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most important person in history, but you are the Creator and Savior of the
world. Lord Jesus, I need you. I have done wrong. Please forgive me of my sins
and come into my life. I ask you not just to be part of my life, but to guide me
to live according to the words I read in the Bible. Thank you for your mercy and
forgiveness. I am now committed to be your follower.
Amen.
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The Book of Isaiah
Chapter 1
001:001 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which
he saw concerning
Judah and
Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz,
and
Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
001:002 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the
LORD hath
spoken, I have nourished
and brought up children, and they
have rebelled against me.
001:003 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his
master's crib: but
Israel doth not
know, my people doth not consider.
001:004 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a
seed of
evildoers, children that
are corrupters: they have forsaken
the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel
unto
anger, they are gone away
backward.
001:005 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will
revolt more and
more: the whole
head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
001:006 From the sole of the foot even unto the head
there is no
soundness in it; but
wounds, and bruises, and
putrifying
sores: they have not
been closed, neither bound up,
neither
mollified with
ointment.
001:007 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned
with fire:
your land, strangers
devour it in your presence, and it
is
desolate, as overthrown by
strangers.
001:008 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in
a vineyard,
as a lodge in a garden
of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
001:009 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very
small
remnant, we should have been
as Sodom, and we should have been
like unto Gomorrah.
001:010 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom;
give ear unto
the law of our God,
ye people of Gomorrah.
001:011 To what purpose is the multitude of your
sacrifices unto me?
saith the
LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams,
and
the fat of fed beasts; and I
delight not in the blood of
bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
001:012 When ye come to appear before me, who hath
required this at
your hand, to
tread my courts?
001:013 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an
abomination unto
me; the new moons
and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies,
I
cannot away with; it is
iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
001:014 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul
hateth: they
are a trouble unto
me; I am weary to bear them.
001:015 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide
mine eyes
from you: yea, when ye
make many prayers, I will not
hear:
your hands are full of
blood.
001:016 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of
your doings
from before mine eyes;
cease to do evil;
001:017 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the
oppressed, judge
the fatherless,
plead for the widow.
001:018 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the
LORD: though
your sins be as
scarlet, they shall be as white as
snow;
though they be red like
crimson, they shall be as wool.
001:019 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the
good of the
land:
001:020 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured
with the
sword: for the mouth of
the LORD hath spoken it.
001:021 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was
full of
judgment; righteousness
lodged in it; but now murderers.
001:022 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
001:023 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of
thieves: every
one loveth gifts,
and followeth after rewards: they judge
not
the fatherless, neither doth
the cause of the widow come unto
them.
001:024 Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the
mighty One of
Israel, Ah, I will
ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge
me
of mine enemies:
001:025 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely
purge away thy
dross, and take
away all thy tin:
001:026 And I will restore thy judges as at the first,
and thy
counsellors as at the
beginning: afterward thou shalt be
called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
001:027 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her
converts with
righteousness.
001:028 And the destruction of the transgressors and of
the sinners
shall be together, and
they that forsake the LORD shall
be
consumed.
001:029 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye
have desired,
and ye shall be
confounded for the gardens that ye
have
chosen.
001:030 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and
as a garden
that hath no
water.
001:031 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of
it as a
spark, and they shall both
burn together, and none shall
quench them.
002:001 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw
concerning Judah and
Jerusalem.
002:002 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that
the mountain
of the LORD's house
shall be established in the top of
the
mountains, and shall be
exalted above the hills; and all
nations shall flow unto it.
002:003 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and
let us go up to
the mountain of
the LORD, to the house of the God of
Jacob;
and he will teach us of his
ways, and we will walk in his
paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word
of
the LORD from Jerusalem.
002:004 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall
rebuke many
people: and they shall
beat their swords into plowshares,
and
their spears into
pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up
sword
against nation, neither
shall they learn war any more.
002:005 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the
light of the
LORD.
002:006 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house
of Jacob,
because they be
replenished from the east, and are
soothsayers
like the Philistines,
and they please themselves in the
children of strangers.
002:007 Their land also is full of silver and gold,
neither is there
any end of their
treasures; their land is also full of
horses,
neither is there any end
of their chariots:
002:008 Their land also is full of idols; they worship
the work of
their own hands, that
which their own fingers have made:
002:009 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man
humbleth
himself: therefore
forgive them not.
002:010 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust,
for fear of
the LORD, and for the
glory of his majesty.
002:011 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the
haughtiness
of men shall be bowed
down, and the LORD alone shall be
exalted in that day.
002:012 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon
every one that
is proud and lofty,
and upon every one that is lifted up;
and
he shall be brought low:
002:013 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high
and lifted
up, and upon all the
oaks of Bashan,
002:014 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the
hills that
are lifted up,
002:015 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
002:016 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all
pleasant
pictures.
002:017 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and
the
haughtiness of men shall be
made low: and the LORD alone shall
be exalted in that day.
002:018 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
002:019 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks,
and into the
caves of the earth,
for fear of the LORD, and for the glory
of
his majesty, when he ariseth to
shake terribly the earth.
002:020 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver,
and his
idols of gold, which they
made each one for himself to
worship, to the moles and to the bats;
002:021 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the
tops of the
ragged rocks, for fear
of the LORD, and for the glory of
his
majesty, when he ariseth to
shake terribly the earth.
002:022 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his
nostrils: for
wherein is he to be
accounted of ?
003:001 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth
take away from
Jerusalem and from
Judah the stay and the staff, the
whole
stay of bread, and the whole
stay of water.
003:002 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge,
and the
prophet, and the prudent,
and the ancient,
003:003 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and
the
counsellor, and the cunning
artificer, and the eloquent
orator.
003:004 And I will give children to be their princes, and
babes shall
rule over them.
003:005 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by
another, and
every one by his
neighbour: the child shall behave
himself
proudly against the
ancient, and the base against the
honourable.
003:006 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the
house of his
father, saying, Thou
hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and
let
this ruin be under thy
hand:
003:007 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be
an healer;
for in my house is
neither bread nor clothing: make me not
a
ruler of the people.
003:008 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen:
because their
tongue and their
doings are against the LORD, to provoke
the
eyes of his glory.
003:009 The shew of their countenance doth witness
against them; and
they declare
their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe
unto
their soul! for they have
rewarded evil unto themselves.
003:010 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well
with him: for
they shall eat the
fruit of their doings.
003:011 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him:
for the reward
of his hands shall
be given him.
003:012 As for my people, children are their oppressors,
and women
rule over them. O my
people, they which lead thee cause
thee
to err, and destroy the way
of thy paths.
003:013 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to
judge the
people.
003:014 The LORD will enter into judgment with the
ancients of his
people, and the
princes thereof: for ye have eaten up
the
vineyard; the spoil of the
poor is in your houses.
003:015 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces,
and grind the
faces of the poor?
saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
003:016 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of
Zion are
haughty, and walk with
stretched forth necks and wanton
eyes,
walking and mincing as they
go, and making a tinkling with
their feet:
003:017 Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the
crown of the
head of the daughters
of Zion, and the LORD will
discover
their secret parts.
003:018 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery
of their
tinkling ornaments about
their feet, and their cauls, and
their round tires like the moon,
003:019 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
003:020 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and
the headbands,
and the tablets,
and the earrings,
003:021 The rings, and nose jewels,
003:022 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles,
and the
wimples, and the crisping
pins,
003:023 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
003:024 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet
smell there
shall be stink; and
instead of a girdle a rent; and instead
of
well set hair baldness; and
instead of a stomacher a girding
of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
003:025 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
003:026 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she
being desolate
shall sit upon the
ground.
004:001 And in that day seven women shall take hold of
one man,
saying, We will eat our
own bread, and wear our own
apparel:
only let us be called by
thy name, to take away our reproach.
004:002 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be
beautiful and
glorious, and the
fruit of the earth shall be excellent
and
comely for them that are
escaped of Israel.
004:003 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left
in Zion, and
he that remaineth in
Jerusalem, shall be called holy,
even
every one that is written
among the living in Jerusalem:
004:004 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of
the
daughters of Zion, and shall
have purged the blood of
Jerusalem
from the midst thereof by the spirit of
judgment,
and by the spirit of
burning.
004:005 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling
place of mount
Zion, and upon her
assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day,
and
the shining of a flaming fire
by night: for upon all the glory
shall be a defence.
004:006 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in
the day time
from the heat, and
for a place of refuge, and for a
covert
from storm and from
rain.
005:001 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my
beloved
touching his vineyard. My
wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a
very fruitful hill:
005:002 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones
thereof, and
planted it with the
choicest vine, and built a tower in
the
midst of it, and also made a
winepress therein: and he looked
that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth
wild
grapes.
005:003 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of
Judah, judge,
I pray you, betwixt
me and my vineyard.
005:004 What could have been done more to my vineyard,
that I have not
done in it?
wherefore, when I looked that it should
bring
forth grapes, brought it
forth wild grapes?
005:005 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to
my vineyard:
I will take away the
hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten
up;
and break down the wall
thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
005:006 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned,
nor digged;
but there shall come
up briers and thorns: I will also
command
the clouds that they rain
no rain upon it.
005:007 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the
house of Israel,
and the men of
Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked
for
judgment, but behold
oppression; for righteousness, but
behold
a cry.
005:008 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay
field to
field, till there be no
place, that they may be placed
alone
in the midst of the
earth!
005:009 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth
many houses
shall be desolate,
even great and fair, without inhabitant.
005:010 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,
and the seed
of an homer shall
yield an ephah.
005:011 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning,
that they may
follow strong drink;
that continue until night, till
wine
inflame them!
005:012 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe,
and wine,
are in their feasts: but
they regard not the work of the
LORD,
neither consider the
operation of his hands.
005:013 Therefore my people are gone into captivity,
because they have
no knowledge:
and their honourable men are famished, and
their
multitude dried up with
thirst.
005:014 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened
her mouth
without measure: and
their glory, and their multitude,
and
their pomp, and he that
rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
005:015 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the
mighty man
shall be humbled, and
the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
005:016 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in
judgment, and God
that is holy
shall be sanctified in righteousness.
005:017 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and
the waste
places of the fat ones
shall strangers eat.
005:018 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of
vanity, and sin
as it were with a
cart rope:
005:019 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his
work, that we may
see it: and let
the counsel of the Holy One of Israel
draw
nigh and come, that we may
know it!
005:020 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil;
that put
darkness for light, and
light for darkness; that put
bitter
for sweet, and sweet for
bitter!
005:021 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes,
and prudent in
their own
sight!
005:022 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and
men of
strength to mingle strong
drink:
005:023 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take
away the
righteousness of the
righteous from him!
005:024 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and
the flame
consumeth the chaff, so
their root shall be as rottenness,
and
their blossom shall go up as
dust: because they have cast away
the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of
the
Holy One of Israel.
005:025 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled
against his people,
and he hath
stretched forth his hand against them, and
hath
smitten them: and the hills
did tremble, and their carcases
were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his
anger
is not turned away, but his
hand is stretched out still.
005:026 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from
far, and
will hiss unto them from
the end of the earth: and, behold,
they shall come with speed swiftly:
005:027 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none
shall slumber
nor sleep; neither
shall the girdle of their loins be
loosed,
nor the latchet of their
shoes be broken:
005:028 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent,
their horses'
hoofs shall be
counted like flint, and their wheels like
a
whirlwind:
005:029 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall
roar like young
lions: yea, they
shall roar, and lay hold of the prey,
and
shall carry it away safe, and
none shall deliver it.
005:030 And in that day they shall roar against them like
the roaring
of the sea: and if one
look unto the land, behold darkness
and
sorrow, and the light is
darkened in the heavens thereof.
006:001 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the
LORD sitting
upon a throne, high
and lifted up, and his train filled
the
temple.
006:002 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six
wings; with
twain he covered his
face, and with twain he covered his
feet,
and with twain he did
fly.
006:003 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy,
holy, is the
LORD of hosts: the
whole earth is full of his glory.
006:004 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of
him that
cried, and the house was
filled with smoke.
006:005 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because
I am a man of
unclean lips, and I
dwell in the midst of a people of
unclean
lips: for mine eyes have
seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
006:006 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a
live coal in
his hand, which he
had taken with the tongs from off
the
altar:
006:007 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this
hath touched
thy lips; and thine
iniquity is taken away, and thy
sin
purged.
006:008 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom
shall I send,
and who will go for
us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
006:009 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye
indeed, but
understand not; and
see ye indeed, but perceive not.
006:010 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their
ears heavy,
and shut their eyes;
lest they see with their eyes, and
hear
with their ears, and
understand with their heart, and
convert,
and be healed.
006:011 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered,
Until the cities
be wasted without
inhabitant, and the houses without man,
and
the land be utterly
desolate,
006:012 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there
be a great
forsaking in the midst
of the land.
006:013 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall
return, and shall
be eaten: as a
teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in
them, when they
cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be
the substance
thereof.
007:001 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son
of Jotham, the
son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria,
and Pekah the son
of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward
Jerusalem to war
against it, but could not prevail against it.
007:002 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria
is
confederate
with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the
heart of his
people, as the trees of the wood are moved with
the wind.
007:003 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to
meet Ahaz,
thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of
the upper pool in
the highway of the fuller's field;
007:004 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear
not, neither
be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands,
for the fierce
anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of
Remaliah.
007:005 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah,
have taken
evil counsel against thee, saying,
007:006 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let
us make a
breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even
the son of
Tabeal:
007:007 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand,
neither shall it
come to pass.
007:008 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head
of Damascus is
Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be
broken, that it
be not a people.
007:009 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head
of Samaria is
Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be
established.
007:010 Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
007:011 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it
either in the
depth, or in the height above.
007:012 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
007:013 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it
a small
thing
for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
007:014 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign;
Behold, a
virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name
Immanuel.
