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1:1 The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen
 concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham,
 Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, For Jehovah hath
 spoken: Sons I have nourished and brought up, And they -- they
 transgressed against Me.
1:3 An ox hath known its owner, And an ass the crib of its
 master, Israel hath not known, My people hath not understood.
1:4 Ah, sinning nation, a people heavy [with] iniquity, A seed
 of evil doers, sons -- corrupters! They have forsaken Jehovah,
 They have despised the Holy One of Israel, They have gone away
 backward.
1:5 Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostacy!
 Every head is become diseased, and every heart [is] sick.
1:6 From the sole of the foot -- unto the head, There is no
 soundness in it, Wound, and bruise, and fresh smiting! They
 have not been closed nor bound, Nor have they softened with
 ointment.
1:7 Your land [is] a desolation, your cities burnt with fire,
 Your ground, before you strangers are consuming it, And a
 desolation as overthrown by strangers!
1:8 And left hath been the daughter of Zion, As a booth in a
 vineyard, As a lodge in a place of cucumbers -- as a city
 besieged.
1:9 Unless Jehovah of Hosts had left to us a remnant, Shortly --
 as Sodom we had been, To Gomorrah we had been like!
1:10 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom, Give ear to
 the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah,
1:11 `Why to Me the abundance of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah,
 I have been satiated [with] burnt-offerings of rams, And fat of
 fatlings; And blood of bullocks, and lambs, And he-goats I have
 not desired.
1:12 When ye come in to appear before Me, Who hath required this
 of your hand, To trample My courts?
1:13 Add not to bring in a vain present, Incense -- an
 abomination it [is] to Me, New moon, and sabbath, calling of
 convocation! Rendure not iniquity -- and a restraint!
1:14 Your new moons and your set seasons hath My soul hated,
 They have been upon me for a burden, I have been weary of
 bearing.
1:15 And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes
 from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your
 hands of blood have been full.
1:16 Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings,
 from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.
1:17 Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the
 fatherless, strive [for] the widow.
1:18 Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your
 sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are
 red as crimson, as wool they shall be!
1:19 If ye are willing, and have hearkened, The good of the land
 ye consume,
1:20 And if ye refuse, and have rebelled, [By] the sword ye are
 consumed, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.
1:21 How hath a faithful city become a harlot? I have filled it
 [with] judgment, Righteousness lodgeth in it -- now murderers.
1:22 Thy silver hath become dross, Thy drink polluted with
 water.
1:23 Thy princes [are] apostates, and companions of thieves,
 Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless
 they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.
1:24 Therefore -- the affirmation of the Lord -- Jehovah of
 Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah, I am eased of Mine
 adversaries, And I am avenged of Mine enemies,
1:25 And I turn back My hand upon thee, And I refine as purity
 thy dross, And I turn aside all thy tin,
1:26 And I give back thy judges as at the first, And thy
 counsellors as in the beginning, After this thou art called, `A
 city of righteousness -- a faithful city.'
1:27 Zion in judgment is redeemed, And her captivity in
 righteousness.
1:28 And the destruction of transgressors and sinners [is]
 together, And those forsaking Jehovah are consumed.
1:29 For [men] are ashamed because of the oaks That ye have
 desired, And ye are confounded because of the gardens That ye
 have chosen.
1:30 For ye are as an oak whose leaf is fading, And as a garden
 that hath no water.
1:31 And the strong hath been for tow, And his work for a spark,
 And burned have both of them together, And there is none
 quenching!
2:1 The thing that Isaiah son of Amoz hath seen concerning Judah
 and Jerusalem:
2:2 And it hath come to pass, In the latter end of the days,
 Established is the mount of Jehovah's house, Above the top of
 the mounts, And it hath been lifted up above the heights, And
 flowed unto it have all the nations.
2:3 And gone have many peoples and said, `Come, and we go up
 unto the mount of Jehovah, Unto the house of the God of Jacob,
 And He doth teach us of His ways, And we walk in His paths, For
 from Zion goeth forth a law, And a word of Jehovah from
 Jerusalem.
2:4 And He hath judged between the nations, And hath given a
 decision to many peoples, And they have beat their swords to
 ploughshares, And their spears to pruning-hooks, Nation doth
 not lift up sword unto nation, Nor do they learn any more --
 war.
2:5 O house of Jacob, come, And we walk in the light of
 Jehovah.'
2:6 For Thou hast left Thy people, the house of Jacob. For they
 have been filled from the east, And [are] sorcerers like the
 Philistines, And with the children of strangers strike hands.
2:7 And its land is full of silver and gold, And there is no end
 to its treasures, And its land is full of horses, And there is
 no end to its chariots,
2:8 And its land is full of idols, To the work of its hands it
 boweth itself, To that which its fingers have made,
2:9 And the low boweth down, and the high is humbled, And Thou
 acceptest them not.
2:10 Enter into a rock, and be hidden in dust, Because of the
 fear of Jehovah, And because of the honour of His excellency.
2:11 The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, And bowed down
 hath been the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah
 alone been in that day.
2:12 For a day [is] to Jehovah of Hosts, For every proud and
 high one, And for every lifted up and low one,
2:13 And for all cedars of Lebanon, The high and the exalted
 ones, And for all oaks of Bashan,
2:14 And for all the high mountains, And for all the exalted
 heights,
2:15 And for every high tower, And for every fenced wall,
2:16 And for all ships of Tarshish, And for all desirable
 pictures.
2:17 And bowed down hath been the haughtiness of man, And
 humbled the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah
 alone been in that day.
2:18 And the idols -- they completely pass away.
2:19 And [men] have entered into caverns of rocks, And into
 caves of dust, Because of the fear of Jehovah, And because of
 the honour of His excellency, In His rising to terrify the
 earth.
2:20 In that day doth man cast his idols of silver, And his
 idols of gold, That they have made for him to worship, To
 moles, and to bats,
2:21 To enter into cavities of the rocks, And into clefts of the
 high places, Because of the fear of Jehovah, And because of the
 honour of His excellency, In His rising to terrify the earth.
2:22 Cease for you from man, Whose breath [is] in his nostrils,
 For -- in what is he esteemed?
3:1 For, lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is turning aside from
 Jerusalem, And from Judah, stay and staff, Every stay of bread,
 and every stay of water.
3:2 Hero and man of war, judge and prophet, And diviner and
 elder,
3:3 Head of fifty, and accepted of faces, And counsellor, and
 the wise of artificers, And the intelligent of charmers.
3:4 And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over
 them.
3:5 And the people hath exacted -- man upon man, Even a man on
 his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the
 aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured.
3:6 When one layeth hold on his brother, [Of] the house of his
 father, [by] the garment, `Come, a ruler thou art to us, And
 this ruin [is] under thy hand.'
3:7 He lifteth up, in that day, saying: `I am not a binder up,
 And in my house is neither bread nor garment, Ye do not make me
 a ruler of the people.'
3:8 For stumbled hath Jerusalem, and Judah hath fallen, For
 their tongue and their doings [are] against Jehovah, To provoke
 the eyes of His glory.
3:9 The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, And
 their sin, as Sodom, they declared, They have not hidden! Wo to
 their soul, For they have done to themselves evil.
3:10 Say ye to the righteous, that [it is] good, Because the
 fruit of their doings they eat.
3:11 Wo to the wicked -- evil, Because the deed of his hand is
 done to him.
3:12 My people -- its exactors [are] sucklings, And women have
 ruled over it. My people -- thy eulogists are causing to err,
 And the way of thy paths swallowed up.
3:13 Jehovah hath stood up to plead, And He is standing to judge
 the peoples.
3:14 Jehovah into judgment doth enter With elders of His people,
 and its heads: `And ye, ye have consumed the vineyard, Plunder
 of the poor [is] in your houses.
3:15 What -- to you? ye bruise My people, And the faces of the
 poor ye grind.' An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts,
 And Jehovah saith:
3:16 `Because that daughters of Zion have been haughty, And they
 walk stretching out the neck, And deceiving [with] the eyes,
 Walking and mincing they go, And with their feet they make a
 tinkling,
3:17 The Lord also hath scabbed The crown of the head of
 daughters of Zion, And Jehovah their simplicity exposeth.
3:18 In that day doth the Lord turn aside The beauty of the
 tinkling ornaments, And of the embroidered works, And of the
 round tires like moons,
3:19 Of the drops, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
3:20 Of the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, And of the
 bands, And of the perfume boxes, and the amulets,
3:21 Of the seals, and of the nose-rings,
3:22 Of the costly apparel, and of the mantles, And of the
 coverings, and of the purses,
3:23 Of the mirrors, and of the linen garments, And of the
 hoods, and of the vails,
3:24 And it hath been, instead of spice is muck, And instead of
 a girdle, a rope, And instead of curled work, baldness, And
 instead of a stomacher a girdle of sackcloth.
3:25 For instead of glory, thy men by sword do fall, And thy
 might in battle.
3:26 And lamented and mourned have her openings, Yea, she hath
 been emptied, on the earth she sitteth!
4:1 And taken hold have seven women on one man, In that day,
 saying, `Our own bread we do eat, And our own raiment we put
 on, Only, let thy name be called over us, Remove thou our
 reproach.'
4:2 In that day is the Shoot of Jehovah for desire and for
 honour, And the fruit of the earth For excellence and for
 beauty to the escaped of Israel.
4:3 And it hath been, he who is left in Zion, And he who is
 remaining in Jerusalem, `Holy' is said of him, Of every one who
 is written for life in Jerusalem.
4:4 If the Lord hath washed away The filth of daughters of Zion,
 And the blood of Jerusalem purgeth from her midst, By the
 spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
4:5 Then hath Jehovah prepared Over every fixed place of Mount
 Zion, And over her convocations, A cloud by day, and smoke, And
 the shining of a flaming fire by night, That, over all honour a
 safe-guard,
4:6 And a covering may be, For a shadow by day from drought, And
 for a refuge, and for a hiding place, From inundation and from
 rain!
5:1 Let me sing, I pray you, for my beloved, A song of my
 beloved as to his vineyard: My beloved hath a vineyard in a
 fruitful hill,
5:2 And he fenceth it, and casteth out its stones, And planteth
 it [with] a choice vine, And buildeth a tower in its midst, And
 also a wine press hath hewn out in it, And he waiteth for the
 yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones!
5:3 And now, O inhabitant of Jerusalem, and man of Judah, Judge,
 I pray you, between me and my vineyard.
5:4 What -- to do still to my vineyard, That I have not done in
 it! Wherefore, I waited to the yielding of grapes, And it
 yieldeth bad ones!
5:5 And now, pray, let me cause you to know, That which I am
 doing to my vineyard, To turn aside its hedge, And it hath been
 for consumption, To break down its wall, And it hath been for a
 treading-place.
5:6 And I make it a waste, It is not pruned, nor arranged, And
 gone up have brier and thorn, And on the thick clouds I lay a
 charge, From raining upon it rain.
5:7 Because the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts [Is] the house of
 Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waiteth
 for judgment, and lo, oppression, For righteousness, and lo, a
 cry.
5:8 Wo [to] those joining house to house, Field to field they
 bring near, till there is no place, And ye have been settled by
 yourselves In the midst of the land!
5:9 By the weapons of Jehovah of Hosts Do not many houses a
 desolation become? Great and good without inhabitant!
5:10 For ten acres of vineyard do yield one bath, And an homer
 of seed yieldeth an ephah.
5:11 Wo [to] those rising early in the morning, Strong drink
 they pursue! Tarrying in twilight, wine inflameth them!
5:12 And harp, and psaltery, tabret, and pipe, And wine, have
 been their banquets, And the work of Jehovah they behold not,
 Yea, the work of His hands they have not seen.
5:13 Therefore my people removed without knowledge, And its
 honourable ones are famished, And its multitude dried up of
 thirst.
5:14 Therefore hath Sheol enlarged herself, And hath opened her
 mouth without limit. And gone down hath its honour, and its
 multitude, And its noise, and its exulting one -- into her.
5:15 And bowed down is the low, and humbled the high, And the
 eyes of the haughty become low,
5:16 And Jehovah of Hosts is high in judgment, And the Holy God
 sanctified in righteousness,
5:17 And fed have lambs according to their leading, And waste
 places of the fat ones Do sojourners consume.
5:18 Wo [to] those drawing out iniquity with cords of vanity,
 And as [with] thick ropes of the cart -- sin.
5:19 Who are saying, `Let Him hurry, Let Him hasten His work,
 that we may see, And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel
 Draw near and come, and we know.'
5:20 Wo [to] those saying to evil `good,' And to good `evil,'
 Putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, Putting
 bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
5:21 Wo [to] the wise in their own eyes, And -- before their own
 faces -- intelligent!
5:22 Wo [to] the mighty to drink wine, And men of strength to
 mingle strong drink.
5:23 Declaring righteous the wicked for a bribe, And the
 righteousness of the righteous They turn aside from him.
5:24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire devoureth stubble, And
 flaming hay falleth, Their root is as muck, And their flower as
 dust goeth up. Because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of
 Hosts, And the saying of the Holy One of Israel despised.
5:25 Therefore hath the anger of Jehovah burned among His
 people, And He stretcheth out His hand against it, And smiteth
 it, and the mountains tremble, And their carcase is as filth in
 the midst of the out-places. With all this His anger did not
 turn back, And still His hand is stretched out!
5:26 And He lifted up an ensign to nations afar off, And hissed
 to it from the end of the earth, And lo, with haste, swift it
 cometh.
5:27 There is none weary, nor stumbling in it, It doth not
 slumber, nor sleep, Nor opened hath been the girdle of its
 loins, Nor drawn away the latchet of its sandals.
5:28 Whose arrows [are] sharp, and all its bows bent, Hoofs of
 its horses as flint have been reckoned, And its wheels as a
 hurricane!
5:29 Its roaring [is] like a lioness, It roareth like young
 lions, And it howleth, and seizeth prey, And carrieth away
 safely, and there is none delivering.
5:30 And it howleth against it in that day as the howling of a
 sea, And it hath looked attentively to the land, And lo,
 darkness -- distress, And light hath been darkened by its
 abundance!
6:1 In the year of the death of king Uzziah -- I see the Lord,
 sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and His train is
 filling the temple.
6:2 Seraphs are standing above it: six wings hath each one; with
 two [each] covereth its face, and with two [each] covereth its
 feet, and with two [each] flieth.
6:3 And this one hath called unto that, and hath said: `Holy,
 Holy, Holy, [is] Jehovah of Hosts, The fulness of all the earth
 [is] His glory.'
6:4 And the posts of the thresholds are moved by the voice of
 him who is calling, and the house is full of smoke.
6:5 And I say, `Wo to me, for I have been silent, For a man --
 unclean of lips [am] I, And in midst of a people unclean of
 lips I am dwelling, Because the King, Jehovah of Hosts, have my
 eyes seen.'
6:6 And flee unto me doth one of the seraphs, and in his hand a
 burning coal, (with tongs he hath taken [it] from off the
 altar,)
6:7 and he striketh against my mouth, and saith: `Lo, this hath
 stricken against thy lips, And turned aside is thine iniquity,
 And thy sin is covered.'
6:8 And I hear the voice of the Lord, saying: `Whom do I send?
 and who doth go for Us?' And I say, `Here [am] I, send me.'
6:9 And He saith, `Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear
 ye -- to hear, and ye do not understand, And see ye -- to see,
 and ye do not know.
6:10 Declare fat the heart of this people, And its ears declare
 heavy, And its eyes declare dazzled, Lest it see with its eyes,
 And with its ears hear, and its heart consider, And it hath
 turned back, and hath health.'
6:11 And I say, `Till when, O Lord?' And He saith, `Surely till
 cities have been wasted without inhabitant, And houses without
 man, And the ground be wasted -- a desolation,
6:12 And Jehovah hath put man far off, And great [is] the
 forsaken part in the heart of the land.
6:13 And yet in it a tenth, and it hath turned, And hath been
 for a burning, As a teil-tree, and as an oak, that in falling,
 Have substance in them, The holy seed [is] its substance!'
7:1 And it cometh to pass in the days of Ahaz, son of Jotham,
 son of Uzziah, king of Judah, gone up hath Rezin king of Aram,
 and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, to Jerusalem, to
 battle against it, and he is not able to fight against it.
7:2 And it is declared to the house of David, saying, `Aram hath
 been led towards Ephraim,' And his heart and the heart of his
 people is moved, like the moving of trees of a forest by the
 presence of wind.
7:3 And Jehovah saith unto Isaiah, `Go forth, I pray thee, to
 meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-Jashub thy son, unto the end of the
 conduit of the upper pool, unto the highway of the fuller's
 field,
7:4 and thou hast said unto him: `Take heed, and be quiet, fear
 not, And let not thy heart be timid, Because of these two tails
 of smoking brands, For the fierceness of the anger of Rezin and
 Aram, And the son of Remaliah.
7:5 Because that Aram counselled against thee evil, Ephraim and
 the son of Remaliah, saying:
7:6 We go up into Judah, and we vex it, And we rend it unto
 ourselves, And we cause a king to reign in its midst -- The son
 of Tabeal.
7:7 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: It doth not stand, nor shall it
 be!
7:8 For the head of Aram [is] Damascus, And the head of Damascus
 [is] Rezin, And within sixty and five years Is Ephraim broken
 from [being] a people.
7:9 And the head of Ephraim [is] Samaria, And the head of
 Samaria [is] the son of Remaliah. If ye do not give credence,
 Surely ye are not stedfast.'
7:10 And Jehovah addeth to speak unto Ahaz, saying:
7:11 `Ask for thee a sign from Jehovah thy God, Make deep the
 request, or make [it] high upwards.'
7:12 And Ahaz saith, `I do not ask nor try Jehovah.'
7:13 And he saith, `Hear, I pray you, O house of David, Is it a
 little thing for you to weary men, That ye weary also my God?
7:14 Therefore the Lord Himself giveth to you a sign, Lo, the
 Virgin is conceiving, And is bringing forth a son, And hath
 called his name Immanuel,
7:15 Butter and honey he doth eat, When he knoweth to refuse
 evil, and to fix on good.
7:16 For before the youth doth know To refuse evil, and to fix
 on good, Forsaken is the land thou art vexed with, because of
 her two kings.
7:17 Jehovah bringeth on thee, and on thy people, And on the
 house of thy father, Days that have not come, Even from the day
 of the turning aside of Ephraim from Judah, By the king of
 Asshur.
7:18 And it hath come to pass, in that day, Jehovah doth hiss
 for a fly that [is] in the extremity of the brooks of Egypt,
 And for a bee that [is] in the land of Asshur.
7:19 And they have come, and rested all of them in the desolate
 valleys, And in holes of the rocks, and on all the thorns, And
 on all the commendable things.
7:20 In that day doth the Lord shave, By a razor that is hired
 beyond the river, By the king of Asshur, The head, and the hair
 of the feet, Yea, also the beard it consumeth.
7:21 And it hath come to pass, in that day, A man keepeth alive
 a heifer of the herd, And two of the flock,
7:22 And it hath come to pass, From the abundance of the
 yielding of milk he eateth butter, For butter and honey doth
 every one eat Who is left in the heart of the land.
7:23 And it hath come to pass, in that day, Every place where
 there are a thousand vines, At a thousand silverlings, Is for
 briers and for thorns.
7:24 With arrows and with bow he cometh thither, Because all the
 land is brier and thorn.
7:25 And all the hills that with a mattock are kept in order,
 Thither cometh not the fear of brier and thorn, And it hath
 been for the sending forth of ox, And for the treading of
 sheep!'
8:1 And Jehovah saith unto me, `Take to thee a great tablet, and
 write upon it with a graving tool of man, To haste spoil, enjoy
 prey.'
8:2 And I cause faithful witnesses to testify to me, Uriah the
 priest, and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.
8:3 And I draw near unto the prophetess, and she conceiveth, and
 beareth a son; and Jehovah saith unto me, `Call his name
 Maher-shalal-hash-baz,
8:4 for before the youth doth know to cry, My father, and My
 mother, one taketh away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of
 Samaria, before the king of Asshur.'
8:5 And Jehovah addeth to speak unto me again, saying:
8:6 `Because that this people hath refused The waters of Shiloah
 that go softly, And is rejoicing with Rezin and the son of
 Remaliah,
8:7 Therefore, lo, the Lord is bringing up on them, The waters
 of the river, the mighty and the great, (The king of Asshur,
 and all his glory,) And it hath gone up over all its streams,
 And hath gone on over all its banks.
8:8 And it hath passed on into Judah, It hath overflown and
 passed over, Unto the neck it cometh, And the stretching out of
 its wings Hath been the fulness of the breadth of thy land, O
 Emmanu-El!
8:9 Be friends, O nations, and be broken, And give ear, all ye
 far off ones of earth, Gird yourselves, and be broken, Gird
 yourselves, and be broken.
8:10 Take counsel, and it is broken, Speak a word, and it doth
 not stand, Because of Emmanu-El!'
8:11 For thus hath Jehovah spoken unto me with strength of hand,
 and instructeth me against walking in the way of this people,
 saying,
8:12 `Ye do not say, A confederacy, To all to whom this people
 saith, A confederacy, And its fear ye do not fear, Nor declare
 fearful.
8:13 Jehovah of Hosts -- Him ye do sanctify, And He [is] your
 Fear, and He your Dread,
8:14 And He hath been for a sanctuary, And for a stone of
 stumbling, and for a rock of falling, To the two houses of
 Israel, For a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of
 Jerusalem.
8:15 And many among them have stumbled and fallen, And been
 broken, and snared, and captured.
8:16 Bind up the testimony, Seal the law among My disciples.
8:17 And I have waited for Jehovah, Who is hiding His face from
 the house of Jacob, And I have looked for Him.
8:18 Lo, I, and the children whom Jehovah hath given to me,
 [Are] for signs and for wonders in Israel, From Jehovah of
 Hosts, who is dwelling in Mount Zion.
8:19 And when they say unto you, `Seek unto those having
 familiar spirits, And unto wizards, who chatter and mutter,
 Doth not a people seek unto its God? -- For the living unto the
 dead!
8:20 To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after
 this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'
8:21 -- And it hath passed over into it, hardened and hungry,
 And it hath come to pass, That it is hungry, and hath been
 wroth, And made light of its king, and of its God, And hath
 looked upwards.
8:22 And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity
 and darkness! -- Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is
 driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!
9:1 As the former time made light The land of Zebulun and the
 land of Naphtali, So the latter hath honoured the way of the
 sea, Beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
9:2 The people who are walking in darkness Have seen a great
 light, Dwellers in a land of death-shade, Light hath shone upon
 them.
9:3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, Thou hast made great its
 joy, They have joyed before Thee as the joy in harvest, As
 [men] rejoice in their apportioning spoil.
9:4 Because the yoke of its burden, And the staff of its
 shoulder, the rod of its exactor, Thou hast broken as [in] the
 day of Midian.
9:5 For every battle of a warrior [is] with rushing, and raiment
 rolled in blood, And it hath been for burning -- fuel of fire.
9:6 For a Child hath been born to us, A Son hath been given to
 us, And the princely power is on his shoulder, And He doth call
 his name Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity,
 Prince of Peace.
