Isaiah
1:1The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz,
which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem,
in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and
Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
1:2Hear, heavens,
And
listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken:
I have nourished and brought up
children,
And
they have rebelled against me.
1:3The ox knows his owner,
And
the donkey his master's crib;
But
Israel doesn't know,
My people
don't consider.
1:4Ah sinful nation,
A people
loaded with iniquity,
A seed
of evil-doers,
Children
who deal corruptly!
They have forsaken Yahweh.
They
have despised the Holy One of Israel.
They
are estranged and backward.
1:5Why should you be beaten more,
That
you revolt more and more?
The whole head is sick,
And
the whole heart faint.
1:6From the sole of the foot even to the
head there is no soundness in it:
Wounds,
welts, and open sores.
They
haven't been closed, neither bandaged, neither
soothed with oil.
1:7Your country is desolate.
Your
cities are burned with fire.
Strangers
devour your land in your presence,
And
it is desolate,
As overthrown
by strangers.
1:8The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter
in a vineyard,
Like
a hut in a field of melons,
Like
a besieged city.
1:9Unless Yahweh of hosts had left to us
a very small remnant,
We would
have been as Sodom;
We would
have been like Gomorrah.
1:10Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of
Sodom!
Listen
to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
1:11"What are the multitude of your
sacrifices to me?," says Yahweh.
"I
have had enough of the burnt offerings of
rams,
And
the fat of fed animals.
I don't
delight in the blood of bulls,
Or of
lambs,
Or of
male goats.
1:12When you come to appear before me,
Who
has required this at your hand, to trample
my courts?
1:13Bring no more vain offerings.
Incense
is an abomination to me;
New
moons, Sabbaths, and convocations:
I can't
bear with evil assemblies.
1:14My soul hates your New Moons and your
appointed feasts;
They
are a burden to me.
I am
weary of bearing them.
1:15When you spread forth your hands, I will
hide my eyes from you;
Yes,
when you make many prayers, I will not hear.
Your
hands are full of blood.
1:16Wash yourselves, make yourself clean.
Put
away the evil of your doings from before
my eyes;
Cease
to do evil.
1:17Learn to do well.
Seek
justice,
Relieve
the oppressed,
Judge
the fatherless,
Plead
for the widow."
1:18"Come now, and let us reason together,"
says Yahweh:
"Though
your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as
white as snow.
Though
they be red like crimson, they shall be
as wool.
1:19If you are willing and obedient,
You
shall eat the good of the land;
1:20But if you refuse
and rebel, you shall be devoured with the
sword;
For
the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it."
1:21How the faithful city has become a prostitute!
She
was full of justice; righteousness lodged
in her,
But
now murderers.
1:22Your silver has become dross,
Your
wine mixed with water.
1:23Your princes are rebellious, and companions
of thieves.
Everyone
loves bribes, and follows after rewards.
They
don't judge the fatherless,
Neither
does the cause of the widow come to them.
1:24Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts,
The
Mighty One of Israel, says:
"Ah, I will get relief from
my adversaries,
And
avenge myself of my enemies;
1:25And I will turn my hand on you,
Thoroughly
purge away your dross,
And
will take away all your tin.
1:26I will restore your judges as at the
first,
And
your counselors as at the beginning.
Afterward you shall be called 'The
city of righteousness,
A faithful
town.'
1:27Zion shall be redeemed with justice,
And
her converts with righteousness.
1:28But the destruction of transgressors
and sinners shall be together,
And
those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.
1:29For they shall be ashamed of the oaks
which you have desired,
And
you shall be confounded for the gardens
that you have chosen.
1:30For you shall be as an oak whose leaf
fades,
And
as a garden that has no water.
1:31The strong will be like tinder,
And
his work like a spark.
They will both burn together,
And
no one will quench them."
2:1This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw
concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2:2It shall happen in the latter days, that
the mountain of Yahweh's house shall be
established on the top of the mountains,
And
shall be raised above the hills;
And
all nations shall flow to it.
2:3Many peoples shall go and say,
"Come,
let's go up to the mountain of Yahweh,
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 the law shall go
forth,
And
the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.
2:4He will judge between the nations,
And
will decide concerning many peoples;
And
they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
And
their spears into pruning-hooks.
Nation shall not lift up sword against
nation,
Neither
shall they learn war any more.
2:5House of Jacob, come, and let us walk
in the light of Yahweh.
2:6For you have forsaken your people, the
house of Jacob,
Because
they are filled from the east,
With
those who practice divination like the Philistines,
And
they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.
2:7Their land is full of silver and gold,
Neither
is there any end of their treasures.
Their land also is full of horses,
Neither
is there any end of their chariots.
2:8Their land also is full of idols.
They
worship the work of their own hands,
That
which their own fingers have made.
2:9Man is brought low,
And
mankind is humbled;
Therefore
don't forgive them.
2:10Enter into the rock,
And
hide in the dust,
From before the terror of Yahweh,
And
from the glory of his majesty.
2:11The lofty looks of man will be brought
low,
The
haughtiness of men will be bowed down,
And
Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
2:12For there will be a day of Yahweh of
Hosts for all that is proud and haughty,
And
for all that is lifted up;
And
it shall be brought low:
2:13For all the cedars
of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up,
For
all the oaks of Bashan,
2:14For all the high
mountains,
For
all the hills that are lifted up,
2:15For every lofty
tower,
For
every fortified wall,
2:16For all the ships
of Tarshish,
And
for all pleasant imagery.
2:17The loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
And
the haughtiness of men shall be brought
low;
And
Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
2:18The idols shall utterly pass away.
2:19Men shall go into the caves of the rocks,
And
into the holes of the earth,
From
before the terror of Yahweh,
And
from the glory of his majesty,
When
he arises to shake the earth mightily.
2:20In that day, men shall cast away their
idols of silver,
And
their idols of gold,
Which
have been made for themselves to worship,
To the
moles and to the bats;
2:21To go into the
caverns of the rocks,
And
into the clefts of the ragged rocks,
From
before the terror of Yahweh,
And
from the glory of his majesty,
When
he arises to shake the earth mightily.
2:22Stop trusting in man, whose breath is
in his nostrils;
For
of what account is he?
3:1For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts,
takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah
supply and support,
The
whole supply of bread,
And
the whole supply of water;
3:2The mighty man,
The
man of war,
The
judge,
The
prophet,
The
diviner,
The
elder,
3:3The captain of fifty,
The
honorable man,
The
counselor,
The
skilled craftsman,
And
the clever enchanter.
3:4I will give boys to be their princes,
And
children shall rule over them.
3:5The people will be oppressed,
Everyone
by another,
And
everyone by his neighbor.
The child will behave himself proudly
against the old man,
And
the base against the honorable.
3:6Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother
in the house of his father, saying,
"You
have clothing, you be our ruler,
And
let this ruin be under your hand."
3:7In that day he will cry out, saying, I
will not be a healer;
For
in my house is neither bread nor clothing.
You
shall not make me ruler of the people.
3:8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is
fallen;
Because
their tongue and their doings are against
Yahweh,
To provoke the eyes of his glory.
3:9The look of their faces testify against
them.
They
parade their sin like Sodom.
They
don't hide it.
Woe
to their soul!
For
they have brought disaster upon themselves.
3:10Tell the righteous "Good!"
For
they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
3:11Woe to the wicked!
Disaster
is upon them;
For
the deeds of his hands will be paid back
to him.
3:12As for my people, children are their
oppressors,
And
women rule over them.
My people,
those who lead you cause you to err,
And
destroy the way of your paths.
3:13Yahweh stands up to contend,
And
stands to judge the peoples.
3:14Yahweh will enter into judgment with
the elders of his people,
And
their leaders:
"It
is you who have eaten up the vineyard.
The
spoil of the poor is in your houses.
3:15What do you mean
that you crush my people,
And
grind the face of the poor?" says the
Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.
3:16Moreover Yahweh said, "Because the
daughters of Zion are haughty,
And
walk with outstretched necks and flirting
eyes,
Walking
to trip as they go,
Jingling
ornaments on their feet;
3:17Therefore the Lord brings sores on the
crown of the head of the women of Zion,
And
Yahweh will make their scalps bald."
3:18In that day the Lord will take away the
beauty of their anklets, the headbands,
the crescent necklaces, 3:19the earrings, the bracelets, the veils,
3:20the headdresses, the ankle chains, the
sashes, the perfume bottles, the charms,
3:21the signet rings,
the nose rings, 3:22the fine robes, the capes, the cloaks,
the purses, 3:23the hand-mirrors, the fine linen garments,
the tiaras, and the shawls.
3:24It shall happen that instead of sweet
spices, there shall be rottenness;
Instead
of a belt, a rope;
Instead
of well set hair, baldness;
Instead
of a robe, a girding of sackcloth;
And
branding instead of beauty.
3:25Your men shall fall by the sword,
And
your mighty in the war.