007:015 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know
to refuse the
evil, and choose the good.
007:016 For before the child shall know to refuse the
evil, and choose
the good, the
land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of
both her
kings.
007:017 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy
people, and upon
thy father's
house, days that have not come, from the day that
Ephraim departed
from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
007:018 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
LORD shall
hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers
of Egypt, and for
the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
007:019 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them
in the
desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all
thorns, and upon
all bushes.
007:020 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor
that is
hired,
namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of
Assyria, the
head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also
consume the
beard.
007:021 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man
shall
nourish
a young cow, and two sheep;
007:022 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of
milk that they
shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall
every one eat
that is left in the land.
007:023 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every
place shall
be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand
silverlings, it
shall even be for briers and thorns.
007:024 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither;
because all
the land shall become briers and thorns.
007:025 And on all hills that shall be digged with the
mattock, there
shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it
shall be for the
sending forth of oxen, and for the treading
of lesser
cattle.
008:001 Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great
roll, and
write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
008:002 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record,
Uriah the
priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
008:003 And I went unto the prophetess; and she
conceived, and bare a
son. Then said
the LORD to me, Call his name
Mahershalalhashbaz.
008:004 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry,
My father,
and
my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria
shall be taken
away before the king of Assyria.
008:005 The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,
008:006 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of
Shiloah that
go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
008:007 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon
them the
waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of
Assyria, and all
his glory: and he shall come up over all his
channels, and go
over all his banks:
008:008 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall
overflow and go
over, he shall
reach even to the neck; and the stretching out
of his wings
shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
008:009 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall
be broken in
pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird
yourselves, and
ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves,
and ye shall be
broken in pieces.
008:010 Take counsel together, and it shall come to
nought; speak the
word, and it
shall not stand: for God is with us.
008:011 For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand,
and
instructed
me that I should not walk in the way of this
people,
saying,
008:012 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom
this people
shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be
afraid.
008:013 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him
be your fear,
and let him be your dread.
008:014 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone
of stumbling
and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a
gin and for a
snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
008:015 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and
be broken,
and
be snared, and be taken.
008:016 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
008:017 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his
face from the
house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
008:018 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath
given me are for
signs and for
wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which
dwelleth in mount
Zion.
008:019 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them
that have
familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter:
should not a
people seek unto their God? for the living to the
dead?
008:020 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak
not according
to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
008:021 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead
and hungry: and
it shall come to
pass, that when they shall be hungry, they
shall fret
themselves, and curse their king and their God, and
look upward.
008:022 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold
trouble and
darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to
darkness.
009:001 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was
in her
vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of
Zebulun and the
land of Naphtali, and afterward did more
grievously
afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan,
in Galilee of the
nations.
009:002 The people that walked in darkness have seen a
great light:
they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them
hath the light
shined.
009:003 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not
increased the joy:
they joy before
thee according to the joy in harvest, and as
men rejoice when
they divide the spoil.
009:004 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and
the staff of
his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of
Midian.
009:005 For every battle of the warrior is with confused
noise, and
garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and
fuel of fire.
009:006 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is
given: and the
government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be
called Wonderful,
Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting
Father, The
Prince of Peace.
009:007 Of the increase of his government and peace there
shall be no
end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order
it, and to
establish it with judgment and with justice from
henceforth even
for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will
perform this.
009:008 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath
lighted upon
Israel.
009:009 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and
the inhabitant
of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
009:010 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build
with hewn
stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them
into cedars.
009:011 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries
of Rezin
against him, and join his enemies together;
009:012 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind;
and they shall
devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not
turned away, but
his hand is stretched out still.
009:013 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth
them, neither
do they seek the LORD of hosts.
009:014 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head
and tail,
branch and rush, in one day.
009:015 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and
the prophet
that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
009:016 For the leaders of this people cause them to err;
and they
that
are led of them are destroyed.
009:017 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their
young men,
neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for
every one is an
hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth
speaketh folly.
For all this his anger is not turned away, but
his hand is
stretched out still.
009:018 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall
devour the briers
and thorns, and
shall kindle in the thickets of the forest,
and they shall
mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
009:019 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the
land darkened,
and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall
spare his
brother.
009:020 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be
hungry; and he
shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied:
they shall eat
every man the flesh of his own arm:
009:021 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and
they together
shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned
away, but his
hand is stretched out still.
010:001 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees,
and that write
grievousness which they have prescribed;
010:002 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to
take away the
right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their
prey, and that
they may rob the fatherless!
010:003 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and
in the
desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for
help? and where
will ye leave your glory?
010:004 Without me they shall bow down under the
prisoners, and they
shall fall under
the slain. For all this his anger is not
turned away, but
his hand is stretched out still.
010:005 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff
in their hand
is mine indignation.
010:006 I will send him against an hypocritical nation,
and against
the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the
spoil, and to
take the prey, and to tread them down like the
mire of the
streets.
010:007 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart
think so;
but
it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a
few.
010:008 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
010:009 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as
Arpad? is not
Samaria as Damascus?
010:010 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols,
and whose
graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
010:011 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her
idols, so do
to Jerusalem and her idols?
010:012 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the
Lord hath
performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I
will punish the
fruit of the stout heart of the king of
Assyria, and the
glory of his high looks.
010:013 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have
done it, and
by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds
of the people,
and have robbed their treasures, and I have put
down the
inhabitants like a valiant man:
010:014 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of
the people: and
as one gathereth
eggs that are left, have I gathered all the
earth; and there
was none that moved the wing, or opened the
mouth, or
peeped.
010:015 Shall the axe boast itself against him that
heweth therewith?
or shall the saw
magnify itself against him that shaketh it?
as if the rod
should shake itself against them that lift it
up, or as if the
staff should lift up itself, as if it were no
wood.
010:016 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send
among his
fat
ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a
burning like the
burning of a fire.
010:017 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and
his Holy One
for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his
briers in one
day;
010:018 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of
his fruitful
field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a
standard-bearer
fainteth.
010:019 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be
few, that a
child may write them.
010:020 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
remnant of
Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall
no more again
stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay
upon the LORD,
the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
010:021 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of
Jacob, unto the
mighty God.
010:022 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of
the sea, yet a
remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall
overflow with
righteousness.
010:023 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a
consumption, even
determined, in
the midst of all the land.
010:024 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my
people that
dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall
smite thee with a
rod, and shall lift up his staff against
thee, after the
manner of Egypt.
010:025 For yet a very little while, and the indignation
shall cease,
and mine anger in their destruction.
010:026 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for
him
according
to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and
as his rod was
upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the
manner of
Egypt.
010:027 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his
burden shall
be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy
neck, and the
yoke shall be destroyed because of the
anointing.
010:028 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at
Michmash he
hath laid up his carriages:
010:029 They are gone over the passage: they have taken
up their
lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
010:030 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it
to be heard
unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
010:031 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim
gather
themselves to flee.
010:032 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall
shake his
hand
against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of
Jerusalem.
010:033 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop
the bough with
terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and
the haughty shall
be humbled.
010:034 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest
with iron,
and
Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
011:001 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem
of Jesse, and
a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
011:002 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him,
the spirit of
wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the
spirit of
knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
011:003 And shall make him of quick understanding in the
fear of the
LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes,
neither reprove
after the hearing of his ears:
011:004 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor,
and reprove
with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the
earth: with the
rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his
lips shall he
slay the wicked.
011:005 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his
loins, and
faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
011:006 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the
leopard shall
lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the
fatling together;
and a little child shall lead them.
011:007 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young
ones shall
lie
down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
011:008 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of
the asp, and
the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
011:009 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
mountain: for
the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the
waters cover the
sea.
011:010 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse,
which shall
stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles
seek: and his
rest shall be glorious.
011:011 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
Lord shall set
his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his
people, which
shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and
from Pathros, and
from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar,
and from Hamath,
and from the islands of the sea.
011:012 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations,
and shall
assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the
dispersed of
Judah from the four corners of the earth.
011:013 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the
adversaries of
Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and
Judah shall not
vex Ephraim.
011:014 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the
Philistines
toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together:
they shall lay
their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children
of Ammon shall
obey them.
011:015 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of
the Egyptian
sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the
river, and shall
smite it in the seven streams, and make men
go over
dryshod.
011:016 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of
his people,
which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in
the day that he
came up out of the land of Egypt.
012:001 And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will
praise thee:
though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away,
and thou
comfortedst me.
012:002 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and
not be afraid:
for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is
become my
salvation.
012:003 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the
wells of
salvation.
012:004 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD,
call upon his
name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that
his name is
exalted.
012:005 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent
things: this is
known in all the
earth.
012:006 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for
great is the
Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
013:001 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
013:002 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt
the voice
unto
them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of
the nobles.
013:003 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also
called my
mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my
highness.
013:004 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like
as of a great
people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered
together: the
LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
013:005 They come from a far country, from the end of
heaven, even the
LORD, and the
weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole
land.
013:006 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it
shall come as
a destruction from the Almighty.
013:007 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every
man's heart
shall melt:
013:008 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall
take hold of
them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they
shall be amazed
one at another; their faces shall be as
flames.
013:009 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both
with wrath and
fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy
the sinners
thereof out of it.
013:010 For the stars of heaven and the constellations
thereof shall
not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going
forth, and the
moon shall not cause her light to shine.
013:011 And I will punish the world for their evil, and
the wicked for
their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to
cease, and will
lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
013:012 I will make a man more precious than fine gold;
even a man
than the golden wedge of Ophir.
013:013 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth
shall remove
out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in
the day of his
fierce anger.
013:014 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep
that no man
taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and
flee every one
into his own land.
013:015 Every one that is found shall be thrust through;
and every one
that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
013:016 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces
before their
eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
013:017 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them,
which shall not
regard silver;
and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
013:018 Their bows also shall dash the young men to
pieces; and they
shall have no
pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall
not spare
children.
013:019 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of
the
Chaldees'
excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and
Gomorrah.
013:020 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be
dwelt in from
generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent
there; neither
shall the shepherds make their fold there.
013:021 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there;
and their
houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall
dwell there, and
satyrs shall dance there.
013:022 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in
their desolate
houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is
near to come, and
her days shall not be prolonged.
014:001 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will
yet choose
Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers
shall be joined
with them, and they shall cleave to the house
of Jacob.
014:002 And the people shall take them, and bring them to
their place:
and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the
LORD for servants
and handmaids: and they shall take them
captives, whose
captives they were; and they shall rule over
their
oppressors.
014:003 And it shall come to pass in the day that the
LORD shall give
thee rest from
thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the
hard bondage
wherein thou wast made to serve,
014:004 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the
king of
Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden
city ceased!
014:005 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and
the sceptre
of
the rulers.
014:006 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual
stroke, he
that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none
hindereth.
014:007 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they
break forth
into singing.
014:008 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the
cedars of Lebanon,
saying, Since
thou art laid down, no feller is come up against
us.
014:009 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee
at thy
coming:
it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief
ones of the
earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all
the kings of the
nations.
014:010 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou
also become
weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
014:011 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the
noise of thy
viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover
thee.
014:012 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son
of the
morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst
weaken the
nations!
014:013 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend
into heaven,
I
will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also
upon the mount of
the congregation, in the sides of the north:
014:014 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I
will be like
the most High.
014:015 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the
sides of the
pit.
014:016 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee,
and consider
thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble,
that did shake
kingdoms;
014:017 That made the world as a wilderness, and
destroyed the cities
thereof; that
opened not the house of his prisoners?
014:018 All the kings of the nations, even all of them,
lie in glory,
every one in his own house.
014:019 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an
abominable branch,
and as the
raiment of those that are slain, thrust through
with a sword,
that go down to the stones of the pit; as a
carcase trodden
under feet.
014:020 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial,
because thou
hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of
evildoers shall
never be renowned.
014:021 Prepare slaughter for his children for the
iniquity of their
fathers; that
they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill
the face of the
world with cities.
014:022 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD
of hosts, and
cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and
nephew, saith the
LORD.
014:023 I will also make it a possession for the bittern,
and pools of
water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction,
saith the LORD of
hosts.
014:024 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I
have
thought,
so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so
shall it
stand:
014:025 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and
upon my
mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart
from off them,
and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
014:026 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the
whole earth: and
this is the hand
that is stretched out upon all the nations.
014:027 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who
shall disannul
it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
014:028 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
014:029 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the
rod of him that
smote thee is
broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come
forth a
cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying
serpent.
014:030 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the
needy shall
lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and
he shall slay thy
remnant.
014:031 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina,
art
dissolved:
for there shall come from the north a smoke, and
none shall be
alone in his appointed times.
014:032 What shall one then answer the messengers of the
nation? That
the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall
trust in it.
015:001 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of
Moab is laid
waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of
Moab is laid
waste, and brought to silence;
015:002 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high
places, to
weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their
heads shall be
baldness, and every beard cut off.
015:003 In their streets they shall gird themselves with
sackcloth: on
the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one
shall howl,
weeping abundantly.
015:004 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice
shall be heard
even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall
cry out; his life
shall be grievous unto him.
015:005 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives
shall flee unto
Zoar, an heifer
of three years old: for by the mounting up of
Luhith with
weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of
Horonaim they
shall raise up a cry of destruction.
015:006 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for
the hay is
withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
015:007 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and
that which they
have laid up,
shall they carry away to the brook of the
willows.
015:008 For the cry is gone round about the borders of
Moab; the
howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto
Beerelim.
015:009 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood:
for I will
bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab,
and upon the
remnant of the land.
016:001 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from
Sela to the
wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
016:002 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast
out of the
nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
016:003 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow
as the night
in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him
that
wandereth.
016:004 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou
a covert to
them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at
an end, the
spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out
of the land.
