CALVINS VERSION OF

THE PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH.

¹ The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah And Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, And Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

² Hear, O heavens, And hearken, O earth, For thus the Lord speaketh: I have nourished And brought up children; Yet they have acted wickedly towards me. ^{1 3} The ox knoweth his owner, And the ass his masters crib; Israel doth not know; My people doth not understand.

⁴ O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, Seed of evil-doers, degenerate children! They have forsaken Jehovah, They have despised ² the Holy One of Israel, They are estranged backwards.

⁵ Why should I strike you any more? Ye will add faithlessness. The whole head is sickness, And the whole heart is faintness.

⁶ From the sole of the foot even to the head. There is no soundness in it; A wound, a swelling, And a purifying sore; And they have not been plastered, nor bound up, Nor softened with ointment.

⁷ Your country is desolation; Your cities are burnt with fire; Your land do strangers devour in your presence, It is reduced to solitude, like the destruction of foreigners.

⁸ And the daughter of Zion shall be left, As a cottage in a vineyard, As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, As a city laid waste.

⁹ Unless the Lord of hosts bad left us a very small remnant, We should have been as Sodom, And like Gomorrah.

¹⁰ Hear the word of the Lord, ye princes of Sodom! Give car to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah! Of what value to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? Saith the Lord.

¹¹ I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, And of the fat of fed beasts; And in the blood of oxen, or of sheep, or of he-goats, I delight not.

¹² When you come that you may appear before my face, Who hath required this at your hand? Even to tread my courts.

¹³ Do not continue to bring an offering of vanity. Incense is an abomination to me. The new-moon, And the sabbath, And the yearly assemblies, I cannot endure, (It is a vain thing, ) Nor the assembly.

¹⁴ Your new-moons And your yearly festivals. My soul hateth; They have been a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.

¹⁵ When ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you. Even though you multiply prayer, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

¹⁶ Wash you, make you clean; Take away the wickedness of your practices from before mine eyes; Cease to do evil;

¹⁷ Learn to do well: Seek judgment, restore ³ the oppressed; Plead for the orphan, defend the widow.

¹⁸ Come now, And let us reason together, Hath the Lord said: If your sins be as scarlet, They shall be white as snow; If they be red like purple, They shall be as wool.

¹⁹ If ye shall be willing And shall hearken, Ye shall eat the good of the land.

²⁰ But if ye shall refuse And rebel, Ye shall be consumed by the sword; For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

²¹ How is the faithful city become a harlot! She was full of judgment, And righteousness lodged by night ⁴ in her; But now murderers.

²² Thy silver is become dross, And thy wine is mixed with water.

²³ Thy princes are rebellious, And are companions of thieves; Every one loveth a gift, And seeketh eagerly for rewards. They judge not the cause of the fatherless, Nor doth the cause of the widow come to them.

²⁴ Therefore saith the Lord, ⁵ Jehovah of hosts, The mighty One of Israel; Alas! I will take consolation on mine adversaries, I will be avenged of mine enemies.

²⁵ I will turn my hand upon thee; I will purely purge away thy dross, And I will take away all thy tin.

²⁶ And I will restore thy judges as at the first, And thy counselors as at the beginning. Then shall it be said of thee, The city of righteousness, The faithful city.

²⁷ Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, And they who shall be brought back to her with righteousness.

²⁸ And the destruction of the transgressors And of the sinners shall be together, And they who have revolted from the Lord shall be consumed.

²⁹ Yea, they shall be ashamed of the trees which ye have desired, And they shall be covered with disgrace. By the groves which ye have chosen.

³⁰ Ye shall surely be as a tree whose leaf fadeth, And as a grove that hath no water.

³¹ And your strong man ⁶ shall be as tow, And the maker of it as a spark; And they shall both be burnt, And there shall be none to quench them.

¹ The word which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah And Jerusalem.

² And it shall come to pass in the last of the days, That the mountain of the house of Jehovah Shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it.

³ And many peoples shall come, And shall say, Come, And we shall go up To the mountain of Jehovah, To the house of the God of Jacob; And he will teach us in his ways, And we shall walk in his paths; For out of Zion shall go forth the law, And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

⁴ And he will judge among the nations, And will rebuke many peoples: And they shall beat their swords into spades, And their spears into pruning-hooks; And nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they practice war any more.

⁵ O house of Jacob, come ye, And we shall walk in the light of the Lord.

⁶ Verily thou hast forsaken thy people, the house of Jacob; Because they are filled with the east ⁷ And with soothsayers, like the Philistines; And they have delighted in the children of foreigners.

⁷ Their land is full of silver And gold, And there is no end to their treasures. Their land is also full of horses, And there is no end to their chariots.

⁸ Their land is also full of idols, And they have bowed down before the work of their own hands, Before that which their fingers have made.

⁹ And the man of low degree boweth down, And the man of rank humbleth himself; Therefore do not thou forgive them. ^{8 10} Enter into the rock, Hide thee in the dust, From before the fear of the Lord And the glory of his majesty.

¹¹ The loftiness of the eyes of men shall be humbled, And the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down; And Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.

¹² For the day of Jehovah of hosts shall be On every one that is proud And lofty, And on all that is lifted up, And it shall be brought low.

¹³ Even on all the cedars of Lebanon high And lifted up, On all the oaks of Bashan, ¹⁴ And on all the lofty mountains, And on all the high hills, ¹⁵ And on every lofty tower, And on every fortified wall;

¹⁶ On all the ships of Tarshish, And on delightful pictures.

¹⁷ And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, Arid the haughtiness of men shall be humbled; And Jehovah alone shall be exalted on that day.

¹⁸ And he will utterly abolish the idols.

¹⁹ And they shall enter into caverns of the rocks, And into clefts of the earth, From the presence of the terror of Jehovah, And from the glory of his majesty, When he shall arise to shake the earth.

²⁰ In that day shall a man cast away His idols of silver, And his idols of gold, Which they made for him to worship, Into the cavern of the moles And of the bats;

²¹ And they shall enter into the clefts of the rocks, And into the tops of the ragged rocks, From before the fear of the Lord, And from the glory of his majesty, When he shall arise to shake the earth.

²² Cease then from man, Whose breath is in his nostrils; For in what respect ⁹ is he valued?

¹ For, behold, the Governor, Jehovah of hosts, Will take away from Jerusalem And Judah The stay And the strength; The whole stay of bread; The whole stay of water;

² The strong man And the man of war, The judge And the prophet, And the diviner And the elder;

³ The captain of fifty, And the man of rank, The senator, And the skilful artificer, And the eloquent. ^{10 4} And I will appoint boys to be their rulers, And babes shall rule over them.

⁵ The people shall violently oppress each other, A man his neighbor; The youth shall behave insolently towards the old man, The despicable towards the honorable.

⁶ When every man shall take hold of his brother Of the family of his father, saying, Thou hast raiment; Be thou our ruler; Let this ruin be under thy hand;

⁷ He shall swear in that day, saying, I will not be a healer; For in my house is neither bread nor raiment; Therefore make me not a ruler of the people.

⁸ Verily Jerusalem is ruined, And Judah is fallen; Because their tongue And their practices are against Jehovah, To provoke the eyes of his glory.

⁹ The proof of their countenance answereth in them; ¹¹ They have declared their sin, as Sodom, And have not hid it. Wo to their soul! For they have brought evil on them.

¹⁰ Say ye to the righteous man, It shall be well; For they shall eat the fruit of their hands.

¹¹ Wo to the wicked man! It shall be ill; For according to the works of his hands. Shall it be rewarded to him.

¹² Of my people children are oppressors, And women rule over them. O my people! They who govern thee lead thee astray, And pervert the way of thy paths.

¹³ Jehovah standeth to plead, And standeth up to judge the people.

¹⁴ Jehovah will enter into judgment With the elders of his people, And with their rulers; And ye have destroyed the vineyard, And the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

¹⁵ What mean ye that ye crush my people, And grind the faces of the poor? Saith the Lord Jehovah of hosts.

¹⁶ Jehovah also saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, And walk with stretched-forth neck, And with wandering eyes, And walk And mince as they go, And make a tinkling with their feet.

¹⁷ Therefore will the Lord make bald. The crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, And the Lord will expose their shame.

¹⁸ In that day will the Lord take away. Ornaments that tinkled, or were made of net-work, or like a half-moon, ¹⁹ Perfumes, bracelets, And head-hands;

²⁰ Bonnets, ornaments of the legs, Chaplets, neck-amulets, And ear-rings;

²¹ Rings And nose-jewels, ²² Changeable dresses, mantles, Upper garments, And hair-ties, ²³ Mirrors And fine linens, Hoods And veils.

²⁴ And instead of a sweet odor there shall be rottenness, And instead of a girdle, a rent, And instead of curled locks, baldness; Instead of a belt, a girdle of sackcloth, Instead of beauty, burning.

²⁵ Thy men shall fall by the sword, And thy might in the battle.

²⁶ Her gates shall lament And mourn, And she, desolate, shall sit on the ground.

¹ In that day, therefore, shall seven women. Take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, We will wear our own raiment; Only let thy name be called on us, ¹² And take thou away our reproach.

² In that day shall the branch of Jehovah Be for beauty And glory, And the fruit of the earth. Be for excellence And comeliness, To the escaped of Israel.

³ And it shall come to pass. That he who shall be left in Zion, And shall remain in Jerusalem, Shall be called holy, And all shall be enrolled Among the living ¹³ at Jerusalem.

⁴ When the Lord shall have washed away. The filth of the daughter of Zion, And shall have cleansed the blood of Jerusalem From the midst of her, Both by the Spirit of judgment, And by the Spirit of burning.

⁵ And Jehovah will create on every dwelling-place of Mount Zion, And on all her assemblies, A cloud And darkness by day, And the brightness of a flaming fire by night; For on all the glory shall be a defense.

⁶ And a covering shall be by day, For a shadow from the heat, And for refuge, And for a covert from storm And from rain.

¹ Come, I will sing for my beloved A song of my beloved to his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard On a hill, the son of oil.

² He fenced it, And gathered out the stones, And planted it as a choice vine; He reared a tower in the midst of it, And built a wine-press in it: He therefore hoped that it would yield grapes, And it yieldeth wild grapes.

³ Now then, O inhabitant of Jerusalem, And man of Judah, Judge ye between me And my vineyard.

⁴ What more ought to have been done to my vineyard, Which I have not done to it? How did I look that it should yield grapes, And yet it hath yielded wild grapes?

⁵ And now come, I will show to you, What I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, that it may become pasture; I will break down its wall, that it may be trodden down.

⁶ I will lay it waste; It shall not be pruned nor digged; And the brier And thorn shall grow up. Yea, I will command the clouds That they do not rain on it.

⁷ Verily the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah his pleasant plant. Hence he looked for judgment, And behold oppression; For righteousness, And behold a cry.

⁸ Wo to them that join house to house, And add field to field, Till there be no place; That you may be placed alone, In the midst of the earth.

⁹ This is in the ears of Jehovah of hosts, If many houses be not laid desolate, Great And fair, without inhabitant.

¹⁰ Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall produce one bath, And the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.

¹¹ Wo to them that rise early, To follow drunkenness, And who prolong the time till night, While wine inflameth them.

¹² And the harp, the lyre, the tabret, And the pipe, And wine Are in their entertainment’s; But they do not regard the work of Jehovah, Nor consider the operation of his hands.

¹³ Therefore my people are gone into captivity, Because they have no knowledge; And their glory are men famished, And their multitude are dried up with thirst.

¹⁴ Therefore hell hath enlarged his soul, And opened his mouth without measure; And his glory And his multitude hath descended, And his wealth, And he that rejoiced in her.

¹⁵ And the man of low degree shall be bowed down, And the man of rank shall be humbled; Yea, the eyes of the haughty shall be humbled.

¹⁶ And Jehovah of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, And God, who is holy, shall be sanctified in righteousness.

¹⁷ And the lambs shall feed after their manner, And the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

¹⁸ Wo to them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, And sin as with cart-ropes.

¹⁹ Who say, Let him make speed, And hasten his work, That we may see it; Let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near And come, That we may know it.

²⁰ Wo to them that call evil good, And good evil; That put darkness for light, And light for darkness; That turn bitter into sweet, And sweet into bitter.

²¹ Wo to them that are wise in their own eyes, And are prudent in their own sight.

²² Wo to them that are powerful to drink wine, And powerful men to mingle 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 devoureth the stubble, And the chaff is consumed by the flame; So their root shall be as rottenness, And their blossom shall pass away as dust; Because they have east away the law of Jehovah of hosts, And have loathed the word of the Holy One of Israel.

²⁵ Therefore the anger of Jehovah, Hath been kindled against his people, And, stretching forth his hand against them, He hath smitten them; And the mountains trembled, . And their torn carcass was thrown into the midst of the streets; And for all these things his anger hath not been turned away, But his hand is stretched out still.

²⁶ And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from afar; He will hiss to the nation from the end of the earth; And lo, it will come speedy And swift.

²⁷ None shall be weary nor stumble among them; None shall slumber nor sleep; None shall have the girdle of their loins loosed, Nor shall the latchet of their shoes be broken.

²⁸ Their arrows will be sharp, And all their bows bent. The hoofs of their horses shall be counted as flint, And their wheels as a whirlwind.

²⁹ Their roaring shall be like that of a lion; They shall roar like young lions; They shall gnash And seize the prey; They shall carry away the spoils, And none shall deliver.

³⁰ He shall roar against them in that day, as the roaring of the sea; Then shall he look to the earth, And behold! the darkness of tribulation; And the light shall be darkened in the heavens.

¹ In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne high And lifted up, And his remotest parts filled the temple.

² And seraphim stood above it; Each had six wings; With two they covered their face, With two they covered their feet, And with two did they fly.

³ And one cried to another, saying, Holy, holy, holy, is Jehovah of hosts; The whole earth is full of his glory.

⁴ And the posts of the doors were moved by the voice of him that cried, And the house was filled with smoke.

⁵ Then I said, Wo to me, for I am undone; ¹⁴ Because I am a man of polluted lips, And I dwell amidst a people having polluted lips; And yet mine eyes have seen the king, Jehovah of hosts.

⁶ And one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal, snatched with a fork from the altar.

⁷ And laying it on my mouth, he said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips, And thy sin shall be expiated.

⁸ Afterwards I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send? And who shall go for us? Then I said, Here am I, send me.

⁹ Then he said, Go And tell this people: Hearing hear, And do not understand; Seeing see, And do not know.

¹⁰ Harden the heart of this people, And make heavy their ears, And close up their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, . And hear with their ears, And their heart understand, And when they have been converted, they be healed.

¹¹ And I said, how long, O Lord. And he said, Till the houses be laid waste without inhabitant, And the houses be emptied of men, And the land be reduced to solitude;

¹² Till God have removed men far away, And till there be great desolation in the midst of the land;

¹³ Till a tenth shall return, And be destroyed like a tell And an oak, Whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves; So in it shall the substance be the holy seed.

¹ 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 against Jerusalem, to besiege it, but. could not overcome it.

² And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is allied with Ephraim; And his heart was moved, as when the trees of the forest are moved by the wind.

³ Then said Jehovah to Isaiah, Go out to meet Ahaz, thou And Shear-jashub, thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, at the road of the fullers field.

⁴ And thou shalt say to him: Take heed, And be quiet; Fear not, And let not thy heart be soft, For the two tails of those smoking firebrands, For the fierceness of the anger of Rezin the Syrian, And of the son of Remaliah.

⁵ Because the Syrian hath taken wicked counsel against thee with Ephraim, And the son of Remaliah, saying:

⁶ Let us go up against Judah, And harass it, And let us open it for us; And let us appoint a king in the midst of it, The son of Tabeal.

⁷ Thus hath the Lord Jehovah said, It shall not stand, And shall not be, ⁸ For the head of Syria is Damascus, And the head of Damascus is Rezin; And within sixty-five years shall be broken Ephraim, that it be not a people.

⁹ Yet the head of Ephraim is Samaria, And the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If ye do not believe, Surely ye shall not stand.

¹⁰ And Jehovah added to speak to Ahaz, saying:

¹¹ Ask thee a sign from Jehovah thy God, By asking in the deep, Or in the height above.

¹² And Ahaz said, I will not ask, And I will not tempt the Lord.

¹³ And he said, Hear now, O house of David! Is it a small tiling for you to weary men, If ye do not also weary my God?

¹⁴ Therefore will the Lord himself give you a sign: Behold, a virgin shall conceive, And bear a son, And shall call his name Immanuel.

¹⁵ Butter And honey shall he eat, Till he know to refuse the evil, And to choose the good.

¹⁶ And before the child shall know, To refuse the evil And choose the good, Forsaken shall be the land which thou hatest by both her kings.

¹⁷ Jehovah will bring upon thee, And on thy people, And on thy fathers house, Days which have not come. Since the day of the revolt of Ephraim from Judah, The king of Assyria.

¹⁸ It shall be in that day, Jehovah shall hiss. For the fly, which is in the extremity of the rivers of Egypt, And for the bee which is in the land of Assyria.

¹⁹ And they shall all of them come And rest, In the desolate valleys, And in the caverns of the rocks, And on all thorns, And on all bushes.

²⁰ In that day shall Jehovah shave with a hired razor, By those who are beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, The head And the hair of the feet; And shall also take away the beard.

²¹ And it shall be in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow And two sheep.

²² And it shall come to pass, That, on account of the abundance of milk which they shall yield, He shall eat butter. Yea, butter And honey shall every one eat. That shall be left in the midst of the land.

²³ It shall also be in that day, That, wherever there are a thousand vines, They shall be sold for a thousand pieces of silver, On account of thorns And briers.

²⁴ With arrows And bow shall they come thither, Because thorns And briers shall be throughout all the land.

²⁵ And on all the mountains which are dug with the hoe Thither shall not come the dread of thorns And briers; But they shall be laid out for pasture to the cattle, And shall be trodden by the flocks.

¹ And Jehovah said to me: Take thee a large roll, And write in it with an ordinary pen: ¹⁵ Make speed to spoil, hasten to the prey.

² And I took unto me faithful witnesses, Uriah the priest, And Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

³ And I approached the prophetess, who conceived And bare a son. And Jehovah spoke to me: Call his name, Make speed to spoil, Hasten to the prey.

⁴ Verily before the child shall know to cry, My father And my mother, The riches of Damascus anti the spoil of Samaria, Shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

⁵ Moreover, Jehovah spoke unto me, saying again:

⁶ Because this people hath refused. The waters of Shiloah, which flow softly, And hath rejoiced in Rezin And the son of Remaliah:

⁷ Therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth upon them, The waters of the river, rapid And strong, The king of Assyria And all his force; And he shall come up over all his channels, And shall pass over all his banks.

⁸ And, crossing over into Judah, He shall overflow And pass over; He shall reach even to the neck; And the stretching out of his wings shall fill, The breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

⁹ Associate yourselves, ye peoples, And ye shall be broken in pieces; Give ear, all ye that are from a distant land. 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 disannulled; Decree a decree, And it shall not stand; For God is with us. ^{16 11} For thus did Jehovah speak to me, as if seizing ¹⁷ my hand, And taught me not to go in the way of this people, saying, ¹² Say ye not, A confederacy, In all things in which this people saith, A confederacy; And fear not their fear, Nor be ye afraid.

¹³ Sanctify Jehovah of hosts himself; And let him be your fear, And let him be your dread.

¹⁴ Then shall he be for a sanctuary; A stone of stumbling And rock of destruction To the two houses of Israel; A net And a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

¹⁵ And many among them shall stumble, And fall, And shall be bruised, snared, And taken.

¹⁶ Bind up the testimony; Seal the law among my disciples.

¹⁷ Therefore will I wait for Jehovah, Who hideth Iris face from the house of Jacob, And I will look for him.

¹⁸ Behold I, And the children whom Jehovah hath given me, Are for signs And wonders in Israel, From Jehovah of hosts, Who dwelleth in Mount Zion.

¹⁹ And if they shall say to you, Inquire at soothsayers And diviners, Who whisper And mutter; Should not a people ask counsel of their God? From the living to the dead?

²⁰ To the law And to the testimony: If they have not spoken according to this word, It is because there is no light in them.

²¹ Then shall they pass through this land distressed And hungry, And it shall happen. that, when they are hungry, they shall fret, And shall curse their king And their God, looking upward.

²² And when they shall look to the earth, Lo, trouble And darkness, dimness And distress, And they shall be driven to gloominess.

¹ Yet the darkness shall not be, According to the affliction which happened to her, When they first lightly afflicted, The land of Zebulun And the land of Naphtali; Nor when they afterwards did more grievously afflict By the way of the sea beyond Jordan, In Galilee of the nations.

² The people walking in darkness, Hath seen a great light. They who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, Light hath shined on them.

³ By multiplying the nation thou hast not increased the joy; They have rejoiced before thee according to the joy of harvest, As men shout in dividing the spoils.

⁴ For his burdensome yoke, And the staff of his shoulder, The scepter of his oppressor Hast thou broken, as in the day of Midian.

⁵ Although every battle of the warrior is made With noise And rolling of the vesture in blood, This shall be for burning, For fuel of fire.

⁶ For to us a child is born; To us a son is given; And the government hath been laid upon his shoulder; And his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The Father of the age, The Prince of Peace.

