The Book of the Prophet Isaiah
American Standard Version, 1901 ed.
Chapter 1
1The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw
concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham,
Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 2Hear, O heavens, and
give ear, O earth; for Jehovah hath spoken: I have nourished and
brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. 3
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; [but]
Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. 4Ah
sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of
evil-doers, children that deal corruptly! they have forsaken
Jehovah, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are
estranged [and gone] backward. 5Why will ye be still
stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick,
and the whole heart faint. 6From the sole of the foot even
unto the head there is no soundness in it; [but] wounds, and
bruises, and fresh stripes: they have not been closed, neither
bound up, neither mollified with oil. 7Your country is
desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers
devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by
strangers. 8And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in
a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged
city. 9Except Jehovah of hosts had left unto us a very
small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been
like unto Gomorrah. 10Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers
of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of
Gomorrah. 11What unto me is the multitude of your
sacrifices? saith Jehovah: I have had enough of the
burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I
delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of
he-goats. 12When ye come to appear before me, who hath
required this at your hand, to trample my courts? 13Bring
no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; new
moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies,- I cannot away with
iniquity and the solemn meeting. 14Your new moons and your
appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I
am weary of bearing them. 15And when ye spread forth your
hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many
prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 16
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from
before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17learn to do well;
seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead
for the widow. 18Come now, and let us reason together,
saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as
white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as
wool. 19If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the
good of the land: 20but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be
devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken
it. 21How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that
was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now
murderers. 22Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed
with water. 23Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of
thieves; every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards:
they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the
widow come unto them. 24Therefore saith the Lord, Jehovah
of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine
adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies; 25and I will
turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy dross, and
will take away all thy tin; 26and I will restore thy judges
as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning:
afterward thou shalt be called The city of righteousness, a
faithful town. 27Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and
her converts with righteousness. 28But the destruction of
transgressors and sinners shall be together, and they that
forsake Jehovah shall be consumed. 29For they shall be
ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be
confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. 30For ye
shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath
no water. 31And the strong shall be as tow, and his work as
a spark; and they shall both burn together, and none shall
quench them.
Chapter 2
1The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning
Judah and Jerusalem. 2And it shall come to pass in the
latter days, that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be
established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted
above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3And
many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the
mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he
will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for
out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from
Jerusalem. 4And he will judge between the nations, and will
decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords
into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation
shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn
war any more. 5O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk
in the light of Jehovah. 6For thou hast forsaken thy people
the house of Jacob, because they are filled [with customs] from
the east, and [are] soothsayers like the Philistines, and they
strike hands with the children of foreigners. 7And their
land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of
their treasures; their land also is full of horses, neither is
there any end of their chariots. 8Their land also is full
of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which
their own fingers have made. 9And the mean man is bowed
down, and the great man is brought low: therefore forgive them
not. 10Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, from
before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty.
11The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the
haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall
be exalted in that day. 12For there shall be a day of
Jehovah of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon
all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low; 13and
upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and
upon all the oaks of Bashan, 14and upon all the high
mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, 15and
upon every lofty tower, and upon every fortified wall, 16
and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant
imagery. 17And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Jehovah
alone shall be exalted in that day. 18And the idols shall
utterly pass away. 19And men shall go into the caves of the
rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror
of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth
to shake mightily the earth. 20In that day men shall cast
away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have
been made for them to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
21to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts
of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from
the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the
earth. 22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his
nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Chapter 3
1For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away
from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of
bread, and the whole stay of water; 2the mighty man, and
the man of war; the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and
the elder; 3the captain of fifty, and the honorable man,
and the counsellor, and the expert artificer, and the skilful
enchanter. 4And I will give children to be their princes,
and babes shall rule over them. 5And the people shall be
oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor:
the child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and
the base against the honorable. 6When a man shall take hold
of his brother in the house of his father, [saying], Thou hast
clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy
hand; 7in that day shall he lift up [his voice], saying, I
will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor
clothing: ye shall not make me ruler of the people. 8For
Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue
and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his
glory. 9The show of their countenance doth witness against
them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe
unto their soul! for they have done evil unto themselves. 10
Say ye of the righteous, that [it shall be] well [with him]; for
they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 11Woe unto the
wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him]; for what his hands have
done shall be done unto him. 12As for my people, children
are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people,
they that lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of
thy paths. 13Jehovah standeth up to contend, and standeth
to judge the peoples. 14Jehovah will enter into judgment
with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof: It is ye
that have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in
your houses: 15what mean ye that ye crush my people, and
grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
16Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are
haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes,
walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their
feet; 17therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown
of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare
their secret parts. 18In that day the Lord will take away
the beauty of their anklets, and the cauls, and the crescents;
19the pendants, and the bracelets, and the mufflers; 20
the headtires, and the ankle chains, and the sashes, and the
perfume-boxes, and the amulets; 21the rings, and the
nose-jewels; 22the festival robes, and the mantles, and the
shawls, and the satchels; 23the hand-mirrors, and the fine
linen, and the turbans, and the veils. 24And it shall come
to pass, that instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness;
and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well set hair,
baldness; and instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth;
branding instead of beauty. 25Thy men shall fall by the
sword, and thy mighty in the war. 26And her gates shall
lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the
ground.
Chapter 4
1And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day,
saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel:
only let us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach.
2In that day shall the branch of Jehovah be beautiful and
glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be excellent and
comely for them that are escaped of Israel. 3And it shall
come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that
remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one
that is written among the living in Jerusalem; 4when the
Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion,
and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst
thereof, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning.
5And Jehovah will create over the whole habitation of mount
Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the
shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory
[shall be spread] a covering. 6And there shall be a
pavilion for a shade in the day-time from the heat, and for a
refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain.
Chapter 5
1Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved
touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very
fruitful hill: 2and he digged it, and gathered out the
stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built
a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress
therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it
brought forth wild grapes. 3And now, O inhabitants of
Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my
vineyard. 4What could have been done more to my vineyard,
that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it
should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? 5
And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will
take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will
break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: 6
and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but
there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the
clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 7For the vineyard of
Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah
his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold,
oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry. 8Woe
unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field,
till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the
midst of the land! 9In mine ears [saith] Jehovah of hosts,
Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair,
without inhabitant. 10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield
one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield [but] an ephah. 11
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may
follow strong drink; that tarry late into the night, till wine
inflame them! 12And the harp and the lute, the tabret and
the pipe, and wine, are [in] their feasts; but they regard not
the work of Jehovah, neither have they considered the operation
of his hands. 13Therefore my people are gone into captivity
for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and
their multitude are parched with thirst. 14Therefore Sheol
hath enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure;
and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he
that rejoiceth among them, descend [into it]. 15And the
mean man is bowed down, and the great man is humbled, and the
eyes of the lofty are humbled: 16but Jehovah of hosts is
exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in
righteousness. 17Then shall the lambs feed as in their
pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers
eat. 18Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of
falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope; 19that say,
Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it;
and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and
come, that we may know it! 20Woe unto them that call evil
good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for
darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and
prudent in their own sight! 22Woe unto them that are mighty
to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink;
23that justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the
righteousness of the righteous from him! 24Therefore as the
tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass
sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness,
and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have
rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of
the Holy One of Israel. 25Therefore is the anger of Jehovah
kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand
against them, and hath smitten them; and the mountains tremble,
and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets.
For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is
stretched out still. 26And he will lift up an ensign to the
nations from far, and will hiss for them from the end of the
earth; and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly. 27
None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber
nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed,
nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: 28whose arrows
are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses' hoofs shall be
accounted as flint, and their wheels as a whirlwind: 29
their roaring shall be like a lioness, they shall roar like
young lions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and
carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver. 30
And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of
the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness [and]
distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.
Chapter 6
1In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord
sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled
the temple. 2Above him stood the seraphim: each one had six
wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered
his feet, and with twain he did fly. 3And one cried unto
another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is Jehovah of hosts: the
whole earth is full of his glory. 4And the foundations of
the thresholds shook at the voice of him that cried, and the
house was filled with smoke. 5Then said I, Woe is me! for I
am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in
the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen
the King, Jehovah of hosts. 6Then flew one of the seraphim
unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with
the tongs from off the altar: 7and he touched my mouth with
it, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity
is taken away, and thy sin forgiven. 8And I heard the voice
of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?
Then I said, Here am I; send me. 9And he said, Go, and tell
this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye
indeed, but perceive not. 10Make the heart of this people
fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they
sea with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand
with their heart, and turn again, and be healed. 11Then
said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste
without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become
utterly waste, 12and Jehovah have removed men far away, and
the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land. 13And
if there be yet a tenth in it, it also shall in turn be eaten
up: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remaineth, when
they are felled; so the holy seed is the stock thereof.
Chapter 7
1And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of
Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of
Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to
Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
2And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is
confederate with Ephraim. And his heart trembled, and the heart
of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.
3Then said Jehovah unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz,
thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the
upper pool, in the highway of the fuller's field; 4and say
unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither let thy
heart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking
firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the
son of Remaliah. 5Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of
Remaliah, have purposed evil against thee, saying, 6Let us
go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach
therein for us, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the
son of Tabeel; 7thus saith the Lord Jehovah, It shall not
stand, neither shall it come to pass. 8For the head of
Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within
threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken in pieces, so
that is shall not be a people: 9and the head of Ephraim is
Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will
not believe, surely ye shall not be established. 10And
Jehovah spake again unto Ahaz, saying, 11Ask thee a sign of
Jehovah thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height
above. 12But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I
tempt Jehovah. 13And he said, Hear ye now, O house of
David: Is it a small thing for you to weary men, that ye will
weary my God also? 14Therefore the Lord himself will give
you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and
shall call his name Immanuel. 15Butter and honey shall he
eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
16For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and
choose the good, the land whose two kings thou abhorrest shall
be forsaken. 17Jehovah will bring upon thee, and upon thy
people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come,
from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah-[even] the king of
Assyria. 18And it shall come to pass in that day, that
Jehovah will hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of
the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of
Assyria. 19And they shall come, and shall rest all of them
in the desolate valleys, and in the clefts of the rocks, and
upon all thorn-hedges, and upon all pastures. 20In that day
will the Lord shave with a razor that is hired in the parts
beyond the River, [even] with the king of Assyria, the head and
the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.
21And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall
keep alive a young cow, and two sheep; 22and it shall come
to pass, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall
give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one
eat that is left in the midst of the land. 23And it shall
come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a
thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, shall be for briers
and thorns. 24With arrows and with bow shall one come
thither, because all the land shall be briers and thorns. 25
And all the hills that were digged with the mattock, thou shalt
not come thither for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be
for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.
Chapter 8
1And Jehovah said unto me, Take thee a great tablet, and
write upon it with the pen of a man, For Maher-shalal-hash-baz;
2and I will take unto me faithful witnesses to record,
Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. 3
And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a
son. Then said Jehovah unto me, Call his name
Maher-shalal-hash-baz. 4For before the child shall have
knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of
Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before
the king of Assyria. 5And Jehovah spake unto me yet again,
saying, 6Forasmuch as this people have refused the waters
of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's
son; 7now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them
the waters of the River, strong and many, [even] the king of
Assyria and all his glory: and it shall come up over all its
channels, and go over all its banks; 8and it shall sweep
onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall
reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings
shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel. 9Make an
uproar, O ye peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear, all
ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces;
gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces. 10Take counsel
together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and
it shall not stand: for God is with us. 11For Jehovah spake
thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in
the way of this people, saying, 12Say ye not, A conspiracy,
concerning all whereof this people shall say, A conspiracy;
neither fear ye their fear, nor be in dread [thereof]. 13
Jehovah of hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your
fear, and let him be your dread. 14And he shall be for a
sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of
offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare
to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15And many shall stumble
thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
16Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my
disciples. 17And I will wait for Jehovah, that hideth his
face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. 18
Behold, I and the children whom Jehovah hath given me are for
signs and for wonders in Israel from Jehovah of hosts, who
dwelleth in mount Zion. 19And when they shall say unto you,
Seek unto them that have familiar spirits and unto the wizards,
that chirp and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their
God? on behalf of the living [should they seek] unto the dead?
20To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not
according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
21And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and
hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be
hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and
by their God, and turn their faces upward: 22and they shall
look unto the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the
gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven
away.
Chapter 9
1But there shall be no gloom to her that was in anguish.
In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun
and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time hath he made it
glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of
the nations. 2The people that walked in darkness have seen
a great light: they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of
death, upon them hath the light shined. 3Thou hast
multiplied the nation, thou hast increased their joy: they joy
before thee according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when
they divide the spoil. 4For the yoke of his burden, and the
staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, thou hast
broken as in the day of Midian. 5For all the armor of the
armed man in the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall
be for burning, for fuel of fire. 6For unto us a child is
born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon
his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,
Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
7Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall
be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to
establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with
righteousness from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah
of hosts will perform this. 8The Lord sent a word into
Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. 9And all the people
shall know, [even] Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that
say in pride and in stoutness of heart, 10The bricks are
fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycomores are cut
down, but we will put cedars in their place. 11Therefore
Jehovah will set up on high against him the adversaries of
Rezin, and will stir up his enemies, 12the Syrians before,
and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with
open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his
hand is stretched out still. 13Yet the people have not
turned unto him that smote them, neither have they sought
Jehovah of hosts. 14Therefore Jehovah will cut off from
Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day. 15
The elder and the honorable man, he is the head; and the prophet
that teacheth lies, he is the tail. 16For they that lead
this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are
destroyed. 17Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their
young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless
and widows; for every one is profane and an evil-doer, and every
mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still. 18For wickedness
burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns; yea, it
kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in
a column of smoke. 19Through the wrath of Jehovah of hosts
is the land burnt up; and the people are as the fuel of fire: no
man spareth his brother. 20And one shall snatch on the
right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand,
and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the
flesh of his own arm: 21Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim,
Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this
his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out
still.