3:26Her gates shall lament and mourn;
And
she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.
4:1Seven women shall take hold of one man
in that day, saying, "We will eat our
own bread, and wear our own clothing: only
let us be called by your name. Take away
our reproach."
4:2In that day, Yahweh's branch will be beautiful
and glorious, and the fruit of the land
will be the beauty and glory of the survivors
of Israel. 4:3It will happen,
that he who is left in Zion, and he who
remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy,
even everyone who is written among the living
in Jerusalem; 4:4when the Lord shall have washed away the
filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall
have purged the blood of Jerusalem from
its midst, by the spirit of justice, and
by the spirit of burning. 4:5Yahweh will create over the whole habitation
of Mount Zion, and over her assemblies,
a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining
of a flaming fire by night; for over all
the glory will be a canopy. 4:6There will be a pavilion for a shade in
the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge
and for a shelter from storm and from rain.
5:1Let me sing for my well beloved a song
of my beloved about his vineyard.
My beloved
had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
5:2He dug it up,
Gathered
out its stones,
Planted
it with the choicest vine,
Built
a tower in its midst,
And
also cut out a winepress therein.
He looked for it to yield grapes,
But
it yielded wild grapes.
5:3"Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and
men of Judah,
Please
judge between me and my vineyard.
5:4What could have been done more to my vineyard,
that I have not done in it?
Why,
when I looked for it to yield grapes, did
it yield wild grapes?
5:5Now I will tell you what I will do to
my vineyard.
I will
take away its hedge, and it will be eaten
up.
I will
break down its wall of it, and it will be
trampled down.
5:6I will lay it a wasteland.
It won't
be pruned nor hoed,
But
it will grow briers and thorns.
I will
also command the clouds that they rain no
rain on it."
5:7For the vineyard of Yahweh of Hosts is
the house of Israel,
And
the men of Judah his pleasant plant:
And
he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression;
For
righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
5:8Woe to those who join house to house,
Who
lay field to field, until there is no room,
And
you are made to dwell alone in the midst
of the land!
5:9In my ears, Yahweh of Hosts says: "Surely
many houses will be desolate,
Even
great and beautiful, unoccupied.
5:10For ten acres of vineyard
shall yield one bath,
And
a homer of seed shall
yield an ephah."
5:11Woe to those who rise up early in the
morning, that they may follow strong drink;
Who
stay late into the night, until wine inflames
them!
5:12The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute,
with wine, are at their feasts;
But
they don't regard the work of Yahweh,
Neither
have they considered the operation of his
hands.
5:13Therefore my people have go into captivity
for lack of knowledge;
Their
honorable men are famished,
And
their multitudes are parched with thirst.
5:14Therefore Sheol has
enlarged its desire,
And
opened its mouth without measure;
And
their glory, their multitude, their pomp,
and he who rejoices among them, descend
into it.
5:15So man is brought low,
Mankind
is humbled,
And
the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
5:16But Yahweh of Hosts is exalted in justice,
And
God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
5:17Then the lambs will graze as in their
pasture,
And
strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
5:18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords
of falsehood,
And
wickedness as with cart rope;
5:19Who say, "Let him make speed, let
him hasten his work, that we may see it;
And
let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel
draw near and come,
That
we may know it!"
5:20Woe to those who call evil good, and
good evil;
Who
put darkness for light,
And
light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet,
And
sweet for bitter!
5:21Woe to those who are wise in their own
eyes,
And
prudent in their own sight!
5:22Woe to those who are mighty to drink
wine,
And
champions at mixing strong drink;
5:23Who acquit the guilty for a bribe,
But
deny justice for the innocent!
5:24Therefore as the tongue of fire devours
the stubble,
And
as the dry grass sinks down in the flame,
So their
root shall be as rottenness,
And
their blossom shall go up as dust;
Because they have rejected Yahweh's
law of Hosts,
And
despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
5:25Therefore Yahweh's anger burns against
his people,
And
he has stretched out his hand against them,
and has struck them.
The mountains tremble,
And
their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst
of the streets.
For all this, his anger is not turned
away,
But
his hand is still stretched out.
5:26He will lift up a banner to the nations
from far,
And
he will whistle for them from the end of
the earth.
Behold,
they will come speedily and swiftly.
5:27None shall be weary nor stumble among
them;
None
shall slumber nor sleep;
Neither
shall the belt of their loins be untied,
Nor
the latchet of their shoes be broken:
5:28Whose arrows are sharp,
And
all their bows bent.
Their horses' hoofs will be like
flint,
And
their wheels like a whirlwind.
5:29Their roaring will be like a lioness.
They
will roar like young lions.
Yes, they shall roar,
And
seize their prey and carry it off,
And
there will be no one to deliver.
5:30They will roar against them in that day
like the roaring of the sea.
If one
looks to the land, behold, darkness and
distress.
The
light is darkened in its clouds.
6:1In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw
the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted
up; and his train filled the temple. 6:2Above him stood the seraphim. Each one
had six wings. With two he covered his face.
With two he covered his feet. With two he
flew. 6:3One called to another, and said,
"Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh
of Hosts!
The
whole earth is full of his glory!"
6:4The foundations of the thresholds shook
at the voice of him who called, and the
house was filled with smoke. 6:5Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am
undone, because I am a man of unclean lips,
and I dwell in the midst of a people of
unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the
King, Yahweh of Hosts!"
6:6Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having
a live coal in his hand, which he had taken
with the tongs from off the altar. 6:7He touched my mouth with it, and said,
"Behold, this has touched your lips;
and your iniquity is taken away, and your
sin forgiven."
6:8I heard the Lord's voice, saying, "Whom
shall I send, and who will go for us?"
Then I said, "Here I am. Send me!"
6:9He said, "Go, and tell this people,
'You hear indeed,
But
don't understand;
And you see indeed,
But
don't perceive.'
6:10Make the heart of this people fat;
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
turn again, and be healed."
6:11Then I said, "Lord, how long?"
He answered,
"Until cities are waste without
inhabitant,
And
houses without man,
And
the land becomes utterly waste,
6:12And Yahweh has
removed men far away,
And
the forsaken places are many in the midst
of the land.
6:13If there are yet a tenth in it,
It also
shall in turn be eaten up:
As a terebinth, and as an oak, whose
stock remains, when they are felled;
So the
holy seed is its stock."
7:1It happened 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 to Jerusalem to war against it, but could
not prevail against it. 7:2It was told the house of David, saying,
"Syria is allied with Ephraim."
His heart trembled, and the heart of his
people, as the trees of the forest tremble
with the wind. 7:3Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, "Go out
now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your
son, at the end of the conduit of the upper
pool, on the highway of the fuller's field.
7:4Tell him, 'Be careful, and keep calm.
Don't be afraid, neither let your heart
be faint because of these two tails of smoking
firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin
and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. 7:5Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of
Remaliah, have plotted evil against you,
saying, 7:6"Let's go up against Judah, and tear
it apart, and let's divide it among ourselves,
and set up a king in the midst of it, even
the son of Tabeel." 7:7This is what the
Lord Yahweh says: "It shall not stand,
neither shall it happen." 7:8For the head of Syria is Damascus, and
the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within
sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken
in pieces, so that it shall not be a people;
7:9and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and
the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If
you will not believe, surely you shall not
be established.'"
7:10Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying, 7:11"Ask a sign of Yahweh your God;
ask it either in the depth, or in the height
above."
7:12But Ahaz said, "I will not ask,
neither will I tempt Yahweh."
7:13He said, "Listen now, house of David:
Is it not enough for you to try the patience
of men, that you will try the patience of
my God also? 7:14Therefore the Lord
himself will give you a sign. Behold, the
virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and
shall call his name Immanuel.
7:15He shall eat butter and honey when he
knows to refuse the evil, and choose the
good. 7:16For before the child knows to refuse
the evil, and choose the good, the land
whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
7:17Yahweh will bring on you, on your people,
and on your father's house, days that have
not come, from the day that Ephraim departed
from Judah; even the king of Assyria. 7:18It will happen in that day that Yahweh
will whistle for the fly that is in the
uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and
for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
7:19They shall come, and shall all rest in
the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the
rocks, on all thorn-hedges, and on all pastures.
7:20In that day the
Lord will shave with a razor that is hired
in the parts beyond the River, even with
the king of Assyria, the head and the hair
of the feet; and it shall also consume the
beard. 7:21It shall happen
in that day that a man shall keep alive
a young cow, and two sheep; 7:22and it shall happen, that because of
the abundance of milk which they shall give
he shall eat butter: for everyone will eat
butter and honey that is left in the midst
of the land. 7:23It will happen in that day that every
place where there were a thousand vines
at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for
briers and thorns. 7:24People will go
there with arrows and with bow, because
all the land will be briers and thorns.
7:25All the hills that were cultivated with
the hoe, you shall not come there for fear
of briers and thorns; but it shall be for
the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading
of sheep."
