| 34:1: |
Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth
hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth
of it. |
| 34:2: |
For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury
upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered
them to the slaughter. |
| 34:3: |
Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out
of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their
blood. |
| 34:4: |
And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall
be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as
the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig
tree. |
| 34:5: |
For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down
upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. |
| 34:6: |
The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with
fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the
kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great
slaughter in the land of Idumea. |
| 34:7: |
And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the
bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat
with fatness. |
| 34:8: |
For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of
recompences for the controversy of Zion. |
| 34:9: |
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust
thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning
pitch. |
| 34:10: |
It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up
for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall
pass through it for ever and ever. |
| 34:11: |
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and
the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of
confusion, and the stones of emptiness. |
| 34:12: |
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be
there, and all her princes shall be nothing. |
| 34:13: |
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the
fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court
for owls. |
| 34:14: |
The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of
the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also
shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. |
| 34:15: |
There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and
gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every
one with her mate. |
| 34:16: |
Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall
fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his
spirit it hath gathered them. |
| 34:17: |
And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto
them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to
generation shall they dwell therein. |
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| 35:1: |
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the
desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. |
| 35:2: |
It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing:
the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and
Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our
God. |
| 35:3: |
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. |
| 35:4: |
Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold,
your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will
come and save you. |
| 35:5: |
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf
shall be unstopped. |
| 35:6: |
Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb
sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the
desert. |
| 35:7: |
And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land
springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be
grass with reeds and rushes. |
| 35:8: |
And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The
way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; bu hall be for
those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. |
| 35:9: |
No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon,
it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there: |
| 35:10: |
And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with
songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and
gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. |
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| 36:1: |
Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that
Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of
Judah, and took them. |
| 36:2: |
And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto
king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper
pool in the highway of the fuller's field. |
| 36:3: |
Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over
the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the
recorder. |
| 36:4: |
And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the
great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou
trustest? |
| 36:5: |
I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and
strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest
against me? |
| 36:6: |
Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon
if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh
king of Egypt to all that trust in him. |
| 36:7: |
But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he,
whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to
Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar? |
| 36:8: |
Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of
Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy
part to set riders upon them. |
| 36:9: |
How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of
my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for
horsemen? |
| 36:10: |
And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy
it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. |
| 36:11: |
Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray
thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and
speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that
are on the wall. |
| 36:12: |
But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee
to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the
wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with
you? |
| 36:13: |
Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews'
language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of
Assyria. |
| 36:14: |
Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not
be able to deliver you. |
| 36:15: |
Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD
will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of
the king of Assyria. |
| 36:16: |
Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an
agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one
of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the
waters of his own cistern; |
| 36:17: |
Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land
of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards. |
| 36:18: |
Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of
the king of Assyria? |
| 36:19: |
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of
Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? |
| 36:20: |
Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered
their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of
my hand? |
| 36:21: |
But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the
king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not. |
| 36:22: |
Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household,
and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to
Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of
Rabshakeh. |
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| 37:1: |
And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his
clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of
the LORD. |
| 37:2: |
And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the
scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah
the prophet the son of Amoz. |
| 37:3: |
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of
trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to
the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. |
| 37:4: |
It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the
king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will
reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up
thy prayer for the remnant that is left. |
| 37:5: |
So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. |
| 37:6: |
And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus
saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard,
wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. |
| 37:7: |
Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and
return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his
own land. |
| 37:8: |
So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against
Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. |
| 37:9: |
And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come
forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to
Hezekiah, saying, |
| 37:10: |
Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy
God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be
given into the hand of the king of Assyria. |
| 37:11: |
Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all
lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered? |
| 37:12: |
Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have
destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden
which were in Telassar? |
| 37:13: |
Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of
the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? |
| 37:14: |
And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and
read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it
before the LORD. |
| 37:15: |
And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying, |
| 37:16: |
O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims,
thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou
hast made heaven and earth. |
| 37:17: |
Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and
see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach
the living God. |
| 37:18: |
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the
nations, and their countries, |
| 37:19: |
And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but
the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have
destroyed them. |
| 37:20: |
Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the
kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou
only. |
| 37:21: |
Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith
the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against
Sennacherib king of Assyria: |
| 37:22: |
This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The
virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to
scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. |
| 37:23: |
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou
exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the
Holy One of Israel. |
| 37:24: |
By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the
multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to
the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and
the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his
border, and the forest of his Carmel. |
| 37:25: |
I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I
dried up all the rivers of the besieged places. |
| 37:26: |
Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient
times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou
shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps. |
| 37:27: |
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed
and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green
herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be
grown up. |
| 37:28: |
But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy
rage against me. |
| 37:29: |
Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine
ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy
lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest. |
| 37:30: |
And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as
groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same:
and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the
fruit thereof. |
| 37:31: |
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again
take root downward, and bear fruit upward: |
| 37:32: |
For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape
out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this. |
| 37:33: |
Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He
shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there nor come before
it with shields, nor cast a bank against it. |
| 37:34: |
By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not
come into this city, saith the LORD. |
| 37:35: |
For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my
servant David's sake. |
| 37:36: |
Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the
Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose
early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. |
| 37:37: |
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and
dwelt at Nineveh. |
| 37:38: |
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch
his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword;
and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son
reigned in his stead. |
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| 38:1: |
In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet
the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD,
Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live. |
| 38:2: |
Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the
LORD, |
| 38:3: |
And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked
before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which
is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. |
| 38:4: |
Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying, |
| 38:5: |
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 will
add unto thy days fifteen years. |
| 38:6: |
And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of
Assyria: and I will defend this city. |
| 38:7: |
And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will
do this thing that he hath spoken; |
| 38:8: |
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone
down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned
ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. |
| 38:9: |
The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was
recovered of his sickness: |
| 38:10: |
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. |
| 38:11: |
I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the
living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the
world. |
| 38:12: |
Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's
tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with
pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. |
| 38:13: |
I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my
bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. |
| 38:14: |
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove:
mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for
me. |
| 38:15: |
What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done
it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul. |
| 38:16: |
O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life
of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live. |
| 38:17: |
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my
soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my
sins behind thy back. |
| 38:18: |
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they
that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. |
| 38:19: |
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the
father to the children shall make known thy truth. |
| 38:20: |
The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the
stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the
LORD. |
| 38:21: |
For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a
plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover. |
| 38:22: |
Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the
house of the LORD? |
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| 39:1: |
At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon,
sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been
sick, and was recovered. |
| 39:2: |
And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his
precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the
precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was
found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his
dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not. |
| 39:3: |
Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him,
What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah
said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon. |
| 39:4: |
Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah
answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing
among my treasures that I have not shewed them. |
| 39:5: |
Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of
hosts: |
| 39:6: |
Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that
which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried
to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD. |
| 39:7: |
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 king
of Babylon. |
| 39:8: |
Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou
hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my
days. |
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| 40:1: |
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. |
| 40:2: |
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare
is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of
the LORD's hand double for all her sins. |
| 40:3: |
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of
the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. |
| 40:4: |
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be
made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places
plain: |
| 40:5: |
And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see
it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. |
| 40:6: |
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is
grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: |
| 40:7: |
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the
LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. |
| 40:8: |
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall
stand for ever. |
| 40:9: |
O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high
mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with
strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold
your God! |
| 40:10: |
Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall
rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before
him. |
| 40:11: |
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs
with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those
that are with young. |
| 40:12: |
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out
heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a
measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a
balance? |
| 40:13: |
Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counseller
hath taught him? |
| 40:14: |
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in
the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way
of understanding? |
| 40:15: |
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the
small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very
little thing. |
| 40:16: |
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof
sufficient for a burnt offering. |
| 40:17: |
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him
less than nothing, and vanity. |
| 40:18: |
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto
him? |
| 40:19: |
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it
over with gold, and casteth silver chains. |
| 40:20: |
He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree
that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a
graven image, that shall not be moved. |
| 40:21: |
Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from
the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the
earth? |
| 40:22: |
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the
inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens
as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: |
| 40:23: |
That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the
earth as vanity. |
| 40:24: |
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea,
their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon
them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as
stubble. |
| 40:25: |
To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy
One. |
| 40:26: |
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things,
that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by
the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one
faileth. |
| 40:27: |
Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from
the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? |
| 40:28: |
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God,
the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is
weary? there is no searching of his understanding. |
| 40:29: |
He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he
increaseth strength. |
| 40:30: |
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall
utterly fall: |
| 40:31: |
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they
shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary;
and they shall walk, and not faint. |
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| 41:1: |
Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their
strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near
together to judgment. |
| 41:2: |
Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his
foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave
them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow. |
| 41:3: |
He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not
gone with his feet. |
| 41:4: |
Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the
beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he. |
| 41:5: |
The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew
near, and came. |
| 41:6: |
They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his
brother, Be of good courage. |
| 41:7: |
So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with
the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the
sodering: and he fastened it with nails, tha hould not be
moved. |
| 41:8: |
But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed
of Abraham my friend. |
| 41:9: |
Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee
from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I
have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. |
| 41:10: |
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God:
I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee
with the right hand of my righteousness. |
| 41:11: |
Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and
confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee
shall perish. |
| 41:12: |
Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that
contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and
as a thing of nought. |
| 41:13: |
For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee,
Fear not; I will help thee. |
| 41:14: |
Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee,
saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. |
| 41:15: |
Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having
teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt
make the hills as chaff. |
| 41:16: |
Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the
whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and
shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. |
| 41:17: |
When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their
tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel
will not forsake them. |
| 41:18: |
I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the
valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land
springs of water. |
| 41:19: |
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the
myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the
pine, and the box tree together: |
| 41:20: |
That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together,
that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath
created it. |
| 41:21: |
Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons,
saith the King of Jacob. |
| 41:22: |
Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them
shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know
the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. |
| 41:23: |
Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye
are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold
it together. |
| 41:24: |
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is
he that chooseth you. |
| 41:25: |
I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the
rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon
princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay. |
| 41:26: |
Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and
beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that
sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that
heareth your words. |
| 41:27: |
The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to
Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings. |
| 41:28: |
For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no
counseller, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word. |
| 41:29: |
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten
images are wind and confusion. |
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| 42:1: |
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul
delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment
to the Gentiles. |
| 42:2: |
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the
street. |
| 42:3: |
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not
quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. |
| 42:4: |
He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in
the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law. |
| 42:5: |
Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched
them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of
it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them
that walk therein: |
| 42:6: |
I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine
hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for
a light of the Gentiles; |
| 42:7: |
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison,
and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. |
| 42:8: |
I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to
another, neither my praise to graven images. |
| 42:9: |
Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I
declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them. |
| 42:10: |
Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the
earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles,
and the inhabitants thereof. |
| 42:11: |
Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the
villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing,
let them shout from the top of the mountains. |
| 42:12: |
Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the
islands. |
| 42:13: |
The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy
like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his
enemies. |
| 42:14: |
I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained
myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour
at once. |
| 42:15: |
I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs;
and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. |
| 42:16: |
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead
them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before
them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and
not forsake them. |
| 42:17: |
They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust
in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods. |
| 42:18: |
Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. |
| 42:19: |
Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent?
who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD's
servant? |
| 42:20: |
Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he
heareth not. |
| 42:21: |
The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will
magnify the law, and make it honourable. |
| 42:22: |
But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared
in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and
none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore. |
| 42:23: |
Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for
the time to come? |
| 42:24: |
Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the
LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his
ways, neither were they obedient unto his law. |
| 42:25: |
Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the
strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew
not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart. |
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| 43:1: |
But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that
formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called
thee by thy name; thou art mine. |
| 43:2: |
When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and
through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest
through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame
kindle upon thee. |
| 43:3: |
For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I
gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. |
| 43:4: |
Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and
I d thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy
life. |
| 43:5: |
Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east,
and gather thee from the west; |
| 43:6: |
I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back:
bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; |
| 43:7: |
Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for
my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him. |
| 43:8: |
Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have
ears. |
| 43:9: |
Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be
assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things?
let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let
them hear, and say, It is truth. |
| 43:10: |
Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have
chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he:
before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. |
| 43:11: |
I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. |
| 43:12: |
I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no
strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD,
that I am God. |
| 43:13: |
Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver
out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it? |
| 43:14: |
Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your
sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and
the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships. |
| 43:15: |
I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King. |
| 43:16: |
Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the
mighty waters; |
| 43:17: |
Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power;
they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they
are quenched as tow. |
| 43:18: |
Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of
old. |
| 43:19: |
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye
not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the
desert. |
| 43:20: |
The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls:
because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to
give drink to my people, my chosen. |
| 43:21: |
This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my
praise. |
| 43:22: |
But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary
of me, O Israel. |
| 43:23: |
Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings;
neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee
to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense. |
| 43:24: |
Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou
filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve
with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. |
| 43:25: |
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own
sake, and will not remember thy sins. |
| 43:26: |
Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou
mayest be justified. |
| 43:27: |
Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed
against me. |
| 43:28: |
Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have
given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches. |
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| 44:1: |
Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have
chosen: |
| 44:2: |
Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb,
which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun,
whom I have chosen. |
| 44:3: |
For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the
dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon
thine offspring: |
| 44:4: |
And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water
courses. |
| 44:5: |
One shall say, I am the LORD's; and another shall call himself by
the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the
LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel. |
| 44:6: |
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. |
| 44:7: |
And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order
for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are
coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them. |
| 44:8: |
Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time,
and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me?
