I. 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, Ο heavens, and give ear, Ο earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up sons, and they have rebelled against me.

3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his ’s crib: Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

4 Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons that deal corruptly; they have forsaken the LORD, they have scorned the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backward.

5 Why will ye be still stricken, (that) ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head (there is) no soundness in it; wound, and weal, and putrefying sore: they have not been pressed out, neither bound up, neither is it mollified with oil.

7 Your country is a desolation, your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is a desolation, like an overthrow of strangers.

8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a ’tent in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

II. 1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

2 And it shall come to pass in the end of the days, the mountain of the ’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

3 And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up tothe mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

4 And he shall judge between the nations, and shall decide for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

6 For thou hast forsaken thy people, the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the East, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and strike hands with the children of aliens.

7 And their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; and their land is full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:

8 And their land is full of false gods: they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

9 And the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is brought low; and forgive them not.

III. 1 For behold, the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

2 Mighty man, and man of war, judge, and prophet, and diviner, and elder,

3 Captain of fifty, and him that is high of face, and counsellor, and cunning artificer, and skilled enchanter,

4 And I will give children to be their princes, and freakishness shall rule over them.

5 And the people shall oppress one another, each against another, and each against his neighbour; the child shall be insolent against the ancient, and the vile against the honourable.

6 When a man shall take hold of his brother in) the house of his father: Thou hast clothing, thou shalt be our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:

7 In that day shall he lift up (his voice) saying, I will not be a binder up: for in my house is neither bread nor clothing; ye shall not make me a ruler of the people.

8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to defy the eyes of his glory.

9 The show of their face doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have awarded evil unto themselves.

10 Say ye to the righteous, that it is well; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

11 Woe unto the wicked, it is ill! for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day-time from the heat, and for a refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain.

8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there is no room, and ye are made to dwell alone in the midst of the earth!

9 In mine ears (said) the LORD of Hosts, If there be not many houses desolate, great ones and fair, without inhabitant!

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

11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that tarry late in the dusk, while wine inflames them!

12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are their banquet; but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, for lack of knowledge: and their glory are men of famine, and their abundance dried up with thirst.

14 Therefore Sheol hath enlarged her appetite, and opened her mouth without measure: and her honour, and her abundance, and her uproar, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into her.

15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be. humbled:

16 And the LORD of Hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy sheweth himself holy in righteousness.

17 Then shall the lambs feed as (in) their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall sojourners eat.

7 And he made it touch my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin atoned for.

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

9 And. he-said, Go, and say to this people, Certainly hear ye, but understand not; and see ye, but perceive not.

10 Make the heart of this people fat, and makeitheir ears heavy, and smear over their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and one heal them.

11 And I said, Until when, Lord? And he said, Until the cities be wasted, without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

12 And the LORD removed men far away, and great be the forsaken (tract) in the midst of the land.

13 And still in it (there is) a tenth, and it shall turn again, and be for consuming: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock is in them when they are felled: a holy seed is the stock thereof.

upon Ephraim. And his heart was shaken, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are shaken with the wind.

3 And the LORD said unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;

4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be faint-hearted for these two tails of smoking firebrands. for the fierce anger of Rezin with Aram, and of the son of Remaliah.

5 Because Aram hath taken evil counsel against thee, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying,

6 Let us go up against Judah, and terrify it, and let us take it by storm for ourselves, and set up a king in the midst of it, even ’ the son of Tabeal:

7 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.

8 For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years Vshall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.

9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the-head of Samaria is ’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.

10 And the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,

11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God: ask, going deep or mounting high.

4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

5 And the LORD spake also unto me again, saying,

6 Forasmuch as this people hath rejected the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice with Rezin and ’s son:

7 Now therefore, behold, the LORD bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, the king of Assyria, and all his glory; and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:

8 And he shall sweep on into Judah; he shall overflow and pass through; to the neck shall he reach, and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, Immanuel.

9 Rage, ye peoples, and be broken; and give ear, all distant parts of the earth; gird yourselves, and be broken! gird yourselves, and be broken!

10 Take counsel, and it shall come to nought; speak a word, and it shall not stand; for God is with us.

11 For the LORD spake thus to me with strength. of hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

12 Say ye not, A conspiracy, of all whereof this people saith, A conspiracy 3 and fear not the fear of it, nor be afraid:

13 The LORD of Hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

7 To the increase of his government and to peace there is no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to establish it and to sustain it with judgment and with righteous- ness from henceforth and for ever. The jealousy of the LORD of Hosts will do this.

8 The LORD sent a word into Jacob, and it shall fall upon Israel.

9 And the whole people, they shall know, Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in pride and stoutness of heart,

10 Bricks are fallen, and we will build with hewn stones; sycamores are cut down, and we will change (them) forcedars.

11 Therefore the LORD hath set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and stirred up his enemies;

12 Aram before, and the Philistines behind: and they devoUr Israelwith open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

13 And the people hath not turned unto him that smiteth them, neither have they sought the LORD of hosts.

14 And the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and rush, in one day.

15 The elder and honourable, he is the head: and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

16 And the leaders of this people cause them to err; and those of them that are led are swallowed up.

17 Therefore the Lord shall not rejoice over its young men, neither shall have mercy on its fatherless and widows; for every one thereof is impious and an evil doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

7 And he, he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to work destruction, and to cut off nations not a few.

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

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

10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the false— and their images were more than Jerusalem and— rr Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her false gods, so do to Jerusalem and her offences?

12 And it shall be, when the Lord hath finished his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will visit upon the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glorying of his loftiness of eyes.

13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I (can) discern: and I have removed the bounds of peoples, and robbed their treasures, and brought down, like a mighty one, them that ’enthroned:

14 And my hand hath reached, as a nest, the riches of the peoples; and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there. was none that fluttered a wing, or opened a mouth, or peeped.

15 Shall the axe glory against him that heweth therewith? Shall the saw magnify itself against him that plieth it? as if a rod should ply them that lift it up, as if a staff should lift up what is not wood.

16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall burn a burning like the burning of fire.

17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

6 And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child their leader.

7 And the cow and the bear shall graze: their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall stretch his hand upon the ’s den.

9 They shall not do evil or deal corruptly in all my. holy mountain; for the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

10 And it shall be in that day; the root of Jesse, which standeth for an ensign of the peoples, of him shall the nations inquire: and his resting-place shall be glory.

11 And it shall be in that day, the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to purchase the remnant of his people which shall remain from ASsyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from llamath, and from the isles of the sea.

12 And he shalllift up an ensign for the nations, and shall gather the outcasts of Israel, and collect the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

13 And the jealousy of Ephraim shall remove, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut 06; Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah, and Judah shall not be adverse to Ephraim.

14 And they shall light upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil the children of the east to- gether; Edom and Moab shall be the putting forth of their hand, and the children of Ammon their obedience.

3 I, I have charged my consecrated ones, ’have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, that exult in my excellence.