⁷ To the increase of the government And to peace, There shall be no end; On the throne of David And on his kingdom, To order And establish it In judgment And justice, Henceforth, even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will do this.

⁸ The Lord sent a word against Jacob, And it hath fallen on Israel.

⁹ And all the people shall know, Ephraim, And the inhabitants of Samaria, Who say in the pride And haughtiness of their heart, ¹⁰ The bricks are fallen down, And we will build with hewn stones; The sycamores are cut down, And we will substitute cedars.

¹¹ But Jehovah will strengthen the enemies of Rezin against him, And will aid his adversaries.

¹² Syria before, And the Philistines behind; And they shall devour Israel with open mouth. And for all this his anger is not turned away, But his hand is stretched out still.

¹³ But the people have not turned to him that smote them, And have not sought Jehovah of hosts.

¹⁴ Therefore will Jehovah cut off from Israel The head And the tail, The branch And the reed, In one day.

¹⁵ The elder And the honorable, he is the head; And the prophet who teacheth falsehood, he is the tail.

¹⁶ For the governors of this people are seducers, And they who are guided by them are destroyed.

¹⁷ Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, And will not have compassion on the orphans And widows; For all are hypocrites And evil-doers, And every mouth speaketh villany. For all this his anger is not turned away, But his hand is stretched out still.

¹⁸ For wickedness burneth as the fire; It shall devour the briers And thorns; Afterwards it shall kindle into the thickets of the forest, And the smoke of that which ascendeth shall go up.

¹⁹ Through the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, Shall the land be darkened, And the people shall be as the fuel of fire: No man shall spare his brother.

²⁰ Every one shall snatch on the right hand, And be hungry; He shall eat on the left hand, And shall not be satisfied; Every one Shall devour the flesh of his own arm:

²¹ Manasseh, Ephraim; And Ephraim, Manasseh; They together shall be against Judah. And yet for all this his anger is not turned away, But his hand is stretched out still.

¹ Wo to them that decree unrighteous decrees, And who prescribing prescribe injustice:

² To keep back the poor from judgment, And to take away the right from the poor of my people, To defraud the widows, And to plunder the orphans.

³ And what will ye do in the day of visitation? And when the desolation shall come from afar, To whom will ye flee for aid? And where will ye deposit ¹⁸ your glory?

⁴ Unless ¹⁹ they shall stumble among the vanquished, And shall fall down among the slain. For all this his anger shall not be turned away, And his hand is stretched out still.

⁵ O Assyrian! the rod of mine anger! And the very staff in their hand is my wrath.

⁶ Against a hypocritical nation will I send him, And against the people of my indignation will I command him, To seize the prey, To carry off the spoils, And to tread him down as the mire of the streets.

⁷ Yet will he not so intend, Nor will his heart think so; For it will be in his heart to destroy, And to cut off nations not a few.

⁸ For he saith, Are not my princes also kings?

⁹ Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?

¹⁰ As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, For their graven images excelled Jerusalem And Samaria.

¹¹ As I have done to Samaria And her idols, Shall I not do so to Jerusalem And her idols?

¹² But it shall come to pass, When the Lord shall have performed his whole work. In mount Zion And Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the haughtiness of the heart of the king of Assyria, And the glory of the loftiness of his eyes.

¹³ For he saith, By the strength of my hand have I done it; And by my wisdom; for I am sagacious; And therefore have I removed the boundaries of the peoples, And have plundered their treasures, And have brought down the inhabitants, like a mighty man.

¹⁴ And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the peoples; And as eggs which have been left are gathered, So have also I gathered the whole earth; And there was none that moved the wing, Or opened the mouth, or chirped.

¹⁵ Shall the axe boast against him that heweth with it? Shall the saw magnify itself against him that moveth it? Like the rising up of a rod against him that raiseth it, Like the risings up of a staff, as if it were not wood.

¹⁶ Therefore will the Governor, Jehovah of hosts, send Against his fat ones leanness, And under his glory will kindle, A burning, like the burning of a fire.

¹⁷ And the light of Israel shall become a fire, And his Holy One shall become a flame; And it shall burn And devour His briers And thorns in one day.

¹⁸ The glory of his forest And of his fruitful field, From the soul even to the flesh, will he consume; And it shall be as the fainting of a standard-bearer.

¹⁹ And the remains of the wood of his forest, Shall become a number, Such that a child may count them.

²⁰ It shall be in that day, The remnant of Israel, And they that are left of the house of Jacob, Shall not add to rely on him that smote them; For they shall rely on Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel, in truth.

²¹ The remnant shall return, the remnant of Jacob, To the mighty God.

²² For if thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, A remnant of it shall return. The consumption decreed overfloweth righteousness. ^{20 23} For a consumption And consummation Doth the Lord Jehovah of hosts make In the midst of all the land.

²⁴ Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: O my people, the inhabitants of Zion, Fear not the Assyrian. He will smite thee with a rod, And will lift up his staff against thee, After the pattern of Egypt.

²⁵ But yet a little while, And my rage And indignation, Shall be discharged in their destruction.

²⁶ And Jehovah of hosts will stir up a scourge against him, According to the slaughter of Midian on the rock Oreb; And his rod shall be on the sea, And he will lift it up after the pattern of Egypt.

²⁷ And it shall come to pass in that day, That his burden shall be removed from thy shoulder, And his yoke from thy neck; And the yoke shall be destroyed From the face of the anointing.

²⁸ He is come to Aiath; he hath passed to Migron; At Michmash he will lay up thy baggage.

²⁹ They have crossed the ford; they have lodged by night at Geba; Ramah is terrified; Gibeah of Saul hath fled.

³⁰ Neigh with thy voice, O daughter of Gallim! Cause it to be heard at Laish, O poor Anathoth.

³¹ Madmenah is removed; The inhabitants of Gebim have gathered themselves.

³² Yet a day, when he shall remain at Nob, He will lift up his hand, Against the mount of the daughter of Zion, The hill of Jerusalem.

³³ Behold! The Lord Jehovah of hosts Will cut off the branch with terror; ²¹ And the lofty of stature shall be cut down. And the haughty shall be brought low.

³⁴ And he will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, And Lebanon shall fall violently.

¹ But a branch shall spring from the stock of Jesse, And a sprout from his roots shall yield fruit.

² And the Spirit of Jehovah shall rest upon him, The Spirit of wisdom And understanding, The Spirit of counsel And strength, The Spirit of knowledge And to the fear of Jehovah;

³ And will make him sagacious in the fear of Jehovah; Not according to the sight of his eyes shall he judge, Nor according to the hearing of his ears shall he reprove.

⁴ For in righteousness he shall judge the poor, And in equity shall he reprove for the meek of the earth; And he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, And with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

⁵ And righteousness shall be the belt of his loins, And faithfulness the belt of his reins.

⁶ The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, And the leopard shall lie down with the kid; The calf, And the lion, And the fatling together; And a little child shall lead them.

⁷ 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 child shall play on the hole of the asp, And on the dell of the basilisk shall the weaned child lay his hand.

⁹ They shall not hurt, nor do injury, In all the mountain of my holiness; For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, As with waters that cover the sea.

¹⁰ And it shall be in that day, The root of Jesse, Which shall stand for an ensign of the peoples, Shall be sought by the nations; And his rest shall be glory.

¹¹ And it shall be in that day, The Lord will again apply his hand, To recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, From Assyria, And from Egypt, from Parthia, From Arabia, from Ethiopia, from Persia, From Chaldea, from Hamath, And from the islands of the sea.

¹² And he shall lift up an ensign to the nations, And shall gather the outcasts of Israel, And shall gather the dispersed of Judah, From the four corners of the earth.

¹³ And the envy of Ephraim shall depart, And the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off. Ephraim shall not envy Judah, And Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

¹⁴ But they shall fly on the shoulders of the Philistines to the west; They shall plunder together the children of the east; Edom And Moab shall be the stretching out of their hands, And the children of Ammon shall be their obedience.

¹⁵ And Jehovah shall utterly destroy. The tongue of the Egyptian sea; And he shall lift up his hand on the river. By the might of his wind; And he shall smite it in the seven streams, And shall make them to be shod with shoes.

¹⁶ And there shall be a path for the remnant of his people, Which shall be left from Assyria, As there was to Israel, In the day when he came up out of the land of Egypt.

¹ And in that day thou shalt say: I will sing to thee, O Jehovah; Though thou wast angry With me, Thine anger is turned away, And thou hast comforted me.

² Behold! God is my salvation; I will trust, And not be afraid; For God Jehovah is my strength And song; And he hath become ²²

my salvation.

³ Ye shall draw waters with joy. From the fountains of the Savior. ²³

⁴ And in that day shall ye say: Sing to Jehovah; call upon his name; Make known his works among the peoples; Proclaim that his name is exalted.

⁵ Sing to Jehovah; For he hath done glorious things; And this hath been made known throughout all the earth.

⁶ Shout And sing, O inhabitress of Zion! For great in the midst of thee, Is the Holy One of Israel.

¹ The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.

² On a lofty mountain lift up a banner; Raise the voice to them; shake the hand; That they may enter into the gates of the nobles.

³ I have commanded my sanctified ones; And for mine anger have I also called my mighty ones, Who rejoice in my glory.

⁴ The noise of a multitude in the mountains, As of a great people; The noise of the sound of kingdoms, Of nations gathered together; Jehovah of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.

⁵ Coming from a distant land, From the end of heaven, Jehovah And the vessels of his anger, To destroy the whole land.

⁶ Howl ye, for the day of Jehovah is at hand; As destruction from the Strong One ²⁴ shall it come.

⁷ Therefore shall all hands be weakened, And every heart of man shall melt.

⁸ And they shall be afraid; Pangs And sorrows shall take hold of them; They shall be in pain like a woman in labor; Every one shall be amazed at his neighbor; Their faces shall be faces of flames.

⁹ Behold! the day of Jehovah shall come cruel; Even indignation And the burning of angel, To lay the land desolate, And to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

¹⁰ Therefore the stars of heaven, And the constellations, Shall not give their light; The sun shall be darkened in his going forth, And the moon shall not give forth her brightness.

¹¹ And I will visit upon the world wickedness, And upon the wicked their iniquity; And I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, And I will lay low the loftiness of tyrants.

¹² I will make a mortal more precious than fine gold, And a man than the weight of the gold of Ophir.

¹³ Therefore I will shake the heavens, And the earth shall be moved out of its place, In the indignation of Jehovah of hosts, And in the day of the fierceness of his anger.

¹⁴ And it shall be as a chased roe, And a sheep which no man taketh up; Every one shall look to his own people, And every one shall flee to his own land.

¹⁵ Every one that is found shall be pierced through, And every one that is joined to them shall fall by the sword.

¹⁶ Their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; Their houses shall be plundered, And their wives shall be ravished.

¹⁷ Behold! I raise up against you the Medes, Who shall not think of silver, And shall not desire even gold.

¹⁸ And with their bows shall they dash in pieces the children; They shall not pity the fruit of the womb, Nor shall their eye spare children.

¹⁹ And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, And the ornament of the brightness of the Chaldeans, Shall be like Gods overthrowing of Sodom And Gomorrah.

²⁰ Never shall it be inhabited any more, Nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation; Nor shall the Arabian pitch his tent there, Nor shall the shepherds make their flocks to lie down there.

²¹ But the Ziim shall lie down there; And their houses shall be full of Ohim; There shall the daughters of the ostrich dwells. And there shall the satyrs dance.

²² And Iim shall cry ill their splendid houses, And dragons in their delightful palaces; And her time is near at hand, And her days shall not be prolonged.

¹ Jehovah will now pity Jacob, And will yet choose Israel, And will cause them to rest in their own land; And the stranger shall be joined to them; They shall be allied to the house of Jacob.

² And the peoples shall take them, And shall bring them to their own place, And in the land of Jehovah shall the house of Israel Possess them for servants And for handmaids; And they shall take them whose captives they were? And shall rule over their oppressors.

³ And it shall be in the clay, When Jehovah shall have given thee rest, From thy labor, And from thy trembling, And from the hard bondage which had been laid on thee.

⁴ Then against the king of Babylon Shalt thou take up this proverb, And shalt say, How hath the oppressor ceased! How hath the city covetous of gold ceased!

⁵ Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, The scepter of the rulers, ⁶ Which smote the nations in anger, With an incurable wound; Which ruled over the nations with anger; If any one suffered persecution. He did not hinder it.

⁷ The whole earth is at rest, And is quiet; They have sung praise.

⁸ Yea, the fir-trees rejoice over thee, And the cedars of Lebanon: Since thou art laid down, No feller hath come up against us.

⁹ Hell from beneath is moved on account of thee; To meet thy coming. He hath stirred up the dead for thee, And hath made to rise from their thrones All the leaders of the earth, All the kings of the nations.

¹⁰ All shall speak, And say to thee: Art thou also become weak as we? And art thou become like to us?

¹¹ In the grave is laid thy splendor, And the noise of thine instruments of music; The worm is spread under thee, And reptiles cover thee.

¹² How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the dawn, How art thou thrown down to the earth, That didst cast the lot upon the nations! ^{25 13} But thou saidst in thy heart, I will ascend to heaven; In high places near the stars of God. Will I place my throne, And will sit on the mountain of the testimony, On the sides of the north.

¹⁴ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, And will be like the Most High.

¹⁵ But thou art brought down to the grave, To the sides of the pit.

¹⁶ They that see thee shall bend forward, And shall view thee attentively. Is this the man that made the earth to tremble? That shook the kingdoms?

¹⁷ That made the world as a wilderness; That destroyed its cities? That opened not the house to his prisoners?

¹⁸ All the kings of the nations, all of them, Lie in glory, each in his own house.

¹⁹ But thou art cast out of thy grave, As an abominable branch, As the garments of the slain Who were killed with the sword, Who go down to the pit; As a carcass trodden under foot.

²⁰ Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial; Because thou hast laid waste thy land, Thou hast slain thy people; The seed of wicked men shall not be continually remembered.

²¹ Prepare slaughter for his children, For the iniquity of their fathers; That they may not rise, And possess the land, And fill the face of the world with cities.

²² For I will rise up against them, saith Jehovah of hosts, And the name And the remnant, The son And the grandson, Will I cut off, saith Jehovah.

²³ And I will make it to be a possession of the hedgehog, And pools of water; And I will sweep it with a besom, emptying it, Saith Jehovah of hosts.

²⁴ Jehovah of hosts hath sworn, saying, If it hath not been as I thought, And if it shall not stand as I purposed, ²⁵ That in my land I will crush the Assyrian, And on my mountains will tread him under foot; And that his yoke shall depart from them, And his burden be removed from their shoulder.

²⁶ This is the purpose which is purposed on the whole earth; And this hand is stretched out on all the nations.

²⁷ For Jehovah of hosts hath decreed, And who shall disannul it? His hand is stretched out, And who shall turn it back?

²⁸ In the year in which Ahaz the king died, was this burden.

²⁹ Rejoice not, thou whole Palestina, Because the rod of him that smote thee is broken; For from the root of the adder shall spring a cockatrice, And his fruit shall be a fiery serpent.

³⁰ And the first-born of the poor shall feed, And the needy shall lie down in safety; And I will cause thy root to die with famine, And he shall slay thy remnant.

³¹ Howl, O gate! cry, O city! Thou whole Palestina art dissolved; For smoke cometh from the north; And no one shall be alone in his appointed day.

³² And what shall be answered to the messengers of the nations? That Jehovah hath founded Zion, And the poor of his people shall have confidence in her.

¹ The burden of Moab. Because in the night Aro Moab Is laid waste, And brought to silence; Surely in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, And brought to silence.

² He shall go up into the house, And to the high places of Dibon, to weep; Over Nebo, And over Medeba, shall Moab howl. On all his heads shall be baldness, And every beard shall be shaved.

³ In his cross-roads shall they be girded with sackcloth; On his roofs, And in his streets, Shall every one howl, And go down to weep.

⁴ Heshbon And Elealeh shall cry aloud; As far as Jahaz shall their voice be heard; Therefore shall the armed men of Moab howl; The soul of each man shall howl to itself.

⁵ My heart shall cry aloud for Moab; Her fugitives to Zoar, a heifer of three years old; By the going up of Luhith shall they go up with weeping, By the way of Horonaim shall they raise the cry of sorrow.

⁶ The waters of Nimrim are cut off; The grass is withered, The herbage hath failed, No verdure is left.

⁷ Therefore what every one hath left, And his riches, They shall carry to the brook of the willows. ^{26 8} The cry hath gone round the borders of Moab; Even to Eglaim is his howling. And even to Beer-Elim is his howling.

⁹ Because the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood; For I will lay additions upon Dimon, Lions to them that are escaped of Moab, And to the remnant of the land.

¹ Send ye the lamb to the governor of the land, From the rock of the desert, To the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

² And it shall be as a bird let loose, wandering from its nest, So shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of Arnon.

³ Assemble a council; execute judgment; Make thy shadow as the night in the midst of noon-day; Hide the banished; Betray not the fugitive.

⁴ Let mine outcasts dwell with thee. Moab, be thou a place of concealment From the face of the destroyer; For the extortioner hath ceased; The destroyer hath failed; He that trod us under foot hath been consumed out of the land.

⁵ And in mercy shall the throne be prepared; And he shall sit upon it in steadfastness, To judge in the tabernacle of David, And to seek judgment, And to hasten righteousness.

⁶ We have heard of the pride of Ahab, (he is very proud,) His pride, his haughtiness, And his insolence; ²⁷ But his lies shall not be successful.

⁷ Therefore shall Moab howl to Moab, all shall howl, On account of the foundations of Kirhareseth; You will groan, being only smitten.

⁸ For the vines of Heshbon are cut down, The vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have trodden down her choicest roots, ²⁸ Which reached even to Jazer, Which wandered even to the wilderness; Her noble plants have been thrown down, Which crossed the sea.

⁹ Therefore will I bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah; I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon And Elealeh! Because on thy summer fruits, And on thy harvest, A shouting shall break forth. ^{29 10} Joy And rejoicing have been taken away from the fruitful field; In the vineyards shall there be no rejoicing nor shouting. The treader shall not tread wine in the presses; I have made the shouting to cease.

¹¹ Therefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, And my inward parts for Kirharesh.

¹² And it shall be, when it shall be seen, That Moab hath been wearied on the high places, Then shall he come to the sanctuary to pray? And shall not profit by it.

¹³ This is the word which Jehovah uttered concerning Moab since that time.

¹⁴ Now, I say, Jehovah hath spoken, saying ó Three years, as the years of a hireling; And the glory of Moab, With all her multitude, however great, Shall be turned into disgrace; And her remnant shall be few, small, And feeble.

¹ The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away, that it be not a city; For it shall be a heap of ruins.

² The cities of Aroer are forsaken; They shall be changed into sheepfolds; They shall lie down, And there shall be none to terrify them.

³ And the fortress shall cease from Ephraim, And the kingdom from Damascus; And the remnant of Syria shall be As the glory of the children of Israel, Saith Jehovah of hosts.

⁴ And it shall be in that day, The glory of Jacob shall be diminished, And the fatness of his flesh shall become lean.

⁵ And it shall be as he who gathereth the harvest of the corn, Who reapeth the ears with his arm, Like as one gleaneth grapes in the valley of Rephaim.

⁶ And in thee shall be left a gleaning, as the shaking of an olivetree; There two or three berries remain on the top of the highest branch. Four or five on the spreading branches of its fruit, Saith Jehovah, the God of Israel.

⁷ In that day shall a man look to his Maker, And his eyes shall be fixed on the Holy One of Israel.

⁸ And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his own hands. Nor view the things which his fingers have made, Nor the groves, Nor the graven images.

⁹ In that day the cities of his strength shall be, As the forsaking of a thicket And of a branch, In like manner as they left before the children of Israel; And there shall be desolation.

¹⁰ Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, And hast not been mindful of the God of thy strength; Therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, And thou shalt engraft a foreign shoot.

¹¹ In the day of thy plantation shalt thou make it to grow, And in the morning thou shalt make the seed to sprout; But in the day of enjoying shall the harvest fail. And the grief shall be desperate.

¹² Alas! the multitude of many peoples; Like the sound of many peoples shall they sound, And like the noise of nations; Like the noise of mighty waters shall they rush.

¹³ Like the noise of mighty waters Shall the peoples make a noise, And he will rebuke them, And will drive them far away; They shall be chased. As the chaff of the mountains before the wind, And as a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

¹⁴ In the evening time, behold! trouble: Ere it be morning, it shall not at all be. This is the portion of them that tread us down, And the lot of them that plunder us.

¹ Alas! the land shadowing with wings, Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia.

² Sending ambassadors by the sea, In ships of reeds on the waters. Go, ye swift messengers, To a nation scattered And plundered, To a people terrible from that time And till now, To a nation trodden down on every side, Whose land the rivers have plundered.

³ All ye inhabitants of the world, And dwellers on the earth, When he shall set up a standard on the mountains, you shall see it; When he shall sound a trumpet, you shall hear it.

⁴ Thus also hath Jehovah said to me, I will rest, And will look in my tabernacle, As the heat that drieth up the rain, And as a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

⁵ For when the harvest shall be at hand, The bud shall be perfect, And the ripening fruit shall go out of the flower Then will he prune the twigs with pruning-hooks, And cut down And take away the branches.

