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                                    ISAIAH



Chapter 1

1   The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah
    and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings
    of Judah.
2   Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord 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.
4   Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers,
    children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have
    provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away
    backward.
5   Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more:  the
    whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6   From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in
    it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been
    closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
7   Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land,
    strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown
    by strangers.
8   And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a
    lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
9   Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we
    should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
10  Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law
    of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
11  To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me?  saith
    the Lord: I am full 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.
12  When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your
    hand, to tread my courts?
13  Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the
    new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with;
    it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14  Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a
    trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
15  And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you:
    yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of
    blood.
16  Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from
    before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17  Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the
    fatherless, plead for the widow.
18  Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your
    sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red
    like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19  If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
20  But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword:  for
    the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
21  How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment;
    righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
22  Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
23  Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one
    loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the
    fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
24  Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of
    Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine
    enemies:
25  And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross,
    and take away all thy tin:
26  And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as
    at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of
    righteousness, the faithful city.
27  Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with
    righteousness.
28  And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be
    together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
29  For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye
    shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
30  For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that
    hath no water.
31  And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and
    they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

Chapter 2

1   The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and
    Jerusalem.
2   And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the
    Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall
    be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3   And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the
    mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will
    teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion
    shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4   And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people:
    and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into
    pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither
    shall they learn war any more.
5   O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.
6   Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because
    they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the
    Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
7   Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end
    of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there
    any end of their chariots:
8   Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own
    hands, that which their own fingers have made:
9   And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself:
    therefore forgive them not.
10  Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the Lord,
    and for the glory of his majesty.
11  The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men
    shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
12  For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is
    proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be
    brought low:
13  And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and
    upon all the oaks of Bashan,
14  And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are
    lifted up,
15  And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
16  And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
17  And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of
    men shall be made low:  and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that
    day.
18  And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
19  And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of
    the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when
    he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
20  In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of
    gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and
    to the bats;
21  To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged
    rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he
    ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
22  Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he
    to be accounted of?

Chapter 3

1   For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from
    Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of
    bread, and the whole stay of water,
2   The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and
    the prudent, and the ancient,
3   The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and
    the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
4   And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule
    over them.
5   And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one
    by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the
    ancient, and the base against the honourable.
6   When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father,
    saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be
    under thy hand:
7   In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my
    house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
8   For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and
    their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
9   The shew 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 rewarded evil unto themselves.
10  Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they
    shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11  Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his
    hands shall be given him.
12  As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over
    them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy
    the way of thy paths.
13  The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
14  The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people,
    and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of
    the poor is in your houses.
15  What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of
    the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.
16  Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty,
    and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing
    as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
17  Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of
    the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.
18  In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling
    ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like
    the moon,
19  The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20  The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and
    the tablets, and the earrings,
21  The rings, and nose jewels,
22  The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples,
    and the crisping pins,
23  The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the veils.
24  And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be
    stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair
    baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning
    instead of beauty.
25  Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
26  And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall
    sit upon the ground.

Chapter 4

1   And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We
    will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called
    by thy name, to take away our reproach.
2   In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious,
    and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that
    are escaped of Israel.
3   And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that
    remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is
    written among the living in Jerusalem:
4   When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of
    Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst
    thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
5   And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and
    upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a
    flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
6   And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the
    heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from
    rain.

Chapter 5

1   Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his
    vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
2   And he fenced 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
    made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth
    grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
3   And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray
    you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
4   What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in
    it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought
    it forth wild grapes?
5   And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will
    take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down
    the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
6   And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there
    shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that
    they rain no rain upon it.
7   For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the
    men of Judah his pleasant plant:  and he looked for judgment, but behold
    oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
8   Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till
    there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the
    earth!
9   In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be
    desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
10  Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an
    homer shall yield an ephah.
11  Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow
    strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
12  And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in
    their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider
    the operation of his hands.
13  Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no
    knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude
    dried up with thirst.
14  Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without
    measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he
    that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
15  And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be
    humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
16  But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is
    holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
17  Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of
    the fat ones shall strangers eat.
18  Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it
    were with a cart rope:
19  That say, Let him make speed, and 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!
20  Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness
    for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet
    for bitter!
21  Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their
    own sight!
22  Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to
    mingle strong drink:
23  Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness
    of the righteous from him!
24  Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth
    the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall
    go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts,
    and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25  Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he
    hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them:  and
    the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the
    streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is
    stretched out still.
26  And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss
    unto 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:
28  Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs
    shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.
29  Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions:
    yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away
    safe, and none shall deliver it.
30  And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the
    sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the
    light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

Chapter 6

1   In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a
    throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
2   Above it stood the seraphims:  each one had six wings; with twain he
    covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he
    did fly.
3   And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of
    hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
4   And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and
    the house was filled with smoke.
5   Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean
    lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips:  for mine
    eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
6   Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his
    hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
7   And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy
    lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
8   Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who
    will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
9   And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand
    not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
10  Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and
    shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their
    ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
11  Then said I, Lord, how long?  And he answered, Until the cities be
    wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be
    utterly desolate,
12  And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great
    forsaking in the midst of the land.
13  But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be
    eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when
    they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance
    thereof.

Chapter 7

1   And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of
    Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son
    of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it,
    but could not prevail against it.
2   And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with
    Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the
    trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
3   Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and
    Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the
    highway of the fuller's field;
4   And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be
    fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the
    fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
5   Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil
    counsel against thee, saying,
6   Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach
    therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of
    Tabeal:
7   Thus saith the Lord God, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to
    pass.
8   For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin;
    and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be
    not a people.
9   And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is
    Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be
    established.
10  Moreover the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
11  Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or
    in the height above.
12  But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.
13  And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for
    you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
14  Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin
    shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
15  Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil,
    and choose the good.
16  For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the
    good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
17  The Lord shall 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.
18  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall 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.
19  And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate
    valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon
    all bushes.
20  In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired,
    namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and
    the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
21  And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a
    young cow, and two sheep;
22  And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall
    give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that
    is left in the land.
23  And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be,
    where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall
    even be for briers and thorns.
24  With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the
    land shall become briers and thorns.
25  And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall
    not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the
    sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

Chapter 8

1   Moreover the Lord said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in
    it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
2   And I took 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 the Lord to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.
4   For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my
    mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken
    away before the king of Assyria.
5   The Lord spake also unto me again, saying,
6   Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go
    softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
7   Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of
    the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory:
    and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
8   And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he
    shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall
    fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
9   Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces;
    and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be
    broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
10  Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word,
    and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
11  For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me
    that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
12  Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say,
    A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
13  Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let
    him be your dread.
14  And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for
    a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a
    snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15  And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be
    snared, and be taken.
16  Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
17  And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of
    Jacob, and I will look for him.
18  Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs
    and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in
    mount Zion.
19  And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar
    spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a
    people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
20  To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this
    word, it is because there is no light in them.
21  And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it
    shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret
    themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
22  And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness,
    dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

Chapter 9

1   Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation,
    when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land
    of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of
    the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
2   The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light:  they that
    dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light
    shined.
3   Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy:  they joy
    before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when
    they divide the spoil.
4   For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his
    shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
5   For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments
    rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
6   For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the
    government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called
    Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The
    Prince of Peace.
7   Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end,
    upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to
    establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for
    ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
8   The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
9   And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of
    Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
10  The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones:  the
    sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
11  Therefore the Lord shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him,
    and join his enemies together;
12  The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour
    Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but
    his hand is stretched out still.
13  For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do
    they seek the Lord of hosts.
14  Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and
    rush, in one day.
15  The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that
    teacheth lies, he is the tail.
16  For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are
    led of them are destroyed.
17  Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither
    shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an
    hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this
    his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
18  For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and
    thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall
    mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
19  Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the
    people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his
    brother.
20  And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall
    eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat
    every man the flesh of his own arm:
21  Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be
    against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand
    is stretched out still.

