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The next file is: 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] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of
 evil-doers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken
 the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger,
 they are gone away backward.
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 to 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 to us a very small
 remnant, we should have been as Sodom; we should have been like
 Gomorrah.
1:10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear to
 the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
1:11 To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices to
 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 to
 me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I
 cannot endure; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth:
 they are a trouble to me; I am weary to bear [them].
1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes
 from you: yes, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your
 hands are full of blood.
1:16 Wash ye, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your
 doings from before my 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 are as scarlet, they shall be white as snow,
 though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
1:19 If ye are 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 a 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 to
 them.
1:24 Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One
 of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of my adversaries, and avenge me
 of my enemies:
1:25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge
 away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
1:26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy
 counselors 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 mount
 of the LORD'S house shall be established on the top of the
 mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all
 nations shall flow to 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 will judge among the nations, and will rebuke many
 people: and they shall beat their swords into plow-shares, and
 their spears into pruning-hooks: 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 are replenished from the east, and [are]
 sooth-sayers 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 abased, 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 fortified wall,
2:16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant
 pictures.
2:17 And the loftiness of man shall be abased, and the
 haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall
 be exalted in that day.
2:18 And the idols he will utterly abolish.
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 rod and the staff, the whole
 support of bread, and the whole support 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 honorable man, and the
 counselor, and the skillful 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 neighbor: the child shall behave himself
 proudly against the elder, and the base against the honorable.
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 a 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 show of their countenance doth witness against them; and
 they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide [it] not. Woe to
 their soul! for they have rewarded evil to themselves.
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 to 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 who 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 elders of his
 people, and with their princes: 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 extended 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 uncover their
 secret parts.
3:18 In that day the LORD will take away the show 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
 head-bands, and the tablets, and the ear-rings,
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 an offensive odor; 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 have 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 of it 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 defense.
4:6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shade in the day time
 from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from
 storm and from rain.
5:1 Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved
 concerning his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a
 very fruitful hill:
5:2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones of it, and
 planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the
 midst of it, and also made a wine-press therein: and he
 expected that it would 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 more could have been done to my vineyard, that I have
 not done in it? Why, when I expected that it would bring forth
 grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
5:5 And now come; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard:
 I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; [and]
 break down the wall of it, and it shall be trodden down:
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 to them that join house to house, [that] lay field to
 field, till [there is] no place, that they may be placed alone
 in the midst of the earth!
5:9 In my ears [said] the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses
 shall be desolate, [even] great and fair, without inhabitant.
5:10 Yes, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the
 seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.
5:11 Woe to them that rise early in the morning, [that] they may
 follow strong drink; that continue until night, [till] wine
 inflameth 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 have gone into captivity, because [they
 have] no knowledge: and their honorable 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 abased.
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 to 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 to them that call evil good, and good evil; that put
 darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for
 sweet, and sweet for bitter!
5:21 Woe to [them that are] wise in their own eyes, and prudent
 in their own sight!
5:22 Woe to [them that are] mighty to drink wine, and men of
 strength to mingle strong drink:
5:23 Who 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 trembled, and their carcasses
 [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 afar, and
 will hiss to 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: yes, 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] looketh to the land, behold
 darkness [and] sorrow, and the light is darkened in its
 heavens.
6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD
 sitting upon a throne, high and elevated, and his train filled
 the temple.
6:2 Above it stood seraphim: each one had six wings; with two he
 covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with
 two he flew.
6:3 And one cried to 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 my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of
 hosts.
6:6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in
 his hand, [which] he had taken with the tongs from off the
 altar:
6:7 And he laid [it] upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath
 touched thy lips; and thy 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 shall be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses
 without man, and the land be utterly desolate;
6:12 And the LORD shall 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 of it.
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
 towards 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 to 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 to him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither
 be faint-hearted for the two tails of these smoking
 fire-brands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of
 the son of Remaliah.
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 harass 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 sixty 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 spoke again to Ahaz, saying,
7:11 Ask thee a sign from the LORD thy God; ask it either in the
 depth, or in the hight 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 will 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
 by both her kings.
7:17 The LORD will bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and
 upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day
 that Ephraim departed from Judah; [even] the king of Assyria.
7:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD will
 hiss for the fly that [is] in the uttermost part of the rivers
 of Egypt, and for the bee that [is] in the land of Assyria.
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 will the LORD shave with a razor that is
 hired, [namely], by them beyond the river, by the king of
 Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also
 consume the beard.
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
 pieces of silver, 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 to me, Take thee a great roll, and
 write in it with a man's pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
8:2 And I took to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the
 priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
8:3 And I went to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a
 son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name
 Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
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 spoke also to me again, saying,
8:6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that
 flow gently, 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 its
 channels, and go over all its banks:
8:8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go
 over, he shall reach [even] to the neck; and the extension of
 his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, 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 naught; speak
 the word, and it shall not stand: for God [is] with us.
8:11 For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and
 instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people,
 saying,
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 will be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of
 stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of
 Israel, for a trap and for a snare to the inhabitants of
 Jerusalem.
8:15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken,
 and be insnared, 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, who dwelleth in mount Zion.
8:19 And when they shall say to you, Seek to them that have
 familiar spirits, and to wizards that peep, and that mutter:
 should not a people seek to 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, distressed and hungry: and
 it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they
 shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and
 look upward.