016:005 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and
he shall sit
upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and
seeking judgment,
and hasting righteousness.
016:006 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very
proud: even of
his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies
shall not be
so.
016:007 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one
shall howl: for
the foundations
of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are
stricken.
016:008 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine
of Sibmah:
the
lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants
thereof, they are
come even unto Jazer, they wandered through
the wilderness:
her branches are stretched out, they are gone
over the sea.
016:009 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer
the vine of
Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and
Elealeh: for the
shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy
harvest is
fallen.
016:010 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the
plentiful
field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither
shall there be
shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine
in their presses;
I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
016:011 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for
Moab, and
mine
inward parts for Kirharesh.
016:012 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that
Moab is weary
on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to
pray; but he
shall not prevail.
016:013 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken
concerning Moab
since that
time.
016:014 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within
three years, as
the years of an
hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be
contemned, with
all that great multitude; and the remnant
shall be very
small and feeble.
017:001 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken
away from
being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
017:002 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be
for flocks,
which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
017:003 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and
the kingdom
from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the
glory of the
children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
017:004 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the
glory of Jacob
shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax
lean.
017:005 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth
the corn, and
reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that
gathereth ears in
the valley of Rephaim.
017:006 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the
shaking of an
olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost
bough, four or
five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof,
saith the LORD
God of Israel.
017:007 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and
his eyes shall
have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
017:008 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of
his hands,
neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either
the groves, or
the images.
017:009 In that day shall his strong cities be as a
forsaken bough,
and an uppermost
branch, which they left because of the
children of
Israel: and there shall be desolation.
017:010 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy
salvation, and hast
not been mindful
of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt
thou plant
pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange
slips:
017:011 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and
in the
morning
shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest
shall be a heap
in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
017:012 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a
noise like
the
noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that
make a rushing
like the rushing of mighty waters!
017:013 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many
waters: but
God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall
be chased as the
chaff of the mountains before the wind, and
like a rolling
thing before the whirlwind.
017:014 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the
morning he
is
not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot
of them that rob
us.
018:001 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is
beyond the
rivers of Ethiopia:
018:002 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in
vessels of
bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to
a nation
scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their
beginning
hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose
land the rivers
have spoiled!
018:003 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on
the earth,
see
ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and
when he bloweth a
trumpet, hear ye.
018:004 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my
rest, and I will
consider in my
dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs,
and like a cloud
of dew in the heat of harvest.
018:005 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect,
and the sour
grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the
sprigs with
pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the
branches.
018:006 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the
mountains,
and
to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer
upon them, and
all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon
them.
018:007 In that time shall the present be brought unto
the LORD of
hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people
terrible from
their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and
trodden under
foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the
place of the name
of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
019:001 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon
a swift
cloud,
and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall
be moved at his
presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in
the midst of
it.
019:002 And I will set the Egyptians against the
Egyptians: and they
shall fight every
one against his brother, and every one
against his
neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against
kingdom.
019:003 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst
thereof; and I
will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the
idols, and to the
charmers, and to them that have familiar
spirits, and to
the wizards.
019:004 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand
of a cruel
lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord,
the LORD of
hosts.
019:005 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the
river shall be
wasted and dried up.
019:006 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the
brooks of
defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags
shall wither.
019:007 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of
the brooks, and
every thing sown
by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away,
and be no
more.
019:008 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that
cast angle
into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon
the waters shall
languish.
019:009 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they
that weave
networks, shall be confounded.
019:010 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof,
all that
make
sluices and ponds for fish.
019:011 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel
of the wise
counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto
Pharaoh, I am the
son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
019:012 Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let
them tell thee
now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed
upon Egypt.
019:013 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes
of Noph are
deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the
stay of the
tribes thereof.
019:014 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the
midst thereof:
and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a
drunken man
staggereth in his vomit.
019:015 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which
the head or
tail, branch or rush, may do.
019:016 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and
it shall be
afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD
of hosts, which
he shaketh over it.
019:017 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto
Egypt, every one
that maketh
mention thereof shall be afraid in himself,
because of the
counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath
determined
against it.
019:018 In that day shall five cities in the land of
Egypt speak the
language of
Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall
be called, The
city of destruction.
019:019 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD
in the midst
of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to
the LORD.
019:020 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto
the LORD of
hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD
because of the
oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour,
and a great one,
and he shall deliver them.
019:021 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the
Egyptians shall
know the LORD in
that day, and shall do sacrifice and
oblation; yea,
they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform
it.
019:022 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite
and heal it:
and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be
intreated of
them, and shall heal them.
019:023 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt
to Assyria,
and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into
Assyria, and the
Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
019:024 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt
and with
Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
019:025 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying,
Blessed be Egypt
my people, and
Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine
inheritance.
020:001 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when
Sargon the
king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took
it;
020:002 At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son
of Amoz,
saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put
off thy shoe from
thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and
barefoot.
020:003 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath
walked naked
and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and
upon
Ethiopia;
020:004 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the
Egyptians
prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked
and barefoot,
even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame
of Egypt.
020:005 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia
their
expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
020:006 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that
day, Behold,
such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be
delivered from
the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?
021:001 The burden of the desert of the sea. As
whirlwinds in the
south pass
through; so it cometh from the desert, from a
terrible
land.
021:002 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the
treacherous dealer
dealeth
treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O
Elam: besiege, O
Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to
cease.
021:003 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs
have taken hold
upon me, as the
pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed
down at the
hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
021:004 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the
night of my
pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
021:005 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat,
drink: arise,
ye princes, and anoint the shield.
021:006 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a
watchman, let
him declare what he seeth.
021:007 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a
chariot of
asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently
with much
heed:
021:008 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand
continually upon the
watchtower in the
daytime, and I am set in my ward whole
nights:
021:009 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a
couple of
horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is
fallen; and all
the graven images of her gods he hath broken
unto the
ground.
021:010 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that
which I have
heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared
unto you.
021:011 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of
Seir, Watchman,
what of the
night? Watchman, what of the night?
021:012 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also
the night: if
ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
021:013 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia
shall ye
lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
021:014 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water
to him that
was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
021:015 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn
sword, and from
the bent bow, and
from the grievousness of war.
021:016 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Within a
year, according
to the years of
an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall
fail:
021:017 And the residue of the number of archers, the
mighty men of
the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God
of Israel hath
spoken it.
022:001 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth
thee now, that
thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
022:002 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city,
joyous city:
thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in
battle.
022:003 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound
by the
archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which
have fled from
far.
022:004 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep
bitterly,
labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the
daughter of my
people.
022:005 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down,
and of
perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision,
breaking down the
walls, and of crying to the mountains.
022:006 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and
horsemen,
and
Kir uncovered the shield.
022:007 And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest
valleys shall be
full of chariots,
and the horsemen shall set themselves in
array at the
gate.
022:008 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou
didst look
in
that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
022:009 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of
David, that they
are many: and ye
gathered together the waters of the lower
pool.
022:010 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and
the houses
have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
022:011 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for
the water of
the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof,
neither had
respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
022:012 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to
weeping, and
to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
022:013 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and
killing sheep,
eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to
morrow we shall
die.
022:014 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of
hosts, Surely
this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith
the Lord GOD of
hosts.
022:015 Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee
unto this
treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,
022:016 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here,
that thou hast
hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a
sepulchre on
high, and that graveth an habitation for himself
in a rock?
022:017 Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a
mighty captivity,
and will surely
cover thee.
022:018 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like
a ball into a
large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of
thy glory shall
be the shame of thy lord's house.
022:019 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from
thy state
shall he pull thee down.
022:020 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I
will call my
servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
022:021 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and
strengthen him with
thy girdle, and I
will commit thy government into his hand:
and he shall be a
father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and
to the house of
Judah.
022:022 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon
his
shoulder;
so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall
shut, and none
shall open.
022:023 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place;
and he shall
be for a glorious throne to his father's house.
022:024 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his
father's
house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small
quantity, from
the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of
flagons.
022:025 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the
nail that is
fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and
fall; and the
burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for
the LORD hath
spoken it.
023:001 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish;
for it is laid
waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the
land of Chittim
it is revealed to them.
023:002 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom
the merchants
of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
023:003 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the
harvest of the
river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
023:004 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath
spoken, even the
strength of the
sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth
children, neither
do I nourish up young men, nor bring up
virgins.
023:005 As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they
be sorely
pained at the report of Tyre.
023:006 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
023:007 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of
ancient days?
her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
023:008 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the
crowning city,
whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the
honourable of the
earth?
023:009 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the
pride of all
glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the
earth.
023:010 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of
Tarshish:
there is no more strength.
023:011 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook
the kingdoms:
the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city,
to destroy the
strong holds thereof.
023:012 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou
oppressed
virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there
also shalt thou
have no rest.
023:013 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was
not, till
the
Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness:
they set up the
towers thereof, they raised up the palaces
thereof; and he
brought it to ruin.
023:014 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
023:015 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre
shall be
forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king:
after the end of
seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
023:016 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that
hast been
forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou
mayest be
remembered.
023:017 And it shall come to pass after the end of
seventy years, that
the LORD will
visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and
shall commit
fornication with all the kingdoms of the world
upon the face of
the earth.
023:018 And her merchandise and her hire shall be
holiness to the
LORD: it shall
not be treasured nor laid up; for her
merchandise shall
be for them that dwell before the LORD, to
eat sufficiently,
and for durable clothing.
024:001 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and
maketh it waste,
and turneth it
upside down, and scattereth abroad the
inhabitants
thereof.
024:002 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the
priest; as
with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so
with her
mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as
with the lender,
so with the borrower; as with the taker of
usury, so with
the giver of usury to him.
024:003 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly
spoiled: for
the LORD hath spoken this word.
024:004 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world
languisheth and
fadeth away, the
haughty people of the earth do languish.
024:005 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants
thereof;
because they have transgressed the laws, changed the
ordinance, broken
the everlasting covenant.
024:006 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and
they that
dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the
earth are burned,
and few men left.
024:007 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all
the
merryhearted do sigh.
024:008 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them
that rejoice
endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
024:009 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong
drink shall be
bitter to them that drink it.
024:010 The city of confusion is broken down: every house
is shut up,
that no man may come in.
024:011 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all
joy is
darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
024:012 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is
smitten with
destruction.
024:013 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land
among the
people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as
the gleaning
grapes when the vintage is done.
024:014 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing
for the
majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
024:015 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even
the name of
the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
024:016 From the uttermost part of the earth have we
heard songs, even
glory to the
righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness,
woe unto me! the
treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously;
yea, the
treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
024:017 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee,
O inhabitant
of the earth.
024:018 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth
from the noise
of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out
of the midst of
the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the
windows from on
high are open, and the foundations of the
earth do
shake.
024:019 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is
clean
dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
024:020 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard,
and shall be
removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be
heavy upon it;
and it shall fall, and not rise again.
024:021 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
LORD shall
punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the
kings of the
earth upon the earth.
024:022 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners
are gathered
in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many
days shall they
be visited.
024:023 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun
ashamed, when
the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem,
and before his
ancients gloriously.
025:001 O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I
will praise thy
name; for thou
hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old
are faithfulness
and truth.
025:002 For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a
defenced city a
ruin: a palace of
strangers to be no city; it shall never be
built.
025:003 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee,
the city of
the terrible nations shall fear thee.
025:004 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a
strength to the
needy in his
distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from
the heat, when
the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm
against the
wall.
025:005 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as
the heat in a
dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the
branch of the
terrible ones shall be brought low.
025:006 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make
unto all
people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of
fat things full
of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
025:007 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of
the covering
cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all
nations.
025:008 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord
GOD will
wipe
away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his
people shall he
take away from off all the earth: for the LORD
hath spoken
it.
025:009 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our
God; we have
waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have
waited for him,
we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
025:010 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD
rest, and Moab
shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down
for the
dunghill.
025:011 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst
of them, as
he
that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he
shall bring down
their pride together with the spoils of their
hands.
025:012 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls
shall he bring
down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
026:001 In that day shall this song be sung in the land
of Judah; We
have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and
bulwarks.
026:002 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation
which keepeth the
truth may enter
in.
026:003 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind
is stayed on
thee: because he trusteth in thee.
026:004 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD
JEHOVAH is
everlasting strength:
026:005 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the
lofty city,
he
layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he
bringeth it even
to the dust.
026:006 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of
the poor, and
the steps of the needy.
026:007 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most
upright, dost
weigh the path of the just.
026:008 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we
waited for
thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the
remembrance of
thee.
026:009 With my soul have I desired thee in the night;
yea, with my
spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy
judgments are in
the earth, the inhabitants of the world will
learn
righteousness.
026:010 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he
not learn
righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal
unjustly, and
will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
026:011 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not
see: but they
shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea,
the fire of thine
enemies shall devour them.
026:012 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou
also hast
wrought all our works in us.
026:013 O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had
dominion over
us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
026:014 They are dead, they shall not live; they are
deceased, they
shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed
them, and made
all their memory to perish.
026:015 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast
increased
the
nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto
all the ends of
the earth.
026:016 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they
poured out a
prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
026:017 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the
time of her
delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we
been in thy
sight, O LORD.
026:018 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we
have as it
were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance
in the earth;
neither have the inhabitants of the world
fallen.
026:019 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead
body shall they
arise. Awake and
sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is
as the dew of
herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
026:020 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers,
and shut thy
doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment,
until the
indignation be overpast.
026:021 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to
punish the
inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also
shall disclose
her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
027:001 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and
strong sword
shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan
that crooked
serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in
the sea.
027:002 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
027:003 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every
moment: lest any
hurt it, I will
keep it night and day.
027:004 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and
thorns against
me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them
together.
