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1:1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amos, which he saw
 concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham,
 Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
1:2 Hear, [ye] heavens, and give ear, [thou] earth! for Jehovah
 hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children; and they
 have rebelled against me.
1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib;
 Israel doth not know, my people hath no intelligence.
1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of
 evildoers, children that corrupt themselves! They have forsaken
 Jehovah; they have despised the Holy One of Israel; they are
 turned away backward.
1:5 Why should ye be smitten any more? ye will revolt more and
 more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
1:6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no
 soundness in him; wounds, and weals, and open sores: they have
 not been dressed, nor bound up, nor mollified with oil.
1:7 Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire;
 your land, strangers eat it up in your presence, and it is
 desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left, as a booth in a vineyard,
 as a night-lodge in a cucumber-garden, as a besieged city.
1:9 Unless Jehovah of hosts had left us a very small residue, we
 should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto
 Gomorrah.
1:10 Hear the word of Jehovah, rulers of Sodom; give ear unto
 the law of our God, people of Gomorrah!
1:11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto
 me? saith Jehovah. I am sated with burnt-offerings of rams, and
 the fat of fed beasts; and in the blood of bullocks, and of
 lambs, and of he-goats I take no pleasure.
1:12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this
 from your hand -- to tread my courts?
1:13 Bring no more vain oblations! Incense is an abomination
 unto me, -- new moon and sabbath, the calling of convocations
 -- wickedness and the solemn meeting I cannot bear.
1:14 Your new moons and your set feasts my soul hateth: they are
 a burden to me; I am wearied of bearing [them].
1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes
 from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your
 hands are full of blood.
1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings
 from before mine eyes; -- cease to do evil,
1:17 learn to do well: seek judgment, gladden the oppressed, do
 justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow.
1:18 Come now, let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though
 your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though
 they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
1:19 If ye be willing and hearken, ye shall eat the good of the
 land;
1:20 but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the
 sword: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.
1:21 How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of
 judgment; righteousness used to lodge in it, but now murderers.
1:22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine is mixed with water:
1:23 thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves;
 every one loveth presents, and hunteth after rewards; they
 judge not the fatherless, and the cause of the widow cometh not
 unto them.
1:24 Therefore saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One
 of Israel: Ah! I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge
 me of mine enemies.
1:25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and will thoroughly
 purge away thy dross, and take away all thine alloy;
1:26 and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy
 counsellors as at the beginning. Afterwards thou shalt be
 called, Town of righteousness, Faithful city.
1:27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and they that return
 of her with righteousness.
1:28 But the ruin of the transgressors and of the sinners [shall
 be] together; and they that forsake Jehovah shall be consumed.
1:29 For they shall be ashamed of the terebinths that ye have
 desired, and ye shall blush for the gardens that ye have
 chosen.
1:30 For ye shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fadeth, and as a
 garden that hath no water.
1:31 And the strong shall be for tow, and his work a spark; and
 they shall both burn together, and there shall be none to
 quench [them].
2:1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah
 and Jerusalem.
2:2 And it shall come to pass in the end of days, [that] the
 mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of
 the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all
 the nations shall flow unto it.
2:3 And many peoples shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to
 the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and
 he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.
 For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and Jehovah's word from
 Jerusalem.
2:4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall reprove many
 peoples; and they shall forge their swords into ploughshares,
 and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up
 sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
2:5 House of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of
 Jehovah.
2:6 For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob,
 because they are filled [with what comes] from the east, and
 use auguries like the Philistines, and ally themselves with the
 children of foreigners.
2:7 And their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no
 end of their treasures: their land also is full of horses, and
 there is no end of their chariots.
2:8 And their land is full of idols; they bow themselves down to
 the work of their own hands, to that which their fingers have
 made.
2:9 And the mean man shall be bowed down, and the great man
 shall be brought low: and do not thou forgive them!
2:10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, from before
 the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty.
2:11 The lofty eyes of man shall be brought low, and the
 haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall
 be exalted in that day.
2:12 For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon
 everything proud and lofty, and upon everything lifted up, and
 it shall be brought low;
2:13 and upon all the cedars of Lebanon, high and lifted up, and
 upon all the oaks of Bashan;
2:14 and upon all the lofty mountains, and upon all the hills
 that are lifted up;
2:15 and upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall;
2:16 and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant
 works of art.
2:17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the
 haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Jehovah alone
 shall be exalted in that day:
2:18 and the idols shall utterly pass away.
2:19 And they shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the
 holes of the earth, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from
 the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to terrify the
 earth.
2:20 In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver and
 their idols of gold, which they made [each] for himself to
 worship, to the moles and to the bats;
2:21 to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the fissures
 of the cliffs, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the
 glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to terrify the earth.
2:22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for
 what account is to be made of him?
3:1 For behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, will take away from
 Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of
 bread, and the whole stay of water,
3:2 the mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the
 prophet, and the diviner and the elder,
3:3 the captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the
 counsellor, and the clever among artificers, and the one versed
 in enchantments.
3:4 And I will appoint youths as their princes, and children
 shall rule over them.
3:5 And the people shall be oppressed one by the other, and each
 by his neighbour; the child will be insolent against the elder,
 and the base against the honourable.
3:6 When a man shall take hold of his brother, in his father's
 house, [and shall say:] Thou hast clothing; be our chief, and
 let this ruin be under thy hand;
3:7 he will lift up [his hand] in that day, saying, I cannot be
 a healer, and in my house there is neither bread nor clothing;
 ye shall not make me a chief of the people.
3:8 For Jerusalem stumbleth and Judah falleth, because their
 tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the
 eyes of his glory.
3:9 The look of their face doth witness against them, and they
 declare their sin as Sodom: they hide it not. Woe unto their
 soul! for they have brought evil upon themselves.
3:10 Say ye of the righteous that it shall be well [with him],
 for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
3:11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill [with him], because
 the desert of his hands shall be rendered unto him.
3:12 [As for] my people, children are their oppressors, and
 women rule over them. My people! they that guide thee mislead
 [thee], and destroy the way of thy paths.
3:13 Jehovah setteth himself to plead, and standeth to judge the
 peoples.
3:14 Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his
 people and their princes, [saying:] It is ye that have eaten up
 the vineyard: the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
3:15 What mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the faces
 of the afflicted? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
3:16 And Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are
 haughty, and walk with stretched-out neck and wanton eyes, and
 go along mincing, and making a tinkling with their feet;
3:17 therefore the Lord will make bald the crown of the head of
 the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret
 parts.
3:18 In that day the Lord will take away the ornament of
 anklets, and the little suns and crescents,
3:19 the pearl-drops, and the bracelets, and the veils,
3:20 the head-dresses, and the stepping chains, and the girdles,
 and the scent-boxes, and the amulets;
3:21 the finger-rings, and the nose-rings;
3:22 the festival-robes, and the tunics, and the mantles, and
 the wallets;
3:23 the mirrors, and the fine linen bodices, and the turbans,
 and the flowing veils.
3:24 And it shall come to pass, instead of perfume there shall
 be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of
 well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe of display, a
 girding of sackcloth; brand instead of beauty.
3:25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the
 fight;
3:26 and her gates shall lament and mourn; and, stripped, she
 shall sit upon the ground.
4:1 And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day,
 saying, Our own bread will we eat, and with our own garments
 will we be clothed; only let us be called by thy name; -- take
 away our reproach!
4:2 In that day there shall be a sprout of Jehovah for beauty
 and glory, and the fruit of the earth for excellency and for
 ornament for those that are escaped of Israel.
4:3 And it shall come to pass that he who remaineth in Zion, and
 he that is left in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, -- every
 one that is written among the living in Jerusalem;
4:4 when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the
 daughters of Zion, and shall have scoured out the blood of
 Jerusalem from its midst, by the spirit of judgment, and by the
 spirit of burning.
4:5 And Jehovah will create over every dwelling-place of mount
 Zion, and over its convocations, a cloud by day and a smoke,
 and the brightness of a flame of fire by night: for over all
 the glory shall be a covering.
4:6 And there shall be a tabernacle for shade by day from the
 heat, and for a shelter and for a covert from storm and from
 rain.
5:1 I will sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching
 his vineyard: My well-beloved had a vineyard upon a fruitful
 hill.
5:2 And he dug it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and
 planted it with the choicest vine; and he built a tower in the
 midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein; and he
 looked that it should bring forth grapes, but it brought forth
 wild grapes.
5:3 And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I
 pray you, between me and my vineyard.
5:4 What was there yet to do to my vineyard that I have not done
 in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth
 grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? --
5:5 And now, let me tell you what I am about to do to my
 vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up;
 I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden under foot;
5:6 and I will make it a waste -- it shall not be pruned nor
 cultivated, but there shall come up briars and thorns; and I
 will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
5:7 For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel,
 and the men of Judah the plant of his delight: and he looked
 for justice, and behold, blood-shedding; for righteousness, and
 behold, a cry.
5:8 Woe unto them that add house to house, that join field to
 field, until there is no more room, and that ye dwell
 yourselves alone in the midst of the land!
5:9 In mine ears Jehovah of hosts [hath said], Many houses shall
 assuredly become a desolation, great and excellent ones,
 without inhabitant.
5:10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a
 homer of seed shall yield an ephah.
5:11 Woe unto them that, rising early in the morning, run after
 strong drink; that linger till twilight, [till] wine inflameth
 them!
5:12 And harp and lyre, tambour and flute, and wine are in their
 banquets; but they regard not the work of Jehovah, nor do they
 see the operation of his hands.
5:13 Therefore my people are led away captive from lack of
 knowledge, and their nobility die of famine, and their
 multitude are parched with thirst.
5:14 Therefore doth Sheol enlarge its desire, and open its mouth
 without measure; and her splendour shall descend [into it], and
 her multitude, and her tumult, and [all] that is joyful within
 her.
5:15 And the mean man shall be bowed down, and the great man
 brought low, and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low;
5:16 and Jehovah of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the
 holy ∙God hallowed in righteousness.
5:17 And the lambs shall feed as on their pasture, and the waste
 places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
5:18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and
 sin as with cart-ropes!
5:19 who say, Let him hasten, let him speed his work, that we
 may see [it]; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel
 draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
5:20 Woe unto them who call evil good, and good evil; who put
 darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for
 sweet, and sweet for bitter!
5:21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and
 intelligent in their own esteem!
5:22 Woe unto them that are mighty for drinking wine, and men
 valiant to mix strong drink;
5:23 who justify the wicked for a bribe, and turn away the
 righteousness of the righteous from them!
5:24 Therefore as a tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and
 dry grass sinketh down in the flame, their root shall be as
 rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; for they
 have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the
 word of the Holy One of Israel.
5:25 Therefore is the anger of Jehovah kindled against his
 people, and he hath stretched out his hand against them and
 hath smitten them; and the mountains trembled, and their
 carcases are become as dung in the midst of the streets. For
 all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is
 stretched out still.
5:26 And he will lift up a banner to the nations afar off, and
 will hiss for one from the end of the earth; and behold, it
 will come rapidly [and] lightly.
5:27 None among them is weary, none stumbleth; they slumber not,
 nor sleep; none hath the girdle of his loins loosed, nor the
 thong of his sandals broken;
5:28 their arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their
 horses' hoofs are reckoned as the flint, and their wheels as a
 whirlwind.
5:29 Their roaring is like a lioness, they roar as the young
 lions; yea, they growl, and snatch the prey, and carry it away
 safe, and there is none to deliver;
5:30 and they shall roar against them in that day like the
 roaring of the sea. And if one look upon the earth, behold
 darkness [and] distress, and the light is darkened in the
 heavens thereof.
6:1 In the year of the death of king Uzziah, I saw the Lord
 sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled
 the temple.
6:2 Seraphim were standing above him: each had six wings; with
 twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet,
 and with twain he flew.
6:3 And one called to the other and said, Holy, holy, holy is
 Jehovah of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!
6:4 And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of
 him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
6:5 And I said, Woe unto me! for I am undone; for I am a man of
 unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean
 lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.
6:6 And one of the seraphim flew unto me, and he had in his hand
 a glowing coal, which he had taken with the tongs from off the
 altar;
6:7 and he made it touch my mouth, and said, Behold, this hath
 touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin
 expiated.
6:8 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send,
 and who will go for us? And I said, Here am I; send me.
6:9 And he said, Go; and thou shalt say unto this people,
 Hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, and seeing ye
 shall see and shall not perceive.
6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears
 heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and
 hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be
 converted, and healed.
6:11 And I said, Lord, how long? And he said, Until the cities
 be wasted, without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and
 the land become an utter desolation,
6:12 and Jehovah have removed men far away, and the solitude be
 great in the midst of the land.
6:13 But a tenth part shall still be therein, and it shall
 return and be eaten; as the terebinth and as the oak whose
 trunk [remaineth] after the felling: the holy seed shall be the
 trunk thereof.
7:1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham,
 the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, [that] Rezin the king of
 Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up
 to Jerusalem to make war against it, but they were not able to
 fight against it.
7:2 And it was told the house of David saying, Syria is allied
 with Ephraim. Then his heart and the heart of his people shook,
 as the trees of the forest are shaken with the wind.
7:3 And Jehovah said to Isaiah, Go out now to meet Ahaz, thou
 and thy son Shear-jashub, at the end of the aqueduct of the
 upper pool, on the highway of the fuller's field;
7:4 and thou shalt say unto him, Take heed and be quiet; fear
 not, and let not thy heart faint before these two ends of
 smoking firebrands, because of the fierce anger of Rezin and
 Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
7:5 Inasmuch as Syria hath taken evil counsel against thee,
 Ephraim [also] and the son of Remaliah, saying,
7:6 Let us go up against Judah, and harass it, and make a breach
 therein for us, and set up a king therein -- the son of Tabeal;
7:7 thus saith the Lord Jehovah: It shall not stand, nor come to
 pass;
7:8 for the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus
 is Rezin; and within sixty-five years shall Ephraim be broken,
 so as to be no [more a] people;
7:9 and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria
 is Remaliah's son. If ye believe not, surely ye shall not be
 established.
7:10 And Jehovah spoke again to Ahaz, saying,
7:11 Ask for thee a sign from Jehovah thy God; ask for it in the
 deep, or in the height above.
7:12 And Ahaz said, I will not ask, and will not tempt Jehovah.
7:13 And he said, Hear then, house of David: Is it a small
 matter for you to weary men, that ye weary also my God?
7:14 Therefore will the Lord himself give you a sign: Behold,
 the virgin shall conceive and shall bring forth a son, and call
 his name Immanuel.
7:15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse
 the evil, and to choose the good.
7:16 For before the child knoweth to refuse the evil and to
 choose the good, the land whose two kings thou fearest shall be
 forsaken.
7:17 Jehovah will bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon
 thy father's house, days which have not come since the day when
 Ephraim turned away from Judah -- [even] the king of Assyria.
7:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will
 hiss for the fly which is at the extremity of the streams of
 Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria;
7:19 and they shall come and settle all of them in the desolate
 valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and on all
 thorn-bushes, and on all the pastures.
7:20 In that day will the Lord, with a razor which is hired
 beyond the river, with the king of Assyria, shave the head and
 the hair of the feet, yea, the beard also will it take away.
7:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] a man shall
 nourish a young cow and two sheep,
7:22 and it shall come to pass, from the abundance of milk they
 shall give, [that] he shall eat butter; for every one that
 remaineth in the midst of the land shall eat butter and honey.
7:23 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] every place,
 where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver pieces,
 shall become briars and thorns:
7:24 with arrows and with the bow shall they come thither, for
 the whole land shall become briars and thorns.
7:25 And all mountains that have been dug up with the hoe --
 thither will they not come, from fear of briars and thorns; and
 they shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the
 treading of small cattle.
8:1 And Jehovah said to me, Take thee a great tablet, and write
 thereon with a man's style, concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
8:2 And I took unto me to witness, sure witnesses, Urijah the
 priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
8:3 And I came near to the prophetess, and she conceived and
 bore a son; and Jehovah said unto me, Call his name,
 Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
8:4 For before the lad knoweth 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.
8:5 And Jehovah spoke again to me, saying,
8:6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah
 which flow softly, and rejoiceth in Rezin and in the son of
 Remaliah,
8:7 therefore behold, the Lord will bring up upon them the
 waters of the river, strong and many, the king of Assyria and
 all his glory; and he shall mount up over all his channels, and
 go over all his banks:
8:8 and he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow it and go
 further, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching
 out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O
 Immanuel!
8:9 Rage, ye peoples, and be broken in pieces! And give ear, all
 ye distant parts of the earth: Gird yourselves, and be broken
 in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces!
8:10 Settle a plan, and it shall come to nought; speak a word,
 and it shall not stand: for ∙God is with us.
8:11 For Jehovah spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and he
 instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
8:12 Ye shall not say, Conspiracy, of everything of which this
 people saith, Conspiracy; and fear ye not their fear, and be
 not in dread.
8:13 Jehovah of hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be
 your fear, and let him be your dread.
8:14 And he will be for a sanctuary; and for a stone of
 stumbling, and for a rock of offence to both the houses of
 Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of
 Jerusalem.
8:15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken,
 and snared, and taken.
8:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
8:17 And I will wait for Jehovah, who hideth his face from the
 house of Jacob; and I will look for him.
8:18 Behold, I and the children that Jehovah hath given me are
 for signs and for wonders in Israel, from Jehovah of hosts, who
 dwelleth in mount Zion.
8:19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto the
 necromancers and unto the soothsayers, who chirp and who
 mutter, [say,] Shall not a people seek unto their God? [Will
 they go] for the living unto the dead?
8:20 To the law and the testimony! If they speak not according
 to this word, for them there is no daybreak.
