Isaiah |
1:1: 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. |
1:2: Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth:
for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they
have rebelled against me. |
1:3: The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass
his master's crib: but |
1:4: Ah sinful nation, a people laden with
iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have
forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they
are gone away backward. |
1:5: Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole
head is sick, and the whole heart faint. |
1:6: From the sole of the foot even unto the
head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying
sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with
ointment. |
1:7: Your country is desolate, your cities
are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it
is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. |
1:8: And the daughter of Zion is left as a
cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged
city. |
1:9: Except the LORD of hosts had left unto
us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have
been like unto Gomorrah. |
1:10: Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of
Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. |
1:11: To what purpose is the multitude of
your sacrifices unto me? saith the
LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts;
and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. |
1:12: When ye come to appear before me, who
hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? |
1:13: Bring no more vain oblations; incense
is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of
assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. |
1:14: Your new moons and your appointed
feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. |
1:15: And when ye spread forth your hands, I
will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not
hear: your hands are full of blood. |
1:16: Wash you, make you clean; put away the
evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; |
1:17: Learn to do well; seek judgment,
relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. |
1:18: Come now, and let us reason together, saith
the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. |
1:19: If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall
eat the good of the land: |
1:20: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be
devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. |
1:21: How is the faithful city become an
harlot! it was full of judgment;
righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. |
1:22: Thy silver is become dross, thy wine
mixed with water: |
1:23: Thy princes are rebellious, and
companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards:
they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto
them. |
1:24: Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of
hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and
avenge me of mine enemies: |
1:25: And I will turn my hand upon thee, and
purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: |
1:26: And I will restore thy judges as at the
first, and thy counsellers as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be
called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city. |
1:27: Zion shall be redeemed with judgment,
and her converts with righteousness. |
1:28: And the destruction of the
transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the
LORD shall be consumed. |
1:29: For they shall be ashamed of the oaks
which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye
have chosen. |
1:30: For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf
fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. |
1:31: And the strong shall be as tow, and the
maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall
quench them. |
2:1: The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw
concerning Judah and Jerusalem. |
2:2: And it shall come to pass in the last
days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top
of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall
flow unto it. |
2:3: And many people shall go and say, Come
ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of
Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for
out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. |
2:4: And he shall judge among the nations,
and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into
plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up
sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. |
2:5: O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us
walk in the light of the LORD. |
2:6: Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people
the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are
soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children
of strangers. |
2:7: Their land also is full of silver and
gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of
horses, neither is there any end of their chariots: |
2:8: Their land also is full of idols; they
worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: |
2:9: And the mean man boweth down, and the
great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not. |
2:10: Enter into the rock, and hide thee in
the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. |
2:11: The lofty looks of man shall be humbled,
and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be
exalted in that day. |
2:12: For the day of the LORD of hosts shall
be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted
up; and he shall be brought low: |
2:13: And upon all the cedars of Lebanon,
that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, |
2:14: And upon all the high mountains, and
upon all the hills that are lifted up, |
2:15: And upon every high tower, and upon
every fenced wall, |
2:16: And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and
upon all pleasant pictures. |
2:17: And the loftiness of man shall be bowed
down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall
be exalted in that day. |
2:18: And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
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2:19: And they shall go into the holes of the
rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the
glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. |
2:20: In that day a man shall cast his idols
of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to
worship, to the moles and to the bats; |
2:21: To go into the clefts of the rocks, and
into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of
his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. |
2:22: Cease ye from man, whose breath is in
his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of? |
3:1: 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, |
3:2: The mighty man, and the man of war, the
judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, |
3:3: The captain of fifty, and the honourable
man, and the counseller, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. |
3:4: And I will give children to be their
princes, and babes shall rule over them. |
3:5: And the people shall be oppressed, every
one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave
himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable. |
3:6: When a man shall take hold of his
brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our
ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand: |
3:7: In that day shall he swear, saying, I
will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me
not a ruler of the people. |
3:8: For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is
fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to
provoke the eyes of his glory. |
3:9: The shew of their countenance doth witness
against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto
themselves. |
3:10: Say ye to the righteous, that it shall
be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. |
3:11: Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of
his hands shall be given him. |
3:12: As for my people, children are their
oppressors, and women rule over them. O
my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy
paths. |
3:13: The LORD standeth up to plead, and
standeth to judge the people. |
3:14: The LORD will enter into judgment with
the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the
vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses. |
3:15: What mean ye that ye beat my people to
pieces, and grind the faces of the poor?
saith the LORD GOD of hosts. |
3:16: Moreover the LORD saith, Because the
daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton
eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: |
3:17: Therefore the LORD will smite with a
scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will
discover their secret parts. |
3:18: In that day the Lord will take away the
bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and
their round tires like the moon, |
3:19: The chains, and the bracelets, and the
mufflers, |
3:20: The bonnets, and the ornaments of the
legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, |
3:21: The rings, and nose jewels, |
3:22: The changeable suits of apparel, and
the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, |
3:23: The glasses, and the fine linen, and
the hoods, and the vails. |
3:24: And it shall come to pass, that instead
of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and
instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of
sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty. |
3:25: Thy men shall fall by the sword, and
thy mighty in the war. |
3:26: And her gates shall lament and mourn;
and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground. |
4:1: And in that day seven women shall take
hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel:
only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach. |
4:2: In that day shall the branch of the LORD
be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and
comely for them that are escaped of Israel. |
4:3: And it shall come to pass, that he that
is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy,
even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: |
4:4: When the Lord shall have washed away the
filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem
from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of
burning. |
4:5: And the LORD will create upon every
dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by
day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall
be a defence. |
4:6: And there shall be a tabernacle for a
shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a
covert from storm and from rain. |
5:1: Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song
of my beloved touching his vineyard. My
wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: |
5:2: And he fenced it, and gathered out the
stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in
the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it
should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. |
5:3: And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and
men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. |
5:4: What could have been done more to my
vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore,
when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild
grapes? |
5:5: And now go to; I will tell you what I
will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be
eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: |
5:6: And I will lay it waste: it shall not be
pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also
command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. |
5:7: For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is
the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked
for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry. |
5:8: Woe unto them that join house to house,
that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed
alone in the midst of the earth! |
5:9: In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of
a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without
inhabitant. |
5:10: Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield
one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah. |
5:11: Woe unto them that rise up early in the
morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till
wine inflame them! |
5:12: And the harp, and the viol, the tabret,
and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the
LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands. |
5:13: Therefore my people are gone into
captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished,
and their multitude dried up with thirst. |
5:14: Therefore hell hath enlarged herself,
and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude,
and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. |
5:15: And the mean man shall be brought down,
and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be
humbled: |
5:16: But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted
in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness. |
5:17: Then shall the lambs feed after their
manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. |
5:18: Woe unto them that draw iniquity with
cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: |
5:19: That say, Let him make speed, and
hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of
Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! |
5:20: Woe unto them that call evil good, and
good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put
bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! |
5:21: Woe unto them that are wise in their
own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! |
5:22: Woe unto them that are mighty to drink
wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: |
5:23: Which justify the wicked for reward,
and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! |
5:24: Therefore as the fire devoureth the
stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as
rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast
away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of
Israel. |
5:25: Therefore is the anger of the LORD
kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against
them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases
were torn in the midst of the streets.