8:22 And they shall look to 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 distress, 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 shades 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 to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the
 government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be
 called Wonderful, Counselor, 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 have fallen down, but we will build with hewn
 stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will change [them
 into] cedars.
9:11 Therefore the LORD will 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 turn not to 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 honorable, 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 by them [are] destroyed.
9:17 Therefore the LORD will have no joy in their young men,
 neither will have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for
 every one [is] a hypocrite and an evil-doer, and every mouth
 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 rising 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 to 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 my anger, and the staff in their
 hand is my indignation.
10:6 I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against
 the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the
 spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the
 mire of the streets.
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 excelled them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
10:11 Shall I not, as I have done to 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 ax boast itself against him that heweth with it?
 [or] shall the saw magnify itself against him that moveth it?
 as if the rod should shake [itself] against them that lift it,
 [or] as if the staff should lift [itself], [as if it were] no
 wood.
10:16 Therefore will the LORD, the LORD of hosts, send among his
 fat ones leanness; and under his glory he will 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
 standard-bearer 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 have escaped of the house of Jacob,
 shall no more again lean upon him that smote them; but shall
 lean upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
10:21 The remnant shall return, [even] the remnant of Jacob, to
 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 will 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 my anger in their destruction.
10:26 And the LORD of hosts will raise up a scourge for him
 according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and
 [as] his rod [was] upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after
 the manner of Egypt.
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 furniture.
10:29 They have gone over the passage: they have taken up their
 lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul hath fled.
10:30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be
 heard to 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 will 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 forests 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 will rest upon him, the spirit
 of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might,
 the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
11:3 And will make him of quick understanding in the fear of the
 LORD: and he will not judge after the sight of his eyes,
 neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
11:4 But with righteousness will he judge the poor, and reprove
 with equity for the meek of the earth: and he will smite the
 earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his
 lips will he slay the 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 suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp,
 and the weaned child shall put his hand on the den of the
 basilisk.
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
 will 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 isles of the sea.
11:12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall
 assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather the dispersed of
 Judah from the four 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 distress Ephraim.
11:14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines
 towards the west; they shall spoil them of the east together:
 they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children
 of Ammon shall obey them.
11:15 And the LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the
 Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind will he shake his hand
 over the river, and will smite it in the seven streams, and
 make [men] go over dry shod.
11:16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his
 people, which shall be left, from Assyria; as it was to Israel
 in the day that he came up from 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, thy anger is turned away, and
 thou hast comforted 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 to the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this
 [is] known in all the earth.
12:6 Cry aloud 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 saw.
13:2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice
 to 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 my anger, [even] them that rejoice in my
 highness.
13:4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great
 people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations
 assembled: 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 will destroy
 its sinners out of it.
13:10 For the stars of heaven and its constellations shall not
 give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth,
 and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
13:11 And I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the
 wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of
 the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the
 terrible.
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 to his own land.
13:15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every
 one that is joined [to them] shall fall by the sword.
13:16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their
 eyes; their houses shall be plundered, and their wives
 ravished.
13:17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall
 not regard silver; and [as for] gold, they shall not delight in
 it.
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' excellence, 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 isles 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 in which 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
 scepter 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 Yes, 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 to thee, Art thou also become
 weak as we? Art thou become like 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 thy heart, I will ascend into
 heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will
 sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of
 the north:
14:14 I will ascend above the hights 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 shook kingdoms:
14:17 [That] made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its
 cities; [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 carcass 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
 evil-doers shall never be renowned.
14:21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of
 their fathers; that they may not rise, nor possess the land,
 nor fill the face of the world with cities.
14:22 For I will arise 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 over 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, all Palestina, because the rod of him
 that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall
 come forth a basilisk, and his fruit [shall be] a fiery flying
 serpent.
14:30 And the first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy
 shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine,
 and he shall slay thy remnant.
14:31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, all 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 shorn.
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] to Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab
 shall cry out; his life shall be grievous to him.
15:5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives [shall flee]
 to Zoar, a heifer of three years old: for they shall go up the
 ascent of Luhith with weeping; for in the way of Horonaim they
 shall raise a cry of destruction.
15:6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the herb is
 withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
15:7 Therefore the abundance they have gained, and that which
 they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the
 willows.
15:8 For the cry hath gone round the borders of Moab, her
 howling to Eglaim, and her howling to 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, to 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 noon-day; hide the outcasts; discover
 not him that wandereth.
16:4 Let my outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to
 them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an
 end, the spoiler 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 her principal
 plants, they have come [even] to Jazer, they wandered [through]
 the wilderness: her branches are extended, they have 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 from the plentiful
 field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither
 shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine
 in [their] presses; I have made [their vintage]-shouting to
 cease.
16:11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and
 my 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 a 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 diminished, and the fatness of his flesh shall
 become lean.
17:5 And it shall be as when the harvest-man 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 of it, 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 foreign
 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, [who] make a noise
 like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,
 [that] make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
17:13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters:
 but [God] will rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and
 shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
 and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
17:14 And behold at the time of evening trouble; [and] before
 the morning he [is] not. This [is] the portion of them that
 ravage us, and the lot of them that rob us.
