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Isaiah
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Isa.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.
[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.
[3] The ox knoweth his
owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my
people doth not consider.
[4] Ah sinful nation, a people
laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are
corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy
One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
[5]
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the
whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
[6] From the
sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but
wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed,
neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
[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.
[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.
[9] Except the LORD of hosts had left
unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we
should have been like unto Gomorrah.
[10] Hear the word of
the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye
people of Gomorrah.
[11] To what purpose is the multitude
of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt
offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in
the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
[12]
When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your
hand, to tread my courts?
[13] Bring no more vain
oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and
sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is
iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
[14] Your new moons and
your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I
am weary to bear them.
[15] And when ye spread forth your
hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many
prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
[16]
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from
before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
[17] Learn to do well;
seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for
the widow.
[18] Come now, and let us reason together, saith
the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as
snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
[19]
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the
land:
[20] But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured
with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
[21]
How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment;
righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
[22] Thy
silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
[23] Thy
princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth
gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless,
neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
[24]
Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of
Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine
enemies:
[25] And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely
purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
[26] And I
will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at
the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of
righteousness, the faithful city.
[27] Zion shall be
redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
[28]
And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be
together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
[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.
[30]
For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that
hath no water.
[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.
Isa.2
[1]
the word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and
Jerusalem.
[2] And it shall come to pass in the last days,
that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top
of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all
nations shall flow unto it.
[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.
[4] And he shall
judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall
beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into
pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither
shall they learn war any more.
[5] O house of Jacob, come
ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
[6] Therefore
thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be
replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines,
and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
[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:
[8] Their land also is
full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which
their own fingers have made:
[9] And the mean man boweth
down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them
not.
[10] Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust,
for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
[11]
The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men
shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that
day.
[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:
[13] And upon all the
cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks
of Bashan,
[14] And upon all the high mountains, and upon
all the hills that are lifted up,
[15] And upon every high
tower, and upon every fenced wall,
[16] And upon all the
ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
[17] And
the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men
shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that
day.
[18] And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
[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.
[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;
[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.
[22]
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he
to be accounted of?
Isa.3
[1]
For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from
Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of
bread, and the whole stay of water,
[2] The mighty man, and
the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the
ancient,
[3] The captain of fifty, and the honourable man,
and the counseller, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent
orator.
[4] And I will give children to be their princes,
and babes shall rule over them.
[5] And the people shall be
oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the
child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base
against the honourable.
[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:
[7]
In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in
my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the
people.
[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.
[9] The shew of their
countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as
Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded
evil unto themselves.
[10] Say ye to the righteous, that it
shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their
doings.
[11] Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him:
for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
[12] As for
my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O
my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the
way of thy paths.
[13] The LORD standeth up to plead, and
standeth to judge the people.
[14] The LORD will enter into
judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof:
for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your
houses.
[15] What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces,
and grind the faces of the poor? saith the LORD GOD of hosts.
[16]
Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty,
and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and
mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
[17]
Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of
the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret
parts.
[18] In that day the Lord will take away the bravery
of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and
their round tires like the moon,
[19] The chains, and the
bracelets, and the mufflers,
[20] The bonnets, and the
ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the
earrings,
[21] The rings, and nose jewels,
[22]
The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples,
and the crisping pins,
[23] The glasses, and the fine
linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
[24] And it shall come
to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and
instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness;
and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning
instead of beauty.
[25] Thy men shall fall by the sword,
and thy mighty in the war.
[26] And her gates shall lament
and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
Isa.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.
[2] In that
day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the
fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are
escaped of Israel.
[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] When the Lord shall have washed away the
filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of
Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by
the spirit of burning.
[5] And the LORD will create upon
every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud
and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for
upon all the glory shall be a defence.
[6] And there shall
be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a
place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
Isa.5
[1]
Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his
vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
[2]
And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it
with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and
also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring
forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
[3] And
now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you,
betwixt me and my vineyard.
[4] What could have been done
more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I
looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild
grapes?
[5] And now go to; I will tell you what I will do
to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be
eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden
down:
[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.
[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.
[8] Woe
unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till
there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the
earth!
[9] In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth
many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without
inhabitant.
[10] Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one
bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
[11]
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow
strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
[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.
[13] Therefore my
people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and
their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with
thirst.
[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.
[15] And the mean man shall be brought down, and the
mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be
humbled:
[16] But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in
judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in
righteousness.
[17] Then shall the lambs feed after their
manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers
eat.
[18] Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of
vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
[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!
[20] Woe unto them that call evil good, and good
evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put
bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
[21] Woe unto them
that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
[22]
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to
mingle strong drink:
[23] Which justify the wicked for
reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from
him!
[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.
[25] Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled
against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against
them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their
carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his
anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
[26]
And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss
unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come
with speed swiftly:
[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:
[28]
Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs
shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
[29]
Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions:
yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it
away safe, and none shall deliver it.
[30] And in that day
they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one
look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is
darkened in the heavens thereof.
Isa.6
[1]
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a
throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
[2]
Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he
covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain
he did fly.
[3] And one cried unto another, and said, Holy,
holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his
glory.
[4] And the posts of the door moved at the voice of
him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
[5]
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of
unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips:
for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
[6]
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his
hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
[7]
And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy
lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
[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.
[9]
And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand
not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
[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.
[11]
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be
wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land
be utterly desolate,
[12] And the LORD have removed men far
away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
[13]
But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be
eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them,
when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance
thereof.
Isa.7
[1]
And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of
Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the
son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war
against it, but could not prevail against it.
[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.
[3] Then said
the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and
Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in
the highway of the fuller's field;
[4] And say unto him,
Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the
two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin
with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
[5] Because Syria,
Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against
thee, saying,
[6] Let us go up against Judah, and vex it,
and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst
of it, even the son of Tabeal:
[7] Thus saith the Lord GOD,
It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
[8] For
the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and
within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be
not a people.
[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.
[10] Moreover the LORD spake
again unto Ahaz, saying,
[11] Ask thee a sign of the LORD
thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
[12]
But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
[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?
[14]
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin
shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name
Immanuel.
[15] Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may
know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
[16] For
before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good,
the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her
kings.
[17] The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy
people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from
the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of
Assyria.
[18] And it shall come to pass in that day, that
the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the
rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
[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.
[20] In the same day shall the Lord shave with
a rasor 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.
[21] And it shall come to pass in that
day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
[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.
[23] And it shall come to pass in
that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand
vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and
thorns.
[24] With arrows and with bows shall men come
thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
[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.
Isa.8
[1]
Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in
it with a man's pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
[2]
And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest,
and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
[3] And I went unto
the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD
to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
[4] For before
the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the
riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away
before the king of Assyria.
[5] The LORD spake also unto me
again, saying,
[6] Forasmuch as this people refuseth the
waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's
son;
[7] Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon
them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of
Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his
channels, and go over all his banks:
[8] And he shall pass
through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to
the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth
of thy land, O Immanuel.