For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched
out still. |
5:26: And he will lift up an ensign to the
nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and,
behold, they shall come with speed swiftly: |
5:27: None shall be weary nor stumble among
them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins
be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: |
5:28: Whose arrows are sharp, and all their
bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels
like a whirlwind: |
5:29: Their roaring shall be like a lion,
they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the
prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it. |
5:30: And in that day they shall roar against
them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold
darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof. |
6:1: In the year that king Uzziah died I saw
also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled
the temple. |
6:2: Above it stood the seraphims: each one
had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his
feet, and with twain he did fly. |
6:3: And one cried unto another, and said,
Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. |
6:4: And the posts of the door moved at the
voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. |
6:5: Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of
unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine
eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. |
6:6: Then flew one of the seraphims unto me,
having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off
the altar: |
6:7: And he laid it upon my mouth, and said,
Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin
purged. |
6:8: Also I heard the voice of the Lord,
saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. |
6:9: And he said, Go, and tell this people,
Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. |
6:10: Make the heart of this people fat, and
make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and
be healed. |
6:11: Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted
without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly
desolate, |
6:12: And the LORD have removed men far away,
and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. |
6:13: But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it
shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose
substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be
the substance thereof. |
7:1: And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz
the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of
Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward
Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. |
7:2: And it was told the house of David,
saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim.
And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of
the wood are moved with the wind. |
7:3: Then said the LORD 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; |
7:4: And say unto him, Take heed, and be
quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking
firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of
Remaliah. |
7:5: Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of
Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, |
7:6: Let us go up against Judah, and vex it,
and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it,
even the son of Tabeal: |
7:7: Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not
stand, neither shall it come to pass. |
7:8: For the head of Syria is Damascus, and
the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall
Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. |
7:9: And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and
the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son.
If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established. |
7:10: Moreover the LORD spake again unto
Ahaz, saying, |
7:11: Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God;
ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. |
7:12: But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither
will I tempt the LORD. |
7:13: And he said, Hear ye now, O house of
David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God
also? |
7:14: Therefore the Lord himself shall give
you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call
his name Immanuel. |
7:15: Butter and honey shall he eat, that he
may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. |
7:16: For before the child shall know to
refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be
forsaken of both her kings. |
7:17: The LORD shall bring upon thee, and
upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from
the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria. |
7:18: And it shall come to pass in that day,
that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the
rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. |
7:19: And they shall come, and shall rest all
of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all
thorns, and upon all bushes. |
7:20: In the same day shall the Lord shave
with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of
Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the
beard. |
7:21: And it shall come to pass in that day,
that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep; |
7:22: And it shall come to pass, for the
abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and
honey shall every one eat that is left in the land. |
7:23: And it shall come to pass in that day,
that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand
silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns. |
7:24: With arrows and with bows shall men
come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns. |
7:25: And on all hills that shall be digged
with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns:
but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser
cattle. |
8:1: Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take
thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
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8:2: And I took unto me faithful witnesses to
record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. |
8:3: And I went unto the prophetess; and she
conceived, and bare a son. Then said
the LORD to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz. |
8:4: 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. |
8:5: The LORD spake also unto me again,
saying, |
8:6: Forasmuch as this people refuseth the
waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son; |
8:7: Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth
up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of
Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and
go over all his banks: |
8:8: And he shall pass through Judah; he
shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the
stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel. |
8:9: Associate yourselves, O ye people, and
ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird
yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall
be broken in pieces. |
8:10: Take counsel together, and it shall
come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us. |
8:11: For the LORD spake thus to me with a
strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this
people, saying, |
8:12: Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them
to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor
be afraid. |
8:13: Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and
let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. |
8:14: And he shall be for a sanctuary; but
for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of
Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. |
8:15: And many among them shall stumble, and
fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. |
8:16: Bind up the testimony, seal the law
among my disciples. |
8:17: And I will wait upon the LORD, that
hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. |
8:18: Behold, I and the children whom the
LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of
hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. |
8:19: And when they shall say unto you, Seek
unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that
mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? |
8:20: To the law and to the testimony: if
they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in
them. |
8:21: And they shall pass through it, hardly
bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be
hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and
look upward. |
8:22: And they shall look unto the earth; and
behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to
darkness. |
9:1: Nevertheless the dimness shall not be
such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land
of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously
afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. |
9:2: The people that walked in darkness have
seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon
them hath the light shined. |
9:3: Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not
increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and
as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. |
9:4: For thou hast broken the yoke of his
burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the
day of Midian. |
9:5: For every battle of the warrior is with
confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning
and fuel of fire. |
9:6: For unto us a child is born, unto us a
son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name
shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting
Father, The Prince of Peace. |
9:7: Of the increase of his government and
peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom,
to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from
henceforth even for ever. The zeal of
the LORD of hosts will perform this. |
9:8: The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it
hath lighted upon Israel. |
9:9: And all the people shall know, even
Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of
heart, |
9:10: The bricks are fallen down, but we will
build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them
into cedars. |
9:11: Therefore the LORD shall set up the
adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together; |
9:12: The Syrians before, and the Philistines
behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still. |
9:13: For the people turneth not unto him
that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts. |
9:14: Therefore the LORD will cut off from
Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. |
9:15: The ancient and honourable, he is the
head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. |
9:16: For the leaders of this people cause
them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. |
9:17: Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in
their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for
every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh
folly. For all this his anger is not
turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. |
9:18: For wickedness burneth as the fire: it
shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the
forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke. |
9:19: Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts
is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man
shall spare his brother. |
9:20: And he shall snatch on the right hand,
and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be
satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm: |
9:21: Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim,
Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still. |
10:1: Woe unto them that decree unrighteous
decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; |
10:2: To turn aside the needy from judgment,