027:005 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may
make peace
with me; and he shall make peace with me.
027:006 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take
root: Israel
shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with
fruit.
027:007 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote
him? or is
he
slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by
him?
027:008 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt
debate with it:
he stayeth his
rough wind in the day of the east wind.
027:009 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be
purged; and
this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all
the stones of the
altar as chalkstones that are beaten in
sunder, the
groves and images shall not stand up.
027:010 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the
habitation
forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf
feed, and there
shall he lie down, and consume the branches
thereof.
027:011 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall
be broken
off:
the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people
of no
understanding: therefore he that made them will not have
mercy on them,
and he that formed them will shew them no
favour.
027:012 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
LORD shall
beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of
Egypt, and ye
shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of
Israel.
027:013 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
great trumpet
shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish
in the land of
Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt,
and shall worship
the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
028:001 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of
Ephraim, whose
glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of
the fat valleys
of them that are overcome with wine!
028:002 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one,
which as a
tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty
waters
overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the
hand.
028:003 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim,
shall be trodden
under feet:
028:004 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of
the fat
valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit
before the
summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth,
while it is yet
in his hand he eateth it up.
028:005 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a
crown of glory,
and for a diadem
of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
028:006 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth
in judgment,
and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
028:007 But they also have erred through wine, and
through strong
drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have
erred through
strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine,
they are out of
the way through strong drink; they err in
vision, they
stumble in judgment.
028:008 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness,
so that there
is no place clean.
028:009 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he
make to
understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and
drawn from the
breasts.
028:010 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon
precept; line
upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
028:011 For with stammering lips and another tongue will
he speak to
this people.
028:012 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye
may cause the
weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not
hear.
028:013 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept
upon precept,
precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a
little, and there
a little; that they might go, and fall
backward, and be
broken, and snared, and taken.
028:014 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful
men, that
rule
this people which is in Jerusalem.
028:015 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant
with death, and
with hell are we
at agreement; when the overflowing scourge
shall pass
through, it shall not come unto us: for we have
made lies our
refuge, and under falsehood have we hid
ourselves:
028:016 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay
in Zion for a
foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a
sure foundation:
he that believeth shall not make haste.
028:017 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and
righteousness to the
plummet: and the
hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and
the waters shall
overflow the hiding place.
028:018 And your covenant with death shall be
disannulled, and your
agreement with
hell shall not stand; when the overflowing
scourge shall
pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by
it.
028:019 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take
you: for
morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night:
and it shall be a
vexation only to understand the report.
028:020 For the bed is shorter than that a man can
stretch himself on
it: and the
covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in
it.
028:021 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim,
he shall be
wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his
strange work; and
bring to pass his act, his strange act.
028:022 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands
be made
strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a
consumption, even
determined upon the whole earth.
028:023 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
028:024 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he
open and break
the clods of his ground?
028:025 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he
not cast
abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the
principal wheat
and the appointed barley and the rie in their
place?
028:026 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and
doth teach
him.
028:027 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing
instrument,
neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the
fitches are
beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a
rod.
028:028 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever
be threshing
it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it
with his
horsemen.
028:029 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts,
which is
wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
029:001 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David
dwelt! add ye
year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
029:002 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be
heaviness and
sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
029:003 And I will camp against thee round about, and
will lay siege
against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against
thee.
029:004 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak
out of the
ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy
voice shall be,
as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of
the ground, and
thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
029:005 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be
like small
dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff
that passeth
away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
029:006 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with
thunder, and
with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and
the flame of
devouring fire.
029:007 And the multitude of all the nations that fight
against Ariel,
even all that fight against her and her munition, and that
distress her,
shall be as a dream of a night vision.
029:008 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth,
and, behold,
he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a
thirsty man
dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he
awaketh, and,
behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite:
so shall the
multitude of all the nations be, that fight
against mount
Zion.
029:009 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry:
they are
drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong
drink.
029:010 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit
of deep
sleep,
and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your
rulers, the seers
hath he covered.
029:011 And the vision of all is become unto you as the
words of a
book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned,
saying, Read
this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it
is sealed:
029:012 And the book is delivered to him that is not
learned, saying,
Read this, I pray
thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
029:013 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people
draw near me
with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have
removed their
heart far from me, and their fear toward me is
taught by the
precept of men:
029:014 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a
marvellous work
among this
people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for
the wisdom of
their wise men shall perish, and the
understanding of
their prudent men shall be hid.
029:015 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their
counsel from the
LORD, and their
works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth
us? and who
knoweth us?
029:016 Surely your turning of things upside down shall
be esteemed as
the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it,
He made me not?
or shall the thing framed say of him that
framed it, He had
no understanding?
029:017 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon
shall be turned
into a fruitful
field, and the fruitful field shall be
esteemed as a
forest?
029:018 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of
the book, and
the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of
darkness.
029:019 The meek also shall increase their joy in the
LORD, and the
poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
029:020 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and
the scorner is
consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
029:021 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a
snare for
him
that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a
thing of
nought.
029:022 Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed
Abraham,
concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed,
neither shall his
face now wax pale.
029:023 But when he seeth his children, the work of mine
hands, in the
midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the
Holy One of
Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
029:024 They also that erred in spirit shall come to
understanding,
and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
030:001 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD,
that take
counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but
not of my spirit,
that they may add sin to sin:
030:002 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not
asked at my
mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh,
and to trust in
the shadow of Egypt!
030:003 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your
shame, and the
trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
030:004 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors
came to
Hanes.
030:005 They were all ashamed of a people that could not
profit them,
nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
030:006 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the
land of
trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion,
the viper and
fiery flying serpent, they will carry their
riches upon the
shoulders of young asses, and their treasures
upon the bunches
of camels, to a people that shall not profit
them.
030:007 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no
purpose:
therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to
sit still.
030:008 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note
it in a
book,
that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
030:009 That this is a rebellious people, lying children,
children
that
will not hear the law of the LORD:
030:010 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the
prophets, Prophesy
not unto us right
things, speak unto us smooth things,
prophesy
deceits:
030:011 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the
path, cause the
Holy One of
Israel to cease from before us.
030:012 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel,
Because ye
despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness,
and stay
thereon:
030:013 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a
breach ready to
fall, swelling
out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh
suddenly at an
instant.
030:014 And he shall break it as the breaking of the
potters' vessel
that is broken in
pieces; he shall not spare: so that there
shall not be
found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire
from the hearth,
or to take water withal out of the pit.
030:015 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of
Israel; In
returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in
confidence shall
be your strength: and ye would not.
030:016 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses;
therefore shall
ye flee: and, We
will ride upon the swift; therefore shall
they that pursue
you be swift.
030:017 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at
the rebuke of
five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top
of a mountain,
and as an ensign on an hill.
030:018 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be
gracious unto
you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy
upon you: for the
LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all
they that wait
for him.
030:019 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem:
thou shalt
weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice
of thy cry; when
he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
030:020 And though the Lord give you the bread of
adversity, and the
water of
affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed
into a corner any
more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
030:021 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee,
saying, This is
the way, walk ye
in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and
when ye turn to
the left.
030:022 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven
images of
silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou
shalt cast them
away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say
unto it, Get thee
hence.
030:023 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that
thou shalt sow
the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and
it shall be fat
and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle
feed in large
pastures.
030:024 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear
the ground
shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the
shovel and with
the fan.
030:025 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and
upon every
high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the
great slaughter,
when the towers fall.
030:026 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the
light of the
sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light
of seven days, in
the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach
of his people,
and healeth the stroke of their wound.
030:027 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far,
burning with his
anger, and the
burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of
indignation, and
his tongue as a devouring fire:
030:028 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall
reach to the
midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of
vanity: and there
shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people,
causing them to
err.
030:029 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy
solemnity is
kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to
come into the
mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of
Israel.
030:030 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be
heard, and
shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation
of his anger, and
with the flame of a devouring fire, with
scattering, and
tempest, and hailstones.
030:031 For through the voice of the LORD shall the
Assyrian be beaten
down, which smote
with a rod.
030:032 And in every place where the grounded staff shall
pass, which
the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and
harps: and in
battles of shaking will he fight with it.
030:033 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king
it is
prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is
fire and much
wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of
brimstone, doth
kindle it.
031:001 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and
stay on
horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in
horsemen,
because they are very strong; but they look not unto
the Holy One of
Israel, neither seek the LORD!
031:002 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and
will not call
back his words: but will arise against the house of the
evildoers, and
against the help of them that work iniquity.
031:003 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and
their horses
flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his
hand, both he
that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen
shall fall down,
and they all shall fail together.
031:004 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as
the lion and
the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of
shepherds is
called forth against him, he will not be afraid
of their voice,
nor abase himself for the noise of them: so
shall the LORD
of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and
for the hill
thereof.
031:005 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts
defend Jerusalem;
defending also
he will deliver it; and passing over he will
preserve it.
031:006 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of
Israel have deeply
revolted.
031:007 For in that day every man shall cast away his
idols of silver,
and his idols of
gold, which your own hands have made unto you
for a sin.
031:008 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not
of a mighty
man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but
he shall flee
from the sword, and his young men shall be
discomfited.
031:009 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for
fear, and his
princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose
fire is in Zion,
and his furnace in Jerusalem.
032:001 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and
princes shall
rule in judgment.
032:002 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the
wind, and a
covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as
the shadow of a
great rock in a weary land.
032:003 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim,
and the ears
of them that hear shall hearken.
032:004 The heart also of the rash shall understand
knowledge, and the
tongue of the
stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
032:005 The vile person shall be no more called liberal,
nor the churl
said to be bountiful.
032:006 For the vile person will speak villany, and his
heart will
work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error
against the
LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he
will cause the
drink of the thirsty to fail.
032:007 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he
deviseth wicked
devices to
destroy the poor with lying words, even when the
needy speaketh
right.
032:008 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by
liberal things
shall he
stand.
032:009 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my
voice, ye careless
daughters; give
ear unto my speech.
032:010 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye
careless women:
for the vintage
shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
032:011 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled,
ye careless
ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon
your loins.
032:012 They shall lament for the teats, for the
pleasant fields, for
the fruitful
vine.
032:013 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns
and briers;
yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
032:014 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the
multitude of the
city shall be
left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for
ever, a joy of
wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
032:015 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high,
and the
wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be
counted for a
forest.
032:016 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and
righteousness
remain in the fruitful field.
032:017 And the work of righteousness shall be peace;
and the effect
of righteousness
quietness and assurance for ever.
032:018 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable
habitation, and in
sure dwellings,
and in quiet resting places;
032:019 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest;
and the city
shall be low in a low place.
032:020 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that
send forth
thither the feet of the ox and the ass.
033:001 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not
spoiled; and
dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with
thee! when thou
shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled;
and when thou
shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they
shall deal
treacherously with thee.
033:002 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for
thee: be thou
their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of
trouble.
033:003 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at
the lifting up
of thyself the
nations were scattered.
033:004 And your spoil shall be gathered like the
gathering of the
caterpiller: as
the running to and fro of locusts shall he run
upon them.
033:005 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he
hath filled
Zion with judgment and righteousness.
033:006 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability
of thy times,
and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his
treasure.
033:007 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without:
the ambassadors
of peace shall
weep bitterly.
033:008 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man
ceaseth: he hath
broken the
covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth
no man.
033:009 The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is
ashamed and
hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel
shake off their
fruits.
033:010 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be
exalted; now
will I lift up myself.
033:011 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth
stubble: your
breath, as fire, shall devour you.
033:012 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime:
as thorns cut
up shall they be burned in the fire.
033:013 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done;
and, ye that are
near,
acknowledge my might.
033:014 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath
surprised the
hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire?
who among us
shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
033:015 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh
uprightly; he that
despiseth the
gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from
holding of
bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of
blood, and
shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
033:016 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence
shall be the
munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall
be sure.
033:017 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty:
they shall behold
the land that is
very far off.
033:018 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the
scribe? where
is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
033:019 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of
a deeper
speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that
thou canst not
understand.
033:020 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities:
thine eyes shall
see Jerusalem a
quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not
be taken down;
not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be
removed, neither
shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
033:021 But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a
place of broad
rivers and
streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars,
neither shall
gallant ship pass thereby.
033:022 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our
lawgiver, the LORD
is our king; he
will save us.
033:023 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well
strengthen their
mast, they could
not spread the sail: then is the prey of a
great spoil
divided; the lame take the prey.
033:024 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the
people that
dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
034:001 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye
people: let
the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all
things that come
forth of it.
034:002 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all
nations, and his
fury upon all
their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he
hath delivered
them to the slaughter.
034:003 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their
stink shall come
up out of their
carcases, and the mountains shall be melted
with their
blood.
034:004 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved,
and the heavens
shall be rolled
together as a scroll: and all their host shall
fall down, as
the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a
falling fig from
the fig tree.
034:005 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold,
it shall come
down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to
judgment.
034:006 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it
is made fat
with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the
fat of the
kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in
Bozrah, and a
great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
034:007 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and
the bullocks
with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and
their dust made
fat with fatness.
034:008 For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and
the year of
recompences for the controversy of Zion.
034:009 And the streams thereof shall be turned into
pitch, and the
dust thereof
into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become
burning
pitch.
034:010 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the
smoke thereof
shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall
lie waste; none
shall pass through it for ever and ever.
034:011 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess
it; the owl
also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out
upon it the line
of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
034:012 They shall call the nobles thereof to the
kingdom, but none
shall be there,
and all her princes shall be nothing.
034:013 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles
and brambles
in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of
dragons, and a
court for owls.
034:014 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet
with the wild
beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow;
the screech owl
also shall rest there, and find for herself a
place of
rest.