4 The voice of an uproar, like as of a great people; the voice of a tumult of the kingdoms of nations gathered together; the LORD of Hosts mustereth a host of war.

5 They come from a far country, from the end of the heavens; the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole earth.

6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD ’is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

7 Therefore shall all hands be slack, and every ’s heart shall melt,

8 And they shall be dismayed: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall writhe as a travailing woman; they shall look aghast one at another: faces of flame are their faces.

9 Behold, the ’day of the LORD cometh, cruel, and wrath and fierce anger, to make the earth a desolation, and he will destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

10 For the stars of heaven, and the Orions thereof, shall not give forth their light; the sun shall be dark at his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

11 And I will punish the world for evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold, and man- kind than the (pure) gold of. Ophir.

2 And peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place and the house of Israel shall take them as their possession upon the ’s ground for servants and for handmaids; and they shall be captors to their captors 3 and they shall rule over their oppressors.

3 And it shall be in that day that the LORD giveth thee rest from thy pain and thy disquiet, and from the hard bondage which was laid upon thee,

4 That thou shalt take up this ’parable over the king Of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased, the insolence ceased!

5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the the rod of rulers,

6 Which smote peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, ruled over nations in anger with a pursuit that none restrained.

7 The whole earth is at rest, is quiet; they break forth into Singing.

8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, the cedars of Lebanon, (saying,) Since thou hast lain down, the feller cometh not up against us.

9 Hell (from) beneath is disquieted for thee, to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up the Shades for thee, all the chief ones of the earth; ’ raiseth from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

10 All they shall answer and say ’unto thee, Thou also art made weak as we ἦ thou art made like unto us!

11 Thy pride is brought down to hell, the noise of thy viols; the maggot is spread under thee, and the worm is thy covering.

2 He is gone up to the house, and Dibon, the high places, to weep; Moab howleth upon Nebo, and upon Medeba; on all his heads (is) baldness, every beard cut off.

3 In his streets they are girded with sackcloth; on her roofs and in her broad places all of her howleth, running down with weeping.

4 And Heshbon crieth, and Elealeh; their voiCe is heard unto Jahaz; therefore the armed men of Moab cry out; his soul trembleth within him.

5 My heart crieth out for Moab; her bars reach unto Zoar; a heifer of three years old: for the ascent of Luhith, with weeping doth he go up by it; for in the way of Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction.

6 For the waters of Nimrim are desolations; the grass is withered, the herbage is consumed, there is no green thing.

7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and their treasure, shall they carry away over the brook of willows.

8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of ’ Moab; her howling (hath reached) unto Eglaim, and to Beer-elim her howling.

9 For ’waters of Dimon are full of blood; forI will bring more upon Dimon, a lion for the escaped of Moab, and for the remnant of the land.

2 And it shall be, like wandering birds, a scattered nest, shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of Arnon.

3 Apply counsel, execute a decision; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide outcasts; discover not him that wandereth.

4 Let the outcasts of Moab dwell with thee; be thou a hiding place to them from the face of the destroyer; for the extortioner is brought to an end, destruction is finished, the trampler is consumed out of the land.

5 And a throne is established in mercy, and one shall sit upon it in truth in the tent of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and swift to do righteousness.

6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, proud ekceedingly; his proudness, and his pride, and his wrath; not so are his boastings.

7 Therefore Moab shall howl for Moab, altogether shall he howl; for the raisin cakes of Kir-haresheth shall ye mourn, utterly smltten.

8 For the fields of Heshbon languish; the vine of Sibmah, the lords of nations struck down her choice plants; they reached unto Jazer, they strayed into the wilderness; her offshoots spread abroad, they went over the Sea.

9 Therefore I will weep with theweeping of Jazer (for) the vine of Sibmah; I will water thee with my tears, OHeshbon and Elealeh; for on thy summer fruit and on thy harvest shouting is fallen.

5 And it shall be as when the harvestman graspeth the standing Corn, and his arm reapeth the ears 3 and it shall be as one that gleaneth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

6 And there shall be left therein gleanings, as at the beating of an olive tree, two or three berries at the top of a crest, four or five in the fruit ’s branches, saith the LORD God of Israel.

7 In that day shall (a) man look toward -his Maker, and his eyes shall gaze upon the Holy One of Israel.

8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall gaze upon what his fingers made, either the Asherim or the sun-images.

9 In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken tract of -the woodland and the mountain crest, which men forsook from before the children of Israel 5 and there shall be a desolation.

10 For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore thou plantest plants of pleasantness, and settest them with slips of a stranger;

11 In the day of thy planting dost thou make a hedge, and in the morning thou makest thy seed to bud; a harvest heap in the day; of pain and deadly sorrow.

12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, they roar like the roaring of seas; and the tumult of nations, they are tumultuous like the tumult of mighty waters l

13 Nations are tumultuous like the tumult of many waters; and (one) rebuketh him, and he fleeth afar off, and is chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and as whirling dust before the tempest.

1 Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and cometh to Egypt; and the false gods of Egypt shall shake at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

2 And I will stir up Egypt against Egypt, and they shall fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbour; city against city, kingdom against kingdom.

3 And the spirit of Egypt shall be made empty in the midst of it; and I will swallow up the counsel thereof; and they shall inquire of the false gods, and the mutterers, and them that have familiar spirits, and the wizards.

4 And I will confine Egypt into the hand of a hard lord; and a harsh king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of Hosts.

5 And the waters shall waste fromthe sea, and the river shall be parched and dried up.

6 And the rivers shall stink, the canals of Mazor are emptied and parched up ; reed and flag wither.

7 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and every sown field by the Nile, shall dry up, be driven away, and be no more.

8 And the fishers shall sigh, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the face of the waters shall languish.

9 And they that work combed flax, and they that weave white cloth, shall be ashamed.

3 And the Lord said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath gone naked and barefoot, three years a sign and a portent upon Egypt and upon Cush:

4 So shall the king of Asshur lead the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt.

5 And they shall be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their expectation and Egypt their glorying.

6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, thus is our expectation, whither we tied for help, to be delivered from the face of the king of Asshur; and how shall we, we, escape?

6 For thus bath the Lord said unto me, Go, place the watchman; what he shall see, let him declare.

7 And he saw a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels; and he hearkened with utmost hearkenings.

8 And he cried (as) a lion, O Lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower by day, and I am placed at my post all the nights:

9 And behold there cometh a troop of men, horsemen in pairs; and he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the (graven) images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.

10 O my threshing, and the son of my (threshing) floor; that which I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.

11 The burden of Dumah.

One crieth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what (hour) of the night? Watchman, what (hour) of the night?

12 The watchman said, Morning cometh, and also night. If ye will inquire, inquire ye; return, come.

13 The burden upon Arabia.

In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, ye caravans of Dedanim.