and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be
their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! |
10:3: And what will ye do in the day of
visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? |
10:4: Without me they shall bow down under
the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still. |
10:5: O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and
the staff in their hand is mine indignation. |
10:6: I will send him against an hypocritical
nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take
the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the
streets. |
10:7: Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth
his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not
a few. |
10:8: For he saith, Are not my princes
altogether kings? |
10:9: Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? |
10:10: As my hand hath found the kingdoms of
the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of
Samaria; |
10:11: Shall I not, as I have done unto
Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? |
10:12: Wherefore it shall come to pass, that
when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem,
I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the
glory of his high looks. |
10:13: For he saith, By the strength of my
hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed
the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put
down the inhabitants like a valiant man: |
10:14: And my hand hath found as a nest the
riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I
gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the
mouth, or peeped. |
10:15: Shall the axe boast itself against him
that heweth therewith? or shall the
saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against
them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were
no wood. |
10:16: Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of
hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle
a burning like the burning of a fire. |
10:17: 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; |
10:18: And shall consume the glory of his
forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as
when a standardbearer fainteth. |
10:19: And the rest of the trees of his
forest shall be few, that a child may write them. |
10:20: And it shall come to pass in that day,
that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob,
shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the
LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. |
10:21: The remnant shall return, even the
remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. |
10:22: For though thy people Israel be as the
sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed
shall overflow with righteousness. |
10:23: For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a
consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land. |
10:24: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of
hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he
shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after
the manner of Egypt. |
10:25: For yet a very little while, and the
indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction. |
10:26: And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a
scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and
as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of
Egypt. |
10:27: And it shall come to pass in that day,
that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from
off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. |
10:28: He is come to Aiath, he is passed to
Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages: |
10:29: They are gone over the passage: they
have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled. |
10:30: Lift up thy voice, O daughter of
Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth. |
10:31: Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants
of Gebim gather themselves to flee. |
10:32: As yet shall he remain at Nob that
day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the
hill of Jerusalem. |
10:33: Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts,
shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn
down, and the haughty shall be humbled. |
10:34: And he shall cut down the thickets of
the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one. |
11:1: And there shall come forth a rod out of
the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: |
11:2: And the spirit of the LORD shall rest
upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and
might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; |
11:3: And shall make him of quick
understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight
of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: |
11:4: But with righteousness shall he judge
the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall
smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips
shall he slay the wicked. |
11:5: And righteousness shall be the girdle
of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. |
11:6: The wolf also shall dwell with the
lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young
lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. |
11:7: And the cow and the bear shall feed;
their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like
the ox. |
11:8: And the sucking child shall play on the
hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice'
den. |
11:9: They shall not hurt nor destroy in all
my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,
as the waters cover the sea. |
11:10: And in that day there shall be a root
of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the
Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. |
11:11: And it shall come to pass in that day,
that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant
of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from
Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and
from the islands of the sea. |
11:12: And he shall set up an ensign for the
nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the
dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. |
11:13: The envy also of Ephraim shall depart,
and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah,
and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. |
11:14: But they shall fly upon the shoulders
of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east
together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of
Ammon shall obey them. |
11:15: And the LORD shall utterly destroy the
tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand
over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over
dryshod. |
11:16: And there shall be an highway for the
remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to
Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. |
12:1: And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD,
I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned
away, and thou comfortedst me. |
12:2: Behold, God is my salvation; I will
trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he
also is become my salvation. |
12:3: Therefore with joy shall ye draw water
out of the wells of salvation. |
12:4: And in that day shall ye say, Praise
the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make
mention that his name is exalted. |
12:5: Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done
excellent things: this is known in all the earth. |
12:6: Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion:
for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee. |
13:1: The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the
son of Amoz did see. |
13:2: Lift ye up a banner upon the high
mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into
the gates of the nobles. |
13:3: I have commanded my sanctified ones, I
have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my
highness. |
13:4: The noise of a multitude in the
mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of
nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the
battle. |
13:5: They come from a far country, from the
end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy
the whole land. |
13:6: Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at
hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. |
13:7: Therefore shall all hands be faint, and
every man's heart shall melt: |
13:8: And they shall be afraid: pangs and
sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth:
they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. |
13:9: Behold, the day of the LORD cometh,
cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he
shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. |
13:10: For the stars of heaven and the
constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened
in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. |
13:11: And I will punish the world for their
evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of
the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. |
13:12: I will make a man more precious than
fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. |
13:13: Therefore I will shake the heavens,
and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of
hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. |
13:14: And it shall be as the chased roe, and
as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own
people, and flee every one into his own land. |
13:15: Every one that is found shall be
thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the
sword. |
13:16: Their children also shall be dashed to
pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. |
13:17: Behold, I will stir up the Medes
against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not
delight in it. |
13:18: Their bows also shall dash the young
men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their
eye shall not spare children. |
13:19: And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,
the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom
and Gomorrah. |
13:20: It shall never be inhabited, neither
shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian
pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. |
13:21: But wild beasts of the desert shall
lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls
shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. |
13:22: And the wild beasts of the islands
shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces:
and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. |
14:1: For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob,
and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers
shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. |
14:2: And the people shall take them, and
bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the
land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them
captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. |
14:3: And it shall come to pass in the day
that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and
from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, |
14:4: That thou shalt take up this proverb
against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! |
14:5: The LORD hath broken the staff of the
wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. |
14:6: He who smote the people in wrath with a
continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none
hindereth. |
14:7: The whole earth is at rest, and is
quiet: they break forth into singing. |
14:8: Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and
the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up
against us. |
14:9: Hell from beneath is moved for thee to
meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief
ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the
nations. |
14:10: All they shall speak and say unto
thee, Art thou also become weak as we?