[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.
[10] Take
counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it
shall not stand: for God is with us.
[11] For the LORD
spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should
not walk in the way of this people, saying,
[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.
[13]
Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let
him be your dread.
[14] And he shall be for a sanctuary;
but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the
houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem.
[15] And many among them shall stumble, and
fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
[16] Bind
up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
[17] And
I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of
Jacob, and I will look for him.
[18] Behold, I and the
children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in
Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
[19]
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar
spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a
people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
[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.
[21] And
they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall
come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret
themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
[22]
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness,
dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
Isa.9
[1]
Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation,
when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the
land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by
the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
[2]
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that
dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light
shined.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[6]
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the
government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called
Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The
Prince of Peace.
[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.
[8] The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and
it hath lighted upon Israel.
[9] And all the people shall
know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the
pride and stoutness of heart,
[10] The bricks are fallen
down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down,
but we will change them into cedars.
[11] Therefore the
LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his
enemies together;
[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.
[13] For the people turneth not unto him that
smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
[14]
Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and
rush, in one day.
[15] The ancient and honourable, he is
the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
[16]
For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are
led of them are destroyed.
[17] Therefore the Lord shall
have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their
fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer,
and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned
away, but his hand is stretched out still.
[18] For
wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and
thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they
shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
[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.
[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:
[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.
Isa.10
[1]
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write
grievousness which they have prescribed;
[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!
[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?
[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.
[5] O Assyrian, the rod of
mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
[6]
I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the
people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and
to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the
streets.
[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.
[8] For he saith, Are not my princes altogether
kings?
[9] Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as
Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
[10] As my hand hath
found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel
them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
[11] Shall I not, as I
have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her
idols?
[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.
[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:
[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.
[15] Shall the axe boast itself against
him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against
him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them
that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it
were no wood.
[16] Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of
hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall
kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
[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;
[18] And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of
his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a
standardbearer fainteth.
[19] And the rest of the trees of
his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
[20]
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel,
and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again
stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy
One of Israel, in truth.
[21] The remnant shall return,
even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
[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.
[23] For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a
consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
[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.
[25] For yet a very little while, and the
indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
[26]
And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to
the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon
the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
[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.
[28] He
is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up
his carriages:
[29] They are gone over the passage: they
have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul
is fled.
[30] Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim:
cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
[31]
Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to
flee.
[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.
[33] Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall
lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn
down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
[34] And he shall
cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall
by a mighty one.
Isa.11
[1]
And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a
Branch shall grow out of his roots:
[2] And the spirit of
the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the
fear of the LORD;
[3] And shall make him of quick
understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after
the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his
ears:
[4] But with righteousness shall he judge the poor,
and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite
the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips
shall he slay the wicked.
[5] And righteousness shall be
the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his
reins.
[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.
[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.
[8] And
the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned
child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
[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.
[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] And it
shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand
again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which
shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and
from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from
the islands of the sea.
[12] And he shall set up an ensign
for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and
gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the
earth.
[13] The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the
adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah,
and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
[14] But they shall fly
upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall
spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom
and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
[15]
And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea;
and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and
shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over
dryshod.
[16] And there shall be an highway for the remnant
of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to
Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
Isa.12
[1]
And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though
thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou
comfortedst me.
[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.
[3] Therefore with
joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
[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.
[5] Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent
things: this is known in all the earth.
[6] Cry out and
shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel
in the midst of thee.
Isa.13
[1]
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
[2]
Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto
them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the
nobles.
[3] I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have
also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in
my highness.
[4] The noise of a multitude in the mountains,
like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of
nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of
the battle.
[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.
[6] Howl ye; for the day of the
LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the
Almighty.
[7] Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every
man's heart shall melt:
[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.
[9] Behold, the day of the LORD cometh,
cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and
he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
[10] For
the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give
their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the
moon shall not cause her light to shine.
[11] And I will
punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity;
and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay
low the haughtiness of the terrible.
[12] I will make a man
more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of
Ophir.
[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.
[14] And it
shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up:
they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into
his own land.
[15] Every one that is found shall be thrust
through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the
sword.
[16] Their children also shall be dashed to pieces
before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives
ravished.
[17] Behold, I will stir up the Medes against
them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not
delight in it.
[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.
[19] And Babylon, the
glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be
as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
[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.
[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.
[22] And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in
their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her
time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
Isa.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.
[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.
[3]
And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee
rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage
wherein thou wast made to serve,
[4] That thou shalt take
up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the
oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
[5] The LORD hath
broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
[6]
He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that
ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
[7]
The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into
singing.
[8] Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the
cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is
come up against us.
[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.
[10] All they shall speak and
say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like
unto us?
[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.
[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!
[13] For thou hast said in
thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above
the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation,
in the sides of the north:
[14] I will ascend above the
heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
[15]
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
[16]
They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee,
saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did
shake kingdoms;
[17] That made the world as a wilderness,
and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his
prisoners?
[18] All the kings of the nations, even all of
them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
[19] But
thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the
raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go
down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
[20]
Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast
destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall
never be renowned.
[21] Prepare slaughter for his children
for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess
the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
[22]
For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off
from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the
LORD.
[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.
[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:
[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.
[26] This is
the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the
hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
[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?
[28] In
the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
[29] Rejoice
not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is
broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice,
and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
[30] And the
firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in
safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy
remnant.
[31] Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole
Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a
smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.
[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.
Isa.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;
[2] He is gone up to Bajith,
and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo,
and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every
beard cut off.
[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.
[4] And
Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto
Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life
shall be grievous unto him.
[5] My heart shall cry out for
Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years
old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it
up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of
destruction.
[6] For the waters of Nimrim shall be
desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is
no green thing.
[7] Therefore the abundance they have
gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to
the brook of the willows.
[8] For the cry is gone round
about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the
howling thereof unto Beer-elim.
[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.
Isa.16
[1]
Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the
wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
[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.
[3] Take
counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst
of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
[4]
Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them
from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the
spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
[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.
[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.
[7]
Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the
foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are
stricken.
[8] For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the
vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the
principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they
wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they
are gone over the sea.
[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.
[10] And gladness is taken away,
and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall
be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall
tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage
shouting to cease.
[11] Wherefore my bowels shall sound
like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh.
[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.
[13] This is the word that the LORD hath
spoken concerning Moab since that time.
[14] But now the
LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an
hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that
great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.
Isa.17
[1]
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a
city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
[2] The cities of
Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down,
and none shall make them afraid.
[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.
[4] And in that day it
shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and
the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
[5] And it shall
be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears
with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley
of Rephaim.
[6] Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as
the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the
uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches
thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.
[7] At that day
shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the
Holy One of Israel.
[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.
[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.
[10] Because thou hast
forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the
rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and
shalt set it with strange slips:
[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.