14 Bring ye water, to meet him that is thirsty; the inhabitants of the land of Tema welcome the fugitive with his bread.

15 For they are fugitives from the face of the swords, from the face of the drawn sword, and of the bent bow, and of the weight of war.

16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, as the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall be consumed;

11 And ye made a lake between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye looked not unto him that made it, neither had respect unto him that formed it long ago.

12 And in that day did the Lord God of Hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: (Let us) eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.

14 And the Lord of Hosts revealed himself in mine ears: Surely this iniquity shall not be expiated for you till ye die, saith the Lord God of Hosts.

15 Thus saith the Lord God of Hosts, Go, get thee unto this steward, unto Shebna which is over the house;

16 What hast thou here, and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here? Hewing him out his sepulchre on high, graving a habitation in the rock for him !

17 Behold, the Lord will hurl thee with the hurling of a mighty man, and seize thee with a seizing.

18 He will roll thee, rolling up into a roll, like a ball into a far country; there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be: thou shame of thy lord’s house.

19 And I will thrust thee from thy station, and from thine office shall he pull thee down.

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 robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will give thy authority into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

7 Is this your jubilant one? from the ancient days is her antiquity; her feet bore her far away to sojourn.

8 Who hath ’this against Tyre, the crowning city? whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers were the honourable of the earth.

9 The Lord of Hosts hath purposed it, to profane the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

10 Pass through thy land as the river, daughter of Tarshish 3 there is no girdle any more.

11 He hath stretched out his hand Over the sea, he hath disquieted kingdoms 3 the Lord hath given commandment concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds thereof.

12 And he said, Thou shalt no more be jubilant, thou outraged virgin-daughter of Zidon 3 arise, pass over to Chittim; there also thou shalt have no rest.

13 Behold the land of the Chaldaeans; 3 this people not: Asshur founded it for desert creatures; they set up his (watch-) towers, they roused up her palaces 3 he hath made her a ruin.

14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; 3 for your stronghold is destroyed

15 And it shall be in that day, that Tyre shall beforgotten seventy years, as the days of one king; from the end of seventy years shall it be to Tyre as the song of the harlot.

16 Take a harp, go about the city, forgotten harlot; 3 do well in playing, do much singing, that thou mayest be remembered.

8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the uproar of the jubilant endeth, the of the harp ceaseth.

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

10 The city of wasteness is broken down; every house is shut up, not to enter.

11 There is a crying in the streets for wine; all joy is grown dark; the mirth of the land is gone.

12 There remaineth in the city desolation, and into ruin the gate is beaten down.

13 For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth among the peoples; as at the beating of an olive tree, as at the gleanings when the vintage is done.

14 These shall lift up their voice, they shall sing; because of the majesty of the Lord, they cry aloud from the sea.

15 Therefore glorify ye the Lord in the lights, the name of the Lord God of Israel in the isles of the sea

16 From the comer of the earth have we heard songs, Honour to the righteous. And I said, Wasting for me, wasting for me, woe to me ! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have indeed dealt treacherously.

17 Fear, and a pit, and a snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth

18 And it shall be, he who fleeth from the voice of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare; for windows from on high are opended, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

19 The earth is utterly broken, the earth is utterly shattered, the earth is utterly uprooted.

5 Thou shalt subdue the uproar of strangers, like heat in a parched land 3 (as) heat by the shadow of a cloud 3 the song of the terrible shall be brought low.

6 And in this mountain shall the Lord of Hosts make unto all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined

7 And he will swallow up in this mountain the face of the veil that veileth all peoples, and the covering that covereth all nations.

8 He hath swallowed up death for ever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces 3 and the reproach of his people shall he take away from 06 the earth 3 for the Lord hath spoken it.

9 And one shall say in that day, Lo, this is our God 3 we waited for him, and he will save us ; this is the LORD, we waited for him 3 we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation

10 For on this mountain shall the hand of the Lord rest, and Moab shall be trampled in his place, as straw is trampled in the water of the dung pit.

11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst thereof, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth (his hands) to swim 3 and he shall lay low his haughtiness, together With the wiles of his hands. ’

12 And the fortress of the high place of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, brought to the ground, even to the dust.

2 Open ye the gates, that a righteous nation which keepeth truth may enter in.,

3 A steadfast mind thou keepest in peace, peace; because he is secure in thee.

4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever ; for in Jah the Lord is a Rock of Ages.

5 For he hath brought doWn the dwellers in the height, the lofty city 3 he bringeth. it low, bringeth it low even to the earth ; he bringeth it even to the dust.

6 The foot shall trample on it, the feet Of the afflicted, the steps of the poor.

7 The way for the righteous is straightness; thou levellest straight the path of the righteous.

8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee 3 the desire of our soul is for thy Name and thy memorial.

9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night: yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early ; for when thy judgments are upon the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, he learneth not righteousness ; in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not look upon the majesty of the Lord

11 Lord, thy hand is lifted up, they will not see ; they shall see, and be ashamed at the jealousy for a people ; yea, fire shall devour thine enemies.

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

13 O Lord our God, otherllords beside thee have had dominion over us 3 through thee only will we make mention of thy name.

2 In that day, a vineyard of foaming wine ; sing ye to it ;

3 I the LORD am its keeper 3 every moment I water it; lest any hurt it, I keep it night and day.

4 Wrath have I none; who will set briers and thorns against me in battle? I would march against it, I would burn it all tothether

5 Or else let him lay hold of my stronghold, make peace with me: let him make peace with me.

6 As to what cometh, Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the earth with fruit.

7 Hath he smitten him according to thesmiting of those that smote him 3 or is he slain according to the slaying of his slain?

8 In exact measure, by sending her away, thou contendest with her; he driveth her away with his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

9 Therefore by this shall the guilt of Jacob be expiated; and this is all the fruit, taking away his sin ; when he maketh all the stones of the altar like chalkstones dashed in pieces, the Asherim and sun-pillars arise no more.

10 For the defenced city is solitary, an habitation deserted and forsaken like the wilderness ; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume her branches. ’

11 In the ’withering of her boughs they shall be broken off 3 women cOme, and set them on fire ; for it is not a people of discernment: therefore he that made them hath no compassion on them, and he that formed them sheweth them no favour.

8 For all tables are full of filthy vomit; there is no place (left).

9 Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to discern the message? those that are weaned from the milk, removed from the breasts?

10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line line upon line; here a little, there a little.

11 For with stamrnerings of lip and another tongue will he speak to this people.

12 He who said to them, This is the. rest, give ye rest to the weary ; and this is the refreshing; and they would not hear.

13 And the word of the Lord shall be unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line ; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and stumble backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

14 Therefore hear the word of the lord, ye men of scorn, rulers of this people which is in Jerusalem.

15 Because ye have said: We have made a covenant with death, and have made an agreement with hell; the overflowing scourge, when it passeth through, shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood have we hid ourselves:

16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I am he that hath founded in Zion a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-, stone of sure foundation; he that believeth shall not be in haste.