9:7 To the increase of the princely power, And of peace, there
 is no end, On the throne of David, and on his kingdom, To
 establish it, and to support it, In judgment and in
 righteousness, Henceforth, even unto the age, The zeal of
 Jehovah of Hosts doth this.
9:8 A word hath the Lord sent into Jacob, And it hath fallen in
 Israel.
9:9 And the people have known -- all of it, Ephraim, and the
 inhabitant of Samaria, In pride and in greatness of heart,
 saying,
9:10 `Bricks have fallen, and hewn work we build, Sycamores have
 been cut down, and cedars we renew.'
9:11 And Jehovah setteth the adversaries of Rezin on high above
 him, And his enemies he joineth together,
9:12 Aram from before, and Philistia from behind, And they
 devour Israel with the whole mouth. With all this not turned
 back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.
9:13 And the people hath not turned back unto Him who is
 smiting it, And Jehovah of Hosts they have not sought.
9:14 And Jehovah cutteth off from Israel head and tail, Branch
 and reed -- the same day,
9:15 Elder, and accepted of face, he [is] the head, Prophet,
 teacher of falsehood, he [is] the tail.
9:16 And the eulogists of this people are causing to err, And
 its eulogised ones are consumed.
9:17 Therefore, over its young men the Lord rejoiceth not, And
 its orphans, and its widows He pitieth not, For every one [is]
 profane, and an evil doer, And every mouth is speaking folly.
 With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His
 hand is stretched out.
9:18 For burned as a fire hath wickedness, Brier and thorn it
 devoureth, And it kindleth in thickets of the forest, And they
 lift themselves up, an exaltation of smoke!
9:19 In the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts Hath the land been
 consumed, And the people is as fuel of fire; A man on his
 brother hath no pity,
9:20 And cutteth down on the right, and hath been hungry, And he
 devoureth on the left, And they have not been satisfied, Each
 the flesh of his own arm they devour.
9:21 Manasseh -- Ephraim, and Ephraim -- Manasseh, Together they
 [are] against Judah, With all this not turned back hath His
 anger. And still His hand is stretched out!
10:1 Wo [to] those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers
 who have prescribed perverseness.
10:2 To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently
 away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows
 may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.
10:3 And what do ye at a day of inspection? And at desolation?
 -- from afar it cometh. Near whom do ye flee for help? And
 where do ye leave your honour?
10:4 Without Me it hath bowed down In the place of a bound one,
 And in the place of the slain they fall. With all this not
 turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched
 out.
10:5 Wo [to] Asshur, a rod of Mine anger, And a staff in their
 hand [is] Mine indignation.
10:6 Against a profane nation I send him, And concerning a
 people of My wrath I charge him, To spoil spoil, and to seize
 prey, And to make it a treading-place as the clay of out
 places.
10:7 And he -- he thinketh not so, And his heart reckoneth not
 so, For -- to destroy [is] in his heart, And to 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 got to the kingdoms of a worthless thing,
 and their graven images, [Greater] than Jerusalem and than
 Samaria,
10:11 Do I not -- as I have done to Samaria, And to her
 worthless things, So do to Jerusalem and to her grievous
 things?
10:12 And it hath come to pass, When the Lord doth fulfil all
 His work In mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I see concerning the
 fruit of the greatness Of the heart of the king of Asshur. And
 concerning the glory of the height of his eyes.
10:13 For he hath said, `By the power of my hand I have wrought,
 And by my wisdom, for I have been intelligent, And I remove
 borders of the peoples, And their chief ones I have spoiled,
 And I put down as a mighty one the inhabitants,
10:14 And my hand as to a nest Getteth to the wealth of the
 peoples, And as a gathering of forsaken eggs All the earth I --
 I have gathered, And there hath not been one moving wing, Or
 opening mouth, or whispering.'
10:15 -- Doth the axe glorify itself Against him who is hewing
 with it? Doth the saw magnify itself Against him who is shaking
 it? As a rod waving those lifting it up! As a staff lifting up
 that which is not wood!
10:16 Therefore doth the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, Send among his
 fat ones leanness, And under his honour He kindleth a burning
 As the burning of a fire.
10:17 And the light of Israel hath been for a fire, And his Holy
 One for a flame, And it hath burned, and devoured his thorn And
 his brier in one day.
10:18 And the honour of his forest, and his fruitful field, From
 soul even unto flesh He doth consume, And it hath been as the
 fainting of a standard-bearer.
10:19 And the rest of the trees of his forest [are] few, And a
 youth doth write them.
10:20 And it hath come to pass, in that day, The remnant of
 Israel, And the escaped of the house of Jacob, Do not add any
 more to lean on its smiter, And have leant on Jehovah, The Holy
 One of Israel, in truth.
10:21 A remnant returneth -- a remnant of Jacob, Unto the Mighty
 God.
10:22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, A
 remnant doth return of it, A consumption determined,
 Overflowing [with] righteousness.
10:23 For a consumption that is determined, The Lord, Jehovah of
 Hosts, Is making in the midst of all the land.
10:24 Therefore, thus said the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, `Be not
 afraid, my people, inhabiting Zion, because of Asshur, With a
 rod he doth smite thee, And his staff lifteth up against thee,
 in the way of Egypt.
10:25 For yet a very little, And the indignation hath been
 completed, And Mine anger by their wearing out.
10:26 And awaking for him is Jehovah of Hosts, A scourge like
 the smiting of Midian at the rock Oreb, And his rod [is] over
 the sea, And he hath lifted it in the way of Egypt.
10:27 And it hath come to pass, in that day, Turned is his
 burden from off thy shoulder, And his yoke from off thy neck,
 And destroyed hath been the yoke, because of prosperity.
10:28 He hath come in against Aiath, He hath passed over into
 Migron, At Michmash he looketh after his vessels.
10:29 They have gone over the passage, Geba they have made a
 lodging place, Trembled hath Rama, Gibeah of Saul fled.
10:30 Cry aloud [with] thy voice, daughter of Gallim, Give
 attention, Laish! answer her, Anathoth.
10:31 Fled away hath Madmenah, The inhabitants of the high
 places have hardened themselves.
10:32 Yet to-day in Nob to remain, Wave its hand doth the mount
 of the daughter of Zion, The hill of Jerusalem.
10:33 Lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is lopping a branch with
 violence, And the high of stature are cut down, And the lofty
 are become low,
10:34 And He hath gone round the thickets of the forest with
 iron, And Lebanon by a mighty one falleth!
11:1 And a rod hath come out from the stock of Jesse, And a
 branch from his roots is fruitful.
11:2 Rested on him hath the Spirit of Jehovah, The spirit of
 wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and might, The
 spirit of knowledge and fear of Jehovah.
11:3 To refresh him in the fear of Jehovah, And by the sight of
 his eyes he judgeth not, Nor by the hearing of his ears
 decideth.
11:4 And he hath judged in righteousness the poor, And decided
 in uprightness for the humble of earth, And hath smitten earth
 with the rod of his mouth, And with the breath of his lips he
 putteth the wicked to death.
11:5 And righteousness hath been the girdle of his loins, And
 faithfulness -- the girdle of his reins.
11:6 And a wolf hath sojourned with a lamb, And a leopard with a
 kid doth lie down, And calf, and young lion, and fatling [are]
 together, And a little youth is leader over them.
11:7 And cow and bear do feed, Together lie down their young
 ones, And a lion as an ox eateth straw.
11:8 And played hath a suckling by the hole of an asp, And on
 the den of a cockatrice Hath the weaned one put his hand.
11:9 Evil they do not, nor destroy in all My holy mountain, For
 full hath been the earth with the knowledge of Jehovah, As the
 waters are covering the sea.
11:10 And there hath been, in that day, A root of Jesse that is
 standing for an ensign of peoples, Unto him do nations seek,
 And his rest hath been -- honour!
11:11 And it hath come to pass, in that day, The Lord addeth a
 second time his power, To get the remnant of His people that is
 left, From Asshur, and from Egypt, And from Pathros, and from
 Cush, And from Elam, and from Shinar, And from Hamath, and from
 isles of the sea,
11:12 And He hath lifted up an ensign to nations, And gathereth
 the driven away of Israel, And the scattered of Judah He
 assembleth, From the four wings of the earth.
11:13 And turned aside hath the envy of Ephraim, And the
 adversaries of Judah are cut off, Ephraim doth not envy Judah,
 And Judah doth not distress Ephraim.
11:14 And they have flown on the shoulder of the Philistines
 westward, Together they spoil the sons of the east, Edom and
 Moab sending forth their hand, And sons of Ammon obeying them.
11:15 And Jehovah hath devoted to destruction The tongue of the
 sea of Egypt, And hath waved His hand over the river, In the
 terror of his wind, And hath smitten it at the seven streams,
 And hath caused [men] to tread [it] with shoes.
11:16 And there hath been a highway, For the remnant of His
 people that is left, from Asshur, As there was for Israel in
 the day of his coming up out of the land of Egypt!
12:1 And thou hast said in that day: `I thank thee, O Jehovah,
 Though Thou hast been angry with me, Turn back doth Thine
 anger, And Thou dost comfort me.
12:2 Lo, God [is] my salvation, I trust, and fear not, For my
 strength and song [is] Jah Jehovah, And He is to me for
 salvation.
12:3 And ye have drawn waters with joy Out of the fountains of
 salvation,
12:4 And ye have said in that day, Give ye praise to Jehovah,
 call in His name. Make known among the peoples His acts. Make
 mention that set on high is His name.
12:5 Praise ye Jehovah, for excellence He hath done, Known is
 this in all the earth.
12:6 Cry aloud, and sing, O inhabitant of Zion, For great in thy
 midst [is] the Holy One of Israel!'
13:1 The burden of Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz hath seen:
13:2 `On a high mountain lift ye up an ensign, Raise the voice
 to them, wave the hand, And they go in to the openings of
 nobles.
13:3 I have given charge to My sanctified ones, Also I have
 called My mighty ones for Mine anger, Those rejoicing at Mine
 excellency.'
13:4 A voice of a multitude in the mountains, A likeness of a
 numerous people, A voice of noise from the kingdoms of nations
 who are gathered, Jehovah of Hosts inspecting a host of battle!
13:5 They are coming in from a land afar off, From the end of
 the heavens, Jehovah and the instruments of His indignation, To
 destroy all the land.
13:6 Howl ye, for near [is] the day of Jehovah, As destruction
 from the Mighty it cometh.
13:7 Therefore, all hands do fail, And every heart of man doth
 melt.
13:8 And they have been troubled, Pains and pangs they take, As
 a travailing woman they are pained, A man at his friend they
 marvel, The appearance of flames -- their faces!
13:9 Lo, the day of Jehovah doth come, Fierce, with wrath, and
 heat of anger, To make the land become a desolation, Yea, its
 sinning ones He destroyeth from it.
13:10 For the stars of the heavens, and their constellations,
 Cause not their light to shine, Darkened hath been the sun in
 its going out, And the moon causeth not its light to come
 forth.
13:11 And I have appointed on the world evil, And on the wicked
 their iniquity, And have caused to cease the excellency of the
 proud, And the excellency of the terrible I make low.
13:12 I make man more rare than fine gold, And a common man than
 pure gold of Ophir.
13:13 Therefore the heavens I cause to tremble, And the earth
 doth shake from its place, In the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts,
 And in a day of the heat of his anger.
13:14 And it hath been, as a roe driven away, And as a flock
 that hath no gatherer, Each unto his people -- they turn, And
 each unto his land -- they flee.
13:15 Every one who is found is thrust through, And every one
 who is added falleth by sword.
13:16 And their sucklings are dashed to pieces before their
 eyes, Spoiled are their houses, and their wives lain with.
13:17 Lo, I am stirring up against them the Medes, Who silver
 esteem not, And gold -- they delight not in it.
13:18 And bows dash young men to pieces, And the fruit of the
 womb they pity not, On sons their eye hath no pity.
13:19 And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, The glory, the
 excellency of the Chaldeans, Hath been as overthrown by God,
 With Sodom and with Gomorrah.
13:20 She doth not sit for ever, Nor continueth unto many
 generations, Nor doth Arab pitch tent there, And shepherds lie
 not down there.
13:21 And Ziim have lain down there, And full have been their
 houses of howlings, And dwelt there have daughters of an
 ostrich, And goats do skip there.
13:22 And Aiim have responded in his forsaken habitations, And
 dragons in palaces of delight, And near to come [is] her time,
 And her days are not drawn out!
14:1 Because Jehovah loveth Jacob, And hath fixed again on
 Israel, And given them rest on their own land, And joined hath
 been the sojourner to them, And they have been admitted to the
 house of Jacob.
14:2 And peoples have taken them, And have brought them in unto
 their place, And the house of Israel have inherited them, On
 the land of Jehovah, For men-servants and for maid-servants,
 And they have been captors of their captors, And have ruled
 over their exactors.
14:3 And it hath come to pass, In the day of Jehovah's giving
 rest to thee, From thy grief, and from thy trouble, And from
 the sharp bondage, That hath been served upon thee,
14:4 That thou hast taken up this simile Concerning the king of
 Babylon, and said, How hath the exactor ceased,
14:5 Ceased hath the golden one. Broken hath Jehovah the staff
 of the wicked, The sceptre of rulers.
14:6 He who is smiting peoples in wrath, A smiting without
 intermission, He who is ruling in anger nations, Pursuing
 without restraint!
14:7 At rest -- quiet hath been all the earth, They have broken
 forth [into] singing.
14:8 Even firs have rejoiced over thee, Cedars of Lebanon --
 [saying]: Since thou hast lain down, The hewer cometh not up
 against us.
14:9 Sheol beneath hath been troubled at thee, To meet thy
 coming in, It is waking up for thee Rephaim, All chiefs ones of
 earth, It hath raised up from their thrones All kings of
 nations.
14:10 All of them answer and say unto thee, Even thou hast
 become weak like us! Unto us thou hast become like!
14:11 Brought down to Sheol hath been thine excellency, The
 noise of thy psaltery, Under thee spread out hath been the
 worm, Yea, covering thee is the worm.
14:12 How hast thou fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son
 of the dawn! Thou hast been cut down to earth, O weakener of
 nations.
14:13 And thou saidst in thy heart: the heavens I go up, Above
 stars of God I raise my throne, And I sit in the mount of
 meeting in the sides of the north.
14:14 I go up above the heights of a thick cloud, I am like to
 the Most High.
14:15 Only -- unto Sheol thou art brought down, Unto the sides
 of the pit.
14:16 Thy beholders look to thee, to thee they attend, Is this
 the man causing the earth to tremble, Shaking kingdoms?
14:17 He hath made the world as a wilderness, And his cities he
 hath broken down, Of his bound ones he opened not the house.
14:18 All kings of nations -- all of them, Have lain down in
 honour, each in his house,
14:19 And -- thou hast been cast out of thy grave, As an
 abominable branch, raiment of the slain, Thrust through ones of
 the sword, Going down unto the sons of the pit, As a carcase
 trodden down.
14:20 Thou art not united with them in burial, For thy land thou
 hast destroyed, Thy people thou hast slain, Not named to the
 age is the seed of evil doers.
14:21 Prepare ye for his sons slaughter; Because of the iniquity
 of their fathers, They rise not, nor have possessed the land,
 Nor filled the face of the world [with] cities.
14:22 And I have risen up against them, (The affirmation of
 Jehovah of Hosts,) And have cut off, in reference to Babylon,
 Name and remnant, and continuator and successor, The
 affirmation of Jehovah.
14:23 And have made it for a possession of a bittern, And ponds
 of waters, And daubed it with the mire of destruction, The
 affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts!
14:24 Sworn hath Jehovah of Hosts, saying, `As I thought -- so
 hath it not been? And as I counselled -- it standeth;
14:25 To break Asshur in My land, And on My mountains I tread
 him down, And turned from off them hath his yoke, Yea, his
 burden from off their shoulder turneth aside.
14:26 This [is] the counsel that is counselled for all the
 earth, And this [is] the hand that is stretched out for all the
 nations.
14:27 For Jehovah of Hosts hath purposed, And who doth make
 void? And His hand that is stretched out, Who doth turn it
 back?'
14:28 In the year of the death of king Ahaz was this burden:
14:29 Rejoice not thou, Philistia, all of thee, That broken hath
 been the rod of thy smiter, For from the root of a serpent
 cometh out a viper, And its fruit [is] a flying saraph.
14:30 And delighted have the first-born of the poor, And the
 needy in confidence lie down, And I have put to death with
 famine thy root, And thy remnant it slayeth.
14:31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city, Melted art thou, Philistia, all
 of thee, For from the north smoke hath come, And there is none
 alone in his set places.
14:32 And what doth one answer the messengers of a nation? `That
 Jehovah hath founded Zion, And in it do the poor of His people
 trust!'
15:1 The burden of Moab. Because in a night destroyed was Ar of
 Moab -- It hath been cut off, Because in a night destroyed was
 Kir of Moab -- It hath been cut off.
15:2 He hath gone up to Bajith and Dibon, The high places -- to
 weep, On Nebo and on Medeba Moab howleth, On all its heads [is]
 baldness, every beard cut off.
15:3 In its out-places they girded on sackcloth, On its
 pinnacles, and in its broad places, Every one howleth -- going
 down with weeping.
15:4 And cry doth Heshbon and Elealeh, Unto Jahaz heard hath
 been their voice, Therefore the armed ones of Moab do shout,
 His life hath been grievous to him.
15:5 My heart [is] toward Moab, Cry do her fugitives unto Zoar,
 a heifer of the third [year], For -- the ascent of Luhith --
 With weeping he goeth up in it, For, in the way of Horonaim, A
 cry of destruction they wake up.
15:6 For, the waters of Nimrim are desolations, For, withered
 hath been the hay, Finished hath been the tender grass, A green
 thing there hath not been.
15:7 Therefore the abundance he made, and their store, Unto the
 brook of the willows they carry.
15:8 For gone round hath the cry the border of Moab, Unto Eglaim
 [is] its howling, And to Beer-Elim [is] its howling.
15:9 For the waters of Dimon have been full of blood, For I set
 on Dimon additions, For the escaped of Moab a lion, And for the
 remnant of Adamah!
16:1 Send ye a lamb [to] the ruler of the land, From Selah in
 the wilderness, Unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
16:2 And it hath come to pass, As a wandering bird, a nest cast
 out, Are daughters of Moab, [at] fords of Arnon.
16:3 Bring ye in counsel, do judgment, Make as night thy shadow
 in the midst of noon, Hide outcasts, the wanderer reveal not.
16:4 Sojourn in thee do My outcasts, O Moab, Be a secret
 hiding-place to them, From the face of a destroyer, For ceased
 hath the extortioner, Finished hath been a destroyer, Consumed
 the treaders down out of the land.
16:5 And established in kindness is the throne, And [one] hath
 sat on it in truth, in the tent of David, Judging and seeking
 judgment, and hasting righteousness.
16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab -- very proud, His
 pride, and his arrogance, and his wrath, Not right [are] his
 devices.
16:7 Therefore howl doth Moab for Moab, all of it doth howl, For
 the grape-cakes of Kir-Hareseth it meditateth, Surely they are
 smitten.
16:8 Because fields of Heshbon languish, The vine of Sibmah,
 Lords of nations did beat her choice vines, Unto Jazer they
 have come, They have wandered in a wilderness, Her plants have
 spread themselves, They have passed over a sea.
16:9 Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer, The vine of
 Sibmah, I water thee [with] my tear, O Heshbon and Elealeh, For
 -- for thy summer fruits, and for thy harvest, The shouting
 hath fallen.
16:10 And removed have been gladness and joy from the fruitful
 field, And in vineyards they sing not, nor shout, Wine in the
 presses treadeth not the treader, Shouting I have caused to
 cease.
16:11 Therefore my bowels for Moab as a harp do sound, And mine
 inward parts for Kir-Haresh.
16:12 And it hath come to pass, when it hath been seen, That
 weary hath been Moab on the high place, And he hath come unto
 his sanctuary to pray, And is not able.
16:13 This [is] the word that Jehovah hath spoken unto Moab from
 that time,
16:14 And now hath Jehovah spoken, saying, `In three years, as
 years of an hireling, Lightly esteemed is the honour of Moab,
 With all the great multitude, And the remnant [is] little,
 small, not mighty!'
17:1 The burden of Damascus. Lo, Damascus is taken away from
 [being] a city, And it hath been a heap -- a ruin.
17:2 Forsaken are the cities of Aroer, For droves they are, and
 they have lain down, And there is none troubling.
17:3 And ceased hath the fortress from Ephraim, And the kingdom
 from Damascus, And the remnant of Aram are as the honour of the
 sons of Israel, The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts!
17:4 And it hath come to pass, in that day, Wax poor doth the
 honour of Jacob, And the fatness of his flesh doth wax lean.
17:5 And it hath come to pass, As the gathering by the reaper of
 the standing corn, And his arm the ears reapeth, And it hath
 come to pass, As the gathering of the ears in the valley of
 Rephaim,
17:6 And left in him have been gleanings, As the compassing of
 an olive, Two -- three berries on the top of a branch,
 Four -- five on the fruitful boughs, The affirmation of
 Jehovah, God of Israel!
17:7 In that day doth man look to His Maker, Yea, his eyes to
 the Holy One of Israel look,
17:8 And he looketh not unto the altars. The work of his own
 hands, And that which his own fingers made He seeth not -- the
 shrines and the images.
17:9 In that day are the cities of his strength As the forsaken
 thing of the forest, And the branch that they have left,
 Because of the sons of Israel, It also hath been a desolation.
17:10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, And
 the rock of thy strength hast not remembered, Therefore thou
 plantest plants of pleasantness, And with a strange slip sowest
 it,
17:11 In the day thy plant thou causest to become great, And in
 the morning thy seed makest to flourish, A heap [is] the
 harvest in a day of overflowing, And of mortal pain.
17:12 Wo [to] the multitude of many peoples, As the sounding of
 seas they sound; And [to] the wasting of nations, As the
 wasting of mighty waters they are wasted.
17:13 Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He
 hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been
 pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing
 before a hurricane.
17:14 At even-time, lo, terror, before morning it is not, This
 [is] the portion of our spoilers, And the lot of our
 plunderers!
18:1 Ho, land shadowed [with] wings, That [is] beyond the rivers
 of Cush,
18:2 That is sending by sea ambassadors, Even with implements of
 reed on the face of the waters, -- Go, ye light messengers,
 Unto a nation drawn out and peeled, Unto a people fearful from
 its beginning and onwards, A nation meeting out by line, and
 treading down, Whose land floods have spoiled.
18:3 All ye inhabitants of the world, And ye dwellers of earth,
 At the lifting up of an ensign on hills ye look, And at the
 blowing of a trumpet ye hear.
18:4 For thus said Jehovah unto me, `I rest, and I look on My
 settled place, As a clear heat on an herb. As a thick cloud of
 dew in the heat of harvest.
18:5 For before harvest, when the flower is perfect, And the
 blossom is producing unripe fruit, Then hath [one] cut the
 sprigs with pruning hooks, And the branches he hath turned
 aside, cut down.