8:21 And they shall pass through it, hard pressed and hungry;
 and it shall come to pass when they are hungry, they will fret
 themselves, and curse their king and their God, and will gaze
 upward:
8:22 and they will look to the earth; and behold, trouble and
 darkness, gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into thick
 darkness.
9:1 Nevertheless the darkness shall not be as when the distress
 was in the [land], at the time he at first lightly, and
 afterwards heavily, visited the land of Zebulun and the land of
 Naphtali, -- the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of
 the nations:
9:2 the people that walked in darkness have seen a great light;
 they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them
 light hath shone.
9:3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, hast increased its joy:
 they joy before thee like to the joy in harvest; as [men]
 rejoice when they divide the spoil.
9:4 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.
9:5 For every boot of him that is shod for the tumult, and the
 garment rolled in blood, shall be for burning, fuel for fire.
9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the
 government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name is called
 Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty ∙God, Father of Eternity, Prince
 of Peace.
9:7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall
 be no end, upon the throne of David and over his kingdom, to
 establish it, and to uphold it with judgment and with
 righteousness, from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of
 Jehovah of hosts will perform this.
9:8 The Lord sent a word unto Jacob, and it lighteth upon
 Israel.
9:9 And all the people shall know [it], Ephraim and the
 inhabitant of Samaria, that say in pride and stoutness of
 heart,
9:10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn
 stones; the sycamore trees are cut down, but we will replace
 them with cedars.
9:11 And Jehovah will set up the adversaries of Rezin against
 him, and arm his enemies,
9:12 the Syrians on the east, and the Philistines on the west;
 and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his
 anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
9:13 But the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, and
 they do not seek Jehovah of hosts.
9:14 And Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail,
 palm-branch and rush, in one day:
9:15 the ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet
 that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
9:16 For the guides of this people mislead [them]; and they that
 are guided by them are swallowed up.
9:17 Therefore the Lord will not rejoice in their young men,
 neither will he have mercy on their fatherless and on their
 widows; for every one is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every
 mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned
 away, and his hand is stretched out still.
9:18 For wickedness burneth as a fire: it devoureth briars and
 thorns, and kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they go
 rolling up like a pillar of smoke.
9:19 Through the wrath of Jehovah of hosts is the land burned
 up, and the people is as fuel for fire: a man spareth not his
 brother;
9:20 and he snatcheth on the right hand, and is hungry, and
 eateth on the left hand; and they are not satisfied. They eat
 every man the flesh of his own arm:
9:21 Manasseh, Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh; [and] they
 together are against Judah. For all this his anger is not
 turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
10:1 Woe unto them that decree iniquitous decrees, and to the
 writers that prescribe oppression,
10:2 to turn away the poor from judgment, and to take away the
 right from the afflicted of my people; that widows may be their
 prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
10:3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the
 sudden destruction [which] shall come from far? To whom will ye
 flee for help, and where will ye leave your glory?
10:4 They can but crouch under the prisoners, and they shall
 fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned
 away, and his hand is stretched out still.
10:5 Ah! the Assyrian! the rod of mine anger! and the staff in
 their hand is mine indignation.
10:6 I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against
 the people of my wrath will I give him a charge; to take the
 spoil, and to seize the prey, and to tread them down like the
 mire of the streets.
10:7 But he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; for
 it is in his heart to extirpate and cut off nations not a few.
10:8 For he saith, Are not my princes all kings?
10:9 Is not Calno as Karkemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not
 Samaria as Damascus?
10:10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, -- and
 their graven images exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
10:11 -- shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols,
 so do to Jerusalem and her images?
10:12 And it shall come to pass, when the Lord hath performed
 his whole work upon mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will
 punish the fruit of the stoutness of heart of the king of
 Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
10:13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done [it],
 and by my wisdom, for I am intelligent; and I have removed the
 bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and,
 like a valiant man, I have brought down them that sit [on
 thrones];
10:14 and my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the
 peoples, and as one gathereth forsaken eggs, have I gathered
 all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or
 opened the mouth, or chirped.
10:15 -- Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth
 therewith? shall the saw magnify itself against him that
 wieldeth it? As if the rod should wield them that lift it up;
 as if the staff should lift up [him who is] not wood!
10:16 Therefore shall the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, send among his
 fat ones leanness, and under his glory he shall kindle a
 burning, like the burning of a fire:
10:17 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 briars in one day,
10:18 and it shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his
 fruitful field, both soul and body; and they shall be as when a
 sick man fainteth.
10:19 And the remainder of the trees of his forest shall be few:
 yea, a child might write them.
10:20 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 rely upon him that smote them; but they shall
 rely upon Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
10:21 The remnant shall return, the remnant of Jacob, unto the
 mighty ∙God.
10:22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea,
 [only] a remnant of them shall return: the consumption
 determined shall overflow in righteousness.
10:23 For a consumption, and [one] determined, will the Lord,
 Jehovah of hosts, accomplish in the midst of all the land.
10:24 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Jehovah 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:
10:25 for yet a very little while, and the indignation shall be
 accomplished, and mine anger, in their destruction.
10:26 And Jehovah of hosts will stir up a scourge against him,
 according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and
 his rod [shall be] upon the sea, and he will lift it up after
 the manner of Egypt.
10:27 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] his burden
 shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from
 off thy neck; and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the
 anointing. ...
10:28 He is come to Aiath, he hath passed through Migron; at
 Michmash he layeth up his baggage.
10:29 They are gone through the pass; they make their lodging at
 Geba: Ramah trembleth, Gibeah of Saul is fled.
10:30 Lift up thy voice, daughter of Gallim! Hearken, O Laish!
 -- Poor Anathoth!
10:31 Madmenah is fugitive; the inhabitants of Gebim take to
 flight.
10:32 Still a day of halting at Nob; he shaketh his hand
 [against] the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of
 Jerusalem. ...
10:33 Behold the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, shall lop the boughs
 with violence; and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down,
 and the haughty shall be brought low;
10:34 and he shall make clearings in the thickets of the forest
 with iron; and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
11:1 And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of
 Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall be fruitful;
11:2 and the Spirit of Jehovah shall rest upon him, the spirit
 of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might,
 the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah.
11:3 And his delight will be in the fear of Jehovah; and he
 shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove
 after the hearing of his ears;
11:4 but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove
 with equity the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth
 with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips
 shall he slay the wicked.
11:5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his reins, and
 faithfulness the girdle of his loins.
11:6 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 fatted beast together, and a little child shall lead
 them.
11:7 And the cow and the she-bear shall feed; their young ones
 shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the
 ox.
11:8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the adder,
 and the weaned child shall put forth its hand to the viper's
 den.
11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain;
 for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the
 waters cover the sea.
11:10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, standing
 as a banner of the peoples: the nations shall seek it; and his
 resting-place shall be glory.
11:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the Lord
 shall set his hand again the second time to acquire 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.
11:12 And he shall lift up a banner to the nations, and shall
 assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the
 dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
11:13 And the envy of Ephraim shall depart, and the troublers of
 Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim will not envy Judah, and Judah
 will not trouble Ephraim:
11:14 but they shall fly upon the shoulder of the Philistines
 towards the west; together shall they spoil the sons of the
 east; they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab, and the
 children of Ammon shall obey them.
11:15 And Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the
 Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind will he shake his hand
 over the river, and will smite it into seven streams, and make
 [men] go over dryshod.
11:16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people
 which will be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in
 the day when he went up out of the land of Egypt.
12:1 And in that day thou shalt say, Jehovah, I will praise
 thee; for though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned
 away, and thou hast comforted me.
12:2 Behold, ∙God is my salvation: I will trust, and not be
 afraid; for Jah, Jehovah, is my strength and song, and he is
 become my salvation.
12:3 And with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of
 salvation.
12:4 And in that day shall ye say, Give ye thanks to Jehovah,
 call upon his name, declare his deeds among the peoples, make
 mention that his name is exalted.
12:5 Sing psalms of Jehovah, for he hath done excellent things:
 this is known in all the earth.
12:6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitress of Zion; for great is
 the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
13:1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
13:2 Lift up a banner upon a bare mountain, raise the voice unto
 them, shake the hand, that they may enter the gates of the
 nobles.
13:3 I have commanded my hallowed ones, I have also called my
 mighty men for mine anger, them that rejoice in my highness.
13:4 The noise of a multitude on the mountains, as of a great
 people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations assembled
 together: Jehovah of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
13:5 They come from a far country, from the end of the heavens
 -- Jehovah, and the weapons of his indignation -- to destroy
 the whole land.
13:6 Howl, for the day of Jehovah is at hand; it cometh as
 destruction from the Almighty.
13:7 Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man
 shall melt,
13:8 and they shall be terrified: pangs and sorrows shall take
 hold of them, they shall writhe as a woman that travaileth;
 they shall be amazed one at another, their faces shall be as
 flames.
13:9 Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel both with wrath
 and fierce anger, to lay the earth desolate; and he will
 destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
13:10 For the stars of the heavens 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.
13:11 And I will punish the world for evil, and the wicked for
 their iniquity; and I will make the arrogance of the proud to
 cease, and will bring low the haughtiness of the violent.
13:12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold, even man
 than the gold of Ophir.
13:13 Therefore I will make the heavens to shake, and the earth
 shall be removed out of her place, at the wrath of Jehovah of
 hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
13:14 And it shall be as with a chased roe, and as with a flock
 that no man gathereth together; every one shall turn to his own
 people, and every one flee into his own land.
13:15 All that are found shall be thrust through; and every one
 that is in league [with them] shall fall by the sword.
13:16 And their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their
 eyes, their houses shall be rifled, and their women ravished.
13:17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who do not
 regard silver, and as for gold, they have no delight in it.
13:18 And [their] bows 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.
13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the
 Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and
 Gomorrah.
13:20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in,
 even to generation and generation; nor shall Arabian pitch tent
 there, nor shepherds make fold there.
13:21 But beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses
 shall be full of owls; and ostriches shall dwell there, and
 wild goats shall dance there.
13:22 And jackals shall cry to one another in their palaces, and
 wild dogs in the pleasant castles. And her time is near to
 come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
14:1 For Jehovah will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose
 Israel, and set them in rest in their own land; and the
 stranger shall be united to them, and they shall be joined to
 the house of Jacob.
14:2 And the peoples shall take them and bring them to their
 place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land
 of Jehovah for servants and handmaids; and they shall take them
 captive whose captives they were, and they shall rule over
 their oppressors.
14:3 And it shall come to pass in the day that Jehovah shall
 give thee rest from thy sorrow and from thy trouble and from
 the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
14:4 that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of
 Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased, -- the
 exactress of gold ceased!
14:5 Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of
 the rulers.
14:6 He that smote the peoples in wrath with a relentless
 stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted
 unsparingly.
14:7 The whole earth is at rest, is quiet: they break forth into
 singing.
14:8 Even the cypresses rejoice at thee, the cedars of Lebanon,
 [saying,] Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up
 against us.
14:9 Sheol from beneath is moved for thee to meet [thee] at thy
 coming, stirring up the dead for thee, all the he-goats of the
 earth; making to rise from their thrones all the kings of the
 nations.
14:10 All of them shall answer and say unto thee, Art thou also
 become powerless as we; art thou become like unto us!
14:11 -- Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, the noise of thy
 lyres: the maggot is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.
14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the
 morning! Thou art cut down to the ground, that didst prostrate
 the nations!
14:13 And thou that didst say in thy heart, I will ascend into
 the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of ∙God,
 and I will sit upon the mount of assembly, in the recesses of
 the north;
14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be
 like the Most High:
14:15 none the less art thou brought down to Sheol, to the
 recesses of the pit.
14:16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee; they
 shall consider thee, [saying,] Is this the man that made the
 earth to tremble, that shook kingdoms;
14:17 [that] made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the
 cities thereof; [that] dismissed not his prisoners homewards?
14:18 -- All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie in
 glory, every one in his own house;
14:19 but thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable
 branch, covered with the slain -- those thrust through with the
 sword, that go down to the stones of the pit: like a carcase
 trodden under foot.
14:20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial; for thou
 hast destroyed thy land, hast slain thy people. Of the seed of
 evildoers no mention shall be made for ever.
14:21 Prepare ye slaughter for his children, because of the
 iniquity of their fathers; that they may not rise up and
 possess the earth, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
14:22 For I will rise up against them, saith Jehovah of hosts,
 and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and scion and
 descendant, saith Jehovah.
14:23 And I will make it a possession for the bittern, and pools
 of water; and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction,
 saith Jehovah of hosts.
14:24 Jehovah of hosts hath sworn saying, Assuredly as I have
 thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, it
 shall stand:
14:25 to break the Assyrian in my land; and upon my mountains
 will I tread him under foot; and his yoke shall depart from off
 them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
14:26 This is the counsel which is purposed concerning the whole
 earth; and this is the hand which is stretched out upon all the
 nations.
14:27 For Jehovah of hosts hath purposed, and who shall
 frustrate [it]? And his hand is stretched out, and who shall
 turn it back?
14:28 In the year of the death of king Ahaz was this burden:
14:29 Rejoice not thou, Philistia, all of thee, because the rod
 that smote thee is broken; for out of the serpent's root shall
 come forth a viper, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying
 serpent.
14:30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy
 shall lie down in safety; but I will kill thy root with famine,
 and thy remnant shall be slain.
14:31 Howl, O gate! cry, O city! thou, Philistia, art wholly
 dissolved; for there cometh from the north a smoke, and none
 remaineth apart in his gatherings [of troops].
14:32 And what shall be answered to the messengers of the
 nation? That Jehovah hath founded Zion, and the afflicted of
 his people find refuge in it.
15:1 The burden of Moab: For in the night of being laid waste,
 Ar of Moab is destroyed; for in the night of being laid waste,
 Kir of Moab is destroyed!
15:2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, to the high places,
 to weep; Moab howleth over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their
 heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.
15:3 In their streets they are girded with sackcloth; on their
 roofs, and in their broadways, every one howleth, melted into
 tears.
15:4 And Heshbon crieth, and Elealeh: their voice is heard unto
 Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out: his soul
 trembleth in him.
15:5 My heart crieth out for Moab; their fugitives [have fled]
 unto Zoar, unto Eglath-Sheli-shijah: for by the ascent of
 Luhith, with weeping they go up by it; for in the way of
 Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.
15:6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the herbage
 is withered away, the grass hath failed, there is no green
 thing.
15:7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which
 they have laid up, do they carry away to the torrent of the
 willows.
15:8 For the cry goeth round about the borders of Moab; the
 howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto
 Beer-elim.
15:9 For the waters of Dimon are full of blood, for I will lay
 yet more upon Dimon: a lion upon them that are escaped of Moab,
 and upon that which remaineth of the land.
16:1 Send the lamb of the ruler of the land from the rock to the
 wilderness, -- unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
16:2 And it shall be [that] as a wandering bird, [as] a
 scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords
 of the Arnon.
16:3 Bring in counsel, execute justice; make thy shadow as the
 night in the midst of noonday; hide the outcasts, discover not
 the fugitive.
16:4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert
 to them from the face of the waster. For the extortioner is at
 an end, the wasting hath ceased, the oppressors are consumed
 out of the land.
16:5 And a throne shall be established in mercy: and in the tent
 of David there shall sit upon it, in truth, one judging and
 seeking justice and hastening righteousness.
16:6 We have heard of the arrogance of Moab, -- [he is] very
 proud, -- of his pride, and his arrogance, and his wrath: his
 pratings are vain.
16:7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab; every one of them shall
 howl. For the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn, verily
 afflicted.
16:8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, the vine of Sibmah; the
 lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants: they
 reached unto Jaazer, they wandered [through] the wilderness;
 its shoots stretched out, they went beyond the sea.
16:9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jaazer for the
 vine of Sibmah; with my tears will I water thee, Heshbon, and
 Elealeh, for a cry is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon
 thy harvest.
16:10 And joy and gladness is taken away out of the fruitful
 field; and in the vineyards there is no singing, neither is
 there shouting: the treaders tread out no wine in the presses,
 I have made the cry [of the winepress] to cease.
16:11 Therefore my bowels sound like a harp for Moab, and mine
 inward parts for Kirheres.
16:12 And it shall come to pass, when Moab shall appear, shall
 weary himself on the high place, and enter into his sanctuary
 to pray, that he shall not prevail.
16:13 This is the word which Jehovah hath spoken from of old
 concerning Moab.
16:14 And now Jehovah speaketh saying, Within three years, as
 the years of a hired servant, and the glory of Moab shall be
 brought to nothing, with all that great multitude; and the
 remnant shall be small, few, of no account.
17:1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from
 [being] a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
17:2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks;
 and they shall lie down and there shall be none to make them
 afraid.
17:3 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 Jehovah of hosts.
17:4 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
 become lean.
17:5 And it shall be as when the reaper gathereth the corn, and
 reapeth the ears with his arm; yea, it shall be as he that
 gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
17:6 And a gleaning shall be left in it, as at the shaking of an
 olive-tree: two, three berries above, in the tree-top; four,
 five in its fruitful boughs, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel.
17:7 In that day shall man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall
 have regard to the Holy One of Israel.
17:8 And he will not look to the altars, the work of his hands,
 nor have regard to what his fingers have made, neither the
 Asherahs nor the sun-images.
17:9 In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken
 tract in the woodland, and the mountain-top which they forsook
 before the children of Israel; and there shall be desolation.
17:10 For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast
 not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore shalt
 thou plant pleasant plantations, and shalt set them with
 foreign slips:
17:11 in the day of thy planting wilt thou make [them] to grow,
 and on the morrow wilt thou make thy seed to flourish; [but]
 the harvest will flee in the day of taking possession, and the
 sorrow will be incurable.
17:12 Ha! a tumult of many peoples! they make a noise as the
 noise of the seas; -- and the rushing of nations! they rush as
 the rushing of mighty waters.