17 And I will set judgment for a line, and righteousness for a, plummet ; and hail sweepeth the refuge of lies, and waters shall overflow the hiding place.

9 Astonish yourselves, and be astonished; blind yourselves, and be blind: they are drunken, and not with wine; they reel, and not with strong drink.

10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and bath closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, hath he covered.

11 And the vision of it all is become unto you as the words of the sealed writing, which they give ’ to one that knoweth writing, saying, Read this, pray: and he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed.

12 And the writing is given unto one that knoweth not writing, saying, Read this, pray; and he saith, I know not writing.

13 And the Lord said, F orasmuch as this people draweth near, honoureth me with its mouth and with its lips; and hath removed its heart away from me; and their fear of me is a precept of men, that is taught:

14 Therefore, behold, I am he that will again deal wonderquy with this people, wonderfully and a wonder; and the wisdom of its wise men shall perish, andthe discernment of its discerning men shall hide itself.

15 Ah, they that go deep from the Lord to hide counsel and their-works are in darkness, and they say, Who seeth us? and Who knoweth us?

16 The perverseness of you! shall the potter be reckoned as clay? that the thing made should say of him that made it, He made me not! and the thing formed of him that formed it, ’ discerneth not!

17 Is it not yet but a very little while, and Lebanon shall turn to garden-land, and the garden-land be reckoned as a forest?

4 For his princes are at Zoan, and his messengers have reached Hanes.

5 All shall be. ashamed of a people · shall not profit them, not for a help nor profit, but for a shame, and also a reproach.

6 The burden of the beasts of the south country. Through a land of distress and anguish, whence are the lioness and lion, viper and flying fiery serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulder of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit

7 And Egypt, vain and empty will be their help: therefore I cry concerning this, Rahab are they, a sitting still.

8 Now go, write it on a tablet before them, and inscribe it in a book, and let it be for an after day, for ever and ever:

9 For it is a rebellious people, lying sons, sons that will not hear the law of the LORD:

10 Which say to the seers, Ye shall not see, and to them that have vision, Have visions not of right things, speak unto us smooth things, see delusive visions.

11 Remove you out of the way, turn aside out of the path; make to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.

12 Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because ye reject this word, and trust in oppression and crookedness, and stay thereon;

13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as afalling breach, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometb suddenly, in a moment.

4 For thus said the LORD unto me, As the lion growleth, and the young lion over his prey, against whom a multitude of ’ shepherds is called forth: at their voice he is not affrighted, and at their uproar he is not dismayed; so shall the LORD of Hosts come down to fight against mount Zion, and against the hill thereof.

5 As birds hovering, so will the LORD of Hosts protect Jeru- salem; protecting and rescuing, passing over, and setting free.

6 Return ye unto him from whom they have deeply revolted, Ο children of Israel.

7 For in that day they shall reject every man his false gods of silver, and his false gods of gold, which your own hands have made you, a sin.

8 And Asshur shall fall, by the sword of no man, and the sword, of none born of men, shall devour him; and he shall flee from before the sword, and his young men shall be for tribute.

9 And his rock shall pass away, from fear, and his princes be frighted from the standard, saith the LORD, who hath his fire in. Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem. ’

4 And the heart of the hasty shall have discernment to know, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be quick to speak clearly. ·

5 The fool shall no more be called noble, nor the mean spoken of as liberal.

6 For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work naughtiness, todo impiety, and to speak error against the Lord, to empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

7 And the means of the mean are evil; it is he that deviseth plots to destroy the meek with words of falsehood, even when the needy speaketh judgment.

8 But the noble deviseth noble things; and he shall stand firm on noble things.

9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice: ye confident daughters, give ear unto my speech.

10 In a year, and days over, shall ye be disquieted, ye confident Ones ; for the vintage is at an end, the gathering shall not come.

11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease: be disquieted, ye confident ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird (sackcloth) upon your loins.

12 They shall smite upon the breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers ; yea, upon all houses of joy the exultant city.

14 For the palace is forsaken: the uproar of the city deserted; hill and watchtower serve for caves for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks:

5 The LORD is exalted, for he dwelleth in the height; he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

6 And there shall be faithfulness in thy times; power of salvation, wisdom and knowledge: the fear of the Lord, that is his treasure. ’

7 Behold, their valiant ones cry without; the mesSengers of peace weep bitterly.

8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man is ceased; he hath broken the covenant, despised cities, not man.

9 The earth mourneth, languisheth; Lebanon is ashamed, withereth; Sharon becometh like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off (their leaves).

10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I exalt myself; now will I lift up myself.

11 Ye shall conceive hay, ye shall bring forth stubble; your breath is fire which shall devour you.

12 And peoples shall become burnings of lime; thorns cut up, they shall burn in the fire.

13 Hear, ye that are far, what I have done; and ye that are near, acknowledge my might.

14 The sinners are afraid in Zion; trembling hath seized the impious. Who among us can sojourn with deVOuring fire? who among us can sojourn with everlasting burnings?

15 He that walketh in righteousness, and speaketh upright- ness; that rejecteth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking hold on a bribe, that stoppeth his ear from hearing of bloodshed, and closeth his eyes from seeing evil:

XXXIV. 1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples; let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world, and all that come forth of it.

2 For the LORD hath indignation against all nations, and fury against all their host; he hath laid them under the ban, he hath given them to slaughter.

3 And their smitten shall be cast out, and their carcases, their stink shall go up, and mountains shall be melted with their blood.

4 And all the host of heaven shall waste away, and the heavens shall be rolled up as a scroll, and all their host shall fade, as a leaf fadeth from a vine, and as a fading (leaf) from a fig tree.

5 For my sword hath drenched itself in heaven; behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my ban, for judgment.

6 The LORD hath a sword, it is filled with blood, it is made rich with fat, with the blood of lambs and he goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for the ’LORD bath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter ’the land of Edom.

7 And ’ oxen shall come down with them, and bullocks with bulls; and their land shall be drenched with blood, and their dust made rich with fat.

8 For the Lord hatha day of vengeance, and a year of recompense for the quarrel of Zion.

9 And her streams shall be turned into pitch, and her dust into brimstone; and the land thereof shall become pitch that burneth.

10 Night and day it shall not be quenched; for ever its smoke shall go up; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; for ever and ever there shall be none passing through it.

3 Strengthen ye the slack hands, and confirm the stumbling, knees.

4 Say to the hasty of heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God, vengeance cometh, retribution of God; himself cometh, and will save you.

5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped:

6 Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

7 And the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water; in the habitation of jackals, their lair, a court for reed and rush.

8 And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the holy way; there shall not pass over it (any) unclean; and his for them; and whosoever walketh in the way, and fools, shall not go astray.

9 No lion shall be there, nor shall the (most) violent of beasts go up thereon; it shall not be found there; and redeemed ones shall walk (there),

10 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with song, and everlasting joy upon their head 3 they shall attain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

3 And there went out to him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder;

4 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say, I pray, to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What trust is this wherewith thou trustest?