Chapter 10

1   Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write
    grievousness which they have prescribed;
2   To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from
    the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may
    rob the fatherless!
3   And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation
    which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will
    ye leave your glory?
4   Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall
    fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his
    hand is stretched out still.
5   O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine
    indignation.
6   I will send him against an hypocritical 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.
7   Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is
    in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
8   For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
9   Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as
    Damascus?
10  As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven
    images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
11  Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to
    Jerusalem and her idols?
12  Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed
    his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit
    of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high
    looks.
13  For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my
    wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people,
    and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants
    like a valiant man:
14  And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one
    gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there
    was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
15  Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or
    shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod
    should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff
    should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
16  Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones
    leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning
    of a fire.
17  And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a
    flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one
    day;
18  And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field,
    both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer
    fainteth.
19  And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child
    may write them.
20  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel,
    and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay
    upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of
    Israel, in truth.
21  The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty
    God.
22  For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant
    of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with
    righteousness.
23  For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined,
    in the midst of all the land.
24  Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, O my people that dwellest
    in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod,
    and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
25  For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and
    mine anger in their destruction.
26  And the Lord of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to
    the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the
    sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
27  And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken
    away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke
    shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
28  He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid
    up his carriages:
29  They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at
    Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
30  Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto
    Laish, O poor Anathoth.
31  Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to
    flee.
32  As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand
    against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33  Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror:
    and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall
    be humbled.
34  And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and
    Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

Chapter 11

1   And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a
    Branch shall grow out of his roots:
2   And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom
    and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of
    knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
3   And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and
    he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after
    the hearing of his ears:
4   But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove 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.
5   And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness
    the girdle of his reins.
6   The wolf also 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.
7   And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down
    together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8   And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the
    weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den.
9   They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth
    shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the
    sea.
10  And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for
    an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest
    shall be glorious.
11  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his
    hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which
    shall be left, 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.
12  And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the
    outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the
    four corners of the earth.
13  The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah
    shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex
    Ephraim.
14  But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the
    west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their
    hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
15  And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea;
    and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and
    shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
16  And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which
    shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he
    came up out of the land of Egypt.

Chapter 12

1   And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee:  though
    thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou
    comfortedst me.
2   Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the
    Lord JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my
    salvation.
3   Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
4   And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord, call upon his name,
    declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is
    exalted.
5   Sing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent things: this is known
    in all the earth.
6   Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One
    of Israel in the midst of thee.

Chapter 13

1   The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
2   Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them,
    shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
3   I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones
    for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
4   The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people;
    a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the
    Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
5   They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the Lord,
    and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
6   Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a
    destruction from the Almighty.
7   Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
8   And they shall be afraid:  pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them;
    they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed
    one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9   Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce
    anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners
    thereof out of it.
10  For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give
    their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon
    shall not cause her light to shine.
11  And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their
    iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will
    lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12  I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the
    golden wedge of Ophir.
13  Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of
    her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his
    fierce anger.
14  And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh
    up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into
    his own land.
15  Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that
    is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
16  Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
    their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
17  Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard
    silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
18  Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall
    have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare
    children.
19  And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees'
    excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20  It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from
    generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there;
    neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
21  But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall
    be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs
    shall dance there.
22  And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate
    houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to
    come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

Chapter 14

1   For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and
    set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them,
    and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
2   And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place:  and
    the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for
    servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose
    captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
3   And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee
    rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage
    wherein thou wast made to serve,
4   That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and
    say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
5   The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the
    rulers.
6   He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that
    ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
7   The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into
    singing.
8   Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying,
    Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
9   Hell 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.
10  All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as
    we? art thou become like unto us?
11  Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols:
    the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
12  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how
    art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will
    exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount
    of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the
    most High.
15  Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
16  They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee,
    saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake
    kingdoms;
17  That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities
    thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
18  All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every
    one in his own house.
19  But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as
    the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that
    go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
20  Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast
    destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall
    never be renowned.
21  Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers;
    t hat they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the
    world with cities.
22  For I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and cut off
    from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the
    Lord.
23  I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water:
    and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of
    hosts.
24  The Lord 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:
25  That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains
    tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his
    burden depart from off their shoulders.
26  This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this
    is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
27  For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it?  and
    his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
28  In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
29  Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote
    thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a
    cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
30  And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie
    down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay
    thy remnant.
31  Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved:  for
    there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his
    appointed times.
32  What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the
    Lord hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

Chapter 15

1   The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and
    brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and
    brought to silence;
2   He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep:  Moab
    shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be
    baldness, and every beard cut off.
3   In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the
    tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl,
    weeping abundantly.
4   And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even
    unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life
    shall be grievous unto him.
5   My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar,
    an heifer of three years old:  for by the mounting up of Luhith with
    weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise
    up a cry of destruction.
6   For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered
    away, the 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 to the brook of the willows.
8   For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling
    thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.
9   For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more
    upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant
    of the land.

Chapter 16

1   Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness,
    unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
2   For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so
    the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
3   Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the
    midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
4   Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from
    the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler
    ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
5   And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it
    in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and
    hasting righteousness.
6   We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his
    haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be
    so.
7   Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the
    foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.
8   For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords
    of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are
    come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches
    are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
9   Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah:
    I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the
    shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.
10  And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and
    in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be
    shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have
    made their vintage shouting to cease.
11  Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine
    inward parts for Kirharesh.
12  And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the
    high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall
    not prevail.
13  This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning Moab since that
    time.
14  But now the Lord hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the
    years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all
    that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

Chapter 17

1   The burden of Damascus.  Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a
    city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
2   The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which
    shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
3   The fortress also 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 the Lord of hosts.
4   And in that day it shall come to pass, 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 corn, and reapeth
    the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the
    valley of Rephaim.
6   Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive
    tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or
    five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the Lord God of
    Israel.
7   At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have
    respect to the Holy One of Israel.
8   And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither
    shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or
    the images.
9   In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an
    uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel:
    and there shall be desolation.
10  Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not
    been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant
    pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
11  In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning
    shalt thou make thy seed to flourish:  but the harvest shall be a heap
    in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12  Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the
    noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing
    like the rushing of mighty waters!
13  The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall
    rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the
    chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before
    the whirlwind.
14  And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.
    This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob
    us.

Chapter 18

1   Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of
    Ethiopia:
2   That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon
    the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and
    peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation
    meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled
3   All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye,
    when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a
    trumpet, hear ye.
4   For so the Lord said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider
    in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of
    dew in the heat of harvest.
5   For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is
    ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning
    hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
6   They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to
    the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all
    the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
7   In that time shall the present be brought unto the Lord of hosts of a
    people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their
    beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose
    land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of
    hosts, the mount Zion.