18:1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which [is] beyond the
 rivers of Cush:
18:2 That sendeth embassadors 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 measured by line and trodden down,
 whose land the rivers have laid waste.
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 to me, I will take my rest, and I will
 consider in my dwelling-place like a clear heat upon herbs,
 [and] like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
18:5 For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the
 sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the
 sprigs with pruning-hooks, and take away [and] cut down the
 branches.
18:6 They shall be left together to the fowls of the mountains,
 and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon
 them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
18:7 In that time shall the present be brought to the LORD of
 hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people
 terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation measured by
 line and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have
 spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the
 mount Zion.
19:1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift
 cloud, and will come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall
 be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in
 the 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 neighbor; city against city, [and] kingdom against
 kingdom.
19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of her, and
 I will destroy her counsel: 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 rivers
 shall be wasted and dried up.
19:6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; [and] the brooks
 of defense 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
 net-works 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 counselors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye to
 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 support of its tribes.
19:14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst of
 it: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work of it, 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 perform.
19:16 In that day shall Egypt be like women: and it shall be
 afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD
 of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
19:17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror to Egypt, every
 one that maketh mention of it 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 its border to the
 LORD.
19:20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD
 of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry to the LORD
 because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a savior, 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; yes, they shall vow a vow to the LORD, and perform
 [it].
19:22 And the LORD will smite Egypt: he will smite and heal
 [it]: and they shall return [even] to the LORD, and he will be
 entreated by them, and will heal them.
19:23 In that day shall there be a highway from Egypt to
 Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the
 Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the
 Assyrians.
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 will bless, saying, Blessed [be]
 Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel
 my inheritance.
20:1 In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, (when Sargon the
 king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took
 it;
20:2 At the same time spoke 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, As my servant Isaiah hath walked naked
 and barefoot three years [for] a sign and wonder upon Egypt and
 upon Cush;
20:4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians
 prisoners, and the Cushites captives, young and old, naked and
 barefoot, even with [their] hind-parts uncovered, to the shame
 of Egypt.
20:5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Cush 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 to me; the treacherous dealer
 dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler plundereth. Go up, O
 Elam: besiege, O Media; all her sighing 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 to me.
21:5 Prepare the table, watch in the watch-tower, eat, drink:
 arise, ye princes, [and] anoint the shield.
21:6 For thus hath the LORD said to 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
 watch-tower in the day time, 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 to
 the ground.
21:10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor; that which I
 have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I
 declared to 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 inquire, inquire ye: return, come.
21:13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye
 lodge, O ye traveling companies of Dedanim.
21:14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him
 that was thirsty, they met 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 to me, Within a year,
 according to the years of a 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 hast wholly gone up to the house-tops?
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 have fled together, they are bound by the
 archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, [who]
 have fled from far.
22:4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly,
 labor not to comfort me, because of the devastation 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 bore 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 uncovered the coverings of Judah, and thou didst
 look in that day to the armor 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 collected 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 to its maker, neither
 had respect to 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 my 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, repair to this
 treasurer, [even] to Shebna, who [is] over the house, [and
 say],
22:16 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou
 hast hewed thee out a sepulcher here, [as] he that heweth him
 out a sepulcher on high, [and] that graveth a 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 With violence he will surely turn and toss thee [like] a
 ball into a wide 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 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 far off to sojourn.
23:8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning
 [city], whose merchants [are] princes, whose traders [are] the
 honorable 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 honorable 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 his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms:
 the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant [city],
 to destroy its strong holds.
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 its towers, they raised up its palaces;
 [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 a harlot.
23:16 Take a 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, for
 sufficient food, 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 its
 inhabitants.
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
 interest, so with the giver of interest 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 its inhabitants; 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 in it 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
 merry-hearted 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 enter.
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 to me! the treacherous dealers have dealt
 treacherously; yes, 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 entirely
 dissolved, the earth is exceedingly moved.
24:20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall
 be removed like a cottage; and the transgression of it shall be
 heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
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, [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 on 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 a heap; [of] a fortified 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 defense to the poor, a defense to the
 needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from
 the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones [is] as a storm
 [against] the wall.
25:5 Thou wilt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in
 a dry place; [even] the heat with the shade of a cloud: the
 branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
25:6 And on this mountain will the LORD of hosts make to 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 on 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 will he remove from 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 on this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and
 Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden
 down for the dunghill.
25:11 And he will spread forth his hands in the midst of them,
 as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth [his hands] to swim: and he
 will bring down their pride together with the spoils of their
 hands.
25:12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls will he
 bring down, lay low, [and] bring to the ground, [even] to the
 dust.
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 Yes, 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; yes, with my
 spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments
 [are] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn
 righteousness.
26:10 Let favor be shown to the wicked, [yet] he will not learn
 righteousness: in the land of uprightness he will deal
 unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
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; yes, the fire of thy 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 to 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 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
 on 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 shall 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 keen and great and strong
 sword will punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even
 leviathan that crooked serpent; and he will slay the dragon
 that [is] in the sea.
27:2 In that day sing ye to 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 descend from 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 chalk-stones that are
 beaten asunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
27:10 Yet the fortified city [shall be] desolate, [and] the
 habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall
 the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume its
 branches.
27:11 When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off:
 the women come [and] set them on fire: for it [is] a people of
 no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have
 mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.