18:6 They are left together to the ravenous fowl of the
 mountains, And to the beast of the earth, And summered on them
 hath the ravenous fowl, And every beast of the earth wintereth
 on them.
18:7 At that time brought is a present to Jehovah of Hosts, A
 nation drawn out and peeled. Even of a people fearful from the
 beginning hitherto, A nation meting out by line, and treading
 down, Whose land floods have spoiled, Unto the place of the
 name of Jehovah of Hosts -- mount Zion!'
19:1 The burden of Egypt. Lo, Jehovah is riding on a swift thick
 cloud, And He hath entered Egypt, And moved have been the idols
 of Egypt at His presence, And the heart of Egypt melteth in its
 midst.
19:2 And I armed Egyptians against Egyptians, And they fought,
 each against his brother, And each against his neighbour, City
 against city, kingdom against kingdom.
19:3 And emptied out hath been in its midst the spirit of Egypt.
 And its counsel I swallow up, And they have sought unto the
 idols, And unto the charmers, And unto those having familiar
 spirits, And unto the wizards.
19:4 And I have delivered the Egyptians Into the hand of a hard
 lord, And a strong king doth rule over them, An affirmation of
 the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts.
19:5 And failed have waters from the sea, And a river is wasted
 and dried up.
19:6 And they have turned away the flowings, Weak and dried up
 have been brooks of the bulwark, Reed and flag have withered.
19:7 Exposed things by the brook, by the edge of the brook, And
 every sown thing of the brook, hath withered, It hath been
 driven away, and is not.
19:8 And lamented have the fishers, And mourned have all casting
 angle into a brook, And those spreading nets on the face of the
 waters have languished.
19:9 And ashamed have been makers of fine flax, And weavers of
 net-works.
19:10 And its foundations have been smitten, All making wages
 [are] afflicted in soul.
19:11 Only, fools [are] the princes of Zoan, The counsel of the
 wise ones of the counsellors of Pharaoh hath become brutish.
 How say ye unto Pharaoh, `A son of the wise am I, a son of
 kings of antiquity?'
19:12 Where [are] they now, thy wise ones? Yea, let them tell to
 thee, I pray thee, And they know what Jehovah of Hosts hath
 counselled against Egypt!
19:13 Foolish have been princes of Zoan, Lifted up have been
 princes of Noph, And they have caused Egypt to err, The chief
 of her tribes.
19:14 Jehovah hath mingled in her midst A spirit of
 perverseness, And they have caused Egypt to err in all its
 work, As a drunkard erreth in his vomit.
19:15 And there is no work to Egypt, That head or tail, branch
 or reed, may do.
19:16 In that day is Egypt like women, And it hath mourned, and
 been afraid, Because of the waving of the hand of Jehovah of
 Hosts, That He is waving over it.
19:17 And the land of Judah hath been to Egypt for a cause of
 staggering, Every one who doth mention it, for himself feareth,
 Because of the counsel of Jehovah of Hosts, That He is
 counselling against it.
19:18 In that day there are five cities in the land of Egypt,
 Speaking the lip of Canaan, And swearing to Jehovah of Hosts,
 `The city of destruction,' is said of one.
19:19 In that day there is an altar to Jehovah In the midst of
 the land of Egypt, And a standing pillar near its border to
 Jehovah,
19:20 And it hath been for a sign and for a testimony, To
 Jehovah of Hosts in the land of Egypt, For they cry unto
 Jehovah from the face of oppressors, And He sendeth to them a
 saviour, Even a great one, and hath delivered them.
19:21 And known hath been Jehovah to Egypt, And the Egyptians
 have known Jehovah in that day, And done sacrifice and present,
 And vowed a vow to Jehovah, and completed [it].
19:22 And Jehovah hath smitten Egypt, smiting and healing, And
 they have turned back unto Jehovah, And He hath been entreated
 of them, And hath healed them.
19:23 In that day is a highway out of Egypt to Asshur, And come
 in have the Assyrians to Egypt, And the Egyptians into Asshur,
 And the Egyptians have served with the Assyrians.
19:24 In that day is Israel third, After Egypt, and after
 Asshur, A blessing in the heart of the earth.
19:25 In that Jehovah of Hosts did bless it, saying, `Blessed
 [is] My people -- Egypt, And the work of My hands -- Asshur,
 And Mine inheritance -- Israel!'
20:1 In the year of the coming in of Tartan to Ashdod, when
 Sargon king of Asshur sendeth him, and he fighteth against
 Ashdod, and captureth it,
20:2 at that time spake Jehovah by the hand of Isaiah son of
 Amoz, saying, `Go, and thou hast loosed the sackcloth from off
 thy loins, and thy sandal thou dost draw from off thy foot,'
 and he doth so, going naked and barefoot.
20:3 And Jehovah saith, `As My servant Isaiah hath gone naked
 and barefoot three years, a sign and a wonder for Egypt and for
 Cush,
20:4 so doth the king of Asshur lead the captivity of Egypt, and
 the removal of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot, with
 seat uncovered -- the nakedness of Egypt;
20:5 and they have been affrighted and ashamed of Cush their
 confidence, and of Egypt their beauty,
20:6 and the inhabitant of this isle hath said in that day --
 Lo, thus [is] our trust, Whither we have fled for help, To be
 delivered from the king of Asshur, And how do we escape -- we?'
21:1 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. `Like hurricanes
 in the south for passing through, From the wilderness it hath
 come, From a fearful land.
21:2 A hard vision hath been declared to me, The treacherous
 dealer is dealing treacherously, And the destroyer is
 destroying. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Media, All its sighing I
 have caused to cease.
21:3 Therefore filled have been my loins [with] great pain,
 Pangs have seized me as pangs of a travailing woman, I have
 been bent down by hearing, I have been troubled by seeing.
21:4 Wandered hath my heart, trembling hath terrified me, The
 twilight of my desire He hath made a fear to me,
21:5 Arrange the table, watch in the watch-tower, Eat, drink,
 rise, ye heads, anoint the shield,
21:6 For thus said the Lord unto me: `Go, station the watchman,
 That which he seeth let him declare.'
21:7 And he hath seen a chariot -- a couple of horsemen, The
 rider of an ass, the rider of a camel, And he hath given
 attention -- He hath increased attention!
21:8 And he crieth -- a lion, `On a watch-tower my lord, I am
 standing continually by day, And on my ward I am stationed
 whole nights.
21:9 And lo, this, the chariot of a man is coming, A couple of
 horsemen.' And he answereth and saith: `Fallen, fallen hath
 Babylon, And all the graven images of her gods He hath broken
 to the earth.
21:10 O my threshing, and the son of my floor, That which I
 heard from Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, I have declared to
 you!'
21:11 The burden of Dumah. Unto me is [one] calling from Seir
 `Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?'
21:12 The watchman hath said, `Come hath morning, and also
 night, If ye inquire, inquire ye, turn back, come.'
21:13 The burden on Arabia. In a forest in Arabia ye lodge, O
 travellers of Dedanim.
21:14 To meet the thirsty brought water have Inhabitants of the
 land of Tema, With his bread they came before a fugitive.
21:15 For from the face of destructions they fled, From the face
 of a stretched-out sword, And from the face of a trodden bow,
 And from the face of the grievousness of battle.
21:16 For thus said the Lord unto me: `Within a year, as years
 of a hireling, Consumed hath been all the honour of Kedar.
21:17 And the remnant of the number of bow-men, The mighty of
 the sons of Kedar are few, For Jehovah, God of Israel, hath
 spoken!'
22:1 The burden of the Valley of Vision. What -- to thee, now,
 that thou hast gone up, All of thee -- to the roofs?
22:2 Full of stirs -- a noisy city -- an exulting city, Thy
 pierced are not pierced of the sword, Nor dead in battle.
22:3 All thy rulers fled together from the bow, Bound have been
 all found of thee, They have been kept bound together, Afar off
 they have fled.
22:4 Therefore I said, `Look ye from me, I am bitter in my
 weeping, Haste not to comfort me, For the destruction of the
 daughter of my people.'
22:5 For a day of noise, and of treading down, And of
 perplexity, [is] to the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In the valley
 of vision, digging down a wall, And crying unto the mountain.
22:6 And Elam hath borne a quiver, In a chariot of men --
 horsemen, And Kir hath exposed a shield.
22:7 And it cometh to pass, The choice of thy valleys have been
 full of chariots, And the horsemen place themselves diligently
 at the gate.
22:8 And one removeth the covering of Judah, And thou lookest in
 that day Unto the armour of the house of the forest,
22:9 And the breaches of the city of David ye have seen, For
 they have become many, And ye gather the waters of the lower
 pool,
22:10 And the houses of Jerusalem ye did number, And ye break
 down the houses to fence the wall.
22:11 And a ditch ye made between the two walls, For the waters
 of the old pool, And ye have not looked unto its Maker, And its
 Framer of old ye have not seen.
22:12 And call doth the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In that day, to
 weeping and to lamentation, And to baldness and to girding on
 of sackcloth,
22:13 And lo, joy and gladness, slaying of oxen, And
 slaughtering of sheep, Eating of flesh, and drinking of wine,
 Eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.
22:14 And revealed it hath been in mine ears, [By] Jehovah of
 Hosts: Not pardoned is this iniquity to you, Till ye die, said
 the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts.
22:15 Thus said the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts: `Go, enter in unto
 this steward, Unto Shebna, who [is] over the house:
22:16 What -- to thee here? And who -- to thee here? That thou
 hast hewn out to thee here -- a sepulchre? Hewing on high his
 sepulchre, Graving in a rock a dwelling for himself.
22:17 Lo, Jehovah is casting thee up and down, A casting up and
 down, O mighty one,
22:18 And thy coverer covering, wrapping round, Wrappeth thee
 round, O babbler, On a land broad of sides -- there thou diest,
 And there the chariots of thine honour [Are] the shame of the
 house of thy lord.
22:19 And I have thrust thee from thy station, And from thine
 office he throweth thee down.
22:20 And it hath come to pass, in that day, That I have called
 to my servant, To Eliakim son of Hilkiah.
22:21 And I have clothed him with thy coat, And with thy girdle
 I strengthen him, And thy garment I give into his hand, And he
 hath been for a father to the inhabitant of Jerusalem, And to
 the house of Judah.
22:22 And I have placed the key Of the house of David on his
 shoulder, And he hath opened, and none is shutting, And hath
 shut, and none is opening.
22:23 And I have fixed him a nail in a stedfast place, And he
 hath been for a throne of honour To the house of his father.
22:24 And they have hanged on him All the honour of the house of
 his father, The offspring and the issue, All vessels of small
 quality, From vessels of basins to all vessels of flagons.
22:25 In that day -- an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Moved
 is the nail that is fixed In a stedfast place, Yea, it hath
 been cut down, and hath fallen, And cut off hath been the
 burden that [is] on it, For Jehovah hath spoken!'
23:1 The Burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, For it hath
 been destroyed, Without house, without entrance, From the land
 of Chittim it was revealed to them.
23:2 Be silent, ye inhabitants of the isle, Trader of Zidon,
 passing the sea, they filled thee.
23:3 And in many waters [is] the seed of Sihor, The harvest of
 the brook [is] her increase, And she is a mart of nations.
23:4 Be ashamed, O Zidon; for the sea spake, The strength of the
 sea, saying: `I have not been pained, nor have I brought forth,
 Nor have I nourished young men, [nor] brought up virgins.'
23:5 As [at] the report of Egypt they are pained, So [at] the
 report of Tyre.
23:6 Pass over to Tarshish, howl, ye inhabitants of the isle,
23:7 Is this your exulting one? From the days of old [is] her
 antiquity, Carry her do her own feet afar off to sojourn.
23:8 Who hath counselled this against Tyre, The crowning one,
 whose traders [are] princes, Her merchants the honoured of
 earth?'
23:9 Jehovah of Hosts hath counselled it, To pollute the
 excellency of all beauty, To make light all the honoured of
 earth.
23:10 Pass through thy land as a brook, Daughter of Tarshish,
 there is no more a girdle.
23:11 His hand He hath stretched out over the sea, He hath
 caused kingdoms to tremble, Jehovah hath charged concerning the
 merchant one, To destroy her strong places.
23:12 And He saith, `Thou dost not add any more to exult, O
 oppressed one, virgin daughter of Zidon, To Chittim arise, pass
 over, Even there -- there is no rest for thee.'
23:13 Lo, the land of the Chaldeans -- this people was not,
 Asshur founded it for the Ziim, They raised its watch-towers,
 They lifted up her palaces, -- He hath appointed her for a
 ruin!
23:14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, For your strength hath been
 destroyed.
23:15 And it hath come to pass, in that day, That forgotten is
 Tyre seventy years, According to the days of one king. At the
 end of seventy years there is to Tyre as the song of the
 harlot.
23:16 Take a harp, go round the city, O forgotten harlot, play
 well, Multiply song that thou mayest be remembered.
23:17 And it hath come to pass, At the end of seventy years
 Jehovah inspecteth Tyre, And she hath repented of her gift,
 That she committed fornication With all kingdoms of the earth
 on the face of the ground.
23:18 And her merchandise and her gift have been holy to
 Jehovah, Not treasured up nor stored, For to those sitting
 before Jehovah is her merchandise, To eat to satiety, and for a
 lasting covering!
24:1 Lo, Jehovah is emptying the land, And is making it waste,
 And hath overturned [it on] its face, And hath scattered its
 inhabitants.
24:2 And it hath been -- as a people so a priest, As the servant
 so his master, As the maid-servant so her mistress, As the
 buyer so the seller, As the lender so the borrower, As the
 usurer so he who is lifting [it] on himself.
24:3 Utterly emptied is the land, and utterly spoiled, For
 Jehovah hath spoken this word:
24:4 Mourned, faded hath the land, Languished, faded hath the
 world, Languished have they -- the high place of the people of
 the land.
24:5 And the land hath been defiled under its inhabitants,
 Because they have transgressed laws, They have changed a
 statute, They have made void a covenant age-during.
24:6 Therefore a curse hath consumed the land, And the
 inhabitants in it are become desolate, Therefore consumed have
 been inhabitants of the land, And few men have been left.
24:7 Mourned hath the new wine, languished the vine, Sighed have
 all the joyful of heart.
24:8 Ceased hath the joy of tabrets, Ceased hath the noise of
 exulting ones, Ceased hath the joy of a harp.
24:9 With a song they drink not wine, Bitter is strong drink to
 those drinking it.
24:10 It was broken down -- a city of emptiness, Shut hath been
 every house from entrance.
24:11 A cry over the wine [is] in out-places, Darkened hath been
 all joy, Removed hath been the joy of the land.
24:12 Left in the city [is] desolation, And [with] wasting is
 the gate smitten.
24:13 When thus it is in the heart of the land, In the midst of
 the peoples, As the compassing of the olive, As gleanings when
 harvest hath been finished,
24:14 They -- they lift up their voice, They sing of the
 excellency of Jehovah, They have cried aloud from the sea.
24:15 Therefore in prosperity honour ye Jehovah, In isles of the
 sea, the name of Jehovah, God of Israel.
24:16 From the skirt of the earth we heard songs, The desire of
 the righteous. And I say, `Leanness [is] to me, Leanness [is]
 to me, wo [is] to me.' Treacherous dealers dealt treacherously,
 Yea, treachery, treacherous dealers dealt treacherously.
24:17 Fear, and a snare, and a gin, [Are] on thee, O inhabitant
 of the land.
24:18 And it hath come to pass, He who is fleeing from the noise
 of the fear Doth fall into the snare, And he who is coming up
 from the midst of the snare, Is captured by the gin, For
 windows on high have been opened, And shaken are foundations of
 the land.
24:19 Utterly broken down hath been the land, Utterly broken
 hath been the land, Utterly moved hath been the land.
24:20 Stagger greatly doth the land as a drunkard, And it hath
 been moved as a lodge, And heavy on it hath been its
 transgression, And it hath fallen, and addeth not to rise.
24:21 And it hath come to pass, in that day, Jehovah layeth a
 charge on the host of the high place in the high place, And on
 the kings of the land on the land.
24:22 And they have been gathered -- A gathering of bound ones
 in a pit, And shut up they have been in a prison, And after a
 multitude of days are inspected.
24:23 And confounded hath been the moon, And ashamed hath been
 the sun, For reigned hath Jehovah of Hosts In mount Zion, and
 in Jerusalem, And over-against His elders -- honour!
25:1 O Jehovah, my God [art] Thou, I exalt Thee, I confess Thy
 name, For Thou hast done a wonderful thing, Counsels of old,
 stedfastness, O stedfast One.
25:2 For Thou didst make of a city a heap, Of a fenced city a
 ruin, A high place of strangers from [being] a city, To the age
 it is not built.
25:3 Therefore honour Thee do a strong people, A city of the
 terrible nations feareth Thee.
25:4 For Thou hast been a stronghold for the poor, A stronghold
 for the needy in his distress, A refuge from storm, a shadow
 from heat, When the spirit of the terrible [is] as a storm -- a
 wall.
25:5 As heat in a dry place, The noise of strangers Thou
 humblest, Heat with the shadow of a thick cloud, The singing of
 the terrible is humbled.
25:6 And made hath Jehovah of Hosts, For all the peoples in this
 mount, A banquet of fat things, a banquet of preserved things,
 Fat things full of marrow, preserved things refined.
25:7 And swallowed up hath He in this mountain The face of the
 wrapping that is wrapped over all the peoples, And of the
 covering that is spread over all the nations.
25:8 He hath swallowed up death in victory, And wiped hath the
 Lord Jehovah, The tear from off all faces, And the reproach of
 His people He turneth aside from off all the earth, For Jehovah
 hath spoken.
25:9 And [one] hath said in that day, `Lo, this [is] our God, We
 waited for Him, and He saveth us, This [is] Jehovah, we have
 waited for Him, We joy and rejoice in His salvation.'
25:10 For rest doth the hand of Jehovah on this mountain, And
 trodden down is Moab under Him, As trodden down is straw on a
 dunghill.
25:11 And he spread out his hands in its midst, As spread out
 doth the swimmer to swim; And He hath humbled his excellency
 With the machinations of his hands.
25:12 And the fortress of the high place of thy walls He hath
 bowed down -- He hath made low, He hath caused [it] to come to
 the earth, -- unto dust.
26:1 In that day sung is this song in the land of Judah: `We
 have a strong city, Salvation He doth make walls and bulwark.
26:2 Open ye the gates, that enter may a righteous nation,
 Preserving stedfastness.
26:3 An imagination supported Thou fortifiest peace -- peace!
 For in Thee it is confident.
26:4 Trust ye in Jehovah for ever, For in Jah Jehovah [is] a
 rock of ages,
26:5 For He bowed down the dwellers on high, A city set on high
 He maketh low, He maketh it low unto the earth, He causeth it
 to come unto the dust,
26:6 Tread it down doth a foot, Feet of the poor -- steps of the
 weak.
26:7 The path for the righteous [is] uprightness, O upright One,
 The path of the righteous Thou dost ponder.
26:8 Also, [in] the path of Thy judgments, O Jehovah, we have
 waited [for] Thee, To Thy name and to Thy remembrance [Is] the
 desire of the soul.
26:9 [With] my soul I desired Thee in the night, Also, [with] my
 spirit within me I seek Thee earnestly, For when Thy judgments
 [are] on the earth, The inhabitants of the world have learned
 righteousness.
26:10 The wicked findeth favour, He hath not learned
 righteousness, In a land of straightforwardness he dealeth
 perversely, And seeth not the excellency of Jehovah.
26:11 O Jehovah, high [is] Thy hand -- they see not, They see
 the zeal of the people, and are ashamed, Also, the fire --
 Thine adversaries, consumeth them.
26:12 O Jehovah, Thou appointest peace to us, For, all our works
 also Thou hast wrought for us.
26:13 O Jehovah our God, lords have ruled us besides Thee, Only,
 by Thee we make mention of Thy name.
26:14 Dead -- they live not, Rephaim, they rise not, Therefore
 Thou hast inspected and dost destroy them, Yea, thou destroyest
 all their memory.
26:15 Thou hast added to the nation, O Jehovah, Thou hast added
 to the nation, Thou hast been honoured, Thou hast put far off
 all the ends of earth.
26:16 O Jehovah, in distress they missed Thee, They have poured
 out a whisper, Thy chastisement [is] on them.
26:17 When a pregnant woman cometh near to the birth, She is
 pained -- she crieth in her pangs, So we have been from Thy
 face, O Jehovah.
26:18 We have conceived, we have been pained. We have brought
 forth as it were wind, Salvation we do not work in the earth,
 Nor do the inhabitants of the world fall.
26:19 `Thy dead live -- My dead body they rise. Awake and sing,
 ye dwellers in the dust, For the dew of herbs [is] thy dew, And
 the land of Rephaim thou causest to fall.
26:20 Come, My people, enter into thy inner chambers, And shut
 thy doors behind thee, Hide thyself shortly a moment till the
 indignation pass over.
26:21 For, lo, Jehovah is coming out of His place, To charge the
 iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth upon him, And revealed
 hath the earth her blood, Nor doth she cover any more her
 slain!'
27:1 In that day lay a charge doth Jehovah, With his sword --
 the sharp, and the great, and the strong, On leviathan -- a
 fleeing serpent, And on leviathan -- a crooked serpent, And He
 hath slain the dragon that [is] in the sea.
27:2 In that day, `A desirable vineyard,' respond ye to her,
27:3 I, Jehovah, am its keeper, every moment I water it, Lest
 any lay a charge against it, Night and day I keep it!
27:4 Fury is not in Me; Who giveth Me a brier -- a thorn in
 battle? I step into it, I burn it at once.
27:5 Or -- he doth take hold on My strength, He doth make peace
 with Me, Peace he doth make with Me.
27:6 Those coming in He causeth to take root, Jacob doth
 blossom, and flourished hath Israel, And they have filled the
 face of the world [with] increase.
27:7 As the smiting of his smiter hath He smitten him? As the
 slaying of his slain doth He slay?
27:8 In measure, in sending it forth, thou strivest with it, He
 hath taken away by His sharp wind, In the day of an east wind,
27:9 Therefore by this is the iniquity of Jacob covered, And
 this [is] all the fruit -- To take away his sin, in His setting
 all the stones of an altar, As chalkstones beaten in pieces,
 They rise not -- shrines and images.
27:10 For the fenced city [is] alone, A habitation cast out and
 forsaken as a wilderness, There doth the calf delight, And
 there it lieth down, And hath consumed its branches.
27:11 In the withering of its branch it is broken off, Women are
 coming in setting it on fire, For it [is] not a people of
 understanding, Therefore pity it not doth its Maker, And its
 Former doth not favour it.
27:12 And it hath come to pass, in that day, Beat out doth
 Jehovah from the branch of the river, Unto the stream of Egypt,
 And ye are gathered one by one, O sons of Israel.
27:13 And it hath come to pass, in that day, It is blown with a
 great trumpet, And come in have those perishing in the land of
 Asshur, And those cast out in the land of Egypt, And have bowed
 themselves to Jehovah, In the holy mount -- in Jerusalem!
28:1 Wo [to] the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim. And
 the fading flower of the beauty of his glory, That [is] on the
 head of the fat valley of the broken down of wine.