8:1Yahweh said to me, "Take a large
tablet, and write on it with a man's pen,
'For Maher Shalal Hash Baz;'
8:2and I will take to me faithful witnesses
to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah
the son of Jeberechiah. 8:3I went to the prophetess; and she conceived,
and bore a son. Then said Yahweh to me,
Call his name Maher Shalal Hash Baz. 8:4For before the child shall have knowledge
to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches
of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall
be carried away before the king of Assyria.
8:5Yahweh spoke to me yet again, saying,
8:6Because this people have refused the waters
of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in
Rezin and Remaliah's son; 8:7now therefore, behold, the Lord brings
up on them the waters of the River, strong
and many, even the king of Assyria
and all his glory: and it shall come up
over all its channels, and go over all its
banks; 8:8and it shall sweep
onward into Judah; it shall overflow and
pass through; it shall reach even to the
neck; and the stretching out of its wings
shall fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel.
8:9Make an uproar, O you peoples, and be
broken in pieces! And give ear, all you
of far countries: gird yourselves, and be
broken in pieces! Gird yourselves, and be
broken in pieces! 8:10Take counsel together, and it shall be
brought to nothing; speak the word, and
it shall not stand: for God is with us.
8:11For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong
hand, and instructed me not to walk in the
way of this people, saying, 8:12Don't you say, "A conspiracy!"
concerning all about which this people shall
say, "A conspiracy!" neither fear
their fear, nor be in dread of it.
8:13Yahweh of hosts, him shall you sanctify;
and let him be your fear, and let him be
your dread. 8:14He shall be for a sanctuary; but for
a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense
to both the houses of Israel, for a gin
and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
8:15Many shall stumble thereon, and fall,
and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
8:16Bind up the testimony,
seal the law among my disciples. 8:17I will wait for
Yahweh, who hides his face from the house
of Jacob, and I will look for him. 8:18Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh
has given me are for signs and for wonders
in Israel from Yahweh of Hosts, who dwells
in Mount Zion. 8:19When they shall
tell you, "Consult with those who have
familiar spirits and with the wizards, who
chirp and who mutter:" shouldn't a
people consult with their God? on behalf
of the living should they consult
with the dead? 8:20To the law and to the testimony! if they
don't speak according to this word, surely
there is no morning for them. 8:21They shall pass through it, sore distressed
and hungry; and it shall happen that when
they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves,
and curse by their king and by their God,
and turn their faces upward: 8:22and they shall look to the earth, and
see, distress and darkness, the gloom of
anguish; and into thick darkness they
shall be driven away.
9:1But there shall be no gloom to her who
was in anguish. In the former time he brought
into contempt the land of Zebulun and the
land of Naphtali; but in the latter time
has he made it glorious, by the way of the
sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
9:2The people who walked in darkness have
seen a great light: those who lived in the
land of the shadow of death, on them has
the light shined. 9:3You have multiplied
the nation, you have increased their joy:
they joy before you according to the joy
in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide
the spoil. 9:4For the yoke of his burden, and the staff
of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor,
you have broken as in the day of Midian.
9:5For all the armor of the armed man in
the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood,
shall be for burning, for fuel of fire.
9:6For to us a child is born, to us a son
is given; and the government shall be on
his shoulder: and his name shall be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting
Father, Prince of Peace. 9:7Of the increase of his government and
of peace there shall be no end, on the throne
of David, and on his kingdom, to establish
it, and to uphold it with justice and with
righteousness from henceforth even forever.
The zeal of Yahweh of Hosts will perform
this. 9:8The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it
has lighted on Israel. 9:9All the people shall know, even
Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, who
say in pride and in arrogance of heart,
9:10The bricks are fallen, but we will build
with hewn stone; the sycamores are cut down,
but we will put cedars in their place. 9:11Therefore Yahweh will set up on high
against him the adversaries of Rezin, and
will stir up his enemies, 9:12the Syrians before, and the Philistines
behind; and they shall devour Israel with
open mouth. For all this his anger is not
turned away, but his hand is stretched out
still. 9:13Yet the people have not turned to him
who struck them, neither have they sought
Yahweh of Hosts. 9:14Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel
head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in
one day. 9:15The elder and the honorable man, he is
the head; and the prophet who teaches lies,
he is the tail. 9:16For those who lead this people cause
them to err; and those who are led of them
are destroyed. 9:17Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over
their young men, neither will he have compassion
on their fatherless and widows; for everyone
is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth
speaks folly. For all this his anger is
not turned away, but his hand is stretched
out still. 9:18For wickedness burns as the fire; it
devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles
in the thickets of the forest, and they
roll upward in a column of smoke. 9:19Through the wrath
of Yahweh of hosts is the land burnt up;
and the people are as the fuel of fire:
no man spares his brother. 9:20One shall snatch
on the right hand, and be hungry; and he
shall eat on the left hand, and they shall
not be satisfied: they shall eat every man
the flesh of his own arm: 9:21Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh;
and they together shall be against Judah.
For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still.
10:1Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees,
and to the writers who write perverseness;
10:2to turn aside the needy from justice,
and to rob the poor of my people of their
right, that widows may be their spoil, and
that they may make the fatherless their
prey! 10:3What will you do in the day of visitation,
and in the desolation which shall come from
far? to whom will you flee for help? and
where will you leave your glory? 10:4They shall only bow down under the prisoners,
and shall fall under the slain. For all
this his anger is not turned away, but his
hand is stretched out still. 10:5Ho Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the
staff in whose hand is my indignation! 10:6I will send him
against a profane nation, and against the
people of my wrath will I give him a charge,
to take the spoil, and to take the prey,
and to tread them down like the mire of
the streets. 10:7However he doesn't
mean so, neither does his heart think so;
but it is in his heart to destroy, and to
cut off not a few nations. 10:8For he says, Aren't
my princes all of them kings? 10:9Isn't Calno as
Carchemish? Isn't Hamath as Arpad? Isn't
Samaria as Damascus? 10:10As my hand has found the kingdoms of
the idols, whose engraved images did excel
them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; 10:11shall I not, as I have done to Samaria
and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her
idols? 10:12Therefore it shall happen that, when
the Lord has performed his whole work on
Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish
the fruit of the stout heart of the king
of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
10:13For he has said, By the strength of
my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom;
for I have understanding: and I have removed
the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed
their treasures, and like a valiant man
I have brought down those who sit on
thrones: 10:14and my hand has found as a nest the
riches of the peoples; and as one gathers
eggs that are forsaken, have I gathered
all the earth: and there was none that moved
the wing, or that opened the mouth, or chirped.
10:15Shall the axe boast itself against him
who hews therewith? Shall the saw magnify
itself against him who wields it? as if
a rod should wield those who lift it up,
or as if a staff should lift up him
who is not wood. 10:16Therefore will the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts,
send among his fat ones leanness; and under
his glory there shall be kindled a burning
like the burning of fire. 10:17The light of Israel will be for a fire,
and his Holy One for a flame; and it will
burn and devour his thorns and his briers
in one day. 10:18He will consume
the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful
field, both soul and body: and it shall
be as when a standard-bearer faints. 10:19The remnant of the trees of his forest
shall be few, so that a child may write
them. 10:20It shall come to pass in that day, that
the remnant of Israel, and those who are
escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no
more again lean on him who struck them,
but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of
Israel, in truth. 10:21A remnant shall
return, even the remnant of Jacob,
to the mighty God. 10:22For though your people, Israel, be as
the sand of the sea, only a remnant
of them shall return: a destruction is
determined, overflowing with righteousness.
10:23For a full end, and that determined,
will the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, make in
the midst of all the earth. 10:24Therefore thus says the Lord, Yahweh
of Hosts, my people who dwell in Zion, don't
be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike
you with the rod, and lift up his staff
against you, after the manner of Egypt.
10:25For yet a very
little while, and the indignation against
you shall be accomplished, and my anger
shall be directed to his destruction.
10:26Yahweh of Hosts will stir up against
him a scourge, as in the slaughter of Midian
at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be
over the sea, and he will lift it up after
the manner of Egypt. 10:27It shall happen in that day, that his
burden shall depart from off your shoulder,
and his yoke from off your neck, and the
yoke shall be destroyed by reason of fatness.
10:28He is come to Aiath, he is passed through
Migron; at Michmash he lays up his baggage;
10:29they are gone over the pass; they have
taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah trembles;
Gibeah of Saul is fled. 10:30Cry aloud with your voice, daughter
of Gallim! listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!
10:31Madmenah is a fugitive; the inhabitants
of Gebim flee for safety. 10:32This very day
shall he halt at Nob: he shakes his hand
at the mountain of the daughter of Zion,
the hill of Jerusalem. 10:33Behold, the Lord,
Yahweh of Hosts, will lop the boughs with
terror: and the high of stature shall be
hewn down, and the lofty shall be brought
low. 10:34He will cut down the thickets of the
forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall
by a mighty one.
