1 Scroll 08 Isaiah.
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz,
which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hizkiah, kings of Judah.
2 Hear, Heavens, and give ear, Earth: for the LORD has spoken,
I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against Me.
3 The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's manger:
but Israel does not know, My people does not consider.
4 Woe sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity,
a seed of evil-doers, children that are corrupters:
they have forsaken the LORD,
they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger,
they are gone away backward!
5 Why should ye be stricken any more?
Ye will revolt more and more:
the whole head is sick,
and the whole heart faint.
6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it,
but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores:
they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire:
your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
8 And the Daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
9 Except the LORD of Sabaoth had left us seed,
we had been as Sodom, and been made like Gomorrah. Rom 9:29
10
Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom;
give ear to the Law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me? Said 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 bulls, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
12 When ye come to appear before Me,
who has required this at your hand, to tread My courts?
13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination to Me;
Your New Moons and Sabbaths, the calling of convocations,
I cannot endure; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14 Your New Moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates:
they are a trouble to Me; I am weary to bear them.
15 And when ye spread forth your hands,
I will hide My eyes from you:
yes, when ye make many prayers,
I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash ye, make yourselves clean;
put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes;
cease to do evil;
17 learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed,
do justice the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18 Come now, and let us reason together, said the LORD:
though your sins are as scarlet,
they shall be white as snow,
though they are red like crimson,
they shall be as wool.
19 If ye are willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
20 but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword:
for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
21
How is the faithful city become a whore!
It was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
22 Thy silver is become dross, Thy wine mixed with water:
23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves:
every one loves gifts, and follows after rewards:
they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
24 Therefore said the Lord, the LORD of Sabaoth, the Mighty of Israel,
Ah, I will ease of My adversaries, and avenge Me of My enemies:
25 I will turn My hand upon Thee,
and thoroughly purge away Thy dross, and take away all Thy tin:
26 I will restore Thy judges as at the first, and Thy counsellors,
as at the beginning: afterward Thou shall be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
27
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and they that return of her with righteousness.
28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together,
and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired,
and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
30 For ye shall be as an terebinth whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.
31 And the strong shall be as tow, and his work for a spark,
and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2
And it shall come to pass in the Last Days,
that the Mount of the House of the LORD.
shall be established on the top of the mountains,
and shall be exalted above the hills;
and all nations shall flow to it. Mic 4:1
3 And many people shall go and say,
Come ye, and let us go up to the Mount 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. Mic 4:2
4 He will judge among the nations,
and will rebuke many people:
and they shall beat their swords into plough-shares,
and their spears into pruning-hooks:
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more. Mic 4:3
5
House of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the Light of the LORD.
6 Therefore Thou have forsaken Thy people the House of Jacob,
because they are filled from the east, and are observers of clouds like the Philistines,
and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures;
their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots.
8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands,
that their have made which own fingers:
9 and the mean man bows down,
and the great man humbles himself: therefore forgive them not.
10 Enter into the rock, and hide Thee in the dust,
for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of His majesty.
11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be abased,
and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
12 For the Day of the LORD of Sabaoth shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty,
and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low;
13 and upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
14 and upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
15 and upon every high tower, and upon every fortified wall,
16 and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
17 And the loftiness of man shall be abased, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low:
and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
18 And the idols He will utterly abolish.
19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the dust[earth],
for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of His majesty,
when He arises to shake terribly the Earth.
20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold,
which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
21 to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks,
for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of His majesty,
when He arises to shake terribly the Earth.
22
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is He to be accounted of?
1 For behold, the Lord, the LORD of Sabaoth, does take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the rod and the staff,
the whole support of bread, and the whole support of water,
2 the mighty man, and the man of war, the judge,
and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
3 the captain of fifty, and the honourable man,
and the counsellor, and the skilful artificer, and the eloquent orator.
4 I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another,
and every one by his neighbour:
the child shall behave himself proudly against the elder,
and the base against the honourable.
6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father,
saying, Thou have clothing, be Thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under Thy hand:
7 in that day shall he swear,
saying, I will not be a healer; for in My house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings,
are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of His glory.
9
The show of their countenance does witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not.
Woe to their soul! For they have rewarded evil to themselves.
10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11 Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
12
My people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them.
My people, they who lead Thee cause Thee to go astray, and destroy the way of Thy paths.
13 The LORD has stood up to plead, And He is standing to judge the people.
14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of His people,
and with their princes: for ye have eaten up the vineyard;
the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What mean ye that ye beat My people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor?
Says the Lord JeHoVaH of Sabaoth.
16
Moreover, the LORD said, Because the Daughters of Zion are haughty,
and walk with extended necks and wanton eyes,
walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
17 therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the Daughters of Zion,
and the LORD will uncover their secret parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away;
the show of ankle-bracelets, and the headbands, and the crescents,
19 the pendants, and the bracelets, and the veils,
20 the headdresses, and the leg ornaments, and the sashes,
and the houses of the soul[pastilles], and the amulets,
21 the rings, and nose-jewels,
22 the festal apparel and the outer garments, and the mantles, and the purses,
23 the glasses, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the veils.
24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be rottenness;
and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness;
and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and Thy mighty in the war.
26 And her gates shall lament and mourn;
and she being desolate, shall sit upon the ground.
1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man,
saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel:
only let us be called by Thy name, to take away our reproach.
2
In that day shall the Branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious,
and the fruit of the Earth shall be excellent and comely for them that have escaped of Israel.
3 And it shall come to pass, that he who is left in Zion, and he that remains in Jerusalem,
shall be called Holy, even every one that has been written among the living in Jerusalem:
4 when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the Daughters of Zion,
and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem,
from the middle of it by the Spirit of judgment, and by the Spirit of burning.
5 The LORD has created upon every dwelling-place of Mount Zion, and upon her convocations,
a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night:
for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
6 And there shall be a Tabernacle for a shade in the day time from the heat,
and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
1 [Song of the Vineyard 1].
Now will I sing to My well-beloved a song of My beloved concerning His Vineyard.
My beloved has a Vineyard in a horn, a son of fatness[fruitful hill].
2 He fenced it, and gathered out the stones of it, and planted it with the choicest vine,
and built a Tower in the middle of it, and also hewed a winepress in it:
and He expected that it would bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
3 And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between Me and My Vineyard.
4 What more could have been done to My Vineyard, that I have not done in it?
Why, when I expected that it would bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
5 And now come; I will tell you what I will do to My Vineyard:
I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up;
and break down the wall of it, and it shall be trodden down:
6 I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dig; but there shall come up briers and thorns:
I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
7 For the Vineyard of the LORD of Sabaoth is the House of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant:
and He looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
8 Woe to them that join house to house, that lay field to field, until there is no place,
that they may be placed alone in the middle of the Earth!
9 In my ears said the LORD of Sabaoth,
Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and nice, without inhabitant.
10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.
11
Woe to them that rise early in the morning, that they may follow shekar[strong drink];
that continue until twilight, until wine inflames them!
12 And the harp, and the psaltery, the timbrel, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts:
but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of His hands.
13 Therefore My people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge:
and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure:
and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he who rejoices, shall descend into it.
15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be abased.
16 But the LORD of Sabaoth shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is Holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
18
Woe to them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity,
and sin as it were with a cart-rope!
19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it:
and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel,
draw near and come, that we may know it!
20 Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil;
that put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to them that are wise in their own eyes,
and prudent in their own sight!
22 Woe to them that are mighty to drink wine,
and men of strength to mingle shekar[strong drink]!
23
Who justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes 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 Sabaoth,
and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against His people,
and He has stretched forth His hand against them, and has smitten them:
and the hills trembled, and their carcasses were torn in the middle of the streets.
For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.
26 He will lift up an ensign to the nations from afar, and will hiss to them from the end of the Earth:
and behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
27 none shall be weary nor stumble among them;
none shall slumber nor sleep;
neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed,
nor the thong of their shoes be broken:
28 whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent,
their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
29 their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yes, they shall roar,
and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one looks to the land,
behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in its Heavens.
1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne,
high and elevated, and His train filled the Temple.
2 Above it stood seraphim: each one had six wings;
with two he covered his face,
and with two he covered his feet,
and with two he flew.
3 And one cried to another, and said,
Holy, Holy, Holy is the LORD of Sabaoth: all the Earth is full of His glory.
4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried,
and the house was filled with smoke.
5 Then I said, Woe is me! For I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips,
and I dwell in the middle of a people of unclean lips:
for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Sabaoth.
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand,
which he had taken with the tongs from off the Altar.
7 He laid it upon my mouth, and said, Behold, this has touched Thy lips;
and Thy iniquity is taken away, and Thy sin purged.
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying,
Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?
Then I said, Behold me; send me.
9 He said, Go to this people, and say,
By hearing ye shall hear,
and shall not understand;
and seeing ye shall see,
and may not perceive. Mat 13:14 Act 28:26
10 For this people's heart has become gross,
and they heard with the ears heavily,
and their eyes they have closed;
lest they should see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears,
and should understand with their heart,
and should convert,
and I should heal them. Mat 13:15 Act 28:27
11
Then I said, Lord, until when? And He said,
Until the cities shall be wasted without inhabitant,
and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate;
12 and the LORD shall have removed men far away,
and there be much forsaken in the middle of the land.
13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return,
and shall burn as a terebinth, and as an oak whose stump is in them,
when they cast their leaves: so the Holy seed shall be the stump of it.
1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah,
that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel,
went up towards Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
2 And it was told the House of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim.
And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people,
as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
3 Then said the LORD to Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz,
Thou, and Shear-jashub[remnant will return] Thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
4 and say to him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not,
neither be faint-hearted for the two tails of these smoking fire-brands,
for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah;
5 because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against Thee, saying,
6 Let us go up against Judah, and harass it, and let us make a breach in it for us, and set a king in the middle of it, even the son of Tabeal.
7
Thus says the Lord JeHoVaH, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin;
and within sixty five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son.
If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
10
Moreover, the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying,
11 Ask Thee a sign from the LORD Thy God;
ask it either in depth of Sheol, or in the height above.
12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
13 He said, Hear ye now, House of David?
Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye also weary my God?
14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign;
Behold, the virgin shall be pregnant, and bear a Son,
and shall call His Name Immanu-El. Mat 1:23
15 Butter and honey shall He eat, when He knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good,
the land that Thou abhor shall be forsaken by both her kings.
17
The LORD will bring upon Thee, and upon Thy people, and upon Thy father's house,
days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD will hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt,
and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks,
and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.
20 In the same day will the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river,
by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep.
22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give, He shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.
23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand pieces of silver, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
24 With arrows and with bows shall men come there; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
25 And on all mountains that shall be dig with the mattock, there shall not come there the fear of briers and thorns:
but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
1 Moreover, the LORD said to me, Take Thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz[hurry, ready to plunder the prey].
2 I took to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
3 I went to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz[hurry, ready to plunder the prey].
4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, my father, and my mother,
the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
5 The LORD spoke also to me again, saying,
6 Forasmuch as this people refuses the waters of Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
7 now therefore, behold, the Lord brings 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 its channels, and go over all its banks.
8 He shall pass through Judah; He shall overflow and go over, He shall reach even to the neck; and the extension of His wings shall fill the breadth of Thy land, Immanu-El[with us is God].
9 Associate yourselves, ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces;
and give ear, all ye of far countries: (gird yourselves), and ye shall be broken in pieces;
gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
10 Take counsel together, and it shall be broken;
speak the word, and it shall not stand: Immanu-El[with us is God].
11
For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
13 Sanctify the LORD of Sabaoth Himself; and let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread.
14 He will be for a Sanctuary;
but for a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence,
to both the houses of Israel, for a trap and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Rom 9:33
15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be ensnared, and be taken.
16
Bind up the testimony, seal the Law among My disciples.
17 I will wait upon the LORD, that hides His face from the House of Jacob, and I will put my look for Him.
18 Behold, I and the children whom GOD gave Me are for signs and for wonders in Israel, Heb 2:13
from the LORD of Sabaoth, who dwells in Mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say to you, Seek to mediums, and to spiritists that whisper,
and that mutter: should not people seek[ask] to their God instead the living to the dead?
20 To the Law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
21 And they shall pass through it, distressed and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry,
they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
22 And they shall look to the Earth; and behold trouble and darkness,
dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
1 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her distress,
when at the first He lightly afflicted,
the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, Mat 4:15
and afterward did more grievously afflict her,
by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles. Mat 4:15
2 The people who sat in darkness, saw great Light;
and to them who sat in the region and shades of death, light has arisen. Mat 4:16
3 Thou have multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy:
they joy before Thee according to the joy in harvest,
and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
4 For Thou have broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
6
For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder:
and His Name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end,
upon the throne of David, and upon His Kingdom, to order it,
and to establish it with judgment and with justice from now on even forever.
The zeal of the LORD of Sabaoth will perform this.
8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it has lighted upon Israel.
9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria,
that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
10 the bricks have fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones;
the sycamore-trees are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
11 Therefore the LORD will set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
12 the Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth.
For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.
13
For the people turn not to Him that smites them, neither do they seek the LORD of Sabaoth.
14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail.
16 For the guides of this people cause them astray; and they that are led by them are destroyed.
17 Therefore the Lord will have no joy in their young men, neither will have mercy on their fatherless and widows:
for every one is a hypocrite and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaks folly.
For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.
18
For wickedness burns 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 rising of smoke.
19 Through the wrath of the LORD of Sabaoth is the land darkened,
and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
20 He shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry;
and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied:
they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah.
For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.
1
Woe to them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
2 to turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of My people,
that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far?
To whom will ye flee for help? And where will ye leave your glory?
4 Without Me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain.
For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.
5 Woe Assyrian, the rod of My anger,
and the staff in their hand is My indignation!
6 I will send him against a hypocritical nation,
and against the people of My wrath will I give him a charge,
to take the spoil, and to take the prey,
and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7 He means not so, neither does his heart think so;
but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
8 For he said, Are not my princes altogether kings?
9 Is not Calno as Carchemish?
Is not Hamath as Arpad?
Is not Samaria as Damascus?