28:2 Lo, a mighty and strong one [is] to the Lord, As a storm of
 hail -- a destructive shower, As an inundation of mighty waters
 overflowing, He cast down to the earth with the hand.
28:3 By feet trodden down is the proud crown of the drunkards of
 Ephraim,
28:4 And the fading flower of the beauty of his glory That [is]
 on the head of the fat valley, Hath been as its first-fruit
 before summer, That its beholder seeth, While it [is] yet in
 his hand he swalloweth it.
28:5 In that day is Jehovah of Hosts For a crown of beauty, and
 for a diadem of glory, To the remnant of His people.
28:6 And for a spirit of judgment To him who is sitting in the
 judgment, And for might [to] those turning back the battle to
 the gate.
28:7 And even these through wine have erred, And through strong
 drink have wandered, Priest and prophet erred through strong
 drink, They have been swallowed up of the wine, They wandered
 because of the strong drink, They have erred in seeing, They
 have stumbled judicially.
28:8 For all tables have been full of vomit, Filth -- without
 place!
28:9 By whom doth He teach knowledge? And by whom doth He cause
 to understand the report? The weaned from milk, the removed
 from breasts,
28:10 For rule [is] on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on
 line, A little here, a little there,
28:11 For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, Doth He speak
 unto this people.
28:12 Unto whom He hath said, `This [is] the rest, give ye rest
 to the weary, And this -- the refreshing:' And they have not
 been willing to hear,
28:13 And to whom a word of Jehovah hath been, Rule on rule,
 rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little here, a
 little there, So that they go and have stumbled backward, And
 been broken, and snared, and captured.
28:14 Therefore, hear a word of Jehovah, ye men of scorning,
 Ruling this people that [is] in Jerusalem.
28:15 Because ye have said: `We have made a covenant with death,
 And with Sheol we have made a provision, An overflowing
 scourge, when it passeth over, Doth not meet us, Though we have
 made a lie our refuge, And in falsehood have been hidden.'
28:16 Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: `Lo, I am laying a
 foundation in Zion, A stone -- a tried stone, a corner stone
 precious, a settled foundation, He who is believing doth not
 make haste.
28:17 And I have put judgment for a line, And righteousness for
 a plummet, And sweep away doth hail the refuge of lies, And the
 secret hiding-place do waters overflow.
28:18 And disannulled hath been your covenant with death, And
 your provision with Sheol doth not stand, An overflowing
 scourge, when it passeth over, Then ye have been to it for a
 treading-place.
28:19 From the fulness of its passing over it taketh you, For
 morning by morning it passeth over, By day and by night, And it
 hath been only a trembling to consider the report.
28:20 For shorter hath been the bed Than to stretch one's self
 out in, And the covering hath been narrower Than to wrap one's
 self up in.
28:21 For as [at] mount Perazim rise doth Jehovah, As [at] the
 valley in Gibeon He is troubled, To do His work -- strange [is]
 His work, And to do His deed -- strange [is] His deed.'
28:22 And now, show not yourselves scorners, Lest strong be
 your bands, For a consumption, that is determined, I have
 heard, by the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, [Is] for all the land.
28:23 Give ear, and hear my voice, Attend, and hear my saying:
28:24 The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth
 and harroweth his ground!
28:25 Hath he not, if he have made level its face, Then
 scattered fitches, and cummin sprinkle, And hath placed the
 principal wheat, And the appointed barley, And the rie [in] its
 own border?
28:26 And instruct him for judgment doth his God, He doth direct
 him.
28:27 For not with a sharp-pointed thing threshed are fitches,
 And the wheel of a cart on cummin turned round, For with a
 staff beaten out are fitches, And cummin with a rod.
28:28 Bread-[corn] is beaten small, For not for ever doth he
 sorely thresh it, Nor crushed [it] hath a wheel of his cart,
 Nor do his hoofs beat it small.
28:29 Even this from Jehovah of Hosts hath gone out, He hath
 made counsel wonderful, He hath made wisdom great!
29:1 Wo [to] Ariel, Ariel, The city of the encampment of David!
 Add year to year, let festivals go round.
29:2 And I have sent distress to Ariel, And it hath been
 lamentation and mourning, And it hath been to me as Ariel.
29:3 And I encamped, O babbler, against thee, And I laid siege
 against thee -- a camp. And I raised up against thee bulwarks.
29:4 And thou hast been low, From the earth thou speakest, And
 from the dust makest thy saying low, And thy voice hath been
 from the earth, As one having a familiar spirit, And from the
 dust thy saying whisperest,
29:5 And as small dust hath been The multitude of those
 scattering thee, And as chaff passing on the multitude of the
 terrible, And it hath been at an instant -- suddenly.
29:6 By Jehovah of Hosts thou art inspected, With thunder, and
 with an earthquake, And great noise, hurricane, and whirlwind,
 And flame of devouring fire.
29:7 And as a dream, a vision of night, hath been The multitude
 of all the nations Who are warring against Ariel, And all its
 warriors, and its bulwark, Even of those distressing her.
29:8 And it hath been, as when the hungry dreameth, And lo, he
 is eating, And he hath waked, and empty [is] his soul, And as
 when the thirsty dreameth, And lo, he is drinking, and he hath
 waked, And lo, he is weary, and his soul is longing, So is the
 multitude of all the nations Who are warring against mount
 Zion.
29:9 Tarry and wonder, look ye, yea, look, Be drunk, and not
 with wine, Stagger, and not with strong drink.
29:10 For poured out on you hath Jehovah a spirit of deep sleep,
 And He closeth your eyes -- the prophets, And your heads -- the
 seers -- He covered.
29:11 And the vision of the whole is to you, As words of the
 sealed book, That they give unto one knowing books, Saying,
 `Read this, we pray thee,' And he hath said, `I am not able,
 for it [is] sealed;'
29:12 And the book is given to him who hath not known books,
 Saying, `Read this, we pray thee,' And he hath said, `I have
 not known books.'
29:13 And the Lord saith: Because drawn near hath this people,
 with its mouth, And with its lips they have honoured Me, And
 its heart it hath put far off from Me, And their fear of Me is
 -- A precept of men is taught!
29:14 Therefore, lo, I am adding to do wonderfully with this
 people, A wonder, and a marvel, And perished hath the wisdom of
 its wise ones, And the understanding of its intelligent ones
 hideth itself.'
29:15 Wo [to] those going deep from Jehovah to hide counsel, And
 whose works have been in darkness. And they say, `Who is seeing
 us? And who is knowing us?'
29:16 Your perversion! as clay is the potter esteemed? That the
 work saith of its maker, `He hath not made me?' And the framed
 thing said of its framer, `He did not understand?'
29:17 Is it not yet a very little, And turned hath Lebanon to a
 fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is
 reckoned?
29:18 And heard in that day have the deaf the words of a book,
 And out of thick darkness, and out of darkness, The eyes of the
 blind do see.
29:19 And the humble have added joy in Jehovah, And the poor
 among men In the Holy One of Israel rejoice.
29:20 For ceased hath the terrible one, And consumed hath been
 the scorner, And cut off have been all watching for iniquity,
29:21 Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate
 lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.
29:22 Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Who ransomed Abraham,
 Concerning the house of Jacob: `Not now ashamed is Jacob, Nor
 now doth his face become pale,
29:23 For in his seeing his children, The work of My hand, in
 his midst, They sanctify My name, And have sanctified the Holy
 One of Jacob, And the God of Israel they declare fearful.
29:24 And the erring in spirit have known understanding, And
 murmurers learn doctrine!'
30:1 Wo [to] apostate sons, The affirmation of Jehovah! To do
 counsel, and not from Me, And to spread out a covering, and not
 of My spirit, So as to add sin to sin.
30:2 Who are walking to go down to Egypt, And My mouth have not
 asked, To be strong in the strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in
 the shadow of Egypt.
30:3 And the strength of Pharaoh Hath been to you for shame, And
 the trust in the shadow of Egypt confusion,
30:4 For in Zoan were his princes, And his messengers reach
 Hanes.
30:5 All he made ashamed of a people that profit not, Neither
 for help, not for profit, But for shame, and also for reproach!
30:6 The burden of the beasts of the south. Into a land of
 adversity and distress, Of young lion and of old lion, Whence
 [are] viper and flying saraph, They carry on the shoulder of
 asses their wealth, And on the hump of camels their treasures,
 Unto a people not profitable.
30:7 Yea, Egyptians [are] vanity, and in vain do help, Therefore
 I have cried concerning this: `Their strength [is] to sit
 still.'
30:8 No, go in, write it on a tablet with them, And on a book
 engrave it, And it is for a latter day, for a witness unto the
 age,
30:9 That a rebellious people [is] this, sons -- liars, Sons not
 willing to hear the law of Jehovah.
30:10 Who have said to seers, `Ye do not see,' And to prophets,
 `Ye do not prophesy to us Straightforward things, Speak to us
 smooth things, prophesy deceits,
30:11 Turn aside from the way, decline from the path, Cause to
 cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.'
30:12 Therefore, thus said the Holy One of Israel, Because of
 your kicking against this word, And ye trust in oppression, And
 perverseness, and rely on it,
30:13 Therefore is this iniquity to you as a breach falling,
 Swelled out in a wall set on high, Whose destruction suddenly,
 at an instant cometh.
30:14 And He hath broken it As the breaking of the potters'
 bottle, Beaten down -- He doth not spare, Nor is there found,
 in its beating down, A potsherd to take fire from the burning,
 And to draw out waters from a ditch.
30:15 For thus said the Lord Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel:
 `In returning and rest ye are saved, In keeping quiet and in
 confidence is your might, And ye have not been willing.
30:16 And ye say, No, for on a horse we flee? Therefore ye flee,
 And on the swift we ride! Therefore swift are your pursuers.
30:17 One thousand because of the rebuke of one, Because of the
 rebuke of five ye flee, Till ye have been surely left as a pole
 On the top of the mountain, And as an ensign on the height.
30:18 And therefore doth wait Jehovah to favour you, And
 therefore He is exalted to pity you, For a God of judgment [is]
 Jehovah, O the blessedness of all waiting for Him.
30:19 For the people in Zion dwell in Jerusalem, Weep thou not,
 weeping, Pitying, He pitieth thee at the voice of thy cry, When
 He heareth He answereth thee.
30:20 And the Lord hath given to you bread of adversity, And
 water of oppression. And thy directors remove no more, And
 thine eyes have seen thy directors,
30:21 And thine ear heareth a word behind thee, Saying, `This
 [is] the way, go ye in it,' When ye turn to the right, And when
 ye turn to the left.
30:22 And ye have defiled the covering of Thy graven images of
 silver, And the ephod of thy molten image of gold, Thou
 scatterest them as a sickening thing, `Go out,' thou sayest to
 it.
30:23 And He hath given rain [for] thy seed, With which thou
 dost sow the ground, And bread, the increase of the ground, And
 it hath been fat and plenteous, Enjoy do thy cattle in that day
 an enlarged pasture.
30:24 And the oxen and the young asses serving the ground,
 Fermented provender do eat, That one is winnowing with shovel
 and fan.
30:25 And there hath been on every high mount, And on every
 exalted hill, Rivulets -- streams of waters, In a day of much
 slaughter, in the falling of towers.
30:26 And the light of the moon hath been as the light of the
 sun, And the light of the sun is sevenfold, As the light of
 seven days, In the day of Jehovah's binding up the breach of
 His people, When the stroke of its wound He healeth.
30:27 Lo, the name of Jehovah is coming from far, Burning is His
 anger, and great the flame, His lips have been full of
 indignation, And His tongue [is] as a devouring fire.
30:28 And His breath [is] as an overflowing stream, Unto the
 neck it divideth, To sift nations with a sieve of vanity, And a
 bridle causing to err, [Is] on the jaws of the peoples.
30:29 Singing is to you as in a night sanctified for a festival,
 And joy of heart as he who is going with a pipe, To go in to
 the mountain of Jehovah, Unto the rock of Israel.
30:30 And caused to be heard hath Jehovah The honour of His
 voice, And the coming down of His arm He doth shew with the
 raging of anger, And the flame of a consuming fire, Scattering,
 and inundation, and hailstone.
30:31 For from the voice of Jehovah broken down [is] Asshur,
 With a rod He smiteth.
30:32 And every passage of the settled staff, That Jehovah
 causeth to rest on him, Hath been with tabrets, and with harps,
 And in battles of shaking he hath fought with it.
30:33 For, arranged from former time is Tophet, Even it for the
 king is prepared, He hath made deep, He hath made large, Its
 pile [is] fire and much wood, The breath of Jehovah, As a
 stream of brim stone, is burning in it!
31:1 Wo [to] those going down to Egypt for help, And on horses
 lean, And trust on chariots, because many, And on horsemen,
 because very strong, And have not looked on the Holy One of
 Israel, And Jehovah have not sought.
31:2 And He also [is] wise, and bringeth in evil, And His words
 He hath not turned aside, And He hath risen against a house of
 evil doers, And against the help of workers of iniquity.
31:3 And the Egyptians [are men], and not God, And their horses
 [are] flesh, and not spirit, And Jehovah stretcheth out His
 hand, And stumbled hath the helper, And fallen hath the helped
 one, And together all of them are consumed.
31:4 For thus said Jehovah unto me: `As growl doth the lion and
 the young lion over his prey, Called against whom is a
 multitude of shepherds, From their voice he is not affrighted,
 And from their noise he is not humbled; So come down doth
 Jehovah of Hosts To war on mount Zion, and on her height.
31:5 As birds flying, so doth Jehovah of Hosts Cover over
 Jerusalem, covering and delivering, Passing over, and causing
 to escape.'
31:6 Turn back to Him from whom sons of Israel Have deepened
 apostacy.
31:7 For in that day despise doth each His idols of silver, and
 his idols of gold, That your hands made to you -- a sin.
31:8 And fallen hath Asshur by sword, not of the high, Yea, a
 sword -- not of the low, doth consume him, And he hath fled for
 himself from the face of a sword, And his young men become
 tributary.
31:9 And [to] his rock from fear he passeth on, And affrighted
 by the ensign have been his princes -- an affirmation of
 Jehovah, Who hath a light in Zion, And who hath a furnace in
 Jerusalem!
32:1 Lo, for righteousness doth a king reign, As to princes, for
 judgment they rule.
32:2 And each hath been as a hiding-place [from] wind, And as a
 secret hiding-place [from] inundation, As rivulets of waters in
 a dry place, As a shadow of a heavy rock in a weary land.
32:3 And not dazzled are the eyes of beholders, And the ears of
 hearers do attend.
32:4 And the heart of those hastened Understandeth to know, And
 the tongue of stammerers hasteth to speak clearly.
32:5 A fool is no more called `noble,' And to a miser it is not
 said, `rich;'
32:6 For a fool speaketh folly, And his heart doth iniquity, to
 do profanity, And to speak concerning Jehovah error, To empty
 the soul of the hungry, Yea, drink of the thirsty he causeth to
 lack.
32:7 And the miser -- his instruments [are] evil, He hath
 counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying
 sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly.
32:8 And the noble counselled noble things, And he for noble
 things riseth up.
32:9 Women, easy ones, rise, hear my voice, Daughters, confident
 ones, give ear [to] my saying,
32:10 Days and a year ye are troubled, O confident ones, For
 consumed hath been harvest, The gathering cometh not.
32:11 Tremble ye women, ye easy ones, Be troubled, ye confident
 ones, Strip and make bare, with a girdle on the loins,
32:12 For breasts they are lamenting, For fields of desire, for
 the fruitful vine.
32:13 Over the ground of my people thorn -- brier goeth up,
 Surely over all houses of joy of the exulting city,
32:14 Surely the palace hath been left, The multitude of the
 city forsaken, Fort and watch-tower hath been for dens unto the
 age, A joy of wild asses -- a pasture of herds;
32:15 Till emptied out on us is the Spirit from on high, And a
 wilderness hath become a fruitful field, And the fruitful field
 for a forest is reckoned.
32:16 And dwelt in the wilderness hath judgment, And
 righteousness in the fruitful field remaineth.
32:17 And a work of the righteousness hath been peace, And a
 service of the righteousness -- Keeping quiet and confidence
 unto the age.
32:18 And dwelt hath My people in a peaceful habitation, And in
 stedfast tabernacles, And in quiet resting-places.
32:19 And it hath hailed in the going down of the forest, And in
 the valley is the city low.
32:20 Happy [are] ye sowing by all waters, Sending forth the
 foot of the ox and the ass!
33:1 Wo, spoiler! and thou not spoiled, And treacherous! and
 they dealt not treacherously with thee, When thou dost finish,
 O spoiler, thou art spoiled, When thou dost finish dealing
 treacherously, They deal treacherously with thee.
33:2 O Jehovah, favour us, for thee we have waited, Be their
 arm, in the mornings, Yea, our salvation in time of adversity.
33:3 From the voice of a multitude fled have peoples, From thine
 exaltation scattered have been nations.
33:4 And gathered hath been your spoil, A gathering of the
 caterpillar, As a running to and fro of locusts is he running
 on it.
33:5 Set on high is Jehovah, for He is dwelling on high, He
 filled Zion [with] judgment and righteousness,
33:6 And hath been the stedfastness of thy times, The strength
 of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge, Fear of Jehovah -- it [is]
 His treasure.
33:7 Lo, `Their Ariel,' they have cried without, Messengers of
 peace do weep bitterly.
33:8 Desolated have been highways, Ceased hath he who passeth
 along the path, He hath broken covenant, He hath despised
 enemies, He hath not esteemed a man.
33:9 Mourned, languished hath the land, Confounded hath been
 Lebanon, Withered hath been Sharon as a wilderness, And shaking
 are Bashan and Carmel.
33:10 Now, do I arise, saith Jehovah, Now I am exalted, now I am
 lifted up.
33:11 Ye conceive chaff, ye bear stubble, Your spirit! -- fire
 devoureth you.
33:12 And peoples have been [as] burnings of lime, Thorns, as
 sweepings, with fire they burn.
33:13 Hear, ye far off, that which I have done, And know, ye
 near ones, My might.
33:14 Afraid in Zion have been sinners, Seized hath trembling
 the profane: Who doth dwell for us -- consuming fire, Who doth
 dwell for us -- burnings of the age?
33:15 Whoso is walking righteously, And is speaking uprightly,
 Kicking against gain of oppressions, Shaking his hands from
 taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood,
 And shutting his eyes from looking on evil,
33:16 He high places doth inhabit, Strongholds of rock [are] his
 high tower, His bread hath been given, his waters stedfast.
33:17 A king in his beauty, see do thine eyes, They see a land
 afar off.
33:18 Thy heart doth meditate terror, Where [is] he who is
 counting? Where [is] he who is weighing? Where [is] he who is
 counting the towers?
33:19 The strong people thou seest not, A people deeper of lip
 than to be understood, Of a scorned tongue, there is no
 understanding.
33:20 See Zion, the city of our meetings, Thine eyes see
 Jerusalem a quiet habitation, A tent not taken down, Not
 removed are its pins for ever, And none of its cords are
 broken.
33:21 But there mighty [is] Jehovah for us, A place of rivers --
 streams broad of sides, No ship with oars doth go into it, And
 a mighty ship doth not pass over it.
33:22 For Jehovah our judge, Jehovah our lawgiver, Jehovah our
 king -- He doth save us.
33:23 Left have been thy ropes, They strengthen not rightly
 their mast, They have not spread out a sail, Then apportioned
 hath been a prey of much spoil, The lame have taken spoil.
33:24 Nor doth an inhabitant say, `I was sick,' The people that
 is dwelling in it, is forgiven of iniquity!
34:1 Come near, ye nations, to hear, And ye peoples, give
 attention, Hear doth the earth and its fulness, The world, and
 all its productions.
34:2 For wrath [is] to Jehovah against all the nations, And fury
 against all their host, He hath devoted them to destruction, He
 hath given them to slaughter.
34:3 And their wounded are cast out, And their carcases cause
 their stench to ascend, And melted have been mountains from
 their blood.
34:4 And consumed have been all the host of the heavens, And
 rolled together as a book have been the heavens, And all their
 hosts do fade, As the fading of a leaf of a vine, And as the
 fading one of a fig-tree.
34:5 For soaked in the heavens was My sword, Lo, on Edom it
 cometh down, On the people of My curse for judgment.
34:6 A sword [is] to Jehovah -- it hath been full of blood, It
 hath been made fat with fatness, With blood of lambs and
 he-goats. With fat of kidneys of rams, For a sacrifice [is] to
 Jehovah in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
34:7 And come down have reems with them, And bullocks with
 bulls, And soaked hath been their land from blood, And their
 dust from fatness is made fat.
34:8 (For a day of vengeance [is] to Jehovah, A year of
 recompences for Zion's strife,)
34:9 And turned have been her streams to pitch, And her dust to
 brimstone, And her land hath become burning pitch.
34:10 By night and by day she is not quenched, To the age go up
 doth her smoke, From generation to generation she is waste, For
 ever and ever, none is passing into her.
34:11 And possess her do pelican and hedge-hog, And owl and
 raven dwell in her, And He hath stretched out over her A line
 of vacancy, and stones of emptiness.
34:12 [To] the kingdom her freemen they call, But there are none
 there, And all her princes are at an end.
34:13 And gone up her palaces have thorns, Nettle and bramble
 [are] in her fortresses, And it hath been a habitation of
 dragons, A court for daughters of an ostrich.
34:14 And met have Ziim with Aiim, And the goat for its
 companion calleth, Only there rested hath the night-owl, And
 hath found for herself a place of rest.
34:15 There made her nest hath the bittern, Yea, she layeth, and
 hath hatched, And hath gathered under her shadow, Only there
 gathered have been vultures, Each with its companion.
34:16 Seek out of the book of Jehovah, and read, One of these
 hath not been lacking, None hath missed its companion, For My
 mouth -- it hath commanded, And His spirit -- He hath gathered
 them.
34:17 And He hath cast for them a lot, And His hand hath
 apportioned [it] to them by line, Unto the age they possess it,
 To all generations they dwell in it!
35:1 They joy from the wilderness and dry place, And rejoice
 doth the desert, and flourish as the rose,
35:2 Flourishing it doth flourish, and rejoice, Yea, [with] joy
 and singing, The honour of Lebanon hath been given to it, The
 beauty of Carmel and Sharon, They -- they see the honour of
 Jehovah, The majesty of our God.
35:3 Strengthen ye the feeble hands, Yea, the stumbling knees
 strengthen.
35:4 Say to the hastened of heart, `Be strong, Fear not, lo,
 your God; vengeance cometh, The recompence of God, He Himself
 doth come and save you.'
35:5 Then opened are eyes of the blind, And ears of the deaf are
 unstopped,
35:6 Then leap as a hart doth the lame, And sing doth the tongue
 of the dumb, For broken up in a wilderness have been waters,
 And streams in a desert.
35:7 And the mirage hath become a pond, And the thirsty land
 fountains of waters, In the habitation of dragons, Its place of
 couching down, a court for reed and rush.
35:8 And a highway hath been there, and a way, And the `way of
 holiness' is called to it, Not pass over it doth the unclean,
 And He Himself [is] by them, Whoso is going in the way -- even
 fools err not.