Chapter 10
1Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to
the writers that write perverseness; 2to turn aside the
needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their
right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make
the fatherless their prey! 3And what will ye do in the day
of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far?
to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your
glory? 4They shall only bow down under the prisoners, and
shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned
away, but his hand is stretched out still. 5Ho Assyrian,
the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine
indignation! 6I will send him against a profane nation,
and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to
take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down
like the mire of the streets. 7Howbeit he meaneth not so,
neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to
destroy, and to cut off nations not a few. 8For he saith,
Are not my princes all of them kings? 9Is not Calno as
Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
10As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, whose
graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
11shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols,
so do to Jerusalem and her idols? 12Wherefore it shall
come to pass, that, when the Lord hath performed his whole work
upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the
stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high
looks. 13For he hath said, By the strength of my hand I
have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I
have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their
treasures, and like a valiant man I have brought down them that
sit [on thrones]: 14and my hand hath found as a nest the
riches of the peoples; and as one gathereth eggs that are
forsaken, have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that
moved the wing, or that opened the mouth, or chirped. 15
Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith?
shall the saw magnify itself against him that wieldeth it? as if
a rod should wield them that lift it up, [or] as if a staff
should lift up [him that is] not wood. 16Therefore will
the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness;
and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning like the
burning of fire. 17And the light of Israel will be for a
fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour
his thorns and his briers in one day. 18And he will
consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both
soul and body: and it shall be as when a standard-bearer
fainteth. 19And the remnant of the trees of his forest
shall be few, so that a child may write them. 20And it
shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and
they that are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again
lean upon him that smote them, but shall lean upon Jehovah, the
Holy One of Israel, in truth. 21A remnant shall return,
[even] the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. 22For
though thy people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, [only] a
remnant of them shall return: a destruction [is] determined,
overflowing with righteousness. 23For a full end, and that
determined, will the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, make in the midst
of all the earth. 24Therefore thus saith the Lord, Jehovah
of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of
the Assyrian, though he smite thee with the rod, and lift up his
staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt. 25For yet a
very little while, and the indignation [against thee] shall be
accomplished, and mine anger [shall be directed] to his
destruction. 26And Jehovah of hosts will stir up against
him a scourge, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of
Oreb: and his rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up
after the manner of Egypt. 27And it shall come to pass in
that day, that his burden shall depart from off thy shoulder,
and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed
by reason of fatness. 28He is come to Aiath, he is passed
through Migron; at Michmash he layeth up his baggage; 29
they are gone over the pass; they have taken up their lodging at
Geba; Ramah trembleth; Gibeah of Saul is fled. 30Cry aloud
with thy voice, O daughter of Gallim! hearken, O Laishah! O thou
poor Anathoth! 31Madmenah is a fugitive; the inhabitants
of Gebim flee for safety. 32This very day shall he halt at
Nob: he shaketh his hand at the mount of the daughter of Zion,
the hill of Jerusalem. 33Behold, the Lord, Jehovah of
hosts, will lop the boughs with terror: and the high of stature
shall be hewn down, and the lofty shall be brought low. 34
And he will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and
Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
Chapter 11
1And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of
Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit. 2
And the Spirit of Jehovah shall rest upon him, the spirit of
wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the
spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah. 3And his
delight shall be in the fear of Jehovah; and he shall not judge
after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of
his ears; 4but with righteousness shall he judge the poor,
and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall
smite the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath
of his lips shall he slay the wicked. 5And righteousness
shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of
his loins. 6And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and
the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the
young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall
lead them. 7And the cow and the bear shall feed; their
young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw
like the ox. 8And the sucking child shall play on the hole
of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the
adder's den. 9They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my
holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of
Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea. 10And it shall come
to pass in that day, that the root of Jesse, that standeth for
an ensign of the peoples, unto him shall the nations seek; and
his resting-place shall be glorious. 11And it shall come
to pass in that day, that the Lord will set his hand again the
second time to recover the remnant of his people, that shall
remain, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from
Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from
the islands of the sea. 12And he will set up an ensign for
the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and
gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of
the earth. 13The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and
they that vex Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy
Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. 14And they shall
fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the west;
together shall they despoil the children of the east: they shall
put forth their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of
Ammon shall obey them. 15And Jehovah will utterly destroy
the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind will
he wave his hand over the River, and will smite it into seven
streams, and cause men to march over dryshod. 16And there
shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, that shall
remain, from Assyria; like as there was for Israel in the day
that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
Chapter 12
1And in that day thou shalt say, I will give thanks
unto thee, O Jehovah; for though thou wast angry with me, thine
anger is turned away and thou comfortest me. 2Behold, God
is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for
Jehovah, [even] Jehovah, is my strength and song; and he is
become my salvation. 3Therefore with joy shall ye draw
water out of the wells of salvation. 4And in that day
shall ye say, Give thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name,
declare his doings among the peoples, make mention that his name
is exalted. 5Sing unto Jehovah; for he hath done excellent
things: let this be known in all the earth. 6Cry aloud and
shout, thou inhabitant of Zion; for great in the midst of thee
is the Holy One of Israel.
Chapter 13
1The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz
did see. 2Set ye up an ensign upon the bare mountain, lift
up the voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the
gates of the nobles. 3I have commanded my consecrated
ones, yea, I have called my mighty men for mine anger, even my
proudly exulting ones. 4The noise of a multitude in the
mountains, as of a great people! the noise of a tumult of the
kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Jehovah of hosts is
mustering the host for the battle. 5They come from a far
country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Jehovah, and
the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
6Wail ye; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; as
destruction from the Almighty shall it come. 7Therefore
shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:
8and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take
hold [of them]; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail:
they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces [shall
be] faces of flame. 9Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh,
cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a
desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof
shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its
going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.
11And I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the
wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the arrogancy of the
proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the
terrible. 12I will make a man more rare than fine gold,
even a man than the pure gold of Ophir. 13Therefore I will
make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out
of its place, in the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day
of his fierce anger. 14And it shall come to pass, that as
the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathereth, they shall
turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to
his own land. 15Every one that is found shall be thrust
through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword.
16Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before
their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives
ravished. 17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them,
who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not
delight in it. 18And [their] bows shall dash the young men
in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb;
their eye shall not spare children. 19And Babylon, the
glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be
as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 20It shall never
be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to
generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither
shall shepherds make their flocks to lie down there. 21But
wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses
shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell
there, and wild goats shall dance there. 22And wolves
shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces:
and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be
prolonged.
Chapter 14
1For Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, and will
yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the
sojourner shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to
the house of Jacob. 2And the peoples shall take them, and
bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess
them in the land of Jehovah for servants and for handmaids: and
they shall take them captive whose captives they were; and they
shall rule over their oppressors. 3And it shall come to
pass in the day that Jehovah shall give thee rest from thy
sorrow, and from thy trouble, and from the hard service wherein
thou wast made to serve, 4that thou shalt take up this
parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the
oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! 5Jehovah hath
broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers;
6that smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke,
that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none
restrained. 7The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet:
they break forth into singing. 8Yea, the fir-trees rejoice
at thee, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since thou art
laid low, no hewer is come up against us. 9Sheol from
beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; it
stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the
earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the
nations. 10All they shall answer and say unto thee, Art
thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
11Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, [and] the noise of
thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.
12How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the
morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low
the nations! 13And thou saidst in thy heart, I will ascend
into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and
I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the uttermost
parts of the north; 14I will ascend above the heights of
the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High. 15Yet
thou shalt be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of
the pit. 16They that see thee shall gaze at thee, they
shall consider thee, [saying], Is this the man that made the
earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; 17that made the
world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that
let not loose his prisoners to their home? 18All the kings
of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, every one in his
own house. 19But thou art cast forth away from thy
sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain,
that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the
stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot. 20
Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast
destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people; the seed of
evil-doers shall not be named for ever. 21Prepare ye
slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers,
that they rise not up, and possess the earth, and fill the face
of the world with cities. 22And I will rise up against
them, saith Jehovah of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and
remnant, and son and son's son, saith Jehovah. 23I will
also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water:
and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith Jehovah
of hosts. 24Jehovah of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely,
as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have
purposed, so shall it stand: 25that I will break the
Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot:
then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart
from off their shoulder. 26This is the purpose that is
purposed upon the whole earth; and this is the hand that is
stretched out upon all the nations. 27For Jehovah of hosts
hath purposed, and who shall annul it? and his hand is stretched
out, and who shall turn it back? 28In the year that king
Ahaz died was this burden. 29Rejoice not, O Philistia, all
of thee, because the rod that smote thee is broken; for out of
the serpent's root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit
shall be a fiery flying serpent. 30And the first-born of
the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; and
I will kill thy root with famine, and thy remnant shall be
slain. 31Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou art melted away,
O Philistia, all of thee; for there cometh a smoke out of the
north, and there is no straggler in his ranks. 32What then
shall one answer the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah hath
founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his people take
refuge.
Chapter 15
1The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid
waste, [and] brought to nought; for in a night Kir of Moab is
laid waste, [and] brought to nought. 2They are gone up to
Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab waileth
over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness,
every beard is cut off. 3In their streets they gird
themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their
broad places, every one waileth, weeping abundantly. 4And
Heshbon crieth out, and Elealeh; their voice is heard even unto
Jahaz: therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul
trembleth within him. 5My heart crieth out for Moab; her
nobles [flee] unto Zoar, to Eglath-shelishi-yah: for by the
ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of
Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction. 6For the
waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered
away, the tender grass faileth, there is no green thing. 7
Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they
have laid up, shall they carry away over the brook of the
willows. 8For the cry is gone round about the borders of
Moab; the wailing thereof unto Eglaim, and the wailing thereof
unto Beer-elim. 9For the waters of Dimon are full of
blood; for I will bring yet more upon Dimon, a lion upon them of
Moab that escape, and upon the remnant of the land.
Chapter 16
1Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah
to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
2For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered
nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the
Arnon. 3Give counsel, execute justice; make thy shade as
the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray
not the fugitive. 4Let mine outcasts dwell with thee; as
for Moab, be thou a covert to him from the face of the
destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nought, destruction
ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land. 5And
a throne shall be established in lovingkindness; and one shall
sit thereon in truth, in the tent of David, judging, and seeking
justice, and swift to do righteousness. 6We have heard of
the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; even of his
arrogancy, and his pride, and his wrath; his boastings are
nought. 7Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one
shall wail: for the raisin-cakes of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn,
utterly stricken. 8For the fields of Heshbon languish,
[and] the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken
down the choice branches thereof, which reached even unto Jazer,
which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread
abroad, they passed over the sea. 9Therefore I will weep
with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water
thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for upon thy summer
fruits and upon thy harvest the [battle] shout is fallen.
10And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful
field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither
joyful noise: no treader shall tread out wine in the presses; I
have made the [vintage] shout to cease. 11Wherefore my
heart soundeth like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for
Kir-heres. 12And it shall come to pass, when Moab
presenteth himself, when he wearieth himself upon the high
place, and shall come to his sanctuary to pray, that he shall
not prevail. 13This is the word that Jehovah spake
concerning Moab in time past. 14But now Jehovah hath
spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling,
the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his
great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and of no
account.
Chapter 17
1The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away
from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 2The
cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which
shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. 3And the
fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from
Damascus, and the remnant of Syria; they shall be as the glory
of the children of Israel, saith Jehovah of hosts. 4And it
shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be
made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. 5
And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the standing
grain, and his arm reapeth the ears; yea, it shall be as when
one gleaneth ears in the valley of Rephaim. 6Yet there
shall be left therein gleanings, as the shaking of an
olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost
bough, four or five in the outmost branches of a fruitful tree,
saith Jehovah, the God of Israel. 7In that day shall men
look unto their Maker, and their eyes shall have respect to the
Holy One of Israel. 8And they shall not look to the
altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have respect
to that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or
the sun-images. 9In that day shall their strong cities be
as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top,
which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it
shall be a desolation. 10For thou hast forgotten the God
of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy
strength; therefore thou plantest pleasant plants, and settest
it with strange slips. 11In the day of thy planting thou
hedgest it in, and in the morning thou makest thy seed to
blossom; but the harvest fleeth away in the day of grief and of
desperate sorrow. 12Ah, the uproar of many peoples, that
roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations,
that rush like the rushing of mighty waters! 13The nations
shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke
them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the
chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling
dust before the storm. 14At eventide, behold, terror;
[and] before the morning they are not. This is the portion of
them that despoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Chapter 18
1Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond
the rivers of Ethiopia; 2that sendeth ambassadors by the
sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, [saying], Go,
ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people
terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out
and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide! 3All ye
inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the earth, when an
ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and when the
trumpet is blown, hear ye. 4For thus hath Jehovah said
unto me, I will be still, and I will behold in my
dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew
in the heat of harvest. 5For before the harvest, when the
blossom is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he
will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading
branches will he take away [and] cut down. 6They shall be
left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to
the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer
upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon
them. 7In that time shall a present be brought unto
Jehovah of hosts [from] a people tall and smooth, even from a
people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that
meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to
the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion.