27:12 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD
 shall gather from the channel of the river to the stream of
 Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, 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 who were ready to
 perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of
 Egypt, and shall worship the LORD on the holy mount at
 Jerusalem.
28:1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim,
 whose glorious beauty [is] a fading flower; who [are] on the
 head of the rich 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 rich
 valley, shall be a fading flower, [and] as the early 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 will the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory,
 and for a diadem of beauty, to 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 overwhelmed with 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 [with which] 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 to 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 in agreement; when the overflowing scourge
 shall pass through, it shall not reach us: for we have made
 lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
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 will rise as [on] mount Perazim, he will be
 wroth as [in] the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work,
 his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
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 even the face of it, doth he not cast
 abroad the vetches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the
 principal wheat, and the appointed barley, and the rye in their
 place?
28:26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, [and] doth
 teach him.
28:27 For the vetches are not threshed with a threshing
 instrument, neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the
 cummin; but the vetches are beaten out with a staff, and the
 cummin with a rod.
28:28 Bread-[corn] is bruised; because he will not always be
 threshing it, nor break [it with] the wheel of his cart, nor
 bruise it [with] his horsemen.
28:29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, [who] is
 wonderful in counsel, [and] excellent in operation.
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 to me as Ariel.
29:3 And I will encamp 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: yes, it shall be at an instant
 suddenly.
29:6 Thou shalt be visited by 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 a 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 to you as the words of a
 book that is sealed, which [men] deliver to one that is
 learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he 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 honor me,
 but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear
 towards me is taught by the precept of men:
29:14 Therefore behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work
 among this people, [even] an astonishing 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 to 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 naught, and the scoffer
 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 naught.
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 become pale.
29:23 But when he seeth his children, the work of my 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 from 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 shade of Egypt!
30:3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and
 the trust in the shade of Egypt [your] confusion.
30:4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his embassadors came to
 Hanes.
30:5 They were all ashamed of a people [that] could not profit
 them, nor be a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a
 reproach.
30:6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of
 trouble and anguish, from whence [come] the young and the old
 lion, the viper and flying serpent, they will carry their
 riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures
 upon the bunches of camels, to a people [that] shall not profit
 [them].
30:7 For the Egyptian 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 Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets,
 Prophesy not to us right things, speak to us smooth things,
 prophesy deceits:
30:11 Withdraw from the way, turn aside from 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 lean upon it:
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 potter's
 vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that
 there shall not be found in the bursting of it a piece to take
 fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the pit.
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 a hill.
30:18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious
 to you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have
 mercy upon you: for the LORD [is] a God of judgment: blessed
 [are] all they that wait for him.
30:19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou
 shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious to thee at the
 voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
30:20 And [though] the LORD shall give you the bread of
 adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy
 teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thy eyes shall
 see thy teachers:
30:21 And thy ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This
 [is] the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand,
 and when ye turn to the left.
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 polluted cloth; thou shalt say to it,
 Be gone from me.
30:23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, with which thou
 shalt sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the earth,
 and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle
 feed in large pastures.
30:24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that plow 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 seven-fold, 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 [of it 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 upon 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 show the lighting down of his arm, with the
 indignation of [his] anger, and [with] the flame of a devouring
 fire, [with] scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
30:31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be
 beaten down, [who] 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; yes, for the king it is
 prepared; he hath made [it] deep [and] large: the pile of it
 [is] fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream
 of brimstone, doth kindle it.
31:1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and rely on
 horses, and trust in chariots, because [they are] many; and in
 horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not to
 the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
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
 evil-doers, 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 helped
 shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
31:4 For thus hath the LORD spoken to me, As the lion and the
 young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds
 is called forth against him, [he] will not be afraid of their
 voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will the
 LORD of 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 to [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
 to 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 a hiding-place from the wind, and a
 covert from the tempest; as streams of water in a dry place, as
 the shade 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 villainy, and his heart will
 work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error
 against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry; and he
 will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
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 to 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 ye, and make you bare, and gird
 [sackcloth] upon [your] loins.
32:12 They shall lament for the breasts, for the pleasant
 fields, for the fruitful vine.
32:13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns [and]
 briers; also, 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 shall be poured upon us from on high, and
 the wilderness shall be a fruitful field, and the fruitful
 field shall be counted for a forest.
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 layest waste, and thou [wast] not laid
 waste; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not
 treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to lay waste,
 thou shalt be wasted; [and] when thou shalt make an end to deal
 treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
33:2 O LORD, be gracious to 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 caterpillar: 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
 embassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
33:8 The highways lie waste, the way-faring 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 Ye [that are] far off, hear 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 defense [shall be]
 the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters
 [shall be] sure.
33:17 Thy eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall
 behold the land that is very far off.
33:18 Thy 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 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: thy eyes
 shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle [that]
 shall not be taken down; not one of its stakes shall ever be
 removed, neither shall any of its cords be broken.
33:21 But there the glorious LORD [will be] to us a place of
 broad rivers [and] streams; in which shall go no galley with
 oars, neither shall gallant ship pass through it.
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 inhabitants shall not say, I am sick: the people
 that dwell therein [shall be] forgiven [their] iniquity.
34:1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let
 the earth hear, and all that is in it; the world, and all
 things that spring from 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 ill smell
 shall come up from 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
 hosts shall fall down, as the leaf falleth 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 Edom, 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 Edom.