35:9 No lion is there, yea, a destructive beast Ascendeth it
 not, it is not found there, And walked have the redeemed,
35:10 And the ransomed of Jehovah return, And have entered Zion
 with singing. And joy age-during on their head, Joy and
 gladness they attain, And fled away have sorrow and sighing!
36:1 And it cometh to pass, in the fourteenth year of king
 Hezekiah, come up hath Sennacherib king of Asshur against all
 the fenced cities of Judah, and seizeth them.
36:2 And the king of Asshur sendeth Rabshakeh from Lachish to
 Jerusalem, unto the king Hezekiah, with a heavy force, and he
 standeth by the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of
 the fuller's field,
36:3 and go forth unto him doth Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who [is]
 over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph,
 the remembrancer.
36:4 And Rabshakeh saith unto them, `Say ye, I pray you, unto
 Hezekiah, `Thus said the great king, the king of Asshur, What
 [is] this confidence in which thou hast confided?
36:5 I have said: Only, a word of the lips! counsel and might
 [are] for battle: now, on whom hast thou trusted, that thou
 hast rebelled against me?
36:6 `Lo, thou hast trusted on the staff of this broken reed --
 on Egypt -- which a man leaneth on, and it hath gone into his
 hand, and pierced it -- so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt to all
 those trusting on him.
36:7 `And dost thou say unto me, Unto Jehovah our God we have
 trusted? is it not He, whose high places and whose altars
 Hezekiah hath turned aside, and saith to Judah and to
 Jerusalem, Before this altar ye do bow yourselves?
36:8 `And now, negotiate, I pray thee, with my lord the king of
 Asshur, and I give to thee two thousand horses, if thou art
 able to put for thee riders on them.
36:9 And how dost thou turn back the face of one captain of the
 least of the servants of my lord, and dost trust for thee on
 Egypt, for chariot and for horsemen?
36:10 And now, without Jehovah have I come up against this land
 to destroy it? Jehovah said unto me, Go up unto this land, and
 thou hast destroyed it.'
36:11 And Eliakim saith -- and Shebna and Joah -- unto
 Rabshakeh, `Speak, we pray thee, unto thy servants [in]
 Aramaean, for we are understanding; and do not speak unto us
 [in] Jewish, in the ears of the people who [are] on the wall.'
36:12 And Rabshakeh saith, `Unto thy lord, and unto thee, hath
 my lord sent me to speak these words? is it not for the men --
 those sitting on the wall to eat their own dung and to drink
 their own water with you?'
36:13 And Rabshakeh standeth and calleth with a great voice [in]
 Jewish, and saith, `Hear ye the words of the great king, the
 king of Asshur:
36:14 Thus said the king, Let not Hezekiah lift you up, for he
 is not able to deliver you;
36:15 and let not Hezekiah make you trust unto Jehovah, saying,
 Jehovah doth certainly deliver us, this city is not given into
 the hand of the king of Asshur.
36:16 `Do not hearken unto Hezekiah, for thus said the king of
 Asshur, Make ye with me a blessing, and come out unto me, and
 eat ye each of his vine, and each of his fig-tree, and drink ye
 each the waters of his own well,
36:17 till my coming in, and I have taken you unto a land like
 your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and
 vineyards;
36:18 lest Hezekiah doth persuade you, saying, Jehovah doth
 deliver us. `Have the gods of the nations delivered each his
 land out of the hand of the king of Asshur?
36:19 Where [are] the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where the gods
 of Sepharvaim, that they have delivered Samaria out of my hand?
36:20 Who among all the gods of these lands [are] they who have
 delivered their land out of my hand, that Jehovah doth deliver
 Jerusalem out of my hand?'
36:21 And they keep silent, and have not answered him a word,
 for a command of the king is, saying, `Do not answer him.'
36:22 And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who [is] over the house,
 cometh in, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the
 remembrancer, unto Hezekiah with rent garments, and they
 declare to him the words of Rabshakeh.
37:1 And it cometh to pass, at the king Hezekiah's hearing, that
 he rendeth his garments, and covereth himself with sackcloth,
 and entereth the house of Jehovah,
37:2 and sendeth Eliakim, who [is] over the house, and Shebna
 the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covering themselves
 with sackcloth, unto Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet,
37:3 and they say unto him, `Thus said Hezekiah, A day of
 distress, and rebuke, and despising, [is] this day; for come
 have sons unto the birth, and power there is not to bear.
37:4 `It may be Jehovah thy God doth hear the words of Rabshakeh
 with which the king of Asshur his lord hath sent him to
 reproach the living God, and hath decided concerning the words
 that Jehovah thy God hath heard, and thou hast lifted up prayer
 for the remnant that is found.'
37:5 And the servants of king Hezekiah come in unto Isaiah,
37:6 and Isaiah saith unto them, `Thus do ye say unto your lord,
 Thus said Jehovah, Be not afraid because of the words that thou
 hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Asshur have
 reviled Me.
37:7 Lo, I am giving in him a spirit, and he hath heard a
 report, and hath turned back unto his land, and I have caused
 him to fall by the sword in his land.'
37:8 And Rabshakeh turneth back and findeth the king of Asshur
 fighting against Libnah, for he hath heard that he hath
 journeyed from Lachish.
37:9 And he heareth concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, saying,
 `He hath come out to fight with thee;' and he heareth, and
 sendeth messengers unto Hezekiah, saying,
37:10 `Thus do ye speak unto Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let
 not thy God lift thee up in whom thou art trusting, saying,
 Jerusalem is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur.
37:11 Lo, thou hast heard that which the kings of Asshur have
 done to all the lands -- to devote them -- and thou art
 delivered!
37:12 Did the gods of the nations deliver them whom my fathers
 destroyed -- Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of
 Eden, who [are] in Telassar?
37:13 Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and
 the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?'
37:14 And Hezekiah taketh the letters out of the hand of the
 messengers, and readeth them, and Hezekiah goeth up to the
 house of Jehovah, and Hezekiah spreadeth it before Jehovah.
37:15 And Hezekiah prayeth unto Jehovah, saying,
37:16 `Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, inhabiting the cherubs,
 Thou [art] God Himself -- Thyself alone -- to all kingdoms of
 the earth, Thou hast made the heavens and the earth.
37:17 Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, and hear; open, O Jehovah,
 Thine eyes and see; and hear Thou all the words of Sennacherib
 that he hath sent to reproach the living God.
37:18 `Truly, O Jehovah, kings of Asshur have laid waste all the
 lands and their land,
37:19 so as to put their gods into fire -- for they [are] no
 gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone -- and they
 destroy them.
37:20 And now, Jehovah our God, save us from his hand, and all
 kingdoms of the earth do know that Thou [art] Jehovah, Thyself
 alone.'
37:21 And Isaiah son of Amoz sendeth unto Hezekiah, saying,
 `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed
 unto me concerning Sennacherib king of Asshur --
37:22 this [is] the word that Jehovah spake concerning him:
 Trampled on thee, laughed at thee, Hath the virgin daughter of
 Zion, Behind thee shaken the head hath the daughter of
 Jerusalem.
37:23 Whom hast thou reproached and reviled? And against whom
 lifted up the voice? Yea, thou dost lift up on high thine eyes
 Against the Holy One of Israel.
37:24 By the hand of thy servants Thou hast reviled the Lord,
 and sayest: In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a
 high place of hills, The sides of Lebanon, And I cut down the
 height of its cedars, The choice of its firs, And I enter the
 high place of its extremity, The forest of its Carmel.
37:25 I -- I have dug and drunk waters, And I dry up with the
 sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.
37:26 Hast thou not heard from afar? -- it I did, From days of
 old -- that I formed it. Now, I have brought it in, And it is
 to make desolate, Ruinous heaps -- fenced cities,
37:27 And their inhabitants are feeble-handed, They were broken
 down, and are dried up. They have been the herb of the field,
 And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And
 blasted corn, before it hath risen up.
37:28 And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming
 in, I have known, And thy anger towards Me.
37:29 Because of thy anger towards Me, And thy noise -- it came
 up into Mine ears, I have put My hook in thy nose, And My
 bridle in thy lips, And I have caused thee to turn back In the
 way in which thou camest.
37:30 -- And this to thee [is] the sign, Food of the year [is]
 self-sown grain, And in the second year the spontaneous growth,
 And in the third year, sow ye and reap, And plant vineyards,
 and eat their fruit.
37:31 And it hath continued -- the escaped Of the house of Judah
 that hath been left -- To take root beneath, And it hath made
 fruit upward.
37:32 For from Jerusalem goeth forth a remnant, And an escape
 from mount Zion, The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts doth this.
37:33 Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Concerning the king of
 Asshur: He doth not come in unto this city, Nor doth he shoot
 there an arrow, Nor doth he come before it [with] shield, Nor
 doth he pour out against it a mount.
37:34 In the way that he came, in it he turneth back, And unto
 this city he doth not come in, An affirmation of Jehovah,
37:35 And I have covered over this city, To save it, for Mine
 own sake, And for the sake of David My servant.'
37:36 And a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the
 camp of Asshur a hundred and eighty and five thousand; and
 [men] rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them [are]
 dead corpses.
37:37 And journey, and go, and turn back doth Sennacherib king
 of Asshur, and dwelleth in Nineveh.
37:38 And it cometh to pass, he is bowing himself in the house
 of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons have
 smitten him with the sword, and they have escaped to the land
 of Ararat, and Esar-Haddon his son reigneth in his stead.
38:1 In those days hath Hezekiah been sick unto death, and come
 in unto him doth Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, and saith
 unto him, `Thus said Jehovah: Give a charge to thy house, for
 thou [art] dying, and dost not live.'
38:2 And Hezekiah turneth round his face unto the wall, and
 prayeth unto Jehovah,
38:3 and saith, `I pray thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee,
 how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a
 perfect heart, and that which [is] good in thine eyes I have
 done;' and Hezekiah weepeth -- a great weeping.
38:4 And a word of Jehovah is unto Isaiah, saying,
38:5 Go, and thou hast said to Hezekiah, Thus said Jehovah, God
 of David thy father, `I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy
 tear, lo, I am adding to thy days fifteen years,
38:6 and out of the hand of the king of Asshur I deliver thee
 and this city, and have covered over this city.
38:7 And this [is] to thee the sign from Jehovah, that Jehovah
 doth this thing that He hath spoken.
38:8 Lo, I am bringing back the shadow of the degrees that it
 hath gone down on the degrees of Ahaz, by the sun, backward ten
 degrees:' and the sun turneth back ten degrees in the degrees
 that it had gone down.
38:9 A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah concerning his being
 sick, when he reviveth from his sickness:
38:10 `I -- I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the
 gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years.
38:11 I said, I do not see Jah -- Jah! In the land of the
 living, I do not behold man any more, With the inhabitants of
 the world.
38:12 My sojourning hath departed, And been removed from me as a
 shepherd's tent, I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life,
 By weakness it cutteth me off, From day unto night Thou dost
 end me.
38:13 I have set [Him] till morning as a lion, So doth He break
 all my bones, From day unto night Thou dost end me.
38:14 As a crane -- a swallow -- so I chatter, I mourn as a
 dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah,
 oppression [is] on me, be my surety.
38:15 -- What do I say? seeing He said to me, And He Himself
 hath wrought, I go softly all my years for the bitterness of my
 soul.
38:16 Lord, by these do [men] live, And by all in them [is] the
 life of my spirit, And Thou savest me, make me also to live,
38:17 Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast
 delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast
 behind Thy back all my sins.
38:18 For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise
 Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.
38:19 The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.
38:20 Like myself to-day -- a father to sons Doth make known of
 Thy faithfulness, O Jehovah -- to save me: And my songs we sing
 all days of our lives In the house of Jehovah.'
38:21 And Isaiah saith, `Let them take a bunch of figs, and
 plaster over the ulcer, and he liveth.'
38:22 And Hezekiah saith, `What [is] the sign that I go up to
 the house of Jehovah!'
39:1 At that time hath Merodach-Baladan, son of Baladan, king of
 Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah, when he
 heareth that he hath been sick, and is become strong.
39:2 And Hezekiah rejoiceth over them, and sheweth them the
 house of his spices, the silver, and the gold, and the spices,
 and the good ointment, and all the house of his vessels, and
 all that hath been found in his treasures; there hath not been
 a thing in his house, and in all his dominion, that Hezekiah
 hath not shewed them.
39:3 And Isaiah the prophet cometh in unto king Hezekiah, and
 saith unto him, `What said these men? and whence come they unto
 thee?' And Hezekiah saith, `From a land afar off they have come
 unto me -- from Babylon.'
39:4 And he saith, `What saw they in thy house?' and Hezekiah
 saith, `All that [is] in my house they saw; there hath not been
 a thing that I have not shewed them among my treasures.'
39:5 And Isaiah saith unto Hezekiah, `Hear a word of Jehovah of
 Hosts:
39:6 Lo, days are coming, and borne hath been all that [is] in
 thy house, and that thy fathers have treasured up till this
 day, to Babylon; there is not left a thing, said Jehovah;
39:7 and of thy sons who come forth from thee, whom thou
 begettest, they take, and they have been eunuchs in a palace of
 the king of Babylon.'
39:8 And Hezekiah saith unto Isaiah, `Good [is] the word of
 Jehovah that thou hast spoken;' and he saith, `Because there
 is peace and truth in my days.'
40:1 Comfort ye, comfort ye, My people, saith your God.
40:2 Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her, That her
 warfare hath been completed, That accepted hath been her
 punishment, That she hath received from the hand of Jehovah
 Double for all her sins.
40:3 A voice is crying -- in a wilderness -- Prepare ye the way
 of Jehovah, Make straight in a desert a highway to our God.
40:4 Every valley is raised up, And every mountain and hill
 become low, And the crooked place hath become a plain, And the
 entangled places a valley.
40:5 And revealed hath been the honour of Jehovah, And seen [it]
 have all flesh together, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.
40:6 A voice is saying, `Call,' And he said, `What do I call?'
 All flesh [is] grass, and all its goodliness [is] As a flower
 of the field:
40:7 Withered hath grass, faded the flower, For the Spirit of
 Jehovah blew upon it, Surely the people [is] grass;
40:8 Withered hath grass, faded the flower, But a word of our
 God riseth for ever.
40:9 On a high mountain get thee up, O Zion, Proclaiming
 tidings, Lift up with power thy voice, O Jerusalem, proclaiming
 tidings, Lift up, fear not, say to cities of Judah, `Lo, your
 God.'
40:10 Lo, the Lord Jehovah with strength cometh, And His arm is
 ruling for Him, Lo, His hire [is] with Him, and His wage before
 Him.
40:11 As a shepherd His flock He feedeth, With His arm He
 gathereth lambs, And in His bosom He carrieth [them]: Suckling
 ones He leadeth.
40:12 Who hath measured in the hollow of his hand the waters?
 And the heavens by a span hath meted out, And comprehended in a
 measure the dust of the earth, And hath weighed in scales the
 mountains, And the hills in a balance?
40:13 Who hath meted out the Spirit of Jehovah, And, [being] His
 counsellor, doth teach Him!
40:14 With whom consulted He, That he causeth Him to understand?
 And teacheth Him in the path of judgment, And teacheth Him
 knowledge? And the way of understanding causeth Him to know?
40:15 Lo, nations as a drop from a bucket, And as small dust of
 the balance, have been reckoned, Lo, isles as a small thing He
 taketh up.
40:16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, Nor its beasts
 sufficient for a burnt-offering.
40:17 All the nations [are] as nothing before Him, Less than
 nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.
40:18 And unto whom do ye liken God, And what likeness do ye
 compare to Him?
40:19 The graven image poured out hath a artizan, And a refiner
 with gold spreadeth it over, And chains of silver he is
 refining.
40:20 He who is poor [by] heave-offerings, A tree not rotten
 doth choose, A skilful artizan he seeketh for it, To establish
 a graven image -- not moved.
40:21 Do ye not know -- do ye not hear? Hath it not been
 declared from the first to you? Have ye not understood [From]
 the foundations of the earth?
40:22 He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its
 inhabitants [are] as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as
 a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell
 in.
40:23 He who is making princes become nothing, Judges of earth
 as emptiness hath made;
40:24 Yea, they have not been planted, Yea, they have not been
 sown, Yea, not taking root in the earth is their stock, And
 also He hath blown upon them, and they wither, And a whirlwind
 as stubble taketh them away.
40:25 And unto whom do ye liken Me, And [am] I equal? saith the
 Holy One.
40:26 Lift up on high your eyes, And see -- who hath prepared
 these? He who is bringing out by number their host, To all of
 them by name He calleth, By abundance of strength (And [he is]
 strong in power) not one is lacking.
40:27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob? and speakest thou, O Israel? `My
 way hath been hid from Jehovah, And from my God my judgment
 passeth over.'
40:28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The God of the
 age -- Jehovah, Preparer of the ends of the earth, Is not
 wearied nor fatigued, There is no searching of His
 understanding.
40:29 He is giving power to the weary, And to those not strong
 He increaseth might.
40:30 Even youths are wearied and fatigued, And young men
 utterly stumble,
40:31 But those expecting Jehovah pass [to] power, They raise up
 the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on
 and do not faint!
41:1 Keep silent towards Me, O isles, And the peoples pass on
 [to] power, They come nigh, then they speak, `Together -- to
 judgment we draw near.'
41:2 Who stirred up from the east a righteous one? He calleth
 him to His foot, He giveth before him nations, And kings He
 causeth him to rule, He giveth [them] as dust [to] his sword,
 As driven stubble [to] his bow.
41:3 He pursueth them, he passeth over in safety A path with his
 feet he entereth not.
41:4 Who hath wrought and done, Calling the generations from the
 first? I, Jehovah, the first, and with the last I [am] He.
41:5 Seen have isles and fear, ends of the earth tremble, They
 have drawn near, yea, they come.
41:6 Each his neighbour they help, And to his brother he saith,
 `Be strong.'
41:7 And strengthen doth an artizan the refiner, A smoother
 [with] a hammer, Him who is beating [on] an anvil, Saying, `For
 joining it [is] good,' And he strengtheneth it with nails, it
 is not moved!
41:8 -- And thou, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have
 chosen, Seed of Abraham, My lover,
41:9 Whom I have taken hold of, from the ends of the earth, And
 from its near places I have called thee, And I say to thee, My
 servant Thou [art], I have chosen thee, and not rejected thee.
41:10 Be not afraid, for with thee I [am], Look not around, for
 I [am] thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped
 thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My
 righteousness.
41:11 Lo, all those displeased with thee, They are ashamed and
 blush, They are as nothing, yea, perish Do the men who strive
 with thee.
41:12 Thou seekest them, and findest them not, The men who
 debate with thee, They are as nothing, yea, as nothing, The men
 who war with thee.
41:13 For I, Jehovah thy God, Am strengthening thy right hand,
 He who is saying to thee, `Fear not, I have helped thee.'
41:14 Fear not, O worm Jacob, ye men of Israel, I helped thee,
 an affirmation of Jehovah, Even thy redeemer, the Holy One of
 Israel.
41:15 Lo, I have set thee for a new sharp threshing instrument,
 Possessing teeth, thou threshest mountains, And beatest small,
 and hills as chaff thou makest.
41:16 Thou winnowest them, and a wind lifteth them up, And a
 whirlwind scattereth them, And thou -- thou rejoicest in
 Jehovah, In the Holy One of Israel dost boast thyself.
41:17 The poor and the needy are seeking water, And there is
 none, Their tongue with thirst hath failed, I, Jehovah do
 answer them, The God of Israel -- I forsake them not.
41:18 I open on high places rivers, And in midst of valleys
 fountains, I make a wilderness become a pond of water, And a
 dry land become springs of water.
41:19 I give in a wilderness the cedar, Shittah, and myrtle, and
 oil-tree, I set in a desert the fir-pine and box-wood together.
41:20 So that they see, and know, And regard, and act wisely
 together, For the hand of Jehovah hath done this, And the Holy
 One of Israel hath prepared it.
41:21 Bring near your cause, saith Jehovah, Bring nigh your
 mighty ones, saith the king of Jacob.
41:22 They bring nigh, and declare to us that which doth happen,
 The first things -- what they [are] declare ye, And we set our
 heart, and know their latter end, Or the coming things cause us
 to hear.
41:23 Declare the things that are coming hereafter, And we know
 that ye [are] gods, Yea, ye may do good or do evil, And we look
 around and see [it] together.
41:24 Lo, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of nought, An
 abomination -- it fixeth on you.
41:25 I have stirred up [one] from the north, And he cometh,
 From the rising of the sun he calleth in My name, And he cometh
 in [on] prefects as [on] clay, And as a potter treadeth down
 mire.
41:26 Who hath declared from the first, and we know? And
 beforetime, and we say, `Righteous?' yea, there is none
 declaring, Yea, there is none proclaiming, Yea, there is none
 hearing your sayings.
41:27 First to Zion, Behold, behold them, And to Jerusalem one
 proclaiming tidings I give,
41:28 And I see that there is no man, Yea, of these that there
 is no counsellor, And I ask them, and they return word:
41:29 `Lo, all of them [are] vanity, Nought [are] their works,
 Wind and emptiness their molten images!'
42:1 Lo, My servant, I take hold on him, My chosen one -- My
 soul hath accepted, I have put My Spirit upon him, Judgment to
 nations he bringeth forth.
42:2 He doth not cry, nor lift up, Nor cause his voice to be
 heard, in the street.
42:3 A bruised reed he breaketh not, And dim flax he quencheth
 not, To truth he bringeth forth judgment.
42:4 He doth not become weak nor bruised, Till he setteth
 judgment in the earth, And for his law isles wait with hope.
42:5 Thus said God, Jehovah, preparing The heavens, and
 stretching them out, Spreading out the earth and its
 productions, Giving breath to the people on it, And spirit to
 those walking in it.
42:6 I, Jehovah, did call thee in righteousness, And I lay hold
 on thy hand, and keep thee, And I give thee for a covenant of a
 people, And a light of nations.
42:7 To open the eyes of the blind, To bring forth from prison
 the bound one, From the house of restraint those sitting in
 darkness.
42:8 I [am] Jehovah, this [is] My name, And Mine honour to
 another I give not, Nor My praise to graven images.
42:9 The former things, lo, have come, And new things I am
 declaring, Before they spring up I cause you to hear.
42:10 Sing to Jehovah a new song, His praise from the end of the
 earth, Ye who are going down to the sea, and its fulness,
 Isles, and their inhabitants.
42:11 The wilderness and its cities do lift up [the voice], The
 villages Kedar doth inhabit, Sing do the inhabitants of Sela,
 From the top of mountains they cry.
42:12 They ascribe to Jehovah honour, And His praise in the
 isles they declare.
42:13 Jehovah as a mighty one goeth forth. As a man of war He
 stirreth up zeal, He crieth, yea, He shrieketh, Against His
 enemies He showeth Himself mighty.
42:14 I have kept silent from of old, I keep silent, I refrain
 myself, As a travailing woman I cry out, I desolate and swallow
 up together.