17:13 The nations rush as the rushing of many waters; but he
 will rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, and shall be
 chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like
 a whirling [of dust] before the whirlwind:
17:14 behold, at eventide, trouble; before the morning they are
 not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of
 them that rob us.
18:1 Ha! land shadowing with wings, which art beyond the rivers
 of Cush,
18:2 that sendest ambassadors over the sea, and in vessels of
 papyrus upon the waters, [saying,] Go, swift messengers, to a
 nation scattered and ravaged, to a people terrible from their
 existence and thenceforth; to a nation of continued waiting and
 of treading down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
18:3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth,
 when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, see ye, and when a
 trumpet is blown, hear ye!
18:4 For thus hath Jehovah said unto me: I will take my rest,
 and I will observe from my dwelling-place like clear heat upon
 herbs, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
18:5 For before the harvest, when the blossoming is over, and
 the flower becometh a ripening grape, he shall both cut off the
 sprigs with pruning-knives, and take away [and] cut down the
 branches.
18:6 They shall be left together unto the mountain birds of
 prey, and to the beasts of the earth; and the birds of prey
 shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall
 winter upon them.
18:7 In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of
 hosts of a people scattered and ravaged, -- and from a people
 terrible from their existence and thenceforth, a nation of
 continued waiting and of treading down, whose land the rivers
 have spoiled, ... to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts,
 the mount Zion.
19:1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah rideth upon a swift
 cloud, and cometh to Egypt; and the idols of Egypt are moved at
 his presence, and the heart of Egypt melteth in the midst of
 it.
19:2 And I will incite the Egyptians against the Egyptians; and
 they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one
 against his neighbour; city against city, kingdom against
 kingdom.
19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it, and
 I will destroy the counsel thereof; and they shall seek unto
 the idols and unto the conjurers, and unto the necromancers,
 and unto the soothsayers.
19:4 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,
 Jehovah of hosts.
19:5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall
 be wasted and dried up;
19:6 and the rivers shall stink, and the streams of Egypt shall
 be diminished and drain away: the reeds and sedges shall
 wither.
19:7 The meadows by the Nile, on the banks of the Nile, and
 everything sown by the Nile, shall be dried up, be driven away,
 and be no [more].
19:8 And the fishers shall mourn, and all they that cast
 fish-hook into the Nile shall lament, and they that spread net
 upon the waters shall languish.
19:9 And they that work in fine flax, and they that weave white
 stuffs shall be ashamed.
19:10 And her pillars shall be broken in pieces, and all workers
 for hire shall be sad of soul.
19:11 They are but fools, the princes of Zoan, the wise
 counsellors of Pharaoh: [their] counsel is become senseless.
 How say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of
 ancient kings?
19:12 Where are they then, thy wise [men]? Let them now tell
 thee, and let them make known what Jehovah of hosts hath
 purposed upon Egypt.
19:13 The princes of Zoan are become foolish, the princes of
 Noph are deceived; and the corner-stones of its tribes have
 caused Egypt to err.
19:14 Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst
 thereof; and they have caused Egypt to err in every work
 thereof, as a drunkard staggereth in his vomit.
19:15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head
 or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.
19:16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women; and it shall
 tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Jehovah
 of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
19:17 And the land of Judah shall be a dismay unto Egypt: every
 one that thinketh of it shall be afraid for himself, because of
 the counsel of Jehovah of hosts, which he hath purposed against
 it.
19:18 In that day shall there be five cities in the land of
 Egypt speaking the language of Canaan, and swearing by Jehovah
 of hosts: one shall be called, The city of Heres.
19:19 In that day shall there be an altar to Jehovah in the
 midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof
 to Jehovah:
19:20 and it shall be for a sign and for a witness to Jehovah of
 hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry unto Jehovah
 because of the oppressors, and he will send them a saviour and
 defender, who shall deliver them.
19:21 And Jehovah shall be known to the Egyptians, and the
 Egyptians shall know Jehovah in that day, and shall serve with
 sacrifice and oblation; and they shall vow a vow unto Jehovah,
 and perform it.
19:22 And Jehovah will smite Egypt; he will smite and heal: and
 they shall return to Jehovah, and he will be entreated of them,
 and will heal them.
19:23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to
 Assyria; and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the
 Egyptian into Assyria; and Egypt shall serve with Assyria.
19:24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with
 Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth;
19:25 whom Jehovah of hosts will bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt
 my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine
 inheritance!
20:1 In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the
 king of Assyria sent him, (and he fought against Ashdod and
 took it,)
20:2 at that time spoke Jehovah by Isaiah the son of Amoz,
 saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put
 off thy sandal from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and
 barefoot.
20:3 And Jehovah said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked
 naked and barefoot three years, a sign and a wonder concerning
 Egypt and concerning Ethiopia,
20:4 so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of
 Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and
 barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, [to] the shame of Egypt.
20:5 And they shall be terrified and ashamed of Ethiopia their
 confidence, and of Egypt their boast.
20:6 And the inhabitants of this coast shall say in that day,
 Behold, such is our confidence, whither we fled for help to be
 delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?
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.
21:2 A grievous vision is declared unto me: the treacherous
 dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, Elam!
 besiege, Media! All the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
21:3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain; anguish hath taken
 hold upon me, as the anguish of a woman in travail: I am bowed
 down so as not to hear, I am dismayed so as not to see.
21:4 My heart panteth, horror affrighteth me: the night of my
 pleasure hath he turned into trembling unto me.
21:5 Prepare the table, appoint the watch; eat, drink: arise, ye
 princes, anoint the shield.
21:6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me: Go, set a watchman,
 let him declare what he seeth.
21:7 And he saw chariots, horsemen by pairs, a chariot with
 asses, a chariot with camels; and he hearkened diligently with
 much heed.
21:8 And he cried [as] a lion, Lord, I stand continually upon
 the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole
 nights.
21:9 -- And behold, there cometh a chariot of men; horsemen by
 pairs. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen;
 and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the
 ground.
21:10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor! What I have
 heard of Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared
 unto you.
21:11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir,
 Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
21:12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night:
 if ye will inquire, inquire; return, come.
21:13 The burden against Arabia. In the forest of Arabia shall
 ye lodge, [ye] caravans of Dedanites.
21:14 Bring ye water to meet the thirsty! The inhabitants of the
 land of Tema come forth with their bread for him that fleeth.
21:15 For they flee from the swords, from the drawn sword, and
 from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
21:16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me: Within a year,
 according to the years of a hired servant, and all the glory of
 Kedar shall fail;
21:17 and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty
 men of the sons of Kedar, shall be diminished: for Jehovah, the
 God of Israel, hath spoken.
22:1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now,
 that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
22:2 Thou that wast full of stir, a town of tumult, a joyous
 city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in
 battle.
22:3 All thy rulers have fled together, they are taken prisoners
 without the bow: all that are found of thee are made prisoners
 together; they were fleeing far off.
22:4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; let me weep bitterly:
 labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the
 daughter of my people.
22:5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of
 perplexity, from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of
 vision; [a day of] breaking down the wall, and of crying to the
 mountain:
22:6 -- Elam beareth the quiver with chariots of men [and]
 horsemen; and Kir uncovereth the shield.
22:7 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.
22:8 And he uncovereth the covering of Judah: and thou didst
 look in that day to the armour in the house of the forest;
22:9 and ye have seen the breaches of the city of David, that
 they are many; and ye have gathered together the waters of the
 lower pool;
22:10 and ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and have
 broken down the houses to fortify the wall;
22:11 and ye have made a reservoir between the two walls for the
 water of the old pool: but ye have not had regard unto the
 maker thereof, neither have ye looked unto him that fashioned
 it long ago.
22:12 And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts call to
 weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with
 sackcloth;
22:13 and behold joy and rejoicing, slaying oxen, and killing
 sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: -- Let us eat and
 drink, for to-morrow we die.
22:14 And it was revealed in mine ears by Jehovah of hosts:
 Assuredly this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye
 die, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
22:15 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah of hosts: Go, get thee in unto
 this steward, unto Shebna, who is over the house, [and say,]
22:16 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou
 hast hewn thee out a sepulchre here, [as] he that heweth out
 his sepulchre on high, cutting out in the rock a habitation for
 himself?
22:17 Behold, Jehovah will hurl thee with the force of a mighty
 man, and will cover thee entirely.
22:18 Rolling thee up completely, he will roll thee as a ball
 into a wide country: there shalt thou die, and there shall be
 the chariots of thy glory, O shame of thy lord's house!
22:19 And I will drive thee from thine office, and from thy
 station will I pull thee down.
22:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my
 servant Eliakim the son of Hilkijah;
22:21 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.
22:22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his
 shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall
 shut, and none shall open.
22:23 And I will fasten him [as] a nail in a sure place; and he
 shall be for a throne of glory to his father's house:
22:24 and they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's
 house, the offspring and the issue, all the small vessels, as
 well the vessels of cups as all the vessels of flagons.
22:25 In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, shall the nail that
 is fastened in a sure place be removed, and be cut down, and
 fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for
 Jehovah hath spoken.
23:1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish! for it is
 laid waste, so that there is no house, none entering in. From
 the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
23:2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle! The merchants of
 Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished thee.
23:3 And on great waters, the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the
 Nile, was her revenue; and she was the market of the nations.
23:4 Be thou ashamed, Sidon, for the sea hath spoken, the
 strength of the sea, saying, I have not travailed nor brought
 forth, neither have I nourished young men [nor] brought up
 virgins.
23:5 -- When the report came into Egypt, they were sorely pained
 at the news of Tyre.
23:6 Pass over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the coast!
23:7 Is this your joyous [city], whose antiquity is of ancient
 days? Her feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
23:8 Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the distributor of
 crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose dealers were the
 honourable of the earth?
23:9 Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to profane the pride of
 all glory, to bring to nought all the honourable of the earth.
23:10 Overflow thy land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish:
 there is no more restraint.
23:11 He hath stretched out his hand over the sea, he shaketh
 the kingdoms. Jehovah hath given a commandment concerning
 Canaan, to destroy the strongholds thereof,
23:12 and hath said, Thou shalt no more exult, [thou] oppressed
 virgin, daughter of Sidon: get thee up, pass over to Chittim;
 even there shalt thou have no rest.
23:13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans: this people did not
 exist; the Assyrian founded it for the dwellers in the desert:
 they set up their towers, they destroyed the palaces thereof;
 he brought it to ruin.
23:14 Howl, ships of Tarshish! for your fortress is laid waste.
23:15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be
 forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. At
 the end of seventy years it shall be for Tyre as the harlot's
 song.
23:16 Take a harp, go about the city, thou forgotten harlot!
 Make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be
 remembered.
23:17 And it shall come to pass at the end of seventy years,
 that Jehovah will visit Tyre; and she will return to her hire,
 and will commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the earth
 upon the face of the ground.
23:18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holy to Jehovah:
 it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise
 shall be for them that dwell before Jehovah, to eat and be
 sufficed, and for excellent clothing.
24:1 Behold, Jehovah maketh the land empty, and maketh it waste,
 and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its
 inhabitants.
24:2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as
 with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with
 her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with
 the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury,
 so with him from whom usury is taken.
24:3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled; for
 Jehovah hath spoken this word.
24:4 The land mourneth, it fadeth away; the world languisheth,
 it fadeth away: the haughty people of the land do languish.
24:5 And the land is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; for
 they have violated the laws, changed the statute, broken the
 everlasting covenant.
24:6 Therefore doth the curse devour the earth, and they that
 dwell therein are held guilty; therefore the inhabitants of the
 earth are consumed, and few men are left.
24:7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all that were
 merry-hearted do sigh;
24:8 the mirth of tambours ceaseth, the noise of them that
 rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
24:9 They do not drink wine with a song; strong drink is bitter
 to them that drink it.
24:10 The city of solitude is broken down; every house is shut
 up, so that none entereth in.
24:11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is
 darkened, the mirth of the land is gone;
24:12 desolation remaineth in the city, and the gate is smitten,
 -- a ruin.
24:13 For so will it be in the midst of the land among the
 peoples, as the shaking of an olive-tree, as the
 grape-gleanings when the vintage is done.
24:14 These shall lift up their voice, they shall shout for the
 majesty of Jehovah, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
24:15 Therefore glorify Jehovah in the east, the name of
 Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the isles of the west.
24:16 From the end of the earth have we heard songs: Glory to
 the righteous! And I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto
 me! The treacherous have dealt treacherously; yea, the
 treacherous have dealt very treacherously.
24:17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, inhabitant
 of the land.
24:18 And it shall come to pass, [that] he who fleeth from the
 sound of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh
 up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare; for
 the windows on high are open, and the foundations of the earth
 shake.
24:19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is completely
 dissolved, the earth is violently moved.
24:20 The earth reeleth to and fro like a drunkard, and is
 shaken like a night hut; and its transgression is heavy upon
 it; and it falleth and shall not rise again.
24:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] Jehovah will
 punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the
 earth upon the earth.
24:22 And they shall be brought together, [as] an assemblage of
 prisoners for the pit, and shall be shut up in prison, and
 after many days shall they be visited.
24:23 And the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for
 Jehovah of hosts shall reign on mount Zion, and in Jerusalem,
 and before his ancients in glory.
25:1 Jehovah, thou art my God: I will exalt thee; I will
 celebrate thy name, for thou hast done wonderful things;
 counsels of old [which are] faithfulness [and] truth.
25:2 For thou hast made of the city a heap, of the fortified
 town a ruin, the palace of strangers to be no city; it shall
 never be built up.
25:3 Therefore shall the mighty people glorify thee, the city of
 terrible nations shall fear thee.
25:4 For thou hast been a fortress to the poor, a fortress for
 the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow
 from the heat: for the blast of the terrible ones [has been] as
 the storm [against] a wall.
25:5 Thou hast subdued the tumult of strangers, as the heat in a
 dry place; [as] the heat, by the shadow of a cloud, [so] the
 song of the terrible ones is brought low.
25:6 And in this mountain will Jehovah of hosts make unto all
 peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of
 fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
25:7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the veil
 which veileth all the peoples, and the covering that is spread
 over all the nations.
25:8 He will swallow up death in victory. And the Lord Jehovah
 will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of
 his people will he take away from off all the earth: for
 Jehovah hath spoken.
25:9 And it shall be said in that day, Behold, this is our God;
 we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is Jehovah,
 we have waited for him; we will be glad and rejoice in his
 salvation.
25:10 For in this mountain shall the hand of Jehovah rest, and
 Moab shall be trodden down under him, as straw is trodden down
 in the dunghill;
25:11 and he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them,
 as he that swimmeth spreadeth them forth to swim; and he shall
 bring down their pride together with the plots of their hands.
25:12 And the fortress of the high defences of thy walls will he
 bring down, lay low, bring to the ground, into the dust.
26:1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah:
 We have a strong city; salvation doth he appoint for walls and
 bulwarks.
26:2 Open ye the gates, and the righteous nation which keepeth
 faithfulness shall enter in.
26:3 Thou wilt keep in perfect peace the mind stayed [on thee],
 for he confideth in thee.
26:4 Confide ye in Jehovah for ever; for in Jah, Jehovah, is the
 rock of ages.
26:5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty
 city, he layeth it low, he layeth it low to the ground, he
 bringeth it even to the dust.
26:6 The foot shall tread it down, -- the feet of the afflicted,
 the steps of the poor.
26:7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, the Upright, dost
 make the path of the just even.
26:8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, have we waited
 for thee; the desire of [our] soul is to thy name, and to thy
 memorial.
26:9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my
 spirit within me I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are
 in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
26:10 If favour be shewn to the wicked, he doth not learn
 righteousness: in the land of uprightness he dealeth unjustly,
 and beholdeth not the majesty of Jehovah.
26:11 Jehovah, thy hand is lifted up, but they do not see: [yet]
 they shall see [thy] jealousy [for] the people, and be ashamed;
 yea, the fire which is for thine adversaries shall devour them.
26:12 Jehovah, thou wilt ordain peace for us; for thou also hast
 wrought all our works for us.
26:13 Jehovah our God, other lords than thee have had dominion
 over us; by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
26:14 [They are] dead, they shall not live; deceased, they shall
 not rise: for thou hast visited and destroyed them, and made
 all memory of them to perish.
26:15 Thou hast increased the nation, Jehovah, thou hast
 increased the nation: thou art glorified. Thou hadst removed
 [it] far [unto] all the ends of the earth.
26:16 Jehovah, in trouble they sought thee; they poured out
 [their] whispered prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
26:17 As a woman with child, that draweth near her delivery, is
 in travail, [and] crieth out in her pangs; so have we been
 before thee, Jehovah.
26:18 We have been with child, we have been in travail, we have
 as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought the
 deliverance of the land, neither have the inhabitants of the
 world fallen.
26:19 Thy dead shall live, my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and
 sing in triumph, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is the dew
 of the morning, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
26:20 Come, my people, enter into thy chambers, and shut thy
 doors about thee; hide thyself just for a little moment, until
 the indignation be past.
26:21 For behold, Jehovah cometh out of his place to visit the
 iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth upon them; and the
 earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her
 slain.
27:1 In that day Jehovah, with his sore and great and strong
 sword, will visit leviathan the fleeing serpent, and leviathan
 the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in
 the sea.
27:2 In that day [there shall be] a vineyard of pure wine; sing
 concerning it:
27:3 I Jehovah keep it, I will water it every moment; lest any
 harm it, I will keep it night and day.
27:4 Fury is not in me. Oh that I had briars [and] thorns in
 battle against me! I would march against them, I would burn
 them together.
27:5 Or let him take hold of my strength; let him make peace
 with me: [yea,] let him make peace with me.