034:015 There shall the great owl make her nest, and
lay, and hatch,
and gather under
her shadow: there shall the vultures also be
gathered, every
one with her mate.
034:016 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read:
no one of these
shall fail, none
shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath
commanded, and
his spirit it hath gathered them.
034:017 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand
hath divided
it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from
generation to
generation shall they dwell therein.
035:001 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be
glad for them;
and the desert
shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
035:002 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even
with joy and
singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the
excellency of
Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of
the LORD, and
the excellency of our God.
035:003 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
035:004 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be
strong, fear not:
behold, your God
will come with vengeance, even God with a
recompence; he
will come and save you.
035:005 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and
the ears of
the deaf shall be unstopped.
035:006 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the
tongue of the
dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and
streams in the
desert.
035:007 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and
the thirsty
land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where
each lay, shall
be grass with reeds and rushes.
035:008 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it
shall be
called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over
it; but it shall
be for those: the wayfaring men, though
fools, shall not
err therein.
035:009 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast
shall go up
thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall
walk there:
035:010 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and
come to Zion
with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall
obtain joy and
gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee
away.
036:001 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of
king Hezekiah,
that Sennacherib
king of Assyria came up against all the
defenced cities
of Judah, and took them.
036:002 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from
Lachish to
Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood
by the conduit
of the upper pool in the highway of the
fuller's
field.
036:003 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son,
which was
over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son,
the
recorder.
036:004 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to
Hezekiah, Thus
saith the great
king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is
this wherein
thou trustest?
036:005 I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain
words) I have
counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust,
that thou
rebellest against me?
036:006 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken
reed, on Egypt;
whereon if a man
lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce
it: so is
Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
036:007 But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our
God: is it not
he, whose high
places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken
away, and said
to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship
before this
altar?
036:008 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my
master the king
of Assyria, and
I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou
be able on thy
part to set riders upon them.
036:009 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one
captain of the
least of my
master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for
chariots and for
horsemen?
036:010 And am I now come up without the LORD against
this land to
destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land,
and destroy
it.
036:011 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto
Rabshakeh, Speak, I
pray thee, unto
thy servants in the Syrian language; for we
understand it:
and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in
the ears of the
people that are on the wall.
036:012 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to
thy master and
to thee to speak
these words? hath he not sent me to the men
that sit upon
the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and
drink their own
piss with you?
036:013 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud
voice in the Jews'
language, and
said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the
king of
Assyria.
036:014 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive
you: for he
shall not be able to deliver you.
036:015 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD,
saying, The
LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered
into the hand of
the king of Assyria.
036:016 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king
of Assyria,
Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me:
and eat ye every
one of his vine, and every one of his fig
tree, and drink
ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
036:017 Until I come and take you away to a land like
your own land, a
land of corn and
wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
036:018 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, the
LORD will
deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his
land out of the
hand of the king of Assyria?
036:019 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where
are the gods of
Sepharvaim? and
have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
036:020 Who are they among all the gods of these lands,
that have
delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should
deliver
Jerusalem out of my hand?
036:021 But they held their peace, and answered him not
a word: for
the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
036:022 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was
over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph,
the recorder, to
Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told
him the words of
Rabshakeh.
037:001 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard
it, that he rent
his clothes, and
covered himself with sackcloth, and went into
the house of the
LORD.
037:002 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household,
and Shebna
the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with
sackcloth, unto
Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
037:003 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah,
This day is a day
of trouble, and
of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children
are come to the
birth, and there is not strength to bring
forth.
037:004 It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words
of Rabshakeh,
whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the
living God, and
will reprove the words which the LORD thy God
hath heard:
wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that
is left.
037:005 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
037:006 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say
unto your master,
Thus saith the
LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast
heard, wherewith
the servants of the king of Assyria have
blasphemed
me.
037:007 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he
shall hear a
rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to
fall by the
sword in his own land.
037:008 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of
Assyria warring
against Libnah:
for he had heard that he was departed from
Lachish.
037:009 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of
Ethiopia, He is
come forth to
make war with thee. And when he heard it, he
sent messengers
to Hezekiah, saying,
037:010 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah,
saying, Let not
thy God, in whom
thou trustest, deceive thee, saying,
Jerusalem shall
not be given into the hand of the king of
Assyria.
037:011 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of
Assyria have done to
all lands by
destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be
delivered?
037:012 Have the gods of the nations delivered them
which my fathers
have destroyed,
as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the
children of Eden
which were in Telassar?
037:013 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of
Arphad, and the
king of the city
of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
037:014 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand
of the
messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house
of the LORD, and
spread it before the LORD.
037:015 And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying,
037:016 O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest
between the
cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the
kingdoms of the
earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.
037:017 Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine
eyes, O LORD,
and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath
sent to reproach
the living God.
037:018 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid
waste all the
nations, and their countries,
037:019 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they
were no gods,
but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they
have destroyed
them.
037:020 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his
hand, that all
the kingdoms of
the earth may know that thou art the LORD,
even thou
only.
037:021 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah,
saying, Thus
saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me
against
Sennacherib king of Assyria:
037:022 This is the word which the LORD hath spoken
concerning him;
The virgin, the
daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and
laughed thee to
scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken
her head at
thee.
037:023 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and
against whom
hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high?
even against the
Holy One of Israel.
037:024 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord,
and hast said,
By the multitude
of my chariots am I come up to the height of
the mountains,
to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down
the tall cedars
thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and
I will enter
into the height of his border, and the forest of
his Carmel.
037:025 I have digged, and drunk water; and with the
sole of my feet
have I dried up
all the rivers of the besieged places.
037:026 Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done
it; and of
ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to
pass, that thou
shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into
ruinous
heaps.
037:027 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power,
they were
dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field,
and as the green
herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as
corn blasted
before it be grown up.
037:028 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy
coming in,
and thy rage against me.
037:029 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is
come up into
mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my
bridle in thy
lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by
which thou
camest.
037:030 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat
this year
such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which
springeth of the
same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap,
and plant
vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
037:031 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of
Judah shall
again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
037:032 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant,
and they that
escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall
do this.
037:033 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the
king of Assyria,
He shall not
come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there,
nor come before
it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.
037:034 By the way that he came, by the same shall he
return, and
shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
037:035 For I will defend this city to save it for mine
own sake, and
for my servant David's sake.
037:036 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote
in the camp
of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand:
and when they
arose early in the morning, behold, they were
all dead
corpses.
037:037 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and
went and
returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
037:038 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in
the house of
Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote
him with the
sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia:
and Esarhaddon
his son reigned in his stead.
038:001 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And
Isaiah the
prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus
saith the LORD,
Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die,
and not
live.
038:002 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall,
and prayed unto
the LORD,
038:003 And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee,
how I have
walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have
done that which
is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
038:004 Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,
038:005 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD,
the God of David
thy father, I
have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears:
behold, I will
add unto thy days fifteen years.
038:006 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the
hand of the
king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.
038:007 And this shall be a sign unto thee from the
LORD, that the
LORD will do
this thing that he hath spoken;
038:008 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the
degrees, which is
gone down in the
sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So
the sun returned
ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone
down.
038:009 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he
had been sick,
and was
recovered of his sickness:
038:010 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go
to the gates
of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
038:011 I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD,
in the land
of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants
of the
world.
038:012 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as
a shepherd's
tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off
with pining
sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an
end of me.
038:013 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so
will he break all
my bones: from
day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
038:014 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I
did mourn as a
dove: mine eyes
fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am
oppressed;
undertake for me.
038:015 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me,
and himself
hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness
of my soul.
038:016 O LORD, by these things men live, and in all
these things is
the life of my
spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to
live.
038:017 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but
thou hast in
love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for
thou hast cast
all my sins behind thy back.
038:018 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not
celebrate
thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy
truth.
038:019 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as
I do this
day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
038:020 The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will
sing my songs
to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the
house of the
LORD.
038:021 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of
figs, and lay it
for a plaister
upon the boil, and he shall recover.
038:022 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I
shall go up to
the house of the
LORD?
039:001 At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of
Baladan, king of
Babylon, sent
letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had
heard that he
had been sick, and was recovered.
039:002 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them
the house of
his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices,
and the precious
ointment, and all the house of his armour,
and all that was
found in his treasures: there was nothing in
his house, nor
in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them
not.
039:003 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah,
and said unto
him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee?
And Hezekiah
said, They are come from a far country unto me,
even from
Babylon.
039:004 Then said he, What have they seen in thine
house? And Hezekiah
answered, All
that is in mine house have they seen: there is
nothing among my
treasures that I have not shewed them.
039:005 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of
the LORD of
hosts:
039:006 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine
house, and
that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day,
shall be carried
to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the
LORD.
039:007 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee,
which thou shalt
beget, shall
they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the
palace of the
king of Babylon.
039:008 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word
of the LORD
which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be
peace and truth
in my days.
040:001 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
040:002 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto
her, that her
warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for
she hath
received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.
040:003 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the
way of the LORD,
make straight in the desert a highway for our
God.
040:004 Every valley shall be exalted, and every
mountain and hill
shall be made
low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and
the rough places
plain:
040:005 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and
all flesh
shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken
it.
040:006 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I
cry? All flesh
is grass, and
all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of
the field:
040:007 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because
the spirit of
the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
040:008 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the
word of our
God shall stand for ever.
040:009 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up
into the high
mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy
voice with
strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the
cities of Judah,
Behold your God!
040:010 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand,
and his arm
shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his
work before
him.
040:011 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he
shall gather the
lambs with his
arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall
gently lead
those that are with young.
040:012 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of
his hand, and
meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of
the earth in a
measure, and weighed the mountains in scales,
and the hills in
a balance?
040:013 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or
being his
counsellor hath taught him?
040:014 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed
him, and taught
him in the path
of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and
shewed to him
the way of understanding?
040:015 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket,
and are counted
as the small
dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the
isles as a very
little thing.
040:016 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the
beasts thereof
sufficient for a
burnt offering.
040:017 All nations before him are as nothing; and they
are counted to
him less than
nothing, and vanity.
040:018 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness
will ye
compare unto him?
040:019 The workman melteth a graven image, and the
goldsmith
spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
040:020 He that is so impoverished that he hath no
oblation chooseth a
tree that will
not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman
to prepare a
graven image, that shall not be moved.
040:021 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it
not been told
you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the
foundations of
the earth?
040:022 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the
earth, and the
inhabitants
thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out
the heavens as a
curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to
dwell in:
040:023 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh
the judges of
the earth as vanity.
040:024 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall
not be sown:
yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he
shall also blow
upon them, and they shall wither, and the
whirlwind shall
take them away as stubble.
040:025 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be
equal? saith the
Holy One.
040:026 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath
created these
things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth
them all by
names by the greatness of his might, for that he
is strong in
power; not one faileth.
040:027 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O
Israel, My way is
hid from the
LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
040:028 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that
the everlasting
God, the LORD,
the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth
not, neither is
weary? there is no searching of his
understanding.
040:029 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that
have no might
he increaseth strength.
040:030 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and
the young men
shall utterly fall:
040:031 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew
their strength;
they shall mount
up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and
not be weary;
and they shall walk, and not faint.
041:001 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the
people renew
their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let
us come near
together to judgment.
041:002 Who raised up the righteous man from the east,
called him to
his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over
kings? he gave
them as the dust to his sword, and as driven
stubble to his
bow.
041:003 He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the
way that he
had not gone with his feet.
041:004 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the
generations from the
beginning? I the
LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
041:005 The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the
earth were
afraid, drew near, and came.
041:006 They helped every one his neighbour; and every
one said to his
brother, Be of
good courage.
041:007 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and
he that
smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It
is ready for the
sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that
it should not be
moved.
041:008 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I
have chosen,
the seed of Abraham my friend.
041:009 Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the
earth, and called
thee from the
chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art
my servant; I
have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
041:010 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not
dismayed; for I am
thy God: I will
strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I
will uphold thee
with the right hand of my righteousness.
041:011 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee
shall be
ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they
that strive with
thee shall perish.
041:012 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them,
even them that
contended with
thee: they that war against thee shall be as
nothing, and as
a thing of nought.
041:013 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand,
saying unto
thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
041:014 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel;
I will help
thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of
Israel.
041:015 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing
instrument
having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them
small, and shalt
make the hills as chaff.
041:016 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry
them away, and
the whirlwind
shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in
the LORD, and
shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
041:017 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is
none, and
their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I
the God of
Israel will not forsake them.
041:018 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains
in the midst
of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
and the dry land
springs of water.
041:019 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the
shittah tree,
and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the
fir tree, and
the pine, and the box tree together:
041:020 That they may see, and know, and consider, and
understand
together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the
Holy One of
Israel hath created it.
041:021 Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth
your strong
reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
041:022 Let them bring them forth, and shew us what
shall happen: let
them shew the
former things, what they be, that we may
consider them,
and know the latter end of them; or declare us
things for to
come.
041:023 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that
we may know
that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be
dismayed, and
behold it together.
041:024 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of
nought: an
abomination is he that chooseth you.
041:025 I have raised up one from the north, and he
shall come: from
the rising of
the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall
come upon
princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth
clay.
041:026 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we
may know? and
beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is
none that
sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea,
there is none
that heareth your words.
041:027 The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold
them: and I will
give to
Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
041:028 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among
them, and there
was no
counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a
word.
041:029 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are
nothing: their
molten images
are wind and confusion.
042:001 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in
whom my soul
delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring
forth judgment
to the Gentiles.
042:002 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his
voice to be heard
in the
street.