10 As My hand has found the kingdoms of the idols,
and whose graven images excelled them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
11 shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols,
so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
12
Therefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord has performed His whole work upon Mount Zion and on Jerusalem,
I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
13 For he said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent:
and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures,
and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:
14 my hand has found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathers eggs that are left, have I gathered all the Earth;
and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or chirped.
15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that hews with it?
Or shall the saw magnify itself against him that moves it?
As if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it, or as if the staff should lift itself, as if it were no wood.
16 Therefore will the Lord, the LORD of Sabaoth, send among his fat ones leanness;
and under His glory He will kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
17 And the Light of Israel shall be for a fire, and His Holy One for a flame:
and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
18 and shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field,
both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer faints.
19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
20
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel,
and such as have escaped of the House of Jacob,
shall no more again lean upon him that smote them; but shall lean upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the Mighty God.
22 Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: Rom 9:27
the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
23 For He (the Lord JeHoVaH of Sabaoth) finishing and cutting short the matter in righteousness:
because a short matter will the LORD make upon the Earth. Rom 9:28
24 Therefore thus says the Lord JeHoVaH of Sabaoth,
My people that dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian:
He shall smite Thee with a rod, and shall lift up His staff against Thee, after the manner of Egypt.
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and My anger in their destruction.
26 The LORD of Sabaoth will raise up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb:
and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall He lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off Thy shoulder,
and his yoke from off Thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
28 He has come to Aiath, he has passed to Migron; at Michmash he has laid up his furnitures.
29 They have gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba;
Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul has fled.
30 Lift up Thy voice, daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard to Laish, poor Anathoth.
31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.
32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day:
he shall shake his hand against the Mount of the Daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of Sabaoth will lop the bough with terror:
and the high ones of stature shall be cut down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
34 He shall cut down the thickets of the forests with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a Mighty.
1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of His roots:
2 and the Spirit of the LORD will rest upon Him,
the Spirit of Wisdom and understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and might,
the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
3 and He is made to breathe in the fear of the LORD:
and He will not judge after the sight of His eyes,
neither reprove after the hearing of His ears:
4 but with righteousness will He judge the poor,
and reprove with uprightness for the meek of the Earth:
and He will smite the Earth with the rod of His mouth,
and with the breath of His lips will He slay the Evil.
5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of His loins,
and faithfulness the girdle of His reins.
6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down with the kid;
and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
and a little child shall lead them.
7 And the cow and the bear shall feed;
their young ones shall lie down together:
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp,
and the weaned child shall put his hand on the den of the cobra.
9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My Holy Mount:
for the Earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,
as the waters cover the sea.
10 And in that day there shall be a Root of Jesse,
and He rising up to reign over the Gentiles;
in Him shall the Gentiles trust. Rom 15:12
And His rest shall be glorious.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day,
that the Lord will set His hand again the second time,
to recover the remnant of His people, which shall be left,
from Assyria, and Egypt,
from Pathros and Cush,
from Elam and Shinar,
from Hamath and the isles of the sea.
12 He shall set up an ensign for the nations,
and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel,
and gather the dispersed of Judah,
from the four wings[directions] of the Earth.
13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart,
and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off:
Ephraim shall not envy Judah,
and Judah shall not distress Ephraim.
14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders,
of the Philistines towards the west;
they shall spoil them of the east together:
they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab;
and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
15 The LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea;
and with his mighty wind will He shake His hand over the river,
and will smite it in the seven streams,
and make men go over dry shod.
16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of His people,
which shall be left, from Assyria;
as it was to Israel in the day that He came up out of the land of Egypt.
1 [Canticle Isaiah].
And in that day Thou shall say, LORD, I will praise Thee:
though Thou were angry with me, Thy anger is turned away, and Thou have comforted me.
2 Behold, God is my Salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid:
for JaH JeHoVaH is my Strength and my Song; He also is become my Salvation.
3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the Wells of Salvation.
4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon His Name,
declare His doings among the people, make mention that His Name is exalted.
5 Sing-psalms to the LORD; for He has done excellent things: this is known in all the Earth.
6 Cry aloud and shout, Thou inhabitress of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the middle of Thee.
1 The burden of Babylon,
which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
2 Lift ye up a banner upon the bare mountain, exalt the voice to them,
shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
3 I have commanded My sanctified ones,
I have also called My mighty for My anger,
even them that rejoice in My highness.
4 A noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people;
a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms, nations assembled:
the LORD of Sabaoth musters the host of the battle.
5 They come from a far country, from the end of Heaven,
even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation,
to destroy the whole land.
6 Howl ye; for the Day of the LORD is near;
it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
8 and they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them;
they shall be in pain as a woman that travails:
they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the Day of the LORD comes, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger,
to lay the land desolate: and He will destroy its sinners out of it.
10 For the stars of Heaven and its constellations shall not give their light:
the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 I will punish the World for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity;
and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease,
and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold;
even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13
Therefore I will shake the Heavens, and the Earth shall remove out of her place,
in the wrath of the LORD of Sabaoth, and in the day of his fierce anger.
14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man takes up:
they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one to his own land.
15 Anyone that is found will be thrust and anyone that is captured will fall the sword.
16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
their houses shall be plundered, and their wives raped.
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them,
who shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces;
and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
19 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellence,
shall be as when GOD overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation:
neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
21 But desert-dwellers shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures;
and ostriches shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
22 And the wild beasts of the isles shall cry in their widowed[desolated] houses,
and monsters in their pleasant palaces:
and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel,
and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them,
and they shall cleave to the House of Jacob.
2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place:
and the House of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids:
and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give Thee rest from Thy sorrow,
and from Thy fear, and from the hard bondage in which Thou were made to serve.
4 That Thou shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon,
and say, How has the oppressor ceased! The golden city ceased!
5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke,
He who ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hinders.
7 All the Earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
8 Yes, the fir-trees rejoice at Thee, and the cedars of Lebanon,
saying, Since Thou are laid down, no feller is come up against us.
9 Sheol from beneath is moved for Thee to meet Thee at Thy Coming:
it stirs up the dead for Thee, even all the chief ones of the Earth;
it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
10 All they shall speak and say to Thee,
Are Thou also become weak as we? Are Thou become like us?
11 Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of Thy viols:
the worm is spread under Thee, and the worms cover Thee.
12 [End of Lucifer].
How are Thou fallen from Heaven, Shining[Lucifer], son of the morning!
How are Thou cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations!
13 For Thou have said in Thy heart,
I will ascend into Heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:
I will sit also upon the Mount of the Congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will be like the Most High.
15 Yet Thou shall be brought down to Sheol,
to the sides of the pit.
16 They that see Thee shall narrowly look upon Thee, and consider Thee,
saying, Is this the man that made the Earth to tremble, that shook kingdoms:
17 that made the World as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities;
that opened not the house of his prisoners?
18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory,
every one in his own house.
19 But Thou are cast out of Thy grave like an abominable branch,
and as the clothing of those that are slain,
thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit;
as a carcass trodden under feet.
20 Thou shall not be joined with them in burial,
because Thou have destroyed Thy land, and slain Thy people:
the seed of evil-doers shall never be renowned.
21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers;
that they may not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the World with cities.
22 For I will arise against them, says the LORD of Sabaoth,
and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and grandson, said the LORD.
23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water:
and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, says the LORD of Sabaoth.
24 The LORD of Sabaoth has sworn, saying,
Surely, as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand.
25 That I will break the Assyrian in My land, and upon My mountains tread him under foot:
then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon all the Earth:
and this is the hand that is stretched over all the nations.
27 For the LORD of Sabaoth has purposed, and who shall annul it?
And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
28
In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
29 Rejoice not Thou, all Philistia, because the rod of him that smote Thee is broken:
for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cobra, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
30 And the first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety:
and I will kill Thy root with famine, and He shall slay Thy remnant.
31 Howl, gate; cry, city; Thou, all Philistia, are dissolved:
for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.
32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation?
That the LORD has founded Zion, and the poor of His people shall trust in it.
1 The burden of Moab.
Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, it is cut off.
Because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, it is cut off.
2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep:
Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba:
on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard shorn.
3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on their roofs,
and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
4 Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even to Jahaz:
therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous to him.
5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee to Zoar,
as a heifer of three years old: for they shall go up the ascent of Luhith with weeping;
for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise a cry of destruction.
6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate:
for the herb is withered away, the grass fails, there is no green thing.
7 Therefore the abundance they have gained, and that which they have laid up,
shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
8 For the cry has gone round the borders of Moab,
her howling to Eglaim, and her howling to Beer-Elim.
9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon,
lions upon him that escapes of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.
1
Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela[Rock]
to the wilderness, to the Mount of the Daughter of Zion.
2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering fowl cast out of the nest,
so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
3 Bring ye counsel, execute judgment;
make Thy shadow as the night in the middle of the noon;
hide the outcasts; reveal not the wanders.
4 Let My 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 ceases, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
5 And in mercy shall the throne be established:
and He shall sit upon it in truth in the Tabernacle of David,
judging, and seeking justice, and hasting righteousness.
6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness,
and his pride, and his wrath: but his boasting shall be empty.
7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl:
for the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.
8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah:
the lords of the heathen have broken down her principal plants, they have come even to Jazer,
they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are extended, they have gone over the sea.
9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah:
I will water Thee with My tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh:
for the shouting for Thy summer fruits and for Thy harvest is fallen.
10 And gladness is taken away, and joy from 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 winepresses;
I have made their vintage-shouting to cease.
11 Therefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir-hareseth.
12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place,
that he shall come to his Sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.
13 This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning Moab since that time.
14 But now the LORD has spoken, saying,
Within three years, as the years of a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned,
with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.
1
The burden of Damascus.
Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus,
and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel,
says the LORD of Sabaoth.
4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be diminished, and the fatness of his flesh shall become lean.
5 And it shall be as when the harvest-man gathers the standing-grain, and reaps the ears with his arm;
and it shall be as he who gathers ears in the valley of Rephaim.
6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive-tree,
two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches of it,
said the LORD, God of Israel.
7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
8 He shall not look to the Altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made,
either the Asherim, or the sun-images.
9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost Branch,
which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation;
10 because Thou have forgotten the God of Thy Salvation, and have not been mindful of the Rock of Thy strength,
therefore shall Thou plant pleasant plants, and shall set it with foreign slips.
11 In the day shall Thou make Thy plant to grow, and in the morning shall Thou make Thy seed to flourish:
but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of incurable sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, who make a noise like the noise of the seas;
and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but He will rebuke them,
and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at the time of evening trouble; and before the morning he is not.
This is the portion of them that ravage us, and the lot of them that rob us.
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Cush:
2 that sends 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 until now;
a nation measured by line and trodden down,
whose land the rivers have laid waste!
3 All ye inhabitants of the World, and dwellers on the Earth, see ye,
when he lifts up an ensign on the mountains; and when he blows a shofar, hear ye.
4 For so the LORD said to me, I will take My rest,
and I will consider in My dwelling-place like a clear heat upon herbs,
and like a cloud of dew in the heat of Harvest.
5 For before the Harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower,
he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
6 They shall be left together to the fowls of the mountains,
and to the beasts of the Earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them,
and all the beasts of the Earth shall winter upon them.
7 In that time shall the present be brought to the LORD of Sabaoth of a people scattered and peeled,
and from a people terrible from their beginning until now; a nation measured by line and trodden under foot,
whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the Name of the LORD of Sabaoth, the Mount Zion.
1 The burden of Egypt.
Behold, the LORD rides upon a swift cloud, and will come into Egypt:
and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at His presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the middle of it.
2 I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians:
and they shall fight every one against his brother,
and every one against his neighbour;
and city against city,
and kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the middle of her,
and I will destroy her counsel:
and they shall seek to the idols,
and to the charmers,
and to mediums,
and to the spiritists.
4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord;
and a fierce king shall rule over them, said the Lord, the LORD of Sabaoth.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the rivers shall be wasted and dried up.
6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up:
the reeds and flags shall wither.
7 The paper-reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks,
and everything sown by the brooks,
shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast a hook into the brooks shall lament,
and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
9 Moreover, they that work in fine flax, and they that weave net-works shall be confounded.
10 And they shall be broken in their purposes, all that make sluices and ponds for living things.
11 Surely, the princes of Zoan are fools,
the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish:
how say ye to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
12 Where are they? Where are Thy wise men? And let them tell Thee now,
and let them know what the LORD of Sabaoth has purposed upon Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived;
they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the support of its tribes.
14 The LORD has mingled a perverse spirit in the middle of it:
and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work of it, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit;
15 neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may perform.
16
In that day shall Egypt be like women: and it shall be afraid and fear,
because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of Sabaoth, which He shakes over it.
17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror to Egypt, every one that makes mention of it shall be afraid in himself,
because of the counsel of the LORD of Sabaoth, which He has determined against it.
18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan,
and swear to the LORD of Sabaoth; one shall be called, the city of destruction.
19 In that day shall there be an Altar to the LORD in the middle of the land of Egypt,
and a pillar at its border to the LORD.
20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of Sabaoth in the land of Egypt:
for they shall cry to the LORD because of the oppressors,
and He shall send them a Saviour, and a great one, and He shall deliver them.
21 The LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day,
and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yes, they shall vow a vow to the LORD, and perform it.
22 The LORD will smite Egypt: He will smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD,
and He will be entreated by them, and will heal them.
23 In that day shall there be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt,
and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria,
even a blessing in the middle of the land:
25 whom the LORD of Sabaoth will bless,
saying, Blessed be Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance!
1 In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him),
and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
2 at the same time spoke the LORD by the hand of Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying,
Go, and loose the sackcloth from off Thy loins, and put off Thy shoe from Thy foot.
He did so, walking naked and barefoot.
3 The LORD said, As My servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot,
three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Cush;
4 so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Cushites captives,
young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their hind-parts uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Cush their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation,
where we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?
1 The burden of the desert of the sea.
As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.
2 A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous dealer deals treacherously, and the spoiler plunders.
Go up, Elam: besiege, Medes; all her sighing have I made to cease.