42:15 I make waste mountains and hills, And all their herbs I
 dry up, And I have made rivers become isles, And ponds I dry
 up.
42:16 And I have caused the blind to go, In a way they have not
 known, In paths they have not known I cause them to tread, I
 make a dark place before them become light, And unlevelled
 places become a plain, These [are] the things I have done to
 them, And I have not forsaken them.
42:17 Removed backward -- utterly ashamed, Are those trusting in
 a graven image, Those saying to a molten image, `Ye [are] our
 gods.'
42:18 Ye deaf, hear; and ye blind, look to see.
42:19 Who [is] blind but My servant? And deaf as My messenger I
 send? Who [is] blind as he who is at peace, Yea, blind, as the
 servant of Jehovah?
42:20 Seeing many things, and thou observest not, Opening ears,
 and he heareth not.
42:21 Jehovah hath delight for the sake of His righteousness, He
 magnifieth law, and maketh honourable.
42:22 And this [is] a people seized and spoiled, Snared in holes
 -- all of them, And in houses of restraint they were hidden,
 They have been for a prey, And there is no deliverer, A spoil,
 and none is saying, `Restore.'
42:23 Who among you giveth ear [to] this? Attendeth, and heareth
 afterwards.
42:24 Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, And Israel to the
 spoilers? Is it not Jehovah -- He against whom we sinned? Yea,
 they have not been willing in His ways to walk, Nor have they
 hearkened to His law.
42:25 And He poureth on him fury, His anger, and the strength of
 battle, And it setteth him on fire round about, And he hath not
 known, And it burneth against him, and he layeth it not to
 heart!
43:1 And now, thus said Jehovah, Thy Creator, O Jacob, and thy
 Fashioner, O Israel, Be not afraid, for I have redeemed thee, I
 have called on thy name -- thou [art] Mine.
43:2 When thou passest into waters, I [am] with thee, And into
 floods, they do not overflow thee, When thou goest into fire,
 thou art not burnt, And a flame doth not burn against thee.
43:3 For I -- Jehovah thy God, The Holy One of Israel, thy
 Saviour, I have appointed Egypt thine atonement, Cush and Seba
 in thy stead.
43:4 Since thou wast precious in Mine eyes, Thou wast honoured,
 and I have loved thee, And I appoint men in thy stead, And
 peoples instead of thy life.
43:5 Be not afraid, for I [am] with thee, From the east I bring
 in thy seed, And from the west I gather thee.
43:6 I am saying to the north, `Give up,' And to the south,
 `Restrain not.' Bring in My sons from afar, And My daughters
 from the end of the earth.
43:7 Every one who is called by My name, Even for My honour I
 have created him, I have formed him, yea, I have made him.
43:8 He brought out a blind people who have eyes, And deaf ones
 who have ears.
43:9 All the nations have been gathered together, And the
 peoples are assembled, Who among them declareth this, And
 former things causeth us to hear? They give their witnesses,
 And they are declared righteous, And they hear and say,
 `Truth.'
43:10 Ye [are] My witnesses, an affirmation of Jehovah, And My
 servant whom I have chosen, So that ye know and give credence
 to Me, And understand that I [am] He, Before Me there was no
 God formed, And after Me there is none.
43:11 I -- I [am] Jehovah, And besides Me there is no saviour.
43:12 I -- I declared, and saved, and proclaimed, And there is
 no stranger with you, And ye [are] My witnesses, an affirmation
 of Jehovah, And I [am] God.
43:13 Even from the day I [am] He, And there is no deliverer
 from My hand, I work, and who doth turn it back?
43:14 Thus said Jehovah, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel:
 `For your sake I have sent to Babylon, And caused bars to
 descend -- all of them, And the Chaldeans, whose song [is] in
 the ships.
43:15 I [am] Jehovah, your Holy One, Creator of Israel, your
 King.'
43:16 Thus said Jehovah, Who is giving in the sea a way, And in
 the strong waters a path.
43:17 Who is bringing forth chariot and horse, A force, even a
 strong one: `Together they lie down -- they rise not, They have
 been extinguished, As flax they have been quenched.'
43:18 Remember not former things, And ancient things consider
 not.
43:19 Lo, I am doing a new thing, now it springeth up, Do ye not
 know it? Yea, I put in a wilderness a way, In a desolate place
 -- floods.
43:20 Honour me doth the beast of the field, Dragons and
 daughters of an ostrich, For I have given in a wilderness
 waters, Floods in a desolate place, To give drink to My people
 -- My chosen.
43:21 This people I have formed for Myself, My praise they
 recount.
43:22 And Me thou hast not called, O Jacob, For thou hast been
 wearied of me, O Israel,
43:23 Thou hast not brought in to Me, The lamb of thy
 burnt-offerings, And [with] thy sacrifices thou hast not
 honoured Me, I have not caused thee to serve with a present,
 Nor wearied thee with frankincense.
43:24 Thou hast not bought for Me with money sweet cane, And
 [with] the fat of thy sacrifices hast not filled Me, Only --
 thou hast caused Me to serve with thy sins, Thou hast wearied
 Me with thine iniquities.
43:25 I -- I [am] He who is blotting out Thy transgressions for
 Mine own sake, And thy sins I do not remember.
43:26 Cause me to remember -- we are judged together, Declare
 thou that thou mayest be justified.
43:27 Thy first father sinned, And thine interpreters
 transgressed against me,
43:28 And I pollute princes of the sanctuary, And I give Jacob
 to destruction, and Israel to revilings!
44:1 And now, hear, O Jacob, My servant, And Israel, whom I have
 fixed on:
44:2 Thus said Jehovah, thy Maker, and thy Former, From the womb
 He doth help thee; Fear not, my servant Jacob, And Jeshurun,
 whom I have fixed on.
44:3 For I pour waters on a thirsty one, And floods on a dry
 land, I pour My Spirit on thy seed, And My blessing on thine
 offspring.
44:4 And they have sprung up as among grass, As willows by
 streams of water.
44:5 This [one] saith, For Jehovah I [am], And this calleth
 [himself] by the name of Jacob, And this [one] writeth [with]
 his hand, `For Jehovah,' and by the name of Israel surnameth
 himself.
44:6 Thus said Jehovah, king of Israel, And his Redeemer,
 Jehovah of Hosts: `I [am] the first, and I the last, And
 besides Me there is no God.
44:7 And who as I, doth call and declare it, And arrange it for
 Me, Since My placing the people of antiquity, And things that
 are coming, And those that do come, declare they to them?
44:8 Fear not, nor be afraid, Have I not from that time caused
 thee to hear, and declared? And ye [are] My witnesses, Is there
 a God besides Me? yea, there is none, A Rock I have not known.
44:9 Framers of a graven image [are] all of them emptiness, And
 their desirable things do not profit, And their own witnesses
 they [are], They see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed.
44:10 Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out --
 not profitable?
44:11 Lo, all his companions are ashamed, As to artizans -- they
 [are] of men, All of them gather together, they stand up, They
 fear, they are ashamed together.
44:12 He hath wrought iron [with] an axe, And hath wrought with
 coals, And with hammers doth form it, And doth work it by his
 powerful arm, Yea, he is hungry, and there is no power, He doth
 not drink water, and he is wearied.
44:13 He hath wrought [with] wood, He hath stretched out a rule,
 He doth mark it out with a line, He maketh it with carving
 tools, And with a compass he marketh it out, And maketh it
 according to the form of a man, According to the beauty of a
 man, To remain in the house.
44:14 Cutting down to himself cedars, He taketh also a cypress,
 and an oak, And he strengtheneth [it] for himself Among the
 trees of a forest, He hath planted an ash, and the shower doth
 nourish [it].
44:15 And it hath been for man to burn, And he taketh of them,
 and becometh warm, Yea, he kindleth [it], and hath baked bread,
 Yea, he maketh a god, and boweth himself, He hath made it a
 graven image, And he falleth down to it.
44:16 Half of it he hath burnt in the fire, By [this] half of it
 he eateth flesh, He roasteth a roasting, and is satisfied, Yea,
 he is warm, and saith: `Aha, I have become warm, I have enjoyed
 the light.
44:17 And its remnant for a god he hath made -- For his graven
 image, He falleth down to it, and worshippeth, And prayeth unto
 it, and he saith, `Deliver me, for my god thou [art].'
44:18 They have not known, nor do they understand, For He hath
 daubed their eyes from seeing, Their heart from acting wisely.
44:19 And none doth turn [it] back unto his heart, Nor hath
 knowledge nor understanding to say, `Half of it I have burned
 in the fire, Yea, also, I have baked bread over its coals, I
 roast flesh and I eat, And its remnant for an abomination I
 make, To the stock of a tree I fall down.'
44:20 Feeding on ashes, the heart is deceived, It hath turned
 him aside, And he delivereth not his soul, nor saith: `Is there
 not a lie in my right hand?'
44:21 Remember these, O Jacob, and Israel, For My servant thou
 [art], I formed thee, a servant to Me thou [art], O Israel,
 thou dost not forget Me.
44:22 I have blotted out, as [by] a thick cloud, Thy
 transgressions, And as [by] a cloud thy sins, Return unto Me,
 for I have redeemed thee.
44:23 Sing, O heavens, for Jehovah hath wrought, Shout, O lower
 parts of earth, Break forth, O mountains, with singing, Forest,
 and every tree in it, For Jehovah hath redeemed Jacob, And in
 Israel He doth beautify Himself.
44:24 Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, And thy framer from the
 womb: `I [am] Jehovah, doing all things, Stretching out the
 heavens by Myself, Spreading out the earth -- who [is] with Me?
44:25 Making void the tokens of devisers, And diviners it maketh
 mad, Turning the wise backward, And their knowledge it maketh
 foolish.
44:26 Confirming the word of His servant, The counsel of His
 messengers it perfecteth, Who is saying of Jerusalem, She is
 inhabited, And of cities of Judah, They shall be built, and her
 wastes I raise up,
44:27 Who is saying to the deep, Be dry, and thy rivers I cause
 to dry up,
44:28 Who is saying of Cyrus, My shepherd, And all my delight He
 doth perfect, So as to say of Jerusalem, Thou art built, And of
 the temple, Thou art founded.
45:1 Thus said Jehovah, To His anointed, to Cyrus, Whose right
 hand I have laid hold on, To subdue nations before him, Yea,
 loins of kings I loose, To open before him two-leaved doors,
 Yea, gates are not shut:
45:2 `I go before thee, and crooked places make straight,
 Two-leaved doors of brass I shiver, And bars of iron I cut
 asunder,
45:3 And have given to thee treasures of darkness, Even
 treasures of secret places, So that thou knowest that I,
 Jehovah, Who am calling on thy name -- [am] the God of Israel.
45:4 For the sake of my servant Jacob, And of Israel My chosen,
 I call also thee by thy name, I surname thee, And thou hast not
 known Me.
45:5 I [am] Jehovah, and there is none else, Except Me there is
 no God, I gird thee, and thou hast not known Me.
45:6 So that they know from the rising of the sun, And from the
 west, that there is none besides Me, I [am] Jehovah, and there
 is none else,
45:7 Forming light, and preparing darkness, Making peace, and
 preparing evil, I [am] Jehovah, doing all these things.'
45:8 Drop, ye heavens, from above, And clouds do cause
 righteousness to flow, Earth openeth, and they are fruitful,
 Salvation and righteousness spring up together, I, Jehovah,
 have prepared it.
45:9 Wo [to] him who is striving with his Former, (A potsherd
 with potsherds of the ground!) Doth clay say to its Framer,
 `What dost thou?' And thy work, `He hath no hands?'
45:10 Wo [to] him who is saying to a father, `What dost thou
 beget?' Or to a wife, `What dost thou bring forth?
45:11 Thus said Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel, and his Former:
 Ask Me of the things coming concerning My sons, Yea, concerning
 the work of My hands, ye command Me.'
45:12 I made earth, and man on it prepared, I -- My hands
 stretched out the heavens, And all their host I have commanded.
45:13 I have stirred him up in righteousness, And all his ways I
 make straight, He doth build My city, and My captivity doth
 send out, Not for price, nor for bribe, said Jehovah of Hosts.
45:14 Thus said Jehovah, `The labour of Egypt, And the
 merchandise of Cush, And of the Sebaim -- men of measure, Unto
 thee pass over, and thine they are, After thee they go, in
 fetters they pass over, And unto thee they bow themselves, Unto
 thee they pray: Only in thee [is] God, And there is none else,
 no [other] God.
45:15 Surely Thou [art] a God hiding Thyself, God of Israel --
 Saviour!
45:16 They have been ashamed, And they have even blushed -- all
 of them, Together gone in confusion have those carving images.
45:17 Israel hath been saved in Jehovah, A salvation age-during!
 Ye are not ashamed nor confounded Unto the ages of eternity!
45:18 For thus said Jehovah, Creator of heaven, He is God,
 Former of earth, and its Maker, He established it -- not empty
 He prepared it, For inhabiting He formed it: `I [am] Jehovah,
 and there is none else.
45:19 Not in secret have I spoken, in a dark place of the earth,
 I have not said to the seed of Jacob, In vain seek ye Me, I
 [am] Jehovah, speaking righteousness, Declaring uprightness.
45:20 Be gathered, and come in, Come nigh together, ye escaped
 of the nations, They have not known, Who are lifting up the
 wood of their graven image, And praying unto a god [that]
 saveth not.
45:21 Declare ye, and bring near, Yea, they take counsel
 together, Who hath proclaimed this from of old? From that time
 hath declared it? Is it not I -- Jehovah? And there is no other
 god besides Me, A God righteous and saving, there is none save
 Me.
45:22 Turn to Me, and be saved, all ends of the earth, For I
 [am] God, and there is none else.
45:23 By Myself I have sworn, Gone out from my mouth in
 righteousness hath a word, And it turneth not back, That to Me,
 bow doth every knee, every tongue swear.
45:24 Only in Jehovah, said hath one, Have I righteousness and
 strength, Unto Him he cometh in, And ashamed are all those
 displeased with Him.
45:25 In Jehovah are all the seed of Israel justified, And they
 boast themselves.'
46:1 Bowed down hath Bel, stooping is Nebo, Their idols have
 been for the beast and for cattle, Your burdens are loaded, a
 burden to the weary.
46:2 They have stooped, they have bowed together, They have not
 been able to deliver the burden, And themselves into captivity
 have gone.
46:3 Hearken unto Me, O house of Jacob, And all the remnant of
 Israel, Who are borne from the belly, Who are carried from the
 womb,
46:4 Even to old age I [am] He, and to grey hairs I carry, I
 made, and I bear, yea, I carry and deliver.
46:5 To whom do ye liken Me, and make equal? And compare Me,
 that we may be like?
46:6 -- They are pouring out gold from a bag, And silver on the
 beam they weigh, They hire a refiner, and he maketh it a god,
 They fall down, yea, they bow themselves.
46:7 They lift him up on the shoulder, They carry him, and cause
 him to rest in his place, And he standeth, from his place he
 moveth not, Yea, one crieth unto him, and he answereth not,
 From his adversity he saveth him not.
46:8 Remember this, and shew yourselves men, Turn [it] back, O
 transgressors, to the heart.
46:9 Remember former things of old, For I [am] Mighty, and there
 is none else, God -- and there is none like Me.
46:10 Declaring from the beginning the latter end, And from of
 old that which hath not been done, Saying, `My counsel doth
 stand, And all My delight I do.'
46:11 Calling from the east a ravenous bird, From a far land the
 man of My counsel, Yea, I have spoken, yea, I bring it in, I
 have formed [it], yea, I do it.
46:12 Hearken unto Me, ye mighty in heart, Who are far from
 righteousness.
46:13 I have brought near My righteousness, It is not far off,
 And My salvation -- it doth not tarry, And I have given in Zion
 salvation, To Israel My glory!
47:1 Come down, and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of
 Babylon, Sit on the earth, there is no throne, O daughter of
 the Chaldeans, For no more do they cry to thee, `O tender and
 delicate one.'
47:2 Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up
 the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.
47:3 Revealed is thy nakedness, yea, seen is thy reproach,
 Vengeance I take, and I meet not a man.
47:4 Our redeemer [is] Jehovah of Hosts, His name [is] the Holy
 One of Israel.
47:5 Sit silent, and go into darkness, O daughter of the
 Chaldeans, For no more do they cry to thee, `Mistress of
 kingdoms.'
47:6 I have been wroth against My people, I have polluted Mine
 inheritance And I give them into thy hand, Thou hast not
 appointed for them mercies, On the aged thou hast made thy yoke
 very heavy,
47:7 And thou sayest, `To the age I am mistress,' While thou
 hast not laid these things to thy heart, Thou hast not
 remembered the latter end of it.
47:8 And now, hear this, O luxurious one, Who is sitting
 confidently -- Who is saying in her heart, `I [am], and none
 else, I sit not a widow, nor know bereavement.'
47:9 And come in to thee do these two things, In a moment, in
 one day, childlessness and widowhood, According to their
 perfection they have come upon thee, In the multitude of thy
 sorceries, In the exceeding might of thy charms.
47:10 And thou art confident in thy wickedness, Thou hast said,
 `There is none seeing me,' Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, It is
 turning thee back, And thou sayest in thy heart, `I [am], and
 none else.'
47:11 And come in on thee hath evil, Thou knowest not its
 rising, And fall on thee doth mischief, Thou art not able to
 pacify it, And come on thee suddenly doth desolation, Thou
 knowest not.
47:12 Stand, I pray thee, in thy charms, And in the multitude of
 thy sorceries, In which thou hast laboured from thy youth, It
 may be thou art able to profit, It may be thou dost terrify!
47:13 Thou hast been wearied in the multitude of thy counsels,
 Stand up, I pray thee, and save thee, Let the charmers of the
 heavens, Those looking on the stars, Those teaching concerning
 the months, From those things that come on thee!
47:14 Lo, they have been as stubble! Fire hath burned them, They
 deliver not themselves from the power of the flame, There is
 not a coal to warm them, a light to sit before it.
47:15 So have they been to thee with whom thou hast laboured,
 Thy merchants from thy youth, Each to his passage they have
 wandered, Thy saviour is not!
48:1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, Who are called by the name
 of Israel, And from the waters of Judah came out, Who are
 swearing by the name of Jehovah, And of the God of Israel make
 mention, Not in truth nor in righteousness.
48:2 For from the Holy City they have been called, And on the
 God of Israel been supported, Jehovah of Hosts [is] His name.
48:3 The former things from that time I declared, And from my
 mouth they have gone forth, And I proclaim them, Suddenly I
 have done, and it cometh.
48:4 From my knowing that thou art obstinate, And a sinew of
 iron thy neck, And thy forehead brass,
48:5 And I declare to thee from that time, Before it cometh I
 have caused thee to hear, Lest thou say, `Mine idol hath done
 them, And my graven image, And my molten image did command
 them.
48:6 Thou hast heard, see the whole of it, And ye, do ye not
 declare? I have caused thee to hear new things from this time,
 And things reserved that ye knew not.
48:7 Now they have been produced and not from that time, Yea,
 before the day, and thou hast not heard them, Lest thou say,
 `Lo, I have known them.'
48:8 Yea, thou hast not heard, Yea, thou hast not known, Yea,
 from that time not opened hath thine ear, For I have known thou
 dealest treacherously, And `Transgressor from the belly,' One
 is crying to thee.
48:9 For My name's sake I defer Mine anger, And My praise I
 restrain for thee, So as not to cut thee off.
48:10 Lo, I have refined thee, and not with silver, I have
 chosen thee in a furnace of affliction.
48:11 For My sake, for Mine own sake, I do [it], For how is it
 polluted? And Mine honour to another I give not.
48:12 Hearken to me, O Jacob, and Israel, My called one, I [am]
 He, I [am] first, and I [am] last;
48:13 Also, My hand hath founded earth, And My right hand
 stretched out the heavens, I am calling unto them, they stand
 together.
48:14 Be gathered all of you, and hear, Who among them did
 declare these things? Jehovah hath loved him, He doth His
 pleasure on Babylon, And His arm [is on] the Chaldeans.
48:15 I -- I have spoken, yea, I have called him, I have brought
 him in, And he hath made prosperous his way.
48:16 Come ye near unto me, hear this, Not from the beginning in
 secret spake I, From the time of its being, there [am] I, And
 now the Lord Jehovah hath sent me, and His Spirit.
48:17 Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, The Holy One of Israel,
 `I [am] Jehovah thy God, teaching thee to profit, Causing thee
 to tread in the way thou goest.
48:18 O that thou hadst attended to My commands, Then as a river
 is thy peace, And thy righteousness as billows of the sea,
48:19 And as sand is thy seed, And the offspring of thy bowels
 as its gravel, Not cut off nor destroyed his name before Me.
48:20 Go out from Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans, With a voice
 of singing declare, Cause ye this to be heard, Bring it forth
 unto the end of the earth, Say, Redeemed hath Jehovah His
 servant Jacob.
48:21 And they have not thirsted in waste places, He hath caused
 them to go on, Waters from a rock he hath caused to flow to
 them, Yea, he cleaveth a rock, and flow do waters.
48:22 There is no peace, said Jehovah, to the wicked!
49:1 Hearken, O isles, unto me, And attend, O peoples, from
 afar, Jehovah from the womb hath called me, From the bowels of
 my mother He hath made mention of my name.
49:2 And he maketh my mouth as a sharp sword, In the shadow of
 His hand He hath hid me, And He maketh me for a clear arrow, In
 His quiver He hath hid me.
49:3 And He saith to me, `My servant Thou art, O Israel, In whom
 I beautify Myself.'
49:4 And I said, `For a vain thing I laboured, For emptiness and
 vanity my power I consumed, But my judgment [is] with Jehovah,
 And my wage with my God.
49:5 And now, said Jehovah, who is forming me from the belly for
 a servant to Him, To bring back Jacob unto Him, (Though Israel
 is not gathered, Yet I am honoured in the eyes of Jehovah, And
 my God hath been my strength.)
49:6 And He saith, `It hath been a light thing That thou art to
 Me for a servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And the
 preserved of Israel to bring back, And I have given thee for a
 light of nations, To be My salvation unto the end of the
 earth.'
49:7 Thus said Jehovah, Redeemer of Israel, His Holy One, To the
 despised in soul, To the abominated of a nation, To the servant
 of rulers: `Kings see, and have risen, princes, and worship,
 For the sake of Jehovah, who is faithful, The Holy of Israel,
 and He chooseth thee.'
49:8 Thus said Jehovah: `In a time of good pleasure I answered
 thee, And in a day of salvation I helped thee, And I keep thee,
 and give thee, For a covenant of the people, To establish the
 earth, To cause to inherit desolate inheritances.
49:9 To say to the bound, Go out, To those in darkness, Be
 uncovered. On the ways they feed, And in all high places is
 their pasture.
49:10 They do not hunger, nor thirst, Nor smite them doth mirage
 and sun, For He who is pitying them doth lead them, And by
 fountains of waters doth tend them.
49:11 And I have made all My mountains for a way, And My
 highways are lifted up.
49:12 Lo, these from afar come in, And lo, these from the north,
 and from the sea, And these from the land of Sinim.
49:13 Sing, O heavens, and joy, O earth, And break forth, O
 mountains, with singing, For comforted hath Jehovah His people,
 And His afflicted ones He doth pity.
