannot rest, its waters cast up creeping things and mire. 21 There is no peace to the wicked, says my God."

"58:1 ¶ CRY aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet and show my people their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins. 2 Yet they seek me daily and wish to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God; they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in drawing near to God."

"3 ¶ Why have we fasted, and thou seest it not? Why have we afflicted ourselves, and thou takest no notice? Behold, in the day of your fast you do what you wish, and you present offerings to all of your idols. 4 Behold, you fast for strife and quarreling, and to strike violently with the fist of wickedness; you shall not fast as you do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. 5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to afflict his soul, to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? 6 This is the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to cut off the bands of treachery, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke; 7 To share your bread with the hungry, and to bring the stranger to your house; when you see the naked, to cover him; and to refuse not one of your own flesh."

"8 ¶ Then shall your light break forth as the morning and your righteousness shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall be your reward. 9 Then you shall call, and the LORD shall answer you; you shall cry, and he shall say, Here am I. If you remove deceit from your midst and release the prisoners and cease speaking falsehood; 10 And give your bread to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light shine in darkness, and your darkness be as the noonday; 11 And the LORD shall guide you continually and satisfy your soul with rich food; and strengthen your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring whose water fails not. 12 And some of you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called the repairer of the breaches, the restorer of paths to dwell in."

"13 ¶ If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, from doing your pleasures on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable; and shall honor it, not doing on it your own ways, nor doing on it your own pleasure, nor speaking idle words; 14 Then you shall put your trust in the LORD; and I will cause you to ride upon the high places of the earth and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it."

"59:1 ¶ BEHOLD, the LORD’S hand is not so short, that it cannot save; neither is his ear dull that it cannot hear; 2 But it is your iniquities that have separated you and your God; and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. 4 There is no one who calls for justice, neither is there any one who judges faithfully; they trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive iniquity and bring forth grief. 5 They hatch adder’s eggs, and weave a spider’s web; he who eats of their eggs shall die, and those which hatch out will be found to be vipers. 6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands. 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; plunder and destruction are in their paths. 8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their ways; they have made their paths crooked; whosoever walks in them shall not know peace."

"9 ¶ Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope like men who have no eyes; we stumble at noonday as in the night; we groan as those who are near death. 11 We all roar like bears, and mourn sore like doves; we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. 12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; our iniquities are with us, and our sins are well known: 13 Transgressing and lying against the LORD, turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and devising in our heart words of falsehood. 14 Judgment is turned backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. 15 Yea, truth is hid, and understanding has departed from our mind; the LORD saw that there was no justice, and he was displeased."

"16 ¶ And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to help; therefore his arm brought salvation to him, and his righteousness sustained him. 17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, 18 That he may seek vengeance upon those who hate him, and retribution to his adversaries, and to the islands he will render recompense. 19 So shall they revere the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. For the oppressor shall come in like a flood, and the Spirit of the LORD shall humble him. 20 And a Saviour shall come to Zion, and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob, says the LORD. 21 As for me, this is my covenant with you, says the LORD: my spirit that is upon you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your descendants, nor out of the mouth of your descendant’s descendants, says the LORD, from henceforth and for ever."

"60:1 ¶ ARISE,, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of the LORD shall rise upon you. 2 Behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the nations; but the LORD shall shine upon you, and his glory shall be seen upon you. 3 And the Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. 4 Lift up your eyes round about and see; they all gather themselves together, they come to you; your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be nursed in cradles. 5 Then you shall see, and your face shall brighten, and you shall rejoice; and your heart shall be at ease; because the riches of the sea shall be turned to you, the strength of the Gentiles shall come to you. 6 A multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all those from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall publish abroad the praises of the LORD. 7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; they shall come up with acceptance on my altar, and I will glorify the house of my beauty. 8 Who are these that fly like clouds and like the doves to their windows?"