yea, there is no God; I know not any. |
| 44:9: |
They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their
delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses;
they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. |
| 44:10: |
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable
for nothing? |
| 44:11: |
Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are
of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they
shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together. |
| 44:12: |
The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it
with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is
hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is
faint. |
| 44:13: |
The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line;
he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and
maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man;
that it may remain in the house. |
| 44:14: |
He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which
he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth
an ash, and the rain doth nourish it. |
| 44:15: |
Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and
warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a
god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down
thereto. |
| 44:16: |
He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth
flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and
saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire: |
| 44:17: |
And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he
falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith,
Deliver me; for thou art my god. |
| 44:18: |
They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that
they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand. |
| 44:19: |
And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor
understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I
have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten
it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall
down to the stock of a tree? |
| 44:20: |
He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he
cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right
hand? |
| 44:21: |
Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have
formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten
of me. |
| 44:22: |
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a
cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee. |
| 44:23: |
Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts
of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every
tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in
Israel. |
| 44:24: |
Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the
womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the
heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; |
| 44:25: |
That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad;
that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish; |
| 44:26: |
That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel
of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and
to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the
decayed places thereof: |
| 44:27: |
That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers: |
| 44:28: |
That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my
pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the
temple, Thy foundation shall be laid. |
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| 45:1: |
Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I
have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of
kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not
be shut; |
| 45:2: |
I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will
break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of
iron: |
| 45:3: |
And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of
secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by
thy name, am the God of Israel. |
| 45:4: |
For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even
called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known
me. |
| 45:5: |
I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I
girded thee, though thou hast not known me: |
| 45:6: |
That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west,
that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. |
| 45:7: |
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil:
I the LORD do all these things. |
| 45:8: |
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 righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created
it. |
| 45:9: |
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive
with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that
fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? |
| 45:10: |
Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to
the woman, What hast thou brought forth? |
| 45:11: |
Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of
things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands
command ye me. |
| 45:12: |
I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands,
have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. |
| 45:13: |
I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his
ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for
price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts. |
| 45:14: |
Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia
and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they
shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come
over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication
unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there
is no God. |
| 45:15: |
Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the
Saviour. |
| 45:16: |
They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall
go to confusion together that are makers of idols. |
| 45:17: |
But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation:
ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end. |
| 45:18: |
For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that
formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not
in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none
else. |
| 45:19: |
I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not
unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak
righteousness, I declare things that are right. |
| 45:20: |
Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped
of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their
graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save. |
| 45:21: |
Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together:
who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that
time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God
and a Saviour; there is none beside me. |
| 45:22: |
Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am
God, and there is none else. |
| 45:23: |
I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in
righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow,
every tongue shall swear. |
| 45:24: |
Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength:
even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall
be ashamed. |
| 45:25: |
In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall
glory. |
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| 46:1: |
Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and
upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to
the weary beast. |
| 46:2: |
They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the
burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. |
| 46:3: |
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house
of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from
the womb: |
| 46:4: |
And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry
you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver
you. |
| 46:5: |
To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we
may be like? |
| 46:6: |
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and
hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they
worship. |
| 46:7: |
They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his
place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one
shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his
trouble. |
| 46:8: |
Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye
transgressors. |
| 46:9: |
Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none
else; I am God, and there is none like me, |
| 46:10: |
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the
things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will
do all my pleasure: |
| 46:11: |
Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my
counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it
to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it. |
| 46:12: |
Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from
righteousness: |
| 46:13: |
I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my
salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel
my glory. |
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| 47:1: |
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on
the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou
shalt no more be called tender and delicate. |
| 47:2: |
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the
leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. |
| 47:3: |
Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I
will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man. |
| 47:4: |
As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of
Israel. |
| 47:5: |
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the
Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms. |
| 47:6: |
I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and
given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the
ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. |
| 47:7: |
And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not
lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of
it. |
| 47:8: |
Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that
dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else
beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of