⁶ They shall be left together to the fowls of the mountains, And to the beasts of the earth. The fowls shall spend the summer upon them, And all the beasts of the earth shall spend the winter upon them.

⁷ At that time shall a present be brought to Jehovah of hosts, A people torn And plundered, And from a people terrible from the beginning hitherto; From a nation trodden down on every side, Whose land the rivers have plundered, To the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, To Mount Zion.

¹ The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah rideth on a swift cloud, And will come into Egypt; And the idols of Egypt shall be moved before his face, And the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of her.

² And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians; Then shall they fight every one against his brother, Every one against his neighbor; City against city, And kingdom against kingdom.

³ And the spoil of Egypt shall be emptied in the midst of her, And I will destroy her counsel, Even though they seek to the idols, to the magicians, To the soothsayers, to the diviners.

⁴ And I will deliver the Egyptians . into the hand of a cruel master, And a powerful king shall rule over them, Saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

⁵ Then shall the waters fail from the sea, And the flood shall be wasted And dried up.

⁶ The rivers shall be turned aside; The brooks of defense shall be emptied And dried up; The reed And the flag shall wither.

⁷ The herbs at the brook, And on the mouth of the brook, And all the seed of the river, Shall wither, And be driven away, that it may be no more.

⁸ And the fishers shall mourn, And all who cast a hook into the brook shall lament; They who spread a net on the face of the waters shall anguish.

⁹ They who work in the finest flax shall blush, And they who weave perforated ³⁰ meshes.

¹⁰ For their nets shall be broken, And all that make a net shall be sad in their heart.

¹¹ Surely the princes of Zoan are fools; The counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh is foolish. How say ye to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, And the son of ancient kings?

¹² Where are now thy wise men? That they may declare to thee, Or that they may even know, What Jehovah of hosts hath decreed concerning Egypt.

¹³ The princes of Zoan are become infatuated, The princes of Noph are deceived; Egypt hath been led astray By a corner of her tribes.

¹⁴ Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; And they have misled Egypt in all her work, As a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

¹⁵ Neither shall Egypt have any work to do, The head or the tail. The branch or the rush.

¹⁶ In that day shall Egypt be like women; For it shall shudder And tremble, From before the shaking of the hand of Jehovah of hosts, Which he shall shake over it.

¹⁷ And to the Egyptians shall the land of Judah be a terror. Every one that shall mention it Shall tremble on account of her, Because of the purpose of Jehovah of hosts, Which he hath decreed concerning her.

¹⁸ In that day shall there be five cities in the land of Egypt. Speaking with the lip of Canaan, And swearing by Jehovah of hosts. One shall be called, The city of desolation.

¹⁹ In that day shall there be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt, And a statue to Jehovah near its border.

²⁰ And it shall be for a sign And for a witness To Jehovah of hosts, in the land of Egypt; For they shall cry to Jehovah because of the oppressors. And he will send to them a savior, And a ruler, that he may deliver them.

²¹ And Jehovah shall be known by the Egyptians; The Egyptians shall know Jehovah in that day. And shall make sacrifice And oblation, And shall vow vows to Jehovah, And perform them.

²² Therefore will the Lord smite Egypt. Smiting And healing; For they shall be turned to Jehovah, And he will be entreated by them, And will heal them.

²³ In that day shall there be a way from Egypt into Assyria; The Assyrians shall go into Egypt, And the Egyptians into Assyria; And the Egyptians shall serve the Assyrians. ^{31 24} In that day shall Israel be, With Egypt And with Assyria, The third blessing in the midst of the land.

²⁵ For Jehovah of hosts will bless him, saying, Blessed be the Egyptian, my people, And the Assyrian, the work of my hands, And Israel, my inheritance.

¹ In the year that Tartan came to Ashdot, (when Sargon, the king of Assyria, sent him,) And attacked Ashdod, And took it.

² At that time Jehovah spoke by the hand of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saying, Go And loose the sackcloth from thy loins, And put off thy shoe from thy foot.

³ And he did so, walking naked And barefooted. And Jehovah said: As my servant Isaiah for three years, Hath walked naked And barefooted, A sign And a wonder. Concerning Egypt And concerning Ethiopia;

⁴ So will the king of Assyria lead away the captivity of Egypt, And the removal of Ethiopia, Of the young And of the old, Naked And barefooted, And with their hinder parts uncovered, To the disgrace of Egypt.

⁵ And they shall be afraid And ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, And of Egypt their glory. ^{31 6} And in that day shall the inhabitant of this island say, Behold! what is become of our expectation, To which we fled for aid, That we might be delivered from the face of the king of Assyria; And how shall we escape?

¹ The burden of the desert of the sea. As storms that pass from a southerly direction, It will come from the wilderness, From a terrible land.

² A harsh vision hath been declared to me, The transgressor to the transgressor, And the plunderer to the plunderer. Go up, O Persian! Besiege, O Mede! All his groaning have I made to cease.

³ Therefore are my loins filled with pain; Pangs have seized me, as the pangs of a woman in labor; I am bowed down at hearing, And am dismayed at seeing.

⁴ My heart is shaken; Terror hath overwhelmed me; The night of my pleasures He hath changed to terror.

⁵ Prepare the table; Watch in the watch-tower; Eat, drink; Arise, ye princes, And anoint the shield.

⁶ For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, appoint a watchman, That he may declare what he seeth.

⁷ And he saw a chariot of a couple of horsemen, A chariot of an ass, And a chariot of a camel; Next, he looked attentively, And watched eagerly.

⁸ Then he cried, A lion. On my watch-tower, my lord, I continually stand by day, And in my ward am I stationed whole nights.

⁹ And behold, here cometh a chariot of a man, A couple of horsemen. And he spoke, And said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen! And all the graven images of her gods, Hath he broken to the ground.

¹⁰ O my thrashing, And the corn of my floor! I have related to you what I have heard From Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel.

¹¹ The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

¹² The watchman said: The morning cometh, afterwards the night. If ye will inquire, inquire ye. Return, come.

¹³ The burden in Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, In the ways of Dedanim.

¹⁴ To meet the thirsty bring waters, O inhabitants of the land of Tema! Relieve the fugitive with thy bread.

¹⁵ For they flee from the face of the swords, From the face of the drawn sword, From the face of the bent bow, From the face of the grievousness of war.

¹⁶ For thus hath the Lord said to me: Yet a year, according to the years of a hireling, Then shall all the glory of Kedar fail;

¹⁷ And then shall be diminished the number of the archers, Which shall be reckoned among the mighty sons of Kedar; For Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath spoken it.

¹ The burden of the valley of vision. What hast thou here, ³²

That thou art entirely gone up upon the roofs?

² Full of miseries, Tumultuous city, joyful city; Thy slain men are not slain by the sword, And are not dead in battle.

³ All thy rulers have fled; Together have they been made prisoners by the archers; All that were found in thee have been made prisoners together, Who have fled from afar.

⁴ Therefore I said, Let me alone; I will be bitter in my weeping; Labor not to comfort me Because of the plundering of the daughters of my people.

⁵ For it is a day of trouble, And of treading down, And of perplexity, From the Lord Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of vision, Demolishing the city, And crying to the mountain.

⁶ Yet Elam beareth the quiver, In a chariot of men And horsemen, And Kir uncovereth the shield.

⁷ And the choice of thy valleys was filled with chariots, And horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.

⁸ And he took away the covering of Judah; And thou didst look in that day To the armory of the house of the forest.

⁹ And ye have seen the breaches of the city of David, which were many; And ye collected the waters of the lower pool.

¹⁰ And the houses of Jerusalem have ye numbered, And ye have thrown down houses to fortify the wall.

¹¹ For the waters of the old pool, Have ye also made a ditch between the walls; And ye have not looked to him that made it, And have not seen him that formed it in ancient times. ^{33 12} And in that day the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, Called to weeping And to lamentation, To baldness And girding with sackcloth;

¹³ And, behold! joy And gladness, Slaying oxen, killing sheep, Eating flesh, And drinking wine, Eating And drinking; For tomorrow we shall die!

¹⁴ It was revealed in my ears by Jehovah of hosts, If this iniquity shall be forgiven you till ye die, Saith the Lord Jehovah of hosts.

¹⁵ Thus saith the Lord Jehovah of hosts, Go, approach to that abettor, To Shebna, the ruler of the house.

¹⁶ What hast thou here? And whom hast thou here? That thou hast hewed out here for thyself a sepulchre, As he who heweth out his sepulchre on high, Or who cutteth out a habitation for himself in the rock.

¹⁷ Behold, Jehovah will carry thee away with a remarkable carrying away, And covering will cover thee.

¹⁸ Whirling he will turn thee with whirling, As a ball with the hands, into a distant country; There shalt thou die; And there the chariot of thy glory, Shall be the disgrace of the house of thy lord.

¹⁹ And I will drive thee from thy post, And from thy abode shall he east thee out.

²⁰ And it shall be in that day, I will call my servant, Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah.

²¹ And I will clothe him with thy raiment, And will strengthen him with thy girdle, And will deliver thy power into his hand; And he shall be a father of the inhabitant of Jerusalem, And of the house of Judah.

²² And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder; He will open, And none shall shut; He will shut, And none shall open.

²³ And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place, And to the house of his father he shall become a throne of glory.

²⁴ And all the glory of his fathers house, Grandchildren And greatgrandchildren, All smaller vessels, From vessels of cups to all vessels of musical instruments, They shall hang upon him.

²⁵ In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, The nail fixed in a sure place shall be removed, And shall be cut down, And shall fall; And the burden which was upon it shall be cut off; For Jehovah hath spoken it.

¹ The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; For desolation has been made. So that there is no house, That there is no entering in from the land of Chittim. This was revealed to them.

² Be silent, ye inhabitants of the islands, The merchant of Sidon; they that crossed the sea; Who supplied thee.

³ By great waters was the seed of the Nile; Her fruits were the harvest of the river; And she was a mart of nations.

⁴ Be ashamed, O Sidon; For the sea hath spoken, The strength of the sea, saying, I have not conceived nor brought forth, And I have not brought up young men, And have not reared virgins.

⁵ As soon as the report shall reach the Egyptians, They shall be grieved according to the report of Tyre.

⁶ Pass ye over to Tarshish; Howl, ye inhabitants of the islands.

⁷ Is this your exulting city? From ancient days is her antiquity. Her feet shall carry her, To travel into a distant country.

⁸ Who hath consulted this concerning crowning, Pyre, Whose merchants are princes, Whose traders are the nobles of the land ⁹ Thus hath Jehovah of hosts decreed, To profane the pride of all that are illustrious, To bring into contempt all the renowned of the land.

¹⁰ Cross over from thy land, like a river, To the daughter of Tarshish; For there is no longer any girdle.

¹¹ He laid his hand upon the sea, He shook kingdoms. Jehovah hath commanded concerning Canaan, To weaken her strength.

¹² And he saith, O virgin daughter of Sidon, When thou shalt be oppressed, Thou shalt not add any more to rejoice. Arise, that thou mayest pass over into Chittim; Yet even there thou shalt not have rest.

¹³ Behold, the land of the Chaldeans; This was not a people; Assyria founded it for the inhabitants of the wilderness; They have reared its fortresses; They have built its palaces; He hath reduced it to desolation.

¹⁴ Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; For your strength is laid waste.

¹⁵ It shall come to pass in that day, That Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, According to the days of one king; At the end of seventy years, Shall Tyre have a song like that of a harlot.

¹⁶ Take a harp, go about the city, O harlot, devoted to forgetfulness! Make sweet melody, multiply song, That thou mayest be kept in remembrance.

¹⁷ It shall then be at the end of seventy years, That Jehovah will visit Tyre; And then shall she return to her hire, And shall commit fornication With all the kingdoms of the earth Which are upon the earth.

¹⁸ Yet her merchandise And her hire, Shall be holy to Jehovah; It shall not be treasured nor laid up; But her merchandise shall be, For them that dwell before Jehovah, That they may eat sufficiently, And may have a thick covering.

¹ Behold, Jehovah emptieth the earth, Maketh it bare, Overturneth its face, And scattereth its inhabitants.

² And it shall be, as the people, so the priest; As the servant, so his master; As the maid, so her mistress; As the buyer, so the seller; As the lender, so the borrower; As the usurer, so he that giveth usury. ^{34 3} By emptying shall the earth be emptied, And by plundering shall it be plundered; For Jehovah hath spoken this word.

⁴ The earth hath lamented, And hath fallen; The world hath languished, And hath fallen; They who were the lofty people of the earth have languished.

⁵ And the earth hath been deceitful under its inhabitants; Because they have transgressed the laws, They have changed the ordinance, They have broken the covenant of eternity.

⁶ Therefore hath the curse consumed the earth, And its inhabitants are made desolate; Therefore are the inhabitants of the earth burned, And few men have been left.

⁷ The wine hath failed; The vine hath languished; All who were of joyful heart have groaned.

⁸ The joy of tabrets hath ceased, The noise of them that exult is ended, The mirth of the harp is silent.

⁹ They shall not drink wine with a song; Strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

¹⁰ The city of vanity is broken down; Every house is shut up, that none may enter.

¹¹ There is a cry about wine in the streets; All joy is darkened; The mirth of the land hath departed.

¹² Desolation is left in the city, And the gate is smitten with desolation.

¹³ For in the midst of the land, In the midst of the peoples, Thus shall it be as the shaking of an olive-tree, And as the shaking of the grapes, when the vintage is ended.

¹⁴ They shall lift up their voice; They shall shout for the majesty of the Lord; They shall cry aloud from the sea.

¹⁵ Therefore glorify ye Jehovah in the valleys, The name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the isles of the sea.

¹⁶ From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, Glory to the Righteous One! And I said, I have leanness! I have leanness! Wo to me! The treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; With treachery have the treacherous dealers dealt treacherously.

¹⁷ Fears And the pit, And the snare, Are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth!

¹⁸ And it shall come to pass, That he who fleeth from the voice of fear, Shall fall into the pit, And he who goeth up out of the midst of the pit, Shall be taken in the snare; For the windows from on high are opened, And the foundations of the earth are shaken.

¹⁹ By bruising is the earth bruised; By breaking down is the earth broken down; By shaking is the earth shaken.

²⁰ With reeling doth the earth reel, like a drunkard; And it shall be removed, like a tabernacle; And its transgression shall be heavy upon it; And it shall fall, And shall not add to rise again.

²¹ And it shall be in that days, Jehovah will visit, Upon the high army on high, And upon the kings of the earth on the earth.

²² And with gathering together shall they be gathered together Like prisoners in a dungeon; And they shall be shut up in a prison; Afterwards at the end of many days shall they be visited.

²³ The moon shall be confounded, And the sun shall be ashamed, When Jehovah of hosts shall reign In Mount Zion, And in Jerusalem; And before his elders glory.

¹ O Jehovah, thou art my God; I will exalt thee; I will praise thy name; For thou hast done a wonderful thing; Counsels which have been already decreed of old; Firm truth.

² For thou hast made of a city a heap; A fortified city to be a ruin; A palace of foreigners, that it may not be a city, That it may never be built.

³ Therefore shall the mighty people glorify thee; The city of the powerful nations shall fear thee.

⁴ For thou hast been strength to the poor; Strength to the needy in his affliction; A refuge from the flood, A shadow from the heat; For the breath of the strong ³⁵ ones Was as a storm ³⁶

against the wall.

⁵ As the heat in a dry place, Thou wilt lay low the noise of foreigners, As the heat by the shadow of a cloud; The shouting ³⁷ of the strong ones wilt thou lay low.

⁶ And Jehovah of hosts will make For all people in that mountain A feast of fat things, A feast of liquids purified, Of fat things full of marrow, Of liquids purified.

⁷ And he will destroy in that mountain, The free of the covering with which all nations were covered, And the veil which was spread over all nations.

⁸ He hath destroyed death eternally. And the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from all faces, And will take away the disgrace of his people from all the earth; For Jehovah hath spoken it.

⁹ And it shall he said in that day: Lo, this is our God; We have waited for him, And he will save us; This is Jehovah; We have waited for him; We will rejoice And be glad in his salvation.

¹⁰ For the hand of Jehovah shall rest on that mountain; And Moab shall be trodden down under him, As straw is trodden down on the dunghill.

¹¹ And he will spread out his hand under the midst of them, As a swimmer spreadeth forth his hands to swim; And he will lay low their pride, With the arms of their hands.

¹² And the fortress of the loftiness of thy walls He will bring down, He will lay low, And he will cast down to the ground, To the dust.

¹ In that day shall a song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a city of strength; He hath made salvation to be walls And a rampart.

² Open ye the gates, And the righteous nation shall enter, Which keepeth the truth.

³ The thought is fixed; Thou wilt keep peace, peace; For they have trusted in thee.

⁴ Hope ye in Jehovah for ever; For in Jah Jehovah is the strength of ages.

⁵ For he will bow down the inhabitants of loftiness; He will lay low the elevated city; He will lay it low to the ground; He will bring it to the dust.

⁶ The foot shall tread it down; The feet of the poor, The steps of the needy.

⁷ Straightnesses are the path of the righteous man; The straight way of the righteous man thou wilt weigh. ^{38 8} Even in the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, We have waited for thee; To thy name, And to the remembrance of thee, Is the desire of the soul.

⁹ My soul hath desired thee in the night; Yea, with my spirit within me I will seek thee in the morning; ³⁹ For so soon as thy judgments shall be in the earth, The inhabitants of the earth shall learn righteousness.

¹⁰ The wicked man will obtain favor, And will not learn righteousness; In the land of upright actions he will deal unjustly, And will not behold the majesty of Jehovah.

¹¹ Jehovah, though thy hand is lifted up, They will not see; They shall see, And be ashamed, Through their envy of the people; Yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.

¹² O Jehovah, thou wilt ordain peace for us; For thou also hast wrought all our works for us.

¹³ O Jehovah our God, Lords besides thee have had dominion over us; By thee only will we call thy name to remembrance.

¹⁴ The dead shall not live; The slain shall not rise again; Therefore thou hast visited and driven them away, And hast destroyed all remembrance of them.

¹⁵ Thou hast added to the nation, O Jehovah! Thou hast added to the nation; Thou art glorified; Thou hast enlarged all the boundaries of the earth.

¹⁶ O Jehovah, in trouble have they visited thee; They poured out a prayer, when thy chastening was upon them.

¹⁷ As a woman with Child, who draweth near to her delivery, Is in pain, And crieth out in her pains; So have we been before thy face, O Jehovah.

¹⁸ We have been in labor, We have had pain, As if we had brought forth wind; Salvation hath not been wrought for the earth, And the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.

¹⁹ Thy dead men shall live; My dead body, they shall arise; Awake And sing, ye inhabitants of the dust; For thy dew is the dew of herbs; And the earth shall cast out the dead. ^{40 20} Come, O my people; Enter thou into thy chambers; Shut the door behind thee; Hide thyself a little for a moment, Till the indignation pass over.

²¹ For, behold, Jehovah cometh out of his place, To visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against him; And the earth shall disclose her blood, And shall no longer cover her slain.

¹ In that day will Jehovah visit, With his hard, And great, And strong sword, On leviathan the piercing serpent, And on leviathan the crooked serpent; And he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.

² In that day sing ye to the vineyard of redness.

³ I Jehovah keep it; Every moment will I water it; That (the enemy) may not visit it, I will keep it night And day.

⁴ Fury doth not dwell in me. Who shall engage me in battle with the brier And thorn? ⁴¹ I will pass through it in a hostile manner, I will utterly burn it up.

⁵ Will she take hold of my strength, That she may make peace with me? Yea, that she may make peace with me?

⁶ Afterwards shall Jacob put forth roots; Israel shall bud And blossom; And the face of the world shall be filled with fruit.

⁷ Hath he smitten him according to the stroke of him that smote him? Hath he been slain according to the slaughter of them that slew him?

⁸ In measure, in her shooting forth, Thou wilt contend with her; Even though he blow with his violent wind, In the day of the east wind.

⁹ Therefore in this manner shall the iniquity of Jacob be expiated; And this is all the fruit, The taking away of his sin; When he shall make all the stones of the altar As lime-stones broken in pieces, That groves And images may not rise again.

¹⁰ Yet the fortified city shall be desolate; The inhabited place shall be deserted, And forsaken like a wilderness. There the calf shall feed, And there shall lie down, And shall browse on its tops.

¹¹ When its harvest shall wither, they shall break ⁴² it; Women coming shall burn it; For it is a people that doth not understand; Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them, And he who formed them will not be gracious to them.

¹² Yet in that day it shall come to pass That Jehovah will thrash From the channel of the river To the river of Egypt; And ye shall be gathered one by one, O children of Israel.

¹³ It shall also come to pass in that day, That the great trumpet shall be blown; And they shall come who were perishing in the land of Assyria, And who had been scattered in the land of Egypt; And they shall worship Jehovah, In the holy mountain, in Jerusalem.

¹ Wo to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim; For the splendor of his glory shall be a fading flower, Which is on the head of the valley of the fat ones, Of them that are overcome by wine.

² Behold, the Lord hath a mighty And strong one; As a deluge of hail, A desolating whirlwind; As the violence of mighty waters overflowing, Casting down to the earth with the hand.

³ The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, Shall be trodden under feet.

⁴ And the splendor of his glory shall be a fading flower, Which is on the head of the valley of the fat ones; Like the premature fig before the summer, Which, while he looketh at it, While it is yet in his hand, He that seeth it devoureth.