"9 ¶ For the islands shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish as in former days, to bring your sons from afar, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of the LORD your God, and the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you. 10 And the sons of foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you; for in my anger I smote you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you. 11 Therefore your gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night, that men may bring to you the armies of the Gentiles, and their kings led captive. 12 For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly destroyed by the sword. 13 The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the fir tree, the pine, and the cypress together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious. 14 The sons also of those who oppressed you shall come bowing down to you; and all those who provoked you shall make obeisance at the soles of your feet; and they shall call you, the City of the LORD, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel."

"15 ¶ Whereas you have been forsaken and hated so that no man passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. 16 You shall also gain the wealth of the Gentiles, and shall obtain the wealth of kings; and you shall know that I the LORD am your Saviour and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. 17 Instead of brass I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver, and instead of wood, brass, and instead of stones, iron; I will also make your officers peace and your rulers righteousness. 18 Violence shall no more be heard in your land, nor spoil and destruction within your borders; and they shall call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise. 19 The sun shall be no more your light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light to you; for the LORD shall be to you an everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be ended. 20 21 (60:20) All of your righteous people shall inherit the land for ever; the branch of my planting, the work of my hands shall be glorified. 22 (60:21) The smallest one shall become thousands, and the least one a strong nation; I the LORD will hasten it in its time."

"61:1 ¶ THE Spirit of the LORD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me and sent me to preach good tidings to the meek; to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and release to prisoners; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of the salvation of our God; to comfort all that mourn; 3 To give to the mourners of Zion beauty instead of ashes, perfume instead of mourning, a cloak of beauty instead of the spirit of heaviness; they shall be called men of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, which is glorious."

"4 ¶ And they shall build the old ruins, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations. 5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. 6 But you shall be named the priests of the LORD; men shall call you the ministers of our God; you shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall you boast yourselves. 7 Instead of your shame and your confusion, you shall have a double inheritance in their lands, and you shall rejoice in their portion; everlasting joy shall be yours. 8 For I the LORD love justice, and I hate robbery and iniquity; I will direct your work in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with you. 9 Your offspring shall be known among the Gentiles, and your descendants among the nations; all who see you shall recognize you, that you are the offspring that the LORD has blessed."

"10 ¶ I will greatly rejoice in the LORD and my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself in splendor and as a bride adorns herself with jewels. 11 For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden causes the seed which is sown in it to spring forth, so the LORD God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations."

"62:1 ¶ FOR Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest until her righteousness shall go forth as light and her salvation as a lamp that burns. 2 And the Gentiles shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory; and you shall be called by a new name which the mouth of the LORD shall bestow upon you. 3 You shall also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. 4 You shall no more be called Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate; but you shall be called My Delight, and your land shall be cultivated; for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall have husbandmen. 5 For as a young man husbands a virgin, so shall your sons husband you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you."

"6 ¶ I have set watchmen upon your walls, O Jerusalem, every day, who shall not hold their peace day or night continually; so that those who make mention of the LORD may not keep silence, nor be still, 7 And give you no rest, until I, the Lord, establish you and until I make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. 8 The LORD has sworn by his right hand and by his strong arm, I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; neither shall the sons of strangers drink your wine for which you have labored; 9 But those who have gathered it shall eat it and praise the LORD; and those who have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness."

"10 ¶ Go through, go through the gates; prepare the way of the people; make the highway smooth, gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people. 11 Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the ends of the earth, Say to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your Saviour comes; behold, his reward is with him and his work before him. 12 And they shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD; and you shall be called, Avenged, Sought out, A city not forsaken."

"63:1 ¶ Who is this that comes from Edom with crimson garments from Bozrah? And who is glorious in his apparel and mighty in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. 2 Why is your apparel red and why are your garments like those of him who treads in the winepress? 3 I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the people there was none with me; I have trodden them in my anger and trampled them in my fury; and their blood is splashed upon my garments, and I have stained all my raiment. 4 For the day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my salvation is come. 5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered, and there was none to uphold; therefore my own arm saved me and my fury upheld me. 6 And I have trodden down the peoples in my anger, and made them drunk in my fury, and I have brought down their strength to the earth."