art thou become like unto us? |
14:11: Thy pomp is brought down to the grave,
and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms
cover thee. |
14:12: How art thou fallen from heaven, O
Lucifer, son of the morning! how art
thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! |
14:13: For thou hast said in thine heart, I
will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I
will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: |
14:14: I will ascend above the heights of the
clouds; I will be like the most High. |
14:15: Yet thou shalt be brought down to
hell, to the sides of the pit. |
14:16: They that see thee shall narrowly look
upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to
tremble, that did shake kingdoms; |
14:17: That made the world as a wilderness,
and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? |
14:18: All the kings of the nations, even all
of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. |
14:19: But thou art cast out of thy grave
like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust
through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase
trodden under feet. |
14:20: Thou shalt not be joined with them in
burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed
of evildoers shall never be renowned. |
14:21: Prepare slaughter for his children for
the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land,
nor fill the face of the world with cities. |
14:22: For I will rise up against them, saith
the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son,
and nephew, saith the LORD. |
14:23: I will also make it a possession for
the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of
destruction, saith the LORD of hosts. |
14:24: The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying,
Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed,
so shall it stand: |
14:25: That I will break the Assyrian in my
land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart
from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders. |
14:26: This is the purpose that is purposed
upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the
nations. |
14:27: For the LORD of hosts hath purposed,
and who shall disannul it? and his
hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? |
14:28: In the year that king Ahaz died was
this burden. |
14:29: Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina,
because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's
root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying
serpent. |
14:30: And the firstborn of the poor shall
feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with
famine, and he shall slay thy remnant. |
14:31: Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole
Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and
none shall be alone in his appointed times. |
14:32: What shall one then answer the
messengers of the nation? That the
LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it. |
15:1: The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid
waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid
waste, and brought to silence; |
15:2: He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon,
the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all
their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off. |
15:3: In their streets they shall gird
themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets,
every one shall howl, weeping abundantly. |
15:4: And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh:
their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of
Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him. |
15:5: My heart shall cry out for Moab; his
fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the
mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of
Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction. |
15:6: For the waters of Nimrim shall be
desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green
thing. |
15:7: Therefore the abundance they have
gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook
of the willows. |
15:8: For the cry is gone round about the
borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof
unto Beer-elim. |
15:9: For the waters of Dimon shall be full
of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of
Moab, and upon the remnant of the land. |
16:1: Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the
land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. |
16:2: For it shall be, that, as a wandering
bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of
Arnon. |
16:3: Take counsel, execute judgment; make
thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts;
bewray not him that wandereth. |
16:4: Let mine outcasts dwell with thee,
Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the
extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed
out of the land. |
16:5: And in mercy shall the throne be
established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David,
judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness. |
16:6: We have heard of the pride of Moab; he
is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his
lies shall not be so. |
16:7: Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab,
every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn;
surely they are stricken. |
16:8: For the fields of Heshbon languish, and
the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal
plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the
wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea. |
16:9: Therefore I will bewail with the
weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O
Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy
harvest is fallen. |
16:10: And gladness is taken away, and joy
out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing,
neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in
their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease. |
16:11: Wherefore my bowels shall sound like
an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh. |
16:12: And it shall come to pass, when it is
seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his
sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail. |
16:13: This is the word that the LORD hath
spoken concerning Moab since that time. |
16:14: But now the LORD hath spoken, saying,
Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall
be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very
small and feeble. |
17:1: The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a
city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. |
17:2: The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they
shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. |
17:3: The fortress also shall cease from
Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall
be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts. |
17:4: And in that day it shall come to pass,
that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh
shall wax lean. |
17:5: And it shall be as when the harvestman
gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he
that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim. |
17:6: Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in
it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the
uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith
the LORD God of Israel. |
17:7: At that day shall a man look to his
Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. |
17:8: And he shall not look to the altars,
the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have
made, either the groves, or the images. |
17:9: In that day shall his strong cities be
as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the
children of Israel: and there shall be desolation. |
17:10: Because thou hast forgotten the God of
thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength,
therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange
slips: |
17:11: In the day shalt thou make thy plant
to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the
harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. |
17:12: Woe to the multitude of many people,
which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,
that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! |
17:13: The nations shall rush like the
rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far
off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and
like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. |
17:14: And behold at eveningtide trouble; and
before the morning he is not. This is
the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us. |
18:1: Woe to the land shadowing with wings,
which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: |
18:2: That sendeth ambassadors by the sea,
even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift
messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their
beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the
rivers have spoiled! |
18:3: All ye inhabitants of the world, and
dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains;
and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. |
18:4: For so the LORD said unto me, I will
take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon
herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. |
18:5: For afore the harvest, when the bud is
perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off
the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. |
18:6: They shall be left together unto the
fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall
summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. |
18:7: In that time shall the present be
brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a
people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden
under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of
the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion. |
19:1: The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud,
and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his
presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. |
19:2: And I will set the Egyptians against
the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every
one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. |
19:3: And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in
the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall
seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar
spirits, and to the wizards. |
19:4: And the Egyptians will I give over into
the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the
Lord, the LORD of hosts. |
19:5: And the waters shall fail from the sea,
and the river shall be wasted and dried up. |
19:6: And they shall turn the rivers far
away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and
flags shall wither. |
19:7: The paper reeds by the brooks, by the
mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be
driven away, and be no more. |
19:8: The fishers also shall mourn, and all
they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets
upon the waters shall languish. |
19:9: Moreover they that work in fine flax,
and they that weave networks, shall be confounded. |
19:10: And they shall be broken in the purposes
thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish. |
19:11: Surely the princes of Zoan are fools,
the counsel of the wise counsellers of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye
unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? |
19:12: Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them
know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. |
19:13: The princes of Zoan are become fools,
the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they
that are the stay of the tribes thereof. |
19:14: The LORD hath mingled a perverse
spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work
thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit. |
19:15: Neither shall there be any work for
Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do. |
19:16: In that day shall Egypt be like unto
women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of
the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it. |
19:17: And the land of Judah shall be a
terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in
himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath
determined against it. |
19:18: In that day shall five cities in the
land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts;
one shall be called, The city of destruction. |
19:19: In that day shall there be an altar to
the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border
thereof to the LORD. |
19:20: And it shall be for a sign and for a
witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto
the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a
great one, and he shall deliver them. |
19:21: And the LORD shall be known to Egypt,
and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and
oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it. |
19:22: And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he
shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall
be intreated of them, and shall heal them. |
19:23: In that day shall there be a highway
out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the
Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. |
19:24: In that day shall Israel be the third
with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: |
19:25: Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless,
saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and
Israel mine inheritance. |
20:1: In the year that Tartan came unto
Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against
Ashdod, and took it; |
20:2: At the same time spake the LORD by
Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy
loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot.