[12] Woe to the multitude of many
people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the
rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty
waters!
[13] The nations shall rush like the rushing of
many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off,
and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
[14] And
behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This
is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob
us.
Isa.18
[1]
Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of
Ethiopia:
[2] That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in
vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift
messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible
from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down,
whose land the rivers have spoiled!
[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.
[4] For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest,
and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon
herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
[5]
For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is
ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning
hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
[6] They
shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the
beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all
the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
[7] In that
time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people
scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning
hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the
rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts,
the mount Zion.
Isa.19
[1]
The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and
shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his
presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
[2]
And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall
fight every one against his brother, and every one against his
neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
[3]
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will
destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to
the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the
wizards.
[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.
[5] And the waters shall fail
from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
[6]
And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence
shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
[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.
[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.
[9] Moreover they that work
in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
[10]
And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make
sluices and ponds for fish.
[11] Surely the princes of Zoan
are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellers of Pharaoh is become
brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son
of ancient kings?
[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.
[13] The princes of Zoan
are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also
seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes
thereof.
[14] The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in
the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work
thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
[15]
Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail,
branch or rush, may do.
[16] In that day shall Egypt be
like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the
shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over
it.
[17] And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto
Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in
himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath
determined against it.
[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]
In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the
land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.
[20]
And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts
in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the
oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he
shall deliver them.
[21] And the LORD shall be known to
Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall
do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD,
and perform it.
[22] And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he
shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and
he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
[23] In
that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the
Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and
the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
[24] In that
day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a
blessing in the midst of the land:
[25] Whom the LORD of
hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria
the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
Isa.20
[1]
In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of
Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
[2]
At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go
and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from
thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
[3]
And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and
barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon
Ethiopia;
[4] So shall the king of Assyria lead away the
Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old,
naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame
of Egypt.
[5] And they shall be afraid and ashamed of
Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
[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?
Isa.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.
[2]
A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth
treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O
Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
[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.
[4] My
heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure
hath he turned into fear unto me.
[5] Prepare the table,
watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint
the shield.
[6] For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go,
set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
[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:
[8]
And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the
watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
[9]
And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen.
And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the
graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
[10]
O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of
the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
[11]
The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of
the night? Watchman, what of the night?
[12] The watchman
said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire,
inquire ye: return, come.
[13] The burden upon Arabia. In
the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of
Dedanim.
[14] The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought
water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him
that fled.
[15] For they fled from the swords, from the
drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of
war.
[16] For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a
year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of
Kedar shall fail:
[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.
Isa.22
[1]
The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou
art wholly gone up to the housetops?
[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.
[3] All thy
rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are
found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.
[4]
Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not
to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my
people.
[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.
[6]
And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir
uncovered the shield.
[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.
[8] And he
discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to
the armour of the house of the forest.
[9] Ye have seen
also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye
gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
[10] And ye
have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken
down to fortify the wall.
[11] Ye made also a ditch between
the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked
unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned
it long ago.
[12] And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts
call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding
with sackcloth:
[13] And behold joy and gladness, slaying
oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat
and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
[14] And it was
revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity
shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of
hosts.
[15] Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee
unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and
say,
[16] What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here,
that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him
out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself
in a rock?
[17] Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with
a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.
[18] He
will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large
country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory
shall be the shame of thy lord's house.
[19] And I will
drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee
down.
[20] And it shall come to pass in that day, that I
will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
[21] And I
will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle,
and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a
father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of
Judah.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
Isa.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.
[2] Be still, ye inhabitants of the
isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have
replenished.
[3] And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the
harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of
nations.
[4] Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath
spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor
bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up
virgins.
[5] As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall
they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
[6] Pass ye
over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
[7] Is
this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own
feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
[8] Who hath
taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants
are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
[9]
The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory,
and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
[10]
Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no
more strength.
[11] He stretched out his hand over the sea,
he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the
merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.
[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.
[13] Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this
people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in
the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the
palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
[14] Howl, ye
ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
[15]
And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten
seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of
seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
[16] Take an
harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make
sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
[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.
[18] And her merchandise and her hire shall
be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for
her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat
sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
Isa.24
[1]
Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and
turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants
thereof.
[2] And it shall be, as with the people, so with
the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the
maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as
with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so
with the giver of usury to him.
[3] The land shall be
utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this
word.
[4] The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world
languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do
languish.
[5] The earth also is defiled under the
inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed
the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
[6]
Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell
therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are
burned, and few men left.
[7] The new wine mourneth, the
vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
[8] The
mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the
joy of the harp ceaseth.
[9] They shall not drink wine with
a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
[10]
The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no
man may come in.
[11] There is a crying for wine in the
streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
[12]
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with
destruction.
[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.
[14]
They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of
the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
[15] Wherefore
glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of
Israel in the isles of the sea.
[16] From the uttermost
part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous.
But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous
dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have
dealt very treacherously.
[17] Fear, and the pit, and the
snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
[18] And
it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the 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.
[19] The
earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth
is moved exceedingly.
[20] The earth shall reel to and fro
like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the
transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and
not rise again.
[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.
[22] And
they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the
pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall
they be visited.
[23] Then the moon shall be confounded,
and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount
Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Isa.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.
[2] For thou hast made of a city an
heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city;
it shall never be built.
[3] Therefore shall the strong
people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear
thee.
[4] For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a
strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a
shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a
storm against the wall.
[5] Thou shalt bring down the noise
of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the
shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought
low.
[6] And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make
unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees,
of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
[7]
And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast
over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
[8]
He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away
tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take
away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
[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.
[10] For
in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be
trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the
dunghill.
[11] And he shall spread forth his hands in the
midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim:
and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their
hands.
[12] And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls
shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the
dust.
Isa.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.
[2]
Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth
may enter in.
[3] Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace,
whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
[4]
Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting
strength:
[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.
[6] The foot shall
tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the
needy.
[7] The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most
upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
[8] Yea, in the
way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of
our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
[9]
With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit
within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the
earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
[10]
Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn
righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and
will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
[11] LORD, when
thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be
ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies
shall devour them.
[12] LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for
us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.
[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.
[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.
[15] Thou hast increased the
nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified:
thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
[16]
LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer
when thy chastening was upon them.
[17] Like as a woman
with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain,
and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O
LORD.
[18] We have been with child, we have been in pain,
we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any
deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world
fallen.
[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.
[20] Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers,
and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little
moment, until the indignation be overpast.
[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.
Isa.27
[1]
In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall
punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked
serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
[2]
In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
[3] I
the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it,
I will keep it night and day.
[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.
[5] Or let him
take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he
shall make peace with me.
[6] He shall cause them that come
of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the
face of the world with fruit.
[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?
[8] In measure,
when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his
rough wind in the day of the east wind.