27:6 In the future Jacob shall take root; Israel shall blossom
 and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.
27:7 Hath he smitten him according to the smiting of those that
 smote him? Is he slain according to the slaughter of those
 slain by him?
27:8 In measure, when sending her away, didst thou contend with
 her: he hath taken [her] away with his rough wind in the day of
 the east wind.
27:9 By this, therefore, shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged;
 and this is all the fruit of the taking away of his sin: when
 he shall make all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that
 are crumbled in pieces, -- the Asherahs and the sun-images
 shall not stand.
27:10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation abandoned
 and forsaken like a wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and
 there shall he lie down, and consume its boughs.
27:11 When its branches are withered they shall be broken off;
 women shall come [and] set them on fire. For it is a people of
 no intelligence; therefore he that made them will not have
 mercy on them, and he who formed them will shew them no favour.
27:12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah shall
 beat out from the flood of the river unto the torrent of Egypt,
 and ye shall be gathered one by one, [ye] children of Israel.
27:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the great
 trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come that were perishing
 in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt,
 and they shall worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at
 Jerusalem.
28:1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and
 to the fading flower of his glorious adornment, which is on the
 head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine.
28:2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, as a storm
 of hail [and] a destroying tempest; as a storm of mighty waters
 overflowing, shall he cast down to the earth with might.
28:3 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be
 trodden under feet;
28:4 and the fading flower of his glorious adornment which is on
 the head of the fat valley shall be like an early fig before
 the summer: as soon as he that seeth it perceiveth it, scarcely
 is it in his hand, he swalloweth it down.
28:5 In that day will Jehovah of hosts be for a crown of glory,
 and for a diadem of beauty, unto the remnant of his people;
28:6 and for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in
 judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the
 gate.
28:7 But these also have erred through wine, and through strong
 drink are they gone astray. The priest and the prophet have
 erred through strong drink; they are overpowered by wine, they
 are gone astray through strong drink; they have erred in
 vision, they have stumbled [in] judgment.
28:8 For all tables are full of filthy vomit, so that there is
 no [more] place.
28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to
 understand the report? Them that are weaned from the milk,
 withdrawn from the breasts?
28:10 For [it is] precept upon precept, precept upon precept;
 line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little.
 ...
28:11 For with stammering lips and a strange tongue will he
 speak to this people;
28:12 to whom he said, This is the rest: cause the weary to
 rest; and this is the refreshing. But they would not hear.
28:13 And the word of Jehovah was unto them precept upon
 precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line,
 here a little, there a little: that they might go, and fall
 backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
28:14 Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scornful men, that
 rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
28:15 For ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and
 with Sheol have we made an agreement; when the overflowing
 scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we
 have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid
 ourselves.
28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I lay for
 foundation in Zion a stone, a tried stone, a precious
 corner-stone, a sure foundation: he that trusteth shall not
 make haste.
28:17 And I will appoint judgment for a line, and righteousness
 for a plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of
 lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.
28:18 And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your
 agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing
 scourge shall pass through, ye shall be trodden down by it.
28:19 As it passeth through it shall take you; for morning by
 morning shall it pass through, by day and by night; and it
 shall be terror only to understand the report.
28:20 For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the
 covering too narrow when he would wrap himself in it.
28:21 For Jehovah will rise up as on mount Perazim, he will be
 moved with anger as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his
 work, his strange work, and perform his act, his unwonted act.
28:22 Now therefore be ye not scorners, lest your bonds be made
 strong; for I have heard from the Lord Jehovah of hosts a
 consumption, and [one] determined, upon the whole land.
28:23 Give ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
28:24 Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? Is he [all day]
 opening and breaking the clods of his land?
28:25 Doth he not, when he hath levelled the face thereof, cast
 abroad dill, and scatter cummin, and set the wheat in rows, and
 the barley in an appointed place, and the rye in its border?
28:26 His God doth instruct him in [his] judgment, he doth teach
 him.
28:27 For the dill is not threshed with a threshing instrument,
 neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cummin; but dill
 is beaten out with a staff, and cummin with a rod.
28:28 Bread [corn] is crushed, because he will not ever be
 threshing it; and if he drove the wheels of his cart and his
 horses [over it], he would not crush it.
28:29 This also cometh forth from Jehovah of hosts; he is
 wonderful in counsel, great in wisdom.
29:1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city of David's encampment! Add
 ye year to year; let the feasts come round.
29:2 But I will distress Ariel, and there shall be sorrow and
 sadness; and it shall be unto me as an Ariel.
29:3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay
 siege against thee with watch-posts, and I will raise forts
 against thee.
29:4 And thou shalt be brought low, thou shalt speak out of the
 ground, and thy speech shall come low out of the dust, and thy
 voice shall be as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of
 the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
29:5 And the multitude of thine enemies shall be like small
 dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that
 passeth away; and it shall be in an instant, suddenly.
29:6 Thou shalt be visited by Jehovah of hosts with thunder and
 with earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest,
 and the flame of devouring fire.
29:7 And the multitude of all the nations that war against
 Ariel, even all that war against her and her fortifications,
 and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
29:8 It shall even be as when the hungry dreameth, and, behold,
 he eateth; and he awaketh, and his soul is empty; or as when
 the thirsty dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; and he awaketh,
 and, behold, he is faint, and his soul craveth: so shall the
 multitude of all the nations be that war against mount Zion.
29:9 Be astounded and astonished, blind yourselves and be blind!
 They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with
 strong drink.
29:10 For Jehovah hath poured out upon you a spirit of deep
 sleep, and hath closed your eyes; the prophets and your chiefs,
 the seers, hath he covered.
29:11 And the whole vision is become unto you as the words of a
 book that is sealed, which they give to one that can read,
 saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot, for it
 is sealed.
29:12 And they give the book to him that cannot read, saying,
 Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot read.
29:13 And the Lord saith, Forasmuch as this people draw near
 with their mouth, and honour me with their lips, but their
 heart is removed far from me, and their fear of me is a
 commandment taught of men;
29:14 therefore, behold, I will proceed to do marvellously with
 this people, to do marvellously, even with wonder, and the
 wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, and the understanding
 of their intelligent ones shall be hid.
29:15 Woe unto them that hide deep, far from Jehovah, their
 counsel! And their works are in the dark, and they say, Who
 seeth us? and who knoweth us?
29:16 [Oh] your perverseness! -- Shall the potter be esteemed as
 the clay, so that the work should say of him that made it, He
 made me not; or the thing formed say of him that formed it, He
 hath no understanding?
29:17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be
 turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be
 esteemed as a forest?
29:18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book,
 and, out of obscurity and out of darkness, the eyes of the
 blind shall see;
29:19 and the meek shall increase their joy in Jehovah, and the
 needy among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
29:20 For the terrible one shall come to nought, and the scorner
 shall be no more, and all that watch for iniquity shall be cut
 off,
29:21 that make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare
 for him that reproveth in the gate, and pervert [the judgment
 of] the righteous by futility.
29:22 Therefore thus saith Jehovah who redeemed Abraham,
 concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob shall not now be ashamed,
 neither shall his face now be pale;
29:23 for when he seeth his children, the work of my hands, in
 the midst of him, they shall hallow my name, and hallow the
 Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
29:24 And they that are of erring spirit shall know
 understanding, and the disobedient shall learn doctrine.
30:1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, who take
 counsel, but not of me, and who make leagues, but not by my
 Spirit, that they may heap sin upon sin;
30:2 who walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked of my
 mouth, -- to take refuge under the protection of Pharaoh, and
 trust in the shadow of Egypt!
30:3 For to you the protection of Pharaoh shall be a shame, and
 the trust in the shadow of Egypt a confusion.
30:4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to
 Hanes.
30:5 They were all ashamed of a people [that] did not profit
 them, nor were a help or profit, but a shame, and also a
 reproach.
30:6 -- The burden of the beasts of the south: Through a land of
 trouble and anguish, whence come the lioness and lion, the
 viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon
 the shoulders of asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of
 camels, to the people that shall not profit [them].
30:7 For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose; therefore
 have I named her, Arrogance, that doeth nothing.
30:8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and record it in
 a book, that it may be for the time to come, as a witness for
 ever,
30:9 that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children
 that will not hear the law of Jehovah;
30:10 who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets,
 Prophesy not unto us right things; speak unto us smooth things,
 prophesy deceits;
30:11 get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause
 the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us!
30:12 Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because ye
 reject this word, and confide in oppression and wilfulness, and
 depend thereon,
30:13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready
 to fall, swelling out in a towering wall, whose breaking shall
 come suddenly in an instant.
30:14 And he shall break it as the breaking of a potter's
 vessel, that is broken in pieces unsparingly; and in the pieces
 of it there shall not be found a sherd to take fire from the
 hearth, or to scoop water out of the cistern.
30:15 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel:
 In returning and rest shall ye be saved, in quietness and
 confidence shall be your strength; but ye would not.
30:16 And ye said, No, but we will flee upon horses, --
 therefore shall ye flee; and, We will ride upon the swift, --
 therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
30:17 One thousand [shall flee] at the 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 a banner on a hill.
30:18 And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be gracious
 unto you, and therefore will he lift himself up, that he may
 have mercy upon you; for Jehovah is a God of judgment: blessed
 are all they that wait for him.
30:19 For the people shall dwell in Zion, at Jerusalem. Thou
 shalt weep no more; he will be very gracious unto thee at the
 voice of thy cry; as he heareth it, he will answer thee.
30:20 And the Lord will give you the bread of adversity, and the
 water of oppression; yet thy teachers shall not be hidden any
 more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers.
30:21 And when ye turn to the right hand or when ye turn to the
 left, thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is
 the way, walk ye in it.
30:22 And ye shall defile the silver covering of your graven
 images, and the gold overlaying of your molten images; thou
 shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth: Out! shalt thou say
 unto it.
30:23 And he will give the rain of thy seed with which thou
 shalt sow the ground; and bread, the produce of the ground, and
 it shall be fat and rich. In that day shall thy cattle feed in
 large pastures;
30:24 and the oxen and the asses that till the ground shall eat
 salted provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and
 with the fan.
30:25 And there shall be upon every high mountain and upon every
 hill that is lifted up, brooks [and] water-courses, in the day
 of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
30:26 And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the
 sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light
 of seven days, in the day that Jehovah bindeth up the breach of
 his people, and healeth the wound of their stroke.
30:27 Behold, the name of Jehovah cometh from far, burning
 [with] his anger -- a grievous conflagration; his lips are full
 of indignation, and his tongue as a consuming fire;
30:28 and his breath as an overflowing torrent, which reacheth
 even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of
 destruction, and [to put] a bridle into the jaws of the
 peoples, that causeth them to go astray.
30:29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a feast is
 sanctified; and joy of heart, as of one who goeth with a pipe
 to come unto the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel.
30:30 And Jehovah will cause the majesty of his voice to be
 heard, and will shew the lighting down of his arm with
 indignation of anger, and a flame of consuming fire, with
 waterflood and storm and hailstones.
30:31 For through the voice of Jehovah shall the Assyrian be
 broken down: he will smite [him] with the rod.
30:32 And wherever shall pass the appointed staff, which Jehovah
 shall lay upon him, it shall be with tambours and harps; and
 with tumultuous battles will he fight with it.
30:33 For Topheth is prepared of old; for the king also it is
 prepared: he hath made it deep and large; its pile is fire and
 much wood; the breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone,
 doth kindle it.
31:1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and depend on
 horses, and confide in chariots because [they are] many, and in
 horsemen because they are very strong; and who look not unto
 the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Jehovah!
31:2 But he also is wise, and he bringeth evil, and recalleth
 not his words; and he will arise against the house of
 evildoers, and against the help of workers of iniquity.
31:3 And the Egyptians are men, and not ∙God, and their horses
 flesh, and not spirit; and Jehovah shall stretch forth his
 hand, and he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped
 shall fall, and they all shall perish together.
31:4 For thus hath Jehovah said unto me: Like as the lion and
 the young lion growling over his prey, when a multitude of
 shepherds is called forth against him, is not afraid of their
 voice, nor giveth way before the multitude of them; so will
 Jehovah of hosts come down to war upon mount Zion, and on the
 hill thereof.
31:5 As birds with outstretched wings, so will Jehovah of hosts
 cover Jerusalem; covering, he will also deliver, passing over,
 he will rescue [it].
31:6 Turn unto him from whom ye have deeply revolted, ye
 children of Israel;
31:7 for in that day every man shall cast away his idols of
 silver and his idols of gold, which your sinful hands have made
 unto you.
31:8 And Asshur shall fall by the sword, not of a great man; and
 the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: and he shall
 flee from the sword, and his young men shall become tributary;
31:9 and for fear, he shall pass over to his rock, and his
 princes shall be afraid of the banner, saith Jehovah, whose
 fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
32:1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes
 shall rule in judgment.
32:2 And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a
 covert from the storm; as brooks of water in a dry place, as
 the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land.
32:3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the
 ears of them that hear shall hearken;
32:4 and the heart of the rash shall understand knowledge, and
 the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
32:5 The vile man shall be no more called noble, nor the churl
 said to be bountiful:
32:6 for the vile man will speak villainy, and his heart will
 work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error
 against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to
 cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
32:7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth
 wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when
 the needy speaketh right.
32:8 But the noble deviseth noble things; and to noble things
 doth he stand.
32:9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease, hear my voice; ye
 careless daughters, give ear unto my speech.
32:10 In a year and [some] days shall ye be troubled, ye
 careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering
 shall not come.
32:11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye
 careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird
 [sackcloth] on your loins!
32:12 They shall smite on the breasts [in lamentation] for the
 pleasant fields, for the fruitful vineyards.
32:13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thistles [and]
 briars, yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
32:14 For the palace shall be deserted, the multitude of the
 city shall be forsaken; hill and watchtower shall be caves for
 ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
32:15 until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the
 wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be
 counted for a forest.
32:16 And judgment shall inhabit the wilderness, and
 righteousness dwell in the fruitful field.
32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the
 effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for ever.
32:18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and
 in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.
32:19 And it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city
 shall be low in a low place.
32:20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth
 the feet of the ox and the ass.
33:1 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and
 that dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously
 with thee! When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be
 spoiled; when thou shalt make an end of dealing treacherously,
 they shall deal treacherously with thee.
33:2 Jehovah, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be
 their arm every morning, yea, our salvation in the time of
 trouble.
33:3 At the noise of the tumult the peoples fled; at the lifting
 up of thyself the nations were scattered.
33:4 And your spoil shall be gathered [like] the gathering of
 the caterpillar: as the running of locusts shall they run upon
 it.
33:5 Jehovah is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled
 Zion with justice and righteousness;
33:6 and he shall be the stability of thy times, the riches of
 salvation, wisdom and knowledge: the fear of Jehovah shall be
 your treasure.
33:7 Behold, their valiant ones cry without; the messengers of
 peace weep bitterly.
33:8 The highways are desolate, the wayfaring man ceaseth. He
 hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he
 regardeth no man.
33:9 The land mourneth, it languisheth; Lebanon is ashamed, is
 withered; the Sharon is become as a desert, and Bashan and
 Carmel are stripped.
33:10 Now will I arise, saith Jehovah; now will I be exalted,
 now will I lift up myself.
33:11 Ye shall conceive dry grass, ye shall bring forth stubble:
 your breath shall devour you [as] fire.
33:12 And the peoples shall be [as] burnings of lime, [as]
 thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
33:13 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and ye that
 are near, acknowledge my might.
33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling hath surprised
 the hypocrites: Who among us shall dwell with the consuming
 fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting flames?
33:15 -- He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he
 that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands
 from taking hold of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing
 of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil:
33:16 he shall dwell on high, the fortresses of the rocks shall
 be his high retreat; bread shall be given him, his water shall
 be sure.
33:17 Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty; they shall
 behold the land that is far off.
33:18 Thy heart shall meditate on terror: Where is the scribe?
 where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
33:19 Thou shalt no more see the fierce people, a people of a
 deeper speech than thou canst comprehend, of a stammering
 tongue that cannot be understood.
33:20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes
 shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not
 be removed, the stakes whereof shall never be pulled up,
 neither shall any of its cords be broken;
33:21 but there Jehovah is unto us glorious, -- a place of
 rivers, of broad streams: no galley with oars shall go there,
 neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
33:22 For Jehovah is our judge, Jehovah, our lawgiver, Jehovah,
 our king: he will save us.
33:23 Thy tacklings are loosed; they strengthen not the socket
 of their mast, they cannot spread the sail: then is the prey of
 a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
33:24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people
 that dwell therein shall be forgiven [their] iniquity.
34:1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples:
 let the earth hear, and all its fulness; the world, and all
 that cometh forth of it.
34:2 For the wrath of Jehovah is against all the nations, and
 [his] fury against all their armies: he hath devoted them to
 destruction, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
34:3 And their slain shall be cast out, and their stink shall
 come up from their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted
 with their blood.
34:4 And all the host of the heavens shall be dissolved, and the
 heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their
 host shall fade away, as a leaf fadeth from off the vine, and
 as the withered [fruit] from the fig-tree.
34:5 For my sword is bathed in the heavens; behold, it shall
 come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my ban, to
 judgment.
34:6 The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat
 with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat
 of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah,
 and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
34:7 And the buffaloes 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.
34:8 For it is the day of Jehovah's vengeance, the year of
 recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
34:9 And the torrents thereof shall be turned into pitch, and
 its dust into brimstone; yea, the land thereof shall become
 burning pitch:
34:10 it shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof
 shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall
 lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
34:11 And the pelican and the bittern shall possess it, and the
 great owl and the raven shall dwell in it. And he shall stretch
 out upon it the line of waste, and the plummets of emptiness.