And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. |
20:3: And the LORD said, Like as my servant
Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon
Egypt and upon Ethiopia; |
20:4: So shall the king of Assyria lead away
the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked
and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. |
20:5: And they shall be afraid and ashamed of
Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. |
20:6: And the inhabitant of this isle shall
say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to
be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape? |
21:1: The burden of the desert of the
sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass
through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. |
21:2: A grievous vision is declared unto me;
the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the
sighing thereof have I made to cease. |
21:3: Therefore are my loins filled with
pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth:
I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it. |
21:4: My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted
me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. |
21:5: Prepare the table, watch in the
watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield. |
21:6: For thus hath the Lord said unto me,
Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth. |
21:7: And he saw a chariot with a couple of
horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened
diligently with much heed: |
21:8: And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand
continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole
nights: |
21:9: And, behold, here cometh a chariot of
men, with a couple of horsemen. And he
answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of
her gods he hath broken unto the ground. |
21:10: O my threshing, and the corn of my
floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have
I declared unto you. |
21:11: The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman,
what of the night? Watchman, what of
the night? |
21:12: The watchman said, The morning cometh,
and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come. |
21:13: The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O
ye travelling companies of Dedanim. |
21:14: The inhabitants of the land of Tema
brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him
that fled. |
21:15: For they fled from the swords, from the
drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. |
21:16: For thus hath the Lord said unto me,
Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of
Kedar shall fail: |
21:17: And the residue of the number of archers,
the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD
God of Israel hath spoken it. |
22:1: The burden of the valley of
vision. What aileth thee now, that
thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? |
22:2: Thou that art full of stirs, a
tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword,
nor dead in battle. |
22:3: All thy rulers are fled together, they
are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together,
which have fled from far. |
22:4: Therefore said I, Look away from me; I
will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the
daughter of my people. |
22:5: For it is a day of trouble, and of
treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of
vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains. |
22:6: And Elam bare the quiver with chariots
of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. |
22:7: And it shall come to pass, that thy
choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set
themselves in array at the gate. |
22:8: And he discovered the covering of
Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the
forest. |
22:9: Ye have seen also the breaches of the
city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the
lower pool. |
22:10: And ye have numbered the houses of
Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall. |
22:11: Ye made also a ditch between the two
walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker
thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago. |
22:12: And in that day did the Lord GOD of
hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with
sackcloth: |
22:13: And behold joy and gladness, slaying
oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and
drink; for to morrow we shall die. |
22:14: And it was revealed in mine ears by
the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye
die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts. |
22:15: Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go,
get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and
say, |
22:16: What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast
hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on
high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock? |
22:17: Behold, the LORD will carry thee away
with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee. |
22:18: He will surely violently turn and toss
thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the
chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house. |
22:19: And I will drive thee from thy
station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down. |
22:20: And it shall come to pass in that day,
that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: |
22:21: And I will clothe him with thy robe,
and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his
hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the
house of Judah. |
22:22: And the key of the house of David will
I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall
shut, and none shall open. |
22:23: And I will fasten him as a nail in a
sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house. |
22:24: And they shall hang upon him all the
glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of
small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons. |
22:25: In that day, saith the LORD of hosts,
shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut
down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the
LORD hath spoken it. |
23:1: The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid
waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it
is revealed to them. |
23:2: Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle;
thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. |
23:3: And by great waters the seed of Sihor,
the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations. |
23:4: Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea
hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring
forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins. |
23:5: As at the report concerning Egypt, so
shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre. |
23:6: Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye
inhabitants of the isle. |
23:7: Is this your joyous city, whose
antiquity is of ancient days? her own
feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. |
23:8: Who hath taken this counsel against
Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are
the honourable of the earth? |
23:9: The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to
stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable
of the earth. |
23:10: Pass through thy land as a river, O
daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength. |
23:11: He stretched out his hand over the
sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the
merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof. |
23:12: And he said, Thou shalt no more
rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to
Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest. |
23:13: Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this
people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the
wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces
thereof; and he brought it to ruin. |
23:14: Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your
strength is laid waste |
23:15: And it shall come to pass in that day,
that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one
king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot. |
23:16: Take an harp, go about the city, thou
harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that
thou mayest be remembered. |
23:17: And it shall come to pass after the
end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to
her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world
upon the face of the earth. |
23:18: And her merchandise and her hire shall
be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise
shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for
durable clothing. |
24:1: Behold, the LORD maketh the earth
empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad
the inhabitants thereof. |
24:2: And it shall be, as with the people, so
with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid,
so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the
lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver
of usury to him. |
24:3: The land shall be utterly emptied, and
utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. |
24:4: The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the
world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do
languish. |
24:5: The earth also is defiled under the
inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the
ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. |
24:6: Therefore hath the curse devoured the
earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of
the earth are burned, and few men left. |
24:7: The new wine mourneth, the vine
languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. |
24:8: The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise
of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. |
24:9: They shall not drink wine with a song;
strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. |
24:10: The city of confusion is broken down:
every house is shut up, that no man may come in. |
24:11: There is a crying for wine in the
streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. |
24:12: In the city is left desolation, and
the gate is smitten with destruction. |
24:13: When thus it shall be in the midst of
the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree,
and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done. |
24:14: They shall lift up their voice, they
shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea. |
24:15: Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the
fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea. |
24:16: From the uttermost part of the earth
have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe
unto me! the treacherous dealers have
dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very
treacherously. |
24:17: Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are
upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. |
24:18: And it shall come to pass, that he who
fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh
up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows
from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake. |
24:19: The earth is utterly broken down, the
earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. |
24:20: The earth shall reel to and fro like a
drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof
shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. |
24:21: And it shall come to pass in that day,
that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and
the kings of the earth upon the earth. |
24:22: And they shall be gathered together,
as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and
after many days shall they be visited. |
24:23: Then the moon shall be confounded, and
the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in
Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously. |
25:1: O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt
thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy
counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. |
25:2: For thou hast made of a city an heap;
of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall
never be built. |
25:3: Therefore shall the strong people
glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. |
25:4: For thou hast been a strength to the
poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a
shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm
against the wall. |
25:5: Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers,
as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the
branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. |
25:6: And in this mountain shall the LORD of
hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the
lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. |
25:7: And he will destroy in this mountain
the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread
over all nations. |
25:8: He will swallow up death in victory;
and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of
his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath
spoken it. |
25:9: And it shall be said in that day, Lo,
this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the
LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. |
25:10: For in this mountain shall the hand of
the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is
trodden down for the dunghill. |
25:11: And he shall spread forth his hands in
the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and
he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands. |
25:12: And the fortress of the high fort of
thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the
dust. |
26:1: In that day shall this song be sung in
the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for
walls and bulwarks. |
26:2: Open ye the gates, that the righteous
nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. |
26:3: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace,
whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. |
26:4: Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in
the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength: |
26:5: For he bringeth down them that dwell on
high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground;
he bringeth it even to the dust. |
26:6: The foot shall tread it down, even the
feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy. |
26:7: The way of the just is uprightness:
thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just. |
26:8: Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O
LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to
the remembrance of thee. |
26:9: 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 in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn
righteousness. |
26:10: Let favour be shewed to the wicked,
yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal
unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD. |
26:11: LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they
will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the
people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them. |
26:12: LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us:
for thou also hast wrought all our works in us. |
26:13: O LORD our God, other lords beside
thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy
name. |
26:14: They are dead, they shall not live;
they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and
destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. |
26:15: Thou hast increased the nation, O
LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed
it far unto all the ends of the earth. |
26:16: LORD, in trouble have they visited
thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. |
26:17: Like as a woman with child, that
draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her
pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD. |
26:18: We have been with child, we have been
in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any
deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. |
26:19: Thy dead men shall live, together with
my dead body shall they arise. Awake
and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the
earth shall cast out the dead. |
26:20: Come, my people, enter thou into thy
chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little
moment, until the indignation be overpast. |
26:21: For, behold, the LORD cometh out of
his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the
earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. |
27:1: In that day the LORD with his sore and
great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even
leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the
sea. |
27:2: In that day sing ye unto her, A
vineyard of red wine. |
27:3: I the LORD do keep it; I will water it
every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. |
27:4: Fury is not in me: who would set the
briers and thorns against me in battle?