11:1There shall come forth a shoot out of
the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of
his roots shall bear fruit. 11:2The Spirit of Yahweh shall rest on him,
the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit
of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
11:3His delight shall be in the fear of Yahweh;
and he shall not judge after the sight of
his eyes, neither decide after the hearing
of his ears; 11:4but with righteousness
shall he judge the poor, and decide with
equity for the humble of the earth; and
he shall strike the earth with the rod of
his mouth; and with the breath of his lips
shall he kill the wicked. 11:5Righteousness shall be the belt of his
waist, and faithfulness the belt of his
loins. 11:6The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and
the leopard shall lie down with the kid;
and the calf and the young lion and the
fattened calf together; and a little child
shall lead them. 11:7The cow and the bear shall feed; their
young ones shall lie down together; and
the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 11:8The sucking child shall play on the hole
of the asp, and the weaned child shall put
his hand on the adder's den. 11:9They shall not hurt nor destroy in all
my holy mountain; for the earth shall be
full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the
waters cover the sea. 11:10It shall happen
in that day, that the root of Jesse, who
stands for an ensign of the peoples, to
him shall the nations seek; and his resting-place
shall be glorious. 11:11It shall happen in that day, that the
Lord will set his hand again the second
time to recover the remnant of his people,
who shall remain, from Assyria, and from
Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush,
and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from
Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
11:12He will set up
an ensign for the nations, and will assemble
the outcasts of Israel, and gather together
the dispersed of Judah from the four corners
of the earth. 11:13The envy also of Ephraim shall depart,
and those who vex Judah shall be cut off:
Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah
shall not vex Ephraim. 11:14They shall fly
down on the shoulder of the Philistines
on the west; together shall they despoil
the children of the east: they shall put
forth their hand on Edom and Moab; and the
children of Ammon shall obey them. 11:15Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue
of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching
wind will he wave his hand over the River,
and will strike it into seven streams, and
cause men to march over in sandals. 11:16There shall be a highway for the remnant
of his people, who shall remain, from Assyria;
like as there was for Israel in the day
that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
12:1In that day you will say, "I will
give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you
were angry with me, your anger has turned
away and you comfort me. 12:2Behold, God is
my salvation. I will trust, and will not
be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength
and song; and he has become my salvation."
12:3Therefore with joy you shall draw water
out of the wells of salvation. 12:4In that day you
will say, "Give thanks to Yahweh! Call
on his name. Declare his doings among the
peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!
12:5Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent
things! Let this be known in all the earth!
12:6Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of
Zion; for great in the midst of you is the
Holy One of Israel!"
13:1The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the
son of Amoz did see. 13:2Set up an ensign
on the bare mountain, lift up the voice
to them, wave the hand, that they may go
into the gates of the nobles. 13:3I have commanded
my consecrated ones, yes, I have called
my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly
exulting ones. 13:4The noise of a
multitude in the mountains, as of a great
people! the noise of a tumult of the kingdoms
of the nations gathered together! Yahweh
of Hosts is mustering the host for the battle.
13:5They come from
a far country, from the uttermost part of
heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of
his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
13:6Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand;
as destruction from the Almighty shall it
come. 13:7Therefore shall all hands be feeble,
and every heart of man shall melt: 13:8and they shall
be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take
hold of them; they shall be in pain
as a woman in travail: they shall look in
amazement one at another; their faces shall
be faces of flame. 13:9Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel,
with wrath and fierce anger; to make the
land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners
of it out of it. 13:10For the stars
of the sky and the constellations of it
shall not give their light; the sun shall
be darkened in its going forth, and the
moon shall not cause its light to shine.
13:11I will punish the world for their
evil, and the wicked for their iniquity:
and I will cause the arrogance of the proud
to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness
of the terrible. 13:12I will make a man more rare than fine
gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir.
13:13Therefore I will
make the heavens to tremble, and the earth
shall be shaken out of its place, in the
wrath of Yahweh of hosts, and in the day
of his fierce anger. 13:14It shall happen, that as the chased
roe, and as sheep that no man gathers, they
shall turn every man to his own people,
and shall flee every man to his own land.
13:15Everyone who is found shall be thrust
through; and everyone who is taken shall
fall by the sword. 13:16Their infants also shall be dashed in
pieces before their eyes; their houses shall
be rifled, and their wives ravished. 13:17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against
them, who shall not regard silver, and as
for gold, they shall not delight in it.
13:18Their bows shall dash the young
men in pieces; and they shall have no pity
on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall
not spare children. 13:19Babylon, the glory
of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans'
pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom
and Gomorrah. 13:20It shall never
be inhabited, neither shall it be lived
in from generation to generation: neither
shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither
shall shepherds make their flocks to lie
down there. 13:21But wild animals
of the desert shall lie there; and their
houses shall be full of doleful creatures;
and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild
goats shall dance there. 13:22Wolves shall cry in their castles, and
jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her
time is near to come, and her days shall
not be prolonged.
14:1For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob,
and will yet choose Israel, and set them
in their own land: and the foreigner shall
join himself with them, and they shall cleave
to the house of Jacob. 14:2The peoples shall take them, and bring
them to their place; and the house of Israel
shall possess them in the land of Yahweh
for servants and for handmaids: and they
shall take them captive whose captives they
were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
14:3It shall happen in the day that Yahweh
shall give you rest from your sorrow, and
from your trouble, and from the hard service
in which you were made to serve, 14:4that you shall take up this parable against
the king of Babylon, and say, How has the
oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
14:5Yahweh has broken
the staff of the wicked, the scepter of
the rulers; 14:6who struck the peoples in wrath with
a continual stroke, who ruled the nations
in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.
14:7The whole earth
is at rest, and is quiet: they break
forth into singing. 14:8Yes, the fir trees rejoice at you, and
the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since
you are laid low, no lumberjack is come
up against us. 14:9Sheol from beneath
is moved for you to meet you at your coming;
it stirs up the dead for you, even all the
chief ones of the earth; it has raised up
from their thrones all the kings of the
nations. 14:10All they shall
answer and tell you, Are you also become
weak as we? are you become like us? 14:11Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,
and the noise of your viols: the
worm is spread under you, and worms cover
you. 14:12How you are fallen from heaven, day-star,
son of the morning! How you are cut down
to the ground, who laid the nations low!
14:13You said in your heart, I will ascend
into heaven, I will exalt my throne above
the stars of God; and I will sit on the
mountain of congregation, in the uttermost
parts of the north; 14:14I will ascend above the heights of the
clouds; I will make myself like the Most
High. 14:15Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol,
to the uttermost parts of the pit. 14:16Those who see
you shall gaze at you, they shall consider
you, saying, "Is this the man
who made the earth to tremble, who shook
kingdoms; 14:17who made the world as a wilderness,
and overthrew the cities of it; who didn't
let loose his prisoners to their home?"
14:18All the kings of the nations, all of
them, sleep in glory, everyone in his own
house. 14:19But you are cast forth away from your
tomb like an abominable branch, clothed
with the slain, who are thrust through with
the sword, who go down to the stones of
the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.
14:20You shall not be joined with them in
burial, because you have destroyed your
land, you have killed your people; the seed
of evil-doers shall not be named forever.
14:21Prepare slaughter for his children for
the iniquity of their fathers, that they
not rise up, and possess the earth, and
fill the surface of the world with cities.
14:22I will rise up against them, says Yahweh
of Hosts, and cut off from Babylon name
and remnant, and son and son's son, says
Yahweh. 14:23I will also make it a possession for
the porcupine, and pools of water: and I
will sweep it with the broom of destruction,
says Yahweh of Hosts. 14:24Yahweh of Hosts
has sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought,
so shall it happen; and as I have purposed,
so shall it stand: 14:25that I will break
the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains
tread him under foot: then shall his yoke
depart from off them, and his burden depart
from off their shoulder. 14:26This is the purpose that is purposed
on the whole earth; and this is the hand
that is stretched out on all the nations.
14:27For Yahweh of Hosts has purposed, and
who shall annul it? and his hand is stretched
out, and who shall turn it back? 14:28In the year that king Ahaz died was
this burden. 14:29Don't rejoice, O Philistia, all of you,
because the rod that struck you is broken;
for out of the serpent's root shall come
forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a
fiery flying serpent. 14:30The firstborn of the poor shall feed,
and the needy shall lie down in safety;
and I will kill your root with famine, and
your remnant shall be killed. 14:31Howl, gate; cry,
city; you are melted away, Philistia, all
of you; for there comes a smoke out of the
north, and there is no straggler in his
ranks. 14:32What then shall one answer the messengers
of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion,
and in her shall the afflicted of his people
take refuge.
15:1The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar
of Moab is laid waste, and brought
to nothing; for in a night Kir of Moab is
laid waste, and brought to nothing.