Chapter 19
1The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah rideth upon a
swift cloud, and cometh unto Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall
tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt shall melt in
the midst of it. 2And I will stir up the Egyptians against
the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his
brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city,
[and] kingdom against kingdom. 3And the spirit of Egypt
shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel
thereof: and they shall seek unto the idols, and to the
charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the
wizards. 4And I will give over the Egyptians into the hand
of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith
the Lord, Jehovah of hosts. 5And the waters shall fail
from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.
6And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt
shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall
wither away. 7The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the
Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, shall become dry, be
driven away, and be no more. 8And the fishers shall
lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn,
and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. 9
Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave
white cloth, shall be confounded. 10And the pillars [of
Egypt] shall be broken in pieces; all they that work for hire
[shall be] grieved in soul. 11The princes of Zoan are
utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counsellors of
Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son
of the wise, the son of ancient kings? 12Where then are
thy wise men? and let them tell thee now; and let them know what
Jehovah of hosts hath purposed concerning Egypt. 13The
princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Memphis are
deceived; they have caused Egypt to go astray, that are the
corner-stone of her tribes. 14Jehovah hath mingled a
spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused
Egypt to go astray in every work thereof, as a drunken man
staggereth in his vomit. 15Neither shall there be for
Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.
16In that day shall the Egyptians be like unto women; and
they shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand
of Jehovah of hosts, which he shaketh over them. 17And the
land of Judah shall become a terror unto Egypt; every one to
whom mention is made thereof shall be afraid, because of the
purpose of Jehovah of hosts, which he purposeth against it.
18In that day there shall be five cities in the land of
Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Jehovah of
hosts; one shall be called The city of destruction. 19In
that day shall there be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the
land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to Jehovah.
20And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto
Jehovah of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry unto
Jehovah because of oppressors, and he will send them a saviour,
and a defender, and he will deliver them. 21And Jehovah
shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know Jehovah in
that day; yea, they shall worship with sacrifice and oblation,
and shall vow a vow unto Jehovah, and shall perform it. 22
And Jehovah will smite Egypt, smiting and healing; and they
shall return unto Jehovah, and he will be entreated of them, and
will heal them. 23In that day shall there be a highway out
of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and
the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians shall worship with
the Assyrians. 24In that day shall Israel be the third
with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the
earth; 25for that Jehovah of hosts hath blessed them,
saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my
hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
Chapter 20
1In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, when Sargon
the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and
took it; 2at that time Jehovah spake by Isaiah the son of
Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins,
and put thy shoe from off thy foot. And he did so, walking naked
and barefoot. 3And Jehovah said, Like as my servant Isaiah
hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a
wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia; 4so shall
the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the
exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with
buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. 5And they shall
be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their
expectation, and of Egypt their glory. 6And the inhabitant
of this coast-land shall say in that day, Behold, such is our
expectation, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the
king of Assyria: and we, how shall we escape?
Chapter 21
1The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds
in the South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from
a terrible land. 2A grievous vision is declared unto me;
the treacherous man dealeth treacherously, and the destroyer
destroyeth. Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media; all the sighing
thereof have I made to cease. 3Therefore are my loins
filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs
of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am
dismayed so that I cannot see. 4My heart fluttereth,
horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been
turned into trembling unto me. 5They prepare the table,
they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes,
anoint the shield. 6For thus hath the Lord said unto me,
Go, set a watchman: let him declare what he seeth: 7and
when he seeth a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of asses, a
troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed.
8And he cried as a lion: O Lord, I stand continually upon
the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole
nights; 9and, behold, here cometh a troop of men, horsemen
in pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the
ground. 10O thou my threshing, and the grain of my floor!
that which I have heard from Jehovah of hosts, the God of
Israel, have I declared unto you. 11The burden of Dumah.
One calleth unto me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night?
Watchman, what of the night? 12The watchman said, The
morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire
ye: turn ye, come. 13The burden upon Arabia. In the forest
in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites. 14
Unto him that was thirsty they brought water; the inhabitants of
the land of Tema did meet the fugitives with their bread.
15For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn
sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
16For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year,
according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar
shall fail; 17and the residue of the number of the
archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be few;
for Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath spoken it.
Chapter 22
1The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee
now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? 2O
thou that art full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous
town; thy slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they
dead in battle. 3All thy rulers fled away together, they
were bound by the archers; all that were found of thee were
bound together; they fled afar off. 4Therefore said I,
Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me
for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 5For it
is a day of discomfiture, and of treading down, and of
perplexity, from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of
vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the
mountains. 6And Elam bare the quiver, with chariots of men
[and] horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield. 7And it came
to pass, that thy choicest valleys were full of chariots, and
the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate. 8And he
took away the covering of Judah; and thou didst look in that day
to the armor in the house of the forest. 9And ye saw the
breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and ye
gathered together the waters of the lower pool; 10and ye
numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and ye brake down the houses
to fortify the wall; 11ye made also a reservoir between
the two walls for the water of the old pool. But ye looked not
unto him that had done this, neither had ye respect unto him
that purposed it long ago. 12And in that day did the Lord,
Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to
baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: 13and behold, joy
and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and
drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.
14And Jehovah of hosts revealed himself in mine ears,
Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till ye die,
saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts. 15Thus saith the Lord,
Jehovah of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto
Shebna, who is over the house, [and say], 16What doest
thou here? and whom has thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out
here a sepulchre? hewing him out a sepulchre on high, graving a
habitation for himself in the rock! 17Behold, Jehovah,
like a [strong] man, will hurl thee away violently; yea, he will
wrap thee up closely. 18He will surely wind thee round and
round, [and toss thee] like a ball into a large country; there
shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory,
thou shame of thy lord's house. 19And I will thrust thee
from thine office; and from thy station shalt thou be pulled
down. 20And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will
call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: 21and I will
cloth him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and
I will commit thy government into his hand; and he shall be a
father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of
Judah. 22And the key of the house of David will I lay upon
his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he
shall shut, and none shall open. 23And I will fasten him
as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a throne of glory
to his father's house. 24And they shall hang upon him all
the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue,
every small vessel, from the cups even to all the flagons.
25In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, shall the nail that
was fastened in a sure place give way; and it shall be hewn
down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut
off; for Jehovah hath spoken it.
Chapter 23
1The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it
is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from
the land of Kittim it is revealed to them. 2Be still, ye
inhabitants of the coast, thou whom the merchants of Sidon, that
pass over the sea, have replenished. 3And on great waters
the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her
revenue; and she was the mart of nations. 4Be thou
ashamed, O Sidon; for the sea hath spoken, the stronghold of the
sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither
have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins. 5When
the report cometh to Egypt, they shall be sorely pained at the
report of Tyre. 6Pass ye over to Tarshish; wail, ye
inhabitants of the coast. 7Is this your joyous [city],
whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her afar
off to sojourn? 8Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the
bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose
traffickers are the honorable of the earth? 9Jehovah of
hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to
bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth. 10Pass
through thy land as the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is
no restraint any more. 11He hath stretched out his hand
over the sea, he hath shaken the kingdoms: Jehovah hath given
commandment concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds
thereof. 12And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou
oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon: arise, pass over to Kittim;
even there shalt thou have no rest. 13Behold, the land of
the Chaldeans: this people was not; the Assyrian founded it for
them that dwell in the wilderness; they set up their towers;
they overthrew the palaces thereof; they made it a ruin. 14
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for your stronghold is laid waste.
15And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall
be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king:
after the end of seventy years it shall be unto Tyre as in the
song of the harlot. 16Take a harp, go about the city, thou
harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many
songs, that thou mayest be remembered. 17And it shall come
to pass after the end of seventy years, that Jehovah will visit
Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the
harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the
earth. 18And her merchandise and her hire shall be
holiness to Jehovah: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for
her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before Jehovah, to
eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
Chapter 24
1Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it
waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the
inhabitants thereof. 2And it shall be, as with the people,
so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as
with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with
the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with
the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.
3The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid
waste; for Jehovah hath spoken this word. 4The earth
mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away,
the lofty people of the earth do languish. 5The earth also
is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have
transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the
everlasting covenant. 6Therefore hath the curse devoured
the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty:
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men
left. 7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all
the merry-hearted do sigh. 8The mirth of tabrets ceaseth,
the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp
ceaseth. 9They shall not drink wine with a song; strong
drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 10The waste
city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may
come in. 11There is a crying in the streets because of the
wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
12In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten
with destruction. 13For thus shall it be in the midst of
the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive-tree, as
the gleanings when the vintage is done. 14These shall lift
up their voice, they shall shout; for the majesty of Jehovah
they cry aloud from the sea. 15Wherefore glorify ye
Jehovah in the east, even the name of Jehovah, the God of
Israel, in the isles of the sea. 16From the uttermost part
of the earth have we heard songs: Glory to the righteous. But I
said, I pine away, I pine away, woe is me! the treacherous have
dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous have dealt very
treacherously. 17Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are
upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. 18And it shall come
to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall
fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the
pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows on high are
opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. 19The
earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is
shaken violently. 20The earth shall stagger like a drunken
man, and shall sway to and fro like a hammock; and the
transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall,
and not rise again. 21And it shall come to pass in that
day, that Jehovah will punish the host of the high ones on high,
and the kings of the earth upon the earth. 22And they
shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the
pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days
shall they be visited. 23Then the moon shall be
confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Jehovah of hosts will reign
in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders shall be
glory.
Chapter 25
1O Jehovah, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will
praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, [even]
counsels of old, in faithfulness [and] truth. 2For thou
hast made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace
of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. 3
Therefore shall a strong people glorify thee; a city of terrible
nations shall fear thee. 4For thou hast been a stronghold
to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge
from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the
terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. 5As the heat
in a dry place wilt thou bring down the noise of strangers; as
the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the terrible ones
shall be brought low. 6And in this mountain will Jehovah
of hosts make unto all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of
wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the
lees well refined. 7And he will destroy in this mountain
the face of the covering that covereth all peoples, and the veil
that is spread over all nations. 8He hath swallowed up
death for ever; and the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from
off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away
from off all the earth: for Jehovah hath spoken it. 9And
it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have
waited for him, and he will save us: this is Jehovah; we have
waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10For in this mountain will the hand of Jehovah rest; and
Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is
trodden down in the water of the dung-hill. 11And he shall
spread forth his hands in the midst thereof, as he that swimmeth
spreadeth forth [his hands] to swim; but [Jehovah] will lay low
his pride together with the craft of his hands. 12And the
high fortress of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, and
brought to the ground, even to the dust.
Chapter 26
1In that day shall this song be sung in the land of
Judah: we have a strong city; salvation will he appoint for
walls and bulwarks. 2Open ye the gates, that the righteous
nation which keepeth faith may enter in. 3Thou wilt keep
[him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee];
because he trusteth in thee. 4Trust ye in Jehovah for
ever; for in Jehovah, [even] Jehovah, is an everlasting rock.
5For he hath brought down them that dwell on high, the
lofty city: he layeth it low, he layeth it low even to the
ground; he bringeth it even to the dust. 6The foot shall
tread it down; even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the
needy. 7The way of the just is uprightness: thou that art
upright dost direct the path of the just. 8Yea, in the way
of thy judgments, O Jehovah, have we waited for thee; to thy
name, even to thy memorial [name], is the desire of our soul.
9With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with
my spirit within me will I seek thee earnestly: for when thy
judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn
righteousness. 10Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet
will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will
he deal wrongfully, and will not behold the majesty of Jehovah.
11Jehovah, thy hand is lifted up, yet they see not: but
they shall see [thy] zeal for the people, and be put to shame;
yea, fire shall devour thine adversaries. 12Jehovah, thou
wilt ordain peace for us; for thou hast also wrought all our
works for us. 13O Jehovah our God, other lords besides
thee have had dominion over us; but by thee only will we make
mention of thy name. 14[They are] dead, they shall not
live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast
thou visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of
them to perish. 15Thou hast increased the nation, O
Jehovah, thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified;
thou hast enlarged all the borders of the land. 16Jehovah,
in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out a prayer
[when] thy chastening was upon them. 17Like as a woman
with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in
pain and crieth out in her pangs; so we have been before thee, O
Jehovah. 18We have been with child, we have been in pain,
we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any
deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the
world fallen. 19Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall
arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is
[as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
20Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut
thy doors about thee: hide thyself for a little moment, until
the indignation be overpast. 21For, behold, Jehovah cometh
forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth
for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and
shall no more cover her slain.
Chapter 27
1In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong
sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the
crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the
sea. 2In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing ye unto it.
3I Jehovah am its keeper; I will water it every moment:
lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. 4Wrath is
not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in
battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together.
5Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may
make peace with me; [yea], let him make peace with me. 6In
days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and
bud; and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.
7Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them?
or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were
slain by them? 8In measure, when thou sendest them away,
thou dost content with them; he hath removed [them] with his
rough blast in the day of the east wind. 9Therefore by
this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all
the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones
of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, [so that]
the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more. 10For
the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and
forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and
there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be
broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it
is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them
will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will
show them no favor. 12And it shall come to pass in that
day, that Jehovah will beat off [his fruit] from the flood of
the River unto the brook of Egypt; and ye shall be gathered one
by one, O ye children of Israel. 13And it shall come to
pass in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they
shall come that were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and
they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall
worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
Chapter 28
1Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim,
and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the
head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine!
2Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one; as a
tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty
waters overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the
hand. 3The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim
shall be trodden under foot: 4and the fading flower of his
glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall
be as the first-ripe fig before the summer; which when he that
looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it
up. 5In that day will Jehovah of hosts become a crown of
glory, and a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people;
6and a spirit of justice to him that sitteth in judgment,
and strength to them that turn back the battle at the gate.
7And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong
drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they
are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they
err in vision, they stumble in judgment. 8For all tables
are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place
[clean]. 9Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he
make to understand the message? them that are weaned from the
milk, and drawn from the breasts? 10For it is precept upon
precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line;
here a little, there a little. 11Nay, but by [men of]
strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this
people; 12to whom he said, This is the rest, give ye rest
to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would
not hear. 13Therefore shall the word of Jehovah be unto
them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line,
line upon line; here a little, there a little; that they may go,
and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. 14
Wherefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that rule this
people that is in Jerusalem: 15Because ye have said, We
have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we at
agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it
shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and
under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 16therefore thus
saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a
stone, a tried stone, a precious corner -[stone] of sure
foundation: he that believeth shall not be in haste. 17And
I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and
the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters
shall overflow the hiding-place. 18And your covenant with
death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not
stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye
shall be trodden down by it. 19As often as it passeth
though, it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass
through, by day and by night: and it shall be nought but terror
to understand the message. 20For the bed is shorter than
that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower
than that he can wrap himself in it. 21For Jehovah will
rise up as in mount Perazim, he will be wroth as in the valley
of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring
to pass his act, his strange act. 22Now therefore be ye
not scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of
destruction have I heard from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, upon
the whole earth. 23Give ye ear, and hear my voice;
hearken, and hear my speech. 24Doth he that ploweth to sow
plow continually? doth he [continually] open and harrow his
ground? 25When he hath levelled the face thereof, doth he
not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and put in
the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and
the spelt in the border thereof? 26For his God doth
instruct him aright, [and] doth teach him. 27For the
fitches are not threshed with a sharp [threshing] instrument,
neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the
fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
28Bread [grain] is ground; for he will not be always
threshing it: and though the wheel of his cart and his horses
scatter it, he doth not grind it. 29This also cometh forth
from Jehovah of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and
excellent in wisdom.
Chapter 29
1Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! add ye
year to year; let the feasts come round: 2then will I
distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation; and
she shall be unto me as Ariel. 3And I will encamp against
thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with posted
troops, and I will raise siege works against thee. 4And
thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground,
and thy speech shall be low out of the dust; and thy voice shall
be as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and
thy speech shall whisper out of the dust. 5But the
multitude of thy foes shall be like small dust, and the
multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away: yea,
it shall be in an instant suddenly. 6She shall be visited
of Jehovah of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great
noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring
fire. 7And the multitude of all the nations that fight
against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her
stronghold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision
of the night. 8And it shall be as when a hungry man
dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul
is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he
drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul
hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be,
that fight against mount Zion. 9Tarry ye and wonder; take
your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine;
they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10For Jehovah
hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath
closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, hath
he covered. 11And all vision is become unto you as the
words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is
learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot,
for it is sealed: 12and the book is delivered to him that
is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I
am not learned. 13And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this
people draw nigh [unto me], and with their mouth and with their
lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and
their fear of me is a commandment of men which hath been taught
[them]; 14therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a
marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a
wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the
understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. 15Woe
unto them that hide deep their counsel from Jehovah, and whose
works are in the dark, and that say, Who seeth us? and who
knoweth us? 16Ye turn things upside down! Shall the potter
be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him that
made it, He made me not; or the thing formed say of him that
formed it, He hath no understanding? 17Is it not yet a
very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful
field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
18And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the
book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and
out of darkness. 19The meek also shall increase their joy
in Jehovah, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One
of Israel. 20For the terrible one is brought to nought,
and the scoffer ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity
are cut off; 21that make a man an offender in [his] cause,
and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn
aside the just with a thing of nought. 22Therefore thus
saith Jehovah, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of
Jacob: Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face
now wax pale. 23But when he seeth his children, the work
of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name;
yea, they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall stand
in awe of the God of Israel. 24They also that err in
spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmur shall
receive instruction.
Chapter 30
1Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, that
take counsel, but not of me; and that make a league, but not of
my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin, 2that set out to
go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to
strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take
refuge in the shadow of Egypt! 3Therefore shall the
strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow
of Egypt your confusion. 4For their princes are at Zoan,
and their ambassadors are come to Hanes. 5They shall all
be ashamed because of a people that cannot profit them, that are
not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. 6
The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land of
trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion,
the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon
the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps
of camels, to a people that shall not profit [them]. 7For
Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I
called her Rahab that sitteth still. 8Now go, write it
before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may
be for the time to come for ever and ever. 9For it is a
rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear
the law of Jehovah; 10that say to the seers, See not; and
to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto
us smooth things, prophesy deceits, 11get you out of the
way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to
cease from before us. 12Wherefore thus saith the Holy One
of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression
and perverseness, and rely thereon; 13therefore this
iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out
in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly in an instant.
14And he shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken,
breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not
be found among the pieces thereof a sherd wherewith to take fire
from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern. 15
For thus said the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In
returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in
confidence shall be your strength. And ye would not: 16but
ye said, No, for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye
flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they
that pursue you be swift. 17One thousand [shall flee] at
the threat of one; at the threat of five shall ye flee: till ye
be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign
on a hill. 18And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may
be gracious unto you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he
may have mercy upon you: for Jehovah is a God of justice;
blessed are all they that wait for him. 19For the people
shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; thou shalt weep no more; he
will surely be gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when
he shall hear, he will answer thee. 20And though the Lord
give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet
shall not thy teachers be hidden anymore, but thine eyes shall
see thy teachers; 21and thine ears shall hear a word
behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it; when ye
turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. 22
And ye shall defile the overlaying of thy graven images of
silver, and the plating of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt
cast them away as an unclean thing; thou shalt say unto it, Get
thee hence. 23And he will give the rain for thy seed,
wherewith thou shalt sow the ground; and bread of the increase
of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day
shall thy cattle feed in large pastures; 24the oxen
likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat
savory provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and
with the fork. 25And there shall be upon every lofty
mountain, and upon every high hill, brooks [and] streams of
waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
26Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of
the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the
light of seven days, in the day that Jehovah bindeth up the hurt
of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. 27
Behold, the name of Jehovah cometh from far, burning with his
anger, and in thick rising smoke: his lips are full of
indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire; 28and
his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reacheth even unto
the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction: and
a bridle that causeth to err [shall be] in the jaws of the
peoples. 29Ye shall have a song as in the night when a
holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth
with a pipe to come unto the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of
Israel. 30And Jehovah will cause his glorious voice to be
heard, and will show the lighting down of his arm, with the
indignation of [his] anger, and the flame of a devouring fire,
with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones. 31For through
the voice of Jehovah shall the Assyrian be dismayed; with his
rod will he smite [him]. 32And every stroke of the
appointed staff, which Jehovah shall lay upon him, shall be with
[the sound of] tabrets and harps; and in battles with the
brandishing [of his arm] will he fight with them. 33For a
Topheth is prepared of old; yea, for the king it is made ready;
he hath made it deep and large; the pile thereof is fire and
much wood; the breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone,
doth kindle it.
Chapter 31
1Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and rely
on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in
horsemen because they are very strong, but they look not unto
the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Jehovah! 2Yet he also
is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words,
but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against
the help of them that work iniquity. 3Now the Egyptians
are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit:
and when Jehovah shall stretch out his hand, both he that
helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall fall, and
they all shall be consumed together. 4For thus saith
Jehovah unto me, As the lion and the young lion growling over
his prey, if a multitude of shepherds be called forth against
him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for
the noise of them: so will Jehovah of hosts come down to fight
upon mount Zion, and upon the hill thereof. 5As birds
hovering, so will Jehovah of hosts protect Jerusalem; he will
protect and deliver [it], he will pass over and preserve [it].
6Turn ye unto him from whom ye have deeply revolted, O
children of Israel. 7For in that day they shall cast away
every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your
own hands have made unto you for a sin. 8And the Assyrian
shall fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of men,
shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his
young men shall become subject to taskwork. 9And his rock
shall pass away by reason of terror, and his princes shall be
dismayed at the ensign, saith Jehovah, whose fire is in Zion,
and his furnace in Jerusalem.
Chapter 32
1Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and
princes shall rule in justice. 2And a man shall be as a
hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as
streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in
a weary land. 3And the eyes of them that see shall not be
dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken. 4And
the heart of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue
of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. 5The
fool shall be no more called noble, nor the churl said to be
bountiful. 6For the fool will speak folly, and his heart
will work iniquity, to practise profaneness, and to utter error
against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to
cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. 7And the
instruments of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to
destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh
right. 8But the noble deviseth noble things; and in noble
things shall he continue. 9Rise up, ye women that are at
ease, [and] hear my voice; ye careless daughters, give ear unto
my speech. 10For days beyond a year shall ye be troubled,
ye careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering
shall not come. 11Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be
troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and
gird [sackcloth] upon your loins. 12They shall smite upon
the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
13Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and
briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
14For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city
shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for
dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; 15
until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the
wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be
esteemed as a forest. 16Then justice shall dwell in the
wilderness; and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field.
17And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the
effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence for ever.
18And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and
in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places. 19But it
shall hail in the downfall of the forest; and the city shall be
utterly laid low. 20Blessed are yet that sow beside all
waters, that send forth the feet of the ox and the ass.
Chapter 33
1Woe to thee that destroyest, and thou wast not
destroyed; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not
treacherously with thee! When thou hast ceased to destroy, thou
shalt be destroyed; and when thou hast made an end of dealing
treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee. 2O
Jehovah, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou
our arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of
trouble. 3At the noise of the tumult the peoples are fled;
at the lifting up of thyself the nations are scattered. 4
And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathereth:
as locusts leap shall men leap upon it. 5Jehovah is
exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with
justice and righteousness. 6And there shall be stability
in thy times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the
fear of Jehovah is thy treasure. 7Behold, their valiant
ones cry without; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly. 8
The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: [the enemy]
hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he
regardeth not man. 9The land mourneth and languisheth;
Lebanon is confounded and withereth away; Sharon is like a
desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their leaves]. 10
Now will I arise, saith Jehovah; now will I lift up myself; now
will I be exalted. 11Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall
bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour
you. 12And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime,
as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire. 13Hear,
ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near,
acknowledge my might. 14The sinners in Zion are afraid;
trembling hath seized the godless ones: Who among us can dwell
with the devouring fire? who among us can dwell with everlasting
burnings? 15He that walketh righteously, and speaketh
uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that
shaketh his hands from taking a bribe, that stoppeth his ears
from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from looking upon
evil: 16He shall dwell on high; his place of defence shall
be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given [him]; his
waters shall be sure. 17Thine eyes shall see the king in
his beauty: they shall behold a land that reacheth afar. 18
Thy heart shall muse on the terror: Where is he that counted,
where is he that weighed [the tribute]? where is he that counted
the towers? 19Thou shalt not see the fierce people, a
people of a deep speech that thou canst not comprehend, of a
strange tongue that thou canst not understand. 20Look upon
Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see
Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be removed,
the stakes whereof shall never be plucked up, neither shall any
of the cords thereof be broken. 21But there Jehovah will
be with us in majesty, a place of broad rivers and streams,
wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship
pass thereby. 22For Jehovah is our judge, Jehovah is our
lawgiver, Jehovah is our king; he will save us. 23Thy
tacklings are loosed; they could not strengthen the foot of
their mast, they could not spread the sail: then was the prey of
a great spoil divided; the lame took the prey. 24And the
inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell
therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
Chapter 34
1Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye
peoples: let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world,
and all things that come forth from it. 2For Jehovah hath
indignation against all the nations, and wrath against all their
host: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to
the slaughter. 3Their slain also shall be cast out, and
the stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains
shall be melted with their blood. 4And all the host of
heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled
together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as the
leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as a fading [leaf] from the
fig-tree. 5For my sword hath drunk its fill in heaven:
behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my
curse, to judgment. 6The sword of Jehovah is filled with
blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and
goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a
sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the
bullocks with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken with
blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. 8For Jehovah
hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of
Zion. 9And the streams of [Edom] shall be turned into
pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof
shall become burning pitch. 10It shall not be quenched
night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever; from
generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass
through it for ever and ever. 11But the pelican and the
porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall
dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of
confusion, and the plummet of emptiness. 12They shall call
the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and
all its princes shall be nothing. 13And thorns shall come
up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses
thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for
ostriches. 14And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet
with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yea,
the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place
of rest. 15There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and
lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yea, there shall the
kites be gathered, every one with her mate. 16Seek ye out
of the book of Jehovah, and read: no one of these shall be
missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it hath
commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them. 17And he
hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto
them by line: they shall possess it for ever; from generation to
generation shall they dwell therein.