I would go through them, I would burn them together. |
27:5: Or let him take hold of my strength,
that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me. |
27:6: He shall cause them that come of Jacob
to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world
with fruit. |
27:7: Hath he smitten him, as he smote those
that smote him? or is he slain
according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him? |
27:8: In measure, when it shooteth forth,
thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. |
27:9: By this therefore shall the iniquity of
Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he
maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder,
the groves and images shall not stand up. |
27:10: Yet the defenced city shall be
desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there
shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches
thereof. |
27:11: When the boughs thereof are withered,
they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a
people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy
on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour. |
27:12: And it shall come to pass in that day,
that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of
Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel. |
27:13: And it shall come to pass in that day,
that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready
to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and
shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem. |
28:1: Woe to the crown of pride, to the
drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on
the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! |
28:2: Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and
strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of
mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand. |
28:3: The crown of pride, the drunkards of
Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet: |
28:4: And the glorious beauty, which is on
the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit
before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet
in his hand he eateth it up. |
28:5: In that day shall the LORD of hosts be
for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his
people, |
28:6: And for a spirit of judgment to him
that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to
the gate. |
28:7: But they also have erred through wine,
and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have
erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of
the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. |
28:8: For all tables are full of vomit and
filthiness, so that there is no place clean. |
28:9: Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand
doctrine? them that are weaned from
the milk, and drawn from the breasts. |
28:10: For precept must be upon precept,
precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and
there a little: |
28:11: For with stammering lips and another
tongue will he speak to this people. |
28:12: To whom he said, This is the rest
wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet
they would not hear. |
28:13: But the word of the LORD was unto them
precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line;
here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and
be broken, and snared, and taken. |
28:14: Wherefore hear the word of the LORD,
ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. |
28:15: Because ye have said, We have made a
covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing
scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies
our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: |
28:16: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD,
Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious
corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. |
28:17: Judgment also will I lay to the line,
and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of
lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. |
28:18: And your covenant with death shall be
disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the
overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. |
28:19: From the time that it goeth forth it
shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by
night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. |
28:20: For the bed is shorter than that a man
can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap
himself in it. |
28:21: For the LORD shall rise up as in mount
Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his
work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act. |
28:22: Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest
your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a
consumption, even determined upon the whole earth. |
28:23: Give ye ear, and hear my voice;
hearken, and hear my speech. |
28:24: Doth the plowman plow all day to
sow? doth he open and break the clods
of his ground? |
28:25: When he hath made plain the face
thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and
cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and rie in their place? |
28:26: For his God doth instruct him to
discretion, and doth teach him. |
28:27: For the fitches are not threshed with
a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin;
but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. |
28:28: Bread corn is bruised; because he will
not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise
it with his horsemen. |
28:29: This also cometh forth from the LORD
of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working. |
29:1: Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where
David dwelt! add ye year to year; let
them kill sacrifices. |
29:2: Yet I will distress Ariel, and there
shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel. |
29:3: And I will camp against thee round
about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts
against thee. |
29:4: And thou shalt be brought down, and
shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust,
and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the
ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust. |
29:5: Moreover the multitude of thy strangers
shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as
chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly. |
29:6: Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of
hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and
tempest, and the flame of devouring fire. |
29:7: And the multitude of all the nations
that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition,
and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision. |
29:8: It shall even be as when an hungry man
dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or
as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh,
and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude
of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion. |
29:9: Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye
out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with
strong drink. |
29:10: For the LORD hath poured out upon you
the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your
rulers, the seers hath he covered. |
29:11: And the vision of all is become unto
you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is
learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is
sealed: |
29:12: And the book is delivered to him that
is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not
learned. |
29:13: Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as
this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me,
but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught
by the precept of men: |
29:14: Therefore, behold, I will proceed to
do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder:
for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their
prudent men shall be hid. |
29:15: Woe unto them that seek deep to hide
their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say,
Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? |
29:16: Surely your turning of things upside
down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him
that made it, He made me not? or shall
the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding? |
29:17: Is it not yet a very little while, and
Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall
be esteemed as a forest? |
29:18: And in that day shall the deaf hear
the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity,
and out of darkness. |
29:19: The meek also shall increase their joy
in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. |
29:20: For the terrible one is brought to
nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut
off: |
29:21: That make a man an offender for a
word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the
just for a thing of nought. |
29:22: Therefore thus saith the LORD, who
redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be
ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale. |
29:23: But when he seeth his children, the
work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and
sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel. |
29:24: They also that erred in spirit shall
come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine. |
30:1: Woe to the rebellious children, saith
the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering,
but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin: |
30:2: That walk to go down into Egypt, and
have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of
Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! |
30:3: Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh
be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. |
30:4: For his princes were at Zoan, and his
ambassadors came to Hanes. |
30:5: They were all ashamed of a people that
could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a
reproach. |
30:6: The burden of the beasts of the south:
into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old
lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon
the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels,
to a people that shall not profit them. |
30:7: For the Egyptians shall help in vain,
and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is
to sit still. |
30:8: Now go, write it before them in a
table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever
and ever: |
30:9: That this is a rebellious people, lying
children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: |
30:10: Which say to the seers, See not; and
to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth
things, prophesy deceits: |
30:11: Get you out of the way, turn aside out
of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. |
30:12: Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of
Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and
perverseness, and stay thereon: |
30:13: Therefore this iniquity shall be to
you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking
cometh suddenly at an instant. |
30:14: And he shall break it as the breaking
of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that
there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the
hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit. |
30:15: For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy
One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in
confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not. |
30:16: But ye said, No; for we will flee upon
horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore
shall they that pursue you be swift. |
30:17: One thousand shall flee at the rebuke
of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon
the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill. |
30:18: And therefore will the LORD wait, that
he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may
have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they
that wait for him. |
30:19: For the people shall dwell in Zion at
Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the
voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. |
30:20: And though the Lord give you the bread
of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed
into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: |
30:21: And thine ears shall hear a word
behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the
right hand, and when ye turn to the left. |
30:22: Ye shall defile also the covering of
thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold:
thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get
thee hence. |
30:23: Then shall he give the rain of thy
seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the
earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed
in large pastures. |
30:24: The oxen likewise and the young asses
that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with
the shovel and with the fan. |
30:25: And there shall be upon every high
mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day
of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. |
30:26: Moreover the light of the moon shall
be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as
the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of
his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. |
30:27: Behold, the name of the LORD cometh
from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips
are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire: |
30:28: And his breath, as an overflowing
stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the
sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people,
causing them to err. |
30:29: Ye shall have a song, as in the night
when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with
a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel. |
30:30: And the LORD shall cause his glorious
voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the
indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with
scattering, and tempest, and hailstones. |
30:31: For through the voice of the LORD
shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod. |
30:32: And in every place where the grounded
staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets
and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it. |
30:33: For Tophet is ordained of old; yea,
for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof
is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone,
doth kindle it. |
31:1: Woe to them that go down to Egypt for
help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and
in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy
One of Israel, neither seek the LORD! |
31:2: Yet he also is wise, and will bring
evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of
the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity. |
31:3: Now the Egyptians are men, and not God;
and their horses flesh, and not spirit.