[9] By this
therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the
fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the
altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images
shall not stand up.
[10] Yet the defenced city shall be
desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness:
there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume
the branches thereof.
[11] When the boughs thereof are
withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on
fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made
them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew
them no favour.
[12] And it shall come to pass in that day,
that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the
stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children
of Israel.
[13] And it shall come to pass in that day, that
the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were
ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land
of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
Isa.28
[1]
Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose
glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat
valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
[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.
[3] The crown of
pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
[4]
And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley,
shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer;
which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand
he eateth it up.
[5] In that day shall the LORD of hosts be
for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of
his people,
[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.
[7] But they also have erred through wine, and
through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet
have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they
are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they
stumble in judgment.
[8] For all tables are full of vomit
and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
[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.
[10] For precept must be upon precept, precept
upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and
there a little:
[11] For with stammering lips and another
tongue will he speak to this people.
[12] To whom he said,
This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this
is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
[13] But the
word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon
precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a
little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and
snared, and taken.
[14] Wherefore hear the word of the
LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in
Jerusalem.
[15] Because ye have said, We have made a
covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the
overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us:
for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid
ourselves:
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[21] For the LORD
shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley
of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to
pass his act, his strange act.
[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.
[23] Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and
hear my speech.
[24] Doth the plowman plow all day to sow?
doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
[25] When
he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the
fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and
the appointed barley and rie in their place?
[26] For his
God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
[27]
For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither
is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are
beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
[28]
Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor
break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his
horsemen.
[29] This also cometh forth from the LORD of
hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
Isa.29
[1]
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to
year; let them kill sacrifices.
[2] Yet I will distress
Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto
me as Ariel.
[3] And I will camp against thee round about,
and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts
against thee.
[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.
[5]
Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and
the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth
away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
[6] Thou
shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with
earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of
devouring fire.
[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.
[8] It shall even be as when an hungry man
dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is
empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh;
but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite:
so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against
mount Zion.
[9] Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out,
and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not
with strong drink.
[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.
[11] And the
vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is
sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this,
I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
[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.
[13]
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with
their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their
heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept
of men:
[14] Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a
marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a
wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the
understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
[15] Woe
unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and
their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who
knoweth us?
[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?
[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?
[18]
And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the
eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of
darkness.
[19] The meek also shall increase their joy in
the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of
Israel.
[20] For the terrible one is brought to nought, and
the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut
off:
[21] That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a
snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for
a thing of nought.
[22] Therefore thus saith the LORD, who
redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now
be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
[23] But
when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of
him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob,
and shall fear the God of Israel.
[24] They also that erred
in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall
learn doctrine.
Isa.30
[1]
Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel,
but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit,
that they may add sin to sin:
[2] That walk to go down into
Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in
the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
[3]
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust
in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
[4] For his princes
were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
[5] They
were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an
help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
[6] The
burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and
anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery
flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of
young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a
people that shall not profit them.
[7] For the Egyptians
shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried
concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
[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:
[9] That
this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not
hear the law of the LORD:
[10] Which say to the seers, See
not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak
unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
[11] Get you out
of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel
to cease from before us.
[12] Wherefore thus saith the Holy
One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression
and perverseness, and stay thereon:
[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.
[14]
And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is
broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be
found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or
to take water withal out of the pit.
[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.
[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.
[17] One
thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall
ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and
as an ensign on an hill.
[18] And therefore will the LORD
wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be
exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of
judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
[19] For
the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more:
he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he
shall hear it, he will answer thee.
[20] And though the
Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction,
yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but
thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
[21] And thine ears
shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in
it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the
left.
[22] Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven
images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou
shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it,
Get thee hence.
[23] Then shall he give the rain of thy
seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the
increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day
shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
[24] The oxen
likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean
provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the
fan.
[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.
[26] Moreover the
light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of
the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day
that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the
stroke of their wound.
[27] Behold, the name of the LORD
cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is
heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a
devouring fire:
[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.
[29] Ye shall have a song,
as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart,
as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD,
to the mighty One of Israel.
[30] And the LORD shall cause
his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of
his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a
devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
[31]
For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down,
which smote with a rod.
[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.
[33] For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for
the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile
thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream
of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Isa.31
[1]
Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and
trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because
they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel,
neither seek the LORD!
[2] Yet he also is wise, and will
bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against
the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work
iniquity.
[3] Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and
their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out
his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen
shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
[4] For
thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young
lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called
forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase
himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down
to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
[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.
[6]
Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply
revolted.
[7] For in that day every man shall cast away his
idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have
made unto you for a sin.
[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.
[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.
Isa.32
[1]
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule
in judgment.
[2] And a man shall be as an hiding place from
the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry
place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
[3]
And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them
that hear shall hearken.
[4] The heart also of the rash
shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be
ready to speak plainly.
[5] The vile person shall be no
more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
[6]
For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work
iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD,
to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of
the thirsty to fail.
[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.
[8] But the
liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he
stand.
[9] Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my
voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
[10]
Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the
vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
[11]
Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones:
strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your
loins.
[12] They shall lament for the teats, for the
pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
[13] Upon the land
of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the
houses of joy in the joyous city:
[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;
[15] Until the spirit be poured upon us from on
high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field
be counted for a forest.
[16] Then judgment shall dwell in
the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
[17]
And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of
righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
[18] And my
people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings,
and in quiet resting places;
[19] When it shall hail,
coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low
place.
[20] Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that
send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.
Isa.33
[1]
Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest
treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou
shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make
an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with
thee.
[2] O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for
thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time
of trouble.
[3] At the noise of the tumult the people fled;
at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
[4]
And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the
caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon
them.
[5] The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he
hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
[6] And
wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and
strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.
[7]
Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of
peace shall weep bitterly.
[8] The highways lie waste, the
wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised
the cities, he regardeth no man.
[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.
[10]
Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I
lift up myself.
[11] Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall
bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
[12]
And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up
shall they be burned in the fire.
[13] Hear, ye that are
far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my
might.
[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?
[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;
[16] He
shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of
rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
[17]
Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the
land that is very far off.
[18] Thine heart shall meditate
terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that
counted the towers?
[19] Thou shalt not see a fierce
people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a
stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
[20]
Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see
Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken
down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither
shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
[21] But there
the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and
streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant
ship pass thereby.
[22] For the LORD is our judge, the LORD
is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
[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.
[24] And the inhabitant
shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be
forgiven their iniquity.
Isa.34
[1]
Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth
hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come
forth of it.
[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.
[3]
Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out
of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their
blood.
[4] And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved,
and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their
host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a
falling fig from the fig tree.
[5] For my sword shall be
bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon
the people of my curse, to judgment.
[6] The sword of the
LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the
blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for
the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the
land of Idumea.
[7] And the unicorns shall come down with
them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked
with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
[8] For
it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompences
for the controversy of Zion.