3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travails:
I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the twilight of my pleasure has he turned into fear to me.
5 Prepare the table, watch in the watch-tower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
6 For thus has the Lord said to me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he sees.
7 He saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels;
and he listened diligently with much heed:
8 he cried, a lion: my lord, I stand continually upon the watch-tower in the day time,
and I am set in my ward whole nights.
9 And behold, here comes a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen.
He answered and said,
Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods He has broken to the ground.
10 My threshing, and the grain of my threshing-floor;
that which I have heard from the LORD of Sabaoth,
the God of Israel, have I declared to you.
11 The burden of Dumah.
He calls to me out of Seir,
Watchman, what of the night?
Watchman, what of the night?
12 The watchman said, The morning comes, and also the night:
if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come.
13 The burden upon Arabia.
In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge,
ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty,
they met with their bread him that fled.
15 For they fled from before the swords, from before the drawn sword,
and from before the bent bow, and from before the grievousness of war.
16 For thus has the Lord said to me,
Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
17 and the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished:
for the LORD, God of Israel has spoken.
1 The burden of the valley of vision.
What ails Thee now, that Thou have wholly gone up to the roofs?
2 Thou that are full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: Thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
3 All Thy rulers have fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in Thee are bound together, who have fled from far.
4 Therefore I said, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me,
because of the devastation of the daughter of My people.
5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord JeHoVaH of Sabaoth in the valley of vision,
breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
6
Elam bore the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
7 And it shall come to pass, that Thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots,
and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
8 He uncovered the coverings of Judah, and Thou did look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye collected the waters of the lower pool.
10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool:
but ye have not looked to its maker, neither had respect to him that fashioned it long ago.
12 And in that day did the Lord JeHoVaH of Sabaoth call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
13 and behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine:
We may eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.
14 And it was revealed in my ears by the LORD of Sabaoth,
Surely, this iniquity shall not be purged from you until ye die, says the Lord JeHoVaH of Sabaoth.
15 Thus says the Lord JeHoVaH of Sabaoth, Go, repair to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,
16 What have Thou here? And whom have Thou here, that Thou have hewed Thee out a sepulchre here,
as he who hews him out a sepulchre on high, and that engraves a habitation for Himself in a Rock?
17 Behold, the LORD will carry Thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover Thee.
18 With violence He will surely turn and toss Thee like a ball into a wide country: there shall Thou die,
and there the chariots of Thy glory shall be the shame of Thy lord's house.
19 I will drive Thee from Thy station, and from Thy state shall He pull Thee down.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
21 I will clothe him with Thy coat, and strengthen him with Thy girdle, and I will commit Thy government into his hand:
and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the House of Judah.
22 And the key of the House of David will I lay upon his shoulder;
so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. Rev 3:7
23 I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.
24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house,
the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity,
from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
25 In that day, says the LORD of Sabaoth, 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 has spoken.
1 The burden of Tyre.
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish;
for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.
2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; Thou whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have filled.
3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
4 Be Thou ashamed, Sidon: for the sea has spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying,
I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish young men, nor bring up virgins.
5 As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? Her own feet shall carry her far off to sojourn.
8 Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the wealthy of the Earth?
9 The LORD of Sabaoth has purposed it, to pollute the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the wealthy of the Earth.
10 Pass through Thy land as a river, daughter of Tarshish: there is no more a girdle[strength].
11 He stretched his hand over the sea, He shook the kingdoms:
the LORD has given a Commandment against the merchant city, to destroy its strong holds.
12 He said, Thou shall no more rejoice, Thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Sidon: arise, pass over to Kittim; there also shall Thou have no rest.
13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, until the Assyrian founded it for desert-dwellers:
they set up its towers, they raised up its palaces; and he brought it to ruin.
14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years,
according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as a whore.
16 Take a harp, go about the city, Thou whore that have been forgotten; make sweet melody,
sing many songs, that Thou may be remembered.
17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre,
and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit whoredom with all the kingdoms of the World upon the face of the Earth.
18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be Holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up;
for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, for sufficient food, and for durable clothing.
1 Behold, the LORD makes the Earth empty, and makes it waste,
devastates it, distorts its surface, and scatters abroad its inhabitants.
2 And it shall be,
as with the people, so with the priest;
as with the servant, so with his master;
as with the maid, so with her mistress;
as with the buyer, so with the seller;
as with the lender, so with the borrower;
as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.
3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD has spoken this word.
4 The Earth mourns and fades away, the World languishes,
and fades away, the haughty people of the Earth do languish.
5 The Earth also is defiled under its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the Laws,
changed the Statute, broken the Everlasting Covenant.
6 Therefore has the curse devoured the Earth, and they that dwell in it are desolate:
therefore the inhabitants of the Earth are burned, and few men left.
7 The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.
8 The mirth of timbrels ceases, the noise of them that rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases.
9 They shall not drink wine with a song; shekar[strong drink] shall be bitter to them that drink it.
10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may enter.
11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
13 When thus it shall be in the middle of the land among the people,
there shall be as the shaking of an olive-tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
15 Therefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the Name of the LORD, God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
16 From the ends of the Earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous.
But I said, my leanness, my leanness, woe to me!
The treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously;
yes, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon Thee, inhabitant of the Earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit;
and he who comes up out of the middle of the pit shall be taken in the snare:
for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the Earth do shake.
19 The Earth is utterly broken down, the Earth is entirely dissolved, the Earth is exceedingly moved.
20 The Earth shall reel back and forth like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage;
and the transgression of it shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones,
that are on high, and the kings of the Earth upon the Earth.
22 And they shall be gathered, as prisoners are gathered in the pit,
and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed,
when the LORD of Sabaoth shall reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
1 LORD, Thou are my God; I will exalt Thee, I will praise Thy Name;
for Thou have done wonderful things; Thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
2 For Thou have made of a city a heap; of a fortified city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
3 Therefore shall a strong people glorify Thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear Thee.
4 For Thou have been a Defence to the poor, a Defence to the needy in his distress, a Refuge from the storm,
a Shade from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
5 Thou will bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place;
even the heat with the shade of a cloud: the song of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
6 And on this mountain will the LORD of Sabaoth make to all peoples a feast of fat things,
a feast of wines on the lees,
of fat things full of marrow,
of wines on the lees well refined.
7 He will destroy on this mountain,
the face of the covering cast over all peoples,
and the veil that is spread over all nations.
8 Death has swallowed up in victory; 1Co 15:54
and the Lord JeHoVaH will wipe away tears from off all faces;
and the rebuke of His people will He remove from all the Earth:
for the LORD has spoken.
9 And it shall be said in that day, Behold, this is our God; we have waited for Him,
and He will save us: this is the LORD, we have waited for Him,
we will be glad and rejoice in His Salvation.
10 For on this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest,
and Moab shall be trodden down under Him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
11 He will spread forth His hands in the middle of them, as he who swims spreads forth his hands to swim:
and He will bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
12 And the fortress of the high fort of Thy walls will He bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
1 [Song in the land of Judah].
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah;
We have a strong city; Salvation will He appoint for walls and bulwarks.
2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keeping faithfulness may enter in.
3 Thou will keep Him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because He trusts in Thee.
4 Trust ye in the LORD forever: For in JaH JeHoVaH is everlasting Rock[Strength]:
5 for He brings down them that dwell on high; the lofty city,
He lays it low; He lays it low, even to the ground; He brings it even to the dust.
6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
7 The way of the just is uprightness: Thou, Most Upright, do weigh the path of the just.
8
Yes, in the way of Thy Judgments, LORD, have we waited for Thee;
the desire of our soul is to Thy Name, and to the remembrance of Thee.
9 With my soul have I desired Thee in the night;
yes, with My Spirit within me will I seek Thee early:
for when Thy Judgments are in the Earth, the inhabitants of the World will learn righteousness.
10 Let favour be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness:
in the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
11 LORD, when Thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see,
and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yes, the fire of Thy enemies shall devour them.
12 LORD, Thou will ordain peace for us: for Thou also have wrought all our works in us.
13 LORD our God, other lords beside Thee have had dominion over us;
but by Thee only will we make mention of Thy Name.
14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise:
therefore have Thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
15 Thou have increased the nation, LORD, Thou have increased the nation;
Thou are glorified: Thou had removed it far to all the ends of the Earth.
16
LORD, in trouble have they visited Thee,
they poured out a prayer when Thy chastening was upon them.
17 As a pregnant woman, that draws near the time of her delivery,
is in pain, and cries out in her pangs;
so have we been in Thy sight, LORD.
18 We have been pregnant, we have been in pain,
we have as it were brought forth wind;
we have not wrought any deliverance on the Earth;
neither have the inhabitants of the World fallen.
19 [Song of Resurrection].
Thy dead men shall live. My carcass shall they arise.
Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust:
for Thy dew is as the dew of herbs,
and the Earth shall cast out the dead.
20 Come, My people, enter Thou into Thy chambers,
and shut Thy doors about Thee;
hide thyself as it were for a little moment,
until the indignation shall be over.
21
For behold, the LORD Comes 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.
1 In that day the LORD with His keen and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent,
even Leviathan that crooked serpent; and He will slay the monster that is in the sea.
2 [Song of the Vineyard 2].
Sing ye to her in that day,
A Vineyard of pure wine.
3 I the LORD do keep it;
I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it,
I will keep it night and day.
4 Fury is not in Me:
who would set the briers and thorns against Me in battle?
I would go through them,
I would burn them together.
5 Or let him take hold of My strength,
that he may make peace with Me,
and he shall make peace with Me.
6 He shall cause them that descend from Jacob to take root:
Israel shall blossom and bud,
and fill the face of the World with fruit.
7 Has He smitten him, as He smote those that smote him?
Or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
8
In measure, when Thou send them away, Thou will sentence him:
He stays His rough wind in the day of the east wind.
9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged;
and this is all the fruit to take away his sin;
when He makes all the stones of the Altar,
as chalk-stones that are beaten asunder,
the Asherim and sun-images shall not rise.
10 Yet the fortified 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 its branches.
11 When its boughs 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 who made them will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will show them no favour.
12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall gather from the channel of the river to the stream of Egypt,
and ye shall be gathered one by one, ye children of Israel.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great shofar shall be blown,
and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria,
and the outcasts in the land of Egypt,
and shall worship the LORD on the Holy Mount at Jerusalem.
1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim,
whose glorious beauty is a fading flower; who are on the head of the fat[fruitful] valley of them that are overcome with wine!
2 Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm,
as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the Earth with the hand.
3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under feet.
4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat[fruitful] valley, shall be a fading flower,
and as the early fruit before the summer; which, when he who looks upon it, sees while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.
5 In that day will the LORD of Sabaoth be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, to the residue of His people,
6 and for a spirit of judgment to him that sits in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
7 But they also have erred through wine,
and through shekar[strong drink] are astray;
the priest and the prophet have erred through shekar[strong drink],
they are overwhelmed with wine,
they are astray through shekar[strong drink];
they go astray in vision, they stumble in judgment.
8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
9 Whom shall He teach knowledge? And whom shall He make to understand doctrine?
Them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
10 For precept upon precept, precept upon precept;
line upon line, line upon line;
here a little, there a little;
11 with men of other tongues and other lips will I speak to this people. 1Co 14:21
12 Whom He said, This is the rest; cause the weary to rest,
and not even so will they hear Me. 1Co 14:21
13
But the word of the LORD was to them,
precept upon precept, precept upon precept;
line upon line, line upon line;
here a little, there a little;
that they might go, and fall backward,
and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 Therefore hear the word of the LORD,
ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15
Because ye have said,
We have made a Covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement;
when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not reach us:
for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 therefore thus says the Lord JeHoVaH,
Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, elect, precious:
and he that believing in Him should not be ashamed. 1Pe 2:6 Rom 10:11
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet:
and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.
18 And your Covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand;
when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19
From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over,
by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
21 For the LORD will rise as on Mount Perazim, He will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon,
that He may do His work, His strange work; and bring to pass His act, his strange act.
22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong:
for I have heard from the Lord JeHoVaH of Sabaoth a consumption,
even determined upon all the Earth.
23 Give ye ear, and hear My voice; listen, and hear My speech.
24 [Parable of the ploughman].
Does the ploughman plough all day to sow?
Does he open and break the clods of his ground?
25 When he has made even the face of it, does he not cast abroad the vetches, and scatter the cumin,
and cast in the principal wheat, and the appointed barley, and the rye in their place?
26 For his God does instruct him to discretion, and does teach him.
27 For the vetches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cumin;
but the vetches are beaten out with a staff, and the cumin with a rod.
28 Bread-grain is bruised; because he will not always be threshing it,
nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
29 This also comes forth from the LORD of Sabaoth, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in operation.
1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! Add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow; and it shall be to Me as Ariel.
3 I will encamp against Thee around, and will cast a mound against Thee, and I will raise forts against Thee.
4 Thou shall be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground, and Thy speech shall be low out of the dust,
and Thy voice shall be, as a medium out of the ground, and Thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
5 Moreover, the multitude of Thy strangers shall be like small dust,
and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passes away: yes, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
6 Thou shall be visited by the LORD of Sabaoth with thunder, and with earthquake,
and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her stronghold,
and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night-vision.
8 It shall even be as when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakens,
and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams,
and behold, he drinks; but he awakens, and behold, he is faint, and his soul has appetite:
so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against Mount Zion.
9
Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken,
but not with wine; they stagger, but not with shekar[strong drink].
10 For the LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of slumber, and has closed your eyes:
the prophets and your chiefs, the seers has He covered. Rom 11:8
11 And the vision of all is become to 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 said, I cannot; for it is sealed:
12 And the Book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying,
Read this, I pray Thee: and he said, I am not learned.
13
Therefore the Lord said,
Forasmuch as. This people draws near to Me with their mouth,
and honour Me with their lips;
but their heart is far from Me,
but in vain they do worship Me,
teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. Mat 15:8
14 Therefore behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work,
among this people, even an astonishing work and a wonder:
I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and will set away the intellect of the intellectuals. 1Co 1:19
15
Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD,
and their works are in the dark!
And they say, Who sees us? And who knows us?