5 I say, It is only a word of -the lips, counsel and strength for war: now, in whom trustest thou, that thou rebellest against me?

6 Lo, thou trustest on this bruised reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh ’of Egypt to all that trust in him.

7 And if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath removed, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?

8 And now, exchange pledges, I pray, with my lord the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able to set for thyself riders upon them.

9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one governor among the least of my ’s servants, and puttest thy trust in - Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

10 And now is it without the LORD that I am come up against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

11 And Eliakim said, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, pray, unto thy servants in the Aramaean tongue, for we understand it: and speak not unto us in the Jewish tongue, in-the ears of the people which are on the wall.

12 And Rabshakeh said, Is it to thy lord, and to thee, that my lord hath sent me, to speak these words? Is it not to the men that sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and drink their own water with you?

XXXVII. 1 And it came to pass, when the king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth. and went into the house of the Lord

2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the secretary, and the elders of the people, covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet, the son. of Amoz.

3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and chastisement, and contempt; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rab- shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his lord hath sent to reproach the living God, and will chastise the words which the Lord thy God hath heard; and thou wilt lift up prayer for the remnant that is found.

5 And the servants of the king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

6 And- Isaiah said unto them, Thus- shall ye say unto your lord, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, wherewith the young men of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. ᾇ Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall bear a message, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

8 And Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria waning against Libnah, for he had heard that he had broken up from Lachish.

9 Ahd he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, He is gone forth to war against thee. And he heard, and sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

2 And Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the Lord,

3 And said, Ah LORD, remember, I pray thee, how that I have walked before thee in truth and with whole heart, and have done that which is good in thine eyes. And Hezekiah wept, a great weeping.

4 And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying,

5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I am adding to thy days fifteen years.

6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the grasp of the king of Assyria, and I will protect this city.

7 And this shall be the sign unto thee from the Lord, that the LORD will do this thing which he hath spoken

8 Behold, I am turning the shadow of the steps, which it has gone down on the steps. of Ahaz by the sun, ten steps back- ward. And the sun returned ten steps, on the steps whereon it was gone down.

9 Α writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, when he had been sick, and come to life from his sickness:

10 I said, In the stillness of my days I shall go into the gates of hell; I am deprived of the residue of my years.

11 I said, I shall not see Jah, Jab in the land of the living; Ι shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of ceasing.

12 My habitation is plucked up, and carried away from me like a ’s tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he ’ cutteth me off from the thrum; from day to night thou wilt make an end of me.

2 And Hezekiah was glad because of them, and shewed them his treasure-house, the silver and the gold, and the spices, and the fine oil, and all his armoury, and all that was found among his treasures; there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not.

3 Isaiah the prophet came unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said men, and whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They came from a far country unto me, from Babylon.

4 And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah said, All that is in my house have they seen; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.

5 And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord of Hosts:

6 Behold, the days are coming, and all that is in thine house, and that thy fathers have stored up until this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left, saith the Lord

7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the kings of Babylon.

8. And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken. And he said, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.

3 A voice of one crying: In the wilderness clear ye the way of the LORD, make level in the desert a highway for our God.

4 Every ’valley shall ’ exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the rugged shall become a level, and the rough places a plain:

5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh together shall see: forthe mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

6 A voice of one saying, Cry! land he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodness thereof like a flower of the field.

7 The grass is withered, the flower faded: because the breath of the LORD hath blown upon it; surely the people is grass.

8 The grass is withered, the flower faded; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

9 Get thee up upon a high mountain, thou that bringest good tidings to Zion; lift up thy voice with strength, thou that bringest good tidings to Jerusalem; lift it up, be not afraid! say unto the cities of Judah, Behdld your God

10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come as a strong one, his arm ruling for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry (them) in his bosom: he shall tend those that give suck.

12 Who hath measured the waters with the hollow of his hand, and meted out the heavens with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in a balance, and the hills in scales?

13 Who hath meted out the Spirit of the Lord, and, as the man of his counsel, made him to know;

14 With whom took he counsel, and he caused him to discern, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him know- ledge, and made him to know the way of discernment?

6 They help everyone his neighbour; and one saith to his brother, Be strong!

7 And the craftsman strengthened the smelter, he that smootheth with the hammer him that smiteth the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good: and he fasteneth it with nails, that it should not totter.

8 And thou, Israel my sevant, Jacob whom I have chosen; the seed of Abraham that loved me;

9 Thou on whom I have taken hold from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the corners thereof; and said to thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not rejected thee.

10 Behold, all they that were hot against thee shall be ashamed and cofounded; they shall be as nought, ans shall perish, the men of thy strife.

12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, the men of thy contention; the men of thy war shall be as nought, and as nothingess.

13 For I, the LORD thy Gid, do hold fast thy right hadn; he that saith to thee, Fear not, I have helped thee.

14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, ye few men of Israel; I do help thee, saith the LORD, and the Holy One of Israel is thy redeemer.

15 Behold, I have set thee for a threshing sledge, sharp, new, with edges; thou shalt thresh mountains, and grind them fine, and shalt make hills as chaff.

16 Thou shalt winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt exult in the LORD, shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.

10 Sing unto the Lord a new song, his praise from the end of the earth; ye that go down (to) the sea, and the fulness thereof; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up (their voice): the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of Sela shout, let them cry aloud from the top of mountains.

12 They shall give honour to the Lord, and tell his praise among the isles.

13 The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall rouse up zeal like a man of war: he shall shout, yea, roar; he shall do mightily against his enemies.

14 I have been silent from of old: I have been still, and refrained myself; (now) will I cry like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.

15 I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbage; and I will turn rivers to islands, and I will dry up pools.

16 And I will make the blind walk by a way that they knew not; I will make them tread in paths they knew not; I will turn darkness to light before them, and uneven places into a plain. These are the things, I will do them, and will not abandon them.

17 They are turned back; they shall be ashamed, that trust in the graven images, that say to the molten image, Ye are our gods.

18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.

19 Who is blind, but my servant, and deaf, but my messenger whom I (shall) send? who is blind as the surrendered one, and blind as the Lord's servant?

20 Thou hast seen many things, but thou observest Inot: opening the ears, and he heareth not.

7 Everyone that is called by my name, and that I have created for my glory; that I have formed, yea, have made.

8 Bring forth a blind people, and they have eyes; and deaf ones, and they have ears.

9 All the nations are gathered together, and the peoples are assembled: who among them will tell this, and cause us to hear former things? let them produce their witnesses, and appear righteous, and let them hear, and say, (It is) truth

10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant, whom I have chosen; that ye may know, and believe me, and discern that I am he; before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

11 I, I am the Lord, and beside me is no Saviour.

12 Myself have told, and have saved, and have caused it to be heard, and there was no stranger among you; and ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and I am God.