[9] And the streams thereof
shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and
the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
[10] It shall
not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for
ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall
pass through it for ever and ever.
[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.
[12] They shall call the
nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her
princes shall be nothing.
[13] And thorns shall come up in
her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it
shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
[14]
The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of
the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl
also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
[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.
[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.
[17] And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand
hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever,
from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
Isa.35
[1]
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the
desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
[2] It shall
blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory
of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and
Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of
our God.
[3] Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the
feeble knees.
[4] Say to them that are of a fearful heart,
Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even
God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
[5] Then
the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall
be unstopped.
[6] Then shall the lame man leap as an hart,
and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters
break out, and streams in the desert.
[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.
[8] And an highway shall be there, and a way,
and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not
pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though
fools, shall not err therein.
[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:
[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.
Isa.36
[1]
Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that
Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities
of Judah, and took them.
[2] And the king of Assyria sent
Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great
army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of
the fuller's field.
[3] Then came forth unto him Eliakim,
Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and
Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.
[4] And Rabshakeh said
unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the
king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
[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?
[6] Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this
broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his
hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in
him.
[7] But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our
God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath
taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship
before this altar?
[8] Now therefore give pledges, I pray
thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two
thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon
them.
[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?
[10] And am I now come
up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said
unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
[11] Then
said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee,
unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and
speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that
are on the wall.
[12] But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master
sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not
sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their
own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
[13] Then
Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language,
and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of
Assyria.
[14] Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive
you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.
[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.
[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;
[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.
[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?
[19]
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of
Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
[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?
[21] But they held their peace, and answered
him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him
not.
[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.
Isa.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.
[2] And he sent Eliakim, who was over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests
covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
[3]
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of
trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come
to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
[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.
[5] So the
servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
[6] And Isaiah
said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the
LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the
servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
[7]
Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and
return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in
his own land.
[8] So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king
of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was
departed from Lachish.
[9] And he heard say concerning
Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee.
And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
[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.
[11] Behold,
thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by
destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?
[12]
Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have
destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden
which were in Telassar?
[13] Where is the king of Hamath,
and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena,
and Ivah?
[14] And Hezekiah received the letter from the
hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the
house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
[15] And
Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying,
[16] O LORD of
hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art
the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast
made heaven and earth.
[17] Incline thine ear, O LORD, and
hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of
Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.
[18]
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the
nations, and their countries,
[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.
[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.
[21] Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah,
saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed
to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:
[22] This is the
word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the
daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the
daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
[23]
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou
exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the
Holy One of Israel.
[24] By thy servants hast thou
reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots
am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon;
and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees
thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the
forest of his Carmel.
[25] I have digged, and drunk water;
and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the
besieged places.
[26] Hast thou not heard long ago, how I
have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I
brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced
cities into ruinous heaps.
[27] Therefore their inhabitants
were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as
the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the
housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
[28]
But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy
rage against me.
[29] Because thy rage against me, and thy
tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in
thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the
way by which thou camest.
[30] And this shall be a sign
unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the
second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year
sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit
thereof.
[31] And the remnant that is escaped of the house
of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
[32]
For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape
out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
[33]
Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He
shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there nor come
before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.
[34] By
the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come
into this city, saith the LORD.
[35] For I will defend this
city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's
sake.
[36] Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote
in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five
thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were
all dead corpses.
[37] So Sennacherib king of Assyria
departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
[38]
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch
his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the
sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar-haddon his
son reigned in his stead.
Isa.38
[1]
In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet
the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the
LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.
[2]
Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the
LORD,
[3] And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee,
how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and
have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept
sore.
[4] Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah,
saying,
[5] Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD,
the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy
tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
[6]
And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of
Assyria: and I will defend this city.
[7] And this shall be
a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that
he hath spoken;
[8] Behold, I will bring again the shadow
of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten
degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees
it was gone down.
[9] The writing of Hezekiah king of
Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
[10]
I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the
grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
[11] I
said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the
living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the
world.
[12] Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as
a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut
me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an
end of me.
[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.
[14] Like a crane or a swallow, so did I
chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O
LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
[15] What shall I
say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall
go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
[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.
[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.
[18] For the grave cannot praise
thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit
cannot hope for thy truth.
[19] The living, the living, he
shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall
make known thy truth.
[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.
[21] For Isaiah
had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister
upon the boil, and he shall recover.
[22] Hezekiah also had
said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?
Isa.39
[1]
At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon,
sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had
been sick, and was recovered.
[2] And Hezekiah was glad of
them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver,
and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the
house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there
was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah
shewed them not.
[3] Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king
Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence
came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far
country unto me, even from Babylon.
[4] Then said he, What
have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in
mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I
have not shewed them.
[5] Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah,
Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:
[6] Behold, the days
come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers
have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon:
nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
[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.
[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.
Isa.40
[1]
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
[2] Speak
ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is
accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of
the LORD's hand double for all her sins.
[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.
[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:
[5] And the glory of the LORD shall be
revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the
LORD hath spoken it.
[6] The voice said, Cry. And he said,
What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof
is as the flower of the field:
[7] The grass withereth, the
flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely
the people is grass.
[8] The grass withereth, the flower
fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
[9] O
Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain;
O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with
strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah,
Behold your God!
[10] Behold, the Lord GOD will come with
strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is
with him, and his work before him.
[11] He shall feed his
flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and
carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with
young.
[12] Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of
his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the
dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales,
and the hills in a balance?
[13] Who hath directed the
Spirit of the LORD, or being his counseller hath taught him?
[14]
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in
the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the
way of understanding?
[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.
[16]
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof
sufficient for a burnt offering.
[17] All nations before
him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing,
and vanity.
[18] To whom then will ye liken God? or what
likeness will ye compare unto him?
[19] The workman melteth
a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and
casteth silver chains.
[20] He that is so impoverished that
he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh
unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not
be moved.
[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?
[22] It is he that sitteth
upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as
grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and
spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
[23] That
bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as
vanity.
[24] Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they
shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth:
and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the
whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
[25] To whom
then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
[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.
[27] Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O
Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over
from my God?
[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.
[29] He giveth power to the faint; and to
them that have no might he increaseth strength.
[30] Even
the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly
fall:
[31] But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew
their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall
run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Isa.41
[1]
Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their
strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near
together to judgment.
[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.
[3] He pursued them, and
passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his
feet.
[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.
[5] The isles saw it, and feared; the ends
of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.
[6] They
helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be
of good courage.
[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.
[8] But thou, Israel,
art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my
friend.
[9] Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the
earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto
thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee
away.
[10] Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not
dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help
thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my
righteousness.
[11] Behold, all they that were incensed
against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as
nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.
[12]
Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that
contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing,
and as a thing of nought.
[13] For I the LORD thy God will
hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help
thee.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[19] I
will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the
myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and
the pine, and the box tree together:
[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.