16 Surely, your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay:
for shall the work say of him that made it,
He made me not?
Or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it,
He had no understanding?
17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the Book,
and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD,
and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the terrible one is brought to naught,
and the scoffer is consumed,
and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
21 That make a man an offender for a word,
and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate,
and turn aside the just for a thing of naught.
22 Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the House of Jacob,
Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now become pale.
23 But when he sees his children, the work of My hands, in the middle of him,
they shall sanctify My Name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
1 Woe to the rebellious children, said the LORD, that take counsel, but not from Me;
and that cover with a covering, but not of My Spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
2 that walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at My mouth;
to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shade of Egypt!
3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame,
and the trust in the shade of Egypt your confusion.
4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his messengers came to Hanes.
5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them,
nor be a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish,
whence come the young and the old lion, the viper and flying serpent,
they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses,
and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
7 For the Egyptian shall help in vain, and to no purpose:
therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book,
that it may be for the time to come forever and ever:
9 that this is a rebellious people, lying children,
children that will not hear the Law of the LORD:
10 who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets,
Prophesy not to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11 withdraw from the way, turn aside from the path,
cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word,
and trust in oppression and perverseness, and lean upon it:
13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall,
swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly at an instant.
14 He shall break it as the breaking of the potter's vessel that is broken in pieces;
He shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a piece to take fire from the hearth,
or to take water out of the pit.
15 For thus says the Lord JeHoVaH, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved;
in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee:
and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
17 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee:
until ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill.
18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that He may be gracious to you, and therefore will He be exalted,
that He may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for Him.
19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: Thou shall weep no more:
He will be very gracious to Thee at the voice of Thy cry;
when He shall hear it, He will answer Thee.
20 And though the Lord shall give you the bread of adversity,
and the water of affliction, yet shall not Thy teachers be removed into a corner any more,
but Thy eyes shall see Thy teachers:
21 Thy ears shall hear a word behind Thee, saying,
This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
22 Ye shall defile also the covering of Thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of Thy molten images of gold:
Thou shall cast them away as a polluted cloth; Thou shall say to it, Be gone.
23 Then shall He give the rain of Thy seed, with which Thou shall sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the Earth,
and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall Thy cattle feed in large pastures.
24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that plough the ground shall eat clean fodder,
which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill,
rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
26 Moreover, the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be seven-fold,
as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD binds up the breach of His people,
and heals the stroke of their wound.
27 [Song of Israel in Egypt].
Behold, the Name of the LORD comes from far,
burning with His anger, and the burden of it is heavy:
His lips are full of indignation,
His tongue as a devouring fire:
28 His breath, as an overflowing stream,
shall reach to the middle 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 go astray.
29 Ye shall have a song,
as in the night, when a Holy solemnity is kept;
and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a pipe,
to come upon the Mount of the LORD,
to the Rock of Israel.
30 The LORD shall cause His glorious voice to be heard,
and shall show 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 hail.
31 For through the voice of the LORD,
shall the Assyrian be beaten down, who smote with a rod.
32 And at every passage of the appointed staff,
which the LORD shall lay upon him,
it shall be with timbrels and harps:
and in battles of shaking will He fight with it.
33 For Tophet is ordained from yesterday;
yes, for the king it is prepared;
He has made it deep and large: the pile of it is fire,
and much wood; the breath of the LORD,
like a stream of brimstone, does kindle it.
1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and rely on horses, and trust in chariots,
because they are many; and in horsemen,
because they are very strong;
but they look not to the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
2 Yet He also is wise, and will bring calamity, and will not call back His words:
but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God;
and their horses flesh, and not spirit.
When the LORD shall stretch out His hand,
both he who helps shall fall, and he who is helped shall fall down,
and they all shall fail together.
4 For thus has the LORD spoken to me,
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 will the LORD of Sabaoth come down to fight for Mount Zion, and for her hill.
5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of Sabaoth defend Jerusalem;
defending also He will deliver it; and passing over He will preserve it.
6 Turn ye to Him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
7 For in that day every man shall cast away his silver idols, and his golden idols,
which your own hands have made to you for a sin.
8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword,
not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him:
but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
9 He shall pass over to his rock[strong hold] for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign,
said the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and His furnace in Jerusalem.
1 Behold, a king shall reign for righteousness, and princes shall rule for justice.
2 And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest;
as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great Rock in a weary land.
3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim,
and the ears of them that hear shall listen.
4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge,
and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
5 The foolish shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
6 For the foolish will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy,
and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry;
and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he devises wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words,
even when the needy speaks right.
8 But the noble devises noble things; and by noble things shall he stand.
9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease;
hear My voice, ye careless daughters; give ear to My speech.
10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women:
for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease;
be troubled, ye careless ones: strip ye,
and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
12 They shall smite the breasts, lamenting, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
13 Upon the land of My people shall come up thorns and briers;
also, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
14 because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left;
the forts and towers shall be for dens forever,
a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks.
15 Until the Spirit shall be poured upon us from on high,
and the wilderness shall be a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field shall be counted for a forest.
16 Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness,
and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace;
and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.
18 My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation,
and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting-places;
19 when it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth there the feet of the ox and the ass!
1 Woe to Thee that lay waste, and Thou were not laid waste;
and deal treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with Thee!
When Thou shall cease to lay waste, Thou shall be wasted;
and when Thou shall make an end to deal treacherously,
they shall deal treacherously with Thee.
2 LORD, be gracious to us; we have waited for Thee:
be Thou their arm every morning, our Salvation also in the time of trouble.
3 At the noise of the sounding the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
4 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar:
as the running back and forth of locusts shall he run upon them.
5 The LORD is exalted; for He dwells on high: He has filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
6 And He shall be the stability of Thy times; wisdom and knowledge,
and Strength of Salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.
7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry outside: the messengers of peace shall weep bitterly.
8 The highways lie waste, the way-faring man ceases: he has broken the Covenant,
he has despised the cities, he regards no man.
9 The Earth mourns and languishes: Lebanon is ashamed and cut down:
Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
10 Now will I rise, said the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
12 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
13 Ye that are far off, hear what I have done; and ye that are near, acknowledge My might.
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness has surprised the hypocrites.
Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
15 He who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly;
he who despises the gain of oppressions, that shakes his hands from holding of bribes,
that stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil.
16 He shall dwell on high: his high tower[place of defence] shall be the strong holds of rocks:
bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
17
Thy eyes shall see the King in His beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
18 Thy heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? Where is the receiver? Where is he who counted the towers?
19 Thou shall not see a fierce people, a people of deeper speech than Thou can perceive;
of a stammering tongue, that Thou cannot understand.
20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities:
Thy eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation,
a Tabernacle that shall not be taken down;
not one of its stakes shall ever be removed,
neither shall any of its cords be broken.
21 But there the glorious LORD will be to us a place of broad rivers and streams;
in which shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass through it.
22 For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our Lawgiver, the LORD is our King; He will save us.
23 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail:
then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
24 And the inhabitants shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell in it shall be forgiven their iniquity.
1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and listen, ye people: let the Earth hear,
and all that is in it; the World, and all things that spring from it.
2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies:
He has utterly destroyed them, He has delivered them to the slaughter.
3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their ill smell shall come up from their carcasses,
and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4 And all the Host of Heaven shall be dissolved,
and the Heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their hosts shall fall down,
as the leaf falls from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig-tree.
5 For My sword shall be satisfied in Heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom,
and upon the people of My curse, to judgment.
6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness,
and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams:
for the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 And the rhinos shall come down with them, and the bulls with the bulls;
and their land shall be drenched with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
8 For it is the Day of the LORD's vengeance,
and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
9 And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone,
and its land shall become burning pitch.
10 It shall not be quenched night nor day;
the smoke of it shall ascend forever:
from generation to generation it shall lie waste;
none shall pass through it forever and ever.
11 But the pelican and the bittern shall possess it;
the great owl also and the raven shall dwell in it:
and He shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion,
and the stones of emptiness.
12 They shall call her nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there,
and all her princes shall be nothing.
13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in her fortresses,
and it shall be a habitation of monsters, and a court for ostriches.
14 The desert-dwellers shall also meet with the wild beasts of the isle,
and the satyr shall cry to his fellow the Lilith also shall rest there,
and find for herself a place of rest.
15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow:
there shall the falcons also be gathered, every one with her mate.
16 Seek ye out of the Book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall lack her mate:
for my mouth it has commanded, and His Spirit it has gathered them.
17 He has cast the lot for them,
and his hand has divided it to them by line: they shall possess it forever,
from generation to generation shall they dwell in it.
1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them;
and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.
2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice, even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon,
shall be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon,
they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellence of our God.
3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart,
Be strong, fear not: behold,
your God will come with vengeance,
GOD with a recompense;
He will come and save you.
5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
6 Then shall the lame man leap as a hart,
and the tongue of the dumb shall sing:
[Song of Water].
Waters shall break out in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert.
7 And the parched ground shall become a pool,
and the thirsty land springs of water:
in the habitation of monsters, where each lay,
shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
8 And a highway shall be there, and a Way,
it shall be called, the Way of Holiness;
the unclean shall not pass over it;
but it shall be for those: the way-faring men,
but fools, shall not go astray in it.
9 No lion shall be there,
nor shall go up any ravenous beast on it, it shall not be found there;
but there shall walk the redeemed.
10 And the redeemed of the LORD shall return,
and come with singing to Zion and everlasting joy upon their heads:
they shall obtain gladness and joy; sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
1 And it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hizkiah,
Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.
2 And the king of Assyria sent Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem against king Hizkiah with a great army.
He stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.
3 Then came forth to him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, who was over the household,
and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.
4 Rab-shakeh said to them,
Say ye now to Hizkiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria,
What confidence is this in which Thou trust?
5 I say, say Thou (but they are vain words), counsel and strength for war.
Now on whom do Thou trust, that Thou rebel against me?
6 Behold, Thou trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt;
on which if a man lean, it will enter his hand, and pierce it:
so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
7 But if Thou shall say to me, We trust in the LORD our God:
is it not He, whose high places and whose Altars Hizkiah has taken away,
and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this Altar?
8 Now therefore, I pray Thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria,
and I will give Thee two thousand horses, if Thou can on Thy part set riders upon them.
9 How then will Thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants,
and put Thy trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
10 And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it?
The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah to Rab-shakeh,
Speak, I pray Thee, to Thy servants in Aramaic; for we understand it:
and speak not to us in Jewish, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
12 But Rab-shakeh said, has my master sent me to Thy master and to Thee to speak these words?
Has he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall,
that they to eat their own dung and to drink the water of their feet with you?
13 Then Rab-shakeh stood, and cried with a great voice in the Jewish language,
and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
14 Thus says the king, Let not Hizkiah deceive you: for he will not be able to deliver you;
15 And let not Hizkiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us:
this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
16 Listen not to Hizkiah: for thus says the king of Assyria,
Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me:
and eat ye every man of his vine, and every one of his fig-tree,
and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern;
17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land,
a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
18 Beware lest Hizkiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
19 Where are the gods of Hamath, and Arpad?
Where are the gods of Sepharvaim?
And have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
20 Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand,
that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word:
for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
22 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household,
and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder,
to Hizkiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.
1
And it came to pass, when king Hizkiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth,
and went into the House of the LORD.
2 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth,
to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
3 And they said to him, Thus says Hizkiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy:
for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
4 It may be the LORD Thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh,
whom the king of Assyria his master has sent him to reproach the Living GOD,
and will reprove the words which the LORD Thy God has heard:
therefore lift up Thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
5 So the servants of king Hizkiah came to Isaiah.
6 Isaiah said to them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus says the LORD,
Be not afraid of the words which Thou have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land;
and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
8 So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah:
for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.
9 And he heard it said concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, Behold, he has come out to make war against Thee.
And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hizkiah, saying,
10 Thus shall ye speak to Hizkiah king of Judah, saying,
Let not Thy God in whom Thou trust deceive Thee, saying,
Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11 Behold, Thou have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands,
by destroying them utterly: and shall Thou be delivered?
12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed;
as Gozan and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
14 [Letter to Hizkiah].
Hizkiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it:
and Hizkiah went up into the House of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
15 Hizkiah prayed to the LORD, saying,
16 LORD of Sabaoth, God of Israel, who dwell between the cherubim,
Thou are the GOD, even Thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the World; Thou have made the Heaven and the Earth.
17 Incline Thy ear, LORD, and hear; open Thy eyes, LORD,
and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who has sent him to reproach the Living GOD.
18 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their lands,
19 and have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no GODS, but the work of men's hands,
wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
20 Now therefore, LORD our God, save us from his hand,
that all the kingdoms of the World may know that Thou are the LORD, even Thou only.
21
Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hizkiah, saying, Thus says the LORD, God of Israel,
Whereas Thou have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria.
22 This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him;
The virgin, the Daughter of Zion, has despised Thee, and derided Thee;
the Daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at Thee.
23 Whom have Thou reproached and blasphemed?
And against whom have Thou exalted Thy voice,
and lifted up Thy eyes on high?
Even against the Holy One of Israel.
24 By Thy servants Thou have reproached the Lord, and have said,
By the multitude of My chariots have I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon;
and I will cut down its tall cedars, and its choice fir-trees:
and I will enter into the height of its border, and into the forest of its Carmel.
25 I have dig, and drank strange waters; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
26 Have 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 should be to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field,
and as the green herb, as the grass on the roofs, and as grain blasted before it is grown up.
28
But I know Thy abode, and Thy going out, and Thy coming in, and Thy rage against Me;
29 because Thy rage against Me, and Thy tumult, is come up into My ears,
therefore I will put My hook in Thy nose, and My bridle in Thy lips,
and I will turn Thee back by the way by which Thou came.
30
And this shall be a sign to Thee,
Ye shall eat this year such things as grows of itself;
and in the second year that which springs of the same;
and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
31 And the remnant that has escaped of the House of Judah,
shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant,
and they that escape from Mount Zion:
the zeal of the LORD of Sabaoth shall do this.
33
Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria,
he shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there,
nor come before it with shield, nor cast a mound against it.
34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return,
and shall not come into this city, said the LORD.