13 Yea, from the beginning I am he: and there is none that delivereth out of my hand: I will work, and who shall turn it back?

14 Thus saith the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and will bring down all of them as fugitives, and the Chaldaeans in the ships of their shouting

15 I the Lord am your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.

16 Thus saith the Lord, which giveth a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters:

17 Which bringeth forth chariot and horse, force and warrior: they lie down together, they shall not rise: they are quenched, they are gone out like a wick:

XLIV. 1 And now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen;

2 Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, that will help thee: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, and (thou) Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and flowing streams upon the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon them that go forth of thee.

4 And they shall spring up in the midst of the grass, as willows by the water courses.

5 This one shall say, I am the ’s; and this shall call on the name of Jacob; and this shall write with his hand, The Lord's and entitle, In the name of Israel.

6 Thus saith the Lord, the King of Israel, and his redeemer, the Lord of Hosts; I am the first, and I, am the last; and beside me there is no God.

7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall tell it, and state it in order for me? since I set up the people of old time? and things which are coming, and things which shall come, let them tell it to them.

8 Shudder not, and fear not: have I not caused thee to hear, from that time, and told it? and ye are my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? and there is no Rock: I know not (any).

9 They that form a graven image are all of them waste; and their desirable things shall not profit; and their witnesses, they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

10 Who hath formed a god, and molten a graven, image, to no profit?

11 Behold, all his company shall be ashamed; and the craftsmen, they are of men; they shall all be gathered together, they shall stand up; they shall fear, they shall be ashamed together.

XLV. 1 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, of whose right hand I have taken hold, to bring down nations before him, and I will loose the loins of kings, to loose before his face two-leaved doors, and gates shall not be shut:

2 I will go before thee, and make swelling ground a I will break in pieces doors of brass, and cut in sunder bars of iron:

3 And I will give thee treasures of darkness, and hidden things of secret places, that thou mayest know that I am the Lord, which call thee by thy name, the God of Israel.

4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel's mine elect, therefore I have called thee by thy name: I have named thee honourably, and thou hast not known me.

5 I am the Lord, and there is none else: there is no God. beside me: I have girded thee, and thou hast not known me.

6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the setting thereof, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else,

7 That form light, and create darkness, that make peace, and create evil: I am the Lord, that do all these things

8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness; let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let her cause righteousness to spring up together: I the Lord have created it.

9, Ah, he that. striveth with him that formed him ! a potsherd among potsherds of the ground. Shall the clay say to the potter, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands!

2 They stoop, they crouch together; they cannot deliver the burden, their soul is gone into captivity.

3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel: which are heavily borne from the womb, which are carried from the bosom:

4 And to old age I am he, and to grey hairs I will support; I have made, and I will carry; and I will support, and will deliver you.

5 To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, and we shall be like?

6 They that pour forth gold from the bag, and weigh silver with the balance; they hire a goldsmith, and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they bow themselves.

7 They lift him upon the shoulder; they support him, they set him in his place, and he standeth; he moveth not from his place; yea, one shall cry unto him, and he shall not answer, he shall not save him from his distress,

8 Remember this, and stand firm; recall it to mind, O ye rebels.

9 Remember the first things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; God, and there is none like me.

10 Declaring the after-things from the beginning, and from of old what is not done; saying, My purpose shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

11 Calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of his counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken, yea, I will bring it to pass: I have purposed it, I will also do it.

12 Hearken unto me, ye stout of heart, that are far from righteousness;

13 I bring near my righteousness: it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry; and I will give in Zion salvation, for Israel my glory.

XLVII. 1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O Virgin daughter of Babylon: sit on the earth, there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldaeans; for thou shaltno more be (one) they call tender and delicate.

2 Take the millstones, and grind meal; take off thy veil, lift up thy train, uncover the leg, pass through rivers.

3 Let thy nakedness be uncovered, yea, let thy shame be seen; I will take vengeance, and I will not meet man.

4 Our redeemer, the LORD of Hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.

5 Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldaeans; for thou shalt no more be (one) they call lady of kingdoms.

6 I was wroth with my people, I profaned mine inheritance, and gave them into thy hand; thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the aged thou didst make thy yoke exceeding heavy.

7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: until thou didst not lay these things to thine heart, thou didst not remember the latter end of it.

8 And now hear this, thou given to pleasure, that sittest securely, that sayest in thine heart, I and none else beside: I shall not sit a widow. neither shall I know bereavement.

9 And these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, bereavement, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in full measure, for the multitude of thy ’orceries, for the exceeding number of thy spells.

10 And thou hast been secure in thine evil: thou hast said, There is none that seeth me; thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath turned thee aside; and thou hast said in thine heart, I, and none else beside.

5 Therefore I have from that time declared it to thee 3 before it came to pass I showed it thee; lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

6 Thou hast heard 3 see it all: and ye, will not ye declare it? I have caused thee to hear new things from now, and things reserved, and thou didst not know them. ‘

7 They are created now, and not from that time 3 and before to-day, and thou heardest them not 3 lest thou shouldest say,- Behold, I knew them.

8 Nay, thou hast not heard 3 nay, thou hast not known 3 nay, from that. time thine ear opened not 3 for I knew that thou gigs; (33:1 very treacherously, and wast‘ called a rebel from the womb.

9 For my name’s sake I defer mine anger, and for my praise do I refrain it for thee, that I cut thee not off.

10 Behold, I have refined thee, and not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

11 For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do (it) 3 for how is it profaned? and I will not give my glory unto another.

12 Hearken unto me, Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he, I am the first, I also am the last.

13 Mine hand also laid the foundation of the earth, and my ’ right hand spread out the heavens; I call unto them, they will stand up together. ·

14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do lgiausre on Babylon, and his arm (shall be) on the Chaldaeans.

3 And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will glorify myself.

4 And I said, I have laboured in vain, for waste and vanity have I consumed my strength; surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my recompense with my God.

5 And now, saith the Lord, that formed me from the womb for a servant to him, to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be not swept away—and I shall be honoured in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my—

6 And he said, It is too light a thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel; and I will give thee for a light of the nations, that my salvation may be to the end of the earth.

7 Thus saith the Lord, the redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to the despised of soul, to the abhorred of a nation, to a servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall bow themselves; for the sake of the LORD, that is faithful; the Holy One of Israel, and he hath chosen thee.

8 Thus saith the Lord, In a time of favour have I answered thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee; and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to allot the desolate allotments,

9 Saying tothe captives, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights is their feeding place.

2 Why came I, and there was no man? Whycalled I, and. there was none that answered? Is my hand utterly too shortened to redeem? and is there no power in me to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I will dry up the sea, I will make rivers a wilderness; their fish stink for want of water, and die with thirst.

3 I will clothe the heavens in blackness, and make sackcloth their covering.

4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of disciples, that I should know how to sustain the weary with a word ; he wakeneth every morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as disciples.