042:003 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the
smoking flax shall
he not quench:
he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
042:004 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he
have set
judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
042:005 Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the
heavens, and
stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that
which cometh out
of it; he that giveth breath unto the people
upon it, and
spirit to them that walk therein:
042:006 I the LORD have called thee in righteousness,
and will hold
thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant
of the people,
for a light of the Gentiles;
042:007 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the
prisoners from the
prison, and them
that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
042:008 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory
will I not give
to another,
neither my praise to graven images.
042:009 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and
new things do
I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
042:010 Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise
from the end of
the earth, ye
that go down to the sea, and all that is
therein; the
isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
042:011 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift
up their voice,
the villages
that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of
the rock sing,
let them shout from the top of the mountains.
042:012 Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare
his praise in
the islands.
042:013 The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he
shall stir up
jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall
prevail against
his enemies.
042:014 I have long time holden my peace; I have been
still, and
refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I
will destroy and
devour at once.
042:015 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry
up all their
herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up
the pools.
042:016 And I will bring the blind by a way that they
knew not; I will
lead them in
paths that they have not known: I will make
darkness light
before them, and crooked things straight. These
things will I do
unto them, and not forsake them.
042:017 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly
ashamed, that
trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are
our gods.
042:018 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
042:019 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my
messenger that I
sent? who is
blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the
LORD's
servant?
042:020 Seeing many things, but thou observest not;
opening the ears,
but he heareth
not.
042:021 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness'
sake; he will
magnify the law, and make it honourable.
042:022 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they
are all of them
snared in holes,
and they are hid in prison houses: they are
for a prey, and
none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith,
Restore.
042:023 Who among you will give ear to this? who will
hearken and hear
for the time to
come?
042:024 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the
robbers? did not
the LORD, he
against whom we have sinned? for they would not
walk in his
ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
042:025 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of
his anger, and
the strength of
battle: and it hath set him on fire round
about, yet he
knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not
to heart.
043:001 But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O
Jacob, and he
that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed
thee, I have
called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
043:002 When thou passest through the waters, I will be
with thee; and
through the
rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou
walkest through
the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither
shall the flame
kindle upon thee.
043:003 For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of
Israel, thy
Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for
thee.
043:004 Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast
been
honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men
for thee, and
people for thy life.
043:005 Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy
seed from the
east, and gather thee from the west;
043:006 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the
south, Keep not
back: bring my
sons from far, and my daughters from the ends
of the
earth;
043:007 Even every one that is called by my name: for I
have created
him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
043:008 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and
the deaf that
have ears.
043:009 Let all the nations be gathered together, and
let the people
be assembled:
who among them can declare this, and shew us
former things?
let them bring forth their witnesses, that they
may be
justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
043:010 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my
servant whom I
have chosen:
that ye may know and believe me, and understand
that I am he:
before me there was no God formed, neither shall
there be after
me.
043:011 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
043:012 I have declared, and have saved, and I have
shewed, when there
was no strange
god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses,
saith the LORD,
that I am God.
043:013 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is
none that can
deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
043:014 Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One
of Israel;
For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down
all their
nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the
ships.
043:015 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of
Israel, your
King.
043:016 Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the
sea, and a path
in the mighty
waters;
043:017 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the
army and the
power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they
are extinct,
they are quenched as tow.
043:018 Remember ye not the former things, neither
consider the things
of old.
043:019 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall
spring forth;
shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the
wilderness, and
rivers in the desert.
043:020 The beast of the field shall honour me, the
dragons and the
owls: because I
give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in
the desert, to
give drink to my people, my chosen.
043:021 This people have I formed for myself; they shall
shew forth my
praise.
043:022 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but
thou hast been
weary of me, O
Israel.
043:023 Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy
burnt
offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices.
I have not
caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied
thee with
incense.
043:024 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money,
neither hast
thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast
made me to serve
with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with
thine
iniquities.
043:025 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy
transgressions for mine
own sake, and
will not remember thy sins.
043:026 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together:
declare thou,
that thou mayest be justified.
043:027 Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers
have
transgressed against me.
043:028 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the
sanctuary, and
have given Jacob
to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
044:001 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel,
whom I have
chosen:
044:002 Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed
thee from the
womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and
thou, Jesurun,
whom I have chosen.
044:003 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty,
and floods
upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and
my blessing upon
thine offspring:
044:004 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as
willows by the
water
courses.
044:005 One shall say, I am the LORD's; and another
shall call himself
by the name of
Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his
hand unto the
LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
044:006 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his
redeemer the
LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside
me there is no
God.
044:007 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it,
and set it in
order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the
things that are
coming, and shall come, let them shew unto
them.
044:008 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told
thee from that
time, and have
declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there
a God beside me?
yea, there is no God; I know not any.
044:009 They that make a graven image are all of them
vanity; and
their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their
own witnesses;
they see not, nor know; that they may be
ashamed.
044:010 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image
that is
profitable for nothing?
044:011 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and
the workmen,
they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them
stand up; yet
they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed
together.
044:012 The smith with the tongs both worketh in the
coals, and
fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength
of his arms:
yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he
drinketh no
water, and is faint.
044:013 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he
marketh it out with
a line; he
fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with
the compass, and
maketh it after the figure of a man,
according to the
beauty of a man; that it may remain in the
house.
044:014 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the
cypress and the oak,
which he
strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the
forest: he
planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
044:015 Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will
take thereof,
and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea,
he maketh a god,
and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven
image, and
falleth down thereto.
044:016 He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part
thereof he
eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he
warmeth himself,
and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the
fire:
044:017 And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even
his graven
image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and
prayeth unto it,
and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.
044:018 They have not known nor understood: for he hath
shut their
eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot
understand.
044:019 And none considereth in his heart, neither is
there knowledge
nor
understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the
fire; yea, also
I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I
have roasted
flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue
thereof an
abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a
tree?
044:020 He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath
turned him aside,
that he cannot
deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie
in my right
hand?
044:021 Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art
my servant: I
have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt
not be forgotten
of me.
044:022 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy
transgressions, and,
as a cloud, thy
sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed
thee.
044:023 Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it:
shout, ye lower
parts of the
earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O
forest, and
every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed
Jacob, and
glorified himself in Israel.
044:024 Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that
formed thee
from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that
stretcheth forth
the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the
earth by
myself;
044:025 That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and
maketh diviners
mad; that
turneth wise men backward, and maketh their
knowledge
foolish;
044:026 That confirmeth the word of his servant, and
performeth the
counsel of his
messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt
be inhabited;
and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built,
and I will raise
up the decayed places thereof:
044:027 That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
044:028 That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and
shall perform all
my pleasure:
even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built;
and to the
temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
045:001 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus,
whose right
hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will
loose the loins
of kings, to open before him the two leaved
gates; and the
gates shall not be shut;
045:002 I will go before thee, and make the crooked
places straight: I
will break in
pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the
bars of
iron:
045:003 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness,
and hidden
riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the
LORD, which call
thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
045:004 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine
elect, I have
even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though
thou hast not
known me.
045:005 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is
no God beside
me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
045:006 That they may know from the rising of the sun,
and from the
west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there
is none
else.
045:007 I form the light, and create darkness: I make
peace, and
create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
045:008 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the
skies pour down
righteousness:
let the earth open, and let them bring forth
salvation, and
let righteousness spring up together; I the
LORD have
created it.
045:009 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let
the potsherd
strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to
him that
fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath
no hands?
045:010 Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What
begettest thou?
or to the woman,
What hast thou brought forth?
045:011 Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and
his Maker,
Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning
the work of my
hands command ye me.
045:012 I have made the earth, and created man upon it:
I, even my
hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have
I commanded.
045:013 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I
will direct all
his ways: he
shall build my city, and he shall let go my
captives, not
for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
045:014 Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and
merchandise of
Ethiopia and of
the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over
unto thee, and
they shall be thine: they shall come after
thee; in chains
they shall come over, and they shall fall down
unto thee, they
shall make supplication unto thee, saying,
Surely God is in
thee; and there is none else, there is no
God.
045:015 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God
of Israel,
the Saviour.
045:016 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all
of them: they
shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.
045:017 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an
everlasting
salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world
without end.
045:018 For thus saith the LORD that created the
heavens; God himself
that formed the
earth and made it; he hath established it, he
created it not
in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the
LORD; and there
is none else.
045:019 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of
the earth: I
said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the
LORD speak
righteousness, I declare things that are right.
045:020 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near
together, ye that are
escaped of the
nations: they have no knowledge that set up the
wood of their
graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot
save.
045:021 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take
counsel
together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath
told it from
that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no
God else beside
me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none
beside me.
045:022 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of
the earth: for
I am God, and
there is none else.
045:023 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of
my mouth in
righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee
shall bow, every
tongue shall swear.
045:024 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I
righteousness and
strength: even
to him shall men come; and all that are
incensed against
him shall be ashamed.
045:025 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be
justified, and
shall glory.
046:001 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were
upon the
beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden;
they are a
burden to the weary beast.
046:002 They stoop, they bow down together; they could
not deliver the
burden, but
themselves are gone into captivity.
046:003 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the
remnant of the
house of Israel,
which are borne by me from the belly, which
are carried from
the womb:
046:004 And even to your old age I am he; and even to
hoar hairs will
I carry you: I
have made, and I will bear; even I will carry,
and will deliver
you.
046:005 To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and
compare me,
that we may be like?
046:006 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh
silver in the
balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they
fall down, yea,
they worship.
046:007 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him,
and set him
in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not
remove: yea, one
shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer,
nor save him out
of his trouble.
046:008 Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it
again to
mind, O ye transgressors.
046:009 Remember the former things of old: for I am God,
and there is
none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
046:010 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from
ancient times
the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall
stand, and I
will do all my pleasure:
046:011 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man
that executeth
my counsel from
a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will
also bring it to
pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
046:012 Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far
from
righteousness:
046:013 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be
far off, and my
salvation shall
not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion
for Israel my
glory.
047:001 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin
daughter of Babylon,
sit on the
ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the
Chaldeans: for
thou shalt no more be called tender and
delicate.
047:002 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy
locks, make
bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
047:003 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame
shall be
seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a
man.
047:004 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his
name, the Holy
One of
Israel.
047:005 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O
daughter of the
Chaldeans: for
thou shalt no more be called, The lady of
kingdoms.
047:006 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine
inheritance,
and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy;
upon the ancient
hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
047:007 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so
that thou
didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst
remember the
latter end of it.
047:008 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to
pleasures,
that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am,
and none else
beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither
shall I know the
loss of children:
047:009 But these two things shall come to thee in a
moment in one
day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon
thee in their
perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries,
and for the
great abundance of thine enchantments.
047:010 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou
hast said, None
seeth me. Thy
wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted
thee; and thou
hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else
beside me.
047:011 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt
not know from
whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou
shalt not be
able to put it off: and desolation shall come
upon thee
suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
047:012 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the
multitude of
thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if
so be thou shalt
be able to profit, if so be thou mayest
prevail.
047:013 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy
counsels. Let now the
astrologers, the
stargazers, the monthly prognosticators,
stand up, and
save thee from these things that shall come upon
thee.
047:014 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall
burn them;
they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame:
there shall not
be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before
it.
047:015 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast
laboured,
even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every
one to his
quarter; none shall save thee.
048:001 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called
by the name
of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah,
which swear by
the name of the LORD, and make mention of the
God of Israel,
but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
048:002 For they call themselves of the holy city, and
stay themselves
upon the God of
Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.
048:003 I have declared the former things from the
beginning; and they
went forth out
of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them
suddenly, and
they came to pass.
048:004 Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy
neck is an
iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
048:005 I have even from the beginning declared it to
thee; before it
came to pass I
shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine
idol hath done
them, and my graven image, and my molten image,
hath commanded
them.
048:006 Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye
declare it? I
have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden
things, and thou
didst not know them.
048:007 They are created now, and not from the
beginning; even before
the day when
thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say,
Behold, I knew
them.
048:008 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not;
yea, from that
time that thine
ear was not opened: for I knew that thou
wouldest deal
very treacherously, and wast called a
transgressor
from the womb.
048:009 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and
for my praise
will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
048:010 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with
silver; I have
chosen thee in
the furnace of affliction.
048:011 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will
I do it: for
how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory
unto
another.
048:012 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called;
I am he; I am
the first, I also am the last.
048:013 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the
earth, and my
right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them,
they stand up
together.
048:014 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which
among them hath
declared these
things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his
pleasure on
Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
048:015 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him:
I have brought
him, and he
shall make his way prosperous.
048:016 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not
spoken in
secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am
I: and now the
Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
048:017 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One
of Israel; I
am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which
leadeth thee by
the way that thou shouldest go.
048:018 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments!
then had thy
peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of
the sea:
048:019 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the
offspring of thy
bowels like the
gravel thereof; his name should not have been
cut off nor
destroyed from before me.
048:020 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the
Chaldeans, with a
voice of singing
declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the
end of the
earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant
Jacob.
048:021 And they thirsted not when he led them through
the deserts: he
caused the
waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave
the rock also,
and the waters gushed out.
048:022 There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.
049:001 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye
people, from far;
The LORD hath
called me from the womb; from the bowels of my
mother hath he
made mention of my name.
049:002 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in
the shadow of
his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his
quiver hath he
hid me;
049:003 And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel,
in whom I
will be glorified.
049:004 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have
spent my strength
for nought, and
in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the
LORD, and my
work with my God.
049:005 And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the
womb to be his
servant, to
bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not
gathered, yet
shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and
my God shall be
my strength.
049:006 And he said, It is a light thing that thou
shouldest be my
servant to raise
up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the
preserved of
Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the
Gentiles, that
thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the
earth.
049:007 Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and
his Holy One,
to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth,
to a servant of
rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes
also shall
worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and
the Holy One of
Israel, and he shall choose thee.