⁵ In that day will Jehovah of hosts :Become a crown of glory And a diadem of excellence To the remnant of his people, ⁶ And a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth on the judgmentseat, And strength to them that drive back the battle to the gate.

⁷ But they also have erred through wine; Through strong drink they have gone astray. The priest And the prophet have erred through strong drink; They have been swallowed up by wine; They have gone astray through strong drink; They have erred in vision, They have stumbled in judgment.

⁸ For all tables are full of nauseous vomiting, So that no place is unoccupied.

⁹ Whom shall he teach knowledge? And whom shall he make to understand doctrine? Them that are weaned from the milk? Them that are withdrawn from the breasts?

¹⁰ For precept must be on precept, precept on precept; Instruction on instruction, instruction on instruction; Here a little, there a little.

¹¹ For with stammering lips will he speak to this people, And with a foreign tongue.

¹² For he said to them, This is the rest; Cause the weary to rest; And this is the refreshing; And they refused to hear.

¹³ The word of Jehovah shall therefore be to them. Rule upon rule, rule upon rule; Instruction upon instruction, instruction upon instruction; Here a little, there a little; Therefore they shall go, And shall fall backward, Shall be broken, And snared, And taken.

¹⁴ Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scornful men, Who govern this people, which is in Jerusalem.

¹⁵ Because ye have said, We have struck a league with death, And with hell have we made a compact; When the overflowing scourge shall pass through, It shall not come to us; For we have made falsehood our refuge, And under vanity have we hidden ourselves.

¹⁶ Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will lay in Zion a stone, a stone of trial, A precious corner-stone, a sure foundation. He that believeth shall not make haste.

¹⁷ And I will lay judgment to the line, And righteousness to the measure. ⁴³ The hail shall sweep away the reliance of falsehood, And the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.

¹⁸ And your compact with death shall be disannulled; Your agreement with hell shall not stand; When the overflowing scourge shall pass through, Then shall ye become a treading down to it.

¹⁹ From the time that it shall pass, It shall seize you every morning, And shall pass every day by day And by night; And it shall be that terror ⁴⁴ alone, Shall cause them to understand the report.

²⁰ For the bed is short, so that it is not enough; The covering shall be narrow for wrapping, ²¹ For as in Mount Perazim will Jehovah stand up, And as in the valley of Gibeon will he be angry; ⁴⁵ To do his work, his strange work; To perform his act, his strange act.

²² Now therefore he ye not mockers, Lest your chains be more firmly fastened; For I have heard from the Lord Jehovah of hosts a consumption, And a completion on the whole earth.

²³ Listen ye, And hear my voice; Hearken, And hear my speech.

²⁴ Doth the ploughman plough every day, that he may sow? Doth he open And break the clods of his field.

²⁵ When he hath leveled its surface, Will he not then scatter fitches, And sow cummin, And allot wheat in measure, And barley measured, And spelt in its order?

²⁶ His God instructeth him, And teacheth him what is right.

²⁷ Certainly vetches shall not be thrashed with a toothed instrument, Nor shall the wheel of a cart be turned round on the cummin; For vetches are beaten with a staff, And cummin with a rod.

²⁸ Though wheat be bruised, He doth not bruise it continually, Nor always cause the wheel of his cart to grind it, Lest he crush it with its teeth.

²⁹ This also hath proceeded from Jehovah of hosts, Who is wonderful in counsel, And majestic in procedure.

¹ Alas! Ariel, Ariel, The city which David inhabited, Add ye year to year, That the lambs may be slain.

² Yet I will bring Ariel into distress, And there shall be grief And sorrow, And it shall be to me as Ariel.

³ And I will encamp against thee round about, And will attack thee with a military force, And will erect ramparts against thee.

⁴ Then shalt thou be brought low, Thou shalt speak out of the earth, And thy speech shall come out of the dust, And thy voice shall be like that of a sorcerer out of the earth, And thy speech shall mutter out of the dust.

⁵ And the sound of thy foreigners shall be as the small dust, And the multitude of thy mighty men as the passing chaff, And it shall be in a moment suddenly.

⁶ Thou shalt be visited by Jehovah of hosts With thunder, And earthquake, And great noise, With whirlwind And tempest, And with the flame of devouring fire.

⁷ And as a dream of a vision of the night shall be, The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, Of every one that fighteth, And that raiseth fortifications against her, And that distresseth her.

⁸ It shall therefore be, As when a hungry man dreameth, And behold! he eateth, But when he awaketh, his soul is empty; And as when a thirsty man dreameth, And behold! He drinketh, But when he awaketh, he is faint, And his soul hath appetite; So shall be the multitude of all the nations That fight against Mount Zion.

⁹ Tarry And wonder; They are blinded And they blind; They are drunken, but not with wine; They stagger, And not with strong drink.

¹⁰ For Jehovah hath overpowered you with the spirit of slumber, And hath closed your eyes; Your prophets And principal seers He hath struck with darkness.

¹¹ Therefore every vision hath become to you, As the words of a sealed book; Which if they deliver to one who knoweth letters, And say, Read in it, I pray, Then shall he say, I cannot, For it is sealed:

¹² And if the book be delivered to one who hath not learned letters, And it be said, Read in it, I pray, Then shall he say, I know not letters.

¹³ Therefore the Lord saith: Because this people draw near to me with their mouth, And honor me with their lips, And have removed their heart far from me, And their fear toward me hath been taught by the commandment of men;

¹⁴ Therefore, behold! I add to do, A wonderful work among this people, A miracle And a prodigy; For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, And the prudence of their prudent men shall vanish away.

¹⁵ Wo to them that conceal themselves from Jehovah, That they may hide counsel; For their works are in the dark, And they say, Who seeth us? And, Who knoweth us?

¹⁶ Is your turning reckoned like potters clay? Doth a work say of its author, He did not make me? And doth a thing framed say of its framer, He did not understand?

¹⁷ Is it not yet a little, a little, And Lebanon shall be changed into Carmel, And Carmel shall be reckoned 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 Then shall the humble again take joy in Jehovah, And the poor of men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

²⁰ For the violent man is brought to naught, The mocker is despised; And they who hastened early to iniquity are ruined.

²¹ Who make a man to offend in word, Who have laid snares for him that reproveth in the gate, And have turned aside the righteous man for nothing.

²² Therefore Jehovah, who redeemed Abraham, Speaketh thus to the house of Jacob: Jacob shall not now be confounded. Nor shall his face now become pale.

²³ For when he shall see in the midst of him His children, the work of my hands, They shall sanctify my name, They shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, They shall fear the God of Israel.

²⁴ Then they that erred in spirit shall learn understanding, And the murmurers shall learn doctrine.

¹ Wo to the rebellious ⁴⁶ children, saith Jehovah, That they may take counsel. And not from me; That they may cover a secret, ⁴⁷ And not from my Spirit; That they may add sin to sin.

² Who set out that they may go down into Egypt, And have not inquired at my mouth; Strengthening themselves with the strength of Pharaoh, And trusting in the shadow of Egypt.

³ But the strength of Pharaoh, Shall become to you shame; And reliance on the shadow of Egypt, Shall become disgrace.

⁴ For his princes were in Zoan, And his ambassadors came to Hanes.

⁵ All shall be ashamed, Of a people that will not profit them, And will not become a help, And will not yield advantage, But will become shame, And even disgrace.

⁶ The burden of the beasts of the south. In the land of trouble And anguish, The lion And the stronger lion, The viper And the flying serpent; While they shall carry their riches On the shoulders of young asses, And on the bunches of camels, To a people that will not profit them.

⁷ Surely the Egyptians are vanity, And shall help in vain. Therefore have I cried to her, Their strength is to sit still.

⁸ Now go, And write this vision on a tablet before them, And engrave it in a book, That it may be till the last day, For ever And ever.

⁹ For this is a rebellious people, Lying children, Children who refuse to hear the law of Jehovah.

¹⁰ Who say to the seers, Do not see, And to the foreseers, Do not foresee to us right things; Speak ye to us flatteries, See ye errors.

¹¹ Go out of the way; Turn aside from the path; Cause the Holy One of Israel To depart from our presence.

¹² Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because ye have disdained this word, And have trusted in violence And wickedness, And have rested on it;

¹³ Therefore shall your iniquity be to you, Like a breach falling, Like the bulging out in a lofty wall, The fall of which comes suddenly And unexpectedly.

¹⁴ And the breaking of it shall be, As the breaking of a potters vessel, Which is broken without mercy; And in its breaking there is not found a sherd To carry fire from the hearth, Or to draw water from a well.

¹⁵ For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel: “In rest And quietness shall you be safe; In peace And confidence shall be your strength; But ye would not.

¹⁶ And ye said, ]No, but we will flee on horses; Therefore shall ye flee; We will ride on the swift; Therefore they that shall pursue you shall be more swift.

¹⁷ A thousand as one from the face of the rebuke of one, From the face of the rebuke of five shall ye flee, Until ye shall be left, As the mast of a ship on the top of a mountain. And as a banner on a hill.

¹⁸ Therefore will Jehovah wait for you, That he may have compassion on you; And therefore will he be exalted, That he may have compassion on you; For Jehovah is a God of judgment: Blessed are all they that wait for him.

¹⁹ Surely the people in Zion shall dwell in Jerusalem: Weeping thou shalt not weep; With compassion will he have compassion on thee; At the voice of thy cry, as soon as he shall hear it, He will answer thee.

²⁰ When the Lord shall have given to you, Bread of anguish, And water of affliction, Thy rain shall not be withheld, And thine eyes shall see thy rain.

²¹ Then shall thine ears hear a word behind thee, Saying, This is the way; Walk ye in it; another ye go to the right, Or go to the left.

²² Then shall ye profane, The covering of the graven images of thy silver, And the covering of thy molten gold; And thou shalt put it away from thee as a menstruous cloths. And shalt say to it, Depart. ^{48 23} Then will he give rain to thy seed, When thou shalt have sowed the ground, And bread of the produce of the earth; And it shall be plentiful And fat; And in that day thy cattle Shall feed in large pastures.

²⁴ Thine oxen also, And the young asses that labor the ground, Shall eat clean provender, Which shall be winnowed with the shovel, And with the sieve.

²⁵ And it shall come to pass, That on every high mountain, And on every lofty hill, Shall be streams, streams of waters, In the day of the great slaughter When the towers shall have fallen.

²⁶ And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day when Jehovah, Shall have bound up the breach of his people, And shall have healed the stroke of their wound.

²⁷ Behold! the name of Jehovah cometh From a distant place: His face burneth, And the burden is heavy; His lips are full of indignation, And his tongue as a devouring fire.

²⁸ And his breath, as an overflowing torrent, Shall divide even to the neck; To sift the nations with a useless sieve; And on the cheeks of the peoples There shall be a bridle causing to err.

²⁹ You shall have a song, as in the night When a festival is kept. And gladness of heart, As of him. that moveth to a pipe, That he may come to the mountain of Jehovah, To the Mighty One of Israel.

³⁰ And Jehovah shall cause to be heard the power of his voice, And shall cause to be seen the descent of his arm, With rage of countenance, And with the flame of devouring fire, With scattering, with flood, And with hailstones.

³¹ Verily by the voice of Jehovah shall the Assyrian be crushed, Who smote with a rod.

³² And in every passage shall be the fastened staff, Which Jehovah shall lay upon him With tabrets And harps, And with battles of lifting up Shall he fight against her.

³³ For Prophet is ordained since yesterday; Yea, for the king it is prepared: He hath made it deep And large; The pile of it is fire, And much wood; The breath of Jehovah, like a torrent of brimstone, Doth kindle it.

¹ Wo to them that go clown into Egypt for help, And who rely on horses, And who trust to chariots, because they are numerous, And to horses, because they are very strong, And have not looked to the Holy One of Israel, Nor have sought Jehovah.

² Yet he also is wise: Therefore he will bring evil, And will not make void his words; he will rise up against the house of the evil-doers, And against the aid of the workers of vanity.

³ And verily the Egyptian is a man, And not God; And his horses are flesh, And not spirit. Therefore, as soon as Jehovah shall stretch out his arm, The helper shall fall, And he who is helped shall fall down, And all shall fail together.

⁴ For thus hath Jehovah said to me: As the lion roareth, And the young lion for his prey, Against whom, if a multitude of shepherds be gathered together, He shall not be alarmed by their cry, And shall not humble himself on account of their noise; Thus will Jehovah of hosts come down To fight for Mount Zion, And for its hill.

⁵ As birds which fly, So will Jehovah of hosts defend Jerusalem; Defending, he will deliver it, And passing over, he will preserve it.

⁶ Return ye, As ye have made a deep revolt, O children of Israel ⁷ For in that day shall a man cast away The idols of his silver, And the idols of his gold, Which your hands have made for you, a sin.

⁸ Then shall the Assyrian fall by the sword, not of a mighty man; And the sword, not of a man, shall devour him; And by flight shall he seek safety from the face of the sword, And his young men shall melt away.

⁹ He shall pass to his stronghold through fear, And his princes shall tremble at the banner, saith Jehovah, Who hath a fire ⁴⁹ in Zion, And who hath a furnace in Jerusalem.

¹ Behold! a king shall reign in righteousness, And princes shall rule in judgment.

² And that man shall be, As a hiding-place from the wind, As a covert from the rainy, As streams of waters on dry ground, As the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

³ Then the eyes of them that see shall not be closed up, And the ears of them that hear shall hearken.

⁴ And the heart of fools shall be eagerly directed to knowledge, And the tongue of stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

⁵ No longer shall the base man be called liberal, Nor shall the parsimonious man be called bountiful.

⁶ For the vile person will speak vileness, And his heart will contrive iniquity, To commit wickedness, That he may utter mockery against Jehovah, That he may make empty the hungry soul, And that he may withhold drink from him that is thirsty.

⁷ The instruments of the covetous man are evil; ⁵⁰ He contriveth wickednesses, That he may deceive the simple by lying words, And that he may speak against the poor man in judgment.

⁸ But the liberal man shall devise liberal things, And in acting liberally he shall make progress.

⁹ Ye women at ease, arise; Hear my voice, ye careless daughters; Hearken to my speech.

¹⁰ Days above a year shall ye tremble, ye careless women; For the vintage shall fail, And the gathering shall not come.

¹¹ Tremble, ye women that are at ease; Be troubled, ye careless women; Strip you, make you bare, gird your limbs.

¹² Mourning over the udders, Over the pleasant fields, Over the fruitful vine.

¹³ There shall come up t. he thorn And brier, On the land of my people, Even on all the houses of gladness in the city of rejoicing.

¹⁴ For the palace shall be forsaken; The noise of the city shall be left; The tower And the fortress, Shall be reduced to dens for ever, Where wild asses may delight themselves, And where flocks may feed.

¹⁵ Till the Spirit be poured out upon you from on high, And the wilderness become a cultivated field, And the cultivated field be reckoned like a forest.

¹⁶ And judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, And justice shall have its abode in the cultivated field.

¹⁷ And the work of righteousness shall be peace; The effect of righteousness shall be Safety And quietness for ever.

¹⁸ And my people shall dwell in a tabernacle of peace, And in safe dwellings, And in quiet resting-places.

¹⁹ And in coming down the hail shall turn aside on the forest, And the city shall be situated in a low place.

²⁰ Blessed are ye who sow on all waters, Who send forth the feet of the ox And of the ass.

¹ Wo to thee that spoilest, And was not spoiled; Who dealest wickedly, And they dealt not wickedly with thee! When thou shalt have ceased to spoil, Thou shalt be spoiled; When thou shalt have ceased to deal wickedly, They shall deal wickedly with thee.

² O Jehovah, have pity upon us; We have hoped in thee; Be thou, who hast been their arm in the morning, Our salvation also in the time of trouble.

³ At the voice of the tumult the people fled; At thy exaltation the nations were dispersed.

⁴ And your prey shall be gathered by your gathering of caterpillars, Advancing thither, according to the running of locusts.

⁵ Jehovah is exalted, who dwelleth on high; He hath filled Zion with judgment And righteousness.

⁶ And the stability of thy times shall be Strength, salvation, wisdom, And knowledge; The fear of Jehovah is his treasure.

⁷ Behold, their messengers shall cry without; The ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.

⁸ The roads are deserted, The traveler hath ceased; He hath violated the treaty, He hath despised the cities, He hath paid no regard to any man.

⁹ The earth hath mourned And languished; Lebanon is ashamed And hewn down; Sharon hath been made like a wilderness; Bashan And Carmel have been shaken.

¹⁰ Now will I arise, saith Jehovah; Now will I be exalted; Now will I lift up myself.

¹¹ Ye shall conceive chaff; Ye shall bring forth stubble; The fire of your breath shall devour you.

¹² And the peoples shall be the burnings of lime; ⁵¹ As thorns cut up shall they be burnt in the fire.

¹³ Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; Ye that are near, acknowledge my power.

¹⁴ The sinners in Zion are afraid; Terror hath seized the hypocrites. ⁵² Which of us ⁵³ shall dwell with devouring fire? Which of us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

¹⁵ He who walketh in righteousnesses And speaketh what is right; Who despiseth the gain from violence And calumny; Who shaketh his hands from accepting a bribe; Who stoppeth his ear, that he may not hear blood; Who shutteth his eyes, that he may not see evil.

¹⁶ He shall dwell in high places; Fortifications of rocks shall be his refuge; Bread shall be given to him, And his waters (shall be) sure.

¹⁷ Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty; They shall behold the land (that is) very far off.

¹⁸ Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the weigher? Where is he who singleth out the principal houses?

¹⁹ The fierce people thou shalt not see, The people of a confused lip, so that thou canst not understand; Of a stammering tongue, so that thou canst not comprehend.

²⁰ Look at Zion, the city of our solemnities; ⁵⁴ Thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a peaceful habitation, A tent which shall not be carried away, The stakes of which shall never be removed, And of which none of the ropes shall be broken:

²¹ Thus, ⁵⁵ shall the mighty Jehovah there be to us, A place of streams, of broad rivers, Through which there shall not pass a ship with oars, And through which a splendid ship shall not pass.

²² For Jehovah is our Judge; Jehovah is our Lawgiver; Jehovah is our King; He himself will save us.

²³ Thy cords were loosed, So that they did not fasten their mast, Nor spread the sail; Then was ; he prey of much spoil divided, The lame also seized the prey.

²⁴ And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick; The people that dwell in it have been freed from iniquity.

¹ Draw near, ye nations, to hear; And ye peoples, hearken. Let the earth hear, And its fullness; The world, And all its productions.

² For the indignation of Jehovah is on all nations, And his fury on all their army; He hath destroyed them; He hath delivered them to slaughter.

³ Their slain shall be east out; And from their carcasses shall come up their stench; And the mountains shall melt on account of their blood.

⁴ And all the armies of heaven shall fade away, And shall be rolled up as a scroll. The heavens And all their armies shall fall down, As a leaf falleth down from a vine, And as it falleth from the figtree.

⁵ For my sword is made drunken in the heavens. Behold, it shall come down on Edom, Even on the people of my curse to judgment.

⁶ The sword of Jehovah hath been filled with blood; It hath been made fat with fatness; Even with the blood of lambs And of goats, With the fat of the kidneys of rams; For the sacrifice of Jehovah is on Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

⁷ And the unicorns shall come down with them, And the bullocks with the bulls; And their land shall be made drunken with blood, And their dust shall be made fat with fatness.

⁸ For (it is) the day of vengeance of Jehovah, The year of recompenses for the cause of Zion.

⁹ And her streams shall be turned into pitch, And her dust into brimstone; And her land shall become burning pitch.

¹⁰ By night And by day it shall not be quenched; Its smoke shall continually go up; From generation to generation it shall lie waste; Tone shall pass through it for ever And ever.

¹¹ Therefore shall the pelican And the owl take possession of it; The great owl And the raven shall dwell in it; And he shall stretch over it the cord of emptiness, And the plummets of vanity.

¹² They shall call her nobles without a kingdom, And all her princes shall be nothing.

¹³ In her palaces she shall bring forth thorns, And nettles And thistles in her fortresses; And she shall be a habitation for dragons, And an abode for the young ones of the ostrich.

¹⁴ And the wild beasts shall meet with the satyrs; And the screech-owl shall cry to his companion; There also shall the fairy dwell, And shall find for herself a peaceful abode.

¹⁵ There shall the owl make her nest, And lay, And hatch And gather her young under her shadow; Yea, there shall the vultures be gathered together, Every one with her mate.

¹⁶ Inquire at the book of Jehovah, And read. Not one of those shall fail; Tot one shall want her mate; For his mouth hath commanded, And his Spirit hath gathered them.

¹⁷ And he hath cast the lot for them; And his hand hath divided it to them for ever, as by a cord. Therefore they shall inhabit it; From generation to generation they shall dwell in it.

¹ The wilderness And the desert shall be glad; The loathsome place shall rejoice, And shall flourish like the lily.

² Flourishing it shall flourish, And shall even rejoice with rejoicing, And shall sing; The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, The beauty of Carmel And Sharon; They shall see the glory of Jehovah, The majesty of our God.

³ Strengthen ye the weak hands, Confirm the tottering knees.

⁴ Say to them that are trembling in heart, Be strong, fear not. Behold, your God will come with vengeance; God himself will come with a recompense, ⁵⁶ And will save you.