Chapter 35
1The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; and the
desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. 2It shall
blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing; the
glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of
Carmel and Sharon: they shall see the glory of Jehovah, the
excellency of our God. 3Strengthen ye the weak hands, and
confirm the feeble knees. 4Say to them that are of a
fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come
[with] vengeance, [with] the recompense of God; he will come and
save you. 5Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and
the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 6Then shall the
lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing;
for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the
desert. 7And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the
thirsty ground springs of water: in the habitation of jackals,
where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. 8And
a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The
way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but is
shall be for [the redeemed]: the wayfaring men, yea fools, shall
not err [therein]. 9No lion shall be there, nor shall any
ravenous beast go up thereon; they shall not be found there; but
the redeemed shall walk [there]: 10and the ransomed of
Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and
everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain
gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Chapter 36
1Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king
Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all
the fortified cities of Judah, and took them. 2And the
king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto
king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of
the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field. 3Then
came forth unto him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph,
the recorder. 4And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to
Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What
confidence is this wherein thou trustest? 5I say, [thy]
counsel and strength for the war are but vain words: now on whom
dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me? 6
Behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even
upon Egypt, whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and
pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust on him.
7But if thou say unto me, We trust in Jehovah our God: is
not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath
taken away, and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall
worship before this altar? 8Now therefore, I pray thee,
give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give
thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set
riders upon them. 9How then canst thou turn away the face
of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy
trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? 10And am I
now come up without Jehovah against this land to destroy it?
Jehovah said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
11Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh,
Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language;
for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language,
in the ears of the people that are on the wall. 12But
Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to
thee, to speak these words? [hath he] not [sent me] to the men
that sit upon the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink
their own water with you? 13Then Rabshakeh stood, and
cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye
the words of the great king, the king of Assyria. 14Thus
saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be
able to deliver you: 15neither let Hezekiah make you trust
in Jehovah, saying, Jehovah will surely deliver us; this city
shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 16
Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria,
Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and eat ye every
one of his vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye
every one the waters of his own cistern; 17until I come
and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain
and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 18Beware lest
Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us. Hath any
of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of
the king of Assyria? 19Where are the gods of Hamath and
Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered
Samaria out of my hand? 20Who are they among all the gods
of these countries, that have delivered their country out of my
hand, that Jehovah should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
21But they held their peace, and answered him not a word;
for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not. 22
Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, that was over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph,
the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him
the words of Rabshakeh.
Chapter 37
1And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that
he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and
went into the house of Jehovah. 2And he sent Eliakim, who
was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of
the priests, covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the
son of Amoz. 3And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah,
This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely;
for the children are come to the birth, and there is not
strength to bring forth. 4It may be Jehovah thy God will
hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master
hath sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words
which Jehovah thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer
for the remnant that is left. 5So the servants of king
Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6And Isaiah said unto them, Thus
shall ye say to your master, Thus saith Jehovah, Be not afraid
of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the
king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 7Behold, I will put a
spirit in him, and he shall hear tidings, and shall return unto
his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his
own land. 8So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of
Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was
departed from Lachish. 9And he heard say concerning
Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come out to fight against thee.
And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
10Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying,
Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying,
Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of
Assyria. 11Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of
Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and
shalt thou be delivered? 12Have the gods of the nations
delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and
Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in
Telassar? 13Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of
Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and
Ivvah? 14And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of
the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up unto the house
of Jehovah, and spread it before Jehovah. 15And Hezekiah
prayed unto Jehovah, saying, 16O Jehovah of hosts, the God
of Israel, that sittest [above] the cherubim, thou art the God,
even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast
made heaven and earth. 17Incline thine ear, O Jehovah, and
hear; open thine eyes, O Jehovah, and see; and hear all the
words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to defy the living God.
18Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid
waste all the countries, and their land, 19and have cast
their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of
men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
20Now therefore, O Jehovah our God, save us from his hand,
that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art
Jehovah, even thou only. 21Then Isaiah the son of Amoz
sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of
Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king
of Assyria, 22this is the word which Jehovah hath spoken
concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion hath despised thee
and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken
her head at thee. 23Whom hast thou defied and blasphemed?
and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine
eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel. 24By
thy servants hast thou defied the Lord, and hast said, With the
multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the
mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut
down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir-trees thereof;
and I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its
fruitful field; 25I have digged and drunk water, and with
the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
26Hast thou not heard how I have done it long ago, and
formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that
it should be thine to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous
heaps. 27Therefore their inhabitants were of small power,
they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the
field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and
as a field [of grain] before it is grown up. 28But I know
thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy
raging against me. 29Because of thy raging against me, and
because thine arrogancy is come up into mine ears, therefore
will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I
will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest. 30And
this shall be the sign unto thee: ye shall eat this year that
which groweth of itself, and in the second year that which
springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap,
and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof. 31And the
remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take
root downward, and bear fruit upward. 32For out of
Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of mount Zion they
that shall escape. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform
this. 33Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the king
of Assyria, He shall not come unto this city, nor shoot an arrow
there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up
a mound against it. 34By the way that he came, by the same
shall he return, and he shall not come unto this city, saith
Jehovah. 35For I will defend this city to save it, for
mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake. 36And the
angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the
Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand; and when
men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead
bodies. 37So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and
went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. 38And it came to
pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god,
that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword;
and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon his
son reigned in his stead.
Chapter 38
1In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah
the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus
saith Jehovah, Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and
not live. 2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and
prayed unto Jehovah, 3and said, Remember now, O Jehovah, I
beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a
perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight.
And Hezekiah wept sore. 4Then came the word of Jehovah to
Isaiah, saying, 5Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith
Jehovah, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I
have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen
years. 6And I will deliver thee and this city out of the
hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city. 7
And this shall be the sign unto thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah
will do this thing that he hath spoken: 8behold, I will
cause the shadow on the steps, which is gone down on the dial of
Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun
returned ten steps on the dial whereon it was gone down.
9The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had
been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.
10I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the
gates of Sheol:
I am deprived of the residue of my years.
11I said, I shall not see Jehovah, [even] Jehovah in the
land of the living:
I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a
shepherd's tent:
I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off
from the loom:
From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
13I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he
breaketh all my bones:
From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
14Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter;
I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail [with looking] upward:
O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and
himself hath done it:
I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my
soul.
16O Lord, by these things men live;
And wholly therein is the life of my spirit:
Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.
17Behold, [it was] for [my] peace [that] I had great
bitterness:
But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of
corruption;
For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
18For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate
thee:
They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do
this day:
The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
20Jehovah is [ready] to save me:
Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments
All the days of our life in the house of Jehovah.
21Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs,
and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.
22Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go
up to the house of Jehovah?
Chapter 39
1At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king
of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard
that he had been sick, and was recovered. 2And Hezekiah
was glad of them, and showed them the house of his precious
things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the
precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was
found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in
all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not. 3Then
came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him,
What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And
Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even
from Babylon. 4Then said he, What have they seen in thy
house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they
seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed
them. 5Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of
Jehovah of hosts: 6Behold, the days are coming, when all
that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in
store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall
be left, saith Jehovah. 7And of thy sons that shall issue
from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they
shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. 8
Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of Jehovah
which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be
peace and truth in my days.
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1Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
2Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry unto her, that
her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that
she hath received of Jehovah's hand double for all her sins.
3The voice of one that crieth, Prepare ye in the
wilderness the way of Jehovah; make level in the desert a
highway for our God. 4Every valley shall be exalted, and
every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the uneven shall
be made level, and the rough places a plain: 5and the
glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it
together; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it. 6The
voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All
flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower
of the field. 7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth,
because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people
is grass. 8The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the
word of our God shall stand forever. 9O thou that tellest
good tidings to Zion, get thee up on a high mountain; O thou
that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with
strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of
Judah, Behold, your God! 10Behold, the Lord Jehovah will
come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him: Behold, his
reward is with him, and his recompense before him. 11He
will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in
his arm, and carry them in his bosom, [and] will gently lead
those that have their young. 12Who hath measured the
waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the
span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and
weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
13Who hath directed the Spirit of Jehovah, or being his
counsellor hath taught him? 14With whom took he counsel,
and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice,
and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of
understanding? 15Behold, the nations are as a drop of a
bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance:
Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. 16
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof
sufficient for a burnt-offering. 17All the nations are as
nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than
nothing, and vanity. 18To whom then will ye liken God? or
what likeness will ye compare unto him? 19The image, a
workman hath cast [it], and the goldsmith overlayeth it with
gold, and casteth [for it] silver chains. 20He that is too
impoverished for [such] an oblation chooseth a tree that will
not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilful workman to set up a
graven image, that shall not be moved. 21Have ye not
known? have yet not heard? hath it not been told you from the
beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the
earth? 22[It is] he that sitteth above the circle of the
earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that
stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out
as a tent to dwell in; 23that bringeth princes to nothing;
that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. 24Yea, they
have not been planted; yea, they have not been sown; yea, their
stock hath not taken root in the earth: moreover he bloweth upon
them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as
stubble. 25To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be
equal [to him]? saith the Holy One. 26Lift up your eyes on
high, and see who hath created these, that bringeth out their
host by number; he calleth them all by name; by the greatness of
his might, and for that he is strong in power, not one is
lacking. 27Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O
Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah, and the justice [due] to me
is passed away from my God? 28Hast thou not known? hast
thou not heard? The everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the
ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary; there is no
searching of his understanding. 29He giveth power to the
faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.
30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young
men shall utterly fall: 31but they that wait for Jehovah
shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as
eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and
not faint.
Chapter 41
1Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the peoples
renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak;
let us come near together to judgment. 2Who hath raised up
one from the east, whom he calleth in righteousness to his foot?
he giveth nations before him, and maketh him rule over kings; he
giveth them as the dust to his sword, as the driven stubble to
his bow. 3He pursueth them, and passeth on safely, even by
a way that he had not gone with his feet. 4Who hath
wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning?
I, Jehovah, the first, and with the last, I am he. 5The
isles have seen, and fear; the ends of the earth tremble; they
draw near, and come. 6They help every one his neighbor;
and [every one] saith to his brother, Be of good courage. 7
So the carpenter encourageth the goldsmith, [and] he that
smootheth with the hammer him that smiteth the anvil, saying of
the soldering, It is good; and he fasteneth it with nails, that
is should not be moved. 8But thou, Israel, my servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend, 9
thou whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and
called from the corners thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my
servant, I have chosen thee and not cast thee away; 10Fear
thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God;
I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will
uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. 11
Behold, all they that are incensed against thee shall be put to
shame and confounded: they that strive with thee shall be as
nothing, and shall perish. 12Thou shalt seek them, and
shalt not find them, even them that contend with thee: they that
war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
13For I, Jehovah thy God, will hold thy right hand, saying
unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. 14Fear not, thou
worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith
Jehovah, and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. 15
Behold, I have made thee [to be] a new sharp threshing
instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and
beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. 16Thou
shalt winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the
whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah,
thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. 17The poor and
needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth
for thirst; I, Jehovah, will answer them, I, the God of Israel,
will not forsake them. 18I will open rivers on the bare
heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make
the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of
water. 19I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the
acacia, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the
desert the fir-tree, the pine, and the box-tree together:
20that they may see, and know, and consider, and
understand together, that the hand of Jehovah hath done this,
and the Holy One of Israel hath created it. 21Produce your
cause, saith Jehovah; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the
King of Jacob. 22Let them bring forth, and declare unto us
what shall happen: declare ye the former things, what they are,
that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or
show us things to come. 23Declare the things that are to
come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good,
or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
24Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of nought;
an abomination is he that chooseth you. 25I have raised up
one from the north, and he is come; from the rising of the sun
one that calleth upon my name: and he shall come upon rulers as
upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay. 26Who hath
declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and
beforetime, that we may say, [He is] right? yea, there is none
that declareth, yea, there is none that showeth, yea, there is
none that heareth your words. 27[I am the] first [that
saith] unto Zion, Behold, behold them; and I will give to
Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings. 28And when I
look, there is no man: even among them there is no counsellor,
that, when I ask of them, can answer a word. 29Behold, all
of them, their works are vanity [and] nought; their molten
images are wind and confusion.
Chapter 42
1Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom
my soul delighteth: I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring
forth justice to the Gentiles. 2He will not cry, nor lift
up his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street. 3A
bruised reed will he not break, and a dimly burning wick will he
not quench: he will bring forth justice in truth. 4He will
not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set justice in the
earth; and the isles shall wait for his law. 5Thus saith
God Jehovah, he that created the heavens, and stretched them
forth; he that spread abroad the earth and that which cometh out
of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit
to them that walk therein: 6I, Jehovah, have called thee
in righteousness, and will hold thy hand, and will keep thee,
and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the
Gentiles; 7to open the blind eyes, to bring out the
prisoners from the dungeon, and them that sit in darkness out of
the prison-house. 8I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my
glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven
images. 9Behold, the former things are come to pass, and
new things do I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of
them. 10Sing unto Jehovah a new song, and his praise from
the end of the earth; ye that go down to the sea, and all that
is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. 11Let
the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up [their voice], the
villages that Kedar doth inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela
sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. 12Let
them give glory unto Jehovah, and declare his praise in the
islands. 13Jehovah will go forth as a mighty man; he will
stir up [his] zeal like a man of war: he will cry, yea, he will
shout aloud; he will do mightily against his enemies. 14I
have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained
myself: [now] will I cry out like a travailing woman; I will
gasp and pant together. 15I will lay waste mountains and
hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers
islands, and will dry up the pools. 16And I will bring the
blind by a way that they know not; in paths that they know not
will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and
crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not
forsake them. 17They shall be turned back, they shall be
utterly put to shame, that trust in graven images, that say unto
molten images, Ye are our gods. 18Hear, ye deaf; and look,
ye blind, that ye may see. 19Who is blind, but my servant?
or deaf, as my messenger that I send? who is blind as he that is
at peace [with me], and blind as Jehovah's servant? 20Thou
seest many things, but thou observest not; his ears are open,
but he heareth not. 21It pleased Jehovah, for his
righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.