[21] Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth
your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
[22] Let them
bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the
former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the
latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.
[23]
Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye
are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and
behold it together.
[24] Behold, ye are of nothing, and
your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
[25]
I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the
rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon
princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
[26]
Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and
beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that
sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that
heareth your words.
[27] The first shall say to Zion,
Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth
good tidings.
[28] For I beheld, and there was no man; even
among them, and there was no counseller, that, when I asked of them,
could answer a word.
[29] Behold, they are all vanity;
their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
Isa.42
[1]
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul
delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth
judgment to the Gentiles.
[2] He shall not cry, nor lift
up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
[3] A
bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not
quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
[4] He
shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the
earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
[5] Thus saith
God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he
that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that
giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk
therein:
[6] I the LORD have called thee in righteousness,
and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a
covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
[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.
[8] I am
the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another,
neither my praise to graven images.
[9] Behold, the former
things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they
spring forth I tell you of them.
[10] Sing unto the LORD a
new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down
to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants
thereof.
[11] Let the wilderness and the cities thereof
lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the
inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the
mountains.
[12] Let them give glory unto the LORD, and
declare his praise in the islands.
[13] The LORD shall go
forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war:
he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.
[14]
I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained
myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and
devour at once.
[15] I will make waste mountains and hills,
and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I
will dry up the pools.
[16] And I will bring the blind by a
way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not
known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things
straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake
them.
[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.
[18] Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind,
that ye may see.
[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?
[20] Seeing many
things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth
not.
[21] The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness'
sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
[22]
But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared
in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and
none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
[23]
Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for
the time to come?
[24] Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and
Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have
sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they
obedient unto his law.
[25] Therefore he hath poured upon
him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath
set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet
he laid it not to heart.
Isa.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.
[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.
[3] For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of
Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba
for thee.
[4] Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou
hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give
men for thee, and people for thy life.
[5] Fear not: for I
am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee
from the west;
[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;
[7] Even every one that is
called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed
him; yea, I have made him.
[8] Bring forth the blind people
that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
[9] Let all
the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled:
who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them
bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them
hear, and say, It is truth.
[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.
[11] I, even I, am
the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
[12] I have
declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no
strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD,
that I am God.
[13] Yea, before the day was I am he; and
there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who
shall let it?
[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.
[15] I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of
Israel, your King.
[16] Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a
way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
[17] Which
bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they
shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they
are quenched as tow.
[18] Remember ye not the former
things, neither consider the things of old.
[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.
[20] The beast of the field shall honour me, the
dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and
rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
[21]
This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my
praise.
[22] But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but
thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.
[23] Thou hast not
brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou
honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with
an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.
[24] Thou hast
bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with
the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy
sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
[25] I,
even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake,
and will not remember thy sins.
[26] Put me in remembrance:
let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be
justified.
[27] Thy first father hath sinned, and thy
teachers have transgressed against me.
[28] Therefore I
have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to
the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
Isa.44
[1]
Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
[2]
Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb,
which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou,
Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
[3] For I will pour water upon
him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my
spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:
[4]
And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water
courses.
[5] One shall say, I am the LORD's; and another
shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe
with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of
Israel.
[6] Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his
redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and
beside me there is no God.
[7] And who, as I, shall call,
and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed
the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come,
let them shew unto them.
[8] Fear ye not, neither be
afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye
are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no
God; I know not any.
[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.
[10] Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven
image that is profitable for nothing?
[11] Behold, all his
fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them
all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and
they shall be ashamed together.
[12] The smith with the
tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and
worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his
strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.
[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.
[14] He heweth him
down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he
strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth
an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
[15] Then shall it be
for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea,
he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and
worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down
thereto.
[16] He burneth part thereof in the fire; with
part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied:
yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the
fire:
[17] And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even
his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and
prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.
[18]
They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that
they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
[19]
And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor
understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also
I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and
eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall
I fall down to the stock of a tree?
[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?
[21]
Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have
formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be
forgotten of me.
[22] I have blotted out, as a thick cloud,
thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I
have redeemed thee.
[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.
[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;
[25]
That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad;
that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge
foolish;
[26] That confirmeth the word of his servant, and
performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem,
Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be
built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:
[27]
That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
[28]
That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my
pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the
temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Isa.45
[1]
Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I
have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins
of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates
shall not be shut;
[2] I will go before thee, and make the
crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass,
and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
[3] And I will give
thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places,
that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name,
am the God of Israel.
[4] For Jacob my servant's sake, and
Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have
surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
[5] I am the
LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded
thee, though thou hast not known me:
[6] That they may know
from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none
beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
[7] I
form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I
the LORD do all these things.
[8] Drop down, ye heavens,
from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth
open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness
spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
[9] Woe
unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with
the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth
it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
[10]
Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to
the woman, What hast thou brought forth?
[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.
[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.
[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.
[14] Thus saith the LORD, The
labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men
of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they
shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall
fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying,
Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.
[15]
Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the
Saviour.
[16] They shall be ashamed, and also confounded,
all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of
idols.
[17] But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an
everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world
without end.
[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.
[19] I
have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not
unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak
righteousness, I declare things that are right.
[20]
Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped
of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their
graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
[21]
Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together:
who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that
time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just
God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
[22] Look unto
me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and
there is none else.
[23] I have sworn by myself, the word
is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That
unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
[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.
[25] In the LORD shall all the seed of
Israel be justified, and shall glory.
Isa.46
[1]
Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and
upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden
to the weary beast.
[2] They stoop, they bow down together;
they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into
captivity.
[3] Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all
the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the
belly, which are carried from the womb:
[4] And even to
your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have
made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
[5]
To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we
may be like?
[6] They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh
silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god:
they fall down, yea, they worship.
[7] They bear him upon
the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he
standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto
him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
[8]
Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye
transgressors.
[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,
[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:
[11] Calling a
ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a
far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I
have purposed it, I will also do it.
[12] Hearken unto me,
ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
[13] I
bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my
salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for
Israel my glory.
Isa.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.
[2] Take the
millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg,
uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
[3] Thy nakedness
shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take
vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
[4] As for
our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of
Israel.
[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.
[6] I was wroth with my people, I have
polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst
shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy
yoke.
[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.
[8] Therefore hear now this,
thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that
sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit
as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
[9]
But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the
loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their
perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great
abundance of thine enchantments.
[10] For thou hast trusted
in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy
knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart,
I am, and none else beside me.
[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.
[12] Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the
multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy
youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest
prevail.
[13] Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy
counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly
prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall
come upon thee.
[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.
[15] Thus shall they be unto thee with whom
thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall
wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.
Isa.48
[1]
Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of
Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by
the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not
in truth, nor in righteousness.
[2] For they call
themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of
Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.
[3] I have declared
the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my
mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to
pass.