5 The Lord GOD hath opened me an ear, and I resisted not,.I drew not back.

6 I gave my back to smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked 96 the hair; I hid not my face from ignominies and spitting. θ .

7 And the Lord GOD will help ‘me; therefore I am not confounded ; therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

8 Near is he that justifieth me: who will contend with me? let us stand forth together ; who is the master of my judgment? let him come near to me.

9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? 10, they all shall wear out like a garment; the moth shall eat them.

10 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that hearkeneth‘ to the voice of his servant? He that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Loan, and lean ἶ upon his God.

8 For the moth shall eat them like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake as in the ancient days, the generations of old. Art thou not it that hewed Rahab in pieces, that pierced the dragon?

10 Art thou not it that dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?

11 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with song, and everlasting joy upon their head; they shall attain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing are fled away.

12 I, I, (am) he that Comforteth you; who artthou, that thou fearest (weak) man that shall die, and the son of man that shall be made as grass;

13 And hast forgotten the Lord thy maker, that stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? and hast trembled continually all the day before the fury of the oppressor, as he made ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor ?

14 He that is bowed down hasteneth to be loosed, and shall not die in the pit, nor shall his bread fail.

15 And Ipam the Lord thy God, that stirreth up the sea, and its waves roared; the Lord of Hosts is his name.

16 put my words in thy mouth, and with the shadow of my hand have. I covered thee, to plant the heavens, and to lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.

2 Shake thyself from the dust: arise, sit, Jerusalem! the bands of thy neck are loosed, O Captive daughter of Zion‘. ’

3 For thus saith the LORD, .Ye were sold for nought; and not with silver shall ye be redeemed.

4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down into Egypt at the first to sojourn there; and Asshur oppressed them without cause.

5 And now, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my peopl is taken away for nought? they that rule over him howl, saith the LORD ; and my name continually all the day is despised.

6 I‘herefore my people shall know my name; therefore (they shall know) in that day that I am he that doth speak: Here am L

7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth glad tidings, that causeth peace to be heard ; that bringeth glad tidings of good, that causeth salvation to be heard; that saith unto Zion, Thy God doth reign

8 The voice of thy watchmen! they lifl: up the voice, they - sing together; for they shall see eye to eye, at the LoitD’s return to Zion. ·

9 Break forth, sing together, y’e wastes of .Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of. ’ all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye. out from thence, touch not. what is unclean; goye out of the midst of her; purify your- - selves, ye that bear the vessels of the LORD.

7 He was oppressed, and he humbled himself, and opened not his mouth; as a lamb (that) is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep (that) is dumb before her shearers; and he opened not his mouth.

8 From restraint and from judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considereth, that he was cut off out of the land of the living? for the rebellion of my people was he stricken.

9 And one appointed his grave with wicked men, and with a rich man in his death; because he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.

10 And the LORD was pleased to bruise him; he laid sickness on him; if his soul should make a guilt-offering, he should see a seed, he should prolong days, and the pleasure of the Lord should prosper in his hand.

11 Out of the travail of his. soul he shall see, he shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant make many righteous; for he will bear their iniquities.

12 Therefore will I give him part among the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death; and he was numbered with the rebellious; and himself bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the rebellious.

2 Widen the place of. thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitation; withhold not; lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes:

3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; ’thy seed shall possess nations, and make desolate. nations to be inhabited.

4 Fear not, for thou shalt not be ashamed; and be not confounded, for thou shalt not blush; for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.

5 For thy husband is thy Maker; the LORD of Hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel: the God of the whole earth shall he be called.

6 For the LORD hath called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when she is rejected, saith ᾖ thy God.

7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great - mercies I gather thee.

8 In a gush of wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; and with everlasting lovingkindness will I have mercy on thee; saith the LORD thy Redeemer.

9 For this is the waters of Noah unto me; as I have sworn i that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I will not be wrbth with thee, nor re? buke thee

10 For the mountains shall remove, and the hills totter; yet my lovingkindness shall not remove from thee, nor my covenant of peace totter, saith he that hath mercy on thee, the Lord.

3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you; the faithful lovingkindnesses of David.

4 Behold, I have given him for a witness of peoples, a chief and commander of peoples.

5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and a nationthat knoweth not thee shall run unto thee; for the sake of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.

6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near.

7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of iniquity his thoughts; and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

9 “For (as) the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, unless it have watered the earth, and made it bringtforth and sprout, and given seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth; it shall not return unto me void, unless it have accomplished that which I please, and made to prosper thatfor which I sent it.

12 For ye shall go forth with joy, and be led in peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you [into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap the hand.

9 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour; all beasts of the forest.

10 His watchmen are blind, they know not, all of them; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

11 And the dogs are strong of soul, they know not satiety; and they, the shepherds, know not how to discern; they are all turned to their own. way, every one to his gain, from the furthest end of it.

12 Come ye, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to-morrow shall be as this day, very exceeding great.

8 And behind the door and the post hast thou set thy memorial; for away from me hast thou uncovered, and gone up, hast enlarged thy bed, and gotten thee a covenant from them; thou hast loved their bed, hast looked on a hand.

9 And thou hast travelled to the king with oil, and hast multiplied thy perfumes, and hast sent thine envoys far off, and hast brought (thyself )1 down, even to hell.

10 Thou hast wearied thyself with the abundance of thy travel; thou saidst not, It is hopeless; thou hast found revival of thy strength; therefore thou wast not faint.

11 And of whom hast thou been afraid, and feared, that thou shouldest lie, and hast not remembered me, hast not laid it to thine heart? Have I not held my peace, and that from of old, and thou fearest not me?

12 I will declare thy righteousness; and thy works, and they shall not profit thee.

13 When thou criest, let thy gatherings deliver thee; and a wind shall lift them all up, a breath shall take them away; and he that trusteth in me shall inherit the land, and shall. possess my holy mountain:

14 And (one) saith, Cast up, cast up, clear a. way; take up the stumbling block out of the way of my people.

15 For thus saith he. that is high and lifted up, that dwelleth for ever, and. holy 15 ms name ; I dwell in the high andholy place, and with him that is crushed and humble of spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the crushed ones.

16 For I will not contend forever, and not always I be, wroth; for the spirit would fail from before me, and the souls which I have made.

6 Is not this the fast that I will choose? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and that ye should break every yoke?

7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring afflicted outcasts home? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him, and hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

8 Then shall thy light break forth as the dawn, and thy healing shall spring up speedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee, the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.

9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou remove from the midst of thee the yoke, the pointing of the finger, and speaking iniquity:

10 And furnish thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul ; then shall thy light arise in the darkness, and thy gloom be as the noonday:

11 And the LORD shall lead thee perpetually, and satisfy thy soul in dry places, and make strong thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, ahd like a spring of water whose waters fail not.

12 And they that are of thee shall build up ruins of old time: thou shalt raise up the foundations of generation upon generation; and thou shalt be called Repairer of the breach, Restorer of paths to dwell in.