22But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all
of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they
are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none
saith, Restore. 23Who is there among you that will give
ear to this? that will hearken and hear for the time to come?
24Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers?
did not Jehovah? he against whom we have sinned, and in whose
ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient unto his
law. 25Therefore he poured upon him the fierceness of his
anger, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire round
about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to
heart.
Chapter 43
1But now thus saith Jehovah that created thee, O Jacob,
and he that formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed
thee; I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine. 2When
thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and
through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou
walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither
shall the flame kindle upon thee. 3For I am Jehovah thy
God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour; I have given Egypt as
thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in thy stead. 4Since thou
hast been precious in my sight, [and] honorable, and I have
loved thee; therefore will I give men in thy stead, and peoples
instead of thy life. 5Fear not; for I am with thee: I will
bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;
6I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep
not back; bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the end
of the earth; 7every one that is called by my name, and
whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yea, whom
I have made. 8Bring forth the blind people that have eyes,
and the deaf that have ears. 9Let all the nations be
gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled: who among
them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring
their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear,
and say, It is truth. 10Ye are my witnesses, saith
Jehovah, and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know and
believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no
God formed, neither shall there be after me. 11I, even I,
am Jehovah; and besides me there is no saviour. 12I have
declared, and I have saved, and I have showed; and there was no
strange [god] among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith
Jehovah, and I am God. 13Yea, since the day was I am he;
and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work,
and who can hinder it? 14Thus saith Jehovah, your
Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to
Babylon, and I will bring down all of them as fugitives, even
the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing. 15I am
Jehovah, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.
16Thus saith Jehovah, who maketh a way in the sea, and a
path in the mighty waters; 17who bringeth forth the
chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down
together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are
quenched as a wick): 18Remember ye not the former things,
neither consider the things of old. 19Behold, I will do a
new thing; now shall it spring forth; shall ye not know it? I
will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the
desert. 20The beasts of the field shall honor me, the
jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the
wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my
people, my chosen, 21the people which I formed for myself,
that they might set forth my praise. 22Yet thou hast not
called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O
Israel. 23Thou hast not brought me of thy sheep for
burnt-offerings; neither hast thou honored me with thy
sacrifices. I have not burdened thee with offerings, nor wearied
thee with frankincense. 24Thou hast bought me no sweet
cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy
sacrifices; but thou hast burdened me with thy sins, thou hast
wearied me with thine iniquities. 25I, even I, am he that
blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake; and I will
not remember thy sins. 26Put me in remembrance; let us
plead together: set thou forth [thy cause], that thou mayest be
justified. 27Thy first father sinned, and thy teachers
have transgressed against me. 28Therefore I will profane
the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and
Israel a reviling.
Chapter 44
1Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel, who I
have chosen: 2Thus saith Jehovah that made thee, and
formed thee from the womb, who will help thee: Fear not, O Jacob
my servant; and thou, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. 3For I
will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and streams upon the
dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing
upon thine offspring: 4and they shall spring up among the
grass, as willows by the watercourses. 5One shall say, I
am Jehovah's; and another shall call [himself] by the name of
Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto Jehovah,
and surname [himself] by the name of Israel. 6Thus saith
Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts:
I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no
God. 7And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and
set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people?
and the things that are coming, and that shall come to pass, let
them declare. 8Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have I not
declared unto thee of old, and showed it? and ye are my
witnesses. Is there a God besides me? yea, there is no Rock; I
know not any. 9They that fashion a graven image are all of
them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not
profit; and their own witnesses see not, nor know: that they may
be put to shame. 10Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an
image that is profitable for nothing? 11Behold, all his
fellows shall be put to shame; and the workmen, they are of men:
let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; they shall
fear, they shall be put to shame together. 12The smith
[maketh] an axe, and worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it
with hammers, and worketh it with his strong arm: yea, he is
hungry, and his strength faileth; he drinketh no water, and is
faint. 13The carpenter stretcheth out a line; he marketh
it out with a pencil; he shapeth it with planes, and he marketh
it out with the compasses, and shapeth it after the figure of a
man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.
14He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the holm-tree and
the oak, and strengtheneth for himself one among the trees of
the forest: he planteth a fir-tree, and the rain doth nourish
it. 15Then shall it be for a man to burn; and he taketh
thereof, and warmeth himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh
bread: yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a
graven image, and falleth down thereto. 16He burneth part
thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he
roasteth roast, and is satisfied; yea, he warmeth himself, and
saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire. 17And the
residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image; he
falleth down unto it and worshippeth, and prayeth unto it, and
saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god. 18They know not,
neither do they consider: for he hath shut their eyes, that they
cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
19And none calleth to mind, neither is there knowledge nor
understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea,
also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted
flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an
abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? 20
He feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him aside; and
he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my
right hand? 21Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel;
for thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my
servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me. 22I
have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as
a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
23Sing, O ye heavens, for Jehovah hath done it; shout, ye
lower parts of the earth; break forth into singing, ye
mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for Jehovah hath
redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel. 24Thus
saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee from the
womb: I am Jehovah, that maketh all things; that stretcheth
forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth (who is
with me?); 25that frustrateth the signs of the liars, and
maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh
their knowledge foolish; 26that confirmeth the word of his
servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that
saith of Jerusalem, She shall be inhabited; and of the cities of
Judah, They shall be built, and I will raise up the waste places
thereof; 27that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry
up thy rivers; 28That saith of Cyrus, [He is] my shepherd,
and shall perform all my pleasure, even saying of Jerusalem, She
shall be built; and of the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Chapter 45
1Thus saith Jehovah to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose
right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him, and I
will loose the loins of kings; to open the doors before him, and
the gates shall not be shut: 2I will go before thee, and
make the rough places smooth; I will break in pieces the doors
of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron; 3and I will
give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret
places, that thou mayest know that it is I, Jehovah, who call
thee by thy name, even the God of Israel. 4For Jacob my
servant's sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called thee by thy
name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
5I am Jehovah, and there is none else; besides me there is
no God. I will gird thee, though thou hast 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 Jehovah, and there is
none else. 7I form the light, and create darkness; I make
peace, and create evil. I am Jehovah, that doeth all these
things. 8Distil, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies
pour down righteousness: let the earth open, that it may bring
forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up
together; I, Jehovah, have created it. 9Woe unto him that
striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the
earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest
thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? 10Woe unto him that
saith unto a father, What begettest thou? or to a woman, With
what travailest thou? 11Thus saith Jehovah, the Holy One
of Israel, and his Maker: Ask me of the things that are to come;
concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands, command
ye me. 12I have made the earth, and created man upon it:
I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens; and all their
host have I commanded. 13I have raised him up in
righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways: he shall
build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price
nor reward, saith Jehovah of hosts. 14Thus saith Jehovah,
The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the
Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they
shall be thine: they shall go after thee, in chains they shall
come over; and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make
supplication unto thee, [saying], Surely God is in thee; and
there is none else, there is no God. 15Verily thou art a
God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour. 16
They shall be put to shame, yea, confounded, all of them; they
shall go into confusion together that are makers of idols.
17[But] Israel shall be saved by Jehovah with an
everlasting salvation: ye shall not be put to shame nor
confounded world without end. 18For thus saith Jehovah
that created the heavens, the God that formed the earth and made
it, that established it and created it not a waste, that formed
it to be inhabited: I am Jehovah; and there is none else.
19I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of
darkness; I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain:
I, Jehovah, speak righteousness, I declare things that are
right. 20Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together,
ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that
carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that
cannot save. 21Declare ye, and bring [it] forth; yea, let
them take counsel together: who hath showed this from ancient
time? who hath declared it of old? have not I, Jehovah? and
there is no God else besides me, a just God and a Saviour; there
is none besides me. 22Look unto me, and be ye saved, all
the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else.
23By myself have I sworn, the word is gone forth from my
mouth [in] righteousness, and shall not return, that unto me
every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. 24Only in
Jehovah, it is said of me, is righteousness and strength; even
to him shall men come; and all they that were incensed against
him shall be put to shame. 25In Jehovah shall all the seed
of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
Chapter 46
1Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols are upon
the beasts, and upon the cattle: the things that ye carried
about are made a load, a burden to the weary [beast]. 2
They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the
burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. 3Hearken
unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of
Israel, that have been borne [by me] from their birth, that have
been carried from the womb; 4and even to old age I am he,
and even to hoar hairs will I carry [you]; I have made, and I
will bear; yea, I will carry, and will deliver. 5To whom
will ye like me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may
be like? 6Such as lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh
silver in the balance, they hire a goldsmith, and he maketh it a
god; they fall down, yea, they worship. 7They bear it upon
the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it
standeth, from its place shall it not remove: yea, one may cry
unto it, yet can it not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
8Remember this, and show yourselves men; bring it again to
mind, O ye transgressors. 9Remember the former things of
old: for I am God, and there is none else; [I am] God, and there
is none like me; 10declaring the end from the beginning,
and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done; saying,
My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure; 11
calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel
from a far country; yea, I have spoken, I will also bring it to
pass; I have purposed, I will also do it. 12Hearken unto
me, ye stout-hearted, that are far from righteousness: 13I
bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, and my
salvation shall not tarry; and I will place salvation in Zion
for Israel my glory.
Chapter 47
1Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of
Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the
Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
2Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil,
strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
3Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be
seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man. 4Our
Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
5Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter
of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called The mistress
of kingdoms. 6I was wroth with my people, I profaned mine
inheritance, and gave them into thy hand: thou didst show them
no mercy; upon the aged hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
7And thou saidst, I shall be mistress for ever; so that
thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst
remember the latter end thereof. 8Now therefore hear this,
thou that art given to pleasures, that sittest securely, that
sayest in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I
shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of
children: 9but these two things shall come to thee in a
moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their
full measure shall they come upon thee, in the multitude of thy
sorceries, and the great abundance of thine enchantments.
10For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness; thou hast said,
None seeth me; thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted
thee, and thou hast said in thy heart, I am, and there is none
else besides me. 11Therefore shall evil come upon thee;
thou shalt not know the dawning thereof: and mischief shall fall
upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it away: and desolation
shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou knowest not. 12
Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy
sorceries, wherein thou hast labored from thy youth; if so be
thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
13Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels: let
now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly
prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from the things that
shall come upon thee. 14Behold, they shall be as stubble;
the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from
the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a
fire to sit before. 15Thus shall the things be unto thee
wherein thou hast labored: they that have trafficked with thee
from thy youth shall wander every one to his quarter; there
shall be none to save thee.
Chapter 48
1Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the
name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah;
who swear by the name of Jehovah, and make mention of the God of
Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness 2(for they
call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the
God of Israel; Jehovah of hosts is his name): 3I have
declared the former things from of old; yea, they went forth out
of my mouth, and I showed them: suddenly I did them, and they
came to pass. 4Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and
thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; 5therefore
I have declared it to thee from of old; before it came to pass I
showed it thee; lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done
them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded
them. 6Thou hast heard it; behold all this; and ye, will
ye not declare it? I have showed thee new things from this time,
even hidden things, which thou hast not known. 7They are
created now, and not from of old; and before this day thou
heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
8Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from
of old thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou didst deal
very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the
womb. 9For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for
my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
10Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have
chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. 11For mine own
sake, for mine own sake, will I do it; for how should [my name]
be profaned? and my glory will I not give to another. 12
Hearken unto me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am
the first, I also am the last. 13Yea, my hand hath laid
the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spread out
the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
14Assemble yourselves, all ye, and hear; who among them
hath declared these things? He whom Jehovah loveth shall perform
his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the
Chaldeans. 15I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called
him; I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
16Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; from the beginning I
have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am
I: and now the Lord Jehovah hath sent me, and his Spirit.
17Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of
Israel: I am Jehovah thy God, who teacheth thee to profit, who
leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. 18Oh that
thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been
as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
19thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of
thy bowels like the grains thereof: his name would not be cut
off nor destroyed from before me. 20Go ye forth from
Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans; with a voice of singing
declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth:
say ye, Jehovah hath redeemed his servant Jacob. 21And
they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; he
caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he clave the
rock also, and the waters gushed out. 22There is no peace,
saith Jehovah, to the wicked.
Chapter 49
1Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye peoples,
from far: Jehovah hath called me from the womb; from the bowels
of my mother hath he made mention of my name: 2and he hath
made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath
he hid me: and he hath made me a polished shaft; in his quiver
hath he kept me close: 3and he said unto me, Thou art my
servant; Israel, in whom I will be glorified. 4But I said,
I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and
vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Jehovah, and
my recompense with my God. 5And now saith Jehovah that
formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again
to him, and that Israel be gathered unto him (for I am honorable
in the eyes of Jehovah, and my God is become my strength);
6yea, he saith, It is too light a thing that thou
shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to
restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a
light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the
end of the earth. 7Thus saith Jehovah, the Redeemer of
Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him
whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers: Kings shall
see and arise; princes, and they shall worship; because of
Jehovah that is faithful, [even] the Holy One of Israel, who
hath chosen thee. 8Thus saith Jehovah, In an acceptable
time have I answered thee, and in a day of salvation have I
helped thee; and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a
covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them
inherit the desolate heritages: 9saying to them that are
bound, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves.