When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall
fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail
together. |
31:4: For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me,
Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of
shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice,
nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down
to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof. |
31:5: As birds flying, so will the LORD of
hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over
he will preserve it. |
31:6: Turn ye unto him from whom the children
of Israel have deeply revolted. |
31:7: For in that day every man shall cast
away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have
made unto you for a sin. |
31:8: Then shall the Assyrian fall with the
sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour
him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be
discomfited. |
31:9: And he shall pass over to his strong
hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD,
whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem. |
32:1: Behold, a king shall reign in
righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. |
32:2: And a man shall be as an hiding place
from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry
place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. |
32:3: And the eyes of them that see shall not
be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken. |
32:4: The heart also of the rash shall
understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to
speak plainly. |
32:5: The vile person shall be no more called
liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful. |
32:6: For the vile person will speak villany,
and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error
against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the
drink of the thirsty to fail. |
32:7: The instruments also of the churl are
evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even
when the needy speaketh right. |
32:8: But the liberal deviseth liberal
things; and by liberal things shall he stand. |
32:9: Rise up, ye women that are at ease;
hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech. |
32:10: Many days and years shall ye be
troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall
not come. |
32:11: Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be
troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth
upon your loins. |
32:12: They shall lament for the teats, for
the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. |
32:13: Upon the land of my people shall come
up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: |
32:14: Because the palaces shall be forsaken;
the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for
dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; |
32:15: Until the spirit be poured upon us
from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field
be counted for a forest. |
32:16: Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness,
and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. |
32:17: And the work of righteousness shall be
peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. |
32:18: And my people shall dwell in a
peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places; |
32:19: When it shall hail, coming down on the
forest; and the city shall be low in a low place. |
32:20: Blessed are ye that sow beside all
waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass. |
33:1: Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou
wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously
with thee! when thou shalt cease to
spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal
treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee. |
33:2: O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have
waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the
time of trouble. |
33:3: At the noise of the tumult the people
fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered. |
33:4: And your spoil shall be gathered like
the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall
he run upon them. |
33:5: The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on
high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness. |
33:6: And wisdom and knowledge shall be the
stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is
his treasure. |
33:7: Behold, their valiant ones shall cry
without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly. |
33:8: The highways lie waste, the wayfaring
man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he
regardeth no man. |
33:9: The earth mourneth and languisheth:
Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and
Carmel shake off their fruits. |
33:10: Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now
will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself. |
33:11: Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall
bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you. |
33:12: And the people shall be as the
burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire. |
33:13: Hear, ye that are far off, what I have
done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might. |
33:14: The sinners in Zion are afraid;
fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites.
Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting
burnings? |
33:15: He that walketh righteously, and
speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh
his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of
blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; |
33:16: He shall dwell on high: his place of
defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters
shall be sure. |
33:17: Thine eyes shall see the king in his
beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off. |
33:18: Thine heart shall meditate
terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers? |
33:19: Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a
people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue,
that thou canst not understand. |
33:20: Look upon Zion, the city of our
solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle
that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed,
neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. |
33:21: But there the glorious LORD will be
unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with
oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. |
33:22: For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is
our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us. |
33:23: Thy tacklings are loosed; they could
not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the
prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey. |
33:24: And the inhabitant shall not say, I am
sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity. |
ISAIAH Chapters 34-66 |
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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. |
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; but it shall 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. |
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. |
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. |
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? |
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. |
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. |
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, that it should 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. |
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. |
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 have loved 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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
perverted 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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 delight itself 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, but it shall
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
60:6: The multitude of camels
shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba
shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the
praises of the LORD. |
60:7: All the flocks of Kedar
shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister
unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will
glorify the house of my glory. |
60:8: Who are these that fly as
a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? |
60:9: Surely the isles shall
wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far,
their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and
to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee. |
60:10: And the sons of
strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee:
for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee. |
60:11: Therefore thy gates
shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may
bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be
brought. |
60:12: For the nation and
kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be
utterly wasted. |
60:13: The glory of Lebanon
shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to
beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet
glorious. |
60:14: The sons also of them
that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised
thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call
thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel. |
60:15: Whereas thou hast been
forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an
eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. |
60:16: Thou shalt also suck the
milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know
that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. |
60:17: For brass I will bring
gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones
iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. |
60:18: Violence shall no more
be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou
shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. |
60:19: The sun shall be no more
thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee:
but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. |
60:20: Thy sun shall no more go
down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine
everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. |
60:21: Thy people also shall be
all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my
planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. |
60:22: A little one shall
become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it
in his time. |
61:1: The Spirit of the Lord
GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto
the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty
to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; |
61:2: To proclaim the
acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort
all that mourn; |
61:3: To appoint unto them that
mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for
mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might
be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be
glorified. |
61:4: And they shall build the
old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair
the waste cities, the desolations of many generations. |
61:5: And strangers shall stand
and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and
your vinedressers. |
61:6: But ye shall be named the
Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall
eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. |
61:7: For your shame ye shall
have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore
in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto
them. |
61:8: For I the LORD love
judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in
truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. |
61:9: And their seed shall be
known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see
them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath
blessed. |
61:10: I will greatly rejoice
in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with
the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth
herself with her jewels. |
61:11: For as the earth
bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in
it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to
spring forth before all the nations. |
62:1: For Zion's sake will I
not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the
righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a
lamp that burneth. |
62:2: And the Gentiles shall
see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a
new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name. |
62:3: Thou shalt also be a
crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy
God. |
62:4: Thou shalt no more be
termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou
shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in
thee, and thy land shall be married. |
62:5: For as a young man marrieth
a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over
the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. |
62:6: I have set watchmen upon
thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye
that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence, |
62:7: And give him no rest,
till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. |
62:8: The LORD hath sworn by
his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give
thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not
drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured: |
62:9: But they that have
gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it
together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness. |
62:10: Go through, go through
the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway;
gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people. |
62:11: Behold, the LORD hath
proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold,
thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before
him. |
62:12: And they shall call
them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called,
Sought out, A city not forsaken. |
63:1: Who is this that cometh
from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah?