35 For I will defend this city, to save it for My own sake,
and for My servant David's sake.
36 Then the Angel of the LORD went forth,
and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred eighty five thousand:
and when they[the rest] arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead carcasses.
37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed,
and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
38
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god,
that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia;
and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.
1 In those days was Hizkiah sick with a mortal disease.
Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him,
Thus says the LORD, Set Thy house in order: for Thou shall die, and not live.
2 Then Hizkiah turned his face towards the wall, and prayed to the LORD,
3 and said, Remember now, 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 eyes.
Hizkiah wept sore.
4 Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,
5 Go and say to Hizkiah,
Thus says the LORD, the God of David Thy father, I have heard Thy prayer,
I have seen Thy tears: behold, I will add to Thy days fifteen years.
6 I will deliver Thee and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria:
and I will defend this city.
7 And this shall be a sign to Thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that He has spoken;
8 Behold, I will bring back the shadow of the degrees,
which has gone down on the sun-dial of Ahaz ten degrees backward.
So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it had gone down.
9
[Writing of Hizkiah].
The writing of Hizkiah king of Judah,
when he had been sick, and had recovered from his sickness:
10 I said in the cutting off of my days,
I shall go to the gates of Sheol:
I am deprived of the residue of my years.
11 I said, I shall not see JaH, even JaH, in the land of the living:
I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the World.
12 My generation has departed, and turned away 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 will Thou make an end of me.
13
I reckoned until morning, that, as a lion, so will He break all my bones:
from day even to night will Thou make an end of me.
14 Like a crane or a swallow, so I twitter:
I mourned as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward:
LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
15
What shall I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it:
I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
16 Lord, by these things men live,
and in all these things is the life of my spirit:
so will Thou recover me, and make me to live.
17
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness:
but Thou have in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption:
for Thou have cast all my sins behind Thy back.
18 For Sheol cannot praise Thee, death cannot celebrate Thee:
they that go down into the pit cannot hope for Thy truth.
19 The living, the living, he shall praise Thee, as I do this day:
the father to the children shall make known Thy truth.
20
The LORD was ready to save me:
therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments,
all the days of our life in the House of the LORD.
[End Writing].
21 For Isaiah had said,
Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he will recover.
22 Hizkiah also had said,
What is the sign that I shall go up to the House of the LORD?
1 At that time Merodach-Baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hizkiah:
for he had heard that he had been sick, and had recovered.
2 Hizkiah was glad of them, and showed 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 Hizkiah did not show them.
3 Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hizkiah,
and said to him, What said these men? And whence came they to Thee?
And Hizkiah said, They have come to me from a far country, even from Babylon.
4 Then said he, What have they seen in Thy house?
Hizkiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen:
there is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them.
5 Then said Isaiah to Hizkiah, Hear the word of the LORD of Sabaoth:
6 Behold, the days come, that all that is in Thy house,
and that which Thy fathers have laid up in store until this day,
shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, said the LORD.
7 And of Thy sons that shall issue from Thee, which Thou shall beget, shall they take away;
and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
8 Then said Hizkiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which Thou have spoken.
Moreover, He said, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.
1 Comfort ye, comfort ye My people, said your God.
2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem,
and cry to her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned:
for she has received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins.
3 A voice crying in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the LORD,
make His paths straight; Mat 3:3
in the desert for our God.
4 Every valley shall be filled,
and every mountain and hill shall be brought low;
and the crooked shall be made straight,
and the rough ways shall be made smooth; Luk 3:5
5 (and the glory of the LORD shall be revealed).
And all flesh shall see the Salvation of GOD: Luk 3:6
(for the mouth of the LORD has spoken).
6 The voice said, Cry. He said, What shall I cry?
Because all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. 1Pe 1:24
7 The grass withered, and its flower falls away: 1Pe 1:24
because the Spirit of the LORD blows upon it: surely the people is grass.
8 The grass withered, and its flower falls away: 1Pe 1:24
but the Word of the LORD endures forever. 1Pe 1:25
9 Go up upon the high Mountain:
Zion, that bring the Gospel, 1Pe 1:25
Jerusalem, that bring the Gospel,
lift up Thy voice with strength;
lift it up, be not afraid;
say to the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
10
Behold, the Lord JeHoVaH will come with strong hand, and His arm will rule for Him:
behold, His reward is with Him, and His work before Him.
11 He will feed His flock like a Shepherd: He will gather the lambs with His arm,
and carry them in His bosom, and will gently lead those that are with young.
12
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured Heaven with the span,
and comprehended the dust of the Earth in a measure,
and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
13 Who has directed the Mind of the LORD, or being His counsellor has taught Him? Rom 11:34
14 With whom took He counsel, and who instructed Him, and taught Him in the path of judgment,
and taught Him knowledge, and showed to Him the way of understanding?
15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance:
behold, He takes up the isles as a very little thing.
16 Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts of it sufficient for a burnt-offering.
17 All nations before Him are as nothing; and they are counted to Him less than nothing, and vanity.
18 To whom then will ye liken God? Or what likeness will ye compare to Him?
19 The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.
20 He who is so impoverished that he has no oblation chooses a tree that will not rot;
he seeks for himself a skilful workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved.
21 Have ye not known?
Have ye not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have ye not understood from the foundations of the Earth?
22 It is He who sits upon the circle of the Earth, and its inhabitants are as grasshoppers;
that stretches out the Heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in:
23 that brings the princes to nothing; He makes the judges of the Earth as vanity.
24 Yes, they shall not be planted; yes, they shall not be sown: yes, their stock shall not take root in the Earth:
and He shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
25 To whom then will ye liken Me, or shall I be equalled? Said the Holy One.
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these things, that brings out their host by number:
He calls them all by names, by the greatness of His might, and strong in power; not one fails.
27 Why say Thou, Jacob, and speak, Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over by my God?
28 Have Thou not known? Have Thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the Earth,
faints not, neither is weary?
There is no searching of His understanding.
29 He gives power to the faint; and to them that have no might He increases strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31 but they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles;
they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.
1 Keep silence before Me, isles; and let the peoples renew their strength: let them come near;
then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east,
called him to His foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings?
He gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
3 He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.
4 Who has wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning?
I the LORD, the First and the Last; I AM He. Rev 1:17
5 The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the Earth were afraid, drew near, and came.
6 They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.
7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he smoothing with the hammer him that smote the anvil,
saying, It is ready for the soldering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
8
But Thou, Israel, are My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham My friend.
9 Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the Earth, and called Thee from its chief men,
and said to Thee, Thou are My servant; I have chosen Thee, and not cast Thee away.
10 Fear Thou not; for I AM with Thee: be not dismayed; for I AM Thy God: I will strengthen Thee;
yes, I will help Thee; yes, I will uphold Thee with the right hand of My righteousness.
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against Thee shall be ashamed and confounded:
they shall be as nothing; and they that contend with Thee shall perish.
12 Thou shall seek them, and shall not find them, even them that contended with Thee:
they that war against Thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of naught.
13
For I the LORD Thy God will hold Thy right hand, saying to Thee, Fear not; I will help Thee.
14 Fear not, Thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help Thee,
said the LORD, and Thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
15 Behold, I will make Thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth:
Thou shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff.
16 Thou shall fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them:
and Thou shall rejoice in the LORD, and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue fails for thirst,
I the LORD will reply them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the middle of the valleys:
I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah-tree, and the myrtle, and the olive-tree;
I will set in the desert the fir-tree, the pine, and the box-tree together:
20 that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together,
that the hand of the LORD has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.
21 Produce your cause, said the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, said the King of Jacob.
22 Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen: let them show the former things,
what they are that we may set our heart, and know the latter end of them; or explain to us things to come.
23 Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are GODS:
yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of naught: an abomination is he who chooses you.
25 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon My Name:
and he shall come upon prefects as upon mortar, and as the potter treads clay.
26 Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know? And before time, that we may say, he is righteous?
Truly, there is none that shows, truly, there is none that declares, truly, there is none that hears your words.
27 The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that brings good tidings.
28 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor,
that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
29 Behold, they are all vanity, their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
1 [Servant Song 1].
Behold, My Servant, whom I have chosen;
My beloved, in whom My soul is well pleased:
I will put My Spirit upon Him,
and He shall show judgment to the Gentiles. Mat 12:18
2 He shall not contend, nor cry;
neither shall anyone in the streets hear His voice. Mat 12:19
3 A bruised reed will He not break,
and smoking flax shall He not quench,
until He will send forth the judgment to victory. Mat 12:20
4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged,
until He has set judgment in the Earth: the isles shall wait for His Law.
And in His Name shall the Gentiles trust. Mat 12:21
5 Thus says God the LORD, He who created the Heavens,
and expanded them; He who spread forth the Earth,
and that which it produces;
He who gives breath to the people upon it,
and spirit to them that walk in it.
6 I the LORD have called Thee in righteousness,
and will hold Thy hand, and will keep Thee,
and give Thee for a Covenant of the people,
for a Light of the Gentiles;
7 to open the blind eyes,
to bring out the prisoners from the prison,
and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
8 I AM the LORD: that is My Name:
and My glory will I not give to another,
neither My praise to graven images.
9 Behold, the former things have come to pass,
and new things do I declare:
before they spring forth I tell you of them.
10 [Song of Praise].
Sing to 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 in it; the isles,
and their inhabitants.
11 Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice,
the villages that Kedar does inhabit:
let the inhabitants of the Rock sing,
let them shout from the top of the mountains.
12 Let them give glory to the LORD,
and declare His praise in the isles.
13 The LORD will go forth as a mighty man,
He will stir up jealousy like a man of war:
He will cry, yes, roar; He will prevail against His enemies.
14 I have long time held My peace;
I have been still, and restrained myself:
now will I cry like a travailing woman;
I will destroy and devour at once.
15 I will make waste mountains and hills,
and dry up all their herbs;
and I will make the rivers to be isles,
and I will dry up the pools.
16 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 for them, and not forsake them.
17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed,
that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
18
Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
19 Who is blind, but My servant?
Or deaf, as My messenger that I sent?
Who is blind as he that is at peace, and blind as the LORD's Servant?
20 Seeing many things, but Thou observe not;
opening the ears, but he hears not.
21 The LORD is well pleased for His righteousness' sake;
He will magnify the Law, and make it honourable.
22 But this is a people robbed and pillaged;
they are all of them snared in holes,
and they are hid in prison houses;
they are for a prey, and none delivers;
for a spoil, and none said, Restore.
23 Who among you will give ear to this?
Who will listen, and hear for the time to come?
24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers?
Did not the LORD, He against whom we have sinned?
For they would not walk in His ways,
neither were they obedient to His Law.
25 Therefore He has poured upon him the fury of His anger,
and the strength of battle:
and it has set him on fire around,
yet He knew not; and it burned him,
yet He laid it not to heart.
1
But now thus says the LORD that created Thee, Jacob,
and he who formed Thee, Israel,
Fear not: for I have redeemed Thee,
I have called Thee by Thy Name; Thou are Mine.
2 When Thou pass through the waters, I will be with Thee;
and through the rivers, they shall not overflow Thee:
when Thou walk through the fire, Thou shall not be burned;
neither shall the flame kindle upon Thee.
3 For I AM the LORD Thy God, the Holy One of Israel, Thy Saviour:
I gave Egypt for Thy ransom, Cush and Seba for Thee.
4 Since Thou have been precious in My sight, Thou have been honourable, and I have loved Thee:
therefore will I give men for Thee, and peoples for Thy life.
5
Fear not: for I AM with Thee:
I will bring Thy seed from the east,
and gather Thee from the west;
6 I will say to the north,
Give up; and to the south,
Keep not back: bring My sons from far,
and My daughters from the ends of the Earth;
7 even every one that is called by My Name: for I have created him for My glory,
I have formed him; truly, I have made him.
8
Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
9 Let all the nations be collected, and let the peoples be assembled:
who among them can declare this, and show us former things?
Let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear,
and say, It is truth.
10
Ye are My witnesses, said the LORD, and My servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe Me,
and understand that I AM He: before Me there was no god formed, neither shall there be after Me.
11 I, even I, AM the LORD; and besides Me there is no Saviour.
12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shown, when there was no strange god among you:
therefore ye are My witnesses, said the LORD, that I AM God.
13 Yes, before the day was, I AM He; and there is none that can deliver out of My hand:
I will work, and who shall hinder it?
14 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel;
For your sakes I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their fugitives,
and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.
15 I AM the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.
16 Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
17 who brings forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together,
they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.
18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it?
I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
20 The Beast of the Field shall honour Me, the monsters and the ostriches: because I give waters in the wilderness,
and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen.
21 This people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth My praise.
22
But Thou have not called upon me, Jacob; but Thou have been weary of Me, Israel.
23 Thou have not brought Me the small cattle of Thy burnt-offerings; neither have Thou honoured me with Thy sacrifices.
I have not caused Thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied Thee with frankincense.
24 Thou have bought Me no sweet cane with money, neither have Thou filled Me with the fat of Thy sacrifices:
but Thou have made me to serve with Thy sins, Thou have wearied me with Thy iniquities.
25 I, even I, AM He who blots out Thy transgressions for My own sake, and will not remember Thy sins.
26 Put Me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare Thou, that Thou may be justified.
27 Thy first father has sinned, and Thy teachers have transgressed against Me.
28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the Sanctuary,
and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
1
Yet now hear, Jacob My servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen.
2 Thus says the LORD that made Thee, and formed Thee from the womb,
who will help Thee: Fear not, Jacob, My servant;
and Thou, Jeshurun[upright] whom I have chosen.
3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry land:
I will pour My Spirit upon Thy seed, and My blessing upon Thy offspring:
4 and they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.
5 One shall say, I AM the LORD's; and another shall call Himself by the name of Jacob;
and another shall subscribe with his hand to the LORD, and surname Himself by the name of Israel.
6
Thus says the LORD the King of Israel, and his Redeemer the LORD of Sabaoth;
I AM the First and the Last; Rev 1:17
and besides Me there is no GOD. Isa 45:21
7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it,
and set it in order for Me, since I appointed the ancient people?
And the things that are coming, and shall come, let them show to them.