Chapter 19

1   The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and
    shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his
    presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2   And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall
    fight every one against his brother, and every one against his
    neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3   And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will
    destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to
    the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the
    wizards.
4   And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and
    a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts.
5   And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted
    and dried up.
6   And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence
    shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
7   The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every
    thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
8   The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the
    brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall
    languish.
9   Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks,
    shall be confounded.
10  And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make
    sluices and ponds for fish.
11  Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise
    counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am
    the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
12  Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now,
    and let them know what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
13  The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are
    deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of
    the tribes thereof.
14  The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof:  and
    they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man
    staggereth in his vomit.
15  Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail,
    branch or rush, may do.
16  In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid
    and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which
    he shaketh over it.
17  And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that
    maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the
    counsel of the Lord of hosts, which he hath determined against it.
18  In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language
    of Canaan, and swear to the Lord of hosts; one shall be called, The city
    of destruction.
19  In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the
    land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.
20  And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts
    in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the Lord because of the
    oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he
    shall deliver them.
21  And the Lord shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know
    the Lord in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they
    shall vow a vow unto the Lord, and perform it.
22  And the Lord shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it:  and they
    shall return even to the Lord, and he shall be entreated of them, and
    shall heal them.
23  In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the
    Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the
    Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
24  In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria,
    even a blessing in the midst of the land:
25  Whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my
    people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.

Chapter 20

1   In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod (when Sargon the king of
    Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
2   At the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go
    and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from
    thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
3   And the Lord said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and
    barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
4   So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and
    the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with
    their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
5   And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation,
    and of Egypt their glory.
6   And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is
    our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king
    of Assyria: and how shall we escape?

Chapter 21

1   The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass
    through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
2   A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth
    treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam:  besiege, O
    Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
3   Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon
    me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the
    hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
4   My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure
    hath he turned into fear unto me.
5   Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye
    princes, and anoint the shield.
6   For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him
    declare what he seeth.
7   And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses,
    and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:
8   And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower
    in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
9   And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen.
    And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the
    graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
10  O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of
    the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
11  The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of
    the night? Watchman, what of the night?
12  The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night:  if ye
    will inquire, inquire ye:  return, come.
13  The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye
    travelling companies of Dedanim.
14  The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was
    thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
15  For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the
    bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
16  For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the
    years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
17  And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the
    children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the Lord God of Israel hath
    spoken it.

Chapter 22

1   The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou
    art wholly gone up to the housetops?
2   Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy
    slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
3   All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all
    that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.
4   Therefore said I, Look away from me: I will weep bitterly, labour not
    to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
5   For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by
    the Lord God of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls,
    and of crying to the mountains.
6   And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir
    uncovered the shield.
7   And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of
    chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
8   And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that
    day to the armour of the house of the forest.
9   Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are
    many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
10  And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye
    broken down to fortify the wall.
11  Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old
    pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect
    unto him that fashioned it long ago.
12  And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to
    mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
13  And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating
    flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall
    die.
14  And it was revealed in mine ears by the Lord of hosts, Surely this
    iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord God of
    hosts.
15  Thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer,
    even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,
16  What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed
    thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on
    high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?
17  Behold, the Lord will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and
    will surely cover thee.
18  He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large
    country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall
    be the shame of thy lord's house.
19  And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he
    pull thee down.
20  And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant
    Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
21  And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy
    girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be
    a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
22  And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he
    shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall
    open.
23  And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for
    a glorious throne to his father's house.
24  And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the
    offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels
    of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
25  In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened
    in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden
    that was upon it shall be cut off: for the Lord hath spoken it.

Chapter 23

1   The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste,
    so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it
    is revealed to them.
2   Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of
    Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
3   And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is
    her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
4   Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength
    of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do
    I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.
5   As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at
    the report of Tyre.
6   Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
7   Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days?  her own
    feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
8   Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose
    merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the
    earth?
9   The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory,
    and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
10  Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no
    more strength.
11  He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms:  the
    Lord hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the
    strong holds thereof.
12  And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin,
    daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou
    have no rest.
13  Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the
    Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up
    the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought
    it to ruin.
14  Howl, ye ships of Tarshish:  for your strength is laid waste.
15  And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten
    seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of
    seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
16  Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been
    forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be
    remembered.
17  And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the
    Lord will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit
    fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the
    earth.
18  And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the Lord:  it
    shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for
    them that dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for durable
    clothing.

Chapter 24

1   Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and
    turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
2   And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the
    servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as
    with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the
    borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to
    him.
3   The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord
    hath spoken this word.
4   The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth
    away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
5   The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they
    have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the
    everlasting covenant.
6   Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell
    therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned,
    and few men left.
7   The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do
    sigh.
8   The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth,
    the joy of the harp ceaseth.
9   They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to
    them that drink it.
10  The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no
    man may come in.
11  There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the
    mirth of the land is gone.
12  In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with
    destruction.
13  When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people,
    there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning
    grapes when the vintage is done.
14  They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of
    the Lord, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
15  Wherefore glorify ye the Lord in the fires, even the name of the Lord
    God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
16  From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory
    to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the
    treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous
    dealers have dealt very treacherously.
17  Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the
    earth.
18  And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the
    fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of
    the pit shall be taken in the snare:  for the windows from on high are
    open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19  The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the
    earth is moved exceedingly.
20  The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed
    like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it;
    and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall punish the
    host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon
    the earth.
22  And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the
    pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they
    be visited.
23  Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord
    of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his
    ancients gloriously.

Chapter 25

1   O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name;
    for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are
    faithfulness and truth.
2   For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a
    palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
3   Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the
    terrible nations shall fear thee.
4   For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in
    his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the
    blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
5   Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry
    place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the
    terrible ones shall be brought low.
6   And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people 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.
7   And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast
    over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
8   He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away
    tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take
    away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.
9   And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited
    for him, and he will save us:  this is the Lord; we have waited for him,
    we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10  For in this mountain shall the hand of the Lord rest, and Moab shall
    be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the
    dunghill.
11  And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that
    swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down
    their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
12  And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down,
    lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

Chapter 26

1   In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a
    strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
2   Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth
    may enter in.
3   Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee:
    because he trusteth in thee.
4   Trust ye in the Lord for ever:  for in the Lord JEHOVAH is everlasting
    strength:
5   For he bringeth 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.
6   The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps
    of the needy.
7   The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the
    path of the just.
8   Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; the
    desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
9   With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit
    within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the
    earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
10  Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn
    righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and
    will not behold the majesty of the Lord.
11  Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall
    see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine
    enemies shall devour them.
12  Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all
    our works in us.
13  O Lord our God, other lords beside 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 their
    memory to perish.
15  Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the
    nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends
    of the earth.
16  Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer
    when thy chastening was upon them.
17  Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her
    delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in
    thy sight, O Lord.
18  We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were
    brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth;
    neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19  Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise.
    Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of
    herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20  Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors
    about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the
    indignation be overpast.
21  For, behold, the Lord cometh 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