34:7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the
 bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be drenched 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 recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
34:9 And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust
 into brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch.
34:10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke of it
 shall ascend 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 her nobles 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 her fortresses, and it shall be a 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 isle, 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 to 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 to it, the
 excellence of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of
 the LORD, [and] the excellence 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 recompense; 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 a hart, and the tongue of
 the dumb shall 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 a 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 way-faring 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 fortified cities of Judah, and took them.
36:2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to
 Jerusalem against 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 to him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, who was over
 the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the
 recorder.
36:4 And Rabshakeh said to them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus
 saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence [is]
 this in which 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; on which if a man lean, it will enter his hand, and
 pierce it: so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in
 him.
36:7 But if thou shalt 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 canst on thy part 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 to me, Go up against this land, and
 destroy it.
36:11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah to Rabshakeh, Speak,
 I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we
 understand [it]: and speak not to us in the Jew's 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 devour their
 vilest excretions with you?
36:13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the
 Jew's 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
 will 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 Arpad? 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, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
37:3 And they said to 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 to them, Thus shall ye say to your master,
 Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast
 heard, with which 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
 rumor, 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 had departed
 from Lachish.
37:9 And he heard it said concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, 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 who [were] in Telassar?
37:13 Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, 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 to the house of
 the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
37:15 And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD, saying,
37:16 O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest [between]
 the cherubim, thou [art] the God, [even] thou alone, of all the
 kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.
37:17 Incline thy ear, O LORD, and hear; open thy eyes, O LORD,
 and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who 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 to 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] derided thee; 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 thy 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 have I come up to the
 hight of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut
 down its tall cedars, [and] its choice fir-trees: and I will
 enter into the hight of its border, [and] the forest of its
 Carmel.
37:25 I have digged, and drank 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 shouldst be to lay waste fortified 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
 house-tops, and [as corn] blasted before it is 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 my ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my
 bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by
 which thou camest.
37:30 And this [shall be] a sign to 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 of them.
37:31 And the remnant that hath 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 from mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts will
 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 mound
 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 my 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 eighty 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 worshiping 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 with a mortal disease. And
 Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to
 him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thy house in order: for thou
 shalt die, and not live.
38:2 Then Hezekiah turned his face towards the wall, and prayed
 to 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
 bitterly.
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 to thy days fifteen years.
38:6 And I will deliver thee and this city from the hand of the
 king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.
38:7 And this [shall be] a sign to 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
 hath gone down on the sun-dial of Ahaz ten degrees backward. So
 the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it had gone
 down.
38:9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been
 sick, and had recovered from 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 My age hath 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 I chattered: I mourned as
 a dove: my eyes fail [with looking] upward: O LORD, I am
 oppressed; undertake for me.
38:15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken to 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 plaster upon the boil, and he will 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 had recovered.
39:2 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and showed them the house of
 his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices,
 and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armor, and
 all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his
 house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah did not show
 them.
39:3 Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to
 him, What said these men? and from whence came they to thee?
 and Hezekiah said, They have come to me from a far country,
 [even] from Babylon.
39:4 Then said he, What have they seen in thy house? And
 Hezekiah answered, All that [is] in my house have they seen:
 there is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed
 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 thy 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 to her, that her
 warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she
 hath received from 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
 together shall see [it]: 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 its goodliness [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 shall stand forever.
40:9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, go up upon the high
 mountain: O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy
 voice with strength; lift [it] up, be not afraid; say to the
 cities of Judah, Behold your God!
40:10 Behold, the LORD GOD will come with strong [hand], and his
 arm will rule for him: behold, his reward [is] with him, and
 his work before him.
40:11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd: he will gather the
 lambs with his arm, and carry [them] in his bosom, [and] will
 gently lead those that are with young.
40:12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,
 and measured heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of
 the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales,
 and the hills in a balance?
40:13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or [being] his
 counselor 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 showed 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 of
 it 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 to 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 for himself a
 skillful 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
 its inhabitants [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 Yes, they shall not be planted; yes, they shall not be
 sown: yes, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he
 shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the
 whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
40:25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equaled?
 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 by 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; they shall walk, and not faint.
41:1 Keep silence before me, O isles; 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 neighbor; 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 to 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; yes, I will help thee;
 yes, 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 contend 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 naught.
41:13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying to
 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, 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 show us what shall
 happen: let them show the former things, what they [are] that
 we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or
 declare to us things to come.
41:23 Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may
 know that ye [are] gods: yes, do good, or do evil, that we may
 be dismayed, and behold [it] together.
41:24 Behold, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of naught: 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] mortar, and as the potter
 treadeth clay.
41:26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know?
 and before time, that we may say, [He is] righteous? verily,
 [there is] none that showeth, verily, [there is] none that
 declareth, verily, [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 counselor, 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; my 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 to truth.
42:4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he hath 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
 expanded them; he that spread forth the earth, and that which
 it produceth; he that giveth breath to the people upon it, and
 spirit to them that walk therein.
42:6 I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold
 thy hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of
 the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
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 have come to pass, and new things
 do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
42:10 Sing to the LORD a new song, [and] his praise from the end
 of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is in
 it; the isles, and their inhabitants.