this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of
his strength? I that speak in
righteousness, mighty to save. |
63:2: Wherefore art thou red in
thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? |
63:3: I have trodden the
winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread
them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be
sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. |
63:4: For the day of vengeance
is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. |
63:5: And I looked, and there
was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore
mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. |
63:6: And I will tread down the
people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down
their strength to the earth. |
63:7: I will mention the
lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all
that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of
Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and
according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. |
63:8: For he said, Surely they
are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour. |
63:9: In all their affliction
he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and
in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days
of old. |
63:10: But they rebelled, and
vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he
fought against them. |
63:11: Then he remembered the
days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up
out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within
him? |
63:12: That led them by the
right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to
make himself an everlasting name? |
63:13: That led them through
the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble? |
63:14: As a beast goeth down
into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou
lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name. |
63:15: Look down from heaven,
and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy
zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward
me? are they restrained? |
63:16: Doubtless thou art our
father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not:
thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting. |
63:17: O LORD, why hast thou
made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes
of thine inheritance. |
63:18: The people of thy
holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden
down thy sanctuary. |
63:19: We are thine: thou never
barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name. |
64:1: Oh that thou wouldest
rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow
down at thy presence, |
64:2: As when the melting fire
burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine
adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! |
64:3: When thou didst terrible
things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down
at thy presence. |
64:4: For since the beginning
of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the
eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for
him. |
64:5: Thou meetest him that
rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways:
behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we
shall be saved. |
64:6: But we are all as an
unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do
fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. |
64:7: And there is none that
calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for
thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our
iniquities. |
64:8: But now, O LORD, thou art
our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of
thy hand. |
64:9: Be not wroth very sore, O
LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we
are all thy people. |
64:10: Thy holy cities are a
wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. |
64:11: Our holy and our
beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and
all our pleasant things are laid waste. |
64:12: Wilt thou refrain
thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt
thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? |
65:1: I am sought of them that
asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me,
behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name. |
65:2: I have spread out my
hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was
not good, after their own thoughts; |
65:3: A people that provoketh
me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth
incense upon altars of brick; |
65:4: Which remain among the
graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of
abominable things is in their vessels; |
65:5: Which say, Stand by
thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that
burneth all the day. |
65:6: Behold, it is written
before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into
their bosom, |
65:7: Your iniquities, and the
iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned
incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will
I measure their former work into their bosom. |
65:8: Thus saith the LORD, As
the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a
blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not
destroy them all. |
65:9: And I will bring forth a
seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine
elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there. |
65:10: And Sharon shall be a
fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in,
for my people that have sought me. |
65:11: But ye are they that
forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that
troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number. |
65:12: Therefore will I number
you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I
called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before
mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not. |
65:13: Therefore thus saith the
Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my
servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall
rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed: |
65:14: Behold, my servants
shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall
howl for vexation of spirit. |
65:15: And ye shall leave your
name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call
his servants by another name: |
65:16: That he who blesseth
himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that
sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former
troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes. |
65:17: For, behold, I create
new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come
into mind. |
65:18: But be ye glad and
rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a
rejoicing, and her people a joy. |
65:19: And I will rejoice in
Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more
heard in her, nor the voice of crying. |
65:20: There shall be no more
thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for
the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred
years old shall be accursed. |
65:21: And they shall build
houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit
of them. |
65:22: They shall not build,
and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days
of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work
of their hands. |
65:23: They shall not labour in
vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of
the LORD, and their offspring with them. |
65:24: And it shall come to
pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking,
I will hear. |
65:25: The wolf and the lamb
shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust
shall be the serpent's meat. They
shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD. |
66:1: Thus saith the LORD, The
heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that
ye build unto me? and where is the
place of my rest? |
66:2: For all those things hath
mine hand made, and those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man
will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth
at my word. |
66:3: He that killeth an ox is
as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's
neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that
burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol.
Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in
their abominations. |
66:4: I also will choose their
delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none
did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine
eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not. |
66:5: Hear the word of the
LORD, ye that tremble at his word; your brethren that hated you, that cast
you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall
appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed. |
66:6: A voice of noise from the
city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence
to his enemies. |
66:7: Before she travailed, she
brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. |
66:8: Who hath heard such a
thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in
one day? or shall a nation be born at
once? for as soon as Zion travailed,
she brought forth her children. |
66:9: Shall I bring to the
birth, and not cause to bring forth?
saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God. |
66:10: Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad
with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn
for her: |
66:11: That ye may suck, and be satisfied
with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted
with the abundance of her glory. |
66:12: For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I
will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a
flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be
dandled upon her knees. |
66:13: As one whom his mother comforteth, so
will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. |
66:14: And when ye see this, your heart shall
rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD
shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies. |
66:15: For, behold, the LORD will come with fire,
and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and
his rebuke with flames of fire. |
66:16: For by fire and by his sword will the
LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many. |
66:17: They that sanctify themselves, and
purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's
flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith
the LORD. |
66:18: For I know their works and their
thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they
shall come, and see my glory. |
66:19: And I will set a sign among them, and
I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and
Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have
not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my
glory among the Gentiles. |
66:20: And they shall bring all your brethren
for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in
chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy
mountain |
66:21: And I will also take of them for
priests and for Levites, saith the LORD. |
66:22: For as the new heavens and the new
earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall
your seed and your name remain. |
66:23: And it shall come to pass, that from
one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh
come to worship before me, saith the LORD. |
66:24: And they shall go forth, and look upon
the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm
shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an
abhorring unto all flesh. |