49:14 And Zion saith, `Jehovah hath forsaken me, And my Lord
 hath forgotten me.'
49:15 Forget doth a woman her suckling, The loved one -- the son
 of her womb? Yea, these forget -- but I -- I forget not thee.
49:16 Lo, on the palms of the hand I have graven thee, Thy walls
 [are] before Me continually.
49:17 Hastened have those building thee, Those destroying thee,
 and laying thee waste, go out from thee.
49:18 Lift up round about thine eyes and see, All of them have
 been gathered, They have come to thee. I live, an affirmation
 of Jehovah! Surely all of them as an ornament thou puttest on,
 And thou bindest them on like a bride.
49:19 Because thy wastes, and thy desolate places, And the land
 of thy ruins, Surely now are straitened because of inhabitants,
 And far off have been those consuming thee.
49:20 Again do the sons of thy bereavement say in thine ears:
 `The place is too strait for me, Come nigh to me -- and I
 dwell.'
49:21 And thou hast said in thy heart: `Who hath begotten for me
 -- these? And I bereaved and gloomy, A captive, and turned
 aside, And these -- who hath nourished? Lo, I -- I was left by
 myself, these -- whence [are] they?
49:22 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: `Lo, I lift up unto nations My
 hand, And unto peoples I raise up Mine ensign, And they have
 brought thy sons in the bosom, And thy daughters on the shoulder
 are carried.
49:23 And kings have been thy nursing fathers, And their
 princesses thy nursing mothers; Face to the earth -- they bow
 down to thee, And the dust of thy feet they lick up, And thou
 hast known that I [am] Jehovah, That those expecting Me are not
 ashamed.
49:24 Is prey taken from the mighty? And the captive of the
 righteous delivered?
49:25 For thus said Jehovah: Even the captive of the mighty is
 taken, And the prey of the terrible is delivered, And with thy
 striver I strive, and thy sons I save.
49:26 And I have caused thine oppressors to eat their own flesh,
 And as new wine they drink their own blood, And known have all
 flesh that I, Jehovah, Thy saviour, and thy redeemer, [Am] the
 Mighty One of Jacob!'
50:1 Thus said Jehovah: `Where [is] this -- the bill of your
 mother's divorce, Whom I sent away? Or to which of My creditors
 have I sold you? Lo, for your iniquities ye have been sold, And
 for your transgressions Hath your mother been sent away.
50:2 Wherefore have I come, and there is no one? I called, and
 there is none answering, Hath My hand been at all short of
 redemption? And is there not in me power to deliver? Lo, by My
 rebuke I dry up a sea, I make rivers a wilderness, Their fish
 stinketh, for there is no water, And dieth with thirst.
50:3 I clothe the heavens [with] blackness, And sackcloth I make
 their covering.
50:4 The Lord Jehovah hath given to me The tongue of taught
 ones, To know to aid the weary [by] a word, He waketh morning
 by morning, He waketh for me an ear to hear as taught ones.
50:5 The Lord Jehovah opened for me the ear, And I rebelled not
 -- backward I moved not.
50:6 My back I have given to those smiting, And my cheeks to
 those plucking out, My face I hid not from shame and spitting.
50:7 And the Lord Jehovah giveth help to me, Therefore I have
 not been ashamed, Therefore I have set my face as a flint, And
 I know that I am not ashamed.
50:8 Near [is] He who is justifying me, Who doth contend with
 me? We stand together, who [is] mine opponent? Let him come
 nigh unto me.
50:9 Lo, the Lord Jehovah giveth help to me, Who [is] he that
 declareth me wicked? Lo, all of them as a garment wear out, A
 moth doth eat them.
50:10 Who [is] among you, fearing Jehovah, Hearkening to the
 voice of His servant, That hath walked in dark places, And
 there is no brightness for him? Let him trust in the name of
 Jehovah, And lean upon his God.
50:11 Lo, all ye kindling a fire, girding on sparks, Walk ye in
 the light of your fire, And in the sparks ye have caused to
 burn, From my hand hath this been to you, In grief ye lie down!
51:1 Hearken unto Me, ye pursuing righteousness, Seeking
 Jehovah, Look attentively unto the rock -- ye have been hewn,
 And unto the hole of the pit -- ye have been digged.
51:2 Look attentively unto Abraham your father, And unto Sarah
 -- she bringeth you forth, For -- one -- I have called him, And
 I bless him, and multiply him.
51:3 For Jehovah hath comforted Zion, He hath comforted all her
 wastes, And He setteth her wilderness as Eden, And her desert
 as a garden of Jehovah, Joy, yea, gladness is found in her,
 Confession, and the voice of song.
51:4 Attend unto Me, O My people, And, O My nation, unto Me give
 ear. For a law from Me goeth out, And My judgment to the light,
 Peoples I do cause to rest.
51:5 Near [is] My righteousness, Gone out hath My salvation and
 Mine arms, Peoples they judge, on Me isles do wait, Yea, on
 Mine arm they do wait with hope.
51:6 Lift ye up to the heavens your eyes, And look attentively
 unto the earth beneath, For the heavens as smoke have vanished,
 And the earth as a garment weareth out, And its inhabitants as
 gnats do die, And My salvation is to the age, And My
 righteousness is not broken.
51:7 Hearken unto Me, ye who know righteousness, A people, in
 whose heart [is] My law, Fear ye not the reproach of men, And
 for their reviling be not affrighted,
51:8 For as a garment eat them doth a moth, And as wool eat them
 doth a worm, And My righteousness is to the age, And My
 salvation to all generations.
51:9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah, Awake, as
 [in] days of old, generations of the ages, Art not Thou it that
 is hewing down Rahab, Piercing a dragon!
51:10 Art not Thou it that is drying up a sea, Waters of a great
 deep? That hath made deep places of a sea A way for the passing
 of the redeemed?
51:11 And the ransomed of Jehovah turn back, And they have come
 to Zion with singing, And joy age-during [is] on their head,
 Gladness and joy they attain, Fled away have sorrow and
 sighing,
51:12 I -- I [am] He -- your comforter, Who [art] thou -- and
 thou art afraid of man? he dieth! And of the son of man --
 grass he is made!
51:13 And thou dost forget Jehovah thy maker, Who is stretching
 out the heavens, and founding earth, And thou dost fear
 continually all the day, Because of the fury of the oppressor,
 As he hath prepared to destroy. And where [is] the fury of the
 oppressor?
51:14 Hastened hath a wanderer to be loosed, And he doth not die
 at the pit, And his bread is not lacking.
51:15 And I [am] Jehovah thy God, Quieting the sea, when its
 billows roar, Jehovah of Hosts [is] His name.
51:16 And I put My words in thy mouth, And with the shadow of My
 hand have covered thee, To plant the heavens, and to found
 earth, And to say to Zion, `My people [art] thou.'
51:17 Stir thyself, stir thyself, rise, Jerusalem, Who hast
 drunk from the hand of Jehovah The cup of His fury, The goblet,
 the cup of trembling, thou hast drunk, Thou hast wrung out.
51:18 There is not a leader to her Out of all the sons she hath
 borne, And there is none laying hold on her hand Out of all the
 sons she hath nourished.
51:19 These two are meeting thee, who is moved for thee?
 Spoiling and destruction -- Famine and sword, who -- I comfort
 thee?
51:20 Thy sons have been wrapt up, they have lain down, At the
 head of all out places, as a wild ox [in] a net, They are full
 of the fury of Jehovah, The rebuke of Thy God.
51:21 Therefore, hear, I pray thee, this, O afflicted and
 drunken one, and not with wine,
51:22 Thus said thy Lord Jehovah, and thy God, He pleadeth [for]
 his people: `Lo, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of
 trembling, The goblet, the cup of My fury, Thou dost not add to
 drink it any more.
51:23 And I have put it into the hand of those afflicting thee,
 Who have said to thy soul, Bow down, and we pass over, And thou
 makest as the earth thy body, And as the street to those
 passing by!'
52:1 Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion, Put on the
 garments of thy beauty, Jerusalem -- the Holy City; For enter
 no more into thee again, Do the uncircumcised and unclean.
52:2 Shake thyself from dust, arise, sit, O Jerusalem, Bands of
 thy neck have loosed themselves, O captive, daughter of Zion.
52:3 For thus said Jehovah: `For nought ye have been sold, And
 not by money are ye redeemed.'
52:4 For thus said the Lord Jehovah: `To Egypt My people went
 down at first to sojourn there, And Asshur -- for nought he
 hath oppressed it.
52:5 And now, what -- to Me here, An affirmation of Jehovah,
 That taken is My people for nought? Its rulers cause howling,
 -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And continually all the day My
 name is despised.
52:6 Therefore doth My people know My name, Therefore, in that
 day, Surely I [am] He who is speaking, behold Me.'
52:7 How comely on the mountains, Have been the feet of one
 proclaiming tidings, Sounding peace, proclaiming good tidings,
 Sounding salvation, Saying to Zion, `Reigned hath thy God.'
52:8 The voice of thy watchmen! They have lifted up the voice,
 together they cry aloud, Because eye to eye they see, in
 Jehovah's turning back [to] Zion.
52:9 Break forth, sing together, O wastes of Jerusalem, For
 Jehovah hath comforted His people, He hath redeemed Jerusalem.
52:10 Jehovah hath made bare His holy arm Before the eyes of all
 the nations, And seen have all the ends of the earth, The
 salvation of our God.
52:11 Turn aside, turn aside, go out thence, The unclean touch
 not, go out from her midst, Be ye pure, who are bearing the
 weapons of Jehovah.
52:12 For not in haste do ye go out, Yea, with flight ye go not
 on, For going before you [is] Jehovah, And gathering you [is]
 the God of Israel!
52:13 Lo, My servant doth act wisely, He is high, and hath been
 lifted up, And hath been very high.
52:14 As astonished at thee have been many, (So marred by man
 his appearance, And his form by sons of men.)
52:15 So doth he sprinkle many nations. Concerning him kings
 shut their mouth, For that which was not recounted to them they
 have seen, And that which they had not heard they have
 understood!
53:1 Who hath given credence to that which we heard? And the arm
 of Jehovah, On whom hath it been revealed?
53:2 Yea, he cometh up as a tender plant before Him, And as a
 root out of a dry land, He hath no form, nor honour, when we
 observe him, Nor appearance, when we desire him.
53:3 He is despised, and left of men, A man of pains, and
 acquainted with sickness, And as one hiding the face from us,
 He is despised, and we esteemed him not.
53:4 Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, And our pains -- he
 hath carried them, And we -- we have esteemed him plagued,
 Smitten of God, and afflicted.
53:5 And he is pierced for our transgressions, Bruised for our
 iniquities, The chastisement of our peace [is] on him, And by
 his bruise there is healing to us.
53:6 All of us like sheep have wandered, Each to his own way we
 have turned, And Jehovah hath caused to meet on him, The
 punishment of us all.
53:7 It hath been exacted, and he hath answered, And he openeth
 not his mouth, As a lamb to the slaughter he is brought, And as
 a sheep before its shearers is dumb, And he openeth not his
 mouth.
53:8 By restraint and by judgment he hath been taken, And of his
 generation who doth meditate, That he hath been cut off from
 the land of the living? By the transgression of My people he is
 plagued,
53:9 And it appointeth with the wicked his grave, And with the
 rich [are] his high places, Because he hath done no violence,
 Nor [is] deceit in his mouth.
53:10 And Jehovah hath delighted to bruise him, He hath made him
 sick, If his soul doth make an offering for guilt, He seeth
 seed -- he prolongeth days, And the pleasure of Jehovah in his
 hand doth prosper.
53:11 Of the labour of his soul he seeth -- he is satisfied,
 Through his knowledge give righteousness Doth the righteous
 one, My servant, to many, And their iniquities he doth bear.
53:12 Therefore I give a portion to him among the many, And with
 the mighty he apportioneth spoil, Because that he exposed to
 death his soul, And with transgressors he was numbered, And he
 the sin of many hath borne, And for transgressors he
 intercedeth.
54:1 Sing, O barren, she hath not borne! Break forth with
 singing, and cry aloud, She hath not brought forth! For more
 [are] the sons of the desolate, Than the sons of the married
 one, said Jehovah.
54:2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, And the curtains of thy
 tabernacles they stretch out, Restrain not -- lengthen thy
 cords, And thy pins make strong.
54:3 For right and left thou breakest forth, And thy seed doth
 nations possess,
54:4 And desolate cities they cause to be inhabited. Fear not,
 for thou art not ashamed, Nor blush, for thou art not
 confounded, For the shame of thy youth thou forgettest, And the
 reproach of thy widowhood Thou dost not remember any more.
54:5 For thy Maker [is] thy husband, Jehovah of Hosts [is] His
 name, And thy Redeemer [is] the Holy One of Israel, `God of all
 the earth,' He is called.
54:6 For, as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, Called thee
 hath Jehovah, Even a youthful wife when she is refused, said
 thy God.
54:7 In a small moment I have forsaken thee, And in great
 mercies I do gather thee,
54:8 In overflowing wrath I hid my face [for] a moment from
 thee, And in kindness age-during I have loved thee, Said thy
 Redeemer -- Jehovah!
54:9 For, the waters of Noah [is] this to Me, In that I have
 sworn -- the waters of Noah Do not pass again over the earth --
 So I have sworn, Wrath is not upon thee, Nor rebuke against
 thee.
54:10 For the mountains depart, and the hills remove, And My
 kindness from thee departeth not, And the covenant of My peace
 removeth not, Said hath thy loving one -- Jehovah.
54:11 O afflicted, storm-tossed, not comforted, Lo, I am laying
 with cement thy stones, And have founded thee with sapphires,
54:12 And have made of agate thy pinnacles, And thy gates of
 carbuncle stones, And all thy border of stones of delight,
54:13 And all thy sons are taught of Jehovah, And abundant [is]
 the peace of thy sons.
54:14 In righteousness thou establishest thyself, Be far from
 oppression, for thou fearest not, And from ruin, for it cometh
 not near unto thee.
54:15 Lo, he doth diligently assemble without My desire, Who
 hath assembled near thee? By thee he falleth!
54:16 Lo, I -- I have prepared an artizan, Blowing on a fire of
 coals, And bringing out an instrument for his work, And I have
 prepared a destroyer to destroy.
54:17 No weapon formed against thee prospereth, And every tongue
 rising against thee, In judgment thou condemnest. This [is] the
 inheritance of the servants of Jehovah, And their righteousness
 from me, an affirmation of Jehovah!
55:1 Ho, every thirsty one, come ye to the waters, And he who
 hath no money, Come ye, buy and eat, yea, come, buy Without
 money and without price, wine and milk.
55:2 Why do ye weigh money for that which is not bread? And your
 labour for that which is not for satiety? Hearken diligently
 unto me, and eat good, And your soul doth delight itself in
 fatness.
55:3 Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul
 doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind
 acts of David -- that are stedfast.
55:4 Lo, a witness to peoples I have given him, A leader and
 commander to peoples.
55:5 Lo, a nation thou knowest not, thou callest, And a nation
 who know thee not unto thee do run, For the sake of Jehovah thy
 God, And for the Holy One of Israel, Because He hath beautified
 thee.
55:6 Seek ye Jehovah, while He is found, Call ye Him, while He
 is near,
55:7 Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity
 his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him,
 And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.
55:8 For not My thoughts [are] your thoughts, Nor your ways My
 ways, -- an affirmation of Jehovah,
55:9 For high have the heavens been above the earth, So high
 have been My ways above your ways, And My thoughts above your
 thoughts.
55:10 For, as come down doth the shower, And the snow from the
 heavens, And thither returneth not, But hath watered the earth,
 And hath caused it to yield, and to spring up, And hath given
 seed to the sower, and bread to the eater,
55:11 So is My word that goeth out of My mouth, It turneth not
 back unto Me empty, But hath done that which I desired, And
 prosperously effected that [for] which I sent it.
55:12 For with joy ye go forth, And with peace ye are brought
 in, The mountains and the hills Break forth before you [with]
 singing, And all trees of the field clap the hand.
55:13 Instead of the thorn come up doth fir, Instead of the
 brier come up doth myrtle, And it hath been to Jehovah for a
 name, For a sign age-during -- it is not cut off!
56:1 Thus said Jehovah: `Keep ye judgment, and do righteousness,
 For near [is] My salvation to come, And My righteousness to be
 revealed.'
56:2 O the happiness of a man who doth this, And of a son of man
 who keepeth hold on it, Keeping the sabbath from polluting it,
 And keeping his hand from doing any evil.
56:3 Nor speak let a son of the stranger, Who is joined unto
 Jehovah, saying: `Jehovah doth certainly separate me from His
 people.' Nor say let the eunuch, `Lo, I am a tree dried up,'
56:4 For thus said Jehovah of the eunuchs, Who do keep My
 sabbaths, And have fixed on that which I desired, And are
 keeping hold on My covenant:
56:5 I have given to them in My house, And within My walls a
 station and a name, Better than sons and than daughters, A name
 age-during I give to him That is not cut off.
56:6 And sons of the stranger, who are joined to Jehovah, To
 serve Him, and to love the name of Jehovah, To be to Him for
 servants, Every keeper of the sabbath from polluting it, And
 those keeping hold on My covenant.
56:7 I have brought them unto My holy mountain, And caused them
 to rejoice in My house of prayer, Their burnt-offerings and
 their sacrifices [Are] for a pleasing thing on Mine altar, For
 My house, `A house of prayer,' Is called for all the peoples.
56:8 An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Who is gathering the
 outcasts of Israel: `Again I gather to him -- to his gathered
 ones.'
56:9 Every beast of the field, Come to devour, every beast in
 the forest.
56:10 Blind [are] his watchmen -- all of them, They have not
 known, All of them [are] dumb dogs, they are not able to bark,
 Dozing, lying down, loving to slumber.
56:11 And the dogs [are] strong of desire, They have not known
 sufficiency, And they [are] shepherds! They have not known
 understanding, All of them to their own way they did turn, Each
 to his dishonest gain from his quarter:
56:12 `Come ye, I take wine, And we drink, quaff strong drink,
 And as this day hath been to-morrow, Great -- exceeding
 abundant!'
57:1 The righteous hath perished, And there is none laying [it]
 to heart, And men of kindness are gathered, Without any
 considering that from the face of evil Gathered is the
 righteous one.
57:2 He entereth into peace, they rest on their beds, [Each] is
 going straightforward.
57:3 And ye, come near hither, O sons of a sorceress, seed of an
 adulterer, Even thou dost commit whoredom.
57:4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Against whom enlarge ye
 the mouth? Prolong ye the tongue? Are not ye children of
 transgression? a false seed?
57:5 Who are inflamed among oaks, under every green tree,
 Slaughtering the children in valleys, Under clefts of the
 rocks.
57:6 Among the smooth things of a brook [is] thy portion, They
 -- they [are] thy lot, Also to them thou hast poured out an
 oblation, Thou hast caused a present to ascend, For these
 things am I comforted?
57:7 On a mountain, high and exalted, Thou hast set thy couch,
 Also thither thou hast gone up to make a sacrifice.
57:8 And behind the door, and the post, Thou hast set up thy
 memorial, For from Me thou hast removed, and goest up, Thou
 hast enlarged thy couch, And dost covenant for thyself among
 them, Thou hast loved their couch, the station thou sawest,
57:9 And goest joyfully to the king in ointment, And dost
 multiply thy perfumes, And sendest thine ambassadors afar off,
 And humblest thyself unto Sheol.
57:10 In the greatness of thy way thou hast laboured, Thou hast
 not said, `It is desperate.' The life of thy hand thou hast
 found, Therefore thou hast not been sick.
57:11 And of whom hast thou been afraid, and fearest, That thou
 liest, and Me hast not remembered? Thou hast not laid [it] to
 thy heart, Am not I silent, even from of old? And Me thou
 fearest not?
57:12 I declare thy righteousness, and thy works, And they do
 not profit thee.
57:13 When thou criest, let thy gatherings deliver thee, And all
 of them carry away doth wind, Take away doth vanity, And whoso
 is trusting in Me inheriteth the land, And doth possess My holy
 mountain.
57:14 And he hath said, `Raise up, raise up, prepare a way, Lift
 a stumbling-block out of the way of My people.'
57:15 For thus said the high and exalted One, Inhabiting
 eternity, and holy [is] His name: `In the high and holy place I
 dwell, And with the bruised and humble of spirit, To revive the
 spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of bruised ones,'
57:16 For, not to the age do I strive, nor for ever am I wroth,
 For the spirit from before Me is feeble, And the souls I have
 made.
57:17 For the iniquity of his dishonest gain, I have been wroth,
 and I smite him, Hiding -- and am wroth, And he goeth on
 turning back in the way of his heart.
57:18 His ways I have seen, and I heal him, yea, I lead him, And
 recompense comforts to him and to his mourning ones.
57:19 Producing the fruit of the lips, `Peace, peace,' to the
 far off, and to the near, And I have healed him, said Jehovah.
57:20 And the wicked [are] as the driven out sea, For to rest it
 is not able, And its waters cast out filth and mire.
57:21 There is no peace, said my God, to the wicked!
58:1 Call with the throat, restrain not, As a trumpet lift up
 thy voice, And declare to My people their transgression, And to
 the house of Jacob their sins;
58:2 Seeing -- Me day by day they seek, And the knowledge of My
 ways they desire, As a nation that righteousness hath done, And
 the judgment of its God hath not forsaken, They ask of me
 judgments of righteousness, The drawing near of God they
 desire:
58:3 `Why have we fasted, and Thou hast not seen? We have
 afflicted our soul, and Thou knowest not.' Lo, in the day of
 your fast ye find pleasure, And all your labours ye exact.
58:4 Lo, for strife and debate ye fast, And to smite with the
 fist of wickedness, Ye fast not as [to]-day, To sound in the high
 place your voice.
58:5 Like this is the fast that I choose? The day of a man's
 afflicting his soul? To bow as a reed his head, And sackcloth
 and ashes spread out? This dost thou call a fast, And a
 desirable day -- to Jehovah?
58:6 Is not this the fast that I chose -- To loose the bands of
 wickedness, To shake off the burdens of the yoke, And to send
 out the oppressed free, And every yoke ye draw off?
58:7 Is it not to deal to the hungry thy bread, And the mourning
 poor bring home, That thou seest the naked and cover him, And
 from thine own flesh hide not thyself?
58:8 Then broken up as the dawn is thy light, And thy health in
 haste springeth up, Gone before thee hath thy righteousness,
 The honour of Jehovah doth gather thee.
58:9 Then thou callest, and Jehovah answereth, Thou criest, and
 He saith, `Behold Me.' If thou turn aside from thy midst the
 yoke, The sending forth of the finger, And the speaking of
 vanity,
58:10 And dost bring out to the hungry thy soul, And the
 afflicted soul dost satisfy, Then risen in the darkness hath
 thy light, And thy thick darkness [is] as noon.
58:11 And Jehovah doth lead thee continually, And hath satisfied
 in drought thy soul, And thy bones He armeth, And thou hast
 been as a watered garden, And as an outlet of waters, whose
 waters lie not.