34:12 Of her nobles who should proclaim the kingdom, none are
 there; and all her princes shall be nought.
34:13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and
 brambles in her fortresses; and it shall be a dwelling-place of
 wild dogs, a court for ostriches.
34:14 And there shall the beasts of the desert meet with the
 jackals, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; the lilith
 also shall settle there, and find for herself a place of rest.
34:15 There shall the arrow-snake make her nest, and lay, and
 hatch, and gather under her shadow; there also shall the
 vultures be gathered one with another.
34:16 Search ye in the book of Jehovah and read: not one of
 these shall fail, one shall not have to seek for the other; for
 my mouth, it hath commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered
 them.
34:17 For he himself hath cast the lot for them, and his hand
 hath divided it unto them with the line: they shall possess it
 for ever; from generation to generation shall they dwell
 therein.
35:1 The wilderness and the dry land shall be gladdened; and the
 desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
35:2 It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice even with joy and
 shouting: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the
 excellency of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of
 Jehovah, the excellency of our God.
35:3 Strengthen the weak hands and confirm the tottering knees.
35:4 Say to them that are of a timid heart, Be strong, fear not;
 behold your God: vengeance cometh, the recompense of God! He
 will come himself, and save you.
35:5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of
 the deaf be unstopped;
35:6 then shall the lame [man] leap as a hart, and the tongue of
 the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out,
 and torrents in the desert.
35:7 And the mirage shall become a pool, and the thirsty land
 springs of water: in the habitation of wild dogs, where they
 lay down, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
35:8 And a highway shall be there and a way, and it shall be
 called, The way of holiness: the unclean shall not pass through
 it; but it shall be for these. Those that go [this] way -- even
 fools, -- shall not err [therein].
35:9 No lion shall be there, nor shall ravenous beast go up
 thereon, nor be found there; but the redeemed shall walk
 [there].
35:10 And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come to Zion
 with singing; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads:
 they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing
 shall flee away.
36:1 And it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king
 Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all
 the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.
36:2 And the king of Assyria sent Rab-shakeh from Lachish to
 Jerusalem, to king Hezekiah, with a strong force. And he stood
 by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the highway of the
 fuller's field.
36:3 Then came forth to him Eliakim the son of Hilkijah, who was
 over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of
 Asaph, the chronicler.
36:4 And Rab-shakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, Thus says
 the great king, the king of Assyria: What confidence is this in
 which thou trustest?
36:5 Thou sayest, but it is a word of the lips, [There is]
 counsel and strength for war. Now on whom dost thou rely, that
 thou hast revolted against me?
36:6 Behold, thou reliest upon the staff of that broken reed,
 upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it goes into his hand, and
 pierces it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that rely upon
 him.
36:7 And if thou say to me, We rely upon Jehovah our God: is it
 not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has
 removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before
 this altar?
36:8 And now engage, I pray thee, with my master the king of
 Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be
 able on thy part to set riders upon them.
36:9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the
 least of my master's servants? And thou reliest upon Egypt for
 chariots and for horsemen!
36:10 And now am I come up without Jehovah against this land to
 destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and
 destroy it.
36:11 And Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to Rab-shakeh, Speak,
 we pray thee, to thy servants in Syriac, for we understand it;
 and speak not to us in the Jewish [language] in the ears of the
 people that are upon the wall.
36:12 And Rab-shakeh said, Is it to thy master and to thee that
 my master sent me to speak these words? Is it not to the men
 that sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and
 drink their own urine with you?
36:13 And Rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the
 Jewish [language], and said, Hear the words of the great king,
 the king of Assyria!
36:14 Thus says the king: Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for he
 will not be able to deliver you.
36:15 Neither let Hezekiah make you rely upon Jehovah, saying,
 Jehovah will certainly deliver us; this city shall not be given
 into the hand of the king of Assyria.
36:16 Hearken not to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of
 Assyria: Make peace with me and come out to me; and eat every
 one of his vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink every
 one the waters of his own cistern;
36:17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own
 land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
36:18 Let not Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Jehovah will
 deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his
 land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
36:19 Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? where are the
 gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my
 hand?
36:20 Who are they among all the gods of these countries that
 have delivered their country out of my hand, that Jehovah
 should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
36:21 And they were silent, and answered him not a word; for the
 king's command was, saying, Answer him not.
36:22 And Eliakim the son of Hilkijah, who was over the
 household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph,
 the chronicler, came to Hezekiah, with their garments rent, and
 told him the words of Rab-shakeh.
37:1 And it came to pass when king Hezekiah heard [it], that he
 rent his garments, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went
 into the house of Jehovah.
37:2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna
 the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with
 sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.
37:3 And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day
 of trouble, and of rebuke, and of reviling; for the children
 are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring
 forth.
37:4 It may be Jehovah thy God will hear the words of
 Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to
 reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which
 Jehovah thy God hath heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the
 remnant that is left.
37:5 And the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
37:6 And Isaiah said to them, Thus shall ye say to your master,
 Thus saith Jehovah: Be not afraid of the words that thou hast
 heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have
 blasphemed me.
37:7 Behold, I will put a spirit into him, and he shall hear
 tidings, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him
 to fall by the sword in his own land.
37:8 And Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria
 warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed
 from Lachish.
37:9 And he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He has come
 forth to make war with thee. And when he heard [it], he sent
 messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
37:10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying: Let
 not thy God, upon whom thou reliest, deceive thee, saying,
 Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of
 Assyria.
37:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have
 done to all countries, destroying them utterly; and shalt thou
 be delivered?
37:12 Have the gods of the nations which my fathers have
 destroyed delivered them, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the
 children of Eden that were in Thelassar?
37:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and
 the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?
37:14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the
 messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up into the house of
 Jehovah, and spread it before Jehovah.
37:15 And Hezekiah prayed to Jehovah, saying,
37:16 Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, who sittest [between]
 the cherubim, thou, the Same, thou alone art the God of all the
 kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made the heavens and the
 earth.
37:17 Incline thine ear, O Jehovah, and hear; open, Jehovah,
 thine eyes, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who
 hath sent to reproach the living God.
37:18 Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste
 all the lands, and their countries,
37:19 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no
 gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; and they
 have destroyed them.
37:20 And now, Jehovah our God, save us out of his hand, that
 all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art Jehovah,
 thou only.
37:21 And Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus
 saith Jehovah the God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me
 concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria,
37:22 this is the word which Jehovah hath spoken against him:
 The virgin-daughter of Zion despiseth thee, laugheth thee to
 scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem shaketh her head at thee.
37:23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom
 hast thou exalted the voice? Against the Holy One of Israel
 hast thou lifted up thine eyes on high.
37:24 By thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast
 said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the
 height of the mountains, to the recesses of Lebanon; and I will
 cut down its tall cedars, the choice of its cypresses; and I
 will enter into its furthest height, [into] the forest of its
 fruitful field.
37:25 I have digged and drunk water; and with the sole of my
 feet have I dried up all the streams of Matsor.
37:26 Hast thou not heard that long ago I did it, and that from
 ancient days I formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that
 thou shouldest lay waste fortified cities [into] ruinous heaps.
37:27 And their inhabitants were powerless, they were dismayed
 and put to shame; they were [as] the grass of the field and the
 green herb, [as] the grass on the housetops, and grain blighted
 before it be grown up.
37:28 But I know thine abode, and thy going out, and thy coming
 in, and thy raging against me.
37:29 Because thy raging against me and thine arrogance is come
 up into mine ears, I will put my ring in thy nose, and my
 bridle in thy lips, and I will make thee go back by the way by
 which thou camest.
37:30 And this [shall be] the sign unto thee: there shall be
 eaten this year such as groweth of itself; and in the second
 year that which springeth of the same; but in the third year
 sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards and eat the fruit
 thereof.
37:31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah
 shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward;
37:32 for out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of
 mount Zion they that escape: the zeal of Jehovah of hosts shall
 do this.
37:33 Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the king of
 Assyria: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow
 there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against
 it.
37:34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and
 shall not come into this city, saith Jehovah.
37:35 And I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own
 sake, and for my servant David's sake.
37:36 And an angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp
 of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when
 they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead
 bodies.
37:37 And Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and
 returned, and abode at Nineveh.
37:38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of
 Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote
 him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat.
 And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
38:1 In those days Hezekiah was sick unto death. And the prophet
 Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus saith
 Jehovah: Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not
 live.
38:2 And Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to
 Jehovah,
38:3 and said, Ah, Jehovah, remember, 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 much.
38:4 And the word of Jehovah came to Isaiah, saying,
38:5 Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of
 David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy
 tears: behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years.
38:6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of
 the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.
38:7 And this [shall be] the sign to thee from Jehovah, that
 Jehovah will do this thing that he hath spoken:
38:8 behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees which
 hath gone down with the sun on the dial of Ahaz, ten degrees
 backward. So the sun returned on the dial ten degrees, by which
 it had gone down.
38:9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been
 sick and had recovered from his sickness:
38:10 I said, In the meridian of my days I shall go to the gates
 of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.
38:11 I said, I shall not see Jah, Jah in the land of the
 living. With those who dwell where all has ceased to be, I
 shall behold man no more.
38:12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a
 shepherd's tent. I have cut off like a weaver my life. He
 separateth me from the thrum: -- from day to night thou wilt
 make an end of me.
38:13 I kept still until the morning; ... as a lion, so doth he
 break all my bones. From day to night thou wilt make an end of
 me.
38:14 Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I mourned
 as a dove; mine eyes failed [with looking] upward: Lord, I am
 oppressed; undertake for me.
38:15 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.
38:16 Lord, by these things [men] live, and in all these things
 is the life of my spirit; and thou hast recovered me, and made
 me to live.
38:17 Behold, instead of peace I had bitterness upon bitterness;
 but thou hast in love delivered my soul from the pit of
 destruction; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
38:18 For not Sheol shall praise thee, nor death celebrate thee;
 they that go down into the pit do not hope for thy truth.
38:19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I this
 day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
38:20 Jehovah was [purposed] to save me. -- And we will play
 upon my stringed instruments all the days of our life, in the
 house of Jehovah.
38:21 Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay
 it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.
38:22 And Hezekiah had said, What is the sign that I shall go up
 into the house of Jehovah?
39:1 At that time Merodach-Baladan, the son of Baladan, king of
 Babylon, sent a letter and a present to Hezekiah; for he had
 heard that he had been sick and had recovered.
39:2 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 fine oil, and all the house of his armour, and all that
 was found amongst his treasures: there was nothing in his
 house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah did not shew
 them.
39:3 Then came the prophet Isaiah to king Hezekiah, and said to
 him, What said these men? and from whence came they to thee?
 And Hezekiah said, They came from a far country to me, from
 Babylon.
39:4 And he said, What have they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah
 said, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing
 among my treasures that I have not shewn them.
39:5 And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Jehovah of
 hosts:
39:6 Behold, days come when all that is in thy house, and that
 which thy fathers have laid up until this day, shall be carried
 to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith Jehovah.
39:7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt
 beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the
 palace of the king of Babylon.
39:8 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of Jehovah
 which thou hast spoken. And he said, For there shall be peace
 and truth in my days.
40:1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
40:2 Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her
 time of suffering is accomplished, that her iniquity is
 pardoned; for she hath received of Jehovah's hand double for
 all her sins.
40:3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the
 way of Jehovah, make straight in the desert a highway for our
 God!
40:4 Every valley shall be raised up, and every mountain and
 hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made
 straight, and the rough places a plain.
40:5 And the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh
 shall see [it] together: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.
40:6 A voice saith, Cry. And he saith, What shall I cry? -- All
 flesh is grass, and all the comeliness thereof as the flower of
 the field.
40:7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, for the breath of
 Jehovah bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our
 God abideth for ever.
40:9 O Zion, that bringest glad tidings, get thee up into a high
 mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest glad tidings, lift up thy
 voice with strength: lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the
 cities of Judah, Behold your God!
40:10 Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come with might, and his arm
 shall rule for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his
 recompence before him.
40:11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd: he will gather the
 lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom; he will gently
 lead those that give suck.
40:12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,
 and meted out the heavens with [his] span, and grasped the dust
 of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in a
 balance, and the hills in scales?
40:13 Who hath directed the Spirit of Jehovah, and, [as] his
 counsellor, hath taught him?
40:14 With whom took he counsel, and [who] gave him
 intelligence, and instructed him in the path of judgment, and
 taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding?
40:15 Behold, the nations are esteemed as a drop of the bucket,
 and as the fine dust on the scales; behold, he taketh up the
 isles as an atom.
40:16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts
 thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.
40:17 All the nations are as nothing before him; they are
 esteemed by him less than a cipher, and vanity.
40:18 To whom then will ye liken ∙God? and what likeness will ye
 compare unto him?
40:19 The workman casteth a graven image, and the goldsmith
 spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains [for
 it].
40:20 He that is impoverished, so that he hath no offering,
 chooseth a tree that doth not rot; he seeketh unto him a
 skilled workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be
 moved.
40:21 -- Do ye not know? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been
 told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood the
 foundation of the earth?
40:22 [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 gauze curtain, and spreadeth them out as a
 tent to dwell in;
40:23 that bringeth the princes to nothing, that maketh the
 judges of the earth as vanity.
40:24 Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown,
 scarcely hath their stock taken root in the earth, but he also
 bloweth upon them and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh
 them away as stubble.
40:25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith
 the Holy One.
40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see! Who hath created these
 things, bringing out their host by number? He calleth them all
 by name; through the greatness of his might and strength of
 power, not one faileth.
40:27 Why sayest thou, Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is
 hid from Jehovah, and my right is passed away from my God?
40:28 Dost thou not know, hast thou not heard, that the
 everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth,
 fainteth not nor tireth? There is no searching of his
 understanding.
40:29 He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no
 might he increaseth strength.
40:30 Even the youths shall faint and shall tire, and the young
 men shall stumble and fall;
40:31 but they that wait upon Jehovah shall renew [their]
 strength: they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall
 run, and not tire; they shall walk, and not faint.
41:1 Keep silence before me, islands; and let the peoples renew
 [their] strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let
 us draw near together to judgment.
41:2 Who raised up from the east him whom righteousness calleth
 to its foot? He gave the nations before him, and caused him to
 have dominion over kings; he gave them as dust to his sword, as
 driven stubble to his bow.
41:3 He pursued them, he passed on in safety, by a way he had
 never come with his feet.
41:4 Who hath wrought and done [it], calling the generations
 from the beginning? I, Jehovah, the first; and with the last, I
 [am] HE.
41:5 The isles saw [it], and feared; the ends of the earth
 trembled: they drew near, and came.
41:6 They helped every one his neighbour, and [each] said to his
 brother, Take courage.
41:7 And the artizan encouraged the founder, he that smootheth
 [with] the hammer him that smiteth on the anvil, saying of the
 soldering, It is good; and he fasteneth it with nails, that it
 be not moved.
41:8 But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen,
 the seed of Abraham, my friend
41:9 -- thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and
 called from the extremities thereof, and to whom I said, Thou
 art my servant, I have chosen thee and not rejected thee,
41:10 -- Fear not, for I [am] with thee; be not dismayed, for I
 [am] thy God: I will strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee,
 yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my
 righteousness.
41:11 Lo, all that are incensed against thee shall be ashamed
 and confounded; they that strive with thee shall be as nothing,
 and shall perish.
41:12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them -- them that
 contend with thee; they that war against thee shall be as
 nothing, and as a thing of nought.
41:13 For I, Jehovah, thy God, hold thy right hand, saying unto
 thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
41:14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, ye men of Israel; I will help
 thee, saith Jehovah, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
41:15 Behold, I have made of thee a new sharp threshing
 instrument having double teeth: thou shalt thresh and beat
 small the mountains, and shalt make the hills as chaff;
41:16 thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away,
 and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt rejoice in
 Jehovah, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
41:17 The afflicted and the needy seek water, and there is none;
 their tongue faileth for thirst: I, Jehovah, will answer them,
 [I], the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
41:18 I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in
 the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness into a
 pool of water, and the dry land into water-springs.
41:19 I will give in the wilderness the cedar, acacia, myrtle,
 and oleaster; I will set in the desert the cypress, pine, and
 box-tree together;
41:20 that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand
 together, that the hand of Jehovah hath done this, and the Holy
 One of Israel hath created it.
41:21 Produce your cause, saith Jehovah; bring forward your
 arguments, saith the King of Jacob.
41:22 Let them bring them forward, and declare to us what shall
 happen: shew the former things, what they are, that we may give
 attention to them, and know the end of them; -- or let us hear
 things to come:
41:23 declare the things that are to happen hereafter, that we
 may know that ye are gods; yea, do good, or do evil, that we
 may be astonished, and behold it together.
41:24 Behold, ye are less than nothing, and your work is of
 nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you. ...
41:25 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come, --
 from the rising of the sun, he who will call upon my name; and
 he shall come upon princes as on mortar, and as the potter
 treadeth clay.
41:26 Who hath declared [it] from the beginning, that we may
 know? and beforetime, that we may say, [It is] right? Indeed,
 there is none that declareth; no, none that sheweth; no, none
 that heareth your words.
41:27 The first, [I said] to Zion, Behold, behold them! and to
 Jerusalem, I will give one that bringeth glad tidings.
41:28 And 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.
41:29 Behold, they are all vanity, their works are nought, their
 molten images are wind and emptiness.
42:1 Behold my servant whom I uphold, mine elect [in whom] my
 soul delighteth! I will put my Spirit upon him; he shall bring
 forth judgment to the nations.
42:2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be
 heard in the street.
42:3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall
 he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment according to
 truth.