15:2They are gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon,
to the high places, to weep: Moab wails
over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their
heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.
15:3In their streets they gird themselves
with sackcloth; on their housetops, and
in their broad places, everyone wails, weeping
abundantly. 15:4Heshbon cries out,
and Elealeh; their voice is heard even to
Jahaz: therefore the armed men of Moab cry
aloud; his soul trembles within him. 15:5My heart cries out for Moab; her nobles
flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah:
for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping
they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they
raise up a cry of destruction. 15:6For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate;
for the grass is withered away, the tender
grass fails, there is no green thing. 15:7Therefore the abundance they have gotten,
and that which they have laid up, shall
they carry away over the brook of the willows.
15:8For the cry is gone round about the borders
of Moab; the wailing of it to Eglaim, and
the wailing of it to Beer-elim. 15:9For the waters of Dimon are full of blood;
for I will bring yet more on Dimon, a lion
on them of Moab that escape, and on the
remnant of the land.
16:1Send you the lambs for the ruler of the
land from Selah to the wilderness, to the
mountain of the daughter of Zion. 16:2For it shall be that, as wandering birds,
as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters
of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon. 16:3Give counsel, execute justice; make your
shade as the night in the midst of the noonday;
hide the outcasts; don't betray the fugitive.
16:4Let my outcasts
dwell with you; as for Moab, be a covert
to him from the face of the destroyer. For
the extortioner is brought to nothing, destruction
ceases, the oppressors are consumed out
of the land. 16:5A throne shall
be established in loving kindness; and one
shall sit thereon in truth, in the tent
of David, judging, and seeking justice,
and swift to do righteousness. 16:6We have heard of the pride of Moab, that
he is very proud; even of his arrogance,
and his pride, and his wrath; his boastings
are nothing. 16:7Therefore shall
Moab wail for Moab, everyone shall wail:
for the raisin-cakes of Kir Hareseth shall
you mourn, utterly stricken. 16:8For the fields
of Heshbon languish, and the vine
of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have
broken down the choice branches of it, which
reached even to Jazer, which wandered into
the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad,
they passed over the sea. 16:9Therefore I will
weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine
of Sibmah; I will water you with my tears,
Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer
fruits and on your harvest the battle
shout is fallen. 16:10Gladness is taken
away, and joy out of the fruitful field;
and in the vineyards there shall be no singing,
neither joyful noise: nobody shall tread
out wine in the presses; I have made the
vintage shout to cease. 16:11Why my heart sounds like a harp for
Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.
16:12It shall happen,
when Moab presents himself, when he wearies
himself on the high place, and shall come
to his sanctuary to pray, that he shall
not prevail. 16:13This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning
Moab in time past. 16:14But now Yahweh
has spoken, saying, Within three years,
as the years of a hireling, the glory of
Moab shall be brought into contempt, with
all his great multitude; and the remnant
shall be very small and of no account.
17:1The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus
is taken away from being a city, and it
shall be a ruinous heap. 17:2The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they
shall be for flocks, which shall lie down,
and none shall make them afraid. 17:3The fortress 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, says Yahweh of Hosts.
17:4It shall happen in that day, that the
glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the
fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. 17:5It shall be as when the harvester gathers
the standing grain, and his arm reaps the
ears; yes, it shall be as when one gleans
ears in the valley of Rephaim. 17:6Yet there shall
be left therein gleanings, as the shaking
of an olive tree, two or three berries in
the top of the uppermost bough, four or
five in the outmost branches of a fruitful
tree, says Yahweh, the God of Israel. 17:7In that day shall men look to their Maker,
and their eyes shall have respect to the
Holy One of Israel. 17:8They shall not look to the altars, the
work of their hands; neither shall they
have respect to that which their fingers
have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.
17:9In that day shall their strong cities
be as the forsaken places in the wood and
on the mountain top, which were forsaken
from before the children of Israel; and
it shall be a desolation. 17:10For you have forgotten the God of your
salvation, and have not been mindful of
the rock of your strength; therefore you
plant pleasant plants, and set it with strange
slips. 17:11In the day of your planting you hedge
it in, and in the morning you make your
seed to blossom; but the harvest flees away
in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
17:12Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who
roar like the roaring of the seas; and the
rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing
of mighty waters! 17:13The nations shall
rush like the rushing of many waters: but
he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee
far off, and shall be chased as the chaff
of the mountains before the wind, and like
the whirling dust before the storm. 17:14At evening, behold, terror; and
before the morning they are no more. This
is the portion of those who despoil us,
and the lot of those who rob us.
18:1Ah, the land of the rustling of wings,
which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
18:2that sends ambassadors
by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on
the waters, saying, Go, you swift
messengers, to a nation tall and smooth,
to a people awesome from their beginning
onward, a nation that measures out and treads
down, whose land the rivers divide! 18:3All you inhabitants
of the world, and you dwellers on the earth,
when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains,
look; and when the trumpet is blown, listen.
18:4For thus has Yahweh said to me, I will
be still, and I will see in my dwelling-place,
like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud
of dew in the heat of harvest. 18:5For before the harvest, when the blossom
is over, and the flower becomes a ripening
grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks,
and the spreading branches will he take
away and cut down. 18:6They shall be left together to the ravenous
birds of the mountains, and to the animals
of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall
summer on them, and all the animals of the
earth shall winter on them. 18:7In that time shall a present be brought
to Yahweh of Hosts from a people
tall and smooth, even from a people awesome
from their beginning onward, a nation that
measures out and treads down, whose land
the rivers divide, to the place of the name
of Yahweh of Hosts, Mount Zion.
19:1The burden of Egypt. Behold, Yahweh rides
on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt: and
the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his
presence; and the heart of Egypt shall melt
in the midst of it. 19:2I will stir up the Egyptians against
the Egyptians: and they shall fight everyone
against his brother, and everyone against
his neighbor; city against city, and
kingdom against kingdom. 19:3The spirit of Egypt shall fail in the
midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel
of it: and they shall seek to the idols,
and to the charmers, and to those who have
familiar spirits, and to the wizards. 19:4I will give over the Egyptians into the
hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king
shall rule over them, says the Lord, Yahweh
of Hosts. 19:5The waters shall
fail from the sea, and the river shall be
wasted and become dry. 19:6The rivers shall become foul; the streams
of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up;
the reeds and flags shall wither away. 19:7The meadows by the Nile, by the brink
of the Nile, and all the sown fields of
the Nile, shall become dry, be driven away,
and be no more. 19:8The fishermen shall
lament, and all those who cast angle into
the Nile shall mourn, and those who spread
nets on the waters shall languish. 19:9Moreover those who work in combed flax,
and those who weave white cloth, shall be
confounded. 19:10The pillars of Egypt shall be
broken in pieces; all those who work for
hire shall be grieved in soul. 19:11The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish;
the counsel of the wisest counselors of
Pharaoh is become brutish: how do you say
to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the
son of ancient kings? 19:12Where then are your wise men? and let
them tell you now; and let them know what
Yahweh of Hosts has purposed concerning
Egypt. 19:13The princes of Zoan are become fools,
the princes of Memphis are deceived; they
have caused Egypt to go astray, who are
the corner-stone of her tribes. 19:14Yahweh has mixed
a spirit of perverseness in the midst of
her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray
in every work of it, as a drunken man staggers
in his vomit. 19:15Neither shall there be for Egypt any
work, which head or tail, palm-branch or
rush, may do. 19:16In that day shall the Egyptians be like
women; and they shall tremble and fear because
of the shaking of the hand of Yahweh of
Hosts, which he shakes over them. 19:17The land of Judah shall become a terror
to Egypt; everyone to whom mention is made
of it shall be afraid, because of the purpose
of Yahweh of Hosts, which he purposes against
it. 19:18In that day there shall be five cities
in the land of Egypt that speak the language
of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of hosts;
one shall be called The city of destruction.
19:19In that day shall there be an altar
to Yahweh in the midst of the land of Egypt,
and a pillar at the border of it to Yahweh.
19:20It shall be for a sign and for a witness
to Yahweh of Hosts in the land of Egypt;
for they shall cry to Yahweh because of
oppressors, and he will send them a savior,
and a defender, and he will deliver them.
19:21Yahweh shall be
known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall
know Yahweh in that day; yes, they shall
worship with sacrifice and offering, and
shall vow a vow to Yahweh, and shall perform
it. 19:22Yahweh will strike
Egypt, smiting and healing; and they shall
return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated
of them, and will heal them. 19:23In 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 worship
with the Assyrians. 19:24In that day shall Israel be the third
with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing
in the midst of the earth; 19:25because Yahweh of Hosts has blessed
them, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people,
and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel
my inheritance.