1   In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall
    punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked
    serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
2   In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
3   I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it,
    I will keep it night and day.
4   Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in
    battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
5   Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me;
    and he shall make peace with me.
6   He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall
    blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
7   Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain
    according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
8   In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he
    stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
9   By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is
    all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the
    altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images
    shall not stand up.
10  Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken,
    and left like a wilderness:  there shall the calf feed, and there shall
    he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
11  When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off:  the
    women come, and set them on fire:  for it is a people of no
    understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them,
    and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
12  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall beat off
    from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be
    gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
13  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall
    be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of
    Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the
    Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

Chapter 28

1   Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious
    beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of
    them that are overcome with wine!
2   Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of
    hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing,
    shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
3   The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under
    feet:
4   And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall
    be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when
    he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it
    up.
5   In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a
    diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
6   And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for
    strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
7   But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are
    out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong
    drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through
    strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
8   For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no
    place clean.
9   Whom shall he teach knowledge?  and whom shall he make to understand
    doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the
    breasts.
10  For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon
    line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11  For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this
    people.
12  To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to
    rest; and this is the refreshing:  yet they would not hear.
13  But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept
    upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a
    little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and
    snared, and taken.
14  Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this
    people which is in Jerusalem.
15  Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with
    hell 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:
16  Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a
    foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure
    foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17  Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the
    plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the
    waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18  And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement
    with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass
    through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19  From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by
    morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a
    vexation only to understand the report.
20  For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it:
    and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
21  For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall 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.
22  Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for
    I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined
    upon the whole earth.
23  Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
24  Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the
    clods of his ground?
25  When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the
    fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the
    appointed barley and the rie in their place?
26  For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
27  For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither
    is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten
    out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
28  Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor
    break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
29  This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in
    counsel, and excellent in working.

Chapter 29

1   Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to
    year; let them kill sacrifices.
2   Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow:
    and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
3   And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against
    thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
4   And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and
    thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of
    one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall
    whisper out of the dust.
5   Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and
    the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away:
    yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
6   Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with
    earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of
    devouring fire.
7   And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even
    all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her,
    shall be as a dream of a night vision.
8   It shall even be as when an 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.
9   Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken,
    but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
10  For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and
    hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he
    covered.
11  And the vision of all 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:
12  And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read
    this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
13  Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with
    their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their
    heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of
    men:
14  Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this
    people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their
    wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall
    be hid.
15  Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and
    their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth
    us?
16  Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the
    potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me
    not?  or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no
    understanding?
17  Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a
    fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
18  And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the
    eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
19  The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor
    among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20  For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is
    consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
21  That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that
    reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
22  Therefore thus saith the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the
    house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face
    now wax pale.
23  But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst
    of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob,
    and shall fear the God of Israel.
24  They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they
    that murmured shall learn doctrine.

Chapter 30

1   Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but
    not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that
    they may add sin to sin:
2   That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to
    strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the
    shadow of Egypt
3   Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust
    in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
4   For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
5   They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be
    an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
6   The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and
    anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery
    flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young
    asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that
    shall not profit them.
7   For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore
    have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
8   Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that
    it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
9   That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will
    not hear the law of the Lord:
10  Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not
    unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11  Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy
    One of Israel to cease from before us.
12  Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this
    word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
13  Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall,
    swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an
    instant.
14  And he shall break it as the breaking of the potter's vessel that is
    broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found
    in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take
    water withal out of the pit.
15  For thus saith the Lord God, 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.
16  But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye
    flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue
    you be swift.
17  One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five
    shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain,
    and as an ensign on an hill.
18  And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you,
    and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for
    the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
19  For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no
    more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when
    he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
20  And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of
    affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any
    more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
21  And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the
    way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to
    the left.
22  Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and
    the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as
    a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
23  Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the
    ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be
    fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
24  The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat
    clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the
    fan.
25  And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high
    hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter,
    when the towers fall.
26  Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and
    the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in
    the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth
    the stroke of their wound.
27  Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from far, burning with his anger,
    and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and
    his tongue as a devouring fire:
28  And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of
    the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall
    be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
29  Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept;
    and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the
    mountain of the Lord, to the mighty One of Israel.
30  And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall
    shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger,
    and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest,
    and hailstones.
31  For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down,
    which smote with a rod.
32  And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the
    Lord shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in
    battles of shaking will he fight with it.
33  For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he
    hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the
    breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

Chapter 31

1   Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay 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 the Lord!
2   Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his
    words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against
    the help of them that work iniquity.
3   Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and
    not spirit. When the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that
    helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all
    shall fail together.
4   For thus hath the Lord spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young
    lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth
    against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for
    the noise of them: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for
    mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
5   As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending
    also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.
6   Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply
    revolted.
7   For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his
    idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
8   Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and
    the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from
    the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
9   And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes
    shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the Lord, whose fire is in Zion,
    and his furnace in Jerusalem.

Chapter 32

1   Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in
    judgment.
2   And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from
    the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great
    rock in a weary land.
3   And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them
    that hear shall hearken.
4   The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue
    of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
5   The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to
    be bountiful.
6   For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work
    iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to
    make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the
    thirsty to fail.
7   The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices
    to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh
    right.
8   But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall
    he stand.
9   Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless
    daughters; give ear unto my speech.
10  Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the
    vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
11  Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones:
    strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
12  They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the
    fruitful vine.
13  Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon
    all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
14  Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city
    shall be left; the forts and towers 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
    be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
16  Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain
    in the fruitful field.
17  And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of
    righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
18  And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure
    dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
19  When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be
    low in a low place.
20  Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither
    the feet of the ox and the ass.

Chapter 33

1   Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest
    treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou
    shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an
    end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
2   O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their
    arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
3   At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of
    thyself the nations were scattered.
4   And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the
    caterpillar: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon
    them.
5   The Lord is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with
    judgment and righteousness.
6   And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and
    strength of salvation: the fear of the Lord is his treasure.
7   Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace
    shall weep bitterly.
8   The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the
    covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
9   The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down:
    Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their
    fruits.
10  Now will I rise, saith the Lord; now will I be exalted; now will I
    lift up myself.
11  Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath,
    as fire, shall devour you.
12  And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up
    shall they be burned in the fire.
13  Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near,
    acknowledge my might.
14  The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the
    hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among
    us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
15  He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that
    despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding
    of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth
    his eyes from seeing evil;
16  He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions
    of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
17  Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the
    land that is very far off.
18  Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the
    receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19  Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than
    thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not
    understand.
20  Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see
    Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down;
    not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any
    of the cords thereof be broken.
21  But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers
    and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant
    ship pass thereby.
22  For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our
    king; he will save us.
23  Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast,
    they could not spread the sail:  then is the prey of a great spoil
    divided; the lame take the prey.
24  And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell
    therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.

Chapter 34

1   Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth
    hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth
    of it.
2   For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon
    all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them
    to the slaughter.
3   Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out
    of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4   And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall
    be rolled together as a scroll:  and all their host shall fall down, as
    the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig
    tree.
5   For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down
    upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
6   The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with
    fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the
    kidneys of rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great
    slaughter in the land of Idumea.
7   And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the
    bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made
    fat with fatness.
8   For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recompences
    for the controversy of Zion.
9   And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust
    thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning
    pitch.
10  It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up
    for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall
    pass through it for ever and ever.
11  But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and
    the raven shall dwell in it:  and he shall stretch out upon it the line
    of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
12  They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be
    there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
13  And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the
    fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a
    court for owls.
14  The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of
    the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also
    shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
15  There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and
    gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered,
    every one with her mate.
16  Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall
    fail, none shall want her mate:  for my mouth it hath commanded, and his
    spirit it hath gathered them.
17  And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto
    them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to
    generation shall they dwell therein.