42:11 Let the wilderness and its cities 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 to the LORD, and declare his praise in
 the isles.
42:13 The LORD will go forth as a mighty man, he will stir up
 jealousy like a man of war: he will cry, yes, roar; he will
 prevail against his enemies.
42:14 I have long time held my peace; I have been still, [and]
 restrained myself: [now] will I cry like a travailing woman; I
 will destroy and devour at once.
42:15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all
 their herbs; and I will make the rivers [to be] 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 for 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] honorable.
42:22 But this [is] a people robbed and pillaged; [they are] all
 of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses;
 they are for a prey, and none 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 to 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 around,
 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
 Savior: I gave Egypt [for] thy ransom, Cush and Seba for thee.
43:4 Since thou hast been precious in my sight, thou hast been
 honorable, 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; verily, 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 collected, and let the people be
 assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former
 things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be
 justified: or let them hear, and say, [It is] truth.
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 besides me [there is] no
 savior.
43:12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shown, when
 [there was] no strange [god] among you: therefore ye [are] my
 witnesses, saith the LORD, that I [am] God.
43:13 Yes, before the day [was], I [am] he; and [there is] none
 that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall
 hinder it?
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, who maketh a way in the sea, and a
 path in the mighty waters;
43:17 Who 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 honor 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 show
 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 honored 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 thy
 iniquities.
43:25 I, [even] I, [am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions
 for my 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, [who] 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 thy offspring:
44:4 And they shall spring up [as] among the grass, as willows
 by the watercourses.
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 to 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
 besides 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 show to 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 besides me? verily [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 cast 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 assembled, 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: yes, 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 down cedars for himself, 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 of
 it, and warm himself; indeed he kindleth [it], and baketh
 bread; yes, he maketh a god, and worshipeth [it]; he maketh it
 a graven image, and falleth down to it.
44:16 He burneth part of it in the fire; with part of it he
 eateth flesh; he roasteth meat, and is satisfied: yes, he
 warmeth [himself], and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the
 fire:
44:17 And the residue of it he maketh a god, [even] his graven
 image: he falleth down to it, and worshipeth [it], and prayeth
 to 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; I have also baked bread upon its coals; I have
 roasted flesh, and eaten [it]: and shall I make the residue of
 it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
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 by me.
44:22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions,
 and as a cloud, thy sins: return to me; for I have redeemed
 thee.
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 her decayed places:
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 [he] 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 held to subdue nations before him; and I will loose
 the loins of kings, to open before him the two-leaved gates,
 and the gates shall not be shut;
45:2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places
 straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut
 asunder 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, who call [thee] by thy name, [am] the God of Israel.
45:4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my 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 besides 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 besides 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 to him that contendeth with his Maker! [Let] the
 potsherd [contend] 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 to him that saith to [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 labor of Egypt, and merchandise
 of Cush and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to
 thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in
 chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down to thee,
 they shall make supplication to thee, [saying], Surely God [is]
 in thee; and [there is] none else, [there is] no God.
45:15 Verily thou [art] a God that hidest thyself, O God of
 Israel, the Savior.
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 have not said to 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
 have] escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set
 up the wood of their graven image, and pray to a god [that]
 cannot save.
45:21 Tell ye, and bring [them] near; yes, 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 besides me; a just God and a Savior; [there is]
 none besides me.
45:22 Look to 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 to 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 loads [were] heavy; [they
 were] a burden to the weary [beast].
46:2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver
 the burden, but themselves have gone into captivity.
46:3 Hearken to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the
 house of Israel, which are borne [by me] from the birth, which
 are carried from the womb:
46:4 And [even] to [your] old age I [am] he; and [even] to hoary
 hairs will I carry [you]: I have made, and I will bear; even I
 will carry, and will deliver [you].
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, yes, 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: yes, [one] shall cry to him, yet he cannot answer, nor
 save him out of his trouble.
46:8 Remember this, and show 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: yes, I have spoken
 [it], I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed [it], I
 will also perform it.
46:12 Hearken to me, ye stout-hearted, that [are] far from
 righteousness:
46:13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off,
 and my salvation shall not delay: and I will place salvation in
 Zion for Israel my glory.
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, yes, 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 my inheritance,
 and given them into thy hand: thou didst show 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 thy heart,
 I [am], and none else besides 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 thy 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 thy heart, I [am], and none else
 besides 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 thy enchantments, and with the multitude of
 thy sorceries, in which thou hast labored from thy youth; if
 thou shalt be able to profit, if thou mayest prevail.
47:13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now
 the astrologers, the star-gazers, 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 to thee with whom thou hast labored,
 [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, who are called by the name
 of Israel, and have come forth out of the waters of Judah, who
 swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of
 Israel, [but] not in truth, nor in righteousness.
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 from my mouth, and I showed 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 showed [it] thee: lest thou shouldst
 say, My 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 showed ye 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 heardst them not; lest thou shouldst
 say, Behold, I knew them.
48:8 Yes, thou heardst not; yes, thou knewest not; yes, from
 that time [that] thy ear was not opened: for I knew that thou
 wouldst deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor
 from the womb.
48:9 For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise
 will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
48:10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have
 chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
48:11 For my own sake, [even] for my own sake, will I do [it]:
 for how should [my name] be profaned? and I will not give my
 glory to another.