20:1In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod,
when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,
and he fought against Ashdod and took it;
20:2at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the
son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth
from off your loins, and put your shoe from
off your foot. He did so, walking naked
and barefoot. 20:3Yahweh said, Like as my servant Isaiah
has walked naked and barefoot three years
for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt
and concerning Ethiopia; 20:4so shall the king
of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt,
and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old,
naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered,
to the shame of Egypt. 20:5They shall be dismayed and confounded,
because of Ethiopia their expectation, and
of Egypt their glory. 20:6The inhabitant of this coast-land shall
say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation,
where we fled for help to be delivered from
the king of Assyria: and we, how shall we
escape?
21:1The burden of the wilderness of the sea.
As whirlwinds in the South sweep through,
it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome
land. 21:2A grievous vision
is declared to me; the treacherous man deals
treacherously, and the destroyer destroys.
Go up, Elam; besiege, Media; all the sighing
of it have I made to cease. 21:3Therefore are my loins filled with anguish;
pangs have taken hold on me, as the pangs
of a woman in travail: I am pained so that
I can't hear; I am dismayed so that I can't
see. 21:4My heart flutters, horror has frightened
me; the twilight that I desired has been
turned into trembling to me. 21:5They prepare the table, they set the
watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, you
princes, anoint the shield. 21:6For thus has the Lord said to me, Go,
set a watchman: let him declare what he
sees: 21:7and when he sees
a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys,
a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently
with much heed. 21:8He cried as a lion:
Lord, I stand continually on the watch-tower
in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole
nights; 21:9and, behold, here
comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.
He answered, Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
and all the engraved images of her gods
are broken to the ground. 21:10You my threshing, and the grain of my
floor! that which I have heard from Yahweh
of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared
to you. 21:11The burden of
Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, Watchman,
what of the night? Watchman, what of the
night? 21:12The watchman said, "The morning
comes, and also the night. If you will inquire,
inquire. Come back again."
21:13The burden on Arabia. In the forest
in Arabia shall you lodge, you caravans
of Dedanites. 21:14To him who was thirsty they brought
water; the inhabitants of the land of Tema
did meet the fugitives with their bread.
21:15For they fled away from the swords,
from the drawn sword, and from the bent
bow, and from the heat of battle. 21:16For thus has the Lord said to me, Within
a year, according to the years of a hireling,
all the glory of Kedar shall fail; 21:17and the residue of the number of the
archers, the mighty men of the children
of Kedar, shall be few; for Yahweh, the
God of Israel, has spoken it.
22:1The burden of the valley of vision. What
ails you now, that you are wholly gone up
to the housetops? 22:2You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous
city, a joyous town; your slain are not
slain with the sword, neither are they dead
in battle. 22:3All your rulers
fled away together, they were bound by the
archers; all who were found of you were
bound together; they fled afar off. 22:4Therefore said I, Look away from me,
I will weep bitterly; don't labor to comfort
me for the destruction of the daughter of
my people. 22:5For it is a day of confusion, and of
treading down, and of perplexity, from the
Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, in the valley of
vision; a breaking down of the walls, and
a crying to the mountains. 22:6Elam bore the quiver, with chariots of
men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered
the shield. 22:7It happened that your choicest valleys
were full of chariots, and the horsemen
set themselves in array at the gate. 22:8He took away the covering of Judah; and
you did look in that day to the armor in
the house of the forest. 22:9You saw the breaches of the city of David,
that they were many; and you gathered together
the waters of the lower pool; 22:10and you numbered the houses of Jerusalem,
and you broke down the houses to fortify
the wall; 22:11you made also a reservoir between the
two walls for the water of the old pool.
But you didn't look to him who had done
this, neither did you have respect for him
who purposed it long ago. 22:12In that day did the Lord, Yahweh of
Hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning,
and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
22:13and behold, joy and gladness, killing
oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and
drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for
tomorrow we shall die. 22:14Yahweh of Hosts
revealed himself in my ears, Surely this
iniquity shall not be forgiven you until
you die, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.
22:15Thus says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts,
Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even
to Shebna, who is over the house, and
say, 22:16"What are you doing here? and who
has you here, that you have hewed out a
tomb here? Cutting him out a tomb on high,
chiseling a habitation for himself in the
rock!" 22:17Behold, Yahweh, like a strong
man, will hurl you away violently; yes,
he will wrap you up closely. 22:18He will surely wind you round and round,
and toss you like a ball into a large
country; there shall you die, and there
shall be the chariots of your glory, you
shame of your lord's house. 22:19I will thrust you from your office;
and from your station shall you be pulled
down. 22:20It shall happen in that day, that I
will call my servant Eliakim the son of
Hilkiah: 22:21and I will cloth him with your robe,
and strengthen him with your belt, and I
will commit your government into his hand;
and he shall be a father to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
22:22The key of the house of David will I
lay on his shoulder; and he shall open,
and none shall shut; and he shall shut,
and none shall open. 22:23I will fasten
him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall
be for a throne of glory to his father's
house. 22:24They shall hang on him all the glory
of his father's house, the offspring and
the issue, every small vessel, from the
cups even to all the pitchers. 22:25In that day, says
Yahweh of hosts, shall the nail that was
fastened in a sure place give way; and it
shall be hewn down, and fall; and the burden
that was on it shall be cut off; for Yahweh
has spoken it.
23:1The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of
Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that
there is no house, no entering in: from
the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.
23:2Be still, you inhabitants of the coast,
you whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass
over the sea, have replenished. 23:3On great waters the seed of the Shihor,
the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue;
and she was the market of nations. 23:4Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken,
the stronghold of the sea, saying, I have
not travailed, nor brought forth, neither
have I nourished young men, nor brought
up virgins. 23:5When the report comes to Egypt, they
shall be sorely pained at the report of
Tyre. 23:6Pass over to Tarshish;
wail, you inhabitants of the coast. 23:7Is this your joyous
city, whose antiquity is of ancient
days, whose feet carried her afar off to
sojourn? 23:8Who has purposed
this against Tyre, the giver of crowns,
whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers
are the honorable of the earth? 23:9Yahweh of hosts has purposed it, to stain
the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt
all the honorable of the earth. 23:10Pass through your land as the Nile,
daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint
any more. 23:11He has stretched out his hand over the
sea, he has shaken the kingdoms: Yahweh
has given commandment concerning Canaan,
to destroy the strongholds of it. 23:12He said, You shall no more rejoice,
you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon:
arise, pass over to Kittim; even there shall
you have no rest. 23:13Behold, the land
of the Chaldeans: this people was not; the
Assyrian founded it for those who dwell
in the wilderness; they set up their towers;
they overthrew the palaces of it; they made
it a ruin. 23:14Howl, you ships
of Tarshish; for your stronghold is laid
waste. 23:15It 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 it shall be to Tyre as in
the song of the prostitute. 23:16Take a harp, go about the city, you
prostitute that has been forgotten; make
sweet melody, sing many songs, that you
may be remembered. 23:17It shall happen
after the end of seventy years, that Yahweh
will visit Tyre, and she shall return to
her hire, and shall play the prostitute
with all the kingdoms of the world on the
surface of the earth. 23:18Her merchandise
and her hire shall be holiness to Yahweh:
it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for
her merchandise shall be for those who dwell
before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and
for durable clothing.
24:1Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty,
and makes it waste, and turns it upside
down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants
of it. 24:2It 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 creditor, so with the
debtor; as with the taker of interest, so
with the giver of interest to him. 24:3The earth shall be utterly emptied, and
utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken
this word. 24:4The earth mourns and fades away, the
world languishes and fades away, the lofty
people of the earth do languish. 24:5The earth also is polluted under the
inhabitants of it; because they have transgressed
the laws, violated the statutes, broken
the everlasting covenant. 24:6Therefore has the
curse devoured the earth, and those who
dwell therein are found guilty: therefore
the inhabitants of the earth are burned,
and few men left. 24:7The new wine mourns, the vine languishes,
all the merry-hearted do sigh. 24:8The mirth of tambourines
ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends,
the joy of the harp ceases. 24:9They shall not drink wine with a song;
strong drink shall be bitter to those who
drink it. 24:10The waste city is broken down; every
house is shut up, that no man may come in.
24:11There is a crying
in the streets because of the wine; all
joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is
gone. 24:12In the city is left desolation, and
the gate is struck with destruction. 24:13For thus shall
it be in the midst of the earth among the
peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree,
as the gleanings when the vintage is done.
24:14These shall lift up their voice, they
shall shout; for the majesty of Yahweh they
cry aloud from the sea. 24:15Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east,
even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel,
in the isles of the sea! 24:16From the uttermost part of the earth
have we heard songs: Glory to the righteous.
But I said, I pine away, I pine away, woe
is me! the treacherous have dealt treacherously;
yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.
24:17Fear, and the
pit, and the snare, are on you, O inhabitant
of the earth. 24:18It shall happen, that he who flees from
the noise of the fear shall fall into the
pit; and he who comes up out of the midst
of the pit shall be taken in the snare:
for the windows on high are opened, and
the foundations of the earth tremble. 24:19The earth is utterly broken, the earth
is torn apart, the earth is shaken violently.