8 The way of peace they know not, and there is no judgment in their tracks; they have made them their paths crooked; whosoever goeth therein knoweth not peace.

9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us; we wait for light, and behold darkness; for brightness,—we walk in

10 We grope along the wall like blind men, and we grope as men without eyes; we have stumbled at noonday as in the dusk; among the vigorous as the dead.

11 We all groan like bears, and moan piteously like doves; we wait for judgment, and there is none; for salvation, it is far off from us.

12 For our rebellions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our rebellions are with us, and our iniquities, we know them:

13 Rebelling and denying the LORD, and drawing back from following our God: speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

14 And judgment is driven backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth hath stumbled in the broad place, and uprightness cannot enter.

15 And truth is (found) missing, and he that removeth from evil maketh himself a prey; and the LORD saw it, and it was evil in his eyes that there was no judgment.

16 And he saw that there was no man, and was amazed that there was none that interposed; therefore his own arm wrought salvation for him, and his righteousness, it upheld him.

17 And he put on righteousness as a coat of mail, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped himself in jealousy as a cloke.

6 A stream of camels shall cover thee, young camels of Midian and Ephah; all of them shall come from Sheba, they shall bear gold and incense, and they shall tell tidings of the praises of the LORD.

7 All the flocks of Kedar shall gather together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee; they shall go up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will beautify the house of my beauty.

8 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as doves to their lattices?

9 Surely the isles are waiting for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel; for he hath beautified thee.

10 And aliens shall build thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee; for in my wrath I smote thee, and in my favour have I had mercy upon thee.

11 And thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut, day and night; to bring unto thee the wealth of nations, and their kings led along;

12 For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; and the nations shall be utterly wasted.

13 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the plane tree and the larch together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet honourable.

14 And the sons of them that afflicted thee shall go unto thee, bowing down; and all they that scorned thee shall bow themselves to the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

2 To proclaim a year of acceptance for the LORD, and a day of vengeance for our God; to comfort all mourners

3 To appoint for the mourners of Zion, to give unto them. a garland instead of ashes, the Oil of gladness instead Of mourning, a garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; and they shall be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may beautify himself.

4 And they shall build up ruins of old time; they shall raise up desolations of the first days; and they shall restore ruined cities, desolations of generation upon generation.

5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and aliens shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

6 And ye shall be called the Priests of the LORD; men shall say of you, The Ministers of our God; ye shall eat the wealth of nations, and in their glory shall ye boast.

7 Instead of your shame, (ye shall have) twofold; and as for confusion, they shall sing of their portion; therefore in their land they shall possess twofold; everlasting joy shall be unto them

8 For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery with injustice; and I will give them their earnings with truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

9 And their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are a seed which the LORD hath blessed.

10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall exult in my God; for he hath put on me garments of salvation, he hath wrapped me in a cloke of righteousness, as a bridegroom putteth on priestly garland, and as a bride doth don her jewels.

9 For they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have stored it shall drink it in my holy courts.

10 Pass through, pass through at the gates; clear ye the people's way; cast up, cast up the highway; clear it of stones; lift up a banner over the peoples.

11 Behold, the LORD hath caused it to be heard unto the end of the earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his hire is with him, and his recompence before him.

12 And they shall call them The holy people, the redeemed of the LORD; and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

5 And I looked, and there was none that helped; and I was amazed, and there was none that supported; and mine own arm wrought salvation for me, and my fury, it supported me.

6 Ahd I trampled the people in mine anger, and made them drunk in my fury, and brought down their life blood to the earth.

7 I will recall the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath recompensed to us, and the abundance of good toward the house of Israel which he hath recompensed to them, according to his mercies, and according to the abundance of his lovingkindnesses.

8 And he said, Only they are my people, sons that will not deal falsely; and he became their Saviour.

9 In all their distress he was distressed, and the angel of his Face saved them; in his love and in his forbearance he re deemed them; and be lifted them up, and carried them all the days of old.

10 And they rebelled and grieved his holy Spirit; and he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.

11 And he remembered the days of old, Moses, his people; Where is he that brought them up out of the sea, with the shepherd of his flock? Where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?

12 That caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, dividing the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?

13 That caused them to go through the deeps, like a horse in the wilderness, without stumbling?

5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness in thy ways they will remember thee; behold, thou wast wroth, and we sinned; in them (have we been) long time, and shall we be saved?

6 And we are all become as one unclean, and all our righteousnesses as a polluted garment; and we are all withered as the leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, will take us away.

7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that rouseth himself to hold fast by thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and melted us by the hand of our iniquities.

8 And now, LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

9 Be not wroth, O LORD, to the uttermost, and remember not iniquity for ever; behold, look, we beseech thee, we are all of us thy people.

10 Thy holy cities are become wilderness, Zion is become a wildemess, Jerusalem a desolation.

11 Our house of holiness and beauty, (in) which our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire, and all our desirable things are laid waste.

12 Wilt thou, for all this, refrain thyself, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and affict us to the uttermost ?

3 The people that irritate me continually to my face; which sacrifice in the gardens, and burn incense upon the bricks:

4 Which sit in the graves, and lodge in guarded places, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominations is in their vessels:

5 Which say, Keep to thyself, come not near to me; for I am holy to thee. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.

6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not hold my peace, unless I requite, and I will requite into their bosom,

7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD; which burned incense on the mountains, and reproached me upon the hills: and I will measure their recompense first into their bosom.

8 Thus saith the LORD, As when the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it; so will I do for my servants’ sake, not to destroy the whole.

9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah a possessor of my mountains; and my chosen ones shall possess it, and my servants shall (go to) dwell there.

10 And Sharon shall become a home for flocks, and the valley of Achor a resting place for oxen, for my people that have inquired of me.

11 And as for you, that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that set in order a table for Fortune, that fill up a mingled draught for Destiny:

5 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; your brethren say, that hate you, that drive you away for my name's sake, Let the LORD show himself glorious, and we shall see your joy; and they shall be ashamed.

6 A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD rendering retribution to his enemies.

7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before pain came to her, she was delivered of a man child.

8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall a land be travailed with in one day? shall a nation be born at once? for Zion travailed, she also brought forth her sons.

9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD; shall I, that cause to bring forth, shut up (the womb)? saith thy God.

10 Be ye glad with Jerusalem, and exult in her, all ye that love her: rejoice with her, all that mourn with her.

11 That ye may suck, and be satisfied from the breast of her consolations: that ye may milk out, and delight yourselves from the fulness of her glory.

12 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I extend to her peace like a river, and the glory of nations like an flowing stream: and ye shall suck; ye shall be borne upon the side, be fondled upon the knees.

13 As a man whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you: and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

14 And ye shall see this, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall shoot up like the young grass; and the hand of the LORD shall make itself known toward his servants, and he shall be indignant toward his enemies.