42:4 He shall not faint nor be in haste, till he have set
 justice in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
42:5 Thus saith ∙God, Jehovah, he that created the heavens and
 stretched them out, he that spread forth the earth and its
 productions, he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and
 spirit to them that walk therein:
42:6 I, Jehovah, have called thee in righteousness, and will
 take hold of thy hand; and I will preserve thee, and give thee
 for a covenant of the people, for a light of the nations,
42:7 to open the blind eyes, to bring forth the prisoner from
 the prison, them that sit in darkness out of the house of
 restraint.
42:8 I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give
 to another, neither my praise to graven images.
42:9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things
 do I declare: before they spring forth will I cause you to hear
 them.
42:10 Sing unto Jehovah a new song, his praise from the end of
 the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein,
 the isles and their inhabitants.
42:11 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:
42:12 let them give glory unto Jehovah, and declare his praise
 in the islands.
42:13 Jehovah will go forth as a mighty man, he will stir up
 jealousy like a man of war: he will cry, yea, he will shout; he
 will shew himself mighty against his enemies.
42:14 Long time have I holden my peace; I have been still, I
 have restrained myself: I will cry like a woman that
 travaileth; I will blow and pant at once.
42:15 I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their
 herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up
 the pools.
42:16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not, in
 paths that they know not will I lead them; I will make darkness
 light before them, and crooked things straight. These things
 will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
42:17 They shall be turned back, they shall be covered with
 shame, that confide in graven images, that say to the molten
 images, Ye are our gods.
42:18 -- Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
42:19 Who is blind, but my servant? and deaf, as my messenger
 whom I sent? Who is blind as he in whom I have trusted, and
 blind as Jehovah's servant,
42:20 -- seeing many things, and thou observest not? With opened
 ears, he heareth not.
42:21 Jehovah had delight [in him] for his righteousness' sake:
 he hath magnified the law, and made it honourable.
42:22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of
 them snared in holes, and hidden in prison-houses; they are
 become a prey, and none delivereth, -- a spoil, and none saith,
 Restore.
42:23 Who among you will give ear to this, [who] will hearken
 and hear what is to come?
42:24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Did
 not Jehovah, he against whom we have sinned? And they would not
 walk in his ways, neither did they hearken unto his law.
42:25 And he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the
 strength of battle: and it set him on fire round about, yet he
 knew not; and it burned him, yet he took it not to heart.
43:1 But now thus saith Jehovah, that created thee, O Jacob, and
 he that formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed
 thee, I have called [thee] by thy name; thou art mine.
43:2 When thou passest through the waters, I [will be] with
 thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee;
 when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned,
 neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
43:3 For I [am] Jehovah thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy
 Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for
 thee.
43:4 Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been
 honourable, and I have loved thee; and I will give men for
 thee, and peoples for thy life.
43:5 Fear not, for I [am] with thee: I will bring thy seed from
 the east, and gather thee from the west;
43:6 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep
 not back: bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the
 end of the earth,
43:7 every one that is called by my name, and whom I have
 created for my glory: I have formed him, yea, I have made him.
43:8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf
 that have ears.
43:9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the
 peoples be assembled: who among them declareth this, or causeth
 us to hear former things? let them bring forth their witnesses,
 that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, [It is]
 truth.
43:10 Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and my servant whom I
 have chosen; that ye may know and believe me, and understand
 that I [am] HE: before me there was no ∙God formed, neither
 shall there be after me.
43:11 I, I [am] Jehovah; and besides me there is no saviour.
43:12 It is I that have declared, and have saved, and have
 shewed, when there was no strange [god] among you; and ye are
 my witnesses, saith Jehovah, that I [am] ∙God.
43:13 Yea, since the day was, I [am] HE, and there is none that
 delivereth out of my hand: I will work, and who shall hinder
 it?
43:14 Thus saith Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
 For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought all of
 them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the
 ships.
43:15 I [am] Jehovah, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your
 King.
43:16 Thus saith Jehovah, who maketh a way in the sea, and a
 path in the mighty waters,
43:17 who bringeth forth chariot and horse, army and power --
 they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct,
 they are quenched as tow:
43:18 -- Remember not the former things, neither consider the
 ancient things:
43:19 behold, I do a new thing; now it shall spring forth: shall
 ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness,
 rivers in the waste.
43:20 The beast of the field shall glorify me, the jackals and
 the ostriches; for I will give waters in the wilderness, rivers
 in the waste, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
43:21 This people have I formed for myself: they shall shew
 forth my praise.
43:22 -- But thou hast not called upon me, Jacob; for thou hast
 been weary of me, O Israel:
43:23 thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy
 burnt-offerings, neither hast thou glorified me with thy
 sacrifices. I have not caused thee to toil with an oblation,
 nor wearied thee with incense.
43:24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast
 thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices; but thou hast
 made me to toil with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine
 iniquities.
43:25 -- I, I [am] He that blotteth out thy transgressions for
 mine own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.
43:26 Put me in remembrance, let us plead together; rehearse
 thine own [cause], that thou mayest be justified.
43:27 Thy first father hath sinned, and thy mediators have
 rebelled against me.
43:28 And I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have
 given Jacob to the ban, and Israel to reproaches.
44:1 And now hear, Jacob, my servant, and Israel, whom I have
 chosen:
44:2 thus saith Jehovah, that made thee, and formed thee from
 the womb, who helpeth thee, Fear not, Jacob, my servant, and
 thou, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
44:3 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.
44:4 And they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the
 water-courses.
44:5 One shall say, I am Jehovah's; and another shall call
 [himself] by the name of Jacob; and another shall write with
 his hand: [I am] Jehovah's, and surname [himself] by the name
 of Israel.
44:6 Thus saith Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer,
 Jehovah of hosts: I [am] the first, and I [am] the last, and
 beside me there is no God.
44:7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it
 in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? And the
 coming things, and those that shall happen, let them declare
 unto them.
44:8 Fear not, neither be afraid. Have I not caused thee to hear
 from that time, and have declared it? and ye are my witnesses.
 Is there a +God beside me? yea, there is no Rock: I know not
 any.
44:9 They that form a graven image are all of them vanity, and
 their delectable things are of no profit; and they are their
 own witnesses: they see not, nor know; -- that they may be
 ashamed.
44:10 Who hath formed a ∙god, or molten a graven image that is
 profitable for nothing?
44:11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed; and the workmen
 are but men. Let them all be gathered together, let them stand
 up: they shall fear, they shall be ashamed together.
44:12 The iron-smith [hath] a chisel, and he worketh in the
 coals, and he fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with
 his strong arm; -- but he is hungry, and his strength faileth;
 he hath not drunk water, and he is faint.
44:13 The worker in wood stretcheth out a line; he marketh it
 out with red chalk; he formeth it with sharp tools, and he
 marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure
 of a man, according to the beauty of man: that it may remain in
 the house.
44:14 When he heweth him down cedars, he taketh also a holm-oak
 and a terebinth -- he chooseth for himself among the trees of
 the forest: he planteth a pine, and the rain maketh [it] grow.
44:15 And it shall be for a man to burn, and he taketh thereof,
 and warmeth himself; he kindleth it also, and baketh bread; he
 maketh also a ∙god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven
 image, and falleth down thereto.
44:16 He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he
 eateth flesh, he roasteth roast, and is satisfied; yea, he is
 warm, and saith, Aha, I am become warm, I have seen the fire.
44:17 And with the remainder thereof he maketh a ∙god, his
 graven image; he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and
 prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me, for thou art my ∙god.
44:18 They have no knowledge, and understand not; for he hath
 plastered their eyes, that they may not see; and their hearts,
 that they may not understand.
44:19 And none taketh it to heart, neither is there knowledge
 nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire,
 and have also baked bread upon the coals thereof, I have
 roasted flesh, and eaten [it], and with the rest thereof shall
 I make an abomination? shall I bow down to a block of wood?
44:20 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?
44:21 Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for thou art
 my servant; I have formed thee: thou art my servant, Israel;
 thou shalt not be forgotten of me.
44:22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions,
 and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed
 thee.
44:23 Sing, ye heavens; for Jehovah hath done it: shout, ye
 lower parts of the earth; break forth into singing, ye
 mountains, the forest, and every tree therein! For Jehovah hath
 redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
44:24 Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee
 from the womb: I [am] Jehovah, the maker of all things; who
 alone stretched out the heavens, who did spread forth the earth
 by myself;
44:25 -- he that frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh
 diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their
 knowledge foolish;
44:26 that confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth
 the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou
 shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be
 built up, and I will raise up their ruins;
44:27 that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy
 rivers;
44:28 that saith of Cyrus, [He is] my shepherd, and he shall
 perform all my pleasure; even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt
 be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
45:1 Thus saith Jehovah to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right
 hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him -- and I will
 loose the loins of kings; to open before him the two-leaved
 doors, and the gates shall not be shut:
45:2 I will go before thee, and make the elevated places plain;
 I will break in pieces the brazen doors, and cut asunder the
 bars of iron;
45:3 and I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden
 riches of secret places; that thou mayest know that I, Jehovah,
 who call thee by name, [am] the God of Israel.
45:4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have
 called thee by thy name; I surnamed thee, though thou didst not
 know me;
45:5 I [am] Jehovah, and there is none else; there is no God
 beside me: I girded thee, and thou hast not known me;
45:6 -- that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from
 the going down, that there is none beside me. I [am] Jehovah,
 and there is none else;
45:7 forming the light and creating darkness, making peace and
 creating evil: I, Jehovah, do all these things.
45:8 Drop down, [ye] heavens, from above, and let the skies pour
 down righteousness; let the earth open, and let them bring
 forth salvation, and with it let righteousness spring up. I,
 Jehovah, have created it.
45:9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let a potsherd
 [strive] with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to
 him that formeth it, What makest thou? Or thy work, He hath no
 hands?
45:10 Woe unto him that saith unto [his] father, What begettest
 thou? Or to [his] mother, What hast thou brought forth?
45:11 Thus saith Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker:
 Ask me of the things to come; concerning my sons, and
 concerning the work of my hands, command ye me.
45:12 It is I that have made the earth, and created man upon it;
 it is I, my hands, that have stretched out the heavens, and all
 their host have I commanded.
45:13 It is I that have raised him up in righteousness, and I
 will make all his ways straight: he shall build my city, and he
 shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith
 Jehovah of hosts.
45:14 Thus saith Jehovah: The wealth of Egypt, and the
 merchandise of Ethiopia and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall
 come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall walk
 after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall bow
 down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee,
 [saying,] Surely ∙God is in thee; and there is none else, no
 other God. ...
45:15 Verily thou art a ∙God that hidest thyself, O God of
 Israel, the Saviour. ...
45:16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them;
 they shall go away in confusion together, the makers of idols.
45:17 Israel shall be saved by Jehovah with an everlasting
 salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded, unto the
 ages of ages.
45:18 For thus saith Jehovah who created the heavens, God
 himself who formed the earth and made it, he who established
 it, -- not as waste did he create it: he formed it to be
 inhabited: -- I [am] Jehovah, and there is none else.
45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth;
 I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek me in vain: I [am]
 Jehovah, speaking righteousness, declaring things which are
 right.
45:20 Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that
 are escaped of the nations. They have no knowledge that carry
 the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a ∙god that
 cannot save.
45:21 Declare and bring [them] near; yea, let them take counsel
 together: who hath caused this to be heard from ancient time?
 [who] hath declared it long ago? Is it not I, Jehovah? And
 there is no God else beside me; a just ∙God and a Saviour,
 there is none besides me.
45:22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth:
 for I [am] ∙God, and there is none else.
45:23 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.
45:24 Only in Jehovah, shall one say, have I righteousness and
 strength. To him shall [men] come; and all that are incensed
 against him shall be ashamed.
45:25 In Jehovah shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and
 shall glory.
46:1 Bel is bowed down, Nebo bendeth; their idols are upon the
 beasts, and upon the cattle: the things ye carried are laid on,
 a burden to the weary [beast].
46:2 They bend, they are bowed down together; they could not
 deliver the burden, and themselves are gone into captivity.
46:3 Hearken unto me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the
 house of Israel, ye who have been borne from the belly, who
 have been carried from the womb:
46:4 Even to old age, I [am] HE, and unto hoary hairs I will
 carry [you]: It is I that have made, and I will bear, and I
 will carry, and will deliver.
46:5 To whom will ye liken me and make me equal, or compare me,
 that we may be like?
46:6 -- They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the
 balance; they hire a goldsmith, and he maketh it a ∙god: they
 fall down, yea, they worship.
46:7 They bear him on the shoulder, they carry him, and set him
 in his place; there he standeth, he doth not remove from his
 place: yea, one crieth unto him, and he answereth not; he
 saveth him not out of his trouble.
46:8 Remember this, and shew yourselves men; call it to mind, ye
 transgressors.
46:9 Remember the former things of old; for I [am] ∙God, and
 there is none else; [I am] God, and there is none like me;
46:10 declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient
 times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel
 shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;
46:11 calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my
 counsel from a far country. Yea, I have spoken, I will also
 bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
46:12 Hearken unto me, ye stout-hearted, that are far from
 righteousness:
46:13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off,
 and my salvation shall not delay; and I will give salvation in
 Zion, [and] unto Israel my glory.
47:1 Come down and sit in the dust, 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.
47:2 Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, lift
 up the train, uncover the leg, pass over rivers:
47:3 thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be
 seen. I will take vengeance, and I will meet none [to stay me].
 ...
47:4 Our Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts is his name, the Holy One of
 Israel. ...
47:5 Sit silent, and get thee into darkness, daughter of the
 Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called, Mistress of
 kingdoms.
47:6 I was wroth with my people, I polluted mine inheritance,
 and gave them into thy hand: thou didst shew them no mercy;
 upon the aged didst thou very heavily lay thy yoke;
47:7 and thou saidst, I shall be a mistress for ever; so that
 thou didst not take these things to heart, thou didst not
 remember the end thereof.
47:8 And now hear this, thou voluptuous one, that dwellest
 carelessly, that sayest in thy heart, It is I, and there is
 none but me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know
 loss of children:
47:9 yet these two things shall come upon thee in a moment, in
 one day, loss of children and widowhood; they shall come upon
 thee in full measure for the multitude of thy sorceries, for
 the great abundance of thine enchantments.
47:10 For thou hast confided in thy wickedness: thou hast said,
 None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath seduced
 thee; and thou hast said in thy heart, It is I, and there is
 none but me.
47:11 But evil shall come upon thee -- thou shalt not know from
 whence it riseth; and mischief shall fall upon thee, which thou
 shalt not be able to ward off; and desolation that thou
 suspectest not shall come upon thee suddenly.
47:12 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 turn them to profit, if so be thou
 mayest cause terror.
47:13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now
 the interpreters of the heavens, the observers of the stars,
 who predict according to the new moons what shall come upon
 thee, stand up, and save thee.
47:14 Behold, they shall be as stubble, the fire shall burn
 them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the
 flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, [nor] fire to sit
 before it.
47:15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured,
 they that trafficked with thee from thy youth: they shall
 wander every one to his own quarter; there is none to save
 thee.
48:1 Hear ye this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name of
 Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, who
 swear by the name of Jehovah, and make mention of the God of
 Israel, not in truth, nor in righteousness.
48:2 For they are named after the holy city, and stay themselves
 upon the God of Israel: Jehovah of hosts is his name.
48:3 I have declared the former things long ago; and they went
 forth out of my mouth, and I caused them to be heard: I wrought
 suddenly, and they came to pass.
48:4 Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an
 iron sinew, and thy brow brass,
48:5 so I have long ago declared [them] to thee; before they
 came to pass I caused thee to hear [them]; lest thou shouldest
 say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, or my
 molten image hath commanded them.
48:6 Thou heardest, see all this; -- and ye, will not ye declare
 [it]? I have caused thee to hear new things from this time, and
 things hidden, and that thou knewest not:
48:7 they are created now, and not long ago; and before this day
 thou hast not heard them, lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I
 knew them.
48:8 Yea, thou heardest not, yea, thou knewest not, yea, from of
 old thine ear was not opened; for I knew that thou wouldest
 ever deal treacherously, and thou wast called a transgressor
 from the womb.
48:9 For my name's sake I will defer mine anger, and [for] my
 praise will I refrain as to thee, that I cut thee not off.
48:10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have
 chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
48:11 For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do [it]; for
 how should [my name] be profaned? and I will not give my glory
 unto another.
48:12 Hearken unto me, Jacob, and [thou] Israel, my called. I
 [am] HE; I, the first, and I, the last.
48:13 Yea, my hand hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my
 right hand hath spread abroad the heavens: I call unto them,
 they stand up together.
48:14 All ye, gather yourselves together, and hear: which among
 them hath declared these things? He whom Jehovah hath loved
 shall execute his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be
 on] the Chaldeans.
48:15 I, [even] I, have spoken; yea, I have called him; I have
 brought him, and his way shall be prosperous.
48:16 Come 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 Jehovah hath sent me, and his Spirit.
48:17 Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel;
 I [am] Jehovah thy God, who teacheth thee for [thy] profit, who
 leadeth thee in the way that thou shouldest go.
48:18 Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! Then
 would thy peace have been as a river, and thy righteousness as
 the waves of the sea;
48:19 and thy seed would have been as the sand, and the
 offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof: their name
 should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
48:20 Go ye forth from Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans, with a
 voice of singing; declare, cause this to be heard, utter it to
 the end of the earth; say ye, Jehovah hath redeemed his servant
 Jacob.
48:21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the
 deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them;
 yea, he clave the rock, and the waters gushed out.
48:22 There is no peace, saith Jehovah, unto the wicked.
49:1 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye peoples from
 afar. Jehovah hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of
 my mother hath he made mention of my name.
49:2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword, he hath
 concealed me under the shadow of his hand, and he hath made me
 a polished shaft: in his quiver hath he hidden me.
49:3 And he said unto me, Thou art my servant, Israel, in whom I
 will glorify myself.
49:4 -- And I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my
 strength for nought and in vain; nevertheless my judgment is
 with Jehovah, and my work with my God.
49:5 And now, saith Jehovah, that formed me from the womb to be
 his servant, that I should bring Jacob again to him; (though
 Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorified in the eyes of
 Jehovah, and my God shall be my strength;)
49:6 -- and he saith, It is a small thing that thou shouldest be
 my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the
 preserved of Israel; I have even given thee for a light of the
 nations, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the
 earth.
49:7 Thus saith Jehovah, the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One,
 to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to
 the servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise, princes, and
 they shall worship, because of Jehovah who is faithful, the
 Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee.
49:8 Thus saith Jehovah: In a time of acceptance have I answered
 thee, and in the day of salvation have I helped thee; and I
 will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people,
 to establish the land, to cause to inherit the desolate
 heritages;
49:9 saying to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in
 darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and
 their pasture shall be on all bare hills.
49:10 They shall not hunger nor thirst, neither shall the heat
 nor sun smite them; for he that hath mercy on them will lead
 them, and by the springs of water will he guide them.
49:11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways
 shall be raised up.
49:12 Behold, these shall come from afar; and behold, these from
 the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
49:13 Shout, ye heavens; and be joyful, thou earth; and break
 forth into singing, ye mountains: for Jehovah hath comforted
 his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted ones.
49:14 But Zion said, Jehovah hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath
 forgotten me.
49:15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not
 have compassion on the son of her womb? Even these forget, but
 I will not forget thee.
49:16 Lo, I have graven thee upon the palms of [my] hands; thy
 walls are continually before me.
49:17 Thy sons shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that
 laid thee waste shall go forth from thee.
49:18 Lift up thine eyes round about and behold: they all gather
 themselves together, they come to thee. As I live, saith
 Jehovah, thou shalt indeed clothe thee with them all as with an
 ornament, and bind them on as a bride doth.
49:19 For [in] thy waste and thy desolate places, and thy
 destroyed land, thou shalt even now be too straitened by reason
 of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be
 far away.
49:20 The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine
 ears, The place is too narrow for me: make room for me, that I
 may dwell.
49:21 And thou shalt say in thy heart, Who hath borne me these,
 seeing I had lost my children and was desolate, an exile, and
 driven about? and who hath brought up these? behold, I was left
 alone; these, where were they?
49:22 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will lift up my
 hand to the nations, and set up my banner to the peoples; and
 they shall bring thy sons in [their] bosom, and thy daughters
 shall be carried upon the shoulder.
49:23 And kings shall be thy nursing-fathers, and their
 princesses thy nursing-mothers: they shall bow down to thee
 with the face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy
 feet. And thou shalt know that I [am] Jehovah; for they shall
 not be ashamed who wait on me.
49:24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty? and shall he that
 is rightfully captive be delivered?
49:25 For thus saith Jehovah: Even the captive of the mighty
 shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be
 delivered; and I will strive with him that striveth with thee,
 and I will save thy children.
49:26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own
 flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with
 new wine. And all flesh shall know that I, Jehovah, [am] thy
 Saviour and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
50:1 Thus saith Jehovah: Where is the bill of your mother's
 divorce, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it
 to whom I have sold you? Behold, through your iniquities have
 ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother
 put away.
50:2 Wherefore did I come, and there was no man? I called, and
 there was none to answer? Is my hand at all shortened that I
 cannot redeem, or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my
 rebuke I dry up the sea, I make rivers a wilderness; their fish
 stink because there is no water, and die for thirst.
50:3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth
 their covering.
50:4 The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of the
 instructed, that I should know how to succour by a word him
 that is weary. He wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine
 ear to hear as the instructed.
50:5 The Lord Jehovah hath opened mine ear, and I was not
 rebellious; I turned not away back.
50:6 I gave my back to smiters, and my cheeks to them that
 plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and
 spitting.
50:7 But the Lord Jehovah 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.
50:8 He is near that justifieth me: who will contend with me?
 let us stand together; who is mine adverse party? let him draw
 near unto me.
50:9 Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that shall
 condemn me? Behold, they all shall grow old as a garment; the
 moth shall eat them up.
50:10 Who is among you that feareth Jehovah, that hearkeneth to
 the voice of his servant? he that walketh in darkness, and hath
 no light, -- let him confide in the name of Jehovah, and stay
 himself upon his God.
50:11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves
 about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and among
 the sparks [that] ye have kindled. This shall ye have of my
 hand: ye shall lie down in sorrow.
51:1 Hearken unto me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye
 that seek Jehovah: look unto the rock [whence] ye were hewn,
 and to the hole of the pit [whence] ye were digged.
51:2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bore
 you; for I called him when he was alone, and blessed him, and
 multiplied him.
51:3 For Jehovah shall comfort Zion, he shall comfort all her
 waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and
 her desert like the garden of Jehovah: gladness and joy shall
 be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of song.
51:4 Listen unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, my nation:
 for a law shall proceed from me, and I will establish my
 judgment for a light of the peoples.
51:5 My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and
 mine arms shall judge the peoples: the isles shall wait for me,
 and in mine arm shall they trust.
51:6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth
 beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the
 earth shall grow old like a garment, and they that dwell
 therein shall die in like manner; but my salvation shall be for
 ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
51:7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in
 whose heart is my law; fear not the reproach of men, and be not
 afraid of their revilings.
51:8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm
 shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be for
 ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
51:9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as
 in the days of old, [as in] the generations of passed ages. Is
 it not thou that hath hewn Rahab in pieces, [and] pierced the
 monster?
51:10 Is it not thou that dried up the sea, the waters of the
 great deep; that made the depths of the sea a way for the
 redeemed to pass over?
51:11 So the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come to Zion
 with singing; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads:
 they shall obtain gladness and joy; sorrow and sighing shall
 flee away.
51:12 I, [even] I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that
 thou fearest a man that shall die, and the son of man that
 shall become as grass;
51:13 and forgettest Jehovah thy Maker, who hath stretched out
 the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and thou
 art afraid continually all the day because of the fury of the
 oppressor, when he prepareth to destroy? And where is the fury
 of the oppressor?
51:14 He that is bowed down shall speedily be loosed, and he
 shall not die in the pit, nor shall his bread fail.
51:15 And I am Jehovah thy God, who raiseth the sea, so that its
 waves roar: Jehovah of hosts is his name.
51:16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and covered thee
 with the shadow of my hand, to plant the heavens, and to lay
 the foundations of the earth, and to say unto Zion, Thou art my
 people.
51:17 Arouse thyself, arouse thyself, stand up, Jerusalem, which
 hast drunk at the hand of Jehovah the cup of his fury. Thou
 hast drunk, hast drained out the goblet-cup of bewilderment:
51:18 -- there is none to guide her among all the children that
 she hath brought forth; neither is there any to take her by the
 hand of all the children that she hath brought up.
51:19 These two [things] are come unto thee; who will bemoan
 thee? -- desolation and destruction, and famine and sword: how
 shall I comfort thee?
51:20 Thy children have fainted, they lie at the head of all the
 streets, as an oryx in a net: they are full of the fury of
 Jehovah, the rebuke of thy God.
51:21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but
 not with wine:
51:22 thus saith thy Lord, Jehovah, and thy God, who pleadeth
 the cause of his people, Behold, I take out of thy hand the cup
 of bewilderment, the goblet-cup of my fury; thou shalt no more
 drink it again:
51:23 and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee;
 who 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.
52:1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy
 beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth
 there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the
 unclean.
52:2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit down, Jerusalem:
 loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, captive daughter of
 Zion.
52:3 For thus saith Jehovah: Ye have sold yourselves for nought,
 and ye shall be redeemed without money.
52:4 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: My people went down at the
 first into Egypt to sojourn there, and Assyria oppressed them
 without cause;
52:5 and now, what have I here, saith Jehovah, that my people
 hath been taken away for nought? They that rule over them make
 them to howl, saith Jehovah; and continually all the day is my
 name scorned.
52:6 Therefore my people shall know my name; therefore [they
 shall know] in that day that I [am] HE, that saith, Here am I.
52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that
 announceth glad tidings, that publisheth peace; that announceth
 glad tidings of good, that publisheth salvation, that saith
 unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
52:8 -- The voice of thy watchmen, they lift up the voice, they
 sing aloud together; for they shall see eye to eye, when
 Jehovah shall bring again Zion.
52:9 Break forth, sing aloud together, waste places of
 Jerusalem; for Jehovah comforteth his people, he hath redeemed
 Jerusalem.
52:10 Jehovah hath made bare his holy arm in the sight of all
 the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the
 salvation of our God.
52:11 -- Depart, depart, go out from thence, touch not what is
 unclean; go out of the midst of her, be ye clean, that bear the
 vessels of Jehovah.
52:12 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight; for
 Jehovah will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your
 rear-guard.
52:13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently; he shall be
 exalted and be lifted up, and be very high.
52:14 As many were astonished at thee -- his visage was so
 marred more than any man, and his form more than the children
 of men
52:15 -- so shall he astonish many nations; kings shall shut
 their mouths at him: for what had not been told them shall they
 see, and what they had not heard shall they consider.
53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of
 Jehovah been revealed?
53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender sapling, and as
 a root out of dry ground: he hath no form nor lordliness, and
 when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
53:3 He is despised and left alone of men; a man of sorrows, and
 acquainted with grief, and like one from whom [men] hide their
 faces; -- despised, and we esteemed him not.
53:4 Surely *he* hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows;
 and we, we did regard him stricken, smitten of God, and
 afflicted.
53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised
 for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him,
 and with his stripes we are healed.
53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every
 one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid upon him the iniquity
 of us all.
53:7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, but he opened not
 his mouth; he was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and was as a
 sheep dumb before her shearers, and he opened not his mouth.
53:8 He was taken from oppression 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.
53:9 And [men] appointed his grave with the wicked, but he was
 with the rich in his death, because he had done no violence,
 neither was there guile in his mouth.
53:10 Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath subjected
 [him] to suffering. When thou shalt make his soul an offering
 for sin, he shall see a seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and
 the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.
53:11 He shall see of [the fruit of] the travail of his soul,
 [and] shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous
 servant instruct many in righteousness; and *he* shall bear
 their iniquities.
53:12 Therefore will I assign 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 was reckoned with the
 transgressors; and he bore the sin of many, and made
 intercession for the transgressors.
54:1 Exult, thou barren, that didst not bear; break forth into
 singing, and shout for joy, thou that didst not travail with
 child: for more are the children of the desolate than the
 children of the married wife, saith Jehovah.
54:2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth
 the curtains of thy habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords,
 and strengthen thy stakes.
54:3 For thou shalt spread abroad on the right hand and on the
 left; and thy seed shall possess nations, and they shall make
 desolate cities to be inhabited.
54:4 Fear not, for thou shalt not be ashamed; neither be thou
 confounded, for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt
 forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the
 reproach of thy widowhood any more.
54:5 For thy Maker is thy husband: Jehovah of hosts is his name,
 and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: the God of the whole
 earth shall he be called.
54:6 For Jehovah hath called thee as a woman forsaken and
 grieved in spirit, and as a wife of youth, that hath been
 refused, saith thy God.
54:7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great
 mercies will I gather thee.
54:8 In the outpouring of wrath have I hid my face from thee for
 a moment; but with everlasting loving-kindness will I have
 mercy on thee, saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer.
54:9 For this is [as] the waters of Noah unto me, since I have
 sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth:
 so have I sworn that I will no more be wroth with thee, nor
 rebuke thee.
54:10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed;
 but my loving-kindness shall not depart from thee, neither
 shall my covenant of peace be removed, saith Jehovah, that hath
 mercy on thee.
54:11 [Thou] afflicted, tossed with tempest, not comforted!
 Behold, I will set thy stones in antimony, and lay thy
 foundations with sapphires;
54:12 and I will make thy battlements of rubies, and thy gates
 of carbuncles, and all thy borders of precious stones.
54:13 And all thy children [shall be] taught of Jehovah, and
 great shall be the peace of thy children.
54:14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be
 far from oppression, for thou shalt not fear; and from terror,
 for it shall not come near thee.
54:15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, [but] not by
 me: whosoever gathereth together against thee shall fall
 because of thee.
54:16 Behold, it is I who have created the smith that bloweth in
 the fire of coal, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his
 work; and I have created the destroyer to ravage.
54:17 No weapon that is prepared against thee shall prosper; and
 every tongue that riseth against thee in judgment, thou shalt
 condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah;
 and their righteousness is of me, saith Jehovah.
55:1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters; and he
 that hath no money, come ye, buy, and eat: yea, come, buy wine
 and milk without money and without price!
55:2 Wherefore do ye spend money for [that which is] not bread?
 and your 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.
55:3 Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul
 shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
 the sure mercies of David.
55:4 Behold, I have given him [for] a witness to the peoples, a
 prince and commander to the peoples.
55:5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation thou knowest not, and a
 nation [that] knew not thee shall run unto thee, because of
 Jehovah thy God, and the Holy One of Israel; for he hath
 glorified thee.
55:6 Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found, call ye upon him
 while he is near.
55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his
 thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have
 mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your
 ways my ways, saith Jehovah.
55:9 For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my
 ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
55:10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and
 returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it
 bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and
 bread to the eater:
55:11 so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it
 shall not return unto me void, but it shall do that which I
 please, and it shall accomplish that for which I send it.
55:12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace;
 the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into
 singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
55:13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress, and
 instead of the nettle shall come up the myrtle; and it shall be
 to Jehovah for a name, for an everlasting sign [that] shall not
 be cut off.
56:1 Thus saith Jehovah: Keep ye judgment and do righteousness;
 for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be
 revealed.
56:2 Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that
 holdeth fast to it; that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it,
 and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
56:3 And let not the son of the alien, that hath joined himself
 to Jehovah, speak saying, Jehovah hath entirely separated me
 from his people; neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry
 tree;
56:4 for thus saith Jehovah: Unto the eunuchs that keep my
 sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast
 to my covenant,
56:5 even unto them will I give in my house and within my walls
 a place and a name better than of sons and daughters; I will
 give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
56:6 Also the sons of the alien, that join themselves to
 Jehovah, to minister unto him and to love the name of Jehovah,
 to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from
 profaning it, and holdeth fast to my covenant;
56:7 even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them
 joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt-offerings and their
 sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar: for my house
 shall be called a house of prayer for all the peoples.
56:8 The Lord Jehovah, who gathereth the outcasts of Israel,
 saith: Yet will I gather [others] to him, with those of his
 that are gathered.
56:9 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, all ye beasts
 in the forest.
56:10 His watchmen are all of them blind, they are without
 knowledge; they are all dumb dogs that cannot bark, dreaming,
 lying down, loving to slumber:
56:11 and the dogs are greedy, they know not to be satisfied,
 and these are shepherds that know not how to discern: they all
 turn to their own way, every one for his gain, even to the last
 of them:
56:12 Come, [say they,] I will fetch wine, and we will fill
 ourselves with strong drink; and to-morrow shall be as this
 day, [and] much more abundant.
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 before the evil.
57:2 He entereth into peace: they rest in their beds, [each one]
 that hath walked in his uprightness.
57:3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of
 the adulterer and the harlot.
57:4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Against whom do ye
 make a wide mouth, [and] draw out the tongue? Are ye not
 children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
57:5 inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree,
 slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the
 rocks?
57:6 Among the smooth [stones] of the torrent is thy portion;
 they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured out a
 drink-offering, thou hast offered an oblation. Shall I be
 comforted myself as to these things?
57:7 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even
 thither didst thou go up to offer sacrifice.
57:8 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy
 remembrance: for apart from me, thou hast uncovered thyself,
 and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and hast made
 agreement with them; thou lovedst their bed, thou sawest their
 nakedness.
57:9 And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst
 multiply thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers afar off,
 and didst debase thyself unto Sheol.
57:10 Thou wast wearied by the multitude of thy ways; [but] thou
 saidst not, It is of no avail. Thou didst find a quickening of
 thy strength; therefore thou wast not sick [of it].
57:11 And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou
 hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor taken it to heart?
 Have not I even of long time held my peace, and thou fearest me
 not?
57:12 I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; and they
 shall not profit thee.
57:13 When thou criest, let them that are gathered by thee
 deliver thee! But a wind shall carry them all away, a breath
 shall take them; but he that putteth his trust in me shall
 inherit the land, and possess my holy mountain.
57:14 And it shall be said, Cast up, cast up, prepare the way,
 take up the stumbling-blocks out of the way of my people.
57:15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth
 eternity, and whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy
 [place], and with him that is of a contrite and humble spirit,
 to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of
 the contrite ones.
57:16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always
 wroth; for the spirit would fail before me, and the souls
 [which] I have made.
57:17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and
 smote him; I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on
 backslidingly in the way of his heart.
57:18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him; and I will lead
 him, and will restore comforts unto him and to those of his
 that mourn.
57:19 I create the fruit of the lips: peace, peace to him [that
 is] afar off, and to him [that is] nigh, saith Jehovah; and I
 will heal him.
57:20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, which cannot
 rest, and whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
57:21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and
 declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of
 Jacob their sins.
58:2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a
 nation that doeth righteousness, and hath not forsaken the
 ordinance of their God; they ask of me the ordinances of
 righteousness, they take delight in approaching to God:
58:3 -- Wherefore have we fasted, and thou seest not; have
 afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in
 the day of your fast ye find what pleaseth [you], and exact all
 your labours.
58:4 Behold, ye have fasted for strife and debate, and to smite
 with the fist of wickedness; ye do not at present fast, to
 cause your voice to be heard on high.
58:5 Is such the fast that I have chosen, a day for a man to
 afflict his soul, -- that he should bow down his head as a
 bulrush, and spread sackcloth and ashes [under him]? Wilt thou
 call this a fast, and a day acceptable to Jehovah?
58:6 Is not this the fast which I have chosen: to loose the
 bands of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, and to
 send forth free the crushed, and that ye break every yoke?
58:7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou
 bring to thy house the needy wanderers; when thou seest the
 naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from
 thine own flesh?
58:8 Then shall thy light break forth as the dawn, and thy
 health shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness shall
 go before thee, the glory of Jehovah shall be thy rearguard.
58:9 Then shalt thou call, and Jehovah will answer; thou shalt
 cry, and he will say, Here I am. If thou take away from the
 midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger and the
 unjust speech,
58:10 and thou proffer thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the
 afflicted soul: then shall thy light rise in the darkness, and
 thine obscurity be as midday;
58:11 and Jehovah will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy
 soul in drought, and strengthen thy bones; and thou shalt be
 like a watered garden, and like a water-spring, whose waters
 deceive not.
58:12 And they [that come] of thee shall build the old waste
 places: thou shalt raise up the foundations [that have
 remained] from generation to generation; and thou shalt be
 called, Repairer of the breaches, restorer of frequented paths.
58:13 If thou turn back thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing
 thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the sabbath a delight,
 the holy [day] of Jehovah, honourable; and thou honour him, not
 doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor
 speaking [idle] words;
58:14 then shalt thou delight thyself in Jehovah, and I will
 cause thee to ride on the high places of the earth, and feed
 thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of
 Jehovah hath spoken.
59:1 Behold, Jehovah's hand is not shortened that it cannot
 save, neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear;
59:2 but your iniquities have separated between you and your
 God, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that he doth
 not hear.
59:3 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers
 with iniquity; your lips speak lies, your tongue muttereth
 unrighteousness:
59:4 none calleth for justice, none pleadeth in truthfulness.
 They trust in vanity, and speak falsehood; they conceive
 mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
59:5 They hatch serpents' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he
 that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed
 breaketh out into a viper.
59:6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they
 cover themselves with their works; their works are works of
 iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed
 innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
 wasting and destruction are in their paths;
59:8 the way of peace they know not, and there is no judgment in
 their goings; they have made their paths crooked: whoso goeth
 therein knoweth not peace.
59:9 Therefore is justice far from us, and righteousness
 overtaketh us not: we wait for light, and behold darkness; for
 brightness, [but] we walk in obscurity.
59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if
 we had no eyes: we stumble at midday as in the twilight;
 amongst the flourishing we are as the dead.
59:11 We roar all like bears, and mourn grievously like doves:
 we look for judgment, and there is none; for salvation, [but]
 it is far from us.
59:12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our
 sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us;
 and our iniquities, we know them:
59:13 in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and departing
 away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving
 and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
59:14 And judgment is turned away backward, and righteousness
 standeth afar off; for truth stumbleth in the street, and
 uprightness cannot enter.
59:15 And truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh
 himself a prey. And Jehovah saw [it], and it was evil in his
 sight that there was no judgment.
59:16 And he saw that there was no man, and he wondered that
 there was no intercessor; and his arm brought him salvation,
 and his righteousness, it sustained him.
59:17 And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet
 of salvation upon his head; and he put on garments of vengeance
 [for] clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
59:18 According to deeds, so will he repay: fury to his
 adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will
 repay recompence.
59:19 And they shall fear the name of Jehovah from the west, and
 from the rising of the sun, his glory. When the adversary shall
 come in like a flood, the Spirit of Jehovah will lift up a
 banner against him.
59:20 And the Redeemer will come to Zion, and unto them that
 turn from transgression in Jacob, saith Jehovah.
59:21 And as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith
 Jehovah: My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have
 put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of
 the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed,
 saith Jehovah, from henceforth and for ever.
60:1 Arise, shine! for thy light is come, and the glory of
 Jehovah is risen upon thee.
60:2 For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross
 darkness the peoples; but Jehovah will arise upon thee, and his
 glory shall be seen on thee.
60:3 And the nations shall walk by thy light, and kings by the
 brightness of thy rising.
60:4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather
 themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons come from
 afar, and thy daughters are carried upon the side.
60:5 Then thou shalt see, and shalt be brightened, and thy heart
 shall throb, and be enlarged; for the abundance of the sea
 shall be turned unto thee, the wealth of the nations shall come
 unto thee.
60:6 A multitude of camels shall cover thee, young camels of
 Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall
 bring gold and incense; and they shall publish the praises of
 Jehovah.
60:7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered unto thee, the
 rams of Nebaioth shall serve thee: they shall come up with
 acceptance on mine altar, and I will beautify the house of my
 magnificence.
60:8 Who are these that come flying as a cloud, and as doves to
 their dove-cotes?
60:9 For the isles shall await me, and the ships of Tarshish
 first, to bring thy sons from afar, their silver and their gold
 with them, unto the name of Jehovah thy God, and to the Holy
 One of Israel, for he hath glorified thee.
60:10 And the sons of the alien 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.
60:11 And thy gates shall stand open continually: (they shall
 not be shut day nor night,) that the wealth of the nations may
 be brought unto thee, and that their kings may be led [to
 thee].
60:12 For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve thee
 shall perish; and those nations shall be utterly wasted.
60:13 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the cypress,
 pine, and box-tree together, to beautify the place of my
 sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
60:14 And the children of them that afflicted thee shall come
 bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow
 themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call
 thee The city of Jehovah, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
60:15 Instead of thy being forsaken and hated, so that no one
 went through [thee], I will make thee an eternal excellency, a
 joy from generation to generation.
60:16 And thou shalt suck the milk of the nations, and shalt
 suck the breast of kings; and thou shalt know that I, Jehovah,
 [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
60:17 For bronze I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring
 silver, and for wood bronze, and for stones iron; and I will
 make thine officers peace, and thy rulers righteousness.
60:18 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.
60:19 The sun shall be no more thy light by day, neither for
 brightness shall the moon give light unto thee; but Jehovah
 shall be thine everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
60:20 Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon
 withdraw itself; for Jehovah shall be thine everlasting light,
 and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
60:21 Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall possess
 the land for ever -- the branch of my planting, the work of my
 hands, that I may be glorified.
60:22 The little one shall become a thousand, and the smallest a
 mighty nation: I, Jehovah, will hasten it in its time.
61:1 The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me, because Jehovah
 hath anointed me to announce glad tidings unto the meek; he
 hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty
 to the captives, and opening of the prison to them that are
 bound;
61:2 to proclaim the acceptable year of Jehovah, and the day of
 vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
61:3 to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, that beauty should
 be given unto them instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of
 mourning, the garment of praise instead of the spirit of
 heaviness: that they might be called terebinths of
 righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be
 glorified.
61:4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up
 the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities,
 the places desolate from generation to generation.
61:5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the
 sons of the alien shall be your ploughmen and your
 vinedressers.
61:6 But as for you, ye shall be called priests of Jehovah; it
 shall be said of you: Ministers of our God. Ye shall eat the
 wealth of the nations, and into their glory shall ye enter.
61:7 Instead of your shame [ye shall have] double; instead of
 confusion they shall celebrate with joy their portion:
 therefore in their land they shall possess the double;
 everlasting joy shall be unto them.
61:8 For I, Jehovah, love judgment, I hate robbery with wrong;
 and I will give their recompence in truth, and I will make an
 everlasting covenant with them.
61:9 And their seed shall be known among the nations, and their
 offspring among the peoples: all that see them shall
 acknowledge them, that they are a seed that Jehovah hath
 blessed.
61:10 I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah, my soul shall be joyful
 in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of
 salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness,
 as a bridegroom decketh himself with the priestly turban, and
 as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
61:11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as a garden
 causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth, so the
 Lord Jehovah will cause righteousness and praise to spring
 forth before all the nations.
62:1 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for
 Jerusalem's sake I will not be still, until her righteousness
 go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a torch that
 burneth.
62:2 And the nations shall see thy righteousness, and all kings
 thy glory; and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the
 mouth of Jehovah will name.
62:3 And thou shalt be a crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah,
 and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
62:4 Thou shalt no more be termed, Forsaken; neither shall thy
 land any more be termed, Desolate: but thou shalt be called, My
 delight is in her, and thy land, Married; for Jehovah
 delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
62:5 For [as] a young man marrieth a virgin, shall thy sons
 marry thee; and with the joy of the bridegroom over the bride,
 shall thy God rejoice over thee.
62:6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, Jerusalem; all the day
 and all the night they shall never hold their peace: ye that
 put Jehovah in remembrance, keep not silence,
62:7 and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make
 Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
62:8 Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his
 strength, I will indeed no more give thy corn [to be] food for
 thine enemies; and the sons of the alien shall not drink thy
 new wine, for which thou hast laboured;
62:9 for they that have garnered it shall eat it, and praise
 Jehovah; and they that have gathered it shall drink it in the
 courts of my holiness.
62:10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare the way of the
 people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones;
 lift up a banner for the peoples.
62:11 Behold, Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the end of the earth,
 Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh;
 behold, his reward is with him, and his recompence before him.
62:12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of
 Jehovah; and thou shalt be called, The sought out, The city not
 forsaken.
63:1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with deep-red 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.
63:2 -- Wherefore is redness in thine apparel, and thy garments
 like him that treadeth in the winevat?
63:3 I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the peoples not
 a man was with me; and I have trodden them in mine anger, and
 trampled them in my fury; and their blood is sprinkled upon my
 garments, and I have stained all mine apparel.
63:4 For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of
 my redeemed had come.
63:5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered
 that there was none to uphold: and mine own arm brought
 salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
63:6 And I have trodden down the peoples in mine anger, and made
 them drunk in my fury; and their blood have I brought down to
 the earth.
63:7 I will record the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah, the praises
 of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah hath bestowed upon
 us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel which he
 hath bestowed upon them according to his mercies, and according
 to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses.
63:8 And he said, They are indeed my people, children that will
 not lie; and he became their Saviour.
63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the Angel of
 his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he
 redeemed them; and he bore them and carried them all the days
 of old.
63:10 But they rebelled and grieved his holy Spirit: and he
 turned to be their enemy; himself, he fought against them.
63:11 But he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his people:
 Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the
 shepherds of his flock? Where is he that put his holy Spirit
 within him,
63:12 his glorious arm leading them by the right hand of Moses,
 dividing the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting
 name,
63:13 -- who led them through the depths, like a horse in the
 wilderness, [and] they stumbled not?
63:14 As cattle go down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah
 gave them rest; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself
 a glorious name.
63:15 Look down from the heavens, 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 tender mercies?
 Are they restrained toward me?
63:16 For thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us,
 and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, Jehovah, art our Father;
 our Redeemer, from everlasting, is thy name.
63:17 Why, O Jehovah, hast thou made us to err from thy ways,
 hast hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants'
 sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
63:18 Thy holy people have possessed [it] but a little while:
 our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
63:19 We have become [like those] over whom thou never barest
 rule, those not called by thy name.
64:1 Oh, that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest
 come down, -- that the mountains might flow down at thy
 presence,
64:2 -- as fire kindleth brushwood, as the fire causeth water to
 boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the
 nations might tremble at thy presence!
64:3 When thou didst terrible things [which] we looked not for,
 thou camest down, and the mountains flowed down at thy
 presence.
64:4 Never have [men] heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor hath
 eye seen a God beside thee, who acteth for him that waiteth for
 him.
64:5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth to do righteousness, those
 that remember thee in thy ways: (behold, thou wast wroth, and
 we have sinned:) in those is perpetuity, and we shall be saved.
64:6 And we are all become as an unclean [thing], and all our
 righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all fade as a leaf,
 and our iniquities, like the wind, have carried us away;
64:7 and there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth
 up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hidden thy face
 from us, and hast caused us to melt away through our
 iniquities.
64:8 And now, Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and
 thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
64:9 Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah, neither remember
 iniquity for ever. Behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy
 people.
64:10 Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is a
 wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
64:11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers
 praised thee, is burnt up with fire, and all our precious
 things are laid waste.
64:12 Wilt thou restrain thyself in presence of these things,
 Jehovah? Wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
65:1 I am sought out of them that inquired not [for me], I am
 found of them that sought me not; I have said, Behold me,
 behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
65:2 I have stretched out my hands all the day unto a rebellious
 people, who walk in a way not good, after their own thoughts;
65:3 the people that provoke me to anger continually to my face,
 sacrificing in gardens and burning incense upon the bricks;
65:4 who sit down among the graves, and lodge in the secret
 places; who eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things
 [is in] their vessels;
65:5 who say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am
 holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that
 burneth all the day.
65:6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence,
 but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
65:7 your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers
 together, saith Jehovah, who have burned incense upon the
 mountains, and outraged me upon the hills; and I will measure
 their former work into their bosom.
65:8 Thus saith Jehovah: As the new wine is found in the
 cluster, and it is said, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in
 it; so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy
 [them] all.
65:9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of
 Judah a possessor of my mountains; and mine elect shall possess
 it, and my servants shall dwell there.
65:10 And the Sharon shall be a fold for flocks, and the valley
 of Achor a couching-place of the herds, for my people that have
 sought me.
65:11 But ye who forsake Jehovah, who forget my holy mountain,
 who prepare a table for Gad, and fill up mixed wine unto Meni:
65:12 I will even assign you to the sword, and ye shall all bow
 down in the slaughter; because I called, and ye did not answer,
 I spoke, and ye did not hear; but ye did what was evil in mine
 eyes, and chose that wherein I delight not.
65:13 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, my servants
 shall eat, and *ye* shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall
 drink, and *ye* shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall
 rejoice, and *ye* shall be ashamed;
65:14 behold, my servants shall sing aloud for gladness of
 heart, and *ye* shall cry out for sorrow of heart, and shall
 howl for vexation of spirit.
65:15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto mine elect;
 for the Lord Jehovah will slay thee, and will call his servants
 by another name:
65:16 so that he who blesseth himself in the land shall bless
 himself by the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the land
 shall swear by the God of truth: because the former troubles
 shall be forgotten, and because they shall be hidden from mine
 eyes.
65:17 For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the
 former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
65:18 But be glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create.
 For behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a
 joy.
65:19 And I will rejoice over Jerusalem, and will joy in my
 people; and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her,
 nor the voice of crying.
65:20 There shall be no more thenceforth an infant of days, nor
 an old man that hath not completed his days; for the youth
 shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred
 years old shall be accursed.
65:21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they
 shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof:
65:22 they shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not
 plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the
 days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of
 their hands.
65:23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for terror;
 for they are the seed of the blessed of Jehovah, and their
 offspring with them.
65:24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will
 answer; while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
65:25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion
 shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's
 meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,
 saith Jehovah.
66:1 Thus saith Jehovah: The heavens are my throne, and the
 earth is my footstool: what is the house that ye will build
 unto me? and what is the place of my rest?
66:2 Even all these things hath my hand made, and all these
 things have been, saith Jehovah. But to this man will I look:
 to the afflicted and contrite in spirit, and who trembleth at
 my word.
66:3 He that slaughtereth an ox, smiteth a man; he that
 sacrificeth a lamb, breaketh a dog's neck; he that offereth an
 oblation, [it is as] swine's blood; he that presenteth a
 memorial of incense, [is as] he that blesseth an idol. As they
 have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their
 abominations,
66:4 I also will choose their calamities, and will bring their
 fears upon them; because I called, and none answered, I spoke,
 and they did not hear, but did that which was evil in mine
 eyes, and chose that wherein I delight not.
66:5 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye that tremble at his word: Your
 brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake,
 said, Let Jehovah be glorified, and let us see your joy! but
 they shall be ashamed.
66:6 A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a
 voice of Jehovah that rendereth recompence to his enemies!
66:7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain
 came, she was delivered of a man-child.
66:8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Can
 a land be made to bring forth in one day? shall a nation be
 born at once? For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth
 her sons.
66:9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth?
 saith Jehovah; I who cause to bring forth, shall I shut [the
 womb]? saith thy God.
66:10 Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all ye that
 love her; rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn over her:
66:11 because ye shall suck, and be satisfied with the breasts
 of her consolations; because ye shall drink out, and be
 delighted with the abundance of her glory.
66:12 For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will extend peace to her
 like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing
 torrent; and ye shall suck, ye shall be carried upon the side,
 and be dandled upon the knees.
66:13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you;
 and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
66:14 And ye shall see [this], and your heart shall rejoice, and
 your bones shall flourish like the grass; and the hand of
 Jehovah shall be known toward his servants, and he will have
 indignation toward his enemies.
66:15 For behold, Jehovah will come with fire, and his chariots
 like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke
 with flames of fire.
66:16 For by fire and by his sword will Jehovah enter into
 judgment with all flesh: and the slain of Jehovah shall be
 many.
66:17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in
 the gardens behind one in the midst; that eat swine's flesh,
 and the abomination, and the mouse, shall perish together,
 saith Jehovah.
66:18 And I, -- their works and their thoughts [are before me].
 ... [The time] cometh for the gathering of all nations and
 tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
66:19 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 nations.
66:20 And they shall bring all your brethren out of all the
 nations as an oblation unto Jehovah, upon horses, and in
 chariots, and in covered waggons, and upon mules, and upon
 dromedaries, to my holy mountain, to Jerusalem, saith Jehovah,
 as the children of Israel bring an oblation in a clean vessel
 into the house of Jehovah.
66:21 And I will also take of them for priests [and] for
 Levites, saith Jehovah.
66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make
 shall remain before me, saith Jehovah, so shall your seed and
 your name remain.
66:23 And it shall come to pass from new moon to new moon, and
 from sabbath to sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before
 me, saith Jehovah.
66:24 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
 abhorrence unto all flesh.