children: |
| 47:9: |
But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the
loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their
perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great
abundance of thine enchantments. |
| 47:10: |
For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth
me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath ed thee; and thou hast
said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me. |
| 47:11: |
Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence
it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to
put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou
shalt not know. |
| 47:12: |
Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy
sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt
be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. |
| 47:13: |
Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the
astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and
save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. |
| 47:14: |
Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they
shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not
be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it. |
| 47:15: |
Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy
merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter;
none shall save thee. |
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| 48:1: |
Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of
Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the
name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in
truth, nor in righteousness. |
| 48:2: |
For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon
the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name. |
| 48:3: |
I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went
forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they
came to pass. |
| 48:4: |
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron
sinew, and thy brow brass; |
| 48:5: |
I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to
pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them,
and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them. |
| 48:6: |
Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have
shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst
not know them. |
| 48:7: |
They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day
when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew
them. |
| 48:8: |
Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time
that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very
treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb. |
| 48:9: |
For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise
will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. |
| 48:10: |
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee
in the furnace of affliction. |
| 48:11: |
For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how
should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto
another. |
| 48:12: |
Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the
first, I also am the last. |
| 48:13: |
Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right
hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up
together. |
| 48:14: |
All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared
these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on
Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans. |
| 48:15: |
I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him,
and he shall make his way prosperous. |
| 48:16: |
Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from
the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord
GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me. |
| 48:17: |
Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the
LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way
that thou shouldest go. |
| 48:18: |
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace
been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: |
| 48:19: |
Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels
like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor
destroyed from before me. |
| 48:20: |
Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of
singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say
ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob. |
| 48:21: |
And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused
the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and
the waters gushed out. |
| 48:22: |
There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked. |
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| 49:1: |
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD
hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made
mention of my name. |
| 49:2: |
And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his
hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he
hid me; |
| 49:3: |
And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be
glorified. |
| 49:4: |
Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for
nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work
with my God. |
| 49:5: |
And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his
servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet
shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my
strength. |
| 49:6: |
And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to
raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I
will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my
salvation unto the end of the earth. |
| 49:7: |
Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him
whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of
rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of
the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall
choose thee. |
| 49:8: |
Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in
a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give
thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to
inherit the desolate heritages; |
| 49:9: |
That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in
darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their
pastures shall be in all high places. |
| 49:10: |
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun
smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the
springs of water shall he guide them. |
| 49:11: |
And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be
exalted. |
| 49:12: |
Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and
from the west; and these from the land of Sinim. |
| 49:13: |
Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into
singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will
have mercy upon his afflicted. |
| 49:14: |
But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten
me. |
| 49:15: |
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have
compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not
forget thee. |
| 49:16: |
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are
continually before me. |
| 49:17: |
Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee
waste shall go forth of thee. |
| 49:18: |
Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather
themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou
shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind
them on thee, as a bride doeth. |
| 49:19: |
For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy
destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants,
and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. |
| 49:20: |
The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other,
shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place
to me that I may dwell. |
| 49:21: |
Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these,
seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing
to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone;
these, where had they been? |
| 49:22: |
Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the
Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy
sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their
shoulders. |
| 49:23: |
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing
mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth,
and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:
for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. |
| 49:24: |
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive
delivered? |
| 49:25: |
But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be
taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will
contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy
children. |
| 49:26: |
And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they
shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh
shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty
One of Jacob. |
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| 50:1: |
Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's
divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom
I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and
for your transgressions is your mother put away. |
| 50:2: |
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there
none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or
have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make
the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water,
and dieth for thirst. |
| 50:3: |
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their
covering. |
| 50:4: |
The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should
know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth
morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. |
| 50:5: |
The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither
turned away back. |
| 50:6: |
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off
the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. |
| 50:7: |
For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded:
therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be
ashamed. |
| 50:8: |
He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand
together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. |
| 50:9: |
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me?
lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. |
| 50:10: |
Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his
servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in
the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God. |
| 50:11: |
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with
sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have
kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in
sorrow. |
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| 51:1: |
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the
LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit
whence ye are digged. |
| 51:2: |
Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I
called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him. |
| 51:3: |
For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste
places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like
the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein,
thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. |
| 51:4: |
Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a
law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a
light of the people. |
| 51:5: |
My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms
shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm
shall they trust. |
| 51:6: |
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath:
for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old
like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but
my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be
abolished. |
| 51:7: |
Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose
heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of
their revilings. |
| 51:8: |
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat
them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation
from generation to generation. |
| 51:9: |
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the
ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut
Rahab, and wounded the dragon? |
| 51:10: |
Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great
deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass
over? |
| 51:11: |
Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with
singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they
shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee
away. |
| 51:12: |
I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou
shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which
shall be made as grass; |
| 51:13: |
And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the
heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared
continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were
ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor? |
| 51:14: |
The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should
not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. |
| 51:15: |
But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared:
The LORD of hosts is his name. |
| 51:16: |
And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the
shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the
foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people. |
| 51:17: |
Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of
the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of
trembling, and wrung them out. |
| 51:18: |
There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought
forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons
that she hath brought up. |
| 51:19: |
These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee?
desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall
I comfort thee? |
| 51:20: |
Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a
wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of
thy God. |
| 51:21: |
Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with
wine: |
| 51:22: |
Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of
his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling,
even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it
again: |
| 51:23: |
But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have
said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy
body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over. |
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| 52:1: |
Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful
garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more
come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. |
| 52:2: |
Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose
thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. |
| 52:3: |
For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye
shall be redeemed without money. |
| 52:4: |
For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt
to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. |
| 52:5: |
Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is
taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith
the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed. |
| 52:6: |
Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in
that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I. |
| 52:7: |
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth
good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good,
that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! |
| 52:8: |
Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall
they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again
Zion. |
| 52:9: |
Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem:
for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. |
| 52:10: |
The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations;
and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. |
| 52:11: |
Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing;
go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the
LORD. |
| 52:12: |
For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD
will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward. |
| 52:13: |
Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and
extolled, and be very high. |
| 52:14: |
As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any
man, and his form more than the sons of men: |
| 52:15: |
So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths
at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that
which they had not heard shall they consider. |
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| 53:1: |
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD
revealed? |
| 53:2: |
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out
of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see
him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. |
| 53:3: |
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted
with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised,
and we esteemed him not. |
| 53:4: |
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did
esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. |
| 53:5: |
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our
iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his
stripes we are healed. |
| 53:6: |
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his
own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. |
| 53:7: |
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth:
he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her
shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. |
| 53:8: |
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his
generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the
transgression of my people was he stricken. |
| 53:9: |
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his
death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his
mouth. |
| 53:10: |
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when
thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he
shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his
hand. |
| 53:11: |
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by
his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear
their iniquities. |
| 53:12: |
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall
divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul
unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the
sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. |
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| 54:1: |
Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing,
and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the
children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the
LORD. |
| 54:2: |
Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the
curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and
strengthen thy stakes; |
| 54:3: |
For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy
seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be
inhabited. |
| 54:4: |
Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded;
for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of
thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any
more. |
| 54:5: |
For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and
thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he
be called. |
| 54:6: |
For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in
spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. |
| 54:7: |
For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will
I gather thee. |
| 54:8: |
In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with
everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy
Redeemer. |
| 54:9: |
For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that
the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that
I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. |
| 54:10: |
For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my
kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my
peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee. |
| 54:11: |
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I
will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with
sapphires. |
| 54:12: |
And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles,
and all thy borders of pleasant stones. |
| 54:13: |
And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be
the peace of thy children. |
| 54:14: |
In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from
oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not
come near thee. |
| 54:15: |
Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever
shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake. |
| 54:16: |
Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire,
and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created
the waster to destroy. |
| 54:17: |
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue
that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the
heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me,
saith the LORD. |
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| 55:1: |
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath
no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without
money and without price. |
| 55:2: |
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your
labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat
ye that which is good, and let your soul deligh elf in fatness. |
| 55:3: |
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live;
and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies
of David. |
| 55:4: |
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and
commander to the people. |
| 55:5: |
Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations
that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and
for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee. |
| 55:6: |
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is
near: |
| 55:7: |
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts:
and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to
our God, for he will abundantly pardon. |
| 55:8: |
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,
saith the LORD. |
| 55:9: |
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher
than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. |