24:20The earth shall
stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway
back and forth like a hammock; and the disobedience
of it shall be heavy on it, and it shall
fall, and not rise again. 24:21It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh
will punish the host of the high ones on
high, and the kings of the earth on the
earth. 24:22They shall be gathered together, as
prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall
be shut up in the prison; and after many
days shall they be visited. 24:23Then the moon
shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed;
for Yahweh of Hosts will reign on Mount
Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders
shall be glory.
25:1Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt
you, I will praise your name; for you have
done wonderful things, even counsels
of old, in faithfulness and truth.
25:2For you have made of a city a heap, of
a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers
to be no city; it shall never be built.
25:3Therefore shall a strong people glorify
you; a city of awesome nations shall fear
you. 25:4For you have been a stronghold to the
poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress,
a refuge from the storm, a shade from the
heat, when the blast of the awesome ones
is as a storm against the wall. 25:5As the heat in a dry place will you bring
down the noise of strangers; as the heat
by the shade of a cloud, the song of the
awesome ones shall be brought low. 25:6In this mountain will Yahweh of Hosts
make to all peoples a feast of fat things,
a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things
full of marrow, of wines on the lees well
refined. 25:7He will destroy in this mountain the
surface of the covering that covers all
peoples, and the veil that is spread over
all nations. 25:8He has swallowed up death forever; and
the Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from
off all faces; and the reproach of his people
will he take away from off all the earth:
for Yahweh has spoken it. 25:9It shall be said in that day, Behold,
this is our God; we have waited for him,
and he will save us: this is Yahweh; we
have waited for him, we will be glad and
rejoice in his salvation. 25:10For in this mountain will the hand of
Yahweh rest; and Moab shall be trodden down
in his place, even as straw is trodden down
in the water of the dung-hill. 25:11He shall spread forth his hands in the
midst of it, as he who swims spreads forth
his hands to swim; but Yahweh
will lay low his pride together with the
craft of his hands. 25:12The high fortress of your walls has
he brought down, laid low, and brought to
the ground, even to the dust.
26:1In that day shall this song be sung in
the land of Judah: we have a strong city;
salvation will he appoint for walls and
bulwarks. 26:2Open you the gates,
that the righteous nation which keeps faith
may enter in. 26:3You will keep him in perfect peace,
whose mind is stayed on
you; because he trusts in you. 26:4Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah,
Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock. 26:5For he has brought
down those who dwell on high, the lofty
city: he lays it low, he lays it low even
to the ground; he brings it even to the
dust. 26:6The foot shall tread it down; even the
feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
26:7The way of the just is uprightness: you
that are upright do direct the path of the
just. 26:8Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh,
have we waited for you; to your name, even
to your memorial name, is the desire
of our soul. 26:9With my soul have
I desired you in the night; yes, with my
spirit within me will I seek you earnestly:
for when your judgments are in the earth,
the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
26:10Let favor be shown
to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness;
in the land of uprightness will he deal
wrongfully, and will not see the majesty
of Yahweh. 26:11Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet
they don't see: but they shall see your
zeal for the people, and be disappointed;
yes, fire shall devour your adversaries.
26:12Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us;
for you have also worked all our works for
us. 26:13Yahweh our God, other lords besides
you have had dominion over us; but by you
only will we make mention of your name.
26:14They are dead, they shall not
live; they are deceased, they shall
not rise: therefore have you visited and
destroyed them, and made all memory of them
to perish. 26:15You have increased the nation, O Yahweh,
you have increased the nation; you are glorified;
you have enlarged all the borders of the
land. 26:16Yahweh, in trouble
have they visited you; they poured out a
prayer when your chastening was on
them. 26:17Like as a woman with child, who draws
near the time of her delivery, is in pain
and cries out in her pangs; so we have been
before you, Yahweh. 26:18We have been with
child, we have been in pain, we have as
it were brought forth wind; we have not
worked any deliverance in the earth; neither
have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
26:19Your dead shall
live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake
and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for
your dew is as the dew of herbs,
and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
26:20Come, my people, enter you into your
chambers, and shut your doors about you:
hide yourself for a little moment, until
the indignation be past. 26:21For, behold, Yahweh
comes forth out of his place to punish the
inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:
the earth also shall disclose her blood,
and shall no more cover her slain.
27:1In that day Yahweh with his hard and
great and strong sword will punish leviathan
the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked
serpent; and he will kill the monster that
is in the sea. 27:2In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing
you to it. 27:3I Yahweh am its keeper; I will water
it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will
keep it night and day. 27:4Wrath is not in me: would that the briers
and thorns were against me in battle! I
would march on them, I would burn them together.
27:5Or else let him take hold of my strength,
that he may make peace with me; yes,
let him make peace with me. 27:6In days to come shall Jacob take root;
Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall
fill the surface of the world with fruit.
27:7Has he struck them as he struck those
who struck them? or are they slain according
to the slaughter of those who were slain
by them? 27:8In measure, when you send them away,
you do contend with them; he has removed
them with his rough blast in the
day of the east wind. 27:9Therefore by this
shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven,
and this is all the fruit of taking away
his sin: that he makes all the stones of
the altar as chalk stones that are beaten
in sunder, so that the Asherim and
the sun-images shall rise no more. 27:10For the fortified
city is solitary, a habitation deserted
and forsaken, like the wilderness: there
shall the calf feed, and there shall he
lie down, and consume the branches of it.
27:11When the boughs of it are withered,
they shall be broken off; the women shall
come, and set them on fire; for it is a
people of no understanding: therefore he
who made them will not have compassion on
them, and he who formed them will show them
no favor. 27:12It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh
will beat off his fruit from the
flood of the River to the brook of Egypt;
and you shall be gathered one by one, you
children of Israel. 27:13It shall happen in that day, that a
great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall
come who were ready to perish in the land
of Assyria, and those who were outcasts
in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship
Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
28:1Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards
of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of
his glorious beauty, which is on the head
of the fat valley of those who are overcome
with wine! 28:2Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong
one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying
storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing,
will he cast down to the earth with the
hand. 28:3The crown of pride of the drunkards of
Ephraim shall be trodden under foot: 28:4and the fading
flower of his glorious beauty, which is
on the head of the fat valley, shall be
as the first-ripe fig before the summer;
which when he who looks on it sees, while
it is yet in his hand he eats it up. 28:5In that day will Yahweh of Hosts become
a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty,
to the residue of his people; 28:6and a spirit of justice to him who sits
in judgment, and strength to those who turn
back the battle at the gate. 28:7Even these reel with wine, and stagger
with strong drink; the priest and the prophet
reel with strong drink, they are swallowed
up of wine, they stagger with strong drink;
they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
28:8For all tables
are full of vomit and filthiness,
so that there is no place clean.
28:9Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom
will he make to understand the message?
those who are weaned from the milk, and
drawn from the breasts? 28:10For it is precept
on precept, precept on precept; line on
line, line on line; here a little, there
a little. 28:11No, but by men of strange lips
and with another language will he speak
to this people; 28:12to whom he said, This is the rest, give
you rest to him who is weary; and this is
the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
28:13Therefore shall the word of Yahweh be
to them precept on precept, precept on precept;
line on line, line on line; here a little,
there a little; that they may go, and fall
backward, and be broken, and snared, and
taken. 28:14Why hear the word
of Yahweh, you scoffers, that rule this
people that is in Jerusalem: 28:15Because you have said, We have made
a covenant with death, and with Sheol are
we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge
shall pass through, it shall not come to
us; for we have made lies our refuge, and
under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 28:16therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh,
Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a
stone, a tried stone, a precious corner
-stone of sure foundation: he who
believes shall not be in haste. 28:17I will make justice the line, and righteousness
the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away
the refuge of lies, and the waters shall
overflow the hiding-place. 28:18Your covenant with death shall be annulled,
and your agreement with Sheol shall not
stand; when the overflowing scourge shall
pass through, then you shall be trodden
down by it. 28:19As often as it passes though, it shall
take you; for morning by morning shall it
pass through, by day and by night: and it
shall be nothing but terror to understand
the message. 28:20For the bed is shorter than that a man
can stretch himself on it; and the covering
narrower than that he can wrap himself in
it. 28:21For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount
Perazim, he will be angry as in the valley
of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his
strange work, and bring to pass his act,
his strange act. 28:22Now therefore don't you be scoffers,
lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree
of destruction have I heard from the Lord,
Yahweh of Hosts, on the whole earth. 28:23Give you ear, and hear my voice; listen,
and hear my speech. 28:24Does he who plows to sow plow continually?
does he continually open and harrow
his ground? 28:25When he has leveled the surface of it,
doesn't he cast abroad the dill, and scatter
the cumin, and put in the wheat in rows,
and the barley in the appointed place, and
the spelt in the border of it? 28:26For his God does instruct him aright,
and does teach him. 28:27For the dill are
not threshed with a sharp threshing
instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned
about on the cumin; but the dill are beaten
out with a staff, and the cumin with a rod.