"7 ¶ I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD and the praises of the LORD for all the things that the LORD has bestowed on us and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on us according to his mercies and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. 8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie; so he became their Saviour. 9 In all their troubles he did not afflict them, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he saved them and he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old. 10 But they rebelled and grieved his holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy and he fought against them. 11 Then he remembered the days of old, of Moses his servant. Just as when he brought up out of the sea the shepherd of his flock, and as he put his holy Spirit within Moses, 12 Who led them by his right hand and by his glorious arm, dividing the waters before them and making for them an everlasting name 13 And leading them through the deep, as a horse is led in the wilderness, and they stumbled not, 14 And like cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD leading them; so didst thou lead thy people and make for thyself a glorious name."

"15 ¶ Look down from heaven and behold from thy holy and glorious habitation. Where is thy zeal and thy strength? Turn thy tender mercies and compassion toward us. Are they restrained? 16 For thou art our Father, though Abraham knew us not and Israel did not acknowledge us; thou, O LORD, art our Father, and our Saviour; thy name is from everlasting. 17 O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy way and hardened our heart so as not to reverence thee? Return, for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thy heritage. 18 The people of thy holiness have possessed the land but a little while; our oppressors have trodden down thy sanctuary. 19 We are thine from of old before thou didst rule over them; they were not called by thy name."

"64:1 ¶ OH that thou wouldst rend the heavens and that thou wouldst come down, that the mountains might flee at thy presence; 2 That they might melt as wax melts before the fire, and that fire might devour thy enemies, that thy name might be made known to thy enemies, so that the nations might tremble at thy presence! 3 When thou didst wondrous things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains fled at thy presence. 4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen, O God, any besides thee, because of what thou doest for those that wait for thee. 5 Thou meetest with joy him that works righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways; behold, thou art wroth; for we have transgressed against thy ways, and yet we shall be saved."

"6 ¶ For we have all become like an unclean thing, and all our righteousness is like filthy rags; we all fall off like leaves; and our iniquities, like the whirlwind, have taken us away. 7 There is none that calls upon thy name, that remembers to take hold of thee; for thou hast turned away thy face from us, and hast delivered us into the power of our sins. 8 But now, O LORD, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we are all the work of thy hand. 9 Be not very angry, O LORD, neither remember our sins for ever; behold, see, we are all thy people. 10 Thy holy cities have become a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised thee, is consumed with fire; and all our pleasant possessions are laid waste. 12 Because of these things thou hast restrained thyself, O LORD, and held thy peace, and afflicted us very sore."

"65:1 ¶ I AM sought of those who did not ask for me; I am found of those who sought me not; I said, Here am I, here am I, to a nation that has never called my name. 2 I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts, 3 A people who provoke me to anger continually, who sacrifice in the gardens and burn incense upon altars of bricks; 4 Who sit in tombs and lodge in caves, who eat swine’s flesh and pollute their vessels with unclean carcasses; to break the law and to defile the holy covenant, that they may provoke the LORD. 5 Who say, Keep away, do not come near me; for I am sanctified. These men are a smoke in my anger, a fire that burns all the day. 6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence until I recompense them a double portion into their bosom. 7 Their sins and the sins of their fathers are well known, says the LORD, for they have burned incense upon the mountains and reproached me upon the hills; therefore I will measure their former works into their bosom."

"8 ¶ Thus says the LORD: As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says to another, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it; so will I do for my servant’s sake, and I will not destroy them all. 9 And I will bring forth an offspring out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; my elect shall inherit it and my servants shall dwell there. 10 And Sharon shall be a fold for flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in for my people who have sought me."