58:12 And they have built out of thee the wastes of old, The
 foundations of many generations thou raisest up, And one
 calleth thee, `Repairer of the breach, Restorer of paths to
 rest in.'
58:13 If thou dost turn from the sabbath thy foot, Doing thine
 own pleasure on My holy day, And hast cried to the sabbath, `A
 delight,' To the holy of Jehovah, `Honoured,' And hast honoured
 it, without doing thine own ways, Without finding thine own
 pleasure, And speaking a word.
58:14 Then dost thou delight thyself on Jehovah, And I have
 caused thee to ride on high places of earth, And have caused
 thee to eat the inheritance of Jacob thy father, For the mouth
 of Jehovah hath spoken!
59:1 Lo, the hand of Jehovah Hath not been shortened from
 saving, Nor heavy his ear from hearing.
59:2 But your iniquities have been separating Between you and
 your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you --
 from hearing.
59:3 For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your
 fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your
 tongue perverseness doth mutter.
59:4 There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none
 pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking
 falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.
59:5 Eggs of a viper they have hatched, And webs of a spider
 they weave, Whoso is eating their eggs doth die, And the
 crushed hatcheth a viper.
59:6 Their webs become not a garment, Nor do they cover
 themselves with their works, Their works [are] works of
 iniquity, And a deed of violence [is] in their hands.
59:7 Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent
 blood, Their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and
 destruction [are] in their highways.
59:8 A way of peace they have not known, And there is no
 judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse
 for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.
59:9 Therefore hath judgment been far from us, And righteousness
 reacheth us not, We wait for light, and lo, darkness, For
 brightness -- in thick darkness we go,
59:10 We feel like the blind [for] the wall, Yea, as without
 eyes we feel, We have stumbled at noon as at twilight, In
 desolate places as the dead.
59:11 We make a noise as bears -- all of us, And as doves we coo
 sorely; We wait for judgment, and there is none, For salvation
 -- it hath been far from us.
59:12 For our transgressions have been multiplied before Thee,
 And our sins have testified against us, For our transgressions
 [are] with us, And our iniquities -- we have known them.
59:13 Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing
 from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostacy,
 Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood.
59:14 And removed backward is judgment, And righteousness afar
 off standeth, For truth hath been feeble in the street, And
 straightforwardness is not able to enter,
59:15 And the truth is lacking, And whoso is turning aside from
 evil, Is making himself a spoil. And Jehovah seeth, and it is
 evil in His eyes, That there is no judgment.
59:16 And He seeth that there is no man, And is astonished that
 there is no intercessor, And His own arm giveth salvation to
 Him, And His righteousness -- it sustained Him.
59:17 And He putteth on righteousness as a breastplate, And an
 helmet of salvation on His head, And He putteth on garments of
 vengeance [for] clothing, And is covered, as [with] an
 upper-robe, [with] zeal.
59:18 According to deeds -- so He repayeth. Fury to His
 adversaries, [their] deed to His enemies, To the isles [their]
 deed He repayeth.
59:19 And they fear from the west the name of Jehovah, And from
 the rising of the sun -- His honour, When come in as a flood
 doth an adversary, The Spirit of Jehovah hath raised an ensign
 against him.
59:20 And come to Zion hath a redeemer, Even to captives of
 transgression in Jacob, An affirmation of Jehovah.
59:21 And I -- this [is] My covenant with them, said Jehovah, My
 Spirit that [is] on thee, And My words that I have put in thy
 mouth, Depart not from thy mouth, And from the mouth of thy
 seed, And from the mouth of thy seed's seed, said Jehovah, From
 henceforth unto the age!
60:1 Arise, be bright, for come hath thy light, And the honour
 of Jehovah hath risen on thee.
60:2 For, lo, the darkness doth cover the earth, And thick
 darkness the peoples, And on thee rise doth Jehovah, And His
 honour on thee is seen.
60:3 And come have nations to thy light, And kings to the
 brightness of thy rising.
60:4 Lift up round about thine eyes and see, All of them have
 been gathered, they have come to thee, Thy sons from afar do
 come, And thy daughters on the side are supported.
60:5 Then thou seest, and hast become bright, And thine heart
 hath been afraid and enlarged, For turn unto thee doth the
 multitude of the sea, The forces of nations do come to thee.
60:6 A company of camels covereth thee, Dromedaries of Midian
 and Ephah, All of them from Sheba do come, Gold and
 frankincense they bear, And of the praises of Jehovah they
 proclaim the tidings.
60:7 All the flock of Kedar are gathered to thee, The rams of
 Nebaioth do serve thee, They ascend for acceptance Mine altar,
 And the house of My beauty I beautify.
60:8 Who [are] these -- as a thick cloud they fly, And as doves
 unto their windows?
60:9 Surely for Me isles do wait, And ships of Tarshish first,
 To bring thy sons from afar, Their silver and their gold with
 them, To the name of Jehovah thy God, And to the Holy One of
 Israel, Because He hath beautified thee.
60:10 And sons of a stranger have built thy walls, And their
 kings do serve thee, For in My wrath I have smitten thee, And
 in My good pleasure I have pitied thee.
60:11 And opened have thy gates continually, By day and by night
 they are not shut, To bring unto thee the force of nations,
 Even their kings are led.
60:12 For the nation and the kingdom that do not serve thee
 perish, Yea, the nations are utterly wasted.
60:13 The honour of Lebanon unto thee doth come, Fir, pine, and
 box together, To beautify the place of My sanctuary, And the
 place of My feet I make honourable.
60:14 And come unto thee, bowing down, Have sons of those
 afflicting thee, And bowed themselves to the soles of thy feet
 Have all despising thee, And they have cried to thee: `City of
 Jehovah, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.'
60:15 Instead of thy being forsaken and hated, And none passing
 through, I have made thee for an excellency age-during, A joy
 of generation and generation.
60:16 And thou hast sucked the milk of nations, Yea, the breast
 of kings thou suckest, And thou hast known that I, Jehovah, Thy
 Saviour, and Thy Redeemer, [Am] the Mighty One of Jacob.
60:17 Instead of the brass I bring in gold, And instead of the
 iron I bring in silver, And instead of the wood brass, And
 instead of the stone iron, And I have made thy inspection
 peace, And thy exactors righteousness.
60:18 Violence is not heard any more in thy land, Spoiling and
 destruction in thy borders, And thou hast called `Salvation'
 thy walls, And thy gates, `Praise.'
60:19 To thee no more is the sun for a light by day, And for
 brightness the moon giveth not light to thee, And Jehovah hath
 become to thee A light age-during, and thy God thy beauty.
60:20 Thy sun goeth no more in, And thy moon is not removed, For
 Jehovah becometh to thee a light age-during. And the days of
 thy mourning have been completed.
60:21 And thy people [are] all of them righteous, To the age
 they possess the earth, A branch of My planting, A work of My
 hands, to be beautified.
60:22 The little one doth become a chief, And the small one a
 mighty nation, I, Jehovah, in its own time do hasten it!
61:1 The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah [is] on me, Because Jehovah
 did anoint me To proclaim tidings to the humble, He sent me to
 bind the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives liberty, And
 to bound ones an opening of bands.
61:2 To proclaim the year of the good pleasure of Jehovah, And
 the day of vengeance of our God, To comfort all mourners.
61:3 To appoint to mourners in Zion, To give to them beauty
 instead of ashes, The oil of joy instead of mourning, A
 covering of praise for a spirit of weakness, And He is calling
 to them, `Trees of righteousness, The planting of Jehovah -- to
 be beautified.'
61:4 And they have built the wastes of old, The desolations of
 the ancients they raise up, And they have renewed waste cities,
 The desolations of generation and generation.
61:5 And strangers have stood and fed your flock, Sons of a
 foreigner [are] your husbandmen, And your vine-dressers.
61:6 And ye are called `Priests of Jehovah,' `Ministers of our
 God,' is said of you, The strength of nations ye consume, And
 in their honour ye do boast yourselves.
61:7 Instead of your shame and confusion, A second time they
 sing of their portion, Therefore in their land A second time do
 they take possession, Joy age-during [is] for them.
61:8 For I [am] Jehovah, loving judgment, Hating plunder for a
 burnt-offering, And I have given their wage in truth, And a
 covenant age-during I make for them.
61:9 And known among nations hath been their seed, And their
 offspring in the midst of the peoples, All their beholders
 acknowledge them, For they [are] a seed Jehovah hath blessed.
61:10 I greatly rejoice in Jehovah, Joy doth my soul in my God,
 For He clothed me with garments of salvation, With a robe of
 righteousness covereth Me, As a bridegroom prepareth ornaments,
 And as a bride putteth on her jewels.
61:11 For, as the earth bringeth forth her shoots, And as a
 garden causeth its sown things to shoot up, So the Lord Jehovah
 causeth righteousness and praise To shoot up before all the
 nations!
62:1 For Zion's sake I am not silent, And for Jerusalem's sake I
 do not rest, Till her righteousness go out as brightness, And
 her salvation, as a torch that burneth.
62:2 And nations have seen thy righteousness, And all kings
 thine honour, And He is giving to thee a new name, That the
 mouth of Jehovah doth define.
62:3 And thou hast been a crown of beauty in the hand of
 Jehovah, And a diadem of royalty in the hand of thy God,
62:4 It is not said of thee any more, `Forsaken!' And of thy
 land it is not said any more, `Desolate,' For to thee is cried,
 `My delight [is] in her,' And to thy land, `Married,' For
 Jehovah hath delighted in thee, And thy land is married.
62:5 For a young man doth marry a virgin, Thy Builders do marry
 thee, With the joy of a bridegroom over a bride, Rejoice over
 thee doth thy God.
62:6 `On thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen, All
 the day, and all the night, Continually, they are not silent.'
 O ye remembrancers of Jehovah, Keep not silence for yourselves,
62:7 And give not silence to Him, Till He establish, and till He
 make Jerusalem A praise in the earth.
62:8 Sworn hath Jehovah by His right hand, Even by the arm of
 His strength: `I give not thy corn any more [as] food for thine
 enemies, Nor do sons of a stranger drink thy new wine, For
 which thou hast laboured.
62:9 For, those gathering it do eat it, and have praised
 Jehovah, And those collecting it do drink it in My holy
 courts.'
62:10 Pass ye on, pass on through the gates, Prepare ye the way
 of the people, Raise up, raise up the highway, clear it from
 stones, Lift up an ensign over the peoples.
62:11 Lo, Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the end of the earth:
 `Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Lo, thy salvation hath come,'
 Lo, his hire [is] with him, and his wage before him.
62:12 And they have cried to them, `People of the Holy One,
 Redeemed of Jehovah,' Yea, to thee is called, `Sought out one,
 a city not forsaken!'
63:1 `Who [is] this coming from Edom? With dyed garments from
 Bozrah? This that is honourable in his clothing, Travelling in
 the abundance of his power?' -- `I, speaking in righteousness,
 mighty to save.'
63:2 `Wherefore [is] thy clothing red? And thy garments as
 treading in a wine fat?'
63:3 -- `A wine-press I have trodden by myself, And of the
 peoples there is no one with me, And I tread them in mine
 anger, And I trample them in my fury, Sprinkled is their
 strength on my garments, And all my clothing I have polluted.
63:4 For the day of vengeance [is] in my heart, And the year of
 my redeemed hath come.
63:5 And I look attentively, and there is none helping, And I am
 astonished that there is none supporting, And give salvation to
 me doth mine own arm. And my wrath -- it hath supported me.
63:6 And I tread down peoples in mine anger, And I make them
 drunk in my fury, And I bring down to earth their strength.
63:7 The kind acts of Jehovah I make mention of, The praises of
 Jehovah, According to all that Jehovah hath done for us, And
 the abundance of the goodness to the house of Israel, That He
 hath done for them, According to His mercies, And according to
 the abundance of His kind acts.
63:8 And He saith, Only My people they [are], Sons -- they lie
 not, and He is to them for a saviour.
63:9 In all their distress [He is] no adversary, And the
 messenger of His presence saved them, In His love and in His
 pity He redeemed them, And He doth lift them up, And beareth
 them all the days of old.
63:10 And they have rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit, And He
 turneth to them for an enemy, He Himself hath fought against
 them.
63:11 And He remembereth the days of old, Moses -- his people.
 Where [is] He who is bringing them up from the sea, The
 shepherd of his flock? Where [is] He who is putting in its
 midst His Holy Spirit?
63:12 Leading by the right hand of Moses, the arm of His glory,
 Cleaving waters from before them, To make to Himself a name
 age-during.
63:13 Leading them through the depths, As a horse in a plain
 they stumble not.
63:14 As a beast into a valley goeth down, The Spirit of Jehovah
 causeth him to rest, So hast Thou led Thy people, To make to
 Thyself a glorious name.
63:15 Look attentively from the heavens, And see from Thy holy
 and beauteous habitation, Where [is] Thy zeal and Thy might?
 The multitude of Thy bowels and Thy mercies Towards me have
 refrained themselves.
63:16 For Thou [art] our Father, For Abraham hath not known us,
 And Israel doth not acknowledge us, Thou, O Jehovah, [art] our
 Father, Our redeemer from the age, [is] Thy name.
63:17 Why causest Thou us to wander, O Jehovah, from Thy ways?
 Thou hardenest our heart from Thy fear, Turn back for Thy
 servants' sake, The tribes of Thine inheritance.
63:18 For a little while did Thy holy people possess, Our
 adversaries have trodden down Thy sanctuary.
63:19 We have been from of old, Thou hast not ruled over them,
 Not called is Thy name upon them!
64:1 Didst Thou not rend the heavens? Thou didst come down, From
 thy presence did mountains flow,
64:2 (As fire kindleth stubble -- Fire causeth water to boil,)
 To make known Thy name to Thine adversaries, From Thy presence
 do nations tremble.
64:3 In Thy doing fearful things -- we expect not, Thou didst
 come down, From Thy presence did mountains flow.
64:4 Even from antiquity [men] have not heard, They have not
 given ear, Eye hath not seen a God save Thee, He doth work for
 those waiting for Him.
64:5 Thou hast met with the rejoicer And the doer of
 righteousness, In Thy ways they remember Thee, Lo, Thou hast
 been wroth when we sin, By them [is] continuance, and we are
 saved.
64:6 And we are as unclean -- all of us, And as a garment
 passing away, all our righteous acts; And we fade as a leaf --
 all of us. And our iniquities as wind do take us away.
64:7 And there is none calling in Thy name, Stirring up himself
 to lay hold on Thee, For Thou hast hid Thy face from us, And
 thou meltest us away by our iniquities.
64:8 And now, O Jehovah, thou [art] our Father, We [are] the
 clay, and Thou our Framer, And the work of Thy hand -- all of
 us.
64:9 Be not wroth, O Jehovah, very sore, Nor for ever remember
 iniquity, Lo, look attentively, we beseech Thee, Thy people
 [are] we all.
64:10 Thy holy cities have been a wilderness, Zion a wilderness
 hath been, Jerusalem a desolation.
64:11 Our holy and our beautiful house, Where praise Thee did
 our fathers, Hath become burnt with fire, And all our desirable
 things have become a waste.
64:12 For these dost Thou refrain Thyself, Jehovah? Thou art
 silent, and dost afflict us very sore!'
65:1 I have been inquired of by those who asked not, I have been
 found by those who sought Me not, I have said, `Behold Me,
 behold Me,' Unto a nation not calling in My name.
65:2 I have spread out My hands all the day Unto an apostate
 people, Who are going in the way not good after their own
 thoughts.
65:3 The people who are provoking Me to anger, To My face
 continually, Sacrificing in gardens, and making perfume on the
 bricks:
65:4 Who are dwelling among sepulchres, And lodge in reserved
 places, Who are eating flesh of the sow, And a piece of
 abominable things -- their vessels.
65:5 Who are saying, `Keep to thyself, come not nigh to me, For
 I have declared thee unholy.' These [are] a smoke in Mine
 anger, A fire burning all the day.
65:6 Lo, it is written before Me: `I am not silent, but have
 recompensed; And I have recompensed into their bosom,
65:7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers
 together, said Jehovah, Who have made perfume on the mountains,
 And on the heights have reproached Me, And I have measured
 their former work into their bosom.'
65:8 Thus said Jehovah: As the new wine is found in the cluster,
 And one hath said, `Destroy it not for a blessing [is] in it,'
 So I do for My servants' sake, not to destroy the whole.
65:9 And I have brought out from Jacob a seed, And from Judah a
 possessor of My mount, And possess it do My chosen ones, And My
 servants do dwell there.
65:10 And Sharon hath been for the habitation of a flock, And
 the valley of Achor for the lying down of a herd, For My people
 who have sought Me.
65:11 And ye [are] those forsaking Jehovah, Who are forgetting
 My holy mountain, Who are setting in array for Gad a table, And
 who are filling for Meni a mixture.
65:12 And I have numbered you for the sword, And all of you for
 slaughter bow down, Because I called, and ye have not answered,
 I have spoken, and ye have not hearkened, And ye do the evil
 thing in Mine eyes, And on that which I desired not -- fixed.
65:13 Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, My servants do
 eat, and ye do hunger, Lo, My servants do drink, and ye do
 thirst, Lo, My servants rejoice, and ye are ashamed,
65:14 Lo, My servants sing from joy of heart, And ye cry from
 pain of heart, And from breaking of spirit ye do howl.
65:15 And ye have left your name For an oath for My chosen ones,
 And the Lord Jehovah hath put thee to death, And to His
 servants He giveth another name.
65:16 So that he who is blessing himself in the earth, Doth
 bless himself In the God of faithfulness, And he who is
 swearing in the earth, Doth swear by the God of faithfulness,
 Because the former distresses have been forgotten, And because
 they have been hid from Mine eyes.
65:17 For, lo, I am creating new heavens, and a new earth, And
 the former things are not remembered, Nor do they ascend on the
 heart.
65:18 But joy ye, and rejoice for ever, that I [am] Creator,
 For, lo, I am creating Jerusalem a rejoicing, And her people a
 joy.
65:19 And I have rejoiced in Jerusalem, And have joyed in My
 people, And not heard in her any more Is the voice of weeping,
 and the voice of crying.
65:20 There is not thence any more a suckling of days, And an
 aged man who doth not complete his days, For the youth a
 hundred years old dieth, And the sinner, a hundred years old,
 is lightly esteemed.
65:21 And they have built houses, and inhabited, And planted
 vineyards, and eaten their fruit.
65:22 They do not build, and another inhabit, They do not plant,
 and another eat, For as the days of a tree [are] the days of My
 people, And the work of their hands wear out do My chosen ones.
65:23 They labour not for a vain thing, Nor do they bring forth
 for trouble, For the seed of the blessed of Jehovah [are] they,
 And their offspring with them.
65:24 And it hath come to pass, They do not yet call, and I
 answer, They are yet speaking, and I hear.
65:25 Wolf and lamb do feed as one, And a lion as an ox eateth
 straw, As to the serpent -- dust [is] its food, They do no
 evil, nor destroy, In all My holy mountain, said Jehovah!
66:1 Thus said Jehovah: The heavens [are] My throne, And the
 earth My footstool, Where [is] this -- the house that ye build
 for Me? And where [is] this -- the place -- My rest?
66:2 And all these My hand hath made, And all these things are,
 An affirmation of Jehovah! And unto this one I look
 attentively, Unto the humble and bruised in spirit, And who is
 trembling at My word.
66:3 Whoso slaughtereth the ox smiteth a man, Whoso sacrificeth
 the lamb beheadeth a dog, Whoso is bringing up a present -- The
 blood of a sow, Whoso is making mention of frankincense, Is
 blessing iniquity. Yea, they have fixed on their own ways, And
 in their abominations their soul hath delighted.
66:4 I also -- I fix on their vexations, And their fears I bring
 in to them, Because I have called, and there is none answering,
 I spake, and they have not hearkened, And they do the evil
 things in Mine eyes, And on that which I desired not -- fixed.
66:5 Hear a word of Jehovah, Ye who are trembling unto His word,
 Said have your brethren who are hating you, Who are driving you
 out, for My name's sake: `Honoured is Jehovah, and we look on
 your joy,' But they are ashamed.
66:6 A voice of noise [is] from the city, a voice from the
 temple, The voice of Jehovah, giving recompence to His enemies.
66:7 Before she is pained she hath brought forth, Before a pang
 cometh to her, She hath delivered a male.
66:8 Who hath heard anything like this? Who hath seen anything
 like these? Is earth caused to bring forth in one day? Born is
 a nation at once? For she hath been pained, Zion also hath
 borne her sons.
66:9 `Do I bring to the birth, And not cause to bring forth?'
 saith Jehovah, `Am not I He who is causing to beget? I have
 also restrained,' said thy God.
66:10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, And be glad in her, all ye
 loving her, Rejoice ye with her for joy, All ye are mourning
 for her,
66:11 So that ye suck, and have been satisfied, From the breast
 of her consolations, So that ye wring out, and have delighted
 yourselves From the abundance of her honour.
66:12 For thus said Jehovah: `Lo, I am stretching out to her
 peace as a river, And as an overflowing stream the honour of
 nations, And ye have sucked, on the side ye are carried, And on
 the knees ye are dandled.
66:13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so do I comfort you,
 Yea, in Jerusalem ye are comforted.
66:14 And ye have seen, and rejoiced hath your heart, And your
 bones as tender grass do flourish, And the hand of Jehovah hath
 been known unto His servants, And He hath been indignant with
 His enemies.
66:15 For, lo, Jehovah in fire cometh, And as a hurricane His
 chariots, To refresh in fury His anger, And His rebuke in
 flames of fire.
66:16 For by fire and by His sword, Doth Jehovah do judgment
 with all flesh. And many have been Jehovah's pierced ones.'
66:17 Those sanctifying and cleansing themselves at the gardens,
 After Ahad in the midst, Eating flesh of the sow, And of the
 abomination, and of the mouse, Together are consumed, An
 affirmation of Jehovah.
66:18 And I -- their works and their thoughts, I come to gather
 all the nations and tongues, And they have come and seen My
 honour.
66:19 And I have set among them a sign, And have sent out of
 them those escaping unto the nations, (Tarshish, Pul, and Lud,
 drawing bow, Tubal and Javan, the isles that are far off,) Who
 have not heard My fame, nor seen Mine honour, And they have
 declared Mine honour among nations.
66:20 And they have brought all your brethren out of all the
 nations, A present to Jehovah, On horses, and on chariot, and
 on litters, And on mules, and on dromedaries, Unto My holy
 mountain Jerusalem, said Jehovah, As the sons of Israel bring
 the present in a clean vessel, Into the house of Jehovah.
66:21 And also of them I take for priests, For Levites, said
 Jehovah.
66:22 For, as the new heavens and the new earth that I am
 making, Are standing before Me, An affirmation of Jehovah! So
 remain doth your seed and your name.
66:23 And it hath been from month to month, And from sabbath to
 sabbath, Come do all flesh to bow themselves before Me, Said
 Jehovah.
66:24 And they have gone forth, And looked on the carcases of
 the men Who are transgressing against me, For their worm dieth
 not, And their fire is not quenched, And they have been an
 abhorrence to all flesh!