⁵ Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, And the ears of the deaf shall be opened.

⁶ Then shall the lame man leap like a stag, The tongue of the dumb mall shall sound loudly; For waters shall be digged in the desert, And rivers in the wilderness.

⁷ The dry place shall be changed into a pool, And the parched country into fountains of waters; And in the habitation of dragons, And in its lair, Shall be a place for the reed And the rush.

⁸ And a path shall be there, And a way, And it shall be called, The holy way. An unclean person shall not pass through it; And he shall be to them one that walketh in the way, That fools may not go astray.

⁹ There shall not be there a lion; Nor shall a wild beast go up by it; Neither shall it be found there; That the redeemed may walk.

¹⁰ Therefore shall the redeemed of Jehovah return, And shall come to Zion with rejoicing; And everlasting joy shall be on their head; And they shall obtain joy And gladness; And sorrow And sighing shall flee away.

¹ It came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the defended cities of Judah, And took them.

² Then the king of Assyria sent Rabshakch from Lachish, with a powerful army, to Jerusalem, to king Hezekiah, who stood at the conduit of the upper pool in the way of the fullers field.

³ And there came out to him Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, And Shebna the chancellor, And Joab, the son of Asaph, the secretary.

⁴ And Rabshakeh said to them: Say now to Hezekiah? Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this in which thou trustest? I have said, (only a word of the lips.)

⁵ Counsel And strength for war. Now in whom hast thou trusted, that thou hast rebelled against me?

⁶ Behold, thou hast rusted in that broken staff of reed, on Egypt, on which if one lean, it will go into his hand And pierce it. Such is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who have confidence in him.

⁷ And if thou shalt say to me, We trust in Jehovah our God; is it not, he whose high places And altars Hezekiah hath taken away, And hath said to Judah And Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?

⁸ Now, come, give a hostage to my master, the king of Assyria. I will give thee two thousand horses; wilt thou have horsemen to set upon them?

⁹ And how dost thou despise the face of one captain of the least of my masters servants, And place thy confidence in Egypt for chariots And horsemen?

¹⁰ And have I now come up without Jehovah to this land, to destroy it? Jehovah said to me: Go up against this land, to destroy it.

¹¹ Then said Eliakim, And Shebna, And Joah, to Rabshakeh: Speak, I pray, to thy servants, in the Syrian language, (for we understand it,) And speak not to us in the Jewish language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.

¹² And Rabshakeh said: Hath my master sent me to thy master And to thee to speak those words? Is it not to the men who sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, And drink their own urine with you?

¹³ Therefore Rabshakeh stood, And cried with a loud voice in the Jewish language, And said: Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.

¹⁴ Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah impose upon you, for he will not be able to deliver you.

¹⁵ And let not Hezekiah make you trust in Jehovah, saying, By delivering will Jehovah deliver us; this city shall not be given up into the hand of the king of Assyria.

¹⁶ Listen not to Hezekiah; for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make with me a blessing, And come out; And let every one eat of his own vine, And let every one eat of his own fig-tree, And let every one drink the waters of his own well.

¹⁷ Till I come And take you into a land like your own land, a land of corn And wine, a land of bread And vineyards.

¹⁸ Lest perhaps Hezekiah deceive you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us. Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

¹⁹ Where is the god of Hamath And Arpad? Where is the god of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

²⁰ Who is there among all the gods of those lands that hath delivered his land out of my hand; that Jehovah should rescue Jerusalem out of my hand?

²¹ They were silent, And did not answer him a word; for this was the commandment of the king, Do not answer him.

²² Then came Eliakim, who was over the house And Shebna the chancellor, And Joab, the son of Asaph, the secretary, to Hezekiah, with rent garments, And told him the words of Rabshakeh.

¹ Now, it came to pass, that Hezekiah, when he heard this rent his clothes, And covered himself with sackcloth, And went into the house of Jehovah.

² At the same time he sent Eliakim, who was over the palace, And Shebna the chancellor, and the eldest of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the son of Amoz, the prophet.

³ Who said to him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, And of blasphemy; for the children have come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

⁴ If, perhaps, Jehovah thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master, the king of Assyria, hath sent to curse the living God, And to rebuke with words which Jehovah thy God hath heard. Thou shalt therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that is still left.

⁵ The servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

⁶ And Isaiah said to them, Thus shall ye say to your master: Thus saith Jehovah, Fear not the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reproached me.

⁷ Behold, I will bring a wind upon him; for he shall hear a report, And shall return to his own land; And I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

⁸ And Rabshakeh, having returned, found the king of Assyria besieging Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

⁹ And hearing concerning Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, He hath gone out to fight against thee; after having heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying:

¹⁰ Thus shall ye say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given up into the hand of the king of Assyria.

¹¹ Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to at hands, how they have destroyed them; And shalt thou be delivered?

¹² Have the gods of the nations delivered those whom my fathers destroyed, Gozan, And Itaran, And Rezeph, And the children of Edom, who were in Telassar?

¹³ Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arphad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena And Iva?

¹⁴ Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, And read it, And went up to the house of Jehovah, and spread it before Jehovah.

¹⁵ Then Hezekiah prayed to God, saying:

¹⁶ O Jehovah of hosts, God of Israel, who dwellest between the cherubim, thou alone art God over all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven And earth.

¹⁷ Incline thine ear, O Jehovah, And hear; open thine eyes, O Jehovah, And see; And hear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to reproach the living God.

¹⁸ Truly, O Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the nations, And their land, ¹⁹ And have cast their gods into the fire; for they were not gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood, And stone; therefore they have destroyed them.

²⁰ And now, O Jehovah our God, save us from his hand; that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou alone art Jehovah.

²¹ Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying: Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Since thou hast prayed to me concerning Sennacherib, king of Assyria;

²² This is the word which Jehovah hath spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion hath despised thee, hath laughed at thee; The daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. Whom hast thou reproached?

²³ And whom hast thou blasphemed? Against whom hast thou exalted thy Voice, And lifted up thy hands on high? Even against the Holy One of Israel.

²⁴ By the hand of thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord, And hast said, By the multitude of my chariots I will go up, To the heights of the mountains, To the sides of Lebanon; I will cut down the tallest of her cedars, Her choice firs; Then will I come to the height of his border, And even to his level forest. ^{57 25} I will dig, And will drink waters; With the sole of my feet I will dry up all the lakes of the siege.

²⁶ Hast thou not heard that I made it long ago, That I formed it from ancient days? And should I now bring it to be a desolation, To be heaps of ruins, like fortified cities?

²⁷ For their inhabitants were maimed, Were terrified And confounded; They were made like the grass of the field And the green herb, Like the grass of the house-tops, which withereth before it is ripe.

²⁸ I know thy sitting down, And thy going out, And thy entrance, And thy indignation against me.

²⁹ Because thou wast angry against me, Thy tumult hath come up into my ears. Therefore will I put my hook ⁵⁸ in thy nostril, And my bridle ill thy lips, And will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

³⁰ And this shall be a sign to thee; Thou shalt eat this year that which groweth of itself, And in the second year that which springeth up of itself; And in the third year ye shall sow And reap, And shall plant vineyards, And eat the fruit of them.

³¹ And that which shall be preserved of the house of Judah, And that which shall be left, Shall vet strike root downward, And shall bear fruit upward.

³² For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, And that which shall be preserved of Mount Zion. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will do this.

³³ Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not enter into this city, Nor throw an arrow into it; And he who is defended by a shield shall not seize it, Nor cast a balister against it.

³⁴ By the way that he came shall he return, And shall not enter into this city, saith Jehovah.

³⁵ And I will be a protector to this city, To save it, for my own sake, And for the sake of my servant David.

³⁶ And the angel of Jehovah went forth, And smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred And eighty-five thousand; And when the people arose early in the morning, behold, they were all corpses of dead men.

³⁷ Then Sennacherib, king of Assyria, departed, And went, And returned, And dwelt in Nineveh.

³⁸ And it came to pass, while he was worshipping his god in the temple of Nisroch, ⁵⁹ that his sons, Adrammeleeh And Sharezar, smote him with the sword, And fled into the land of Armenia; And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

¹ In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, And said to him: Thus saith Jehovah, Give charge concerning thy house; ⁶⁰ for thou shalt die, And shalt not live.

² Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, And prayed to Jehovah.

³ And he said, I beseech thee, O Jehovah, remember now that I have walked before thee in truth, And with a perfect heart, And have done what was right in thine eyes. And Hezekiah wept with sore weeping. ^{61 4} Then was communicated the word of Jehovah to Isaiah, saying, ⁵ Go, And say to Hezekiah: Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Jacob thy father: I have heard thy prayer, And have seen thy tears: Behold, I add to thy days fifteen years.

⁶ And I will deliver thee And this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; And I will be a protector to this city.

⁷ And this shall be a sign to thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do this thing, of which he hath spoken:

⁸ Behold, I bring back the shadow of degrees, by which it hath gone down on the sun-dial of Ahaz, ten degrees. And he sun went back on the sundial ten degrees, by which it had already gone down.

⁹ The writing of Hezekiah, 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 the grave; I am deprived of the residue of my years.

¹¹ I said, I shall not see God, God in the land of the living; I shall no longer behold man with the inhabitants of the world.

¹² Sly habitation is departed, And is removed from me as a shepherds tent; I have cut off; as a weaver, my life: From lifting up ⁶² he will cut me off; From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

¹³ I reckoned ⁶³ till the dawn; As a lion, so he hath broken my bones; From the dawn till night thou wilt make an end of me.

¹⁴ As a crane or a swallow, I chattered; I mourned as a dove. My eyes were lifted up on high, O Lord, it hath oppressed me; comfort me.

¹⁵ What shall I say? He who hath spoken to me hath done it. I shall be moved ⁶⁴ all the days of my life In the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁶ O Lord, by all who shall live beyond those (years) Shall the life of my spirit (be known;) And that thou didst cause me to sleep, And didst make me alive.

¹⁷ Behold, in peace my bitterness was bitter; And thou hast been pleased (to rescue) my soul from the pit; ⁶⁵ For thou hast east behind thy back all my sins.

¹⁸ For hell shall not confess thee; Death shall not praise thee; They that go down into the pit shall not wait for thy truth.

¹⁹ The living, the living, he shall confess to thee, As I (do) this day; The father to the sons shall make known thy truth.

²⁰ Jehovah to save me; And we will sing our songs All the days of our life in the house of Jehovah.

²¹ Now, Isaiah had said, They shall take a mass of figs, and apply it to the boil, And they shall live.

²² For ⁶⁶ Hezekiah had said, What is the sign that I shall go up into the house of the Lord?

¹ At that time Merodach-Baladan, son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters And a present to Hezekiah, after having heard that he had been sick, And was recovered.

² And Hezekiah was glad on account of them, And showed to them the house of his treasure, silver, And gold, And spices, precious ointment, And all his armory, And all that was contained in his treasures; there was not anything in his house, And in all his kingdom, which Hezekiah did not show.

³ Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Pezekiah, And said to him, What did those men say. And whence came they to thee. Hezekiah answered, They came to me from a distant country, from Babylon.

⁴ Then he said, What have they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah said, They have seen all that is in my house; And there is nothing in my treasures which I have not showed to them.

⁵ Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Jehovah of hosts:

⁶ Behold, the days come, that all that is in thy house, And all that thy fathers have treasured up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon; And nothing shall be left, saith Jehovah.

⁷ Of thy sons which shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take; And they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

⁸ Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of Jehovah which thou hast spoken. And he said, At least there shall be peace And permanency in my days.

¹ Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people, Saith your God.

² Speak ye according to the heart of Jerusalem; And cry to her, That her warfare is accomplished; That her iniquity ⁶⁷ is pardoned; For she hath received at the hand of Jehovah Double for all her sins.

³ A voice crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of Jehovah; Make straight in the desert a path for our God.

⁴ Every valley shall be exalted, And every mountain And hill shall be laid low; And the crooked shall be made straight, And the rough places shall become a plain.

⁵ And the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together; That the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.

⁶ The voice said, ⁶⁸ Cry; And I said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, And all the goodliness of it as the flower of the field.

⁷ The grass is withered; The flower is faded; Because the breath of Jehovah hath blown upon it. Surely, the people is grass.

⁸ The grass withereth; The flower fadeth; But the word of our God shall stand for ever.

⁹ Go up into the high mountain, O Zion, that bringest tidings; Lift up thy voice aloud, O Jerusalem, that bringest tidings; Lift it up, be not afraid; Say to the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

¹⁰ Behold, the Lord Jehovah shall come with strength; And his arm shall be powerful. Behold, his reward is with him, And his work is before his face.

¹¹ He shall feed his flock like a shepherd; He shall gather the lambs in his arm, And shall early them in his bosom, And shall gently lead those that are with young.

¹² Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, And measured the heavens with his palm, And held with three fingers the dust of the earth, And weighed the mountains in scales, And the heavens in a balance?

¹³ Who hath instructed the spirit of Jehovah, Or hath guided him by counsel, And hath taught him?

¹⁴ From whom sought he counsel, that he might advise him? And who taught him the path of judgment, And instructed him in knowledge, And showed to him the way of wisdom?

¹⁵ Lo, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, And are reckoned as the small dust of the balance; Lo, he taketh up the islands as a very little thing.

¹⁶ And Lebanon would not be sufficient to make a fire, Nor its beasts for a burnt-offering.

¹⁷ All nations are as nothing before him, And in comparison of him are reckoned less than nothing, And what hath no existence.

¹⁸ To whom then have ye likened God? Or what resemblance will ye appoint to him?

¹⁹ The workman prepareth a graven image, The goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, And (casteth) golden chains.

²⁰ The poor man chooseth for his offering wood that will not rot; He procureth a skilful workman. To prepare a graven image that shall not be moved.

²¹ Do ye not know? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not been instructed from the foundations of the earth?

²² It is he that sitteth on the circle of the earth, The inhabitants of which are as locusts; He stretcheth out heaven as a curtain, And spreadeth it out as a tent to be inhabited.

²³ He bringeth the mighty to nothing, The rulers of the earth as if they were not.

²⁴ It is as if they had not been planted; It is as if they had not been sown; It is as if their stock had no root in the earth. Even while he bloweth on them, they wither, And the whirlwind carrieth them away as stubble.

²⁵ And to whom will ye liken me, That I may be like? saith the Holy One.

²⁶ Lift up your eyes on high, And see who hath created those things, Bringing out their army by number; He will call to all of them by name; By the greatness of his strength, And by the might of his power, None shall fail. ^{69 27} Why wilt thou say, ⁷⁰ O Jacob? And why wilt thou speak, O Israel? My way is hidden from Jehovah, And my judgment passeth away from my God.

²⁸ Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard That Jehovah is the God of eternity, Who hath created the ends of the earth? He fainteth not, And is not worn out by fatigue; And there is no searching of his understanding.

²⁹ He giveth power to the faint, And to him who hath no might he imparteth strength.

³⁰ The youths are wearied, And they faint; And the young men by falling full.

³¹ But they who wait upon Jehovah shall gather new strength; They shall raise their wings as eagles; They shall run, And shall not be wearied; They shall walk, And shall not faint.

¹ Be silent to me, O islands; And let the peoples collect their strength; Let them draw near; then let them speak; Let us come near together to judgment.

² Who raised up righteousness from the east, Called him to his foot, Gave nations before him, And subdued kings; Gave them as dust to his sword, And as driven stubble to his bow?

³ He pursued them; he departed in peace, By the way that his foot had not gone.

⁴ Who hath appointed And done it. He who calleth the nations from the beginning. I Jehovah am the first, And with the last I am the same.

⁵ The islands saw, And were afraid; The farthest boundaries of the earth trembled; They drew near And came.

⁶ Every one brought assistance to his neighbor, And said to his neighbor, Be courageous.

⁷ The carver encouraged the founder, And he that beateth with the hammer him that striketh by turns; And he said, It is good for soldering; And he fastened it with nails, that it might not be moved.

⁸ But thou, O Israel, (art) my servant, O Jacob, whom I have chosen, Thou seed of Abraham my friend.

⁹ For I have taken thee from the ends of the earth; From its eminences have I called thee; And I have said to thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, And have not cast thee off;

¹⁰ Fear not, for I am with thee; :Be not terrified, for I am thy God; For I strengthen thee; yea, ⁷¹ I will help thee; Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

¹¹ Behold, they who provoke thee, Shall be ashamed And shall blush; They who contend with thee, Shall become as nothing, And shall perish.

¹² Thou shalt seek them, And shalt not find them; They who contend with thee shall be as nothing, And they who fight with thee shall be as consumption.

¹³ For I (am) Jehovah thy God, Taking hold of thy right hand, And saying to thee, Fear not, I will help thee.

¹⁴ Fear not, thou worm Jacob, Ye dead men of Israel. I will help thee, saith Jehovah, And thy Redeemer, ⁷² the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁵ Behold, I have made thee a cart, Like a sharp thrashing instrument having teeth; Thou shalt thrash the mountains, And beat them small; And thou shalt reduce the hills to dust.

¹⁶ Thou shalt winnow them; And the wind shall carry them away, And the whirlwind shall scatter them. But thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah; Thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁷ The needy And poor shall seek waters, Which are nowhere to be seen; Their tongue shall be parched with thirst. I Jehovah will listen to them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

¹⁸ I will open rivers on lofty mountain-tops, And fountains in the midst of a plain; I will make the wilderness pools of waters, And the dry land fountains of waters.

¹⁹ In the wilderness I will give the cedar, The sloe, the myrtle, And the pine; I will set in the desert the fir-tree, The elm And poplar together.

²⁰ Therefore let them see And know; Let them likewise think And understand; That the hand of Jehovah hath done this, And that the Holy One of Israel hath created it.

²¹ Plead your cause, saith Jehovah; Produce your strong reasons, saith the king of Jacob.

²² Let them bring them forth, And let them tell us what is to come; Let them declare the former things which were, And we will lay our heart to them; And we shall know the latest of those things; And declare ye to us what is to come.

²³ Tell what shall be hereafter, That we may know that ye are gods; Yea, do good, or do evil, That we may relate And likewise may see ⁷³ it.

²⁴ Behold, you are of nothing, And your work is of nothing; (The man) hath chosen abomination in you.

²⁵ I have raised him from the north, And he hath come; From the rising of the sun shall he call on my name; And he shall come to princes, as to clay; And he shall tread the clay like a potter.

²⁶ Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? Beforehand, And we will say, (He is) righteous. Surely, there is none that declareth; Surely, there is none that causeth (us) to hear; Surely, there is none that heareth your words.

²⁷ The first to Zion; Behold, behold them; And I will give a messenger to Jerusalem.

²⁸ I looked, And there was none; I inquired at them, And there was no counselor; I asked them, And they answered not a word.

²⁹ Behold, all are vanity; And their works are a failure; Their images are wind And confusion.

¹ Behold, my servant; I will lean upon him; ⁷⁴ Mine sleet, in whom my soul is well pleased. I have put my Spirit upon him; He shall exhibit judgment to the nations.

² He shall not cry aloud; He shall not lift up, Nor cause his voice to be heard in the streets.

³ A bruised reed he shall not break, And the smoking flax he shall not quench; He shall bring forth judgment in truth.

⁴ He shall not thine, nor be discouraged, Till he set judgment in the earth; And the islands shall wait for his law.

⁵ Thus saith God ⁷⁵ Jehovah, The Creator of the heavens, And who stretcheth them out; Who spreadeth out the earth, And its productions; Giving breath to the people who dwell in it, And spirit to them who walk on it.

⁶ I Jehovah have called thee in righteousness, And will hold thee by thy hand; And will keep thee, And will place thee for a covenant of the people, For a light of the nations;

⁷ That thou mayest open the eyes of the blind; That thou mayest bring out the prisoners from the prison, And from the house of the prison those who sit in darkness.

⁸ I am Jehovah, that is my name; And my glory will I not give to another, Nor my praise to graven images.

⁹ Behold, the former things have come; And new things do I declare; Before they spring up, I will make them known to you.

¹⁰ Sing to Jehovah a new song, His praise from the end of the earth; Ye who go down to the sea, And its fullness; Ye islands, And their inhabitants.

¹¹ Let the desert And its cities cry aloud, The villages where Kedar dwelleth; Let the inhabitants of the rock sing; And let them shout from the top of the mountains.

¹² Let them give glory to Jehovah, And let them declare his praise in the islands.

¹³ Jehovah shall go forth as a giant; And as a warrior shall he rouse his zeal; He shall cry aloud; he shall shout; He shall strengthen himself against his adversaries.

¹⁴ I have kept silence for a long time; I have been silent, And have refrained myself; I will cry like a woman in travail; I will destroy And swallow at once.

¹⁵ I will reduce mountains And hills to a wilderness; I will dry up all their herbage; I will make the rivers islands; And I will dry up the pools.

¹⁶ And I will lead the blind by a way which they knew not; I will cause them to walk in paths which they had not known; And I will turn darkness before them into light, And crooked ways into a plain. These things ⁷⁶ will I do to them, And I will not forsake them.

¹⁷ They shall be turned back, With shame shall they be ashamed, Who trust in a graven image; And who say to a molten image; Ye are our gods.

¹⁸ O ye deaf, hear; And ye blind, be attentive to see.

¹⁹ Who is blind but my servant? Who is deaf but my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as he that is perfect, And blind as the servant of Jehovah?

²⁰ By seeing many things which thou observest not; By opening the ears, so that he may not hear.