Chapter 35

1   The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the
    desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
2   It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing:
    the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel
    and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of
    our God.
3   Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
4   Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not:  behold,
    your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will
    come and save you.
5   Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf
    shall be unstopped.
6   Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb
    sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the
    desert.
7   And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land
    springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be
    grass with reeds and rushes.
8   And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The
    way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for
    those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
9   No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it
    shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:
10  And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with
    songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and
    gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Chapter 36

1   Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that
    Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of
    Judah, and took them.
2   And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto
    king Hezekiah with a great army.  And he stood by the conduit of the
    upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.
3   Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the
    house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.
4   And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the
    great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou
    trustest?
5   I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and
    strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest
    against me?
6   Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on 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 in him.
7   But if thou say to me, We trust in the Lord our God: is it not he,
    whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to
    Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
8   Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, 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.
9   How then wilt 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?
10  And am I now come up without the Lord against this land to destroy
    it? the Lord said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
11  Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray
    thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it:
    and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people
    that are on the wall.
12  But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee
    to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the
    wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with
    you?
13  Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews'
    language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of
    Assyria.
14  Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not
    be able to deliver you.
15  Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord
    will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand
    of the king of Assyria.
16  Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an
    agreement with me by a present, 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;
17  Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land
    of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
18  Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The Lord will deliver us.
    Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand
    of the king of Assyria?
19  Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of
    Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
20  Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered
    their land out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of
    my hand?
21  But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the
    king'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

1   And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his
    clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of
    the Lord.
2   And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the
    scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto
    Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
3   And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of
    trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to
    the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
4   It may be the Lord thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the
    king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and
    will reprove the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift
    up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
5   So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6   And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus
    saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard,
    wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7   Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and
    return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his
    own land.
8   So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against
    Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
9   And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come
    forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to
    Hezekiah, saying,
10  Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy
    God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be
    given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11  Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all
    lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?
12  Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have
    destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden
    which were in Telassar?
13  Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of
    the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
14  And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and
    read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the Lord, and spread it
    before the Lord.
15  And Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord, saying,
16  O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims,
    thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth:
    thou hast made heaven and earth.
17  Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear; open thine eyes, O Lord, and
    see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach
    the living God.
18  Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the
    nations, and their countries,
19  And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but
    the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed
    them.
20  Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the
    kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord, even thou only.
21  Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith
    the Lord God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against
    Sennacherib king of Assyria:
22  This is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The
    virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to
    scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
23  Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou
    exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the
    Holy One of Israel.
24  By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the
    multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to
    the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and
    the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his
    border, and the forest of his Carmel.
25  I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I
    dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
26  Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient
    times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou
    shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
27  Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed
    and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green
    herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be
    grown up.
28  But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy
    rage against me.
29  Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, 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.
30  And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as
    groweth of itself; and 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.
31  And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again
    take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
32  For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape
    out of mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.
33  Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He
    shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before
    it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.
34  By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not
    come into this city, saith the Lord.
35  For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my
    servant David's sake.
36  Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the
    Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose
    early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
37  So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and
    dwelt at Nineveh.
38  And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch
    his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the
    sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son
    reigned in his stead.

Chapter 38

1   In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the
    son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set
    thine house in order:  for thou shalt die, and not live.
2   Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the
    Lord,
3   And said, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked
    before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which
    is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
4   Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying,
5   Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, 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.
6   And 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 a sign unto thee from the Lord, that the Lord will
    do this thing that he hath spoken;
8   Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone
    down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned
    ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
9   The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was
    recovered of his sickness:
10  I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the
    grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
11  I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the
    living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
12  Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent:  I
    have cut off like a weaver my life:  he will cut me off with pining
    sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
13  I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my
    bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
14  Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove:
    mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake
    for me.
15  What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done
    it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
16  O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life
    of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
17  Behold, for peace 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.
18  For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee:  they
    that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
19  The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day:  the
    father to the children shall make known thy truth.
20  The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the
    stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.
21  For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a
    plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.
22  Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the
    house of the Lord?

Chapter 39

1   At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon,
    sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had
    been sick, and was recovered.
2   And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his
    precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the
    precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was
    found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his
    dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
3   Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him,
    What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah
    said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon.
4   Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah
    answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing
    among my treasures that I have not shewed them.
5   Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord of hosts:
6   Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which
    thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to
    Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.
7   And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget,
    shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the
    king of Babylon.
8   Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which thou
    hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my
    days.

Chapter 40

1   Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
2   Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare
    is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of
    the Lord's hand double for all her sins.
3   The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of
    the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
4   Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be
    made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places
    plain:
5   And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see
    it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
6   The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is
    grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
7   The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord
    bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
8   The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall
    stand for ever.
9   O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high
    mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice
    with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah,
    Behold your God!
10  Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall
    rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
11  He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs
    with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those
    that are with young.
12  Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out
    heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a
    measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a
    balance?
13  Who hath directed the spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor
    hath taught him?
14  With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in
    the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the
    way of understanding?
15  Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted 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.
17  All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him
    less than nothing, and vanity.
18  To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto
    him?
19  The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it
    over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
20  He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree
    that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a
    graven image, that shall not be moved.
21  Have ye not known? have ye 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 upon 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:
23  That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the
    earth as vanity.
24  Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown:  yea,
    their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow
    upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away
    as stubble.
25  To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy
    One.
26  Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things,
    that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by
    the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one
    faileth.
27  Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from
    the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
28  Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God,
    the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is
    weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
29  He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he
    increaseth strength.
30  Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall
    utterly fall:
31  But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they
    shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary;
    and they shall walk, and not faint.

Chapter 41

1   Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their
    strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near
    together to judgment.
2   Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot,
    gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them
    as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
3   He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not
    gone with his feet.
4   Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the
    beginning? I the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.
5   The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew
    near, and came.
6   They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his
    brother, Be of good courage.
7   So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with
    the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the
    soldering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
8   But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed
    of Abraham my friend.
9   Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee
    from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I
    have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
10  Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God:
    I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee
    with the right hand of my righteousness.
11  Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and
    confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee
    shall perish.
12  Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that
    contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and
    as a thing of nought.
13  For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee,
    Fear not; I will help thee.
14  Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee,
    saith the Lord, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
15  Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having
    teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt
    make the hills as chaff.
16  Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the
    whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and
    shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17  When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their
    tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of
    Israel will not forsake them.
18  I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the
    valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land
    springs of water.
19  I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the
    myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the
    pine, and the box tree together:
20  That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together,
    that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel
    hath created it.
21  Produce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons,
    saith the King of Jacob.
22  Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them
    shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and
    know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.
23  Shew 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.
24  Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is
    he that chooseth you.
25  I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the
    rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon
    princes as upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay.
26  Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and
    beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that
    sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that
    heareth your words.
27  The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to
    Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
28  For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no
    counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
29  Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten
    images are wind and confusion.