049:008 Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have
I heard thee,
and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will
preserve thee,
and give thee for a covenant of the people, to
establish the
earth, to cause to inherit the desolate
heritages;
049:009 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth;
to them that
are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways,
and their
pastures shall be in all high places.
049:010 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall
the heat nor
sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead
them, even by
the springs of water shall he guide them.
049:011 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my
highways shall
be exalted.
049:012 Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo,
these from the
north and from
the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
049:013 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and
break forth into
singing, O
mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people,
and will have
mercy upon his afflicted.
049:014 But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my
Lord hath
forgotten me.
049:015 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she
should not have
compassion on
the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet
will I not
forget thee.
049:016 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my
hands; thy
walls are continually before me.
049:017 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers
and they that
made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
049:018 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all
these gather
themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the
LORD, thou shalt
surely clothe thee with them all, as with an
ornament, and
bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.
049:019 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the
land of thy
destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the
inhabitants, and
they that swallowed thee up shall be far
away.
049:020 The children which thou shalt have, after thou
hast lost the
other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait
for me: give
place to me that I may dwell.
049:021 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath
begotten me
these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a
captive, and
removing to and fro? and who hath brought up
these? Behold, I
was left alone; these, where had they been?
049:022 Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up
mine hand to
the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they
shall bring thy
sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be
carried upon
their shoulders.
049:023 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and
their queens thy
nursing mothers:
they shall bow down to thee with their face
toward the
earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou
shalt know that
I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed
that wait for
me.
049:024 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the
lawful captive
delivered?
049:025 But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of
the mighty shall
be taken away,
and the prey of the terrible shall be
delivered: for I
will contend with him that contendeth with
thee, and I will
save thy children.
049:026 And I will feed them that oppress thee with
their own flesh;
and they shall
be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet
wine: and all
flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour
and thy
Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
050:001 Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your
mother's
divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is
it to whom I
have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have
ye sold
yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother
put away.
050:002 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I
called, was
there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it
cannot redeem?
or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my
rebuke I dry up
the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their
fish stinketh,
because there is no water, and dieth for
thirst.
050:003 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make
sackcloth
their covering.
050:004 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the
learned, that I
should know how
to speak a word in season to him that is
weary: he
wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to
hear as the
learned.
050:005 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not
rebellious,
neither turned away back.
050:006 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to
them that
plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and
spitting.
050:007 For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I
not be
confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I
know that I
shall not be ashamed.
050:008 He is near that justifieth me; who will contend
with me? let
us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to
me.
050:009 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he
that shall
condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth
shall eat them
up.
050:010 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that
obeyeth the voice
of his servant,
that walketh in darkness, and hath no light?
let him trust in
the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
050:011 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass
yourselves
about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the
sparks that ye
have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand;
ye shall lie
down in sorrow.
051:001 Hearken to me, ye that follow after
righteousness, ye that
seek the LORD:
look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to
the hole of the
pit whence ye are digged.
051:002 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah
that bare you:
for I called him
alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
051:003 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort
all her waste
places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her
desert like the
garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be
found therein,
thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
051:004 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto
me, O my nation:
for a law shall
proceed from me, and I will make my judgment
to rest for a
light of the people.
051:005 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone
forth, and mine
arms shall judge
the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and
on mine arm
shall they trust.
051:006 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon
the earth
beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the
earth shall wax
old like a garment, and they that dwell
therein shall
die in like manner: but my salvation shall be
for ever, and my
righteousness shall not be abolished.
051:007 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the
people in
whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men,
neither be ye
afraid of their revilings.
051:008 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment,
and the worm
shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for
ever, and my
salvation from generation to generation.
051:009 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the
LORD; awake, as in
the ancient
days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it
that hath cut
Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
051:010 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the
waters of the
great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the
ransomed to pass
over?
051:011 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return,
and come with
singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their
head: they shall
obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and
mourning shall
flee away.
051:012 I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art
thou, that thou
shouldest be
afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of
man which shall
be made as grass;
051:013 And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath
stretched forth
the heavens, and
laid the foundations of the earth; and hast
feared
continually every day because of the fury of the
oppressor, as if
he were ready to destroy? and where is the
fury of the
oppressor?
051:014 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be
loosed, and that he
should not die
in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
051:015 But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea,
whose waves
roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.
051:016 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have
covered thee
in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and
lay the
foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art
my people.
051:017 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast
drunk at the
hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the
dregs of the cup
of trembling, and wrung them out.
051:018 There is none to guide her among all the sons
whom she hath
brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the
hand of all the
sons that she hath brought up.
051:019 These two things are come unto thee; who shall
be sorry for
thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the
sword: by whom
shall I comfort thee?
051:020 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of
all the
streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of
the LORD, the
rebuke of thy God.
051:021 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and
drunken, but not
with wine:
051:022 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that
pleadeth the
cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand
the cup of
trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury;
thou shalt no
more drink it again:
051:023 But I will put it into the hand of them that
afflict thee;
which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over:
and thou hast
laid thy body as the ground, and as the street,
to them that
went over.
052:001 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put
on thy
beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth
there shall no
more come into thee the uncircumcised and the
unclean.
052:002 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit
down, O Jerusalem:
loose thyself
from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter
of Zion.
052:003 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves
for nought;
and ye shall be redeemed without money.
052:004 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down
aforetime
into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them
without
cause.
052:005 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD,
that my
people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make
them to howl,
saith the LORD; and my name continually every
day is
blasphemed.
052:006 Therefore my people shall know my name:
therefore they shall
know in that day
that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is
I.
052:007 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of
him that
bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth
good tidings of
good, that publisheth salvation; that saith
unto Zion, Thy
God reigneth!
052:008 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the
voice together
shall they sing:
for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD
shall bring
again Zion.
052:009 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste
places of
Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath
redeemed
Jerusalem.
052:010 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes
of all the
nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation
of our God.
052:011 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence,
touch no unclean
thing; go ye out
of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear
the vessels of
the LORD.
052:012 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by
flight: for the
LORD will go
before you; and the God of Israel will be your
rereward.
052:013 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he
shall be exalted
and extolled,
and be very high.
052:014 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so
marred more
than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
052:015 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings
shall shut their
mouths at him:
for that which had not been told them shall
they see; and
that which they had not heard shall they
consider.
053:001 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the
arm of the
LORD revealed?
053:002 For he shall grow up before him as a tender
plant, and as a
root out of a
dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and
when we shall
see him, there is no beauty that we should
desire him.
053:003 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of
sorrows, and
acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from
him; he was
despised, and we esteemed him not.
053:004 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our
sorrows: yet
we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
053:005 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he
was bruised for
our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was upon him;
and with his
stripes we are healed.
053:006 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have
turned every one
to his own way;
and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of
us all.
053:007 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he
opened not his
mouth: he is
brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a
sheep before her
shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his
mouth.
053:008 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and
who shall
declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of
the living: for
the transgression of my people was he
stricken.
053:009 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with
the rich in
his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any
deceit in his
mouth.
053:010 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath
put him to
grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he
shall see his
seed, he shall prolong his days, and the
pleasure of the
LORD shall prosper in his hand.
053:011 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and
shall be
satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify
many; for he
shall bear their iniquities.
053:012 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the
great, and he
shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured
out his soul
unto death: and he was numbered with the
transgressors;
and he bare the sin of many, and made
intercession for
the transgressors.
054:001 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break
forth into
singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with
child: for more
are the children of the desolate than the
children of the
married wife, saith the LORD.
054:002 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them
stretch forth the
curtains of
thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords,
and strengthen
thy stakes;
054:003 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and
on the left;
and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate
cities to be
inhabited.
054:004 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither
be thou
confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt
forget the shame
of thy youth, and shalt not remember the
reproach of thy
widowhood any more.
054:005 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of
hosts is his name;
and thy Redeemer
the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole
earth shall he
be called.
054:006 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman
forsaken and grieved
in spirit, and a
wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith
thy God.
054:007 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but
with great
mercies will I gather thee.
054:008 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a
moment; but
with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the
LORD thy
Redeemer.
054:009 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for
as I have sworn
that the waters
of Noah should no more go over the earth; so
have I sworn
that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke
thee.
054:010 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be
removed; but
my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the
covenant of my
peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath
mercy on
thee.
054:011 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not
comforted,
behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy
foundations with
sapphires.
054:012 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy
gates of
carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
054:013 And all thy children shall be taught of the
LORD; and great
shall be the
peace of thy children.
054:014 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou
shalt be far
from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for
it shall not
come near thee.
054:015 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but
not by me:
whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for
thy sake.
054:016 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth
the coals in the
fire, and that
bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and
I have created
the waster to destroy.
054:017 No weapon that is formed against thee shall
prosper; and every
tongue that
shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt
condemn. This is
the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and
their
righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
055:001 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the
waters, and he
that hath no
money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine
and milk without
money and without price.
055:002 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is
not bread? and
your labour for
that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently
unto me, and eat
ye that which is good, and let your soul
delight itself
in fatness.
055:003 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and
your soul shall
live; and I will
make an everlasting covenant with you, even
the sure mercies
of David.
055:004 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the
people, a leader
and commander to
the people.
055:005 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou
knowest not, and
nations that
knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the
LORD thy God,
and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath
glorified
thee.
055:006 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye
upon him while
he is near:
055:007 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the
unrighteous man his
thoughts: and
let him return unto the LORD, and he will have
mercy upon him;
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
055:008 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither
are your ways
my ways, saith the LORD.
055:009 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so
are my ways
higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
055:010 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from
heaven, and
returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it
bring forth and
bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and
bread to the
eater:
055:011 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my
mouth: it shall
not return unto
me void, but it shall accomplish that which I
please, and it
shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
055:012 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth
with peace: the
mountains and
the hills shall break forth before you into
singing, and all
the trees of the field shall clap their
hands.
055:013 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree,
and instead
of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to
the LORD for a
name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be
cut off.
056:001 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do
justice: for my
salvation is
near to come, and my righteousness to be
revealed.
056:002 Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son
of man that
layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it,
and keepeth his
hand from doing any evil.
056:003 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath
joined himself
to the LORD,
speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me
from his people:
neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a
dry tree.
056:004 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that
keep my
sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold
of my
covenant;
056:005 Even unto them will I give in mine house and
within my walls a
place and a name
better than of sons and of daughters: I will
give them an
everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
056:006 Also the sons of the stranger, that join
themselves to the
LORD, to serve
him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be
his servants,
every one that keepeth the sabbath from
polluting it,
and taketh hold of my covenant;
056:007 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and
make them
joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their
sacrifices shall
be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house
shall be called
an house of prayer for all people.
056:008 The Lord GOD, which gathereth the outcasts of
Israel saith,
Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are
gathered unto
him.
056:009 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea,
all ye beasts
in the forest.
056:010 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant,
they are all
dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to
slumber.
056:011 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have
enough, and
they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to
their own way,
every one for his gain, from his quarter.
056:012 Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we
will fill
ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this
day, and much
more abundant.
057:001 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to
heart: and
merciful men are taken away, none considering that the
righteous is
taken away from the evil to come.
057:002 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in
their beds, each
one walking in
his uprightness.
057:003 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress,
the seed of
the adulterer and the whore.
057:004 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against
whom make ye a
wide mouth, and
draw out the tongue? are ye not children of
transgression, a
seed of falsehood.
057:005 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every
green tree,
slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the
rocks?
057:006 Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy
portion; they,
they are thy
lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink
offering, thou
hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive
comfort in
these?
057:007 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy
bed: even
thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
057:008 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou
set up thy
remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than
me, and art gone
up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee
a covenant with
them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest
it.
057:009 And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and
didst increase
thy perfumes,
and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst
debase thyself
even unto hell.
057:010 Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way;
yet saidst thou
not, There is no
hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand;
therefore thou
wast not grieved.
057:011 And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared,
that thou hast
lied, and hast
not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart?
have not I held
my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?
057:012 I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works;
for they
shall not profit thee.
057:013 When thou criest, let thy companies deliver
thee; but the wind
shall carry them
all away; vanity shall take them: but he that
putteth his
trust in me shall possess the land, and shall
inherit my holy
mountain;
057:014 And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare
the way, take
up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
057:015 For thus saith the high and lofty One that
inhabiteth
eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy
place, with him
also that is of a contrite and humble spirit,
to revive the
spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of
the contrite
ones.
057:016 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I
be always
wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls
which I have
made.
057:017 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I
wroth, and smote
him: I hid me,
and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the
way of his
heart.
057:018 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will
lead him also,
and restore
comforts unto him and to his mourners.
057:019 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to
him that is
far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will
heal him.
057:020 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when
it cannot rest,
whose waters
cast up mire and dirt.
057:021 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
058:001 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a
trumpet, and
shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob
their sins.
058:002 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my
ways, as a
nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance
of their God:
they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they
take delight in
approaching to God.
058:003 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou
seest not?
wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no
knowledge?
Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure,
and exact all
your labours.
058:004 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to
smite with the
fist of
wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to
make your voice
to be heard on high.
058:005 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for
a man to
afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and
to spread
sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a
fast, and an
acceptable day to the LORD?
058:006 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to
loose the bands of
wickedness, to
undo the heavy burdens, and to let the
oppressed go
free, and that ye break every yoke?
058:007 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and
that thou bring
the poor that
are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the
naked, that thou
cover him; and that thou hide not thyself
from thine own
flesh?
058:008 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning,
and thine
health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness
shall go before
thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy
rereward.
058:009 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer;
thou shalt
cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the
midst of thee
the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and
speaking
vanity;
058:010 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and
satisfy the
afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and
thy darkness be
as the noon day:
058:011 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and
satisfy thy
soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be
like a watered
garden, and like a spring of water, whose
waters fail
not.