48:12 Hearken to me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I [am] he; I
 [am] the first, I also [am] the last.
48:13 My hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my
 right hand hath spanned the heavens: [when] I call to them,
 they stand up together.
48:14 All ye, assemble yourselves and hear; who 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, yes, I have called him: I have
 brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
48:16 Come ye near to me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in
 secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there
 [am] I: and now the LORD 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, who teacheth thee to profit, who
 leadeth thee by the way [that] thou shouldst 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 its gravel; his name should not have been cut
 off nor destroyed from before me.
48:20 Go ye forth from 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 cleaved the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
48:22 [There is] no peace, saith the LORD, to the wicked.
49:1 Listen to me, O Isles; 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 shade
 of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in
 his quiver hath he hid me;
49:3 And said to me, Thou [art] my servant, O Israel, in whom I
 will be glorified.
49:4 Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my
 strength for naught, and in vain; [yet] surely my judgment [is]
 with the LORD, and my work with my God.
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 shouldst 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 to 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, Show 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? yes, they may forget,
 yet I will 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 from thee.
49:18 Lift up thy eyes around, and behold: all these assemble
 themselves, [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 thy ears, The place [is] too
 narrow for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
49:21 Then shalt thou say in thy heart, Who hath begotten these
 for me, 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 [have] they
 [been]?
49:22 Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up my hand to
 the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they
 shall bring thy sons in [their] arms, and thy daughters shall
 be carried upon [their] shoulders.
49:23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens
 thy nursing mothers: they shall bow to thee with [their] face
 towards the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou
 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
 Savior 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 Why, 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 becometh putrid, 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 my ear to
 hear as the learned.
50:5 The LORD GOD opened my 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] my 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 rely upon his
 God.
50:11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that encompass
 [yourselves] with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and
 in the sparks [that] ye have kindled. This shall ye have of my
 hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
51:1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that
 seek the LORD: look to the rock [whence] ye are hewn, and to
 the hole of the pit [whence] ye are digged.
51:2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah [that] bore you:
 for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
51:3 For the LORD will comfort Zion: he will comfort all her
 waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and
 her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall
 be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
51:4 Hearken to me, my people; and give ear to 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
 my arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me,
 and on my 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 become old like a garment, and its inhabitants
 shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever,
 and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
51:7 Hearken to me, ye that know righteousness, the people in
 whose heart [is] my law; fear ye not the reproach of men,
 neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
51:8 For the moth shall eat them like a garment, and the worm
 shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for
 ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
51:9 Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O arm of the LORD;
 awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. [Art]
 thou not that which hath cut Rahab, [and] wounded the dragon?
51:10 [Art] thou not that 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 to Zion; and everlasting joy [shall be] upon their
 head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; 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 [who] 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 have covered
 thee in the shade of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and
 lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, Thou [art]
 my people.
51:17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drank at
 the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drank 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] have come to thee; who shall be sorry
 for thee? desolation, and destruction, and 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 Jehovah, and thy God [that] pleadeth
 the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thy hand
 the cup of trembling, [even] the dregs of the cup of my fury;
 thou shalt no more drink it again:
51:23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee;
 who have said to thy soul, Prostrate thyself, that we may go
 over: and thou 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
 naught; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
52:4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down formerly
 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 naught? 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 to
 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 rear-ward.
52:13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be
 exalted and extolled, and be very high.
52:14 As many were astonished 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 by men; a man of sorrows, and
 acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from
 him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
53:4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:
 yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
53:5 But he [was] wounded for our transgression, [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 opened not his mouth.
53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall
 declare his generation? for he was cut off from 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 I will divide to him [a portion] with the great,
 and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath
 poured out his soul to death: and he was numbered with the
 transgressors; and he bore 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 extend the
 curtains of thy 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] thy 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 to me: for [as] I have
 sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more overflow the earth;
 so have I sworn that I will not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke
 thee.
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 Oh thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, [and] not
 comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, 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 from 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 assemble [but] not by me:
 whoever shall assemble 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] from 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; yes, come, buy wine
 and milk without money and without price.
55:2 Why do ye spend money for [that which is] not bread? and
 your labor for [that which] satisfieth not? hearken diligently
 to me, and eat ye [that which is] good, and let your soul
 delight itself in fatness.
55:3 Incline your ear, and come to 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 to 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 to 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 proceedeth from my mouth: it
 shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which
 I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] for which I sent
 it.
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
 profaning 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 to the eunuchs that keep my
 sabbaths, and choose [the things] that please me, and take hold
 of my covenant;
56:5 Even to them will I give in my house and within my walls a
 place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will
 give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
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 profaning 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 my altar; for my house
 shall be called a house of prayer for all people.
56:8 The Lord GOD who gathereth the outcasts of Israel, Yet will
 I gather [others] to him, besides those that are gathered to
 him.
56:9 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yes, 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 Yes, [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 bring 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 lewd.
57:4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a
 wide mouth, [and] thrust out the tongue? [are] ye not children
 of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
57:5 Inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree,
 slaying the children in the valleys under the cliffs 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 thou wentest up to offer sacrifice.
57:8 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy
 remembrance: for thou hast uncovered [thyself to another] than
 me, and hast 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] to 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 thy
 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 stumbling-block 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 would fail before me, and the souls
 [which] I have made.