Chapter 42

1   Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul
    delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment
    to the Gentiles.
2   He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the
    street.
3   A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not
    quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
4   He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the
    earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
5   Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched
    them out; he that spread forth 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:
6   I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine
    hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people,
    for a light of the Gentiles;
7   To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison,
    and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
8   I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to
    another, neither my praise to graven images.
9   Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I
    declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
10  Sing unto the Lord 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.
11  Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the
    villages that Kedar doth inhabit:  let the inhabitants of the rock sing,
    let them shout from the top of the mountains.
12  Let them give glory unto the Lord, and declare his praise in the
    islands.
13  The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy
    like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his
    enemies.
14  I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained
    myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and
    devour at once.
15  I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs;
    and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
16  And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead
    them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light
    before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto
    them, and not forsake them.
17  They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust
    in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
18  Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
19  Who is blind, but my servant?  or deaf, as my messenger that I sent?
    who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord's servant?
20  Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he
    heareth not.
21  The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify
    the law, and make it honourable.
22  But this is a people robbed and spoiled; 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.
23  Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for
    the time to come?
24  Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the
    Lord, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his
    ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
25  Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the
    strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew
    not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

Chapter 43

1   But now thus saith the Lord 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.
2   When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through
    the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the
    fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon
    thee.
3   For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave
    Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
4   Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I
    have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy
    life.
5   Fear not: for I am with thee:  I will bring thy seed from the east,
    and gather thee from the west;
6   I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back:
    bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
7   Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for
    my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
8   Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have
    ears.
9   Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be
    assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things?
    let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let
    them hear, and say, It is truth.
10  Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, 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.
11  I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour.
12  I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no
    strange god among you:  therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord,
    that I am God.
13  Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver
    out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
14  Thus saith the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your
    sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and
    the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.
15  I am the Lord, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
16  Thus saith the Lord, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the
    mighty waters;
17  Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power;
    they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct,
    they are quenched as tow.
18  Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of
    old.
19  Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye
    not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the
    desert.
20  The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls:
    because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to
    give drink to my people, my chosen.
21  This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my
    praise.
22  But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary
    of me, O Israel.
23  Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings;
    neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused
    thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.
24  Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou
    filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve
    with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
25  I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own
    sake, and will not remember thy sins.
26  Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou
    mayest be justified.
27  Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed
    against me.
28  Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have
    given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

Chapter 44

1   Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
2   Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb,
    which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun,
    whom I have chosen.
3   For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the
    dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon
    thine offspring:
4   And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water
    courses.
5   One shall say, I am the Lord's; and another shall call himself by the
    name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord,
    and surname himself by the name of Israel.
6   Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of
    hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no
    God.
7   And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order
    for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are
    coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them.
8   Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time,
    and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside
    me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
9   They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their
    delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses;
    they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
10  Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable
    for nothing?
11  Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are
    of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they
    shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.
12  The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it
    with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is
    hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.
13  The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line;
    he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and
    maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man;
    that it may remain in the house.
14  He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which
    he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth
    an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
15  Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and
    warm 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.
16  He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth
    flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and
    saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:
17  And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image:  he
    falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and
    saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.
18  They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that
    they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
19  And none considereth in his heart, 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, that he
    cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
21  Remember these, 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.
22  I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a
    cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
23  Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts
    of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and
    every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified
    himself in Israel.
24  Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the
    womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the
    heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
25  That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad;
    that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
26  That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel
    of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and
    to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the
    decayed places thereof:
27  That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
28  That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my
    pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the
    temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.

Chapter 45

1   Thus saith the Lord 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 before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not
    be shut;
2   I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will
    break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
3   And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of
    secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee
    by thy name, am the God of Israel.
4   For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called
    thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
5   I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me:  I
    girded 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 beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.
7   I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil:
    I the Lord do all these things.
8   Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down
    righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation,
    and let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it.
9   Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive
    with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that
    fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
10  Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to
    the woman, What hast thou brought forth?
11  Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of
    things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands
    command ye me.
12  I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands,
    have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
13  I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his
    ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for
    price nor reward, saith the Lord of hosts.
14  Thus saith the Lord, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia
    and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they
    shall be thine: they shall come 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.
15  Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the
    Saviour.
16  They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall
    go to confusion together that are makers of idols.
17  But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation:
    ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
18  For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that
    formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not
    in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none
    else.
19  I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not
    unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the Lord speak
    righteousness, I declare things that are right.
20  Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped
    of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their
    graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
21  Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together:
    who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that
    time? have not I the Lord? and there is no God else beside me; a just
    God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
22  Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am
    God, and there is none else.
23  I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in
    righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow,
    every tongue shall swear.
24  Surely, shall one say, in the Lord have I righteousness and strength:
    even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall
    be ashamed.
25  In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall
    glory.

Chapter 46

1   Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and
    upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are 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.
3   Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of
    Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the
    womb:
4   And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry
    you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver
    you.
5   To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we
    may be like?
6   They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and
    hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they
    worship.
7   They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his
    place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one
    shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his
    trouble.
8   Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye
    transgressors.
9   Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none
    else; I am God, and there is none like me,
10  Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the
    things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will
    do all my pleasure:
11  Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my
    counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it
    to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
12  Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
13  I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my
    salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel
    my glory.

Chapter 47

1   Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on
    the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans:  for thou
    shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
2   Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the
    leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
3   Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will
    take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
4   As for our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of
    Israel.
5   Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the
    Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
6   I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and
    given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the
    ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
7   And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not
    lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of
    it.
8   Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that
    dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else
    beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of
    children:
9   But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the
    loss of children, and widowhood:  they shall come upon thee in their
    perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great
    abundance of thine enchantments.
10  For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth
    me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast
    said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.
11  Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence
    it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to
    put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou
    shalt not know.
12  Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy
    sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou
    shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
13  Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the
    astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and
    save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
14  Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they
    shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall
    not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
15  Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy
    merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter;
    none shall save thee.

Chapter 48

1   Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of
    Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by
    the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in
    truth, nor in righteousness.
2   For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon
    the God of Israel; The Lord of hosts is his name.
3   I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went
    forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they
    came to pass.
4   Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew,
    and thy brow brass;
5   I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to
    pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done
    them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
6   Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have
    shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou
    didst not know them.
7   They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day
    when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew
    them.
8   Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time
    that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very
    treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
9   For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I
    refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
10  Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee
    in the furnace of affliction.
11  For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how
    should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.
12  Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the
    first, I also am the last.
13  Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right
    hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up
    together.
14  All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared
    these things? The Lord hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on
    Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
15  I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him,
    and he shall make his way prosperous.
16  Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from
    the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord
    God, and his spirit, hath sent me.
17  Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the
    Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the
    way that thou shouldest go.
18  O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace
    been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
19  Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels
    like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor
    destroyed from before me.
20  Go ye forth of 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, The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
21  And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused
    the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and
    the waters gushed out.
22  There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.