"11 ¶ But as for you who have forsaken the LORD and have forgotten his holy mountain, who prepare tables for fortune tellers and have poured out wine into bowls for them, 12 I will deliver you up to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter, because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not listen; and you did evil in my presence, and did choose the thing wherein I do not delight. 13 Therefore thus says the LORD God: Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall weep; 14 Behold my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall complain for sorrow of heart and for vexation of spirit. 15 And you shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen ones; for the LORD God shall slay you, and call his servants by another name; 16 So that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my presence."

"17 ¶ For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered nor come into mind. 18 But my people shall be glad and rejoice for ever because I am creating; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and I will rejoice in it. 19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of wailing. 20 There shall be no more in her a child who dies in infancy nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die a hundred years old; but a sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed. 21 They shall build houses and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 22 They shall not build and others inhabit; they shall not plant and others eat; for like the days of trees are the days of my people, and my chosen ones shall eat the work of their hands. 23 They shall not labor in vain nor bring forth children for a curse; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, both they and their children with them. 24 And it shall come to pass that before they call I will answer them; and before they speak I will hear them. 25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together and the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpents’ food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, says the LORD."

"66:1 ¶ THUS says the LORD: Heaven is my throne and the earth my footstool; what is the house that you build for me? And what is the place of my rest? 2 For all those things has my own hand made, and all those things belong to me, says the LORD; and to whom shall I look, and where shall I dwell? But to him who is calm and humble, and trembles at my word. 3 He who kills an ox is like him who slays a man; he who sacrifices a lamb is like him who kills a dog; he who offers a meal offering is like him who offers swine’s blood; he who burns incense is like him who blesses an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their idols. 4 I also will allow them to be humiliated and will recompense them according to their works; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not listen; but they did evil in my sight, and chose the things in which I delighted not."

"5 ¶ Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at his word; say to your brethren who hate you and who despise you for my name’s sake, Let the LORD be glorified, and rejoice in your joy, and they shall be ashamed. 6 A voice of tumult comes from the city, a voice from the temple, the voice of the LORD who renders recompense to his enemies! 7 Before she travailed, she gave birth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a male child. 8 Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? Or shall a nation be born in an hour? For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. 9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? says the LORD; perhaps it is not I who causes to bring forth and who shuts the womb? says the LORD your God. 10 Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad with her, all you who love her; rejoice in joy with her, all you who mourn over her, 11 That you may suck and be satisfied with the comfort of her breast; that you may milk out and be delighted with the abundance of her glory. 12 For thus says the LORD: Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, like an overflowing torrent; and you shall suck the glory of the Gentiles; and you shall be carried on the litters and be dandled upon the knees; 13 As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. 14 And when you shall see this, your heart shall rejoice and your bones shall flourish like tender grass; and the hand of the LORD shall be stretched out toward his servants, and he shall destroy his enemies."

"15 ¶ For, behold, the LORD will come with fire and with his chariot like a whirlwind, to pour out his anger with fury and his rebuke with flames of fire. 16 For by fire will the LORD judge, and by it will he test all flesh; and the slain of the LORD shall be many. 17 Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves in the gardens, following one after another in the midst, eating swine’s flesh and creeping things and mice, shall be consumed together, says the LORD. 18 For I know their works and their thoughts; when I come to gather all nations and tongues, they shall come and see my glory. 19 I will set a sign among them, and those who escape I will send among the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, and to the islands afar off that have not heard my fame, neither have they seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles. 20 And upon horses and in chariots and in litters they shall bring all your brethren for an offering to the LORD out of all nations to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the LORD, as the children of Israel bring a meal offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD. 21 And I will also take some of them for priests and for Levites, says the LORD. 22 For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will snake shall remain before me, says the LORD, So shall your descendants and your name remain. 23 And it shall come to pass that from one new moon to another and from one sabbath to another all flesh shall come to worship before me, says the LORD. 24 And they shall go forth and look on the dead bodies of the men that have transgressed against me; for their coals shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh."