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1:1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw
 concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham,
 Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath
 spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have
 rebelled against me.
1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib:
 [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of
 evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the
 LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger,
 they are gone away backward.
1:5 Why should ye be stricken 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 it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and putrifying
 sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither
 mollified with ointment.
1:7 Your country [is] desolate, your cities [are] burned with
 fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and [it
 is] desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard,
 as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
1:9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small
 remnant, we should have been as Sodom, [and] we should have
 been like unto Gomorrah.
1:10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear
 unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
1:11 To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices unto
 me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams,
 and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of
 bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
1:12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at
 your hand, to tread my courts?
1:13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination
 unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies,
 I cannot away with; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth:
 they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [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, relieve the oppressed,
 judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD:
 though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
 though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
1:19 If ye be willing and obedient, 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 the LORD hath spoken [it].
1:21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of
 judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
1:22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
1:23 Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves:
 every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge
 not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come
 unto them.
1:24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One
 of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge
 me of mine enemies:
1:25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away
 thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
1:26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy
 counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be
 called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
1:27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with
 righteousness.
1:28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners
 [shall be] together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be
 consumed.
1:29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have
 desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye
 have chosen.
1:30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a
 garden that hath no water.
1:31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a
 spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench
 [them].
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 last days, [that] the
 mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of
 the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all
 nations shall flow unto it.
2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up
 to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob;
 and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his
 paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of
 the LORD from Jerusalem.
2:4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many
 people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and
 their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword
 against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
2:5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of
 the LORD.
2:6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob,
 because they be replenished from the east, and [are]
 soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in
 the children of strangers.
2:7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither [is
 there any] end of their treasures; their land is also full of
 horses, neither [is there any] end of their chariots:
2:8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of
 their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
2:9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth
 himself: therefore forgive them not.
2:10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of
 the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
2:11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the
 haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone
 shall be exalted in that day.
2:12 For the day of the LORD of hosts [shall be] upon every [one
 that is] proud and lofty, and upon every [one that is] lifted
 up; and he shall be brought low:
2:13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, [that are] high and
 lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
2:14 And upon all the high 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
 pictures.
2:17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the
 haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall
 be exalted in that day.
2:18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
2:19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the
 caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of
 his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
2:20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his
 idols of gold, which they made [each one] for himself to
 worship, to the moles and to the bats;
2:21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of
 the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of
 his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
2:22 Cease ye from man, whose breath [is] in his nostrils: for
 wherein is he to be accounted of?
3:1 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away
 from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole
 stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
3:2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the
 prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
3:3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the
 counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
3:4 And I will give children [to be] their princes, and babes
 shall rule over them.
3:5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and
 every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself
 proudly against the ancient, and the base against the
 honourable.
3:6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of
 his father, [saying], Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler,
 and [let] this ruin [be] under thy hand:
3:7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer;
 for in my house [is] neither bread nor clothing: make me not a
 ruler of the people.
3:8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their
 tongue and their doings [are] against the LORD, to provoke the
 eyes of his glory.
3:9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and
 they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide [it] not. Woe unto
 their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
3:10 Say ye to 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]: for the
 reward of his hands shall be given him.
3:12 [As for] my people, children [are] their oppressors, and
 women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause
 [thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
3:13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the
 people.
3:14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his
 people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the
 vineyard; the spoil of the poor [is] in your houses.
3:15 What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, and grind
 the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
3:16 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are
 haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes,
 walking and mincing [as] they go, and making a tinkling with
 their feet:
3:17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the
 head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their
 secret parts.
3:18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of [their]
 tinkling ornaments [about their feet], and [their] cauls, and
 [their] round tires like the moon,
3:19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
3:20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the
 headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
3:21 The rings, and nose jewels,
3:22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the
 wimples, and the crisping pins,
3:23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the
 vails.
3:24 And it shall come to pass, [that] instead of sweet smell
 there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and
 instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a
 girding of sackcloth; [and] burning instead of beauty.
3:25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she [being]
 desolate shall sit upon the ground.
4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man,
 saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel:
 only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
4:2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and
 glorious, and the fruit of the earth [shall be] excellent and
 comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
4:3 And it shall come to pass, [that he that is] left in Zion,
 and [he that] remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy,
 [even] every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
4:4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the
 daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem
 from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the
 spirit of burning.
4:5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount
 Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and
 the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory
 [shall be] a defence.
4:6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime
 from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from
 storm and from rain.
5:1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved
 touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very
 fruitful hill:
5:2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and
 planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the
 midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked
 that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild
 grapes.
5:3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah,
 judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
5:4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have
 not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring
 forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
5:5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my
 vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be
 eaten up; [and] break down the wall thereof, and it shall be
 trodden down:
5:6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged;
 but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command
 the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of
 Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked
 for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but
 behold a cry.
5:8 Woe unto them that join house to house, [that] lay field to
 field, till [there be] no place, that they may be placed alone
 in the midst of the earth!
5:9 In mine ears [said] the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many
 houses shall be desolate, [even] great and fair, without
 inhabitant.
5:10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the
 seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
5:11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, [that]
 they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, [till]
 wine inflame them!
5:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine,
 are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD,
 neither consider the operation of his hands.
5:13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because [they
 have] no knowledge: and their honourable men [are] famished,
 and their multitude dried up with thirst.
5:14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth
 without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and
 their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
5:15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man
 shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
5:16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God
 that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
5:17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, 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 it were with a cart rope:
5:19 That say, Let him make speed, [and] hasten his work, that
 we may see [it]: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel
 draw nigh and come, that we may know [it]!
5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put
 darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for
 sweet, and sweet for bitter!
5:21 Woe unto [them that are] wise in their own eyes, and
 prudent in their own sight!
5:22 Woe unto [them that are] mighty to drink wine, and men of
 strength to mingle strong drink:
5:23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the
 righteousness of the righteous from him!
5:24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame
 consumeth the chaff, [so] their root shall be as rottenness,
 and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast
 away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the
 Holy One of Israel.
5:25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his
 people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and
 hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their
 carcases [were] torn in the midst of the streets. For all this
 his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out
 still.
5:26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and
 will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold,
 they shall come with speed swiftly:
5:27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall
 slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be
 loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
5:28 Whose arrows [are] sharp, and all their bows bent, their
 horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels
 like a whirlwind:
5:29 Their roaring [shall be] like a lion, they shall roar like
 young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey,
 and shall carry [it] away safe, and none shall deliver [it].
5:30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the
 roaring of the sea: and if [one] look unto the land, behold
 darkness [and] sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens
 thereof.
6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord
 sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled
 the temple.
6:2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with
 twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet,
 and with twain he did fly.
6:3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, [is]
 the LORD of hosts: the whole earth [is] full of his glory.
6:4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that
 cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
6:5 Then said I, Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am] a
 man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of
 unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of
 hosts.
6:6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal
 in his hand, [which] he had taken with the tongs from off the
 altar:
6:7 And he laid [it] upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath
 touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin
 purged.
6:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I
 send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here [am] I; send
 me.
6:9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but
 understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears
 heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and
 hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and
 convert, and be healed.
6:11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the
 cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without
 man, and the land be utterly desolate,
6:12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and [there be] a
 great forsaking in the midst of the land.
6:13 But yet in it [shall be] a tenth, and [it] shall return,
 and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose
 substance [is] in them, when they cast [their leaves: so] the
 holy seed [shall be] the substance thereof.
7:1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham,
 the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, [that] Rezin the king of
 Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up
 toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail
 against it.
7:2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is
 confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the
 heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with
 the wind.
7:3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz,
 thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the
 upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
7:4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither
 be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands,
 for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of
 Remaliah.
7:5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken
 evil counsel against thee, saying,
7:6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a
 breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it,
 [even] the son of Tabeal:
7:7 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall
 it come to pass.
7:8 For the head of Syria [is] Damascus, and the head of
 Damascus [is] Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall
 Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
7:9 And the head of Ephraim [is] Samaria, and the head of
 Samaria [is] Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye
 shall not be established.
7:10 Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
7:11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the
 depth, or in the height above.
7:12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the
 LORD.
7:13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; [Is it] a small
 thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a
 virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name
 Immanuel.
7:15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse
 the evil, and choose the good.
7:16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and
 choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken
 of both her kings.
7:17 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and
 upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day
 that Ephraim departed from Judah; [even] the king of Assyria.
7:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD
 shall hiss for the fly that [is] in the uttermost part of the
 rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that [is] in the land of
 Assyria.
7:19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the
 desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all
 thorns, and upon all bushes.
7:20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is
 hired, [namely], by them beyond the river, by the king of
 Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also
 consume the beard.
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, for the abundance of milk [that]
 they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall
 every one eat that is left in the land.
7:23 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] every place
 shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand
 silverlings, it shall [even] be for briers and thorns.
7:24 With arrows and with bows shall [men] come thither; because
 all the land shall become briers and thorns.
7:25 And [on] all hills that shall be digged with the mattock,
 there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but
 it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading
 of lesser cattle.
8:1 Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and
 write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
8:2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the
 priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
8:3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare
 a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name
 Mahershalalhashbaz.
8:4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father,
 and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria
 shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
8:5 The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,
8:6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that
 go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
8:7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the
 waters of the river, strong and many, [even] the king of
 Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his
 channels, and go over all his banks:
8:8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go
 over, he shall reach [even] to the neck; and the stretching out
 of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
8:9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in
 pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves,
 and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall
 be broken in pieces.
8:10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak
 the word, and it shall not stand: for God [is] with us.
8:11 For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and
 instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people,
 saying,
8:12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all [them to] whom this
 people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear,
 nor be afraid.
8:13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and [let] him [be] your
 fear, and [let] him [be] your dread.
8:14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of
 stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of
 Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of
 Jerusalem.
8:15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken,
 and be snared, and be taken.
8:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
8:17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from
 the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
8:18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me
 [are] for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of
 hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
8:19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have
 familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter:
 should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the
 dead?
8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not
 according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no light in
 them.
8:21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry:
 and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they
 shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and
 look upward.
8:22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and
 darkness, dimness of anguish; and [they shall be] driven to
 darkness.
9:1 Nevertheless the dimness [shall] not [be] such as [was] in
 her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land
 of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more
 grievously afflict [her by] the way of the sea, beyond Jordan,
 in Galilee of the nations.
9:2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light:
 they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them
 hath the light shined.
9:3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, [and] not increased the
 joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest,
 [and] as [men] rejoice when they divide the spoil.
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 battle of the warrior [is] with confused noise,
 and garments rolled in blood; but [this] shall be with burning
 [and] fuel of 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 shall be
 called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting
 Father, The Prince of Peace.
9:7 Of the increase of [his] government and peace [there shall
 be] no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to
 order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice
 from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts
 will perform this.
9:8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon
 Israel.
9:9 And all the people shall know, [even] Ephraim and the
 inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of
 heart,
9:10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn
 stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change [them
 into] cedars.
9:11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin
 against him, and join his enemies together;
9:12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they
 shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is
 not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.
9:13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them,
 neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
9:14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail,
 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 leaders of this people cause [them] to err; and
 [they that are] led of them [are] destroyed.
9:17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men,
 neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for
 every one [is] an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth
 speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but
 his hand [is] stretched out still.
9:18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the
 briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the
 forest, and they shall mount up [like] the lifting up of smoke.
9:19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land
 darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no
 man shall spare his brother.
9:20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and
 he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied:
 they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
9:21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: [and] they
 together [shall be] against Judah. For all this his anger is
 not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.
10:1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that
 write grievousness [which] they have prescribed;
10:2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the
 right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their
 prey, and [that] they may rob the fatherless!
10:3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the
 desolation [which] shall come from far? to whom will ye flee
 for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
10:4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and
 they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not
 turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.
10:5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their
 hand is mine indignation.
10:6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against
 the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the
 spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the
 mire of the streets.
10:7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so;
 but [it is] in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a
 few.
10:8 For he saith, [Are] not my princes altogether kings?
10:9 [Is] not Calno as Carchemish? [is] not Hamath as Arpad?
 [is] not Samaria as Damascus?
10:10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose
 graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
10:11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so
 do to Jerusalem and her idols?
10:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, [that] when the Lord hath
 performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I
 will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of
 Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
10:13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done [it],
 and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the
 bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I
 have put down the inhabitants like a valiant [man]:
10:14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people:
 and as one gathereth eggs [that are] left, have I gathered all
 the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened
 the mouth, or peeped.
10:15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth
 therewith? [or] shall the saw magnify itself against him that
 shaketh it? as if the rod should shake [itself] against them
 that lift it up, [or] as if the staff should lift up [itself,
 as if it were] no wood.
10:16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among
 his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a
 burning like the burning of a fire.
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 briers in one day;
10:18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his
 fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a
 standardbearer fainteth.
10:19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that
 a child may 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 stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay
 upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
10:21 The remnant shall return, [even] the remnant of Jacob,
 unto the mighty God.
10:22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea,
 [yet] a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed
 shall overflow with righteousness.
10:23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even
 determined, in the midst of all the land.
10:24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people
 that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall
 smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against
 thee, after the manner of Egypt.
10:25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall
 cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
10:26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him
 according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and
 [as] his rod [was] upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after
 the manner of Egypt.
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 is passed to Migron; at Michmash
 he hath laid up his carriages:
10:29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their
 lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
10:30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be
 heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
10:31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather
 themselves to flee.
10:32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his
 hand [against] the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of
 Jerusalem.
10:33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough
 with terror: and the high ones of stature [shall be] hewn down,
 and the haughty shall be humbled.
10:34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with
 iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
11:1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,
 and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
11:2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit
 of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might,
 the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
11:3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of
 the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes,
 neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
11:4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove
 with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the
 earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his
 lips shall he slay the wicked.
11:5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and
 faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
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 fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
11:7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall
 lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
11:8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp,
 and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain:
 for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as
 the waters cover the sea.
11:10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which
 shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the
 Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
11:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the Lord
 shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant
 of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from
 Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from
 Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
11:12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall
 assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the
 dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
11:13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries
 of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and
 Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
11:14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines
 toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together:
 they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children
 of Ammon shall obey them.
11:15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the
 Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand
 over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and
 make [men] go over dryshod.
11:16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his
 people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to
 Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
12:1 And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee:
 though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and
 thou comfortedst me.
12:2 Behold, God [is] my salvation; I will trust, and not be
 afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH [is] my strength and [my] song; he
 also is become my salvation.
12:3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of
 salvation.
12:4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon
 his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention
 that his name is exalted.
12:5 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this
 [is] known in all the earth.
12:6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant 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 did
 see.
13:2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice
 unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of
 the nobles.
13:3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my
 mighty ones for mine anger, [even] them that rejoice in my
 highness.
13:4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a
 great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations
 gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the
 battle.
13:5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven,
 [even] the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy
 the whole land.
13:6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD [is] at hand; it shall
 come as a destruction from the Almighty.
13:7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart
 shall melt:
13:8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold
 of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they
 shall be amazed one at another; their faces [shall be as]
 flames.
13:9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath
 and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall
 destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
13:10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof
 shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his
 going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
13:11 And I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the
 wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of
 the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the
 terrible.
13:12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man
 than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13:13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall
 remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and
 in the day of his fierce anger.
13:14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no
 man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and
 flee every one into his own land.
13:15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every
 one that is joined [unto them] shall fall by the sword.
13:16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their
 eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
13:17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall
 not regard silver; and [as for] gold, they shall not delight in
 it.
13:18 [Their] bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and
 they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye
 shall not spare children.
13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the
 Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and
 Gomorrah.
13:20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in
 from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch
 tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
13:21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their
 houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell
 there, and satyrs shall dance there.
13:22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their
 desolate houses, and dragons in [their] pleasant palaces: and
 her time [is] near to come, and her days shall not be
 prolonged.
14:1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose
 Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall
 be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of
 Jacob.
14:2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their
 place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land
 of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take
 them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule
 over their oppressors.
14:3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall
 give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the
 hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
14:4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of
 Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden
 city ceased!
14:5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, [and] the
 sceptre of the rulers.
14:6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke,
 he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, [and] none
 hindereth.
14:7 The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet: they break
 forth into singing.
14:8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, [and] the cedars of
 Lebanon, [saying], Since thou art laid down, no feller is come
 up against us.
14:9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet [thee] at thy
 coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, [even] all the chief
 ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the
 kings of the nations.
14:10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also
 become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
14:11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, [and] the noise of
 thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover
 thee.
14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the
 morning! [how] art thou cut down to the ground, which didst
 weaken the nations!
14:13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into
 heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will
 sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of
 the north:
14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be
 like the most High.
14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of
 the pit.
14:16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, [and]
 consider thee, [saying, Is] this the man that made the earth to
 tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
14:17 [That] made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the
 cities thereof; [that] opened not the house of his prisoners?
14:18 All the kings of the nations, [even] 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, [and as] the raiment of those that are slain, thrust
 through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as
 a carcase trodden under feet.
14:20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou
 hast destroyed thy land, [and] slain thy people: the seed of
 evildoers shall never be renowned.
14:21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of
 their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor
 fill the face of the world with cities.
14:22 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts,
 and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and
 nephew, saith the LORD.
14:23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and
 pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of
 destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
14:24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have
 thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, [so]
 shall it stand:
14:25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my
 mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from
 off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
14:26 This [is] the purpose that is purposed upon the whole
 earth: and this [is] the hand that is stretched out upon all
 the nations.
14:27 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall
 disannul [it]? and his hand [is] stretched out, and who shall
 turn it back?
14:28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
14:29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him
 that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall
 come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit [shall be] a fiery
 flying serpent.
14:30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy
 shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine,
 and he shall slay thy remnant.
14:31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, [art]
 dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and
 none [shall be] alone in his appointed times.
14:32 What shall [one] then answer the messengers of the nation?
 That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people
 shall trust in it.
15:1 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid
 waste, [and] brought to silence; because in the night Kir of
 Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to silence;
15:2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to
 weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their
 heads [shall be] baldness, [and] every beard cut off.
15:3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth:
 on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one
 shall howl, weeping abundantly.
15:4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be
 heard [even] unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab
 shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.
15:5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives [shall flee]
 unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up
 of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of
 Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
15:6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is
 withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
15:7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which
 they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the
 willows.
15:8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the
 howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto
 Beerelim.
15:9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will
 bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab,
 and upon the remnant of the land.
16:1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the
 wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
16:2 For it shall be, [that], as a wandering bird cast out of
 the nest, [so] the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of
 Arnon.
16:3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the
 night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray
 not him that wandereth.
16:4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert
 to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at
 an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of
 the land.
16:5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall
 sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and
 seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; [he is] very proud:
 [even] of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: [but]
 his lies [shall] not [be] so.
16:7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl:
 for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely [they
 are] stricken.
16:8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of
 Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal
 plants thereof, they are come [even] unto Jazer, they wandered
 [through] the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they
 are gone over the sea.
16:9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine
 of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and
 Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy
 harvest is fallen.
16:10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful
 field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither
 shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine
 in [their] presses; I have made [their vintage] shouting to
 cease.
16:11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and
 mine inward parts for Kirharesh.
16:12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is
 weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to
 pray; but he shall not prevail.
16:13 This [is] the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning
 Moab since that time.
16:14 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years,
 as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be
 contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant
 [shall be] very small [and] feeble.
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, which shall lie down, and none shall 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 the LORD 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
 wax lean.
17:5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn,
 and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that
 gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
17:6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of
 an olive tree, two [or] three berries in the top of the
 uppermost bough, four [or] five in the outmost fruitful
 branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.
17:7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes
 shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
17:8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands,
 neither shall respect [that] which his fingers have made,
 either the groves, or the images.
17:9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough,
 and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the
 children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
17:10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and
 hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore
 shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange
 slips:
17:11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the
 morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: [but] the harvest
 [shall be] a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
17:12 Woe to the multitude of many people, [which] make a noise
 like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,
 [that] make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
17:13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters:
 but [God] shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and
 shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
 and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
17:14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; [and] before the
 morning he [is] not. This [is] the portion of them that spoil
 us, and the lot of them that rob us.
18:1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which [is] beyond the
 rivers of Ethiopia:
18:2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of
 bulrushes upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers,
 to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from
 their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down,
 whose land the rivers have spoiled!
18:3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth,
 see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when
 he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
18:4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I
 will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon
 herbs, [and] like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
18:5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the
 sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the
 sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away [and] cut down the
 branches.
18:6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the
 mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall
 summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter
 upon them.
18:7 In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of
 hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people
 terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and
 trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the
 place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
19:1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift
 cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall
 be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in
 the midst of it.
19:2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and
 they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one
 against his neighbour; city against city, [and] kingdom against
 kingdom.
19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof;
 and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to
 the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar
 spirits, and to the wizards.
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,
 the LORD of hosts.
19:5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall
 be wasted and dried up.
19:6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; [and] the brooks
 of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags
 shall wither.
19:7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks,
 and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven
 away, and be no [more].
19:8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle
 into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon
 the waters shall languish.
19:9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave
 networks, shall be confounded.
19:10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that
 make sluices [and] ponds for fish.
19:11 Surely the princes of Zoan [are] fools, the counsel of the
 wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto
 Pharaoh, I [am] the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
19:12 Where [are] they? where [are] thy wise [men]? and let them
 tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath
 purposed upon Egypt.
19:13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph
 are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, [even they that
 are] the stay of the tribes thereof.
19:14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst
 thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work
 thereof, as a drunken [man] staggereth in his vomit.
19:15 Neither shall there be [any] work for Egypt, which the
 head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
19:16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall
 be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the
 LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
19:17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every
 one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself,
 because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath
 determined against it.
19:18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak
 the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one
 shall be called, The city of destruction.
19:19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the
 midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof
 to the LORD.
19:20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD
 of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD
 because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour,
 and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
19:21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians
 shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and
 oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform
 [it].
19:22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal
 [it]: and they shall return [even] to the LORD, and he shall be
 intreated of them, and shall 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 the Egyptians shall serve with the
 Assyrians.
19:24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with
 Assyria, [even] a blessing in the midst of the land:
19:25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed [be]
 Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel
 mine inheritance.
20:1 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the
 king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took
 it;
20:2 At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz,
 saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put
 off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and
 barefoot.
20:3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked
 naked and barefoot three years [for] a sign and wonder upon
 Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
20:4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians
 prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked
 and barefoot, even with [their] buttocks uncovered, to the
 shame of Egypt.
20:5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their
 expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
20:6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day,
 Behold, such [is] our expectation, whither we flee for help to
 be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?
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
 dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up,
 O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made
 to cease.
21:3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken
 hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was
 bowed down at the hearing [of it]; I was dismayed at the seeing
 [of it].
21:4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my
 pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
21:5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink:
 arise, ye princes, [and] 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 a chariot [with] a couple of horsemen, a chariot
 of asses, [and] a chariot of camels; and he hearkened
 diligently with much heed:
21:8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the
 watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole
 nights:
21:9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, [with] a couple
 of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is
 fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken
 unto the ground.
21:10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I
 have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I
 declared unto you.
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 enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
21:13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye
 lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
21:14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him
 that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that
 fled.
21:15 For they fled 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 an hireling, and all the glory of
 Kedar shall fail:
21:17 And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men
 of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God
 of Israel hath spoken [it].
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 art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous
 city: thy slain [men are] not slain with the sword, nor dead in
 battle.
22:3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the
 archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, [which]
 have fled from far.
22:4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly,
 labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the
 daughter of my people.
22:5 For [it is] a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of
 perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision,
 breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
22:6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men [and]
 horsemen, and Kir uncovered 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 discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst
 look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
22:9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that
 they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower
 pool.
22:10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the
 houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
22:11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water
 of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof,
 neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
22:12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping,
 and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with
 sackcloth:
22:13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing
 sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink;
 for to morrow we shall die.
22:14 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts,
 Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die,
 saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
22:15 Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this
 treasurer, [even] unto Shebna, which [is] over the house, [and
 say],
22:16 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou
 hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, [as] he that heweth him
 out a sepulchre on high, [and] that graveth an habitation for
 himself in a rock?
22:17 Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty
 captivity, and will surely cover thee.
22:18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee [like] a ball
 into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the
 chariots of thy glory [shall be] the shame of thy lord's house.
22:19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state
 shall he pull thee down.
22:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my
 servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
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; so 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 glorious throne 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 vessels of small
 quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of
 flagons.
22:25 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that
 is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and
 fall; and the burden that [was] upon it shall be cut off: for
 the LORD hath spoken [it].
23:1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is
 laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the
 land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
23:2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the
 merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
23:3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the
 river, [is] her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
23:4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, [even]
 the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth
 children, neither do I nourish up young men, [nor] bring up
 virgins.
23:5 As at the report concerning Egypt, [so] shall they be
 sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
23:6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
23:7 [Is] this your joyous [city], whose antiquity [is] of
 ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
23:8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning
 [city], whose merchants [are] princes, whose traffickers [are]
 the honourable of the earth?
23:9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of
 all glory, [and] to bring into contempt all the honourable of
 the earth.
23:10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish:
 [there is] no more strength.
23:11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the
 kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the
 merchant [city], to destroy the strong holds thereof.
23:12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed
 virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there
 also shalt thou have no rest.
23:13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not,
 [till] the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the
 wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the
 palaces thereof; [and] he brought it to ruin.
23:14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength 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:
 after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
23:16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast
 been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou
 mayest be remembered.
23:17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years,
 that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire,
 and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world
 upon the face of the earth.
23:18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the
 LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her
 merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to
 eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
24:1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it
 waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the
 inhabitants thereof.
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 the giver of usury to him.
24:3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for
 the LORD hath spoken this word.
24:4 The earth mourneth [and] fadeth away, the world languisheth
 [and] fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof;
 because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance,
 broken the everlasting covenant.
24:6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that
 dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the
 earth are burned, and few men left.
24:7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the
 merryhearted do sigh.
24:8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that
 rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
24:9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall
 be bitter to them that drink it.
24:10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut
 up, that no man may come 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 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten
 with destruction.
24:13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the
 people, [there shall be] as the shaking of an olive tree, [and]
 as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
24:14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the
 majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
24:15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, [even] the
 name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
24:16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs,
 [even] glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my
 leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt
 treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very
 treacherously.
24:17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, [are] upon thee, O
 inhabitant of the earth.
24:18 And it shall come to pass, [that] he who fleeth from the
 noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh
 up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for
 the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the
 earth do shake.
24:19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean
 dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
24:20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall
 be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall
 be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
24:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD
 shall punish the host of the high ones [that are] on high, and
 the kings of the earth upon the earth.
24:22 And they shall be gathered together, [as] prisoners are
 gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and
 after many days shall they be visited.
24:23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed,
 when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in
 Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
25:1 O LORD, thou [art] my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise
 thy name; for thou hast done wonderful [things; thy] counsels
 of old [are] faithfulness [and] truth.
25:2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; [of] a defenced city
 a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be
 built.
25:3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of
 the terrible nations shall fear thee.
25:4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to
 the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow
 from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones [is] as a
 storm [against] the wall.
25:5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat
 in a dry place; [even] the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the
 branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
25:6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all
 people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of
 fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
25:7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the
 covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over
 all nations.
25:8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will
 wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his
 people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD
 hath spoken [it].
25:9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this [is] our God; we
 have waited for him, and he will save us: this [is] the LORD;
 we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his
 salvation.
25:10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and
 Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden
 down for the dunghill.
25:11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them,
 as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth [his hands] to swim: and he
 shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their
 hands.
25:12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he
 bring down, lay low, [and] bring to the ground, [even] to the
 dust.
26:1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah;
 We have a strong city; salvation will [God] appoint [for] walls
 and bulwarks.
26:2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth
 the truth may enter in.
26:3 Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is]
 stayed [on thee]: because he trusteth in thee.
26:4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH [is]
 everlasting strength:
26:5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty
 city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, [even] to the ground;
 he bringeth it [even] to the dust.
26:6 The foot shall tread it down, [even] the feet of the poor,
 [and] the steps of the needy.
26:7 The way of the just [is] uprightness: thou, most upright,
 dost weigh the path of the just.
26:8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited
 for thee; the desire of [our] soul [is] to thy name, and to the
 remembrance of thee.
26:9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my
 spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments
 [are] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn
 righteousness.
26:10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, [yet] will he not
 learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal
 unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
26:11 LORD, [when] thy hand is lifted up, they will not see:
 [but] they shall see, and be ashamed for [their] envy at the
 people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
26:12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast
 wrought all our works in us.
26:13 O LORD our God, [other] lords beside thee have had
 dominion over us: [but] by thee only will we make mention of
 thy name.
26:14 [They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased,
 they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed
 them, and made all their memory to perish.
26:15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast
 increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed
 [it] far [unto] all the ends of the earth.
26:16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a
 prayer [when] thy chastening [was] upon them.
26:17 Like as a woman with child, [that] draweth near the time
 of her delivery, is in pain, [and] crieth out in her pangs; so
 have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
26:18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as
 it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance
 in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
26:19 Thy dead [men] shall live, [together with] my dead body
 shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for
 thy dew [is as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out
 the dead.
26:20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut
 thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little
 moment, until the indignation be overpast.
26:21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish
 the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also
 shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
27:1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong
 sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even
 leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon
 that [is] in the sea.
27:2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
27:3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest
 [any] hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
27:4 Fury [is] not in me: who would set the briers [and] thorns
 against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn
 them together.
27:5 Or let him take hold of my strength, [that] he may make
 peace with me; [and] he shall make peace with me.
27:6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel
 shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with
 fruit.
27:7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? [or]
 is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain
 by him?
27:8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with
 it: he stayeth 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 to take away his sin; when he
 maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are
 beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
27:10 Yet the defenced city [shall be] desolate, [and] the
 habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall
 the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the
 branches thereof.
27:11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken
 off: the women come, [and] set them on fire: for it [is] a
 people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will
 not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them
 no favour.
27:12 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD
 shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of
 Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of
 Israel.
27:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the great
 trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to
 perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of
 Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at
 Jerusalem.
28:1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim,
 whose glorious beauty [is] a fading flower, which [are] on the
 head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
28:2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, [which] as a
 tempest of hail [and] a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty
 waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
28:3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be
 trodden under feet:
28:4 And the glorious beauty, which [is] on the head of the fat
 valley, shall be a fading flower, [and] as the hasty fruit
 before the summer; which [when] he that looketh upon it seeth,
 while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
28:5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of
 glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his
 people,
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 they also have erred through wine, and through strong
 drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred
 through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are
 out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they
 stumble [in] judgment.
28:8 For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that
 there is] no place [clean].
28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to
 understand doctrine? [them that are] weaned from the milk,
 [and] drawn from the breasts.
28:10 For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept;
 line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a
 little:
28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak
 to this people.
28:12 To whom he said, This [is] the rest [wherewith] ye may
 cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the refreshing: yet they
 would not hear.
28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon
 precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line;
 here a little, [and] there a little; that they might go, and
 fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
28:14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that
 rule this people which [is] in Jerusalem.
28:15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death,
 and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge
 shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made
 lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion
 for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner
 [stone], a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make
 haste.
28:17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to
 the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies,
 and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
28:18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and
 your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing
 scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by
 it.
28:19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for
 morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and
 it shall be a vexation only [to] understand the report.
28:20 For the bed is shorter than that [a man] can stretch
 himself [on it]: and the covering narrower than that he can
 wrap himself [in it].
28:21 For the LORD shall rise up as [in] mount Perazim, he shall
 be wroth as [in] the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work,
 his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
28:22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made
 strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a
 consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
28:23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my
 speech.
28:24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and
 break the clods of his ground?
28:25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast
 abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the
 principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their
 place?
28:26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, [and] doth
 teach him.
28:27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing
 instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the
 cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the
 cummin with a rod.
28:28 Bread [corn] is bruised; because he will not ever be
 threshing it, nor break [it with] the wheel of his cart, nor
 bruise it [with] his horsemen.
28:29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, [which] is
 wonderful in counsel, [and] excellent in working.
29:1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city [where] David dwelt! add
 ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
29:2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and
 sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
29:3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay
 siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against
 thee.
29:4 And thou shalt be brought down, [and] shalt speak out of
 the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and
 thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out
 of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
29:5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small
 dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones [shall be] as
 chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant
 suddenly.
29:6 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder,
 and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest,
 and the flame of devouring fire.
29:7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against
 Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and
 that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
29:8 It shall even be as when an hungry [man] dreameth, and,
 behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as
 when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he
 awaketh, and, behold, [he is] faint, and his soul hath
 appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that
 fight against mount Zion.
29:9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are
 drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong
 drink.
29:10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep
 sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers,
 the seers hath he covered.
29:11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a
 book that is sealed, which [men] deliver to one that is
 learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I
 cannot; for it [is] sealed:
29:12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned,
 saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
29:13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw
 near [me] with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me,
 but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward
 me is taught by the precept of men:
29:14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work
 among this people, [even] a marvellous work and a wonder: for
 the wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, and the
 understanding of their prudent [men] shall be hid.
29:15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from
 the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who
 seeth us? and who knoweth us?
29:16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be
 esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him
 that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of
 him that framed it, He had no understanding?
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 the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out
 of darkness.
29:19 The meek also shall increase [their] joy in the LORD, and
 the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
29:20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner
 is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are 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 turn aside the just for
 a thing of nought.
29:22 Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham,
 concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed,
 neither shall his face now wax pale.
29:23 But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in
 the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the
 Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
29:24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to
 understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
30:1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take
 counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not
 of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
30:2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my
 mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and
 to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
30:3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and
 the trust in the shadow of Egypt [your] 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] could not profit
 them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a
 reproach.
30:6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of
 trouble and anguish, from whence [come] the young and old lion,
 the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their
 riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures
 upon the bunches of camels, to a people [that] shall not profit
 [them].
30:7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose:
 therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength [is] to
 sit still.
30:8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a
 book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
30:9 That this [is] a rebellious people, lying children,
 children [that] will not hear the law of the LORD:
30:10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets,
 Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things,
 prophesy deceits:
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 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye
 despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness,
 and stay thereon:
30:13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready
 to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh
 suddenly at an instant.
30:14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters'
 vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that
 there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take
 fire from the hearth, or to take water [withal] out of the pit.
30:15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In
 returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in
 confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
30:16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore
 shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore
 shall they that pursue you be swift.
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 an ensign on an hill.
30:18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious
 unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have
 mercy upon you: for the LORD [is] a God of judgment: blessed
 [are] all they that wait for him.
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; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
30:20 And [though] the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and
 the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed
 into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
30:21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This
 [is] the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand,
 and when ye turn to the left.
30:22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of
 silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou
 shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto
 it, Get thee hence.
30:23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt
 sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth,
 and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle
 feed in large pastures.
30:24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground
 shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the
 shovel and with the fan.
30:25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon
 every high hill, rivers [and] streams of waters in the day of
 the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
30:26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of
 the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the
 light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the
 breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
30:27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning
 [with] his anger, and the burden [thereof is] heavy: his lips
 are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
30:28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to
 the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of
 vanity: and [there shall be] a bridle in the jaws of the
 people, causing [them] to err.
30:29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night [when] a holy
 solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth
 with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the
 mighty One of Israel.
30:30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard,
 and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the
 indignation of [his] anger, and [with] the flame of a devouring
 fire, [with] scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
30:31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be
 beaten down, [which] smote with a rod.
30:32 And [in] every place where the grounded staff shall pass,
 which the LORD shall lay upon him, [it] shall be with tabrets
 and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
30:33 For Tophet [is] ordained of old; yea, for the king it is
 prepared; he hath made [it] deep [and] large: the pile thereof
 [is] fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream
 of brimstone, doth kindle it.
31:1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on
 horses, and trust in chariots, because [they are] many; and in
 horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto
 the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
31:2 Yet he also [is] wise, and will bring evil, and will not
 call back his words: but will arise against the house of the
 evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
31:3 Now the Egyptians [are] men, and not God; and their horses
 flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his
 hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen
 shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
31:4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and
 the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of
 shepherds is called forth against him, [he] will not be afraid
 of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so
 shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and
 for the hill thereof.
31:5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend
 Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver [it; and] passing
 over he will preserve it.
31:6 Turn ye unto [him from] whom the children of Israel have
 deeply revolted.
31:7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of
 silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made
 unto you [for] a sin.
31:8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a
 mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him:
 but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be
 discomfited.
31:9 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his
 princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose
 fire [is] in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
32:1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes
 shall rule in judgment.
32:2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a
 covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as
 the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
32:3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the
 ears of them that hear shall hearken.
32:4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and
 the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the
 churl said [to be] bountiful.
32:6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will
 work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error
 against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he
 will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
32:7 The instruments also of the churl [are] evil: he deviseth
 wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when
 the needy speaketh right.
32:8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal
 things shall 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 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless
 women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering 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] upon [your] loins.
32:12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields,
 for the fruitful vine.
32:13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns [and]
 briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy [in] the joyous city:
32:14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of
 the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens
 for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
32:15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the
 wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be
 counted for a forest.
32:16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and
 righteousness remain 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 When 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 [thither] the feet of the ox and the ass.
33:1 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou [wast] not spoiled; and
 dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with
 thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled;
 [and] when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they
 shall deal treacherously with thee.
33:2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be
 thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of
 trouble.
33:3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting
 up of thyself the nations were scattered.
33:4 And your spoil shall be gathered [like] the gathering of
 the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he
 run upon them.
33:5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath
 filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
33:6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy
 times, [and] strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD [is]
 his treasure.
33:7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the
 ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
33:8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath
 broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth
 no man.
33:9 The earth mourneth [and] languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed
 [and] hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and
 Carmel shake off [their fruits].
33:10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted;
 now will I lift up myself.
33:11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble:
 your breath, [as] fire, shall devour you.
33:12 And the people shall be [as] the 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; fearfulness hath surprised
 the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring
 fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
33:15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he
 that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands
 from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of
 blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
33:16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence [shall be]
 the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters
 [shall be] sure.
33:17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall
 behold the land that is very far off.
33:18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where [is] the scribe?
 where [is] the receiver? where [is] he that counted the towers?
33:19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper
 speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, [that
 thou canst] not understand.
33:20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes
 shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle [that]
 shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall
 ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be
 broken.
33:21 But there the glorious LORD [will be] unto us a place of
 broad rivers [and] streams; wherein shall go no galley with
 oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
33:22 For the LORD [is] our judge, the LORD [is] our lawgiver,
 the LORD [is] our king; he will save us.
33:23 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen
 their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of
 a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
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 people: let
 the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all
 things that come forth of it.
34:2 For the indignation of the LORD [is] upon all nations, and
 [his] fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed
 them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
34:3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall
 come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be
 melted with their blood.
34:4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the
 heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their
 host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine,
 and as a falling [fig] from the fig tree.
34:5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall
 come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to
 judgment.
34:6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat
 with fatness, [and] with the blood of lambs and goats, with the
 fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in
 Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
34:7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the
 bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with
 blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
34:8 For [it is] the day of the LORD'S vengeance, [and] the year
 of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
34:9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the
 dust thereof into brimstone, and 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 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the
 owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch
 out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
34:12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but
 none [shall be] there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
34:13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and
 brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an
 habitation of dragons, [and] a court for owls.
34:14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the
 wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his
 fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for
 herself a place of rest.
34:15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and
 hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures
 also be gathered, every one with her mate.
34:16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of
 these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it
 hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
34:17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath
 divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever,
 from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
35:1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for
 them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
35:2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and
 singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the
 excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of
 the LORD, [and] the excellency of our God.
35:3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
35:4 Say to them [that are] of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear
 not: behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, [even] God
 [with] a recompence; he will come and save you.
35:5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of
 the deaf shall be unstopped.
35:6 Then shall the lame [man] leap as an hart, and the tongue
 of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out,
 and streams in the desert.
35:7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty
 land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each
 lay, [shall be] grass with reeds and rushes.
35:8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be
 called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it;
 but it [shall be] for those: the wayfaring men, though fools,
 shall not err [therein].
35:9 No lion shall be there, nor [any] ravenous beast shall go
 up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall
 walk [there]:
35:10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to
 Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they
 shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall
 flee away.
36:1 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king
 Hezekiah, [that] Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against
 all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
36:2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to
 Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by
 the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's
 field.
36:3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was
 over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son,
 the recorder.
36:4 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus
 saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence [is]
 this wherein thou trustest?
36:5 I say, [sayest thou], (but [they are but] vain words) [I
 have] counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou
 trust, that thou rebellest against me?
36:6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on
 Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and
 pierce it: so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in
 him.
36:7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: [is
 it] not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath
 taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall
 worship before this altar?
36:8 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the
 king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if
 thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
36:9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the
 least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for
 chariots and for horsemen?
36:10 And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to
 destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and
 destroy it.
36:11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh,
 Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language;
 for we understand [it]: and speak not to us in the Jews'
 language, in the ears of the people that [are] on the wall.
36:12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master
 and to thee to speak these words? [hath he] not [sent me] to
 the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own
 dung, and drink their own piss with you?
36:13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the
 Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king,
 the king of Assyria.
36:14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he
 shall not be able to deliver you.
36:15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying,
 The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be
 delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
36:16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of
 Assyria, Make [an agreement] with me [by] a present, and come
 out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of
 his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own
 cistern;
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 [Beware] lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will
 deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his
 land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
36:19 Where [are] the gods of Hamath and Arphad? 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 lands, that
 have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should
 deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
36:21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word:
 for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
36:22 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that [was] over the
 household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph,
 the recorder, to Hezekiah with [their] clothes rent, and told
 him the words of Rabshakeh.
37:1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard [it], that he
 rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went
 into the house of the LORD.
37:2 And he sent Eliakim, who [was] over the household, and
 Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with
 sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
37:3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day [is]
 a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the
 children are come to the birth, and [there is] not strength to
 bring forth.
37:4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of
 Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to
 reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the
 LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up [thy] prayer for the
 remnant that is left.
37:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
37:6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your
 master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that
 thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria
 have blasphemed me.
37:7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a
 rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to
 fall by the sword in his own land.
37:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria
 warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed
 from Lachish.
37:9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He
 is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard [it], he
 sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
37:10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let
 not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying,
 Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of
 Assyria.
37:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have
 done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be
 delivered?
37:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my
 fathers have destroyed, [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and
 the children of Eden which [were] in Telassar?
37:13 Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and
 the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
37:14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the
 messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of
 the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
37:15 And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying,
37:16 O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest [between]
 the cherubims, thou [art] the God, [even] thou alone, of all
 the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.
37:17 Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O
 LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which
 hath sent to reproach the living God.
37:18 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all
 the nations, 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: therefore
 they have destroyed them.
37:20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that
 all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou [art] the
 LORD, [even] thou only.
37:21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying,
 Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to
 me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:
37:22 This [is] the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning
 him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee,
 [and] laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath
 shaken her head at thee.
37:23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom
 hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine eyes on
 high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.
37:24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast
 said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the
 height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will
 cut down the tall cedars thereof, [and] the choice fir trees
 thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, [and]
 the forest of his Carmel.
37:25 I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my
 feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
37:26 Hast thou not heard long ago, [how] I have done it; [and]
 of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it
 to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities
 [into] ruinous heaps.
37:27 Therefore their inhabitants [were] of small power, they
 were dismayed and confounded: they were [as] the grass of the
 field, and [as] the green herb, [as] the grass on the
 housetops, and [as corn] blasted before it be grown up.
37:28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming
 in, and thy rage against me.
37:29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up
 into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and
 my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by
 which thou camest.
37:30 And this [shall be] a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat [this]
 year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which
 springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap,
 and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
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 they
 that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts
 shall do this.
37:33 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of
 Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow
 there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against
 it.
37:34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and
 shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
37:35 For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake,
 and for my servant David's sake.
37:36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the
 camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five
 thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold,
 they [were] all dead corpses.
37:37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and
 returned, and dwelt 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 Armenia:
 and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
38:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the
 prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus
 saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die,
 and not live.
38:2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed
 unto the LORD,
38:3 And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have
 walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have
 done [that which is] good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
38:4 Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,
38:5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of
 David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy
 tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
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] a sign unto thee from the LORD, that
 the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;
38:8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which
 is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So
 the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone
 down.
38:9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been
 sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
38:10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the
 gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
38:11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, [even] the LORD, in the
 land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the
 inhabitants of the world.
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 will
 cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] to night wilt
 thou make an end of me.
38:13 I reckoned till morning, [that], as a lion, so will he
 break all my bones: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an
 end of me.
38:14 Like a crane [or] a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn
 as a dove: mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O LORD, I am
 oppressed; undertake for me.
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 O Lord, by these [things men] live, and in all these
 [things is] the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and
 make me to live.
38:17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in
 love to my soul [delivered it] from the pit of corruption: for
 thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
38:18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can [not]
 celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for
 thy truth.
38:19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I [do]
 this day: the father to the children shall make known thy
 truth.
38:20 The LORD [was ready] to save me: therefore we will sing my
 songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in
 the house of the LORD.
38:21 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay
 [it] for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
38:22 Hezekiah also had said, What [is] the sign that I shall go
 up to the house of the LORD?
39:1 At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of
 Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had
 heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.
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 precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and
 all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his
 house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
39:3 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said
 unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto
 thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto
 me, [even] from Babylon.
39:4 Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And
 Hezekiah answered, All that [is] in mine house have they seen:
 there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed
 them.
39:5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of
 hosts:
39:6 Behold, the days come, that all that [is] in thine house,
 and [that] which thy fathers have laid up in store until this
 day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith
 the LORD.
39:7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou
 shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in
 the palace of the king of Babylon.
39:8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good [is] the word of the
 LORD which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall
 be peace and truth in my days.
40:1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
40:2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that
 her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for
 she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
40:3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye
 the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for
 our God.
40:4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill
 shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and
 the rough places plain:
40:5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh
 shall see [it] together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken
 [it].
40:6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All
 flesh [is] grass, and all the goodliness thereof [is] as the
 flower of the field:
40:7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit
 of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass.
40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our
 God shall stand for ever.
40:9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the
 high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up
 thy voice with strength; lift [it] up, be not afraid; say unto
 the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
40:10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong [hand], and his
 arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward [is] with him, and
 his work before him.
40:11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather
 the lambs with his arm, and carry [them] in his bosom, [and]
 shall gently lead those that are with young.
40:12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,
 and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust
 of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales,
 and the hills in a balance?
40:13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or [being] his
 counsellor hath taught him?
40:14 With whom took he counsel, and [who] instructed him, and
 taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge,
 and shewed to him the way of understanding?
40:15 Behold, the nations [are] as a drop of a bucket, and are
 counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up
 the isles as a very little thing.
40:16 And Lebanon [is] not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts
 thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
40:17 All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are
 counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
40:18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye
 compare unto him?
40:19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith
 spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
40:20 He that [is] so impoverished that he hath no oblation
 chooseth a tree [that] will not rot; he seeketh unto him a
 cunning workman to prepare a graven image, [that] shall not be
 moved.
40:21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been
 told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the
 foundations of the earth?
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 curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent
 to dwell in:
40:23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges
 of the earth as vanity.
40:24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be
 sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he
 shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the
 whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
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 behold who hath created
 these [things], that bringeth out their host by number: he
 calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for
 that [he is] strong in power; not one faileth.
40:27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way
 is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my
 God?
40:28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, [that] the
 everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the
 earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? [there is] no searching
 of his understanding.
40:29 He giveth power to the faint; and to [them that have] no
 might he increaseth strength.
40:30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young
 men shall utterly fall:
40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their]
 strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall
 run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint.
41:1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew
 [their] strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let
 us come near together to judgment.
41:2 Who raised up the righteous [man] from the east, called him
 to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made [him] rule
 over kings? he gave [them] as the dust to his sword, [and] as
 driven stubble to his bow.
41:3 He pursued them, [and] passed safely; [even] by the way
 [that] he had not gone with his feet.
41:4 Who hath wrought and done [it], calling the generations
 from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I
 [am] he.
41:5 The isles saw [it], and feared; the ends of the earth were
 afraid, drew near, and came.
41:6 They helped every one his neighbour; and [every one] said
 to his brother, Be of good courage.
41:7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, [and] he that
 smootheth [with] the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying,
 It [is] ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails,
 [that] it should not be moved.
41:8 But thou, Israel, [art] 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 thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee,
 Thou [art] my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee
 away.
41:10 Fear thou not; for I [am] with thee: be not dismayed; for
 I [am] thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee;
 yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my
 righteousness.
41:11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be
 ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that
 strive with thee shall perish.
41:12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, [even] them
 that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be
 as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
41:13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying
 unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
41:14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, [and] ye men of Israel; I will
 help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of
 Israel.
41:15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument
 having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat [them]
 small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
41:16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away,
 and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in
 the LORD, [and] shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
41:17 [When] the poor and needy seek water, and [there is] none,
 [and] their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear
 them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
41:18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the
 midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of
 water, and the dry land springs of water.
41:19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah
 tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the
 desert the fir tree, [and] the pine, and the box tree together:
41:20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand
 together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the
 Holy One of Israel hath created it.
41:21 Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your
 strong [reasons], saith the King of Jacob.
41:22 Let them bring [them] forth, and shew us what shall
 happen: let them shew the former things, what they [be], that
 we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or
 declare us things for to come.
41:23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may
 know that ye [are] gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may
 be dismayed, and behold [it] together.
41:24 Behold, ye [are] of nothing, and your work 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 shall he call upon my name: and he
 shall come upon princes as [upon] morter, and as the potter
 treadeth clay.
41:26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know?
 and beforetime, that we may say, [He is] righteous? yea, [there
 is] none that sheweth, yea, [there is] none that declareth,
 yea, [there is] none that heareth your words.
41:27 The first [shall say] to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I
 will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
41:28 For I beheld, and [there was] no man; even among them, and
 [there was] no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could
 answer a word.
41:29 Behold, they [are] all vanity; their works [are] nothing:
 their molten images [are] wind and confusion.
42:1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, [in whom] my
 soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring
 forth judgment to the Gentiles.
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 the smoking flax
 shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
42:4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set
 judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
42:5 Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and
 stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that
 which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people
 upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
42:6 I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold
 thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of
 the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
42:7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the
 prison, [and] them that sit in darkness out of the prison
 house.
42:8 I [am] the LORD: 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 I tell you of them.
42:10 Sing unto the LORD a new song, [and] his praise from the
 end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is
 therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
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 the LORD, and declare his praise
 in the islands.
42:13 The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up
 jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall
 prevail against his enemies.
42:14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, [and]
 refrained myself: [now] will I cry like a travailing woman; I
 will destroy and devour at once.
42:15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all
 their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry
 up the pools.
42:16 And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not;
 I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will
 make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight.
 These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
42:17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed,
 that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye
 [are] our gods.
42:18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
42:19 Who [is] blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger
 [that] I sent? who [is] blind as [he that is] perfect, and
 blind as the LORD'S servant?
42:20 Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the
 ears, but he heareth not.
42:21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he
 will magnify the law, and make [it] honourable.
42:22 But this [is] a people robbed and spoiled; [they are] all
 of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses:
 they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none
 saith, Restore.
42:23 Who among you will give ear to this? [who] will hearken
 and hear for the time to come?
42:24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did
 not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would
 not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
42:25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger,
 and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round
 about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid [it] not
 to heart.
43:1 But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and
 he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed
 thee, I have called [thee] by thy name; thou [art] mine.
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] the LORD 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: therefore will I give men
 for thee, and people 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 far, and my daughters from the
 ends of the earth;
43:7 [Even] every one that is called by my name: for I have
 created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made
 him.
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
 people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew
 us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that
 they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, [It is]
 truth.
43:10 Ye [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom
 I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand
 that I [am] he: before me there was no God formed, neither
 shall there be after me.
43:11 I, [even] I, [am] the LORD; and beside me [there is] no
 saviour.
43:12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when
 [there was] no strange [god] among you: therefore ye [are] my
 witnesses, saith the LORD, that I [am] God.
43:13 Yea, before the day [was] I [am] he; and [there is] none
 that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let
 it?
43:14 Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of
 Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought
 down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry [is] in the
 ships.
43:15 I [am] the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel,
 your King.
43:16 Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a
 path in the mighty waters;
43:17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and
 the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise:
 they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.
43:18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the
 things of old.
43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth;
 shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness,
 [and] rivers in the desert.
43:20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and
 the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, [and] rivers
 in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
43:21 This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew
 forth my praise.
43:22 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but 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 honoured me with thy sacrifices. I
 have not caused thee to serve with an offering, 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 serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine
 iniquities.
43:25 I, [even] I, [am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions
 for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
43:26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare
 thou, that thou mayest be justified.
43:27 Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have
 transgressed against me.
43:28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary,
 and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
44:1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have
 chosen:
44:2 Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from
 the womb, [which] will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my
 servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
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 [as] among the grass, as willows
 by the water courses.
44:5 One shall say, I [am] the LORD'S; and another shall call
 [himself] by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe
 [with] his hand unto the LORD, and surname [himself] by the
 name of Israel.
44:6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer
 the LORD of hosts; I [am] the first, and I [am] the last; and
 beside me [there is] no God.
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
 things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto
 them.
44:8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from
 that time, and have declared [it]? ye [are] even my witnesses.
 Is there a God beside me? yea, [there is] no God; I know not
 [any].
44:9 They that make a graven image [are] all of them vanity; and
 their delectable things shall not profit; and they [are] their
 own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be
 ashamed.
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,
 they [are] of men: let them all be gathered together, let them
 stand up; [yet] they shall fear, [and] they shall be ashamed
 together.
44:12 The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and
 fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of
 his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he
 drinketh no water, and is faint.
44:13 The carpenter stretcheth out [his] rule; he marketh it out
 with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out
 with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man,
 according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the
 house.
44:14 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the
 oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the
 forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish [it].
44:15 Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take
 thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth [it], and baketh
 bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth [it]; he maketh it
 a graven image, and falleth down thereto.
44:16 He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he
 eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he
 warmeth [himself], and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the
 fire:
44:17 And the residue thereof he maketh a god, [even] his graven
 image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth [it], and
 prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou [art] my god.
44:18 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their
 eyes, that they cannot see; [and] their hearts, that they
 cannot understand.
44:19 And none considereth in his heart, neither [is there]
 knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in
 the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof;
 I have roasted flesh, and eaten [it]: and shall I make the
 residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock
 of a tree?
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, O Jacob and Israel; for thou [art] my
 servant: I have formed thee; thou [art] my servant: O Israel,
 thou shalt not be forgotten of me.
44:22 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, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done [it]: shout, ye
 lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye
 mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath
 redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
44:24 Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee
 from the womb, I [am] the LORD that maketh all [things]; that
 stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the
 earth by myself;
44:25 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, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:
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 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 the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right
 hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will
 loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved
 gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
45:2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places
 straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in
 sunder the bars of iron:
45:3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden
 riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the
 LORD, which call [thee] by thy name, [am] the God of Israel.
45:4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have
 even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou
 hast not known me.
45:5 I [am] the LORD, and [there is] none else, [there is] no
 God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
45:6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the
 west, that [there is] none beside me. I [am] the LORD, and
 [there is] none else.
45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and
 create evil: I the LORD 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 let righteousness spring up together; I
 the LORD have created it.
45:9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! [Let] the
 potsherd [strive] with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the
 clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy
 work, He hath no hands?
45:10 Woe unto him that saith unto [his] father, What begettest
 thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?
45:11 Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his
 Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and
 concerning the work of my hands command ye me.
45:12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, [even]
 my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host
 have I commanded.
45:13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct
 all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my
 captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
45:14 Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise
 of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over
 unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee;
 in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto
 thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, [saying], Surely
 God [is] in thee; and [there is] none else, [there is] no God.
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 to confusion together [that are] makers of idols.
45:17 [But] Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an
 everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded
 world without end.
45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God
 himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established
 it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I
 [am] the LORD; and [there is] none else.
45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth:
 I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the
 LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
45:20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye [that
 are] escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up
 the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god [that]
 cannot save.
45:21 Tell ye, and bring [them] near; yea, let them take counsel
 together: who hath declared this from ancient time? [who] hath
 told it from that time? [have] not I the LORD? and [there is]
 no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; [there is]
 none beside me.
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 Surely, shall [one] say, in the LORD have I righteousness
 and strength: [even] to him shall [men] come; and all that are
 incensed against him shall be ashamed.
45:25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and
 shall glory.
46:1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the
 beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages [were] heavy
 loaden; [they are] a burden to the weary [beast].
46:2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver
 the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
46:3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of
 the house of Israel, which are borne [by me] from the belly,
 which are carried from the womb:
46:4 And [even] to [your] old age I [am] he; and [even] to hoar
 hairs will I carry [you]: I have made, and I will bear; even I
 will carry, and will deliver [you].
46:5 To whom will ye liken me, and make [me] equal, and compare
 me, that we may be like?
46:6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the
 balance, [and] hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they
 fall down, yea, they worship.
46:7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set
 him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not
 remove: yea, [one] shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer,
 nor save him out of his trouble.
46:8 Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring [it] again to
 mind, O 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 ravenous bird from the east, the man that
 executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken
 [it], I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed [it], I
 will also do it.
46:12 Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that [are] far from
 righteousness:
46:13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off,
 and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in
 Zion for Israel my glory.
47:1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of
 Babylon, sit on the ground: [there is] no throne, O daughter of
 the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and
 delicate.
47:2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks,
 make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
47:3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be
 seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet [thee as] a
 man.
47:4 [As for] our redeemer, the LORD of hosts [is] his name, the
 Holy One of Israel.
47:5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of
 the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of
 kingdoms.
47:6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine
 inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew
 them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy
 yoke.
47:7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: [so] that thou
 didst not lay these [things] to thy heart, neither didst
 remember the latter end of it.
47:8 Therefore hear now this, [thou that art] given to
 pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine
 heart, I [am], and none else beside me; I shall not sit [as] a
 widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
47:9 But these two [things] shall come to thee in a moment in
 one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come
 upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy
 sorceries, [and] for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
47:10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said,
 None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted
 thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I [am], and none else
 beside me.
47:11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know
 from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou
 shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon
 thee suddenly, [which] thou shalt not know.
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 profit, if so be thou mayest
 prevail.
47:13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now
 the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators,
 stand up, and save thee from [these things] that shall come
 upon thee.
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,
 [even] thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every
 one to his quarter; none shall save thee.
48:1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the
 name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah,
 which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the
 God of Israel, [but] not in truth, nor in righteousness.
48:2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay
 themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts [is] his
 name.
48:3 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and
 they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did
 [them] suddenly, and they came to pass.
48:4 Because I knew that thou [art] obstinate, and thy neck [is]
 an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
48:5 I have even from the beginning declared [it] to thee;
 before it came to pass I shewed [it] thee: lest thou shouldest
 say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my
 molten image, hath commanded them.
48:6 Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare
 [it]? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden
 things, and thou didst not know them.
48:7 They are created now, and not from the beginning; even
 before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest
 say, Behold, I knew them.
48:8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from
 that time [that] thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou
 wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a
 transgressor from the womb.
48:9 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my
 praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
48:10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have
 chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
48:11 For mine own sake, [even] for mine own sake, will I do
 [it]: for how should [my name] be polluted? and I will not give
 my glory unto another.
48:12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I [am] he;
 I [am] the first, I also [am] the last.
48:13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and
 my right hand hath spanned the heavens: [when] I call unto
 them, they stand up together.
48:14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them
 hath declared these [things]? The LORD hath loved him: he will
 do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the
 Chaldeans.
48:15 I, [even] I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have
 brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
48:16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in
 secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there
 [am] I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
48:17 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel;
 I [am] the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which
 leadeth thee by the way [that] thou shouldest go.
48:18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had
 thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves
 of the sea:
48:19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of
 thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have
 been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
48:20 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a
 voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it [even] to the
 end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant
 Jacob.
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:
 he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
48:22 [There is] no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.
49:1 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far;
 The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my
 mother hath he made mention of my name.
49:2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow
 of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in
 his quiver hath he hid me;
49:3 And said unto me, Thou [art] my servant, O Israel, in whom
 I will be glorified.
49:4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my
 strength for nought, and in vain: [yet] surely my judgment [is]
 with the LORD, and my work with my God.
49:5 And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb [to
 be] his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be
 not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD,
 and my God shall be my strength.
49:6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my
 servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the
 preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the
 Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the
 earth.
49:7 Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy
 One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation
 abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise,
 princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is
 faithful, [and] the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose
 thee.
49:8 Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard
 thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will
 preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to
 establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate
 heritages;
49:9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them
 that [are] in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the
 ways, and their pastures [shall be] in all high places.
49:10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat
 nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead
 them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
49:11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways
 shall be exalted.
49:12 Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the
 north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
49:13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth
 into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his
 people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
49:14 But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my 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? yea, they may forget,
 yet will I not forget thee.
49:16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of [my] hands;
 thy walls [are] continually before me.
49:17 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they
 that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
49:18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these
 gather themselves together, [and] come to thee. [As] I live,
 saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as
 with an ornament, and bind them [on thee], as a bride [doeth].
49:19 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy
 destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the
 inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
49:20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost
 the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place [is] too
 strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
49:21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me
 these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a
 captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up
 these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where [had] they
 [been]?
49:22 Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand
 to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they
 shall bring thy sons in [their] arms, and thy daughters shall
 be carried upon [their] shoulders.
49:23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens
 thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with [their]
 face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and
 thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD: for they shall not be
 ashamed that wait for me.
49:24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful
 captive delivered?
49:25 But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty
 shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be
 delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with
 thee, and I will save thy children.
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
 sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD [am] thy
 Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
50:1 Thus saith the LORD, Where [is] the bill of your mother's
 divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is
 it] to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have
 ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother
 put away.
50:2 Wherefore, when I came, [was there] no man? when I called,
 [was there] none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that
 it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my
 rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their
 fish stinketh, because [there is] no water, and dieth for
 thirst.
50:3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth
 their covering.
50:4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that
 I should know how to speak a word in season to [him that is]
 weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to
 hear as the learned.
50:5 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not
 rebellious, neither turned away back.
50:6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that
 plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and
 spitting.
50:7 For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be
 confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I
 know that I shall not be ashamed.
50:8 [He is] near that justifieth me; who will contend with me?
 let us stand together: who [is] mine adversary? let him come
 near to me.
50:9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who [is] he [that] shall
 condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth
 shall eat them up.
50:10 Who [is] among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the
 voice of his servant, that walketh [in] darkness, and hath no
 light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his
 God.
50:11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass
 [yourselves] about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire,
 and in the sparks [that] ye have kindled. This shall ye have of
 mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
51:1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that
 seek the LORD: look unto the rock [whence] ye are hewn, and to
 the hole of the pit [whence] ye are digged.
51:2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah [that] bare
 you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased
 him.
51:3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her
 waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and
 her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall
 be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
51:4 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my
 nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my
 judgment to rest for a light of the people.
51:5 My righteousness [is] near; my salvation is gone forth, and
 mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me,
 and on mine arm shall they trust.
51:6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth
 beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the
 earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein
 shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever,
 and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
51:7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in
 whose heart [is] my law; fear ye not the reproach of men,
 neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
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 the LORD; awake, as
 in the ancient days, in the generations of old. [Art] thou not
 it that hath cut Rahab, [and] wounded the dragon?
51:10 [Art] thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of
 the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for
 the ransomed to pass over?
51:11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come
 with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy [shall be] upon
 their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow
 and mourning shall flee away.
51:12 I, [even] I, [am] he that comforteth you: who [art] thou,
 that thou shouldest be afraid of a man [that] shall die, and of
 the son of man [which] shall be made [as] grass;
51:13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched
 forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and
 hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the
 oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where [is] the
 fury of the oppressor?
51:14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and
 that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should
 fail.
51:15 But I [am] the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose
 waves roared: The LORD of hosts [is] his name.
51:16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered
 thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens,
 and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou
 [art] my people.
51:17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at
 the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the
 dregs of the cup of trembling, [and] wrung [them] out.
51:18 [There is] none to guide her among all the sons [whom] she
 hath brought forth; neither [is there any] that taketh her by
 the hand of all the sons [that] she hath brought up.
51:19 These two [things] are come unto thee; who shall be sorry
 for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the
 sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
51:20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the
 streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of
 the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
51:21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but
 not with wine:
51:22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God [that] pleadeth
 the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand
 the cup of trembling, [even] the dregs of the cup of my fury;
 thou shalt no more drink it again:
51:23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee;
 which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and
 thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to
 them that went over.
52:1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy
 beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth
 there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the
 unclean.
52:2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, [and] sit down, O
 Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive
 daughter of Zion.
52:3 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for
 nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
52:4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime
 into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them
 without cause.
52:5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my
 people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make
 them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day
 [is] blasphemed.
52:6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore [they
 shall know] in that day that I [am] he that doth speak: behold,
 [it is] I.
52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that
 bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth
 good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith
 unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
52:8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice
 together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when
 the LORD shall bring again Zion.
52:9 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of
 Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath
 redeemed Jerusalem.
52:10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all
 the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the
 salvation of our God.
52:11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no
 unclean [thing]; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean,
 that bear the vessels of the LORD.
52:12 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for
 the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel [will be]
 your rereward.
52:13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be
 exalted and extolled, and be very high.
52:14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred
 more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
52:15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut
 their mouths at him: for [that] which had not been told them
 shall they see; and [that] which they had not heard shall they
 consider.
53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the
 LORD revealed?
53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a
 root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and
 when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should
 desire him.
53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and
 acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from
 him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
53:4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:
 yet we did esteem 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 the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity
 of us all.
53:7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not
 his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a
 sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall
 declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of
 the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
53:9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in
 his death; because he had done no violence, neither [was any]
 deceit in his mouth.
53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him]
 to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he
 shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the
 pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be
 satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify
 many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
53:12 Therefore will I divide him [a portion] with the great,
 and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath
 poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the
 transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made
 intercession for the transgressors.
54:1 Sing, O barren, thou [that] didst not bear; break forth
 into singing, and cry aloud, thou [that] didst not travail with
 child: for more [are] the children of the desolate than the
 children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
54:2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth
 the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy
 cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
54:3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the
 left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the
 desolate cities to be inhabited.
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] thine husband; the LORD of hosts [is]
 his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of
 the whole earth shall he be called.
54:6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and
 grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused,
 saith thy God.
54:7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great
 mercies will I gather thee.
54:8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but
 with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the
 LORD thy Redeemer.
54:9 For this [is as] the waters of Noah unto me: for [as] I
 have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the
 earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor
 rebuke thee.
54:10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed;
 but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the
 covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy
 on thee.
54:11 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, [and] not
 comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and
 lay thy foundations with sapphires.
54:12 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of
 carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
54:13 And all thy children [shall be] taught of the LORD; 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 shall gather together against thee shall fall for
 thy sake.
54:16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in
 the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work;
 and I have created the waster to destroy.
54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and
 every tongue [that] shall rise against thee in judgment thou
 shalt condemn. This [is] the heritage of the servants of the
 LORD, and their righteousness [is] of me, saith the LORD.
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,
 [even] the sure mercies of David.
55:4 Behold, I have given him [for] a witness to the people, a
 leader and commander to the people.
55:5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation [that] thou knowest not,
 and nations [that] knew not thee shall run unto thee because of
 the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath
 glorified thee.
55:6 Seek ye the LORD 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD.
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 accomplish that
 which I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] whereto I
 sent 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 fir tree, and
 instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it
 shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign [that]
 shall not be cut off.
56:1 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for
 my salvation [is] near to come, and my righteousness to be
 revealed.
56:2 Blessed [is] the man [that] doeth this, and the son of man
 [that] layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from
 polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
56:3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined
 himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly
 separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say,
 Behold, I [am] a dry tree.
56:4 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my
 sabbaths, and choose [the things] that please me, and take hold
 of my covenant;
56:5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my
 walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters:
 I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut
 off.
56:6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the
 LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his
 servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it,
 and taketh hold of my covenant;
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 mine house
 shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
56:8 The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith,
 Yet will I gather [others] to him, beside those that are
 gathered unto him.
56:9 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, [yea], all ye
 beasts in the forest.
56:10 His watchmen [are] blind: they are all ignorant, they
 [are] all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down,
 loving to slumber.
56:11 Yea, [they are] greedy dogs [which] can never have enough,
 and they [are] shepherds [that] cannot understand: they all
 look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his
 quarter.
56:12 Come ye, [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 the evil [to come].
57:2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds,
 [each one] walking [in] his uprightness.
57:3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of
 the adulterer and the whore.
57:4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a
 wide mouth, [and] draw out the tongue? [are] ye not children of
 transgression, a seed of falsehood,
57:5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree,
 slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the
 rocks?
57:6 Among the smooth [stones] of the stream [is] thy portion;
 they, they [are] thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink
 offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive
 comfort in these?
57:7 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even
 thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
57:8 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy
 remembrance: for thou hast discovered [thyself to another] than
 me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee
 [a covenant] with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou
 sawest [it].
57:9 And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst
 increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off,
 and didst debase [thyself even] unto hell.
57:10 Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; [yet] saidst
 thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine
 hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.
57:11 And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou
 hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid [it] to thy
 heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest
 me not?
57:12 I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they
 shall not profit thee.
57:13 When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the
 wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take [them]: but
 he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and
 shall inherit my holy mountain;
57:14 And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way,
 take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
57:15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth
 eternity, whose name [is] Holy; I dwell in the high and holy
 [place], with him also [that is] of a contrite and humble
 spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the
 heart of the contrite ones.
57:16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always
 wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls
 [which] I have made.
57:17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and
 smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in
 the way of his heart.
57:18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him
 also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
57:19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to [him that
 is] far off, and to [him that is] near, saith the LORD; and I
 will heal him.
57:20 But the wicked [are] like the troubled sea, when it cannot
 rest, 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
 shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob
 their sins.
58:2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a
 nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of
 their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take
 delight in approaching to God.
58:3 Wherefore have we fasted, [say they], and thou seest not?
 [wherefore] have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no
 knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure,
 and exact all your labours.
58:4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with
 the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as [ye do this] day,
 to make your voice to be heard on high.
58:5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to
 afflict his soul? [is it] to bow down his head as a bulrush,
 and to spread sackcloth and ashes [under him]? wilt thou call
 this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
58:6 [Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the
 bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the
 oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
58:7 [Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou
 bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest
 the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself
 from thine own flesh?
58:8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine
 health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall
 go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
58:9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt
 cry, and he shall say, Here I [am]. If thou take away from the
 midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and
 speaking vanity;
58:10 And [if] thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy
 the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and
 thy darkness [be] as the noonday:
58:11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy
 soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like
 a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail
 not.
58:12 And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old waste
 places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many
 generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the
 breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
58:13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing
 thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight,
 the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not
 doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor
 speaking [thine own] words:
58:14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will
 cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed
 thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of
 the LORD hath spoken [it].
59:1 Behold, the LORD'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 will
 not hear.
59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers
 with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath
 muttered perverseness.
59:4 None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth:
 they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief,
 and bring forth iniquity.
59:5 They hatch cockatrice' 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 them crooked paths: whosoever
 goeth therein shall not know peace.
59:9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice
 overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for
 brightness, [but] we walk in darkness.
59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if
 [we had] no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; [we
 are] in desolate places as dead [men].
59:11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look
 for judgment, but [there is] none; for salvation, [but] it is
 far off from us.
59:12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our
 sins testify against us: for our transgressions [are] with us;
 and [as for] our iniquities, we know them;
59:13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing
 away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving
 and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
59:14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth
 afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot
 enter.
59:15 Yea, truth faileth; and he [that] departeth from evil
 maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw [it], and it displeased
 him that [there was] no judgment.
59:16 And he saw that [there was] no man, and wondered that
 [there was] no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation
 unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
59:17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an
 helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments
 of vengeance [for] clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
59:18 According to [their] deeds, accordingly he will repay,
 fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the
 islands he will repay recompence.
59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and
 his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come
 in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a
 standard against him.
59:20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that
 turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
59:21 As for me, this [is] my covenant with them, saith the
 LORD; My spirit that [is] upon thee, and my words which I have
 put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of
 the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed,
 saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
60:1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the
 LORD is risen upon thee.
60:2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross
 darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and
 his glory shall be seen upon thee.
60:3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to 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 shall come
 from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at [thy] side.
60:5 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart
 shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea
 shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall
 come unto thee.
60:6 The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries
 of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall
 bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises
 of the LORD.
60:7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto
 thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall
 come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the
 house of my glory.
60:8 Who [are] these [that] fly as a cloud, and as the doves to
 their windows?
60:9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of
 Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and
 their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to
 the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
60:10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and
 their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote
 thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
60:11 Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall
 not be shut day nor night; that [men] may bring unto thee the
 forces of the Gentiles, and [that] their kings [may be]
 brought.
60:12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall
 perish; yea, [those] nations shall be utterly wasted.
60:13 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree,
 the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of
 my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
60:14 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come
 bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow
 themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call
 thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
60:15 Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man
 went through [thee], I will make thee an eternal excellency, a
 joy of many generations.
60:16 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt
 suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD
 [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
60:17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring
 silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also
 make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.
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 the LORD
 shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
60:20 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon
 withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light,
 and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
60:21 Thy people also [shall be] all righteous: they shall
 inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work
 of my hands, that I may be glorified.
60:22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a
 strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.
61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD [is] upon me; because the LORD
 hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath
 sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to
 the captives, and the opening of the prison to [them that are]
 bound;
61:2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of
 vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them
 beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of
 praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called
 trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might
 be glorified.
61:4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up
 the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities,
 the desolations of many generations.
61:5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the
 sons of the alien [shall be] your plowmen and your
 vinedressers.
61:6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: [men] shall
 call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of
 the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
61:7 For your shame [ye shall have] double; and [for] confusion
 they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land
 they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto
 them.
61:8 For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt
 offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will
 make an everlasting covenant with them.
61:9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their
 offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge
 them, that they [are] the seed [which] the LORD hath blessed.
61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be
 joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of
 salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness,
 as a bridegroom decketh [himself] with ornaments, and as a
 bride adorneth [herself] with her jewels.
61:11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden
 causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the
 Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth
 before all the nations.
62:1 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for
 Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness
 thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a
 lamp [that] burneth.
62:2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings
 thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the
 mouth of the LORD shall name.
62:3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the
 LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
62:4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy
 land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called
 Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in
 thee, and thy land shall be married.
62:5 For [as] a young man marrieth a virgin, [so] shall thy sons
 marry thee: and [as] the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride,
 [so] shall thy God rejoice over thee.
62:6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, [which]
 shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make
 mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
62:7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make
 Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
62:8 The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of
 his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn [to be] meat
 for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink
 thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:
62:9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the
 LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in
 the courts of my holiness.
62:10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of
 the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the
 stones; lift up a standard for the people.
62:11 Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the
 world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation
 cometh; behold, his reward [is] with him, and his work before
 him.
62:12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of
 the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not
 forsaken.
63:1 Who [is] this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments
 from Bozrah? this [that is] glorious in his apparel, travelling
 in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in
 righteousness, mighty to save.
63:2 Wherefore [art thou] red in thine apparel, and thy garments
 like him that treadeth in the winefat?
63:3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people
 [there was] none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger,
 and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled
 upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
63:4 For the day of vengeance [is] in mine heart, and the year
 of my redeemed is come.
63:5 And I looked, and [there was] none to help; and I wondered
 that [there was] none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought
 salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
63:6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make
 them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to
 the earth.
63:7 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, [and] the
 praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath
 bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of
 Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his
 mercies, and according to the multitude of his
 lovingkindnesses.
63:8 For he said, Surely they [are] my people, children [that]
 will not lie: so he was 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 bare them, and carried them all the days
 of old.
63:10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he
 was turned to be their enemy, [and] he fought against them.
63:11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, [and] his
 people, [saying], Where [is] he that brought them up out of the
 sea with the shepherd of his flock? where [is] he that put his
 holy Spirit within him?
63:12 That led [them] by the right hand of Moses with his
 glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself
 an everlasting name?
63:13 That led them through the deep, as an horse in the
 wilderness, [that] they should not stumble?
63:14 As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the
 LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make
 thyself a glorious name.
63:15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of
 thy holiness and of thy glory: where [is] thy zeal and thy
 strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward
 me? are they restrained?
63:16 Doubtless thou [art] our father, though Abraham be
 ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD,
 [art] our father, our redeemer; thy name [is] from everlasting.
63:17 O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, [and]
 hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants'
 sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
63:18 The people of thy holiness have possessed [it] but a
 little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
63:19 We are [thine]: thou never barest rule over them; they
 were 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 [when] the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the
 waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries,
 [that] the nations may tremble at thy presence!
64:3 When thou didst terrible things [which] we looked not for,
 thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
64:4 For since the beginning of the world [men] have not heard,
 nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God,
 beside thee, [what] he hath prepared for him that waiteth for
 him.
64:5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness,
 [those that] remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth;
 for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be
 saved.
64:6 But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our
 righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a
 leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
64:7 And [there is] none that calleth upon thy name, that
 stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy
 face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
64:8 But now, O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the clay,
 and thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand.
64:9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity
 for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we [are] all thy
 people.
64:10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness,
 Jerusalem a desolation.
64:11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers
 praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant
 things are laid waste.
64:12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these [things], O LORD? wilt
 thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
65:1 I am sought of [them that] asked not [for me]; I am found
 of [them that] sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me,
 unto a nation [that] was not called by my name.
65:2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious
 people, which walketh in a way [that was] not good, after their
 own thoughts;
65:3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face;
 that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of
 brick;
65:4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments,
 which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable [things is in]
 their vessels;
65:5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am
 holier than thou. These [are] a smoke in my nose, a fire that
 burneth all the day.
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 the LORD, which have burned incense upon the
 mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I
 measure their former work into their bosom.
65:8 Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the
 cluster, and [one] saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing [is]
 in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not
 destroy them all.
65:9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of
 Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall
 inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
65:10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of
 Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that
 have sought me.
65:11 But ye [are] they that forsake the LORD, that forget my
 holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that
 furnish the drink offering unto that number.
65:12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all
 bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not
 answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine
 eyes, and did choose [that] wherein I delighted not.
65:13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants
 shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall
 drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall
 rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:
65:14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye
 shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of
 spirit.
65:15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen:
 for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by
 another name:
65:16 That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless
 himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth
 shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles
 are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.
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 ye 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 in Jerusalem, and 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 thence an infant of days, nor an
 old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die
 an hundred years old; but the sinner [being] an hundred years
 old shall be accursed.
65:21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit [them]; and they
 shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
65:22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not
 plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree [are] the
 days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of
 their hands.
65:23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for
 trouble; for they [are] the seed of the blessed of the LORD,
 and their offspring with them.
65:24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will
 answer; and 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 bullock: and dust [shall be] the
 serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
 mountain, saith the LORD.
66:1 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven [is] my throne, and the
 earth [is] my footstool: where [is] the house that ye build
 unto me? and where [is] the place of my rest?
66:2 For all those [things] hath mine hand made, and all those
 [things] have been, saith the LORD: but to this [man] will I
 look, [even] to [him that is] poor and of a contrite spirit,
 and trembleth at my word.
66:3 He that killeth an ox [is as if] he slew a man; he that
 sacrificeth a lamb, [as if] he cut off a dog's neck; he that
 offereth an oblation, [as if he offered] swine's blood; he that
 burneth incense, [as if] he blessed an idol. Yea, they have
 chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their
 abominations.
66:4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their
 fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I
 spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes,
 and chose [that] in which I delighted not.
66:5 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word;
 Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's
 sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to
 your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
66:6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a
 voice of the LORD 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?
 Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? [or] shall a
 nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she
 brought forth her children.
66:9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth?
 saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut [the
 womb]? saith thy God.
66:10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye
 that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for
 her:
66:11 That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her
 consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the
 abundance of her glory.
66:12 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to
 her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing
 stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon [her] sides,
 and be dandled upon [her] knees.
66:13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you;
 and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
66:14 And when ye see [this], your heart shall rejoice, and your
 bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD
 shall be known toward his servants, and [his] indignation
 toward his enemies.
66:15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his
 chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and
 his rebuke with flames of fire.
66:16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all
 flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
66:17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in
 the gardens behind one [tree] in the midst, eating swine's
 flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed
 together, saith the LORD.
66:18 For I [know] their works and their thoughts: it shall
 come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they
 shall come, and see my glory.
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 Gentiles.
66:20 And they shall bring all your brethren [for] an offering
 unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots,
 and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my
 holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of
 Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of
 the LORD.
66:21 And I will also take of them for priests [and] for
 Levites, saith the LORD.
66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will
 make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your
 seed and your name remain.
66:23 And it shall come to pass, [that] from one new moon to
 another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come
 to worship before me, saith the LORD.
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
 abhorring unto all flesh.