Chapter 49

1   Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The Lord
    hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made
    mention of my name.
2   And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his
    hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he
    hid me;
3   And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be
    glorified.
4   Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for
    nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my
    work with my God.
5   And now, saith the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his
    servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet
    shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my
    strength.
6   And he said, It is a light 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.
7   Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him
    whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhoreth, to a servant of
    rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because
    of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall
    choose thee.
8   Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard 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 establish the earth, to cause to
    inherit the desolate heritages;
9   That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in
    darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their
    pastures shall be in all high places.
10  They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun
    smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the
    springs of water shall he guide them.
11  And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be
    exalted.
12  Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and
    from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
13  Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into
    singing, O mountains: for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will
    have mercy upon his afflicted.
14  But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten
    me.
15  Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have
    compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not
    forget thee.
16  Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are
    continually before me.
17  Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee
    waste shall go forth of thee.
18  Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather
    themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord, thou
    shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind
    them on thee, as a bride doeth.
19  For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy
    destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants,
    and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
20  The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other,
    shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give
    place to me that I may dwell.
21  Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these,
    seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing
    to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone;
    these, where had they been?
22  Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the
    Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy
    sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their
    shoulders.
23  And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing
    mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth,
    and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the
    Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
24  Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive
    delivered?
25  But thus saith the Lord, 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.
26  And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they
    shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh
    shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty
    One of Jacob.

Chapter 50

1   Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement,
    whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold
    you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your
    transgressions is your mother put away.
2   Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there
    none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or
    have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I
    make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no
    water, and dieth for thirst.
3   I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their
    covering.
4   The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should
    know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth
    morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
5   The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither
    turned away back.
6   I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off
    the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
7   For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded:
    therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not
    be ashamed.
8   He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand
    together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
9   Behold, the Lord God will help me; who is he that shall condemn me?
    lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
10  Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his
    servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in
    the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.
11  Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with
    sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have
    kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.

Chapter 51

1   Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the
    Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit
    whence ye are digged.
2   Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I
    called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
3   For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places;
    and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the
    garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein,
    thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
4   Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation:  for a
    law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a
    light of the people.
5   My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms
    shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm
    shall they trust.
6   Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for
    the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old
    like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner:
    but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be
    abolished.
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 afraid of
    their revilings.
8   For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat
    them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation
    from generation to generation.
9   Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the
    ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut
    Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
10  Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great
    deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to
    pass over?
11  Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with
    singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they
    shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
12  I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou
    shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which
    shall be made as grass;
13  And forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath stretched forth the
    heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared
    continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he
    were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
14  The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should
    not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
15  But I am the Lord thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared:
    The Lord of hosts is his name.
16  And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the
    shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the
    foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
17  Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of
    the Lord the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of
    trembling, and wrung them out.
18  There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought
    forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons
    that she hath brought up.
19  These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee?
    desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom
    shall I comfort thee?
20  Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a
    wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of
    thy God.
21  Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with
    wine:
22  Thus saith thy Lord the Lord, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of
    his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling,
    even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it
    again:
23  But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have
    said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy
    body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

Chapter 52

1   Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful
    garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more
    come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
2   Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem:  loose
    thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
3   For thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye
    shall be redeemed without money.
4   For thus saith the Lord God, My people went down aforetime into Egypt
    to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
5   Now therefore, what have I here, saith the Lord, that my people is
    taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith
    the Lord; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
6   Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in
    that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
7   How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth
    good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good,
    that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth
8   Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall
    they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring
    again Zion.
9   Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for
    the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
10  The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations;
    and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
11  Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing;
    go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the
    Lord.
12  For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the Lord
    will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rearward.
13  Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and
    extolled, and be very high.
14  As many were astonied 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; the 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 consider.

Chapter 53

1   Who hath believed our report?  and to whom is the arm of the Lord
    revealed?
2   For he shall grow 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 shall see
    him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3   He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted
    with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised,
    and we esteemed him not.
4   Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did
    esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5   But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our
    iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his
    stripes we are healed.
6   All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his
    own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7   He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth:
    he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her
    shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8   He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his
    generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the
    transgression of my people was he stricken.
9   And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death;
    because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10  Yet it pleased the Lord 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 the Lord shall
    prosper in his hand.
11  He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied:  by
    his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear
    their iniquities.
12  Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall
    divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul
    unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the
    sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Chapter 54

1   Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing,
    and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the
    children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith
    the Lord.
2   Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains
    of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy
    stakes;
3   For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy
    seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be
    inhabited.
4   Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded;
    for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of
    thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any
    more.
5   For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy
    Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be
    called.
6   For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in
    spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
7   For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I
    gather thee.
8   In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with
    everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy
    Redeemer.
9   For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that
    the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn
    that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
10  For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my
    kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my
    peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.
11  O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I
    will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with
    sapphires.
12  And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles,
    and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
13  And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be
    the peace of thy children.
14  In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from
    oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not
    come near thee.
15  Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me:  whosoever
    shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.
16  Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire,
    and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created
    the waster to destroy.
17  No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue
    that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the
    heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me,
    saith the Lord.

Chapter 55

1   Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath
    no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without
    money and without price.
2   Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your
    labour for that which satisfieth not?  hearken diligently unto me, and
    eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
3   Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live;
    and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies
    of David.
4   Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and
    commander to the people.
5   Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations
    that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the Lord thy God, and
    for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.
6   Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is
    near:
7   Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts:
    and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and
    to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8   For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,
    saith the Lord.
9   For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher
    than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10  For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth
    not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud,
    that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
11  So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not
    return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it
    shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
12  For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the
    mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and
    all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
13  Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the
    brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the Lord for a
    name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

Chapter 56

1   Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my
    salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
2   Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth
    hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his
    hand from doing any evil.
3   Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the
    Lord, speak, saying, The Lord hath utterly separated me from his people:
    neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
4   For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and
    choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
5   Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place
    and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an
    everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
6   Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to
    serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every
    one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of 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 mine house shall be called an house of
    prayer for all people.
8   The Lord God which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I
    gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.
9   All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the
    forest.
10  His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb
    dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
11  Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are
    shepherds that cannot understand:  they all look to their own way, every
    one for his gain, from his quarter.
12  Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with
    strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more
    abundant.

Chapter 57

1   The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful
    men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away
    from the evil to come.
2   He shall enter into peace:  they shall rest in their beds, each one
    walking in his uprightness.
3   But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the
    adulterer and the whore.
4   Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide
    mouth, and draw out the tongue?  are ye not children of transgression, a
    seed of falsehood,
5   Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the
    children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
6   Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are
    thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast
    offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?
7   Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither
    wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
8   Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance:
    for thou hast discovered 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.
9   And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy
    perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase
    thyself even unto hell.
10  Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not,
    There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou
    wast not grieved.
11  And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and
    hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my
    peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?
12  I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not
    profit thee.
13  When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall
    carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his
    trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
14  And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the
    stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
15  For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose
    name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is
    of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and
    to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
16  For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth:  for
    the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
17  For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I
    hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his
    heart.
18  I 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 the Lord; and I will heal him.
20  But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose
    waters cast up mire and dirt.
21  There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