²¹ Jehovah is well-pleased on account of his righteousness, That he may honor And magnify his law.

²² But this people hath been robbed And trodden down; They shall all be snared in prisons, And they shall be hidden in caves; They shall be made a spoil, And there shall be none to deliver; A prey, And none shall say, Restore.

²³ Who among you will hear this? Who will hearken? Who will attend for the time to come?

²⁴ Who gave Jacob to be a prey, And gave up Israel to the robbers? Was it not Jehovah? Because we have sinned against him, And they would not walk in his ways, And did not hearken to his law.

²⁵ Therefore he hath poured upon him The fury of his anger, And the strength of battle. It set him on fire on every side, And he gave no heed to it; It burned him, But he laid it not to heart.

¹ And now thus saith Jehovah, Thy Creator, O Jacob, And thy Former, O Israel; Fear not, for I have redeemed (thee); I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

² When thou shalt pass through the waters, I will be with thee; Through rivers, they shall not overflow thee; When thou shalt pass through the fire itself, thou shalt not be scorched; And the flame shall not kindle on thee.

³ For I am Jehovah thy God; The Holy One of Israel, thy Savior; I have given Egypt as the price of thy redemption, Ethiopia And Sheba in thy room.

⁴ Because thou hast been precious in my eyes, Thou hast been honorable, And I have loved thee. I will give a man in thy stead, And peoples instead of thy soul.

⁵ Fear not, for I am with thee; I will bring thy seed from the East, And I will gather thee from the West.

⁶ I will say to the North, Give; And to the South, Hinder not; Bring my sons from a distance, And my daughters from the end of the earth.

⁷ All are called by my name, And I have created them for my glory; I have formed them; yea, I have made them.

⁸ That I may bring forth the blind people, who have eyes; And the deaf, who have ears.

⁹ Let all the nations be assembled together, And let the peoples be gathered. Who is there among them to declare this, And to cause us to hear the former things? Let them produce their witnesses, they shall be declared righteous; But let them hear, And they shall says, It is truth.

¹⁰ Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, And my servant, whom I have chosen. Therefore ye shall know And believe me; And ye shall understand that I am He; Before me there was no god formed; Nor shall there be after me.

¹¹ I, I ⁷⁷ am Jehovah; And there is no Savior besides me.

¹² I have declared, And have saved, And have made you to heat; And there is no strange (god) among you. Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, That I am God.

¹³ Even before the day was, I was; And there is none to deliver out of my hand. I will do; And who shall disannul it?

¹⁴ Thus saith Jehovah, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel; For your sake have I sent to Babylon, And have made them come down. They are all fugitives; And the cry of the Babylonians is in the ships.

¹⁵ I am Jehovah, your Holy One; The Creator of Israel, your King.

¹⁶ Thus saith Jehovah, Who maketh a way in the sea, And a path in the stormy waters.

¹⁷ When he bringeth (them) out, The chariot And the horse, The army And the power, Lie down together, so that they do not rise. They are quenched; they are quenched like flax.

¹⁸ Remember not the former things, And mention not the things that are ancient.

¹⁹ Behold, I do a new thing; Now it shall arise; Shall ye not know it? This time ⁷⁸ I will make a way ill the wilderness, Rivers in the desert.

²⁰ The beast of the field shall honor me; The dragons, And the young of the ostrich; Because I will give waters in the wilderness, Rivers in the desert, To give drink to my people, my chosen.

²¹ This people have I created for myself; They shall declare my praise.

²² And thou hast not called on me, O Jacob; But thou hast been wearied of me, O Israel.

²³ Thou hast not brought to me the cattle of thy burnt-offerings; And thou hast not honored me with thy sacrifices; I have not made thee to serve with offering, Nor to be wearied with incense.

²⁴ Thou hast not bought cane for me with money, And hast not made me drunk with the fat of thy sacrifices; But thou hast made me to serve with thy sills; And thou hast made me to weary with thine iniquities.

²⁵ I, I ⁷⁹ am He, Who blot out thine iniquities for my own sake; Therefore I will not remember thy sins.

²⁶ Bring to my remembrance; Let us plead together; declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

²⁷ Thy first father hath sinned, And thy teachers have transgressed against me.

²⁸ Therefore I will pollute the princes of the sanctuary; And I will make Jacob a curse, And Israel a reproach.

¹ Yet now hear, O Jacob, my servant, And Israel whom I have chosen.

² Thus saith Jehovah, thy Maker, And thy Former from the womb; He will help thee. Fear not, O Jacob, my servant, O beloved, whom I have chosen.

³ For I will pour waters on that which is thirsty, And floods on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit on thy seed, And my blessing on thy productions.

⁴ And they shall spring up as among the grass, As willows near the streams of waters.

⁵ One shall say, I belong to Jehovah; And another shall be called by the name of Jacob; Another shall write with his hand, (I belong) to Jehovah, And shall be surnamed by the name of Israel.

⁶ Thus saith Jehovah, the King of Israel, And his Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts; I am the first, And I am also the last; And besides me there is no God.

⁷ And who as I shall call, Shall declare this, And set it in order before me, Since I appointed the people of the age? And let them tell them the things that are coming, And the things that shall come.

⁸ Fear ye not, And be not terrified. Have I not since then made thee to hear? And have I not declared it? Therefore ye are my witnesses, That there is no God besides me, And there is no strong God whom I know not.

⁹ The formers of a graven image are all vanity; And their desirable things do no; profit; And they are their own witnesses That they do not see, nor know; And therefore they shall be confounded.

¹⁰ Who is the maker of God? And who is it that hath molten a graven image, Which is profitable for nothing?

¹¹ Behold, all his companions shall be ashamed; And the workmen themselves are of men; Though they all assemble, And stand up, They shall tremble, And be ashamed together.

¹² The worker in iron shall take the file; ⁸⁰ He shall work in the coals; He shall form it with hammers; He shall work in it with the arm of his strength; He shall even be hungry, so that his strength shall fail; He shall not drink water, so that he shall faint.

¹³ The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; He marketh it with a dyed thread; He adjusteth it with planes; He shapeth it with a compass; He maketh it according to the shape of a man, According to the image of a man, That it may remain in the house.

¹⁴ He shall cut down for himself cedars; He shall take the pine And the oak; He shall supply himself with trees of the forest; He shall plant a pine which the rain shall nourish.

¹⁵ Then shall a man have them for burning; For he shall take of them, And shall warm himself; Yea, he shall heat an oven, And shall bake bread; He shall also make a god, And worship it; He shall make an idol, And shall bow down before it.

¹⁶ Part of it he shall burn in the fire; Of a part he shall make ready flesh, And shall cat it; He shall roast roast. And shall be satisfied. Next, he shall warm himself, And shall say, Ah! I am warmed, And have seen the fire.

¹⁷ The remainder of it he turneth into a god, Into his graven image; He boweth down before it; He worshippeth And prayeth to it, Saying, Deliver me; for thou art my God.

¹⁸ They have not known, nor understood; For he hath smeared their eyes, that they may not see, And their heart, that they may not understand.

¹⁹ It cloth not return into their heart; They have not knowledge, nor understanding, to say, Part of it I have burned in the fire; Yea, on the coals of it have I baked bread; I have roasted flesh, And have eaten it; Shall I turn the remainder of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down before the stock of a tree?

²⁰ He feedeth on ashes: A deceived heart turneth him aside, So that he cannot deliver his soul, nor sly, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

²¹ Remember these things, O Jacob; And Israel, for thou art my servant; I have formed thee; thou art my servant; O Israel, do not thou forget me.

²² I have blotted out, as a cloud, thy iniquities; As a vapor, thy sins. Return thou to me; For I have redeemed thee.

²³ Praise, O ye heavens; For Jehovah hath done it; Shout, ye lower parts of the earth; Burst forth into praise, ye mountains; O forest. And every tree that is in it; For Jehovah hath redeemed Jacob, And will be glorified ill Israel.

²⁴ Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, And thy Maker from the womb: I am Jehovah, who maketh all things, Who stretcheth out the heavens above, Who spreadeth out the earth by my power; ^{81 25} Who frustrateth the tokens of the diviners; Who maketh the soothsayers mad; Who turneth wise men backward; And who maketh their knowledge foolishness;

²⁶ Who upholdeth the word of his servant, And performeth the counsel of his messengers; Saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; And to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built; And I will raise up her ruins.

²⁷ Who saith to the deep, Be thou dried up; And I will make dry thy rivers;

²⁸ Who saith to Cyrus, Thou art my shepherd; And he shall fulfil all my will; Even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; And to the Temple, Thou shalt be founded.

¹ Thus saith Jehovah to his anointed, To Cyrus, whose right hand I have taken hold of, To subdue nations before him; Therefore will I loose ⁸² the loins of kings; To open the doors before him; Therefore the gates shall not be shut.

² I will go before thee; And will make straight the crooked ways; I will break asunder the brazen doors; And I will hew down the iron bars.

³ And I will give thee treasures of darkness, And things hidden in secret places; That thou mayest know that I am Jehovah, Who call thee by thy name; Even the God of Israel.

⁴ For the sake of my servant Jacob, And for the sake of Israel, mine elect; I will call thee by thy name; I will surname thee, though thou hast not known me.

⁵ I am Jehovah, And there is none besides me; There is no god besides me; I have girded thee, though thou hast not known me.

⁶ Therefore shall they know, From the rising of the sun, And from the west, That there is none besides me. I am Jehovah; And there is none besides me.

⁷ Forming light, And creating darkness; Making peace, And creating evil; I Jehovah do all these things.

⁸ Drop down, ye heavens, from above; And let the clouds pour down righteousness; Let the earth be opened; And let salvation And righteousness come forth; Let her bring them forth together: I Jehovah have created it.

⁹ Wo to him that striveth with his Maker! A potsherd to the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to his maker, Why hast thou made? And, Thy work hath no hands?

¹⁰ Wo to him that saith to his father, Why hast thou begotten And to the woman, Why dost thou bring forth?

¹¹ Thus saith Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel, And his Maker; Ask me of things to come; Concerning my sons command ye me, And concerning the work of my hands.

¹² I have made the earth, And have created man upon it; It is I, whose hands have stretched out the heavens; And all their army have I commanded.

¹³ I have raised him up in righteousness, And will make straight all his ways. He shall build my city, And shall release my captivity; Not for price nor for reward, Saith Jehovah of hosts.

¹⁴ Thus saith Jehovah; The labor of Egypt, the merchandise of Ethiopia, And the Sabeans of great stature, Shall pass over to thee, And shall be thine; They shall walk behind thee; In chains shall they pass over, And shall reverence And beseech thee. Surely ⁸³ God is in thee; And there is no other besides God.

¹⁵ Truly thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Savior!

¹⁶ All of them shall be covered with shame, And shall even blush: With shame shall go away together All the makers of graven images.

¹⁷ Israel hath been saved in Jehovah with eternal salvation; Ye shall not be covered with shame; Neither shall ye blush even for ever.

¹⁸ For thus saith Jehovah, who createth the heavens; God himself, the Maker of the earth; Who made it, And furnished it; He created it not empty; He formed it to be inhabited; I am Jehovah, And there is none besides me.

¹⁹ Not in secret have I spoken, In a place of the darkness of the earth; Not in vain have I said to the seed of Jacob, Seek me; I Jehovah speak righteousness; I declare what is right.

²⁰ Assemble yourselves, And come; Draw near together, ye rejected ⁸⁴ of the nations. They know nothing, who carry about the wood of a graven image, And who pray to a god who cannot save.

²¹ Publish ye, And bring forward; Yea, let them consult together. Who hath caused this to be heard from the beginning? And who hath declared it from ancient times? Is it not I Jehovah? And there is no other god besides me; A just God, And a Savior; There is none besides me.

²² Look to me, And ye shall be saved, All the ends of the earth; For I am God, And there is none else.

²³ By myself have I sworn; In righteousness hath the word gone out of my mouth, Which shall not return; That to me every knee shall bend; Every tongue shall swear.

²⁴ Surely in Jehovah, will he say, Have I righteousness And strength; To him shall he come; And all who provoke him shall be ashamed.

²⁵ In Jehovah all the seed of Israel Shall be justified, And shall glory.

¹ Bel hath bowed down; Nebo is fallen; Their images shall be on the beasts And the cattle; They who carry you are burdened by you; A wearisome burden.

² They bowed down; they stooped together; And they could not withdraw themselves from the binden; And their soul hath gone away into captivity.

³ Hear me, O house of Jacob; All ye the remnant of the house of Israel; Who are borne from the womb; Who are carried from the breast.

⁴ And even to old age I am the same; And even to gray hairs I will carry. I have made, And I will bear; I will carry, And will save.

⁵ To whom will ye liken, And make me equal, And compare me, that I may be like?

⁶ Lavishing gold out of bags; Weighing silver in a balance; They shall hire a goldsmith, to make of it a god; To bow down before it, And to worship it.

⁷ They shall carry him on the shoulder; They shall lead him about; They shall put him in his place; There shall he stand; From his place shall he not remove; Moreover, if any one cry to him, he will not answer, Nor deliver him from his trouble.

⁸ Remember ye this, And blush; ⁸⁵ Return to your heart, ye transgressors.

⁹ Remember the former things of old; For I am God, And there is none besides, And there is none like me.

¹⁰ Declaring the latest event from the beginning, And from antiquity those things which had not yet been done; Saying, My counsel shall stand, And I will do whatever I wish.

¹¹ Calling a bird ⁸⁶ from the east, From a distant country the man of my counsel; I have spoken, And accordingly I will accomplish it; I have thought, And I will do it.

¹² Hear me, ye that are stubborn in heart, Who are far from righteousness.

¹³ I will cause my righteousness to come near, And it shall not be delayed; And my salvation shall not tarry; And I will place salvation in Zion, And my glory in Jerusalem.

¹ Come down, And sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; Sit on the ground; There is no throne for the daughter of the Babylonians; For they shall no more call thee tender And delicate.

² Take millstones, And grind meal; Unbind thy curled locks, make bare the feet; Uncover the limbs, that thou mayest cross the rivers.

³ Thy baseness shall be exposed, And thy shame shall be seen; I will take vengeance, And will not meet a man. ^{87 4} Our Redeemer, his name is Jehovah of hosts, The Holy One of Israel.

⁵ Sit thou silent, enter into darkness, O daughter of the Babylonians; For they shall no longer call thee the mistress of kingdoms.

⁶ I was angry with my people; I profaned my inheritance; And I gave them up into thy hand; Thou didst not show compassion to them; On the old man didst thou heavily lay thy yoke.

⁷ And thou saidst, I shall for ever be a mistress. Hitherto thou hast not applied thy mind to it, And hast not remembered her end.

⁸ But now hear this, thou delicate woman, That sitteth confidently; Who saith in her heart, I am, And there is none besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, And I shall not know bereavement.

⁹ But those two things shall suddenly come to thee, Bereavement And widowhood; In their perfection shall they come upon thee, For the multitude ⁸⁸ of thy divinations, And for the abundance of thy auguries.

¹⁰ For thou trustedst in thy malice; Thou saidst, No one seeth me. Thy wisdom And thy knowledge have led thee astray; And thou saidst in thy heart, It is I, And there is none besides me.

¹¹ Therefore shall evil come upon thee, the dawn of which thou knowest not crushing shall fall upon thee, which thou shalt not be able to avert; Destruction shall suddenly come upon thee, which thou knowest not; ^{89 12} Stand now amidst thy divinations, And amidst the multitude of thy auguries, In which thou hast wearied thyself from thy youth: If perhaps thou mayest be profited, If perhaps thou mayest prevail.

¹³ Thou hast wearied thyself with the multitude of thy counsels; Let the binders of the heavens, The watchers of the stars, who predict by the moon, Stand now And deliver thee, From those things which shall come upon thee.

¹⁴ Behold, they shall he as stubble; The fire shall burn them; They shall not deliver their soul from the strength of the flame; There shall not be a coal to warm, Nor a light at which they may sit.

¹⁵ So shall they be to thee with whom thou weariedst thyself, Thy traders from thy youth. Every one shall wander into his own quarter; There shall be no one to save thee.

¹ Hear this, O house of Jacob, Ye who are called by the name of Israel, Who have come forth from the waters of Judah, Who swear by the name of Jehovah, And remember the God of Israel, Not in truth, nor in righteousness.

² For from the holy city they are called, And they rely on the God of Israel, Whose name is Jehovah of hosts.

³ Long ago did I declare the former things; They went out of my mouth; I published them; I did them suddenly, And they came.

⁴ For I knew that thou art obstinate; And thy neck is all iron sinew; And thy forehead is of brass.

⁵ Long ago did I declare them to thee; Before they came, I showed to thee; Lest perhaps thou shouldst say, My idol hath done these things; My graven image And my molten image hath commanded them.

⁶ Thou hast heard; see all things; And will ye not declare them? Even now have I made thee to hear new things, And hidden things, which thou didst not know.

⁷ Now for the first time have they been created, And not long ago, nor by a succession of time; Thou hadst not heard them; Lest thou shouldst say, Behold, I knew.

⁸ Surely thou hadst not heard; Surely thou hadst not known; Surely it is not long since thine ear was opened; For I knew that by transgressing thou didst transgress; Therefore have I called thee a rebel from the womb.

⁹ For my names sake I will delay my fury; And for my praise I will restrain myself toward thee, So as not to cut thee off.

¹⁰ Behold, I have tried thee, And not like silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

¹¹ For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do it; For how shall my name be profaned? And I will not give my glory to another.

¹² Hear me, O Jacob, And O Israel, my called; I, even I, am the first; Also I am the last.

¹³ Surely my hand hath founded the earth; And my right hand hath measured ⁹⁰ the heavens with the palm; When I call them they stand up ⁹¹ together.

¹⁴ Assemble yourselves, all of you, And hear. Who among them declareth those things? Jehovah hath loved him, And will execute his pleasure against Babylon, And his arm ⁹² against the Babylonians.

¹⁵ I, I ⁹³ have spoken; Surely I have called him, I have led him; Therefore he shall prosper in his way.

¹⁶ Draw near to me, hear this. I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; Since the thing was done, there was I; And now the Lord Jehovah, And his Spirit, hath sent me.

¹⁷ Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel. I am Jehovah thy God, Who teacheth thee profitably, Who directeth thee in the way which thou goest.

¹⁸ O if thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! Then should thy peace have been as a river, And thy righteousness as the waves of the sea.

¹⁹ Thy seed should have been as the sand, And the children of thy womb as the small stones of it; Her name would not be cut off, And would not be destroyed before my face.

²⁰ Come forth from Babylon; Flee from the Babylonians. With the voice of rejoicing tell this; Publish, And carry it even to the end of the earth. Say ye, Jehovah hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

²¹ Therefore they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; He made water to flow to them from the rock; He clave the rock, And the waters flowed out.

²² There is no peace, saith Jehovah to the wicked.

¹ Hear me, O islands! And hearken, ye peoples from afar. Jehovah hath called me from the womb; From my mothers belly he hath had my name in remembrance.

² And he hath placed nay mouth like a sharp sword; In the shadow of his hand he hath protected me, And hath placed me as a polished arrow; in his quiver hath he hid me;

³ And said to me, Thou art my servant, O Israel! In thee will I he glorified.

⁴ But I said, In vain have I toiled; Uselessly And unprofitably have I exhausted my strength; and my judgment is before Jehovah; And my work before my God.

⁵ And now saith Jehovah, Who formed me from the womb to be his servant, That I may bring back Jacob to him: And though Israel be not gathered, Yet I shall be glorious in the eyes of Jehovah, And my God shall be my strength.

⁶ And he saith, It is a light thing that thou shouldst be my servant, To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And that thou shouldst restore the desolations of Israel; Therefore have I appointed thee to be a light of the Gentiles, That thou mayest be my salvation to the end of the earth.

⁷ Thus saith Jehovah, The Redeemer of Israel, His Holy One, To the contemptible in the soul, To the abhorred nation, To the servant of rulers; Kings shall see, And princes shall arise, And shall worship for the sake of Jehovah; For faithful is the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee.

⁸ Thus saith Jehovah, In a time of good-pleasure have I listened to thee; In the day of salvation have I assisted thee; And I will preserve thee, . And give thee for a covenant of the people, That thou mayest raise up the earth, That thou mayest possess by inheritance the desolate heritages;

⁹ That thou mayest say to them that are bound, Go forth! To them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. On the ways they shall feed; On all the high places shall be their pastures.

¹⁰ They shall not hunger nor thirst; The heat And the sun shall not smite them; For he that hath compassion on them shall guide them; And by the fountains of waters shall he lead them.

¹¹ And I will place all my mountains for a way; And my paths shall be elevated.

¹² Behold! those from afar shall come; And, behold! those from the North, And from the sea; And those from the land of Sinis. ^{94 13} Praise ye, O heavens! And rejoice, thou earth; And break forth into praise, ye mountains; For Jehovah hath comforted his people, And will have compassion on his poor.

¹⁴ Yet Zion hath said, Jehovah hath forsaken me, And my Lord hath forgotten me.

¹⁵ Shall a woman forget her infant, So as not to have compassion oil the soil of her womb? Even though they have forgotten, Yet will not I forget thee.

¹⁶ Behold! on the palms of my hands have I engraven thee; Thy walls are continually before me.