They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be
their pasture. 10They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither
shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on
them will lead them, even by springs of water will he guide
them. 11And I will make all my mountains a way, and my
highways shall be exalted. 12Lo, these shall come from
far; and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these
from the land of Sinim. 13Sing, O heavens; and be joyful,
O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for Jehovah
hath comforted his people, and will have compassion upon his
afflicted. 14But Zion said, Jehovah hath forsaken me, and
the Lord hath forgotten me. 15Can a woman forget her
sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of
her womb? yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee.
16Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands;
thy walls are continually before me. 17Thy children make
haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go
forth from thee. 18Lift up thine eyes round about, and
behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee.
As I live, saith Jehovah, thou shalt surely clothe thee with
them all as with an ornament, and gird thyself with them, like a
bride. 19For, as for thy waste and thy desolate places,
and thy land that hath been destroyed, surely now shalt thou be
too strait for the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up
shall be far away. 20The children of thy bereavement shall
yet say in thine ears, The place is too strait for me; give
place to me that I may dwell. 21Then shalt thou say in thy
heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have been bereaved
of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering to and
fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone;
these, where were they? 22Thus saith the Lord Jehovah,
Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my
ensign to the peoples; and they shall bring thy sons in their
bosom, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
23And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens
thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their
faces to the earth, and lick the dust of thy feet; and thou
shalt know that I am Jehovah; and they that wait for me shall
not be put to shame. 24Shall the prey be taken from the
mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered? 25But thus
saith Jehovah, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken
away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; for I
will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save
thy children. 26And I will feed them that oppress thee
with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own
blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I,
Jehovah, am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of
Jacob.
Chapter 50
1Thus saith Jehovah, Where is the bill of your mother's
divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my
creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your
iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your
mother put away. 2Wherefore, when I came, was there no
man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand
shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to
deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the
rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no
water, and die for thirst. 3I clothe the heavens with
blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. 4The Lord
Jehovah hath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I
may know how to sustain with words him that is weary: he
wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as
they that are taught. 5The Lord Jehovah hath opened mine
ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.
6I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that
plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
7For the Lord Jehovah will help me; therefore have I not
been confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and
I know that I shall not be put to shame. 8He is near that
justifieth me; who will content with me? let us stand up
together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. 9
Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that shall
condemn me? behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, the
moth shall eat them up. 10Who is among you that feareth
Jehovah, that obeyeth the voice of his servant? he that walketh
in darkness, and hath no light, let him trust in the name of
Jehovah, and rely upon his God. 11Behold, all ye that
kindle a fire, that gird yourselves about with firebrands; walk
ye in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that ye have
kindled. This shall ye have of my hand; ye shall lie down in
sorrow.
Chapter 51
1Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye
that seek Jehovah: look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and
to the hold of the pit whence ye were digged. 2Look unto
Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you; for when he
was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.
3For Jehovah hath comforted Zion; he hath comforted all
her waste places, and hath made her wilderness like Eden, and
her desert like the garden of Jehovah; joy and gladness shall be
found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. 4
Attend unto me, O my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation:
for a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish my
justice for a light of the peoples. 5My righteousness is
near, my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the
peoples; the isles shall wait for me, and on mine arm shall they
trust. 6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon
the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke,
and the earth shall wax old like a garment; and they that dwell
therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for
ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. 7
Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose
heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye
dismayed at their revilings. 8For the moth shall eat them
up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my
righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation unto all
generations. 9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of
Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of
ancient times. Is it not thou that didst cut Rahab in pieces,
that didst pierce the monster? 10Is it not thou that
driedst up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that madest
the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
11And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with
singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their
heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and
sighing shall flee away. 12I, even I, am he that
comforteth you: who art thou, that thou art afraid of man that
shall die, and of the son of man that shall be made as grass;
13and hast forgotten Jehovah thy Maker, that stretched
forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and
fearest continually all the day because of the fury of the
oppressor, when he maketh ready to destroy? and where is the
fury of the oppressor? 14The captive exile shall speedily
be loosed; and he shall not die [and go down] into the pit,
neither shall his bread fail. 15For I am Jehovah thy God,
who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar: Jehovah
of hosts is his name. 16And I have put my words in thy
mouth, and have covered thee in the shadow of my hand, that I
may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and
say unto Zion, Thou art my people. 17Awake, awake, stand
up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk at the hand of Jehovah the cup
of his wrath; thou hast drunken the bowl of the cup of
staggering, and drained it. 18There is none to guide her
among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there
any that taketh her by the hand among all the sons that she hath
brought up. 19These two things are befallen thee, who
shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine
and the sword; how shall I comfort thee? 20Thy sons have
fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope
in a net; they are full of the wrath of Jehovah, the rebuke of
thy God. 21Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and
drunken, but now with wine: 22Thus saith thy Lord Jehovah,
and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I
have taken out of thy hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl
of the cup of my wrath; thou shalt no more drink it again:
23and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict
thee, that have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over;
and thou hast laid thy back as the ground, and as the street, to
them that go over.
Chapter 52
1Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy
beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth
there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the
unclean. 2Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit [on thy
throne], O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bonds of thy neck,
O captive daughter of Zion. 3For thus saith Jehovah, Ye
were sold for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
4For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, My people went down at
the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian hath
oppressed them without cause. 5Now therefore, what do I
here, saith Jehovah, seeing that my people is taken away for
nought? they that rule over them do howl, saith Jehovah, and my
name continually all the day is blasphemed. 6Therefore my
people shall know my name: therefore [they shall know] in that
day that I am he that doth speak; behold, it is I. 7How
beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth
good tidings, that publisheth peace, that bringeth good tidings
of good, that publisheth salvation, that saith unto Zion, Thy
God reigneth! 8The voice of thy watchmen! they lift up the
voice, together do they sing; for they shall see eye to eye,
when Jehovah returneth to Zion. 9Break forth into joy,
sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem; for Jehovah hath
comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. 10
Jehovah hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the
nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation
of our God. 11Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence,
touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; cleanse
yourselves, ye that bear the vessels of Jehovah. 12For ye
shall not go out in haste, neither shall ye go by flight: for
Jehovah will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your
rearward. 13Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall
be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high. 14Like
as many were astonished at thee (his visage was so marred more
than any man, and his form more than the sons of men), 15
so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths
at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see;
and that which they had not heard shall they understand.
Chapter 53
1Who hath believed our message? and to whom hath the
arm of Jehovah been revealed? 2For he grew up before him
as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no
form nor comeliness; and when we see him, there is no beauty
that we should desire him. 3He was despised, and rejected
of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one
from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we esteemed
him not. 4Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our
sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and
afflicted. 5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he
was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace
was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6All we
like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own
way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7
He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his
mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep
that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
8By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for
his generation, who [among them] considered that he was cut off
out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people
to whom the stroke [was due]? 9And they made his grave
with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although he
had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath put him to
grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he
shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong his days, and the
pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand. 11He shall
see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by the
knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant justify many;
and he shall bear their iniquities. 12Therefore will I
divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the
spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto
death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bare the
sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Chapter 54
1Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth
into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with
child: for more are the children of the desolate than the
children of the married wife, saith Jehovah. 2Enlarge the
place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of
thy habitations; spare not: lengthen thy cords, and strengthen
thy stakes. 3For thou shalt spread aboard on the right
hand and on the left; and thy seed shall possess the nations,
and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. 4Fear not;
for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for
thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame
of thy youth; and the reproach of thy widowhood shalt thou
remember no more. 5For thy Maker is thy husband; Jehovah
of hosts is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is thy
Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called. 6
For Jehovah hath called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in
spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off, saith thy
God. 7For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with
great mercies will I gather thee. 8In overflowing wrath I
hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting
lovingkindness will I have mercy on thee, saith Jehovah thy
Redeemer. 9For this is [as] the waters of Noah unto me;
for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go
over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be wroth with
thee, nor rebuke thee. 10For the mountains may depart, and
the hills be removed; but my lovingkindness shall not depart
from thee, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, saith
Jehovah that hath mercy on thee. 11O thou afflicted,
tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set thy
stones in fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
12And I will make thy pinnacles of rubies, and thy gates
of carbuncles, and all thy border of precious stones. 13
And all thy children shall be taught of Jehovah; and great shall
be the peace of thy children. 14In righteousness shalt
thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression, for thou
shalt not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near
thee. 15Behold, they may gather together, but not by me:
whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall because
of thee. 16Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth
the fire of coals, and bringeth forth a weapon for his work; and
I have created the waster to destroy. 17No weapon that is
formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall
rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the
heritage of the servants of Jehovah, and their righteousness
which is of me, saith Jehovah.
Chapter 55
1Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters,
and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy
wine and milk without money and without price. 2Wherefore
do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor
for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and
eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in
fatness. 3Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and
your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant
with you, even the sure mercies of David. 4Behold, I have
given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander
to the peoples. 5Behold, thou shalt call a nation that
thou knowest not; and a nation that knew not thee shall run unto
thee, because of Jehovah thy God, and for the Holy One of
Israel; for he hath glorified thee. 6Seek ye Jehovah while
he may be found; call ye upon him while he is near: 7let
the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his
thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have
mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your
ways my ways, saith Jehovah. 9For as the heavens are
higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and
my thoughts than your thoughts. 10For as the rain cometh
down and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but
watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, and
giveth seed to the sower and bread to the eater; 11so
shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not
return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I
please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
12For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with
peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you
into singing; and all the trees of the fields shall clap their
hands. 13Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree;
and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree: and it
shall be to Jehovah for a name, for an everlasting sign that
shall not be cut off.
Chapter 56
1Thus saith Jehovah, Keep ye justice, and do
righteousness; for my salvation is near to come, and my
righteousness to be revealed. 2Blessed is the man that
doeth this, and the son of man that holdeth it fast; that
keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and keepeth his hand from
doing any evil. 3Neither let the foreigner, that hath
joined himself to Jehovah, speak, saying, Jehovah will surely
separate me from his people; neither let the eunuch say, Behold,
I am a dry tree. 4For thus saith Jehovah of the eunuchs
that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and
hold fast my covenant: 5Unto them will I give in my house
and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons
and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, that
shall not be cut off. 6Also the foreigners that join
themselves to Jehovah, to minister unto him, and to love the
name of Jehovah, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the
sabbath from profaning it, and holdeth fast my covenant; 7
even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful
in my house of prayer: their burnt-offerings and their
sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for my house shall
be called a house of prayer for all peoples. 8The Lord
Jehovah, who gathereth the outcasts of Israel, saith, Yet will I
gather [others] to him, besides his own that are gathered.
9All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, [yea], all ye
beasts in the forest. 10His watchmen are blind, they are
all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark;
dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. 11Yea, the dogs
are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds
that cannot understand: they have all turned to their own way,
each one to his gain, from every quarter. 12Come ye, [say
they], I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong
drink; and to-morrow shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond
measure.
Chapter 57
1The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to
heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that
the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come]. 2He
entereth into peace; they rest in their beds, each one that
walketh in his uprightness. 3But draw near hither, ye sons
of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.
4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye
a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? are ye not children of
transgression, a seed of falsehood, 5ye that inflame
yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; that slay the
children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? 6
Among the smooth [stones] of the valley is thy portion; they,
they are thy lot; even to them hast thou poured a
drink-offering, thou hast offered an oblation. Shall I be
appeased for these things? 7Upon a high and lofty mountain
hast thou set thy bed; thither also wentest thou up to offer
sacrifice. 8And behind the doors and the posts hast thou
set up thy memorial: for thou hast uncovered [thyself] to
another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed,
and made thee a covenant with them: thou lovedst their bed where
thou sawest it. 9And thou wentest to the king with oil,
and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thine
ambassadors far off, and didst debase thyself even unto Sheol.
10Thou wast wearied with the length of thy way; yet saidst
thou not, It is in vain: thou didst find a quickening of thy
strength; therefore thou wast not faint. 11And of whom
hast thou been afraid and in fear, that thou liest, and hast not
remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my
peace even of long time, and thou fearest me not? 12I will
declare thy righteousness; and as for thy works, they shall not
profit thee. 13When thou criest, let them that thou hast
gathered deliver thee; but the wind shall take them, a breath
shall carry them all away: but he that taketh refuge in me shall
possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain. 14
And he will say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take
up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people. 15For
thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity,
whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him
also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the
spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
16For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be
always wroth; for the spirit would faint before me, and the
souls that I have made. 17For the iniquity of his
covetousness was I wroth, and smote him; I hid [my face] and was
wroth; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
18I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him
also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. 19
I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him that is far
off and to him that is near, saith Jehovah; and I will heal him.
20But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it cannot
rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt. 21There is no
peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
Chapter 58
1Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a
trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to
the house of Jacob their sins. 2Yet they seek me daily,
and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness,
and forsook not the ordinance of their God, they ask of me
righteous judgments; they delight to draw near unto God. 3
Wherefore have we fasted, [say they], and thou seest not?