058:012 And they that shall be of thee shall build the
old waste
places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many
generations; and
thou shalt be called, The repairer of the
breach, The
restorer of paths to dwell in.
058:013 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath,
from doing thy
pleasure on my
holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the
holy of the
LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing
thine own ways,
nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking
thine own
words:
058:014 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and
I will cause
thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee
with the
heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the
LORD hath spoken
it.
059:001 Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that
it cannot save;
neither his ear
heavy, that it cannot hear:
059:002 But your iniquities have separated between you
and your God,
and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not
hear.
059:003 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your
fingers with
iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath
muttered
perverseness.
059:004 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for
truth: they
trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and
bring forth
iniquity.
059:005 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the
spider's web: he
that eateth of
their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed
breaketh out
into a viper.
059:006 Their webs shall not become garments, neither
shall they cover
themselves with
their works: their works are works of
iniquity, and
the act of violence is in their hands.
059:007 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to
shed innocent
blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and
destruction are
in their paths.
059:008 The way of peace they know not; and there is no
judgment in
their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever
goeth therein
shall not know peace.
059:009 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth
justice
overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for
brightness, but
we walk in darkness.
059:010 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we
grope as if we
had no eyes: we
stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in
desolate places
as dead men.
059:011 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like
doves: we look for
judgment, but
there is none; for salvation, but it is far off
from us.
059:012 For our transgressions are multiplied before
thee, and our
sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us;
and as for our
iniquities, we know them;
059:013 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and
departing
away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving
and uttering
from the heart words of falsehood.
059:014 And judgment is turned away backward, and
justice standeth
afar off: for
truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot
enter.
059:015 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from
evil maketh
himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him
that there was
no judgment.
059:016 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered
that there was
no intercessor:
therefore his arm brought salvation unto him;
and his
righteousness, it sustained him.
059:017 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate,
and an helmet of
salvation upon
his head; and he put on the garments of
vengeance for
clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
059:018 According to their deeds, accordingly he will
repay, fury to
his adversaries,
recompence to his enemies; to the islands he
will repay
recompence.
059:019 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the
west, and his
glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in
like a flood,
the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard
against him.
059:020 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto
them that turn
from
transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
059:021 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith
the LORD; My
spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy
mouth, shall not
depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth
of thy seed, nor
out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith
the LORD, from
henceforth and for ever.
060:001 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the
glory of the LORD
is risen upon
thee.
060:002 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,
and gross
darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and
his glory shall
be seen upon thee.
060:003 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and
kings to the
brightness of thy rising.
060:004 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all
they gather
themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come
from far, and
thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
060:005 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and
thine heart shall
fear, and be
enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall
be converted
unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come
unto thee.
060:006 The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the
dromedaries of
Midian and
Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall
bring gold and
incense; and they shall shew forth the praises
of the LORD.
060:007 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered
together unto thee,
the rams of
Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come
up with
acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house
of my glory.
060:008 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the
doves to their
windows?
060:009 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the
ships of Tarshish
first, to bring
thy sons from far, their silver and their gold
with them, unto
the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy
One of Israel,
because he hath glorified thee.
060:010 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy
walls, and their
kings shall
minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee,
but in my favour
have I had mercy on thee.
060:011 Therefore thy gates shall be open continually;
they shall not
be shut day nor
night; that men may bring unto thee the forces
of the Gentiles,
and that their kings may be brought.
060:012 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve
thee shall
perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
060:013 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the
fir tree, the
pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my
sanctuary; and I
will make the place of my feet glorious.
060:014 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall
come bending
unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow
themselves down
at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call
thee; The city
of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of
Israel.
060:015 Whereas thou has been forsaken and hated, so
that no man went
through thee, I
will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of
many
generations.
060:016 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles,
and shalt suck
the breast of
kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am
thy Saviour and
thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
060:017 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will
bring silver,
and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy
officers peace,
and thine exactors righteousness.
060:018 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land,
wasting nor
destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls
Salvation, and
thy gates Praise.
060:019 The sun shall be no more thy light by day;
neither for
brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD
shall be unto
thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy
glory.
060:020 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy
moon withdraw
itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the
days of thy
mourning shall be ended.
060:021 Thy people also shall be all righteous: they
shall inherit the
land for ever,
the branch of my planting, the work of my
hands, that I
may be glorified.
060:022 A little one shall become a thousand, and a
small one a strong
nation: I the
LORD will hasten it in his time.
061:001 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because
the LORD hath
anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent
me to bind up
the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the
captives, and
the opening of the prison to them that are
bound;
061:002 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and
the day of
vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
061:003 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give
unto them
beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of
praise for the
spirit of heaviness; that they might be called
trees of
righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he
might be
glorified.
061:004 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall
raise up the
former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities,
the desolations
of many generations.
061:005 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks,
and the sons
of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
061:006 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD:
men shall call
you the
Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the
Gentiles, and in
their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
061:007 For your shame ye shall have double; and for
confusion they
shall rejoice in
their portion: therefore in their land they
shall possess
the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
061:008 For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for
burnt
offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will
make an
everlasting covenant with them.
061:009 And their seed shall be known among the
Gentiles, and their
offspring among
the people: all that see them shall
acknowledge
them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath
blessed.
061:010 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul
shall be joyful in
my God; for he
hath clothed me with the garments of salvation,
he hath covered
me with the robe of righteousness, as a
bridegroom
decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride
adorneth herself
with her jewels.
061:011 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as
the garden
causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the
Lord GOD will
cause righteousness and praise to spring forth
before all the
nations.
062:001 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and
for Jerusalem's
sake I will not
rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth
as brightness,
and the salvation thereof as a lamp that
burneth.
062:002 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness,
and all kings
thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the
mouth of the
LORD shall name.
062:003 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand
of the LORD,
and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
062:004 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither
shall thy land
any more be
termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called
Hephzibah, and
thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in
thee, and thy
land shall be married.
062:005 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall
thy sons marry
thee: and as the
bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall
thy God rejoice
over thee.
062:006 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem,
which shall
never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of
the LORD, keep
not silence,
062:007 And give him no rest, till he establish, and
till he make
Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
062:008 The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by
the arm of his
strength, Surely
I will no more give thy corn to be meat for
thine enemies;
and the sons of the stranger shall not drink
thy wine, for
the which thou hast laboured:
062:009 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and
praise the
LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in
the courts of my
holiness.
062:010 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the
way of the
people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones;
lift up a
standard for the people.
062:011 Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of
the world,
Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh;
behold, his
reward is with him, and his work before him.
062:012 And they shall call them, The holy people, The
redeemed of the
LORD: and thou
shalt be called, Sought out, A city not
forsaken.
063:001 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed
garments from
Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in
the greatness of
his strength? I that speak in righteousness,
mighty to
save.
063:002 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy
garments like
him that treadeth in the winefat?
063:003 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the
people there
was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and
trample them in
my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled
upon my
garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
063:004 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and
the year of my
redeemed is
come.
063:005 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I
wondered that
there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought
salvation unto
me; and my fury, it upheld me.
063:006 And I will tread down the people in mine anger,
and make them
drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the
earth.
063:007 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD,
and the
praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath
bestowed on us,
and the great goodness toward the house of
Israel, which he
hath bestowed on them according to his
mercies, and
according to the multitude of his
lovingkindnesses.
063:008 For he said, Surely they are my people, children
that will not
lie: so he was their Saviour.
063:009 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and
the angel of his
presence saved
them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed
them; and he
bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
063:010 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit:
therefore he was
turned to be
their enemy, and he fought against them.
063:011 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and
his people,
saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with
the shepherd of
his flock? where is he that put his holy
Spirit within
him?
063:012 That led them by the right hand of Moses with
his glorious
arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an
everlasting
name?
063:013 That led them through the deep, as an horse in
the wilderness,
that they should
not stumble?
063:014 As a beast goeth down into the valley, the
Spirit of the LORD
caused him to
rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make
thyself a
glorious name.
063:015 Look down from heaven, and behold from the
habitation of thy
holiness and of
thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength,
the sounding of
thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are
they
restrained?
063:016 Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be
ignorant of
us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our
father, our
redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
063:017 O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy
ways, and
hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants'
sake, the tribes
of thine inheritance.
063:018 The people of thy holiness have possessed it but
a little
while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
063:019 We are thine: thou never barest rule over them;
they were not
called by thy name.
064:001 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that
thou wouldest
come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
064:002 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire
causeth the waters
to boil, to make
thy name known to thine adversaries, that the
nations may
tremble at thy presence!
064:003 When thou didst terrible things which we looked
not for, thou
camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
064:004 For since the beginning of the world men have
not heard, nor
perceived by the
ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside
thee, what he
hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
064:005 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh
righteousness,
those that
remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth;
for we have
sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be
saved.
064:006 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all
our
righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a
leaf; and our
iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
064:007 And there is none that calleth upon thy name,
that stirreth up
himself to take
hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from
us, and hast
consumed us, because of our iniquities.
064:008 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the
clay, and
thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
064:009 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember
iniquity for
ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
064:010 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a
wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
064:011 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our
fathers praised
thee, is burned
up with fire: and all our pleasant things are
laid waste.
064:012 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O
LORD? wilt thou
hold thy peace,
and afflict us very sore?
065:001 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am
found of them
that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a
nation that was
not called by my name.
065:002 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a
rebellious
people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their
own
thoughts;
065:003 A people that provoketh me to anger continually
to my face;
that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars
of brick;
065:004 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the
monuments,
which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in
their
vessels;
065:005 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to
me; for I am
holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that
burneth all the
day.
065:006 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep
silence, but
will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
065:007 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your
fathers together,
saith the LORD,
which have burned incense upon the mountains,
and blasphemed
me upon the hills: therefore will I measure
their former
work into their bosom.
065:008 Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in
the cluster,
and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so
will I do for my
servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them
all.
065:009 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and
out of Judah
an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it,
and my servants
shall dwell there.
065:010 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the
valley of Achor
a place for the
herds to lie down in, for my people that have
sought me.
065:011 But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that
forget my holy
mountain, that
prepare a table for that troop, and that
furnish the
drink offering unto that number.
065:012 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye
shall all bow
down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not
answer; when I
spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before
mine eyes, and
did choose that wherein I delighted not.
065:013 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my
servants shall
eat, but ye
shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink,
but ye shall be
thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice,
but ye shall be
ashamed:
065:014 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart,
but ye shall
cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of
spirit.
065:015 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my
chosen: for
the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another
name:
065:016 That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall
bless himself
in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall
swear by the God
of truth; because the former troubles are
forgotten, and
because they are hid from mine eyes.
065:017 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new
earth: and the
former shall not
be remembered, nor come into mind.
065:018 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that
which I create:
for, behold, I
create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a
joy.
065:019 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my
people: and the
voice of weeping
shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice
of crying.
065:020 There shall be no more thence an infant of days,
nor an old
man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an
hundred years
old; but the sinner being an hundred years old
shall be
accursed.
065:021 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them;
and they shall
plant vineyards,
and eat the fruit of them.
065:022 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they
shall not
plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days
of my people,
and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of
their hands.
065:023 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth
for trouble;
for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their
offspring with
them.
065:024 And it shall come to pass, that before they
call, I will
answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
065:025 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and
the lion shall
eat straw like
the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's
meat. They shall
not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,
saith the
LORD.
066:001 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne,
and the earth is
my footstool:
where is the house that ye build unto me? and
where is the
place of my rest?
066:002 For all those things hath mine hand made, and
all those things
have been, saith
the LORD: but to this man will I look, even
to him that is
poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at
my word.
066:003 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he
that
sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that
offereth an
oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that
burneth incense,
as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have
chosen their own
ways, and their soul delighteth in their
abominations.
066:004 I also will choose their delusions, and will
bring their fears
upon them;
because when I called, none did answer; when I
spake, they did
not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes,
and chose that
in which I delighted not.
066:005 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at
his word; Your
brethren that
hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake,
said, Let the
LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your
joy, and they
shall be ashamed.
066:006 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the
temple, a
voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
066:007 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before
her pain came,
she was
delivered of a man child.
066:008 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such
things? Shall
the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation
be born at once?
for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought
forth her
children.
066:009 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to
bring forth?
saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the
womb? saith thy
God.
066:010 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her,
all ye that
love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
066:011 That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the
breasts of her
consolations;
that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the
abundance of her
glory.
066:012 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend
peace to her
like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing
stream: then
shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides,
and be dandled
upon her knees.
066:013 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I
comfort you; and
ye shall be
comforted in Jerusalem.
066:014 And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice,
and your bones
shall flourish
like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be
known toward his
servants, and his indignation toward his
enemies.
066:015 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and
with his
chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and
his rebuke with
flames of fire.
066:016 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead
with all
flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
066:017 They that sanctify themselves, and purify
themselves in the
gardens behind
one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh,
and the
abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed
together, saith
the LORD.
066:018 For I know their works and their thoughts: it
shall come, that
I will gather
all nations and tongues; and they shall come,
and see my
glory.
066:019 And I will set a sign among them, and I will
send those that
escape of them
unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud,
that draw the
bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off,
that have not
heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and
they shall
declare my glory among the Gentiles.
066:020 And they shall bring all your brethren for an
offering unto
the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and
in litters, and
upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy
mountain
Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel
bring an
offering in a clean vessel into the house of the
LORD.
066:021 And I will also take of them for priests and for
Levites,
saith the LORD.
066:022 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which
I will make,
shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and
your name
remain.
066:023 And it shall come to pass, that from one new
moon to another,
and from one
sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to
worship before
me, saith the LORD.
066:024 And they shall go forth, and look upon the
carcases of the men
that have
transgressed against me: for their worm shall not
die, neither
shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be
an abhorring
unto all flesh.