57:17 For the iniquity of his covetousness I was 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 to 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
 show 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 Why have we fasted, [say they], and thou seest not? [why]
 have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge?
 Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all
 your labors.
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
 shouldst bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when
 thou seest the naked, that thou shouldst cover him; and that
 thou shouldst not hide thyself from thy own flesh?
58:8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy
 health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall
 go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rear-ward.
58:9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD will answer; thou shalt
 cry, and he will say, Here I [am]. If thou shalt take away from
 the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger,
 and speaking vanity;
58:10 And [if] thou shalt draw out thy soul to the hungry, and
 satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in
 obscurity, and thy darkness [be] as the noon day:
58:11 And the LORD will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy
 soul in drouth, 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 shalt 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, honorable; and shalt honor him,
 not doing thy own ways, nor finding thy own pleasure, nor
 speaking [thy 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
 uttered 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 haste 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: whoever
 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 noon day as in the night; [we
 are] in desolate places as dead [men].
59:11 We all roar like bears, and mourn bitterly like doves: we
 look for judgment, but [there is] none; for salvation, [but] it
 is far from us.
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 Yes, 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
 to him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
59:17 For he put on righteousness as a breast-place, and a
 helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments
 of vengeance [for] clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
59:18 According to [their] deeds, accordingly he will repay,
 fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the
 isles he will repay recompense.
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 will lift up a standard
 against him.
59:20 And the Redeemer will come to Zion, and to 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 will arise upon thee, and his
 glory will 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 thy eyes around, and see: all they assemble
 themselves, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far,
 and thy daughters shall be nursed at [thy] side.
60:5 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thy heart shall
 fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall
 be converted to thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come to
 thee.
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 show forth the praises
 of the LORD.
60:7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered to thee, the rams
 of Nebaioth shall minister to thee: they shall come up with
 acceptance on my altar, and I will glorify the house of my
 glory.
60:8 Who [are] these [that] fly as a cloud, and as 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, to 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 to thee: for in my wrath I smote
 thee, but in my favor 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 to 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; yes, [those] nations shall be utterly wasted.
60:13 The glory of Lebanon shall come to 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 to thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow
 themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call
 thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
60:15 Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man
 went through [thee], I will make thee an eternal excellence, 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 Savior 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 thy 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 to thee: but the LORD will
 be to 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 will be thy 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 its time.
61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD [is] upon me; because the LORD
 hath anointed me to publish good tidings to the meek; he hath
 sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, 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 to them that mourn in Zion, to give to them
 beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of
 praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called
 trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may
 be glorified.
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
 vine-dressers.
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 to
 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 I will not hold my peace, and for
 Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until its righteousness shall
 go forth as brightness, and its salvation as a lamp [that]
 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] will 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 shall establish, and till he
 shall 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] food
 for thy enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink
 thy wine, for which thou hast labored:
62:9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the
 LORD; and they that have collected it shall drink it in the
 courts of my holiness.
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 to 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, traveling
 in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in
 righteousness, mighty to save.
63:2 Why [art thou] red in thy apparel, and thy garments like
 him that treadeth in the wine-vat.
63:3 I have trodden the wine-press alone; and of the people
 [there was] none with me: for I will tread them in my anger,
 and trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled
 upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
63:4 For the day of vengeance [is] in my 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 my own arm brought
 salvation to me; and my fury, it upheld me.
63:6 And I will tread down the people in my anger, and make them
 drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the
 earth.
63:7 I will mention the loving-kindnesses of the LORD, [and] the
 praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath
 bestowed on us, and the great goodness towards the house of
 Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his
 mercies, and according to the multitude of his
 loving-kindnesses.
63:8 For he said, Surely they [are] my people, children [that]
 will not lie: so he was their Savior.
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 bore 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 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 a horse in the
 wilderness, [that] they should not stumble?
63:14 As a beast goeth down in 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 towards
 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 thy 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 didst bear rule over them; they
 were not called by thy name.
64:1 Oh that thou wouldst rend the heavens, that thou wouldst
 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 thy 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,
 besides 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 very wroth, 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 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 grievously afflict us?
65:1 I am sought by [them that] asked not [for me]; I am found
 by [them that] sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, to
 a nation [that] was not called by my name.
65:2 I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious
 people, which walketh in a way [that is] 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, who 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' sake, 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 my 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 to 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 spoke, ye did not hear; but did evil before my
 eyes, and did choose [that] in which 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 to my chosen: for
 the Lord GOD will 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 my 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
 a hundred years old: but the sinner [being] a 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 my elect shall long enjoy the work of
 their hands.
65:23 They shall not labor 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
 serpents' food. 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 to
 me? and where [is] the place of my rest?
66:2 For all these [things] hath my hand made, and all these
 [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. Yes, 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
 spoke, they did not hear: but they did evil before my 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 recompense to his enemies.
66:7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain
 came, she was delivered of a male 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 draw milk, 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 towards his servants, and [his] indignation
 towards 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 to the nations, [to] Tarshish, Pul, and
 Lud, that draw the bow, [to] Tubal, and Javan, [to] the isles
 afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my
 glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
66:20 And they shall bring all your brethren [for] an offering
 to the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots,
 and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my
 holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of
 Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of
 the LORD.
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 carcasses of
 the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall
 not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall
 be an abhorring to all flesh.