[4] Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy
neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
[5] I have even
from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I
shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them,
and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
[6]
Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have
shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou
didst not know them.
[7] They are created now, and not from
the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest
thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
[8] Yea, thou
heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine
ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very
treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
[9]
For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I
refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
[10] Behold, I
have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the
furnace of affliction.
[11] For mine own sake, even for
mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and
I will not give my glory unto another.
[12] Hearken unto
me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am
the last.
[13] Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of
the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call
unto them, they stand up together.
[14] All ye, assemble
yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things?
The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his
arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
[15] I, even I, have spoken;
yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way
prosperous.
[16] Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have
not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was,
there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
[17]
Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the
LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the
way that thou shouldest go.
[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:
[19] Thy seed
also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the
gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed
from before me.
[20] Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from
the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter
it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his
servant Jacob.
[21] And they thirsted not when he led them
through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for
them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
[22]
There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.
Isa.49
[1]
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD
hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he
made mention of my name.
[2] And he hath made my mouth like
a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me
a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;
[3] And
said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be
glorified.
[4] Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have
spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is
with the LORD, and my work with my God.
[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.
[6] And he said, It is a light thing that thou
shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to
restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to
the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the
earth.
[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.
[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;
[9] That thou mayest say
to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew
yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be
in all high places.
[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.
[11] And I will make all my mountains a way, and my
highways shall be exalted.
[12] Behold, these shall come
from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these
from the land of Sinim.
[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.
[14] But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me,
and my Lord hath forgotten me.
[15] Can a woman forget her
sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her
womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
[16]
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are
continually before me.
[17] Thy children shall make haste;
thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of
thee.
[18] Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all
these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith
the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an
ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.
[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.
[20] The children
which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say
again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me
that I may dwell.
[21] Then shalt thou say in thine heart,
Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am
desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up
these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
[22]
Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the
Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring
thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their
shoulders.
[23] And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and
their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with
their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and
thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed
that wait for me.
[24] Shall the prey be taken from the
mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
[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.
[26] And I will feed them that oppress thee with
their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as
with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy
Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Isa.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.
[2]
Wherfore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there
none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem?
or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea,
I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is
no water, and dieth for thirst.
[3] I clothe the heavens
with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
[4]
The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should
know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth
morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
[5]
The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither
turned away back.
[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.
[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.
[8]
He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand
together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
[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.
[10] Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that
obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath
no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his
God.
[11] Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass
yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in
the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye
shall lie down in sorrow.
Isa.51
[1]
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the
LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the
pit whence ye are digged.
[2] Look unto Abraham your
father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and
blessed him, and increased him.
[3] For the LORD shall
comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make
her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD;
joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice
of melody.
[4] Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear
unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will
make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
[5] My
righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms
shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm
shall they trust.
[6] Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and
look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like
smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that
dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for
ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
[7]
Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose
heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye
afraid of their revilings.
[8] For the moth shall eat them
up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my
righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to
generation.
[9] Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the
LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art
thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
[10]
Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great
deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to
pass over?
[11] Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall
return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be
upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and
mourning shall flee away.
[12] I, even I, am he that
comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man
that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as
grass;
[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?
[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.
[15] But I am the LORD thy God, that divided
the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.
[16]
And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the
shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the
foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
[17]
Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of
the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup
of trembling, and wrung them out.
[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.
[19] These two things are come unto thee; who
shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine,
and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
[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.
[21] Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and
drunken, but not with wine:
[22] Thus saith thy Lord the
LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I
have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of
the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
[23]
But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have
said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid
thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
Isa.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.
[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.
[3]
For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye
shall be redeemed without money.
[4] For thus saith the
Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there;
and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
[5] Now
therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken
away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith
the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
[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.
[7]
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth
good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of
good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God
reigneth!
[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.
[9] Break forth into
joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath
comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
[10] The
LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and
all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
[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.
[12] For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go
by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel
will be your rereward.
[13] Behold, my servant shall deal
prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
[14]
As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any
man, and his form more than the sons of men:
[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.
Isa.53
[1]
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD
revealed?
[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.
[3] He is despised and rejected of men;
a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were
our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
[4]
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did
esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
[5] But
he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our
iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his
stripes we are healed.
[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.
[7] He was oppressed,
and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a
lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so
he openeth not his mouth.
[8] He was taken from prison and
from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut
off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people
was he stricken.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[12]
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall
divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul
unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare
the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Isa.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.
[2] Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let
them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not,
lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
[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.
[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.
[5] For thy Maker is
thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the
Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be
called.
[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.
[7] For a small moment have I
forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
[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.
[9] For this is as the waters of Noah unto me:
for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over
the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor
rebuke thee.
[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.
[11] O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest,
and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours,
and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
[12] And I will
make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy
borders of pleasant stones.
[13] And all thy children shall
be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy
children.
[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.
[15] Behold, they
shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather
together against thee shall fall for thy sake.
[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.
[17] No weapon that is formed against
thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in
judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of
the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
Isa.55
[1]
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath
no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without
money and without price.
[2] Wherefore do ye spend money
for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which
satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is
good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
[3]
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live;
and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure
mercies of David.
[4] Behold, I have given him for a
witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.
[5]
Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations
that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God,
and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.
[6]
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is
near:
[7] Let the wicked forsake his way, and the
unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and
he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly
pardon.
[8] For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither
are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
[9] For as the
heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your
ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
[10] For as the
rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not
thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud,
that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
[11]
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not
return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and
it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
[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.
[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.
Isa.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.
[2]
Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth
hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth
his hand from doing any evil.
[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.
[4] For thus saith the
LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things
that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
[5] Even unto
them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name
better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting
name, that shall not be cut off.
[6] Also the sons of the
stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love
the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the
sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
[7]
Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in
my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall
be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house
of prayer for all people.
[8] The Lord GOD which gathereth
the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside
those that are gathered unto him.
[9] All ye beasts of the
field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.
[10]
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb
dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
[11]
Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are
shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way,
every one for his gain, from his quarter.
[12] Come ye, say
they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong
drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
Isa.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.
[2] He shall enter into peace: they
shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
[3]
But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the
adulterer and the whore.
[4] Against whom do ye sport
yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the
tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of
falsehood,
[5] Enflaming yourselves with idols under every
green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of
the rocks?
[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?
[7] Upon a lofty and high mountain hast
thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer
sacrifice.
[8] Behind the doors also and the posts hast
thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to
another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and
made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou
sawest it.
[9] And thou wentest to the king with ointment,
and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far
off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.
[10] Thou art
wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no
hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not
grieved.
[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?
[12] I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works;
for they shall not profit thee.
[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;
[14]
And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the
stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
[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.
[16] For I will
not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit
should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
[17]
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I
hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his
heart.
[18] I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will
lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his
mourners.
[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.
[20] But the wicked are like the troubled
sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
[21]
There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
Isa.58
[1]
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my
people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
[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.