¹⁷ Thy builders hasten; Thy destroyers And demolishers shall depart far from thee.

¹⁸ Lift up thine eyes round about, And see. All are assembled, And have come to thee. I live, saith Jehovah, That thou shalt be clothed with them all, as with an ornament, And shalt be bound with them round about as a bride.

¹⁹ For thy desolations, And thy wastes, And thy ruined land, Shall now be too narrow for the multitude of its inhabitants; And thy destroyers shall depart far away.

²⁰ The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears, The place is too narrow for me; Make room for me. that I may dwell.

²¹ And thou shalt say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me those? For I am bereaved ⁹⁵ And solitary, A wanderer And an exile; Who then hath brought up those? Behold! I was left alone; Whence are they?

²² Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold! I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles, And will erect my banner to the people; And they shall bring thy sons in their bosom, And thy daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.

²³ And kings shall be thy nursing-fathers, And their queens thy nurses; With their faces on the ground they shall worship thee, And shall lick the dust of thy feet; And thou shalt know that I am Jehovah, For they who wait for me shall not be ashamed.

²⁴ Shall the prey be taken from the mighty? And shall the captivity of the righteous ⁹⁶ be delivered?

²⁵ Yet thus saith Jehovah; Even the captivity of the mighty shall be taken away, And the prey of the tyrant shall be delivered; For I will contend with him who contendeth with thee, And I will save thy children.

²⁶ And I will feed thy spoilers with their own flesh, And they shall be made drunk with their own blood as with new wine; And all flesh shall know that I am Jehovah, Thy Savior And thy Redeemer, The Mighty One of Jacob.

¹ Thus saith Jehovah: Where is that bill of your mothers divorcement Whom I have dismissed? Or who is the creditor To whom I sold you? Behold! for your iniquities ye have been sold, And to your transgressions was . Your mother dismissed.

² Why came I, And no mall (met me)? Called I, And no man answered? By shortening hath my hand been shortened, So that it cannot redeem? Is there not in me power to deliver? Behold! by my rebuke I dry up the sea; I put rivers in the wilderness, So that their fishes purify for want of water, And die for thirst.

³ I clothe the heavens with blackness, And make their covering like sackcloth.

⁴ The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of the learned, That I may know a word in season to the weary. In the morning will he awaken, In the morning will he awaken mine ear, That I may hear as the learned.

⁵ The Lord Jehovah hath opened mine ear, And I was not rebellious: I did not turn back.

⁶ I exposed my body to the smiters, And my cheeks to them that tore me; My face I did not hide from shame And spitting.

⁷ For the Lord Jehovah will assist me; Therefore I was not ashamed; Therefore have I set my time as a flint; And I know that I shall not be confounded.

⁸ He is near that justifieth me: Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together: Who is the opponent of my cause? Let him draw near to me.

⁹ Behold! the Lord Jehovah will assist me; Who is he that shall condemn me? Behold! all shall wax old as a garment; The moth shall consume them.

¹⁰ Who is there among you that feareth Jehovah? Let him hear the voice of his servant. He who hath walked in darkness, And hath had no light; Let him trust in the name of Jehovah, And rely on his God.

¹¹ Behold! ye all kindle a fire, And are surrounded with sparks. Walk ye in the light of your fire, And in the sparks which ye have kindled. From my hand hath this been to you; Ill sorrow shall ye lie down.

¹ Hearken to me, ye that follow righteousness, Ye that seek Jehovah; Look ye to the rock of your hewing, And to the hole of the pit whence ye were digged.

² Look ye to Abraham your father; And to Sarah, who bore you; For I called him alone, And blessed And multiplied him.

³ Surely Jehovah will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her desolations; And he will make her desert like a place of delights, And her wilderness like the garden of Jehovah: Gladness And joy shall be found in her; Confession And the voice of a song.

⁴ Attend to me, my people; And listen to me, my nation; For the law shall go forth from me; And I will reveal my judgment for a light of the peoples.

⁵ My righteousness is near; My salvation hath gone forth; And my arms shall judge the peoples: For me shall the islands wait, And in my arm shall they hope.

⁶ Lift up your eyes toward heaven, And look upon the earth beneath; For the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, And the earth shall wax old like a garment, And its inhabitants shall perish in the same manner; But my salvation shall endure for ever. And my righteousness shall not perish.

⁷ Hearken to me, ye that know righteousness; A people in whose heart is my law. Fear ye not the reproach of men, And be not discouraged by their slander.

⁸ For the moth shall consume them like a garment; The worm shall consume them like wool; But my righteousness shall continually endure, And my salvation for ever And ever.

⁹ Awake, O arm of Jehovah! Awake, be clothed with strength! Awake as in ancient days, As in generations long ago past. Art thou not that arm which crushed the proud one, Which slew the dragon?

¹⁰ Art thou not that arm which dried up the sea, The water of the vast gulf; Which turned the depth of the sea into a path, For the passage of the redeemed?

¹¹ Therefore the redeemed by Jehovah shall return; They shall come to Zion with a song; And everlasting joy shall be upon their head; They shall obtain gladness And joy, And sorrow And groaning shall flee away.

¹² I, I am he that comforteth you. Who art thou that thou shouldst be afraid of man that shall die, Of the son of man, that shall be accounted grass?

¹³ And hast forgotten Jehovah thy Maker, Who stretched out the heavens, And founded the earth; And hast dreaded continually every day The rage of the destroyer, When he prepareth to lay waste? And where is the rage of the destroyer?

¹⁴ The exile hasteneth to be loosed, That he may not die in a pit, And that his bread may not fail.

¹⁵ And I am Jehovah thy God, Who divide the sea, And its waves shall roar; Jehovah of hosts is his name.

¹⁶ And I have put my words in thy mouth; And in the shadow of my hand have I protected thee; That I may plant the heavens And found the earth; That I may say to Zion, Thou art my people.

¹⁷ Awake, awake, O Jerusalem! Arise, thou who hast drunk from the hand of Jehovah the cup of his fury; Pressing out, thou hast drunk the dregs of the cup of distress. ^{97 18} Of all the sons whom she bore, There is no one to guide her; Of all the sons whom she brought up, There is no one to take her by the hand.

¹⁹ These two things have happened to thee; Who shall bewail thee? Desolation And destruction, And the famine And the sword; Who shall comfort thee?

²⁰ Thy sons have fainted; They lay down at the head of all the streets, As a wild bull in a net, Full of the indignation of Jehovah, Of the rebuke of thy God.

²¹ Therefore now hear this, thou afflicted, And drunken, but not with wine ²² Thus saith thy Lord, Jehovah, And thy God, the avenger of his people; Behold! I have taken out of thy hand The cup of affliction ⁹⁸ The dregs of the cup of my fury; Thou shalt not drink of it any more.

²³ And I will put it into the hand of thy oppressors, Who said to thy soul, Bow down, And we shall pass over; And thou didst lay thy body as the ground, And as the street to them that pass over.

¹ Awake, awake, O Zion! Be clothed with thy strength, Be clothed with the garments of thy beauty, O Jerusalem! the holy city; For there shall no longer come into thee, The uncircumcised And unclean.

² Shake thyself from the dust; Arise, sit, O Jerusalem! Loose thyself from the chains of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion!

³ For rims saith Jehovah for naught were ye sold; Therefore shall ye be redeemed without money.

⁴ For thus saith the Lord Jehovah Into Egypt my people went down aforetime, That they might sojourn there; But Assyria hath oppressed them without cause.

⁵ And now, What have I here, saith Jehovah, That my people should be carried away for naught, And that they who rule over them should cause them to howl, Saith Jehovah, And that every day continually: My name should be exposed to reproach?

⁶ Therefore shall my people know my name; Therefore shall they know in that day That it is I who speak; Behold! I shall be present.

⁷ How beautiful upon the mountains Are the feet of him that bringeth tidings, That proclaimeth peace, That bringeth good tidings, That proclaimeth salvation, That saith to Zion, Thy God reigneth!

⁸ The voice of thy watchmen! They have lifted up the voice; They shall shout for joy together; For they shall see eye to eye, When Jehovah shall restore Zion.

⁹ Praise ye, And rejoice together, Ye wildernesses of Jerusalem; For Jehovah hath comforted his people; He hath redeemed Jerusalem.

¹⁰ Before the eyes of all the nations Jehovah hath made bare the arm of his holiness; And all the ends of the earth Shall see the salvation of our God.

¹¹ Depart ye, depart ye; Go ye out thence; Touch not the unclean thing; Go ye out of the midst of her; Be clean, ye that bear the vessels of Jehovah.

¹² For not in haste shall ye go out, And not in flight shall be your journey; For Jehovah shall go before you, And the God of Israel shall assemble you.

¹³ Behold! my servant shall have prosperous success, Shall be exalted, Shall be lifted up, And shall be very high.

¹⁴ As many were shocked at thee; (So much was his face disfigured by men, ⁹⁹ And his form by the sons of men; ¹⁰⁰)

¹⁵ So shall he sprinkle many nations; Kings shall shut their mouths on him; For what had not been declared to them they shall see, And what they had not heard they shall understand.

¹ Who will believe our report? And to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed?

² Yet he shall grow up before him as a twig, And as a root out of a desert land; He hath no form nor beauty; We will see him; And his countenance is not such that we should desire him.

³ Despised And rejected among men; . h man of sorrows; Acquainted with infirmity; We hid, as it were, the face from him; And we did not at all esteem him.

⁴ Surely our sicknesses he bare; And our sorrows he carried; And we thought him to be smitten, Wounded by God And afflicted.

⁵ But he was wounded for our iniquities; He was bruised for our sins; The chastisement of our peace was upon him; And in his wound ¹⁰¹ we have healing.

⁶ We all, like sheep, have gone astray; Every one hath turned to his own way; And Jehovah hath laid upon him the iniquities of us all.

⁷ He was condemned And afflicted; ¹⁰² And he opened not his mouth. As a lamb shall he be led to the slaughter; And as a sheep before her shearers shall he be dumb, And shall not open his mouth.

⁸ From prison And judgment was he taken; And who shall relate his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living; For the transgression of my people was he wounded.

⁹ And he laid open to wicked men his grave, And to the rich man his death. Although he did no iniquity, And there was no deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰ Yet Jehovah was pleased to bruise him, And to subject him to infirmity. When he shall have offered his soul as a sacrifice, He shall see a seed; ¹⁰³ He shall prolong his days; And the will of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.

¹¹ Of the labor of his soul he shall see, And shall be satisfied; And by his doctrine ¹⁰⁴ shall my righteous servant justify many; For he shall bear their iniquities.

¹² Therefore will I divide to him a portion with the great; And he shall divide the spoil with the strong; Because he poured out his soul unto death, And was ranked with the transgressors; He bare the sin of many, And prayed for the transgressors.

¹ Shout, O barrens that didst not bear; Shout And sing, thou that didst not conceive; For more are the children of the widow, Than the children of the married woman, saith Jehovah.

² Widen the place of thy tabernacles; And let them stretch out the curtains of thy tents; Spare not; Lengthen thy cords; And strengthen thy stakes.

³ For on the right hand And on the left thou shalt be multiplied; And thy seed shall possess the Gentiles; And they shall inhabit the desolate cities.

⁴ Fear not, for thou shalt not be ashamed; And blush not, for thou shalt not be exposed to disgrace; Yea, the shame of thy youth thou shalt forget; And the reproach of thy widowhood thou shalt no longer remember.

⁵ For thy husband is thy Make, Whose name is Jehovah of hosts; And thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called. ^{105 6} For as a woman forsaken And broken in spirit Jehovah hath called thee; And a wife of youth, Who hadst been dismissed, Saith thy God.

⁷ For a little moment have I forsaken thee, And with great mercies will I gather thee.

⁸ In a moment of wrath I hid my face for a little from thee; But with everlasting kindness have I had compassion on thee, Saith Jehovah thy Redeemer.

⁹ For the waters of Noah ¹⁰⁶ this is to me; As I have sworn that the waters of Noah Shall no more pass over the earth; So have I sworn that I will not be wroth with thee, To rebuke thee.

¹⁰ For the mountains shall indeed be shaken, And the hills shall tremble; But my mercy shall not depart from thee, And the covenant of my peace shall not waver, Saith Jehovah, who hath compassion on thee.

¹¹ O thou wretched, tossed by a tempest, Destitute of consolation; Behold! I will build thy stones on carbuncles, And will found thee on sapphires.

¹² And I will lay thy windows with pearls, And thy gates with shilling stone, And all thy borders with precious stone.

¹³ For all thy children shall be taught by Jehovah, And thy children shall have great peace.

¹⁴ In righteousness shalt thou be equipped; Thou shalt be far from oppression, for thou shalt not fear it; And from terror, for it shall not come near thee.

¹⁵ And he who assembleth shall assemble against thee without me; He who assembleth in thee shall fall against thee.

¹⁶ Behold! I have created the smith, That bloweth the coals in the fire, And bringeth out the instrument for his work; I have created the waster to destroy.

¹⁷ No instrument that hath been formed against thee shall prosper; And every tongue that hath risen against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah; And their righteousness is from me, saith Jehovah.

¹ Ho! all that are thirsty, Come ye to the waters; And ye who have not money, Come ye, buy, And eat. Come ye, buy without money, And wine And milk without any price.

² Wherefore do ye spend ¹⁰⁷ money, not for bread? And your labor, not so as to be satisfied, Hear ye by hearing 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 strike a covenant of eternity with you, The faithful mercies of David.

⁴ Behold I have given him a witness to the peoples, A leader And instructor to the peoples.

⁵ Behold! thou shalt call a nation which thou knowest not; And a nation that knew not thee shall run to thee; For the sake of Jehovah thy God, And of the Holy One of Israel; For he hath glorified thee.

⁶ Seek ye Jehovah, while he is found; Call upon him, while he is near.

⁷ Let the wicked man forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to Jehovah, And he will have compassion on him; To our God; for he aboundeth in pardoning.

⁸ For my thoughts are not your thoughts, And my ways are not your ways, saith Jehovah.

⁹ For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So far do my ways exceed your ways, And my thoughts your thoughts.

¹⁰ Surely, as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither. But watereth the earth, And causeth it to bring forth And bud. That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater;

¹¹ So shall be my word which shall go out of nay mouth It shall not return to me empty; Till it do what I wish, And accomplish that to which I sent it.

¹² Therefore with peace shall ye go out, And with peace shall ye be led forth; The mountains And hills shall break out before you into joy, And all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands.

¹³ Instead of the bramble shall grow up the fir-tree; And instead of the nettle ¹⁰⁸ shall grow up the myrtle; ¹⁰⁹ And it shall be to Jehovah for a name; For an everlasting covenant, that shall not be cut off.

¹ Thus saith Jehovah; Keep ye judgment, And do righteousness; For my salvation is near, that it may come; And my righteousness, that it may be revealed.

² Happy is the man who shall do this, And the son of man who shall take hold of this; Keeping the Sabbath, so that he may not profane it; And keeping his hand, that he may abstain from all that is evil.

³ And let not the son, that is a foreigner, speak, That is joined to Jehovah, saying, By separating hath Jehovah separated me from his people; And let not the eunuch say, I am a dry tree.

⁴ For thus saith Jehovah to the eunuchs, Who keep my Sabbaths, And choose the things that please me, And take hold of my covenant;

⁵ In my house And within my walls, I will give to them a place And a name Better than of sons And of daughters; I will give to them an everlasting name, Which shall not be cut off.

⁶ The children, I say, of the foreigner, Who shall be joined to Jehovah? That they may minister to him, And may love the name of Jehovah; That they may be his servants; Whosoever shall keep the Sabbath, so that he may not profane it, And shall embrace my covenant:

⁷ Them will I bring into the mountain of my holiness, And will make them joyful in my house of prayer; Their burnt-offerings And sacrifices Shall be acceptable on mine altar; For my house shall be called A house of prayer to all peoples, ⁸ Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Who gathereth the outcasts of Israel: Still more will I gather upon him his gathered.

⁹ O all ye beasts of the field! Come to devour; O all ye beasts of the forest!

¹⁰ His watchmen are blind; All are ignorant; All are dumb dogs, that cannot bark; They lie down And sleep; They love slumber.

¹¹ And those dogs, strong of appetite, know not to be satisfied; The shepherds themselves know not? nor understand; All of them look to their own ways; Every one to his gain from his end.

¹² Come ye, I will fletch wine; We shall drink strong liquor; As today, so shall be tomorrow, Or better, And more abundant.

¹ The righteous man hath perished, And there is no man that layeth it to heart: Men of mercy are gathered, And there is none that considereth, That the righteous man is gathered from the face of the evil.

² Peace shall come; They shall rest in their beds, Whosoever walketh before him.

³ And draw near, ye sons of the sorceress; The seed of the adulterer And the whore.

⁴ On whom have ye made sport? On whom have ye opened the mouth? On whom have ye stretched out the tongue? Are ye not rebellious children? A lying seed?

⁵ Warming themselves among the oaks ¹¹⁰ under every green tree; Sacrificing children in the valleys, Under the cliffs of the rocks, ⁶ Among the smooth stones of the valley ¹¹¹ is thy portion; They, they are thy lot; Even to them hast thou poured out a drink-offering, And offered a sacrifice. Shall I take pleasure in these things? ^{112 7} On a lofty And high mountain hast thou set thy bed; Yea, thou art gone up to it to offer a sacrifice.

⁸ Behind the door And behind the door-post Hast thou set thy memorial; Thou hast been discovered to another than me; Thou art gone up; Thou hast enlarged thy bed; Thou hast made a covenant with them; Thou lovedst their bed in the place which thou sawest.

⁹ And thou wentest to the king with ointment; Thou multipliedst thy disguises; Thou sentest thy ambassadors to a distant place; Thou art humbled even to hell.

¹⁰ Thou art wearied with thy manifold journeying; And hast not said, There is no hope: Thou hast found the life of thine hand; Therefore thou hast not grieved.

¹¹ And whom hast thou worshipped, And of whom hast thou been afraid, That thou hast dealt falsely, And hast not remembered me, Blot laid it on thy heart? Is it not because I have held my peace, And therefore thou never fearest me?

¹² I will declare thy righteousness, And thy deeds; And they shall not profit thee.

¹³ When thou shalt cry, let thy troops deliver thee; Yet the wind shall carry them all away; Vanity shall seize them. But he who hopeth in me shall obtain the land by inheritance, And shall possess the mountain of my holiness.

¹⁴ And he shall say, Prepare, prepare; Level the road; Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.

¹⁵ For thus hath spoken the high And Lofty One, Who dwelleth in eternity, Whose name is Holy; I inhabit the high And holy, And with the afflicted, And with him who is lowly in spirit; That I may revive the spirit of the lowly, That I may revive the heart of the afflicted.

¹⁶ For I will not contend for ever, Nor will I be always wroth; For the spirit shall be clothed ¹¹³ before me, And the wind have I made.

¹⁷ For the iniquity of his lust I was wroth, And smote him; I have concealed myself, And will be wroth; But he turned And departed in the way of his heart.

¹⁸ I have seen his ways, And will heal him, And will lead him, restoring consolations To him And to his mourners.

¹⁹ I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to them that are afar off, And to them that are near, saith Jehovah, And I heal him.

²⁰ But the wicked are as the troubled sea, Which cannot rest; And its waters will east out filth And mud.

²¹ There is no peace to the wicked, saith my God.

¹ Cry with the throat, spare not; Raise thy voice as with a trumpet; And proclaim to my people their sin, And to the house of Jacob their iniquity.

² Yet they seek me daily, And wish to know my ways, As a nation that did righteousness, And neglected not the judgment of her God; They inquire at me about the judgments of righteousness: They wish to approach to God.

³ Wherefore have we fasted, And thou didst not take notice of it? Wherefore have we humbled our souls, And thou knewest not? Behold! on the day that ye fast, ye find pleasure, And exact all your demands.

⁴ Behold! for strife And contention ye fast, And that ye may smite with the wicked fist. Fast not, as ye do this day, That ye may cause your voice to be heard on high.

⁵ Is it such a fast as I have chosen? That a man may afflict his soul for a day, And may hang down his head as a bulrush, And may spread sackcloth And ashes? Wilt thou call this a fast, And a day acceptable to Jehovah?

⁶ Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose wicked bonds, To undo heavy burdens, To let the oppressed go free, And that ye may burst asunder every yoke?

⁷ Is it not that thou shalt break thy bread to the hungry, And shalt bring the wandering poor to thy house? If thou shalt see the naked, that thou shalt cover him; And that thou shalt not hide thyself from thine own flesh?

⁸ Then shall break forth as the dawn thy light; And thy health shall quickly spring up; Righteousness shall go before thy face, And the glory of Jehovah shall gather thee.

⁹ Then shalt thou call, And Jehovah will listen; Thou shalt cry, And he shall say, Behold! I am here. If thou shalt take away from the midst of thee the burden, And the pointing of the finger, And the speech of vanity; ^{114 10} If thou shalt pour out thy soul to the hungry man, And shalt satisfy the afflicted soul, Thy light shall arise in darkness, And thy obscurity as noon-day;

¹¹ And Jehovah shall always conduct thee, And shall satisfy thy soul in drought, And shall make fit thy bones; And thou shalt be as a well-watered garden, And as a fountain of waters, Whose waters fail not.

¹² And from thee shall be those who shall restore the deserts of the age; Thou shalt raise up the foundations of generation And generation; And thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths for inhabiting.