Chapter 58

1   Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my
    people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
2   Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that
    did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask
    of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to
    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 pleasure, and exact all your labours.
4   Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of
    wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to
    be heard on high.
5   Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his
    soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth
    and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day
    to the Lord?
6   Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of
    wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free,
    and that ye break every yoke?
7   Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the
    poor that are cast out to thy house?  when thou seest the naked, that
    thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
8   Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health
    shall spring forth speedily:  and thy righteousness shall go before
    thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rearward.
9   Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and
    he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the
    yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
10  And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the
    afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness
    be as the noon day:
11  And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in
    drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered
    garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
12  And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou
    shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be
    called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
13  If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure
    on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord,
    honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding
    thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
14  Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to
    ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage
    of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Chapter 59

1   Behold, the Lord'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, that he will not hear.
3   For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity;
    your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
4   None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in
    vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth
    iniquity.
5   They hatch cockatrice's eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that
    eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into
    a viper.
6   Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover
    themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the
    act of violence is in their hands.
7   Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood:
    their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in
    their paths.
8   The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their
    goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall
    not know peace.
9   Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us:
    we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in
    darkness.
10  We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no
    eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places
    as dead men.
11  We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for
    judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
12  For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins
    testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our
    iniquities, we know them;
13  In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from
    our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from
    the heart words of falsehood.
14  And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off:
    for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
15  Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a
    prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no
    judgment.
16  And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no
    intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his
    righteousness, it sustained him.
17  For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of
    salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for
    clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
18  According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his
    adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay
    recompence.
19  So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory
    from the rising of the sun.  When the enemy shall come in like a flood,
    the spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.
20  And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from
    transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.
21  As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; 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 the Lord, from henceforth and for
    ever.

Chapter 60

1   Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is
    risen upon thee.
2   For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness
    the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be
    seen upon thee.
3   And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness
    of thy rising.
4   Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves
    together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy
    daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
5   Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear,
    and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted
    unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.
6   The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian
    and Ephah, all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and
    incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the Lord.
7   All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams
    of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance
    on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
8   Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
9   Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first,
    to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto
    the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he
    hath glorified thee.
10  And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings
    shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour
    have I had mercy on thee.
11  Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut
    day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles,
    and that their kings may be brought.
12  For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish;
    yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
13  The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine
    tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I
    will make the place of my feet glorious.
14  The sons also 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 the Lord, The
    Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
15  Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went
    through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many
    generations.
16  Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the
    breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and
    thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
17  For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and
    for wood brass, and for stones iron:  I will also make thy officers
    peace, and thine exactors righteousness.
18  Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction
    within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy
    gates Praise.
19  The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness
    shall the moon give light unto thee:  but the Lord shall be unto thee an
    everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
20  Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw
    itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of
    thy mourning shall be ended.
21  Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land
    for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be
    glorified.
22  A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong
    nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time.

Chapter 61

1   The spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed
    me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the
    brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of
    the prison to them that are bound;
2   To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance
    of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
3   To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for
    ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit
    of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the
    planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
4   And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former
    desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of
    many generations.
5   And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the
    alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
6   But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord; men shall call you the
    Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in
    their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
7   For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall
    rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the
    double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
8   For I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I
    will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant
    with them.
9   And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring
    among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they
    are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.
10  I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, 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 ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her
    jewels.
11  For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth
    the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will
    cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

Chapter 62

1   For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I
    will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness,
    and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
2   And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory:
    and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord
    shall name.
3   Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a
    royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
4   Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more
    be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land
    Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
5   For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee:
    and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice
    over thee.
6   I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never
    hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep
    not silence,
7   And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a
    praise in the earth.
8   The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength,
    Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and
    the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou
    has laboured:
9   But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord; and
    they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my
    holiness.
10  Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people;
    cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard
    for the people.
11  Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to
    the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward
    is with him, and his work before him.
12  And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord:
    and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

Chapter 63

1   Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah?
    this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his
    strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
2   Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him
    that treadeth in the winevat?
3   I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none
    with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my
    fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will
    stain all my raiment.
4   For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed
    is come.
5   And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there
    was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me;
    and my fury, it upheld me.
6   And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in
    my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
7   I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of
    the Lord, according to all that the Lord 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 lie: so
    he was their Saviour.
9   In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his
    presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and
    he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
10  But they rebelled, and vexed his holy spirit: therefore he was turned
    to be their enemy, and he 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 shepherd of his
    flock? where is he that put his holy spirit within him?
12  That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm,
    dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
13  That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that
    they should not stumble?
14  As a beast goeth down into the valley, the spirit of the Lord caused
    him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious
    name.
15  Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness
    and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of
    thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?
16  Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and
    Israel acknowledge us not:  thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer;
    thy name is from everlasting.
17  O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our
    heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine
    inheritance.
18  The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while:  our
    adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
19  We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called
    by thy name.

Chapter 64

1   Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down,
    that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
2   As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil,
    to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may
    tremble at thy presence!
3   When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest
    down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
4   For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived
    by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath
    prepared for him that waiteth for him.
5   Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that
    remember thee in thy ways:  behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned:
    in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
6   But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as
    filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the
    wind, have taken us away.
7   And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself
    to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast
    consumed us, because of our iniquities.
8   But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our
    potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
9   Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever:
    behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
10  Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a
    desolation.
11  Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is
    burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
12  Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Lord? wilt thou hold
    thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

Chapter 65

1   I am sought of 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.
2   I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which
    walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
3   A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that
    sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
4   Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat
    swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
5   Which 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.
6   Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will
    recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
7   Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith
    the Lord, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed
    me upon the hills:  therefore will I measure their former work into
    their bosom.
8   Thus saith the Lord, 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' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
9   And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an
    inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my
    servants shall dwell there.
10  And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place
    for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
11  But ye are they that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain,
    that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering
    unto that number.
12  Therefore will I number 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 did evil before mine eyes, and did choose
    that wherein I delighted not.
13  Therefore thus saith the Lord God, 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 ashamed:
14  Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for
    sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
15  And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord
    God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:
16  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.
17  For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former
    shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
18  But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for,
    behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
19  And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice
    of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
20  There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that
    hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old;
    but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
21  And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant
    vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
22  They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and
    another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and
    mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
23  They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they
    are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, 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.
25  The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat
    straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall
    not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.

Chapter 66

1   Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my
    footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the
    place of my rest?
2   For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have
    been, saith the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is
    poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
3   He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a
    lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if
    he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an
    idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in
    their abominations.
4   I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon
    them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not
    hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I
    delighted not.
5   Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren
    that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the Lord
    be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be
    ashamed.
6   A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of
    the Lord that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
7   Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was
    delivered of a man child.
8   Who hath heard such a thing?  who hath seen such things? Shall the
    earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at
    once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
9   Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the
    Lord: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.
10  Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love
    her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
11  That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her
    consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance
    of her glory.
12  For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a
    river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall
    ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her
    knees.
13  As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye
    shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
14  And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall
    flourish like an herb: and the hand of the Lord shall be known toward
    his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
15  For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like
    a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames
    of fire.
16  For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh:  and
    the slain of the Lord shall be many.
17  They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens
    behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination,
    and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.
18  For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will
    gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
19  And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that 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
    Gentiles.
20  And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the Lord
    out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and
    upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith
    the Lord, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel
    into the house of the Lord.
21  And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the
    Lord.
22  For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall
    remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name
    remain.
23  And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and
    from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me,
    saith the Lord.
24  And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases 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.