[wherefore] have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no
knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find [your own]
pleasure, and exact all your labors. 4Behold, ye fast for
strife and contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness:
ye fast not this day so as to make your voice to be heard on
high. 5Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a
man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this
a fast, and an acceptable day to Jehovah? 6Is not this the
fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to
undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free,
and that ye break every yoke? 7Is it not to deal thy bread
to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to
thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and
that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? 8Then
shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy healing
shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness shall go
before thee; the glory of Jehovah shall by thy rearward. 9
Then shalt thou call, and Jehovah will answer; thou shalt cry,
and he will say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of
thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking
wickedly; 10and if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry,
and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall thy light rise in
darkness, and thine obscurity be as the noonday; 11and
Jehovah will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in dry
places, and make strong thy bones; and thou shalt be like a
watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail
not. 12And they that shall be of thee shall build the old
waste places; thou shalt raise up the foundations of many
generations; and thou shalt be called The repairer of the
breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. 13If thou turn
away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my
holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, [and] the holy of
Jehovah honorable; and shalt honor it, not doing thine own ways,
nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking [thine own] words:
14then shalt thou delight thyself in Jehovah; and I will
make thee to ride upon the high places of the earth; and I will
feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth
of Jehovah hath spoken it.
Chapter 59
1Behold, Jehovah's hand is not shortened, that it
cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: 2
but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and
your sins have hid his face from you, so that he will not hear.
3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers
with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth
wickedness. 4None sueth in righteousness, and none
pleadeth in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they
conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. 5They hatch
adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of
their eggs dieth; and that which is crushed breaketh out into a
viper. 6Their webs shall not become garments, neither
shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are
works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed
innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
desolation and destruction are in their paths. 8The way of
peace they know not; and there is no justice in their goings:
they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth
not know peace. 9Therefore is justice far from us, neither
doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold,
darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity. 10We
grope for the wall like the blind; yea, we grope as they that
have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among
them that are lusty we are as dead men. 11We roar all like
bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there
is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. 12For
our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins
testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as
for our iniquities, we know them: 13transgressing and
denying Jehovah, and turning away from following our God,
speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the
heart words of falsehood. 14And justice is turned away
backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth is
fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter. 15Yea,
truth is lacking; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself
a prey. And Jehovah saw it, and it displeased him that there was
no justice. 16And he saw that there was no man, and
wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm
brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it upheld
him. 17And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a
helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on garments of
vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
18According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay,
wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the
islands he will repay recompense. 19So shall they fear the
name of Jehovah from the west, and his glory from the rising of
the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath
of Jehovah driveth. 20And a Redeemer will come to Zion,
and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith
Jehovah. 21And as for me, this is my covenant with them,
saith Jehovah: my Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I
have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor
out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's
seed, saith Jehovah, from henceforth and for ever.
Chapter 60
1Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of
Jehovah is risen upon thee. 2For, behold, darkness shall
cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Jehovah
will arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
3And nations shall come to thy light, and kings to the
brightness of thy rising. 4Lift up thine eyes round about,
and see: they all gather themselves together, they come to thee;
thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be carried
in the arms. 5Then thou shalt see and be radiant, and thy
heart shall thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the
sea shall be turned unto thee, the wealth of the nations shall
come unto thee. 6The multitude of camels shall cover thee,
the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall
come; they shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim
the praises of Jehovah. 7All the flocks of Kedar shall be
gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister
unto thee; they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar; and
I will glorify the house of my glory. 8Who are these that
fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? 9Surely
the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to
bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them,
for the name of Jehovah thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel,
because he hath glorified thee. 10And foreigners shall
build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee:
for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favor have I had mercy
on thee. 11Thy gates also shall be open continually; they
shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee
the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive. 12
For that nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall
perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted. 13The
glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir-tree, the pine,
and the box-tree together, to beautify the place of my
sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
14And the sons of them that afflicted thee shall come
bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow
themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call
thee The city of Jehovah, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
15Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no
man passed through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency,
a joy of many generations. 16Thou shalt also suck the milk
of the nations, and shalt suck the breast of kings; and thou
shalt know that I, Jehovah, am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer,
the Mighty One of Jacob. 17For brass I will bring gold,
and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for
stones iron. I will also make thy officers peace, and thine
exactors righteousness. 18Violence shall no more be heard
in thy land, desolation nor destruction within thy borders; but
thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
19The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for
brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but Jehovah will
be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
20Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon
withdraw itself; for Jehovah will be thine everlasting light,
and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. 21Thy people
also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land for
ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I
may be glorified. 22The little one shall become a
thousand, and the small one a strong nation; I, Jehovah, will
hasten it in its time.
Chapter 61
1The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because
Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek;
he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim
liberty to the captives, and the opening [of the prison] to them
that are bound; 2to proclaim the year of Jehovah's favor,
and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
3to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto
them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the
garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be
called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he
may be glorified. 4And they shall build the old wastes,
they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall
repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
5And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and
foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers. 6
But ye shall be named the priests of Jehovah; men shall call you
the ministers of our God: ye shall eat the wealth of the
nations, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. 7
Instead of your shame [ye shall have] double; and instead of
dishonor they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their
land they shall possess double; everlasting joy shall be unto
them. 8For I, Jehovah, love justice, I hate robbery with
iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I
will make an everlasting covenant with them. 9And their
seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among
the peoples; all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they
are the seed which Jehovah hath blessed. 10I will greatly
rejoice in Jehovah, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he
hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered
me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh
himself with a garland, and as a bride adorneth herself with her
jewels. 11For as the earth bringeth forth its bud, and as
the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring
forth; so the Lord Jehovah will cause righteousness and praise
to spring forth before all the nations.
Chapter 62
1For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for
Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go
forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burneth.
2And the nations shall see thy righteousness, and all
kings thy glory, and thou shalt be called by a new name, which
the mouth of Jehovah shall name. 3Thou shalt also be a
crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in
the hand of thy God. 4Thou shalt no more be termed
Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate:
but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah; for
Jehovah delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
5For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons
marry thee; and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so
shall thy God rejoice over thee. 6I have set watchmen upon
thy walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day
nor night: ye that are Jehovah's remembrancers, take ye no rest,
7and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make
Jerusalem a praise in the earth. 8Jehovah hath sworn by
his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no
more give thy grain to be food for thine enemies; and foreigners
shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou hast labored:
9but they that have garnered it shall eat it, and praise
Jehovah; and they that have gathered it shall drink it in the
courts of my sanctuary. 10Go through, go through the
gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the
highway; gather out the stones; lift up an ensign for the
peoples. 11Behold, Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the end of
the earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation
cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense
before him. 12And they shall call them The holy people,
The redeemed of Jehovah: and thou shalt be called Sought out, A
city not forsaken.
Chapter 63
1Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments
from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, marching in
the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness,
mighty to save. 2Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel,
and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winevat? 3I
have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was
no man with me: yea, I trod them in mine anger, and trampled
them in my wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled upon my
garments, and I have stained all my raiment. 4For the day
of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is
come. 5And I looked, and there was none to help; and I
wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm
brought salvation unto me; and my wrath, it upheld me. 6
And I trod down the peoples in mine anger, and made them drunk
in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.
7I will make mention of the lovingkindnesses of Jehovah,
[and] the praises of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah hath
bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of
Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies,
and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. 8
For he said, Surely, they are my people, children that will not
deal falsely: so he was their Saviour. 9In all their
affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved
them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare
them, and carried them all the days of old. 10But they
rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned
to be their enemy, [and] himself fought against them. 11
Then he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his people,
[saying], Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with
the shepherds of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit
in the midst of them? 12that caused his glorious arm to go
at the right hand of Moses? that divided the waters before them,
to make himself an everlasting name? 13that led them
through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they
stumbled not? 14As the cattle that go down into the
valley, the Spirit of Jehovah caused them to rest; so didst thou
lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name. 15Look
down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness
and of thy glory: where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the
yearning of thy heart and thy compassions are restrained toward
me. 16For thou art our Father, though Abraham knoweth us
not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us: thou, O Jehovah, art
our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is thy name. 17O
Jehovah, why dost thou make us to err from thy ways, and
hardenest our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants'
sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. 18Thy holy people
possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden
down thy sanctuary. 19We are become as they over whom thou
never barest rule, as they that were not called by thy name.
Chapter 64
1Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou
wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at thy
presence, 2as when fire kindleth the brushwood, [and] the
fire causeth the waters to boil; to make thy name known to thine
adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
3When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for,
thou camest down, the mountains quaked at thy presence. 4
For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear,
neither hath the eye seen a God besides thee, who worketh for
him that waiteth for him. 5Thou meetest him that rejoiceth
and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways:
behold, thou wast wroth, and we sinned: in them [have we been]
of long time; and shall we be saved? 6For we are all
become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are
as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our
iniquities, like the wind, take us away. 7And there is
none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to
take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast
consumed us by means of our iniquities. 8But now, O
Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our
potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. 9Be not wroth
very sore, O Jehovah, neither remember iniquity for ever:
behold, look, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. 10
Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a
wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11Our holy and our
beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with
fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste. 12Wilt
thou refrain thyself for these things, O Jehovah? wilt thou hold
thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
Chapter 65
1I am inquired of by them that asked not [for me]; I am
found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me,
unto a nation that was not called by my name. 2I have
spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, that
walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts; 3
a people that provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in
gardens, and burning incense upon bricks; 4that sit among
the graves, and lodge in the secret places; that eat swine's
flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
5that say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me, for I am
holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that
burneth all the day. 6Behold, it is written before me: I
will not keep silence, but will recompense, yea, I will
recompense into their bosom, 7your own iniquities, and the
iniquities of your fathers together, saith Jehovah, that have
burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the
hills; therefore will I first measure their work into their
bosom. 8Thus saith Jehovah, As the new wine is found in
the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in
it: so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy
them all. 9And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and
out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall
inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there. 10And
Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a
place for herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought
me. 11But ye that forsake Jehovah, that forget my holy
mountain, that prepare a table for Fortune, and that fill up
mingled wine unto Destiny; 12I will destine you to the
sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter; because when
I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but
ye did that which was evil in mine eyes, and chose that wherein
I delighted not. 13Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah,
Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry; behold,
my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty; behold, my
servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be put to shame; 14
behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall
cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for vexation of spirit.
15And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen;
and the Lord Jehovah will slay thee; and he will call his
servants by another name: 16so that he who blesseth
himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth;
and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of
truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because
they are hid from mine eyes. 17For, behold, I create new
heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be
remembered, nor come into mind. 18But be ye glad and
rejoice for ever in that which I create; for, behold, I create
Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. 19And I will
rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and there shall be
heard in her no more the voice of weeping and the voice of
crying. 20There shall be no more thence an infant of days,
nor an old man that hath not filled his days; for the child
shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred
years old shall be accursed. 21And they shall build
houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and
eat the fruit of them. 22They shall not build, and another
inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days
of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall
long enjoy the work of their hands. 23They shall not labor
in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of
the blessed of Jehovah, and their offspring with them. 24
And it shall come to pass that, before they call, I will answer;
and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. 25The wolf
and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw
like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall
not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith Jehovah.
Chapter 66
1Thus saith Jehovah, Heaven is my throne, and the earth
is my footstool: what manner of house will ye build unto me? and
what place shall be my rest? 2For all these things hath my
hand made, and [so] all these things came to be, saith Jehovah:
but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a
contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my word. 3He that
killeth an ox is as he that slayeth a man; he that sacrificeth a
lamb, as he that breaketh a dog's neck; he that offereth an
oblation, [as he that offereth] swine's blood; he that burneth
frankincense, as he that blesseth an idol. Yea, they have chosen
their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations:
4I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their
fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I
spake, they did not hear: but they did that which was evil in
mine eyes, and chose that wherein I delighted not. 5Hear
the word of Jehovah, ye that tremble at his word: Your brethren
that hate you, that cast you out for my name's sake, have said,
Let Jehovah be glorified, that we may see your joy; but it is
they that shall be put to shame. 6A voice of tumult from
the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Jehovah that
rendereth recompense to his enemies. 7Before she
travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was
delivered of a man-child. 8Who hath heard such a thing?
who hath seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day?
shall a nation be brought forth at once? for as soon as Zion
travailed, she brought forth her children. 9Shall I bring
to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith Jehovah: shall
I that cause to bring forth shut [the womb]? saith thy God.
10Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all ye
that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn over
her; 11that ye may suck and be satisfied with the breasts
of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with
the abundance of her glory. 12For thus saith Jehovah,
Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory
of the nations like an overflowing stream: and ye shall suck
[thereof]; ye shall be borne upon the side, and shall be dandled
upon the knees. 13As one whom his mother comforteth, so
will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
14And ye shall see [it], and your heart shall rejoice, and
your bones shall flourish like the tender grass: and the hand of
Jehovah shall be known toward his servants; and he will have
indignation against his enemies. 15For, behold, Jehovah
will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the
whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke
with flames of fire. 16For by fire will Jehovah execute
judgment, and by his sword, upon all flesh; and the slain of
Jehovah shall be many. 17They that sanctify themselves and
purify themselves [to go] unto the gardens, behind one in the
midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse,
they shall come to an end together, saith Jehovah. 18For I
[know] their works and their thoughts: [the time] cometh, that I
will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and
shall see my glory. 19And I will set a sign among them,
and I will send such as escape of them unto the nations, to
Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan,
to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have
seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the
nations. 20And they shall bring all your brethren out of
all the nations for an oblation unto Jehovah, upon horses, and
in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon
dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith Jehovah, as
the children of Israel bring their oblation in a clean vessel
into the house of Jehovah. 21And of them also will I take
for priests [and] for Levites, saith Jehovah. 22For as the
new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain
before me, saith Jehovah, so shall your seed and your name
remain. 23And it shall come to pass, that from one new
moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all
flesh come to worship before me, saith Jehovah. 24And they
shall go forth, and look upon the dead bodies of the men that
have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die,
neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an
abhorring unto all flesh.
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