¹³ If thou shalt turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, And shalt not do thy pleasure on my holy day, And shalt call the Sabbath a delight, To consecrate it to Jehovah, because it is honorable, And shall give honor to it, So as not to follow thine own ways, Nor to find thine own pleasure, Nor to speak thine own words;

¹⁴ Then shalt thou delight thyself in Jehovah; And I will cause thee to ride on the high places of the earth, And will feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father; For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.

¹ Behold! the hand of Jehovah is not shortened, That it cannot, save; Nor is his ear heavy, That it cannot hear.

² But your sins have made a separation Between you And your God; And your sins have hidden his face from you, That he may not heal.

³ For your hands are polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have uttered falsehood; Your tongue hath spoken wickedness.

⁴ There is none that crieth for justice, None that contendeth for truth; They trust in vain things, And talk icily; They conceive mischief, arid bring forth iniquity.

⁵ They hatch the eggs of the basilisk, . And weave the webs of spiders; He that eateth of their eggs shall die; If they be crushed, there shall come forth a viper.

⁶ Their webs shall not become clothing, And they shall not cover themselves with their works; For their works are works of iniquity; ¹¹⁵ And the work of violence is in their hands.

⁷ Their bet run to evil, And hasten to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are vain thoughts; ¹¹⁶ Wasting And destruction are in their paths.

⁸ The way of peace they know not; And there is no judgment in their steps: They have corrupted their paths; Whosoever walketh by them shall not know peace.

⁹ Therefore judgment hath departed far from us; And justice doth not overtake us. We looked for light, And, behold! obscurity; For brightness, And, behold! we walk amidst thick darkness.

¹⁰ We grope for the wall like the blind; We grope like those who have been deprived of sight; We stumble at noon-day as in the night; Ill solitary places like dead men.

¹¹ We all roar like bears; And moaning, we moan like doves We looked for judgment, And it is not visible; For salvation, And it is far off from us.

¹² For our iniquities are multiplied before thee; And our sins have testified against us; ¹¹⁷ for our iniquities are with us, And we know our sins.

¹³ We have done wickedly, And have lied to Jehovah, And have turned back from our God; Speaking slander And revolt; Conceiving And uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

¹⁴ And judgment is driven back, And justice is far off; For truth is fallen in the street, And equity cannot come forth.

¹⁵ Yea, truth faileth; And he who hath withdrawn from evil hath become a prey. And Jehovah saw it; And it displeased his eyes, that there was no judgment.

¹⁶ He saw that there was no man, And wondered that none came forward; ¹¹⁸ Therefore his arm brought ¹¹⁹ salvation to him; And his righteousness, it upheld him.

¹⁷ And he put on righteousness as a coat of mail, And the helmet of salvation on his head; He put on vengeance as a robe, And was clothed with indignation as a cloak.

¹⁸ As if for the sake of recompenses, As if for rendering vengeance, For rendering indignation to his adversaries, Recompense to his enemies, He will render recompense to the islands.

¹⁹ Therefore they shall fear the name of Jehovah from the west, And his glory from the rising of the sun; For the enemy shall come as a river; And the Spirit of Jehovah shall drive him. ^{120 20} And a Redeemer shall come to Zion, And to them who have returned from iniquity in Jacob, Saith Jehovah.

²¹ And this my covenant I make with them, saith Jehovah; My Spirit that is upon thee, And my words which I have put in thy mouth, Shall not depart out of thy mouth, Nor out of the mouth of thy seed, Nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed, saith Jehovah, From this time even for ever.

¹ Arise, be bright; For thy brightness is come; And the glory of Jehovah is risen upon thee.

² For, behold! darkness shall cover the earth, And thick darkness the peoples; But Jehovah shall arise upon thee; And his glory shall be seen upon thee.

³ And the Gentiles shall walk to thy brightness, And kings to the luster of thy rising.

⁴ Lift up thine eyes round about, And see. They all are assembled that they may come to thee; Thy sons shall come from afar; Thy daughters shall be nursed at the side.

⁵ Then thou shalt see, And shalt be bright; Thou shalt tremble, And thy heart shall be enlarged; Because the abundance of the sea ¹²¹ shall be converted to thee; The riches ¹²² of the Gentiles shall come to thee.

⁶ A multitude of camels shall cover thee, Of the dromedaries of Midian And Ephah; All they from Sheba shall come; They shall bring gold And incense, And shall declare the praises of Jehovah.

⁷ All the sheep of Kedar shall be gathered together to thee; The rams of Nebaioth shall minister to thee; They shall ascend to the good-pleasure of mine altar; And I will glorify the house of my glory.

⁸ Who are those that fly as a cloud, And as doves to their windows?

⁹ Surely the islands shall wait for me, And the ships of Tarshish; That they may bring thy sons from afar, Their silver And their gold with them, To the name of Jehovah thy God, And to the Holy One of Israel; For he hath glorified thee.

¹⁰ And the sons of the foreigner shall build thy walls, And their kings shall minister to thee; For in my wrath I smote thee; And in my loving-kindness have I had compassion on thee.

¹¹ And thy gates shall be open continually; They shall not be shut by day nor by night; That the riches ¹²³ of the Gentiles may be carried to thee, And that their kings may be led.

¹² For the nation And kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; The nations, Is, shall be utterly destroyed.

¹³ The glory of Lebanon shall come to thee; The fir-tree, the pine, And the box together; To the beauty ¹²⁴ of the place of my holiness; For I will glorify the place of my feet.

¹⁴ And the sons of them that afflict thee Shall come bending to thee; And all who despised thee, Shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; And they shall call thee the City of Jehovah, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁵ Instead of thy having been forsaken And hated, So that no man passed through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, The joy of generation And generation.

¹⁶ And thou shalt suck the milk of the Gentiles; Thou shalt suck the breast of kings; And thou shalt know that Jehovah Am thy Savior And thy Redeemer, The Mighty One of Jacob.

¹⁷ For brass I will bring gold; And for iron I will bring silver; And for wood, brass; And for stones, iron; And I will make thy magistracy peace, And thine exactors, righteousness.

¹⁸ Oppression shall no longer be heard in thy hind; Wasting or destruction within thy borders; And thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, And thy gates, Praise.

¹⁹ And thou shalt no longer have the sun for the light of days, Nor shall the brightness of the moon give light to thee; For Jehovah shall be to thee an everlasting light, And thy God shall be thy glory.

²⁰ Thy sun shall no longer set; And thy moon shall no longer wane; For Jehovah shall be to thee an everlasting light; And the days of thy mourning shall be ended.

²¹ Thy people also shall all be righteous; They shall inherit the land for ever; The branch of his planting shall be the work of my hands, That I may be glorified.

²² A little one shall become a thousand; A small one, a strong nation; Jehovah will hasten this in her time.

¹ The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; On that account Jehovah hath anointed me; He hath sent me to preach to the afflicted; ¹²⁵ To bind up the broken in heart; To proclaim liberty to the captives, The opening of the prison to them that are bound.

² To proclaim the year of the good-pleasure of Jehovah, And the day of vengeance to our God; To comfort all that mourn.

³ To appoint to the mourners in Zion; That I may give to them beauty instead of ashes, The oil of joy instead of mourning, The garment of gladness instead of an afflicted spirit; To call them trees of righteousness, The plantation of Jehovah, To glorify him.

⁴ And they shall build the deserts of the age; They shall raise up the ancient wildernesses; And they shall restore the cities of desolation, The wildernesses of many ages.

⁵ And strangers shall stand And feed your sheep; And the sons of the foreigner shall be Your husbandmen And vine-dressers.

⁶ But ye shall be called the Priests of Jehovah; Men shall call you the Ministers of our God; Ye shall eat the substance of the Gentiles; And ye shall rise by their glory.

⁷ Instead of your shame there shall be a double reward; And instead of disgrace they shall rejoice in their portion; For in their land they shall possess the double, And they shall have everlasting joy.

⁸ For I Jehovah love judgment; I hate robbery in the burntoffering; And I will establish their work in truth, And will make an everlasting covenant with them.

⁹ And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles; And their offspring in the midst of the peoples; All who see them shall acknowledge them That they are the seed blessed by Jehovah.

¹⁰ Rejoicing I will rejoice in Jehovah; My soul shall be joyful in my God; Nor he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation; He hath covered me with the robe of righteousness; As a bridegroom hath he adorned me, And as a bride decorated with her jewels.

¹¹ For, as the earth putteth forth her bud, And as the garden causeth her seed to spring up, So the Lord Jehovah will cause righteousness to spring up, And praise before all the nations.

¹ On account of Zion I will not be silent; And on account of Jerusalem I will not rest; Till her righteousness go forth as brightness, And till her salvation burn like a lamp.

² And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, And all the kings of the earth thy glory; And thou shalt be called by a new name, Which the mouth of Jehovah shall name.

³ And thou shalt be a crown of glory in the hand of Jehovah; And the diadem of the kingdom in the hand of thy God.

⁴ Thou shalt no more be called forsaken; Nor shall thy land be any more called desolate; For they shall call thee, My goodpleasure in her; . And they shall call thy land, Married; For the good-pleasure of Jehovah is in thee, And thy land shall be married.

⁵ For, as a young man marrieth a virgin, So shall thy sons marry thee; And with the joy of the bridegroom over the bride Thy God will rejoice over thee.

⁶ On thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen, Who, during the whole day And the whole night together, Shall not keep silence. Ye that are mindful ¹²⁶ of Jehovah, Be ye not silent;

⁷ And give him not silence, Till he establish, And till he make Jerusalem, A praise in the earth.

⁸ Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand, And by the arm of his strength; If I shall any more give thy corn For food to thine enemies, And if the sons of the foreigner shall drink thy wine, For which thou hast labored.

⁹ For they who have gathered it shall eat it, And shall praise Jehovah; And they that collect it shall drink wine, In my holy courts.

¹⁰ Pass through, pass through the gates; Clear the way for the people; Level, level the road; Pave it with stones; Lift up a standard to the peoples.

¹¹ Behold! Jehovah hath proclaimed to the end of the earth; Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold! thy Savior cometh; Behold! his reward is with him, And the effect of his work is before him.

¹² And they shall call thee, A holy people, Redeemed by Jehovah; And they shall call thee The City sought out, Not forsaken.

¹ Who is this that cometh from Edom? With red garments from Bozrah? This that is beautiful in his raiment, Marching in the greatness of his strength? I, who speak in righteousness, Mighty to save.

² Wherefore is thy raiment red? And thy garments like one that treadeth in the wine-press?

³ Alone have I pressed the wine-press; And of the peoples there was none with me; For I will tread them in my wrath, And will trample them down in my fury; And their blood shall be sprinkled on my garments, And I will stain all my raiment.

⁴ For the day of vengeance is in my heart; And the year of my redeemed is come.

⁵ Therefore I looked, And there was none to help; And I wondered that there was none to uphold; Therefore mine arm brought salvation to me And my wrath upheld me.

⁶ And I will tread down the peoples in my wrath, And will make them drunk in my fury, And will east down their strength to the earth.

⁷ The mercies of Jehovah will I keep in remembrance, The praises of Jehovah; According to all that Jehovah hath bestowed on us, And in the abundance of kindness toward the house of Israel, Which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, And according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses.

⁸ For he said, Surely they are my people; Children that do not lie; Therefore he became their Savior.

⁹ In all their affliction he was afflicted; ¹²⁷ And the angel of his presence saved them; In his love And in his compassion he redeemed them; And he bare them And carried them all the days of the age.

¹⁰ But they were rebellious, And provoked his Holy Spirit; Therefore he was turned to be their enemy, And fought against them.

¹¹ And he remembered the days of old, In which Moses was with his people. Where is he that made them to come up out of the sea, With the shepherd of his flock? Where is he that put his Holy Spirit in the midst of them?

¹² That led them by the right hand of Moses, By the arm of his glory; That divided the waters before them, That he might gain for himself all everlasting name?

¹³ That made them walk through the depths, As a horse ill the desert, So that they did not stumble?

¹⁴ He went down, as a beast into a plain; The Spirit of Jehovah gave him rest; So didst thou lead thy people, That thou mightst make for thyself a glorious name.

¹⁵ Look down from heaven; Behold from the habitation, Of thy holiness And of thy glory. Where is thy zeal And thy strength? The multitude of thy bowels, And of thy compassions toward me, Have been restrained.

¹⁶ Surely thou art our Father, Though Abraham do not know us, And Israel do not acknowledge us; Yet thou art our Fattier And out Redeemer; From everlasting is thy name.

¹⁷ Why didst thou cause us, O Jehovah, To wander from thy ways? Why didst thou cause our heart To depart from thy fear? Return, on account of thy servants, To the tribes of thine inheritance.

¹⁸ For a little time the people of thy holiness possessed it; Our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

¹⁹ For a long period have we been They over whom thou hast not ruled, On whom thy name hath not been called.

¹ O that thou wouldst rend the heavens! That thou wouldst come down! That the mountains would flow down at thy presence!

² As by the burning of a melting fire, ¹²⁸ The fire hath made the waters to boil, That thou mightst make thy name known to thine adversaries; The nations trembled at thy presence.

³ When thou didst terrible things, Which we looked not for, Thou camest down; The mountains flowed down at thy presence.

⁴ From of old they have not heard, Nor perceived by the ears; Eye hath not seen a God besides thee, That doeth such things to him that waiteth for him.

⁵ Thou hast met him that rejoiceth And worketh righteousness; In thy ways they remembered thee; Behold! thou wast angry, And we have sinned; In them is perpetuity, And we shall be saved. ^{129 6} And we have all been as the unclean; And all our righteousnesses as a defiled garment; And we all fade as a leaf; And our iniquities, as the wind, Have carried us away.

⁷ There is none that calleth on thy name, Nor that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; For thou hast hidden thy face from us, And hast made us to languish In the hand of our iniquity.

⁸ And now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father; We are the clay, And thou our potter; We all are the work of thy hands.

⁹ Be not angry, O Jehovah, beyond measure; Neither remember iniquity for ever. Behold! see, we beseech thee, We all are thy people.

¹⁰ The cities of thy holiness have been a desert; Zion hath been a desert; Jerusalem hath been a wilderness.

¹¹ The house of our sanctuary And of our glory, In which our fathers praised thee, Hath been burnt with fire; And all our desirable things are laid waste.

¹² Wilt thou restrain thyself for these things, O Jehovah! Wilt thou be silent? And wilt thou afflict us beyond measure?

¹ I have manifested myself to them that asked not; I have been found by them that sought me not; I said, Behold me, behold me, To a nation that called not on my name.

² I have stretched out my hands every day To a rebellious people, Walking in a way not good, After their own thoughts.

³ A people that provoketh me always to my face, That sacrifieth in gardens, And offereth incense on bricks:

⁴ Who dwell in the graves; Who pass the night in the deserts; Who eat swines flesh; And broth of unclean things is in their vessels:

⁵ Who say, Remain by thyself; Approach not to me; For I would sanctify thee; ¹³⁰ Those shall be smoke in my fury, A fire that burneth all the day.

⁶ Behold! it is written before me; I will not be silent from rendering And recompensing into their bosom, ⁷ Your iniquities, And the iniquities of your fathers together, saith Jehovah. Because they have offered incense on the mountains, And have dishonored me on the hills, Therefore I will measure back their ancient work, Into their bosom.

⁸ Thus saith Jehovah: As if one should find a grape in a cluster, And should say, Destroy it not, For a blessing is in it; So will I do for the sake of my servants, That I may not destroy the whole.

⁹ And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, And out of Judah the heir of my mountains; And mine elect shall possess it by inheritance; And my servants shall dwell there.

¹⁰ And Sharon shall be an abode of flocks, And the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, To my people who have sought me.

¹¹ But ye are forsakers of Jehovah, Who forget the mountain of my holiness, Who prepare a table for the army, And fill an oblation to the number.

¹² Therefore I will number you to the sword, And ye all shall be cut down by slaughter; Because I called, And ye answered not; I spoke, And ye heard not; And ye did evil before mine eyes, And chose the things in which I took no pleasure.

¹³ Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold! my servants shall eat, And ye shall be hungry; Behold! my servants shall drink, And ye shall be thirsty; Behold! my servants shall rejoice, And ye shall be covered with shame.

¹⁴ Behold! my servants shall shout for gladness of heart; And ye shall cry aloud for grief of heart, And shall howl for anguish of spirit.

¹⁵ And ye shall leave your name for a curse to mine elect; The Lord Jehovah shall slay you, And shall call his servants by another name.

¹⁶ He who blesseth himself in the earth Shall bless himself in the faithful God; And he who sweareth in the earth Shall swear by the faithful God; For the former afflictions, Are surrendered to forgetfulness, And hidden from mine eyes.

¹⁷ For, behold! I will create, New heavens And a new earth; The former shall not be remembered, Igor come into mind.

¹⁸ But rejoice And be glad for ever, In the things which I create; For, behold! I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, And her people a joy.

¹⁹ And I will be glad in Jerusalem, And will rejoice in my people; And the voice of weeping shall no more be heard in her, Nor the voice of crying.

²⁰ There shall be no more there an infant of days, Nor an old man that fulfilleth not his days; For the son of a hundred years shall die young; And the sinner who is the son of a hundred years shall be accursed.

²¹ They shall build houses, And shall inhabit them; They shall plant vines, And shall eat the fruit of them.

²² They shall not build that another may inhabit; They shall not plant that another may eat; For according to the days of a tree Shall be the days of my people; And mine elect shall perpetually enjoy, The work of their hands.

²³ They shall not toil in vain; And they shall not bring forth in terror; For the seed of the blessed of Jehovah shall they be, And their offspring with them.

²⁴ And it shall be, before they cry, I will listen; 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 ox; And the serpent shall have dust for his food. They shall not destroy, And shall not hurt, In all my holy mountain, saith Jehovah.

¹ Thus saith Jehovah: Heaven is my throne, And the earth is my footstool: Where is that house which ye will build for me? And where is this place of my rest?

² Yet all these things hath my hand made, And all these things began to be, saith Jehovah; And I look to him who is humble And contrite in spirit, And who trembleth at my word.

³ He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; He that sacrificeth a sheep, as if he stabbed a dog; He that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swines flesh; He that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol; And truly they have chosen their own ways; And their soul hath delighted in their abominations.

⁴ I also will choose their delusions, And will bring upon them their terror; Because I called, And no man answered; I spoke, And they heard not; And they did evil before mine eyes, And chose those things in which I take no delight.

⁵ Hear the word of Jehovah, Ye that tremble at his word. Your brethren that hate you. And that cast you out for my names sake, Have said, Let Jehovah be glorified. ¹³¹ But he shall be seen to your joy, And they shall be ashamed.

⁶ A voice of tumult from the city! A voice from the temple! The voice of Jehovah Rendering recompense to his adversaries.

⁷ Before she was in labor, she brought forth; Before her pain came upon her she was delivered of a male.

⁸ Who hath heard such a thing? Who hath seen such thing? Shall the earth bring forth in one day? Shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion had the pains of child-bearing? Immediately she brought forth.

⁹ Shall I bring to the birth, And not bring forth? saith Jehovah. Shall I cause to bear. And yet restrain? saith 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 From the breast of her consolations; That ye may milk And be delighted . With the brightness of her glory.

¹² For thus saith Jehovah: Behold! I cause peace to flow on her like a river, And the glory of the Gentiles as an overflowing torrent; Thus ye shall suck; Ye shall be carried on the shoulder, And shall be dandled on the knees.

¹³ As a man whom his mother comforteth, So will I comfort you; And ye shall have comfort on Jerusalem.

¹⁴ And ye shall see, And your heart shall rejoice; And your bones shall flourish like the grass; And the hand of Jehovah shall be known toward his servants, And he shall be enraged against his enemies.

¹⁵ For, behold! Jehovah shall come in fire; And his chariots, as a whirlwind; That he may utter his wrath in fury, And his rebuke in a flame of fire.

¹⁶ For with fire, And with his sword, Shall Jehovah judge all flesh; And many shall be the slain of Jehovah.

¹⁷ They that sanctify themselves, And that purify themselves in the gardens behind one in the midst, That eat swines flesh, And the abomination, And the mouse, Shall be consumed together, saith Jehovah.

¹⁸ For I (know) their deeds And their thoughts; Because the time is come, That I should assemble all nations And languages; And they shall come, And shall see my glory.

¹⁹ And I will put a mark upon them, And will send some of them that are escaped, To the nations of Tarshish, Pul, And Lud, that draw the bow To Tubal And Jayan; To the distant islands, Which have not heard my name, And have not seen my glory; And they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.

²⁰ And they shall bring all your brethren, Out of all nations, An oblation to Jehovah, On horses, And chariots, And wagons, On mules And swift animals, To my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith Jehovah; As the children of Israel bring in a clean vessel To the house of Jehovah.

²¹ And even some of them will I take For priests And Levites, saith Jehovah.

²² For, as the new heavens And the new earth, which I make, Remain before me, saith Jehovah; So shall your seed And your name remain.

²³ And it shall be, That from month to his month, And from Sabbath to his Sabbath, All flesh shall come, To worship before me, saith Jehovah.

²⁴ And they shall go forth, And shall see the carcasses of the men who have rebelled against me; For their worm shall not die, And their fire shall not be quenched; And they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.