8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told Thee from that time, and have declared it?
Ye are even My witnesses.
Is there a God besides Me?
There is no other Rock; I know.
9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit;
and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
10 Who has formed a god, or cast a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be assembled,
let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.
12 The smith with the tongs both works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers,
and works it with the strength of his arms:
yes, he is hungry, and his strength fails: he drinks no water, and is faint.
13 The carpenter stretches out his rule;
he marks it out with a line; he fits it with planes,
and he marks it out with the compass,
and makes it after the figure of a man,
according to the beauty of a man;
that it may remain in the house.
14 He hews down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak,
which he strengthens for himself among the trees of the forest:
he plants an ash, and the rain does nourish it.
15 Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take of it,
and warm himself; indeed he kindles it,
and bakes bread;
yes, he makes a god, and worships it;
he makes it a graven image, and falls down to it.
16 He burns part of it in the fire; with part of it he eats flesh;
he roasts meat, and is satisfied: yes, he warms himself,
and said, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:
17 and the residue of it he makes a god, even his graven image.
He falls down to it, and worships it, and prays to it,
and said, Deliver me; for Thou are my god.
18 They have not known nor understood:
for he has shut their eyes,
that they cannot see; and their hearts,
that they cannot understand.
19 And none considers in his heart,
neither is there knowledge nor understanding:
to say, I have burned part of it in the fire;
I have also baked bread upon its coals;
I have roasted flesh, and eaten it:
and shall I make the residue of it an abomination?
Shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
20 He feeds on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside,
that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in My right hand?
21
Remember these, Jacob and Israel; for Thou are My servant: I have formed Thee;
Thou are My servant: Israel, Thou shall not be forgotten by Me.
22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud,
Thy transgressions, and as a cloud,
Thy sins: return to Me; for I have redeemed Thee.
23 [Song of Creation].
Sing, ye Heavens; for the LORD has done it:
shout, ye lower parts of the Earth:
break forth into singing, ye mountains, forest, and every tree:
for the LORD has redeemed Jacob,
and glorified Himself in Israel.
24 Thus says the LORD Thy Redeemer,
and He who formed Thee from the womb,
I AM the LORD that makes all things;
that stretches forth the Heavens alone;
that spreads abroad the Earth by Myself.
25 That frustrates the tokens of the liars, and makes diviners mad;
that turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish.
26 That confirms the word of His Servant,
and performs the counsel of his messengers; that said to Jerusalem,
Thou shall be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah,
Ye shall be built, and I will raise up her decayed places.
27 That said to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up Thy rivers.
28 That said of Cyrus: He is My shepherd,
and he shall perform all My pleasure:
even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shall be built;
and to the Temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
1
Thus says the LORD to His anointed, to Cyrus,
whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before Him;
and I will loose the loins of kings,
to open before Him the two-leaved gates,
and the gates shall not be shut;
2 I will go before Thee, and make the crooked places straight:
I will break in pieces the gates of bronze,
and cut asunder the bars of iron:
3 I will give Thee the treasures of darkness,
and hidden riches of secret places,
that Thou may know that I, the LORD,
who call Thee by Thy Name, AM the God of Israel.
4 For Jacob My servant's sake, and Israel My chosen,
I have even called Thee by Thy Name:
I have surnamed Thee, though Thou have not known Me:
5 I AM the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God besides Me:
I girded Thee, though Thou have not known Me:
6 that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west,
that there is none besides Me.
I AM the LORD, and there is none else.
7 I form the light, and create darkness:
I make peace, and create adversity:
I the LORD do all these things.
8
Drip, ye Heavens, from above,
and let the clouds pour down righteousness:
let the Earth open, and let them bring forth Salvation,
and let righteousness spring up together;
I the LORD have created it.
9 Woe to him that contends with His Maker!
Let the potsherd contend with the potsherds of the Earth.
Shall the clay say to Him that fashions it, What make Thou?
Or Thy work, He has no hands?
10 Woe to him that said to his father, What beget Thou?
Or to the woman, What have Thou brought forth?
11 Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker,
Ask me of things to come concerning My sons,
and concerning the work of my hands command ye Me.
12 I have made the Earth, and created man upon it: I, even My hands,
have stretched out the Heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will straight all his ways:
he shall build My city, and he shall let go My captives, not for price nor reward,
says the LORD of Sabaoth.
14 Thus says the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Cush and of the Sabeans, men of stature,
shall come over to Thee, and they shall be Thy: they shall come after Thee;
in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down to Thee, they shall make supplication to Thee,
saying, Surely, God is in Thee; and besides Me there is no GOD.
15 Truly Thou are a God that hide Thyself, God of Israel, the Saviour.
16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them:
they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.
17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting Salvation:
ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded to all eternity.
18
For thus says the LORD that created the Heavens; GOD Himself that formed the Earth and made it; Gen 1:1-2
He has established it, He created it not in vain, He formed it to be inhabited:
I AM the LORD; and there is none else.
19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the Earth:
I have not said to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye Me in vain:
I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that have escaped of the nations:
they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray to a god that cannot save.
21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yes, let them take counsel together:
who has declared this from ancient time? Who has told it from that time?
Have not I the LORD? And there is no GOD else besides Me;
a just God and a Saviour; there is none besides Me.
22 Look to Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the Earth:
for I AM God, and there is none else.
23 I have sworn by Myself, the word is gone out of My mouth in righteousness,
and shall not return, As I live, says the LORD every knee shall bow to Me,
and every tongue shall confess to GOD. Rom 14:11
24 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength:
even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
1 Bel bows down, Nebo stoops, their idols were upon the beasts,
and upon the cattle: your loads were heavy; they were a burden to the weary beast.
2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden,
but themselves have gone into captivity.
3
Listen to Me, House of Jacob, and all the remnant of the House of Israel,
which are borne by me from the birth, which are carried from the womb:
4 and even to your old age I AM He;
and even to hoary hairs will I carry you: I have made,
and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
5 To whom will ye liken Me, and make equal,
and compare Me, that we may be like?
6
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith;
and he makes it a god: they fall down, yes, they worship.
7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place,
and he stands; from his place shall he not remove:
yes, one shall cry to him, yet he cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
8 Remember this, and show yourselves men: bring it again to the heart, ye transgressors.
9 Remember the former things of old: for I AM God, and there is no other GOD else like Me,
10 declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done,
saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure:
11 calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executes My counsel from a far country:
yes, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also perform it.
12
Listen to Me, ye stout-hearted, that are far from righteousness:
13 I bring near My righteousness; it shall not be far off, and My Salvation shall not delay:
and I will place Salvation in Zion for Israel My glory.
1 Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin Daughter of Babylon,
sit upon the ground: there is no throne, Daughter of the Chaldeans:
for Thou shall no more be called tender and delicate.
2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover Thy locks,
make bare the leg, uncover the thigh,
pass over the rivers.
3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered,
yes, Thy shame shall be seen:
I will take vengeance,
and I will not meet Thee as a man.
4 As for our Redeemer, the LORD of Sabaoth is His Name,
the Holy One of Israel.
5 Sit Thou silent, and get Thee into darkness, Daughter of the Chaldeans:
for Thou shall no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
6 I was wroth with My people, I have polluted My inheritance, and given them into Thy hand:
Thou did show them no mercy; upon the ancient have Thou very heavily laid Thy yoke.
7 Thou said, I shall be a lady forever: so that Thou did not lay these things to Thy heart,
neither did remember the latter end of it.
8 Therefore hear now this, Thou that are given to pleasures, that dwell carelessly, that say in Thy heart,
I am, and none else besides me;
I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
9 but these two things shall come to Thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children,
and widowhood: they shall come upon Thee in their perfection,
for the multitude of Thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of Thy enchantments.
10 For Thou have trusted in Thy wickedness:
Thou have said, None sees me.
Thy wisdom and Thy knowledge, it has perverted Thee; and Thou have said in Thy heart,
I am, and none else besides me.
11 Therefore shall evil come upon Thee; Thou shall not know whence it rises: and mischief shall fall upon Thee;
Thou shall not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon Thee suddenly, which Thou shall not know.
12 Stand now with Thy enchantments, and with the multitude of Thy sorceries,
in which Thou have laboured from Thy youth;
if Thou shall be able to profit, if Thou may prevail.
13 Thou are wearied in the multitude of Thy counsels.
Let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators of the sky,
stand up and save Thee, from that shall come upon Thee.
14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them;
they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame:
there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
15 Thus shall they be to Thee with whom Thou have laboured, even Thy merchants, from Thy youth:
they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save Thee.
1 Hear ye this, House of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel,
and have come forth out of the waters of Judah,
who swear by the Name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel,
but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
2 For they call themselves of the Holy City, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel;
the LORD of Sabaoth is His Name.
3 I have declared the former things from the beginning;
and they went forth from my mouth, and I showed them;
I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.
4
Because I knew that Thou are obstinate,
and Thy neck is an iron sinew, and Thy forehead bronze;
5 I have even from the beginning declared it to Thee; before it came to pass I showed it Thee:
lest Thou should say, My idol has done them, and My graven image,
and My molten image, has commanded them.
6 Thou have heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it?
I have showed ye new things from now on, even hidden things, and Thou did not know them.
7 They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when Thou heard them not;
lest Thou should say, Behold, I knew them.
8 Yes, Thou heard not; yes, Thou knew not;
yes, from that time that Thy ear was not opened:
for I knew that Thou would deal very treacherously,
and were called a transgressor from the womb.
9 For My Name's sake will I defer My anger,
and for My praise will I refrain for Thee, that I cut Thee not off.
10 Behold, I have refined Thee, but not with silver; I have chosen Thee in the furnace of affliction.
11 For My own sake, even for My own sake, will I do it:
for how should My Name be profaned? And I will not give My glory to another.
12
Listen to Me, Jacob and Israel, My called;
I AM He; I AM the First, I also AM the Last. Rev 1:17
13 My hand also has laid the foundation of the Earth,
and My right hand has spanned the Heavens:
when I call to them, they stand up together.
14 All ye, assemble yourselves and hear;
who among them has declared these things? The LORD has loved him:
He will do His pleasure on Babylon, and His arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
15 I, even I, have spoken, yes, I have called him:
I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
16 Come ye near to Me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning;
from the time that it was, there AM I: and now the Lord JeHoVaH,
and His Spirit, has sent Me.
17 Thus says the LORD, Thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; AM the LORD Thy God,
who teaches Thee to profit, who leads Thee by the way that Thou should go.
18 That Thou had listened to My Commandments!
Then had Thy peace been as a river,
and Thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
19 Thy seed also had been as the sand,
and the offspring of Thy bowels like its gravel;
his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before Me.
20 Go ye forth from Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans,
with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it until the end of the Earth;
say ye, The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob.
21 And they thirsted not, when He led them through the deserts:
He caused the waters to flow out of the Rock for them:
He cleaved the Rock also, and the waters gushed out.
22 There is no peace, said the LORD, to the wicked.
1 [Servant Song 2].
Listen to Me, Isles; and listen, ye peoples, from far;
The LORD has called Me from the womb;
from the bowels of My mother has He made mention of My Name.
2 He has made My mouth like a sharp sword; in the shade of His hand has He hid Me,
and made me a polished arrow; in His quiver has He hid Me;
3 and said to Me, Thou are My servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for naught, and in vain;
yet surely My Judgment is with the LORD, and My work with My God.
5 And now, said the LORD that formed Me from the womb to be His Servant,
to bring Jacob again to Him, Though Israel be not gathered,
yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and My God shall be My Strength.
6 He said, It is a light thing that Thou should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob,
and to restore the preserved of Israel:
I have set Thee to be a Light of the Gentiles,
for Thee to be for Salvation to the ends of the Earth. Act 13:47
7
Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and His Holy One,
to the despised person, to the abhorred of the nation, to a servant of rulers,
kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful,
and the Holy One of Israel, and He shall choose Thee.
8
Thus says the LORD, In an acceptable time, and in a Day of Salvation have I helped Thee: 2Co 6:2
and I will preserve Thee, and give Thee for a Covenant of the people,
to establish the Earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages.
9 That Thou may say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness,
Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
10 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more;
neither shall the sun strike on them, nor any heat:
for He who has mercy on them shall lead them,
even by the springs of water shall He guide them. Rev 7:16
11
I will make all My mountains a way,
and My highways shall be exalted.
12 Behold, these shall come from far:
and behold, these from the north and from the west;
and these from the land of Sinim.
13 Sing, Heavens,
and be joyful, Earth;
and break forth into singing, mountains:
for the LORD has comforted His people,
and will have mercy upon His afflicted.
14 But Zion said, The LORD has forsaken me,
and my Lord has forgotten me.
15 Can a woman forget her sucking child,
that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget Thee.
16 Behold, I have graven Thee upon the palms of My hands; Thy walls are continually before me.
17 Thy children shall make haste; Thy destroyers and they that made Thee waste, shall go forth from Thee.
18 Lift up Thy eyes around, and behold: all these assemble themselves, and come to Thee. As I live, said the LORD,
Thou shall surely clothe Thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on Thee, as a bride.
19 For Thy waste and Thy desolate places, and the land of Thy destruction,
shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants,
and they that swallowed Thee up shall be far away.
20 The children which Thou shall have, after Thou have lost the other,
shall say again in Thy ears, The place is too narrow for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
21 Then shall Thou say in Thy heart, Who has begotten these for me, seeing I have lost my children,
and am desolate, a captive, and removing back and forth? And who has brought up these?
Behold, I was left alone; these, where have they been?
22 Thus says the Lord JeHoVaH,
Behold,
I will lift up My hand to the Gentiles, and set up My standard to the people:
and they shall bring Thy sons in their arms, and Thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
23 And kings shall be Thy nursing fathers, and their queens Thy nursing mothers:
they shall bow to Thee with their face towards the Earth,
and lick up the dust of Thy feet; and Thou shall know that I AM the LORD:
for they shall not be ashamed that wait for Me.
24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
25 But thus says 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 contends with Thee, and I will save Thy children.
26 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 of Jacob.
1
Thus says the LORD, Where is your mother's bill of divorcement, whom I have put away?
Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you?
Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves,
and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
2 Why, when I came, was there no man?
When I called, was there none answering?
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 becomes putrid, because there is no water, and dies for thirst.
3 I clothe the Heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
4 [Servant Song 3].
The Lord JeHoVaH has given me the tongue of the learned,
that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary:
He wakens morning by morning, He wakens My ear to hear as the learned.
5 The Lord JeHoVaH opened My ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
6 I gave My back to the smiters, and My cheeks to them that plucked off the hair:
I hid not My face from shame and spitting.
7 For the Lord JeHoVaH will help Me; therefore shall I not be confounded:
therefore have I set My face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
8 He is near that justifies Me; who will contend with Me?
Let us stand together; who is My adversary? Let him come near to Me.
9 Behold the Lord JeHoVaH will help Me; who is he that shall condemn Me?
Behold, they all shall grow old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
10
Who is among you that fears the LORD, that obeys the voice of His Servant,
he that walks in darkness, and has no Light?
Let him trust in the Name of the LORD, and rely upon his God.
11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that surrounds yourselves with sparks:
walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled.
This shall ye have of My hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
1 Listen to Me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD:
look to the Rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit where ye are dig.
2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah that bore you:
for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
3 For the LORD will 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 in it, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
4
Listen to Me, My people; and give ear to Me,
My nation: for a law shall proceed from Me,
and I will make My judgment to rest for a light of the people.
5 My righteousness is near; my Salvation is gone forth,
and My arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon Me,
and on My arm shall they trust.
6 Lift up your eyes to the Heavens, and look beneath upon the Earth:
for the Heavens shall vanish away like smoke,
and the Earth shall become old like a garment,
and its inhabitants shall die in like manner:
but My Salvation shall be forever,
and My righteousness shall not be abolished.
7
Listen to 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 revelings.
8 For the moth shall eat them like a garment,
and the worm shall eat them like wool:
but My righteousness shall be forever,
and My Salvation from generation to generation.
9
Awake, awake, put on Thy strength, arm of the LORD;
awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old.
Are Thou not that which has cut Rahab, and wounded the monster?
10 Are Thou not that which has dried the sea, the waters of the great Abyss;
that has made the abysses of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
11 And the redeemed of the LORD shall return,
and come with singing to Zion and everlasting joy upon their heads:
they shall obtain gladness and joy; sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
12 I, even I, am He who comforts you: who are Thou,
that Thou should be afraid of a man that shall die, and of a son of man who shall be made as grass;
13 and forget the LORD Thy maker, that has stretched forth the Heavens, and laid the foundations of the Earth;
and have feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor,
as if he were ready to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?
14 The captive exile hastens that he may be loosed,
and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
15 But I AM the LORD Thy God, that divided the sea,
whose waves roared: the LORD of Sabaoth is His Name.
16 I have put My words in Thy mouth, and have covered Thee in the shade of My hand,
that I may plant the Heavens, and lay the foundations of the Earth,
and say to Zion, Thou are My people.
17
Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, which have drank at the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury;
Thou have drank the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought forth;
neither is there any that takes her by the hand of all the sons that she has brought up.
19 These two things have come to Thee; who shall be sorry for Thee?
Desolation, and destruction, and famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort Thee?
20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net:
they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of Thy God.
21 Therefore hear now this, Thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine.
22 Thus says Thy Lord, JeHoVaH Thy God that pleads the cause of His people,
Behold, I have taken out of Thy hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of My fury;
Thou shall no more drink it again:
23 but I will put it into the hand of them that afflict Thee; who have said to Thy soul,
Prostrate thyself, that we may go over: and Thou have laid Thy body as the ground,
and as the street, to them that went over.
1
Awake, awake, put on Thy strength, Zion; put on Thy beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the Holy City:
for now on there shall no more come into Thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down,
Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of Thy neck, captive Daughter of Zion.
3 For thus says the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for naught; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
4 For thus says the Lord JeHoVaH, My people went down formerly into Egypt to sojourn there;
and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
5 Now therefore, what have I here, said the LORD, that My people is taken away for naught?
They that rule over them make them to howl, said the LORD;
and My Name continually every day is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, Rom 2:24
6 therefore My people shall know My Name:
therefore they shall know in that day that I AM He who does speak: Behold Me.
7 How comely upon the mountains are the feet of them that preach the Gospel of Peace,
and bring glad tidings of good things, that publishes Salvation; that said to Zion, Thy God reigns! Rom 10:15
8 [Song of Watchmen].
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 back Zion.
9 Break forth into joy, sing together,
ye waste places of Jerusalem:
for the LORD has comforted His people,
He has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The LORD has made bare His Holy arm in the eyes of all the nations:
and all the ends of the Earth, shall see the Salvation of our God.
11 Separate ye, separate ye,
go ye out from thence, touch not the unclean; 2Co 6:17
go ye out of the middle of her; be ye clean,
that bear the vessels of the LORD.
12 For ye shall not go out with haste,
nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you;
and the God of Israel will be your rearward.
13 [Servant Song 4].
Behold, My Servant shall deal prudently, He shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
14 As many were astonished at Thee; His appearance was so marred more than any man,
and His form more than the sons of men:
15 so shall He sprinkle many nations;
the kings shall shut their mouths at Him: for that which had not been told them,
they shall see to whom He was not spoken of: and they that have not heard shall understand. Rom 15:21
1 LORD, who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? Joh 12:38
2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground:
He has no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him,
there is no beauty that we should desire Him.
3 He is despised and rejected by men;
a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:
and we hid as it were our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
4 Surely, He took the infirmities of us, and bore our sicknesses. Mat 8:17
Yet we did esteem Him stricken,
smitten by GOD, and afflicted.
5 But He was wounded for our transgression,
He was bruised for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was upon Him;
and by His wound ye were healed. 1Pe 2:24
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned every one to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed,
and He was afflicted,
He opened not His mouth; Mat 27:12
He was led as a sheep to the slaughter;
and like a Lamb silent before His shearer,
He opened not His mouth: Mar 15:3-5 Act 8:32
8 in His humiliation His judgment was taken away:
and who shall declare His generation?
For His life is taken from the Earth. Act 8:33
For the transgression of My people was He stricken.
9 He made His grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in His death:
because He committed no sin,
neither was guile found in His mouth. 1Pe 2:22
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief:
when Thou shall make His soul an offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.
11 He shall see Light of the travail of His soul,
and shall be satisfied:
by His knowledge shall My Righteous Servant justify many;
for He shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will divide to Him a portion with the great,
and He shall divide the spoil with the strong;
because He has poured out His soul to death:
and He was reckoned with transgressors; Mar 15:28 Luk 22:37
and He bore the sins of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.
1 Rejoice, Thou barren that bears not;
break forth and cry, Thou that travail not:
for the desolate has many more children,
than she who has a husband, Gal 4:27
said the LORD.
2 Enlarge the place of Thy tent, and let them extend the curtains of Thy habitations:
spare not, lengthen Thy cords, and strengthen Thy stakes;
3 for Thou shall break forth on the right hand and on the left;
and Thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
4 Fear not; for Thou shall not be ashamed: neither be Thou confounded;
for Thou shall not be put to shame; for Thou shall forget the shame of Thy youth,
and shall not remember the reproach of Thy widowhood any more.
5 For Thy Maker is Thy husband; the LORD of Sabaoth is His Name;
and Thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel;
The God of all the Earth shall He be called.
6 For the LORD has called Thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth,
when Thou were refused, said Thy God.
7 For a small moment have I forsaken Thee; but with great mercies will I gather Thee.
8 In a little wrath I hid My face from Thee for a moment;
but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on Thee, said the LORD Thy Redeemer.
9
For this is as the waters of Noah to Me:
for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more overflow the Earth;
so have I sworn that I will not be wroth with Thee, nor rebuke Thee.
10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed, but My kindness shall not depart from Thee,
neither shall the Covenant of My peace be removed, said the LORD that has mercy on Thee.
11 Thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted,
behold, I will lay Thy stones with glittering, and lay Thy foundations with sapphires.
12 I will make Thy windows of agates, and Thy gates of carbuncle stones, and all Thy borders of pleasant stones.
13 And all Thy children; they shall be all taught from GOD; and great shall be the peace of Thy children. Joh 6:45
14 In righteousness shall Thou be established: Thou shall be far from oppression;
for Thou shall not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near Thee.
15 Behold, they shall surely assemble but not by Me: whoever shall assemble against Thee shall fall for Thy sake.
16 Behold, I have created the smith that blows the coals in the fire, and that brings forth an instrument for his work;
and I have created the waster to destroy.
17 No weapon that is formed against Thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against Thee in judgment Thou shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is from me, said the LORD.
1
Ho, every one that thirsts, come ye to the waters, and he who has no money;
come ye, buy, and eat; yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
2 Why do ye spend money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which satisfies not?
Listen diligently to Me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
3 Incline your ear, and come to Me: hear, and your soul shall live;
and I will make an Everlasting Covenant with you,
I will give you the faithful mercies of David. Act 13:34
4 Behold, I have given Him for a witness to the peoples, a ruler and commander to the peoples.
5 Behold, Thou shall call a nation that Thou know not, and nations that knew not Thee shall run to Thee because of the LORD Thy God,
and for the Holy One of Israel, for He has glorified Thee.
6 Seek ye the LORD while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near:
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return to the LORD,
and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
8
For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways My ways, said the LORD.
9 For as the Heavens are higher than the Earth,
so are My ways higher than your ways,
and My thoughts than your thoughts.
10
For as the rain comes down, and the snow from Heaven,
and returns not there, but waters the Earth,
and makes it bring forth and bud,
that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
11 so shall My word be that proceeds from My mouth:
it shall not return to Me void,
but it shall accomplish that which I please,
and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
12
For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains,
and the hills shall break forth before you into singing,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree,
and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree:
and it shall be to the LORD for a Name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
1 Thus says the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice:
for My Salvation is near to come, and My righteousness to be revealed.
2 Blessed is the man that does this, and a son of man that lays hold on it;
that keeps the Sabbath from profaning it,
and keeps his hand from doing any evil!
3 And let not the stranger speak, that has joined himself to the LORD,
saying, The LORD has utterly separated me from His people.
And let not the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
4 For thus says the LORD to the eunuchs that keep My Sabbaths,
and choose the things that please Me, and take hold of My Covenant;
5 even to them will I give in My house and within My walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters:
I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve Him,
and to love the Name of the LORD, to be His servants, every one that keeps the Sabbath from profaning it,
and takes hold of My Covenant;
7 even them will I bring to My Holy Mount, and make them joyful in My house of prayer:
their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon My Altar;
for My house shall be called a House of Prayer by all nations. Mar 11:17
8 The Lord JeHoVaH who gathers the outcasts of Israel,
Yet will I gather others to him, besides those that are gathered to him.
9 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yes, all ye beasts in the forest.
10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs,
they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
11 And the dogs are strong of desire which can never have enough,
and they are shepherds that cannot understand:
they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
12 Come ye, say they, I will bring wine, and we will fill ourselves with shekar[strong drink];
and tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
1
The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away,
none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
3 But draw near here, ye sons of the female observer of clouds, the seed of the adulterer and the lewd.
4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Against whom make ye a wide mouth, and thrust out the tongue?
Are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
5 inflaming yourselves with gods under every green tree,
slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?
6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is Thy portion;
they, they are Thy lot: even to them have Thou poured a drink-offering,
Thou have offered a food-offering. Should I receive comfort in these?
7 Upon a lofty and high mountain have Thou set Thy bed: even there Thou went up to offer sacrifice.
8 Behind the doors also and the posts have Thou set up Thy remembrance: for Thou have uncovered thyself to another than Me,
and have gone up; Thou have enlarged Thy bed, and made Thee a Covenant with them;
Thou loved their bed where Thou saw it.
9 Thou went to the king with ointment, and did increase Thy perfumes,
and did send Thy ambassadors far off, and did debase thyself even to Sheol.
10 Thou are wearied in the greatness of Thy way; yet said Thou not,
There is no hope: Thou have found the life of Thy hand; therefore Thou were not grieved.
11 And of whom have Thou been afraid or feared, that Thou have lied, and have not remembered Me,
nor laid it to Thy heart? Have not I held My peace even of old, and Thou fear me not?
12 I will declare Thy righteousness, and Thy works; for they shall not profit Thee.
13
When Thou cry, let Thy companies deliver Thee; but the wind shall carry them all away;
vanity shall take them: but he who puts his trust in Me shall possess the land, and shall inherit My Holy Mount;
14 and shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of My people.
15 For thus says the High and Lofty One that inhabit eternity, whose Name is Holy; I dwell in the high and Holy place,
with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit would fail before Me, and the breaths[souls] which I have made.
17 For the iniquity of his covetousness I was wroth, and smote him: I hid Me, and was wroth, and he went on forwardly in the way of his heart.
18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, said the LORD; and I will heal him.
20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
21 There is no peace, said my God, to the wicked.
1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up Thy voice like a shofar,
and show My people their transgression, and the House of Jacob their sins.
2 Yet they seek Me day by day, and delight to know My ways, as a nation that did righteousness,
and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice;
they take delight in approaching to GOD.
3 Why have we fasted, say they, and Thou see not?
Why have we afflicted our soul, and Thou take no knowledge?
Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness:
ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to afflict his soul?
Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
Will Thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen?
To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke,
and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
7 Is it not to deal Thy bread to the hungry, and that Thou should bring the poor that are cast out to Thy house?
When Thou see the naked, that Thou should cover him; and that Thou should not hide thyself from Thy own flesh?
8 Then shall Thy light break forth as the morning, and Thy health shall spring forth speedily:
and Thy righteousness shall go before Thee; the glory of the LORD shall be Thy rearward.
9 Then shall Thou call, and the LORD will answer; Thou shall cry, and He will say,
Behold Me. If Thou shall take away from the middle of Thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
10 and if Thou shall 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.
11 The LORD will guide Thee continually, and satisfy Thy soul in drought, and make fat Thy bones:
and Thou shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
12 And they that shall be of Thee shall build the old waste places: Thou shall raise up the foundations of many generations;
and Thou shall be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in.