| 55:10: |
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth
not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud,
that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: |
| 55:11: |
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not
return unto me void, bu hall accomplish that which I please, and it
shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. |
| 55:12: |
For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the
mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and
all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. |
| 55:13: |
Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the
brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a
name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. |
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| 56:1: |
Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my
salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed. |
| 56:2: |
Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth
hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his
hand from doing any evil. |
| 56:3: |
Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the
LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people:
neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. |
| 56:4: |
For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and
choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; |
| 56:5: |
Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place
and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an
everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. |
| 56:6: |
Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to
serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every
one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my
covenant; |
| 56:7: |
Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in
my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be
accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of
prayer for all people. |
| 56:8: |
The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I
gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him. |
| 56:9: |
All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the
forest. |
| 56:10: |
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb
dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. |
| 56:11: |
Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are
shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every
one for his gain, from his quarter. |
| 56:12: |
Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with
strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more
abundant. |
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| 57:1: |
The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful
men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away
from the evil to come. |
| 57:2: |
He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one
walking in his uprightness. |
| 57:3: |
But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the
adulterer and the whore. |
| 57:4: |
Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide
mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a
seed of falsehood, |
| 57:5: |
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the
children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? |
| 57:6: |
Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are
thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast
offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these? |
| 57:7: |
Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither
wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. |
| 57:8: |
Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance:
for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up;
thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou
lovedst their bed where thou sawest it. |
| 57:9: |
And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy
perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself
even unto hell. |
| 57:10: |
Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not,
There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou
wast not grieved. |
| 57:11: |
And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and
hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my
peace even of old, and thou fearest me not? |
| 57:12: |
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not
profit thee. |
| 57:13: |
When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall
carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his
trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy
mountain; |
| 57:14: |
And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the
stumblingblock out of the way of my people. |
| 57:15: |
For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose
name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is
of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and
to revive the heart of the contrite ones. |
| 57:16: |
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for
the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. |
| 57:17: |
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I
hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his
heart. |
| 57:18: |
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and
restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. |
| 57:19: |
I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off,
and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him. |
| 57:20: |
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose
waters cast up mire and dirt. |
| 57:21: |
There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. |
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| 58:1: |
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my
people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. |
| 58:2: |
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that
did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask
of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to
God. |
| 58:3: |
Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore
have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the
day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. |
| 58:4: |
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of
wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be
heard on high. |
| 58:5: |
Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his
soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth
and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to
the LORD? |
| 58:6: |
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of
wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free,
and that ye break every yoke? |
| 58:7: |
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the
poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou
cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? |
| 58:8: |
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health
shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee;
the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward. |
| 58:9: |
Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and
he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the
yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; |
| 58:10: |
And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the
afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness
be as the noonday: |
| 58:11: |
And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in
drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden,
and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. |
| 58:12: |
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou
shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be
called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell
in. |
| 58:13: |
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure
on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD,
honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding
thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: |
| 58:14: |
Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to
ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage
of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. |
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| 59:1: |
Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save;
neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: |
| 59:2: |
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your
sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. |
| 59:3: |
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with
iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered
perverseness. |
| 59:4: |
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in
vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth
iniquity. |
| 59:5: |
They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he
that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out
into a viper. |
| 59:6: |
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover
themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the
act of violence is in their hands. |
| 59:7: |
Their feet run to evil, and they make hast to shed innocent blood:
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in
their paths. |
| 59:8: |
The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their
goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall
not know peace. |
| 59:9: |
Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us:
we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in
darkness. |
| 59:10: |
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no
eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as
dead men. |
| 59:11: |
We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for
judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from
us. |
| 59:12: |
For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins
testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our
iniquities, we know them; |
| 59:13: |
In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from
our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the
heart words of falsehood. |
| 59:14: |
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off:
for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. |
| 59:15: |
Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a
prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no
judgment. |
| 59:16: |
And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no
intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his
righteousness, it sustained him. |
| 59:17: |
For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of
salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for
clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke. |
| 59:18: |
According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his
adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay
recompence. |
| 59:19: |
So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory
from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood,
the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him. |
| 59:20: |
And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from
transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD. |
| 59:21: |
As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit
that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not
depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the
mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for
ever. |
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| 60:1: |
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is
risen upon thee. |
| 60:2: |
For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness
the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be
seen upon thee. |
| 60:3: |
And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness
of thy rising. |
| 60:4: |
Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves
together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy
daughters shall be nursed at thy side. |
| 60:5: |
Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear,
and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto
thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee. |