[3] Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou
seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no
knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and
exact all your labours.
[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.
[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?
[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?
[7] Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and
that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou
seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself
from thine own flesh?
[8] Then shall thy light break forth
as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy
righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be
thy rereward.
[9] Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall
answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take
away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the
finger, and speaking vanity;
[10] And if thou draw out thy
soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy
light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:
[11]
And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in
drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered
garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
[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.
[13] If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from
doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight,
the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing
thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine
own words:
[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.
Isa.59
[1]
Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save;
neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
[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.
[3] For
your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered
perverseness.
[4] None calleth for justice, nor any
pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they
conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
[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.
[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.
[7] Their feet run
to evil, and they make hast to shed innocent blood: their thoughts
are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their
paths.
[8] The way of peace they know not; and there is no
judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths:
whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
[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.
[10] We grope for the wall like the blind, and we
grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we
are in desolate places as dead men.
[11] We roar all like
bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is
none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
[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;
[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.
[14] And judgment is turned away backward,
and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and
equity cannot enter.
[15] Yea, truth faileth; and he that
departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and
it displeased him that there was no judgment.
[16] And he
saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no
intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his
righteousness, it sustained him.
[17] For he put on
righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his
head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was
clad with zeal as a cloke.
[18] According to their deeds,
accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his
enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
[19] So
shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory
from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a
flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against
him.
[20] And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto
them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
[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.
Isa.60
[1]
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is
risen upon thee.
[2] For, behold, the darkness shall cover
the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise
upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
[3] And
the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of
thy rising.
[4] Lift up thine eyes round about, and see:
all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons
shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy
side.
[5] Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine
heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea
shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come
unto thee.
[6] The multitude of camels shall cover thee,
the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come:
they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the
praises of the LORD.
[7] All the flocks of Kedar shall be
gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto
thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will
glorify the house of my glory.
[8] Who are these that fly
as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
[9] Surely
the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to
bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto
the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because
he hath glorified thee.
[10] And the sons of strangers
shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee:
for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on
thee.
[11] Therefore thy gates shall be open continually;
they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee
the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.
[12]
For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish;
yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
[13] The glory
of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the
box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make
the place of my feet glorious.
[14] The sons also of them
that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that
despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and
they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One
of Israel.
[15] Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated,
so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal
excellency, a joy of many generations.
[16] Thou shalt also
suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings:
and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer,
the mighty One of Jacob.
[17] For brass I will bring gold,
and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones
iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors
righteousness.
[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.
[19] The sun
shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the
moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an
everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
[20] Thy sun
shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for
the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy
mourning shall be ended.
[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.
[22]
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong
nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.
Isa.61
[1]
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed
me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up
the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the
opening of the prison to them that are bound;
[2] To
proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of
our God; to comfort all that mourn;
[3] To appoint unto
them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil
of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of
heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the
planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
[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.
[5] And strangers shall stand and feed
your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your
vinedressers.
[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.
[7] For your shame ye shall have double; and
for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their
land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto
them.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
Isa.62
[1]
For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I
will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as
brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[5] For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall
thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride,
so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
[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,
[7]
And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a
praise in the earth.
[8] The LORD hath sworn by his right
hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy
corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall
not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:
[9]
But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and
they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my
holiness.
[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.
[11] Behold, the
LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the
daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is
with him, and his work before him.
[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.
Isa.63
[1]
Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah?
this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of
his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
[2]
Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him
that treadeth in the winefat?
[3] I have trodden the
winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will
tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their
blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my
raiment.
[4] For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and
the year of my redeemed is come.
[5] And I looked, and
there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold:
therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it
upheld me.
[6] And I will tread down the people in mine
anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their
strength to the earth.
[7] I will mention the
lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according
to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness
toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according
to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his
lovingkindnesses.
[8] For he said, Surely they are my
people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
[9]
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his
presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them;
and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
[10]
But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned
to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
[11] Then he
remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is
he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his
flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?
[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?
[13] That led them through the deep, as an horse in
the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
[14] As a
beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him
to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious
name.
[15] Look down from heaven, and behold from the
habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and
thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward
me? are they restrained?
[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.
[17] O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from
thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy
servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
[18] The
people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our
adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
[19] We are
thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy
name.
Isa.64
[1]
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down,
that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
[2] As
when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil,
to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may
tremble at thy presence!
[3] When thou didst terrible
things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains
flowed down at thy presence.
[4] For since the beginning of
the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath
the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that
waiteth for him.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[9] Be not wroth very
sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we
beseech thee, we are all thy people.
[10] Thy holy cities
are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
[11]
Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is
burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
[12]
Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold
thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
Isa.65
[1]
I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that
sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was
not called by my name.
[2] I have spread out my hands all
the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not
good, after their own thoughts;
[3] A people that provoketh
me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and
burneth incense upon altars of brick;
[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;
[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.
[6] Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep
silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
[7]
Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith
the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and
blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former
work into their bosom.
[8] Thus saith the LORD, As the new
wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a
blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may
not destroy them all.
[9] And I will bring forth a seed out
of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine
elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
[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.
[11]
But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain,
that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink
offering unto that number.
[12] Therefore will I number you
to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because
when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but
did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted
not.
[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:
[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.
[15] And ye shall leave
your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay
thee, and call his servants by another name:
[16] That he
who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of
truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of
truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they
are hid from mine eyes.
[17] For, behold, I create new
heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor
come into mind.
[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.
[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.
[20] There shall be no more
thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his
days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner
being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
[21] And they
shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards,
and eat the fruit of them.
[22] They shall not build, and
another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the
days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long
enjoy the work of their hands.
[23] They shall not labour
in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the
blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
[24]
And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and
while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
[25] The wolf and
the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the
bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt
nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
Isa.66
[1]
Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my
footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the
place of my rest?
[2] For all those things hath mine hand
made, and those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man
will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and
trembleth at my word.
[3] He that killeth an ox is as if he
slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's
neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood;
he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have
chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their
abominations.
[4] I also will choose their delusions, and
will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did
answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before
mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
[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.
[6] A voice of noise from the city, a voice from
the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his
enemies.
[7] Before she travailed, she brought forth;
before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
[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.
[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.
[10] Rejoice ye with Jerusalem,
and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her,
all ye that mourn for her:
[11] That ye may suck, and be
satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out,
and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
[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.
[13] As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I
comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
[14]
And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall
flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward
his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
[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.
[16] For by fire and by his sword will the
LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be
many.
[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.
[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.
[19] And I
will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them
unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to
Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame,
neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the
Gentiles.
[20] And they shall bring all your brethren for
an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in
chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to
my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel
bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.
[21]
And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the
LORD.
[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.
[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.
[24]
And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that
have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither
shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all
flesh.