13 If Thou shall 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 shall honour Him, not doing Thy own ways,
nor finding Thy own pleasure, nor speaking Thy own words:
14 then shall 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 has spoken.
1 Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save;
neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
2 but your iniquities have separated between you and your God,
and your sins have hid his face from you, that He will not hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood,
and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies,
your tongue has uttered perverseness.
4 None calls for justice,
nor any pleads for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies;
they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch cobra eggs,
and weave the spider's web: He who eats of their eggs dies,
and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
6 Their webs shall not become garments,
neither shall they cover themselves with their works:
their works are works of iniquity,
and the act of violence is in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil, and they make swift to shed innocent blood: Rom 3:15
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
Destruction and misery are in their ways. Rom 3:16
8 And the way of peace have they not known; Rom 3:17
and there is no judgment in their goings:
they have made them crooked paths:
whoever goes in it shall not know peace.
9
Therefore is judgment far from us, neither does justice overtake us:
we wait for light, but behold obscurity;
for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
10 We grope for the wall like the blind,
and we grope as if we had no eyes:
we stumble at noon as in the twilight;
we are in desolate places as dead men.
11 We all roar like bears, and mourn bitterly like doves:
we look for judgment, but there is none; for Salvation,
but it is far from us.
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before Thee,
and our sins testify against us:
for our transgressions are with us;
and as for our iniquities, we know them;
13 in transgressing and lying against the LORD,
and departing away from our God,
speaking oppression and revolt,
conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14 And judgment is turned away backward,
and justice stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street,
and equity cannot enter.
15
Yes, the truth fails; and he that departs from evil makes himself a prey:
and the LORD saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no judgment.
16 He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor:
therefore His arm brought Salvation to Him; and His righteousness, it sustained Him.
17 For He put on Righteousness as a Breast-plate,
and a Helmet of Salvation upon His head;
and He put on the Garments of Vengeance for clothing,
and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
18 According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay, fury to His adversaries,
recompense to His enemies; to the isles He will repay recompense.
19
So shall they fear the Name of the LORD from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun.
When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard against him.
20 There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: said the LORD. Rom 11:26
21 For this is My Covenant to them, said the LORD; Rom 11:27
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, said the LORD,
from henceforth and forever.
1 Arise, shine; for Thy Light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon Thee.
2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the Earth, and gross darkness the peoples:
but the LORD will arise upon Thee, and His glory will be seen upon Thee.
3 And the Gentiles shall come to Thy Light, and kings to the brightness of Thy rising.
4 Lift up Thy eyes around, and see: all they assemble themselves, they come to Thee:
Thy sons shall come from far, and Thy daughters shall be nursed at Thy side.
5 Then Thou shall see, and flow together, and Thy heart shall fear,
and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted to Thee,
the forces of the Gentiles shall come to Thee.
6 The multitude of camels shall cover Thee,
the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come:
they shall bring gold and frankincense; and they shall show forth the praises of the LORD.
7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered to Thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to Thee:
they shall come up with acceptance on My Altar, and I will glorify the house of My glory.
8
Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as doves to their windows?
9 Surely, the isles shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish first,
to bring Thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them,
to the Name of the LORD Thy God,
and to the Holy One of Israel, because He has glorified Thee.
10 And the strangers shall build up Thy walls, and their kings shall minister to Thee:
for in My wrath I smote Thee, but in My favour have I had mercy on Thee.
11 Therefore Thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night;
that men may bring to Thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.
12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve Thee shall perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
13 The glory of Lebanon shall come to Thee, the fir-tree, the pine, and the box together,
to beautify the place of My Sanctuary; and I will make the place of My feet glorious.
14 The sons also of them that afflicted Thee shall come bending to Thee;
and all they that despised Thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of Thy feet;
and they shall call Thee, the city of the LORD, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
15 Whereas Thou have been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through Thee,
I will make Thee an everlasting excellence, a joy from generation to generation.
16 Thou shall also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shall suck the breast of kings:
and Thou shall know that I the LORD AM Thy Saviour and Thy Redeemer, the Mighty of Jacob.
17
For bronze I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood copper, and for stones iron:
I will also make Thy officers peace, and Thy exactors righteousness.
18 Violence shall no more be heard in Thy land, wasting nor destruction within Thy borders;
but Thou shall call Thy walls Salvation, and Thy gates Praise.
19 The sun shall be no more Thy light by day;
neither for brightness shall the moon give light to Thee:
but the LORD will be to Thee an everlasting Light,
and Thy God for Thy glory.
20 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall Thy moon withdraw itself:
for the LORD will be Thy everlasting Light,
and the days of Thy mourning shall be ended.
21 Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land forever,
the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, that I may be glorified.
22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation:
I the LORD will hasten it in its time.
1 The Spirit of the Lord JeHoVaH is upon Me,
because He has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted,
to preach deliverance to the captives,
and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty them that are bruised; Luk 4:18
(and the opening of the prison to the bound);
2 to preach the acceptable Year of the LORD, Luk 4:19
and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
3 to grant to the mourners of Zion,
to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning,
the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness,
the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations,
and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations from generation to generation.
5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks,
and the sons of the alien shall be your husbandmen and your vine-dressers.
6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God:
ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
7 For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion:
therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be to them.
8
For I the LORD love justice, I hate robbery for burnt-offering; and I will direct their work in truth,
and I will make an Everlasting Covenant with them.
9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people:
all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD has blessed.
10
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God;
for He has clothed me with the Garments of Salvation,
He has covered me with the Robe of Righteousness,
as a Bridegroom decks Himself with ornaments,
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
11 For as the Earth brings forth her bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth;
so the Lord JeHoVaH will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
1 For Zion's sake I will not hold My peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest,
until its righteousness shall go forth as brightness, and its Salvation as a lamp that burns.
2 And the Gentiles shall see Thy righteousness, and all kings Thy glory:
and Thou shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
3 Thou shall also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal turban in the hand of Thy God.
4 Thou shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall Thy land any more be termed Desolate:
but Thou shall be called Hephzi-bah[Hephzibah], and Thy land Beulah[Married]:
for the LORD delights in Thee, and Thy land shall be married.
5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall Thy sons marry Thee:
and as the Bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
so will Thy God rejoice over Thee.
6 I have set watchmen upon Thy walls, Jerusalem,
which shall never hold their peace day nor night:
ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
7 and give Him no rest, until He shall establish,
and until He shall make Jerusalem a praise in the Earth.
8 The LORD has sworn by His right hand, and by the arm of His strength,
Surely, I will no more give Thy grain to be food for Thy enemies;
and the strangers shall not drink Thy new wine,
for which Thou have laboured:
9 but they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD;
and they that have collected it shall drink it in the courts of My Holiness.
10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people;
cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
11 Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the ends of the Earth, Tell ye the Daughter of Zion,
Behold, Thy Salvation comes; Behold, His reward is with Him, and His work before Him. Mat 21:5
12 And they shall call them, The Holy people[Saints], the redeemed of the LORD:
and Thou shall be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
1 Who is this that comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah?
This that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength?
I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
2 Why are Thou red in Thy apparel, and Thy garments like him that treads in the winepress?
3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with Me:
for I will tread them in My anger, and trample them in My fury,
and their juice[blood] shall be sprinkled upon My garments, and I will stain all My clothing.
4 For the day of vengeance is in My heart, and the year of My redeemed is come.
5 I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold:
therefore My own arm brought Salvation to Me; and My fury, it upheld Me.
6 I will tread down the people in My anger, and make them drunk in My fury,
and I will bring down their juice[blood] to the Earth.
7
I will mention the kindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD,
according to all that the LORD has bestowed on us, and the great goodness towards the House of Israel,
which He has bestowed on them according to His mercies, and according to the multitude of His kindnesses.
8 For He said, Surely, they are My people, children that will not lie: so He was their Saviour.
9 In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the Angel of His presence saved them: in His love,
and in His pity He redeemed them; and He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
10 But they rebelled, and vexed His Holy Spirit:
therefore He was turned to be their enemy, and He fought against them.
11 Then He remembered the days of old, Moses, and His people.
Where is He who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of His flock?
Where is He who putting His Holy Spirit within him?
12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm,
dividing the water before them, to make Himself an everlasting Name?
13 That led them through the Abyss, as a horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
14 As a beast goes down in the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest:
so did Thou lead Thy people, to make Thyself a glorious Name.
15 Look down from Heaven, and behold from the habitation of Thy Holiness and of Thy glory:
where is Thy zeal and Thy strength, the sounding of Thy bowels and of Thy mercies towards me?
Are they restrained?
16 Doubtless Thou are our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not:
Thou, LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer; Thy Name is from everlasting.
17 LORD, why have Thou wander us from Thy ways, and hardened our heart from Thy fear?
Return for Thy servants' sake, the tribes of Thy inheritance.
18 The people of Thy Holiness have possessed it but a little while:
our adversaries have trodden down Thy Sanctuary.
19 We have been from old: Thou never did bear rule over them; they were not called by Thy Name;
1 that Thou would rend the Heavens,
that Thou would come down, that the mountains might flow down at Thy presence,
2 as when the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil,
to make Thy Name known to Thy adversaries, that the nations may tremble at Thy presence!
3 When Thou did awesome things which we looked not for,
Thou came down, the mountains flowed down at Thy presence.
4 For since the beginning of the World:
the Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
neither came it up into the heart of man,
the things which GOD has prepared for them that loving Him. 1Co 2:9
5 Thou meet him that rejoices, and works righteousness, those that remember Thee in Thy ways:
behold, Thou are wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags;
and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
7 And there is none that calling upon Thy Name, that stirs up himself to take hold of Thee:
for Thou have hid Thy face from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities.
8 But now, LORD, Thou are our Father; we are the clay,
and Thou our potter; and we all are the work of Thy hand.
9 Be not very wroth, LORD, neither remember iniquity forever:
behold, see, we beseech Thee, we are all Thy people.
10 Thy Holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our Holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised Thee,
is burned with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
12 Will Thou refrain Thyself for these things, LORD?
Will Thou hold Thy peace, and grievously afflict us?
1 I was found by them that not seeking for Me;
I became manifest to them that not asking for Me. Rom 10:20
I said, Behold Me, behold Me, to a nation that was not called by My Name.
2 All day long I have stretched forth My hands to a disobedient and contradicting people, Rom 10:21
which walks in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
3 a people that provokes Me to anger continually to My face;
that sacrifices in gardens, and burns incense upon Altars of brick;
4 which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments,
which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
5 which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to Me; for I AM holier than Thou.
These are a smoke in My nose, a fire that burns all the day.
6 Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silence,
but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
7 your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, said the LORD,
who have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed Me upon the hills:
therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
8
Thus says the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one said, Destroy it not;
for a blessing is in it: so will I do for My servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.
9 I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of My mountains:
and My elects shall inherit it, and My servants shall dwell there.
10 Sharon shall be a fold of flocks,
and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in,
for My people that have sought Me.
11 But ye are they that forsaking the LORD, who are forgetting My Holy Mount,
that preparing a table for Gad[triumph], and that furnishing the drink-offering to Meni[number].
12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter:
because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spoke, ye did not hear;
but did evil before My eyes, and did choose that in which I delighted not.
13 Therefore thus says the Lord JeHoVaH,
behold, My servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry:
behold, My servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty:
behold, My servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:
14 behold, My servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart,
and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse to My chosen:
for the Lord JeHoVaH will slay Thee, and call His servants by another name:
16 that he who blesses himself in the Earth shall bless himself in the Amen[Truly] God;
and he who swears in the Earth shall swear by the Amen[Truly] God;
because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from My eyes.
17 For behold, I creating New Heavens and a New Earth:
and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into the heart.
18 But be ye glad and rejoice forever in that which I create:
for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in My people:
and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days,
nor an old man that has not filled his days:
for the child shall die a hundred years old:
but the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.
21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them;
and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit;
they shall not plant, and another eat:
for as the days of a tree are the days of My people,
and My elects shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble;
for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD,
and their offspring with them.
24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer;
and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together,
and the lion shall eat straw like the bull:
and dust shall be the serpents' food.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My Holy Mount,
said the LORD.
1 The Heaven is My throne, and the Earth is My stool of My feet:
What house will ye build for Me? Says the LORD: or what is the place of My rest? Act 7:49
2 Has not My hand made all these things? And all these things have been, said the LORD:
but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at My word. Act 7:50
3 He who kills an ox is as if he slew a man; he who sacrifices a lamb,
as if he cut off a dog's neck; he who offers an oblation,
as if he offered swine's blood; he who burns frankincense,
as if he blessed an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways,
and their soul delights in their abominations.
4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them;
because when I called, was there none answering; when I spoke, they did not hear:
but they did evil before My eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
5 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at His word;
Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for My Name's sake,
said, Let the LORD be glorified: but He shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
6
A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the Temple,
a voice of the LORD that renders recompense to His enemies.
7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came,
she was delivered of a male-child.
8 Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things?
Shall the Earth be made to bring forth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once?
For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth?
Said the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth,
and shut the womb? Said Thy God.
10
Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her:
rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
11 that ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations;
that ye may draw milk, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
12 For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,
and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream:
then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides,
and be dandled upon her knees.
13 As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you;
and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
14 And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice,
and your bones shall flourish like grass:
and the hand of the LORD shall be known towards His servants,
and His indignation towards His enemies.
15 For behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with His chariots like a whirlwind,
to render His anger with fury, and His rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by His sword will the LORD plead with all flesh:
and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the middle,
eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, said the LORD.
18
For I know their works and their thoughts:
it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues;
and they shall come, and see My glory.
19 I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them to the nations,
to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off,
that have not heard My fame, neither have seen My glory;
and they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles.
20 And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering to the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots,
and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to My Holy Mount Jerusalem,
said the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the House of the LORD.
21 I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, said the LORD.
22 For as the New Heavens and the New Earth,
which I will make, shall remain before Me, said the LORD,
so shall your seed and your name remain.
23 And it shall come to pass, that from New Moon to New Moon,
and from Sabbath to Sabbath,
shall all flesh come to worship before Me, said the LORD.
24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses 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 to all flesh. Mar 9:44