28:28Bread grain
is ground; for he will not be always threshing
it: and though the wheel of his cart and
his horses scatter it, he does not grind
it. 28:29This also comes forth from Yahweh of
Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and
excellent in wisdom.
29:1Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David
encamped! add you year to year; let the
feasts come round: 29:2then will I distress Ariel, and there
shall be mourning and lamentation; and she
shall be to me as Ariel. 29:3I will encamp against you round about,
and will lay siege against you with posted
troops, and I will raise siege works against
you. 29:4You shall be brought down, and shall
speak out of the ground, and your speech
shall be low out of the dust; and your voice
shall be as of one who has a familiar spirit,
out of the ground, and your speech shall
whisper out of the dust. 29:5But the multitude of your foes shall
be like small dust, and the multitude of
the awesome ones as chaff that passes away:
yes, it shall be in an instant suddenly.
29:6She shall be visited of Yahweh of Hosts
with thunder, and with earthquake, and great
noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the
flame of a devouring fire. 29:7The multitude of
all the nations that fight against Ariel,
even all who fight against her and her stronghold,
and who distress her, shall be as a dream,
a vision of the night. 29:8It shall be as when a hungry man dreams,
and, behold, he eats; but he awakes, and
his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty
man dreams, and, behold, he drinks; but
he awakes, and, behold, he is faint, and
his soul has appetite: so shall the multitude
of all the nations be, that fight against
Mount Zion. 29:9Stay you and wonder;
take your pleasure and be blind: they are
drunken, but not with wine; they stagger,
but not with strong drink. 29:10For Yahweh has
poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep,
and has closed your eyes, the prophets;
and your heads, the seers, has he covered.
29:11All vision is become to you as the words
of a book that is sealed, which men deliver
to one who is learned, saying, Read this,
I pray you; and he says, I can't, for it
is sealed: 29:12and the book is delivered to him who
is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray
you; and he says, I am not learned. 29:13The Lord said, Because this people draw
near to me, and with their mouth
and with their lips to honor me, but have
removed their heart far from me, and their
fear of me is a commandment of men which
has been taught them; 29:14therefore, behold, I will proceed to
do a marvelous work among this people, even
a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom
of their wise men shall perish, and the
understanding of their prudent men shall
be hid. 29:15Woe to those who
hide deep their counsel from Yahweh, and
whose works are in the dark, and who say,
Who sees us? and who knows us? 29:16You turn things
upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed
as clay; that the thing made should say
of him who made it, He didn't make me; or
the thing formed say of him who formed it,
He has no understanding? 29:17Is it not yet
a very little while, and Lebanon shall be
turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful
field shall be esteemed as a forest? 29:18In that day shall the deaf hear the
words of the book, and the eyes of the blind
shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
29:19The humble also
shall increase their joy in Yahweh, and
the poor among men shall rejoice in the
Holy One of Israel. 29:20For the terrible
one is brought to nothing, and the scoffer
ceases, and all those who watch for iniquity
are cut off; 29:21that make a man
an offender in his cause, and lay
a snare for him who reproves in the gate,
and turn aside the just with a thing of
nothing. 29:22Therefore thus says Yahweh, who redeemed
Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob:
Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither
shall his face now wax pale. 29:23But when he sees
his children, the work of my hands, in the
midst of him, they shall sanctify my name;
yes, they shall sanctify the Holy One of
Jacob, and shall stand in awe of the God
of Israel. 29:24They also who
err in spirit shall come to understanding,
and those who murmur shall receive instruction.
30:1Woe to the rebellious children, says
Yahweh, who take counsel, but not of me;
and who make a league, but not of my Spirit,
that they may add sin to sin, 30:2that set out to
go down into Egypt, and have not asked at
my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the
strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge
in the shadow of Egypt! 30:3Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh
be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow
of Egypt your confusion. 30:4For their princes are at Zoan, and their
ambassadors are come to Hanes. 30:5They shall all
be ashamed because of a people that can't
profit them, that are not a help nor profit,
but a shame, and also a reproach. 30:6The burden of the
animals of the South. Through the land of
trouble and anguish, from whence come the
lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery
flying serpent, they carry their riches
on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their
treasures on the humps of camels, to a people
that shall not profit them. 30:7For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose:
therefore have I called her Rahab who sits
still. 30:8Now go, write it before them on a tablet,
and inscribe it in a book, that it may be
for the time to come forever and ever. 30:9For it is a rebellious people, lying
children, children who will not hear the
law of Yahweh; 30:10who tell the seers, "Don't see;"
and to the prophets, "Don't prophesy
to us right things, speak to us smooth things,
prophesy deceits, 30:11get out of the
way, turn aside out of the path, cause the
Holy One of Israel to cease from before
us." 30:12Therefore thus says the Holy One of
Israel, "Because you despise this word,
and trust in oppression and perverseness,
and rely thereon; 30:13therefore this
iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready
to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose
breaking comes suddenly in an instant. 30:14He shall break it as a potter's vessel
is broken, breaking it in pieces without
sparing; so that there shall not be found
among the pieces of it a broken piece with
which to take fire from the hearth, or to
dip up water out of the cistern." 30:15For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy
One of Israel, In returning and rest shall
you be saved; in quietness and in confidence
shall be your strength. You would not: 30:16but you said, No, for we will flee on
horses; therefore shall you flee: and, We
will ride on the swift; therefore shall
those who pursue you be swift. 30:17One thousand shall
flee at the threat of one; at the threat
of five shall you flee: until you be left
as a beacon on the top of a mountain, and
as an ensign on a hill. 30:18Therefore will Yahweh wait, that he
may be gracious to you; and therefore will
he be exalted, that he may have mercy on
you: for Yahweh is a God of justice; blessed
are all those who wait for him. 30:19For the people shall dwell in Zion at
Jerusalem; you shall weep no more; he will
surely be gracious to you at the voice of
your cry; when he shall hear, he will answer
you. 30:20Though the Lord give you the bread of
adversity and the water of affliction, yet
shall not your teachers be hidden anymore,
but your eyes shall see your teachers; 30:21and your ears shall hear a word behind
you, saying, This is the way, walk you in
it; when you turn to the right hand, and
when you turn to the left. 30:22You shall defile
the overlaying of your engraved images of
silver, and the plating of your molten images
of gold: you shall cast them away as an
unclean thing; you shall tell it, Get you
hence. 30:23He will give the
rain for your seed, with which you shall
sow the ground; and bread of the increase
of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous.
In that day shall your cattle feed in large
pastures; 30:24the oxen likewise
and the young donkeys that till the ground
shall eat savory provender, which has been
winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
30:25There shall be on every lofty mountain,
and on every high hill, brooks and
streams of waters, in the day of the great
slaughter, when the towers fall. 30:26Moreover 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 Yahweh binds
up the hurt of his people, and heals the
stroke of their wound. 30:27Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from
far, burning with his anger, and in thick
rising smoke: his lips are full of indignation,
and his tongue is as a devouring fire; 30:28and his breath is as an overflowing
stream, that reaches even to the neck, to
sift the nations with the sieve of destruction:
and a bridle that causes to err shall
be in the jaws of the peoples. 30:29You shall have
a song as in the night when a holy feast
is kept; and gladness of heart, as when
one goes with a pipe to come to the mountain
of Yahweh, to the Rock of Israel. 30:30Yahweh will cause his glorious voice
to be heard, and will show the lighting
down of his arm, with the indignation of
his anger, and the flame of a devouring
fire, with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones.
30:31For through the
voice of Yahweh shall the Assyrian be dismayed;
with his rod will he strike him.
30:32Every stroke of the appointed staff,
which Yahweh shall lay on him, shall be
with the sound of tambourines and
harps; and in battles with the brandishing
of his arm will he fight with them.
30:33For a Topheth
is prepared of old; yes, for the king it
is made ready; he has made it deep and large;
the pile of it is fire and much wood; the
breath of Yahweh, like a stream of sulfur,
does kindle it.
31:1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for
help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots
because they are many, and in horsemen because
they are very strong, but they don't look
to the Holy One of Israel, neither seek
Yahweh! 31:2Yet he also is
wise, and will bring evil, and will not
call back his words, but will arise against
the house of the evil-doers, and against
the help of those who work iniquity. 31:3Now the Egyptians are men, and not God;
and their horses flesh, and not spirit:
and when Yahweh shall stretch out his hand,
both he who helps shall stumble, and he
who is helped shall fall, and they all shall
be consumed together. 31:4For thus says Yahweh to me, As the lion
and the young lion growling over his prey,
if a multitude of shepherds are called forth
against him, will not be dismayed at their
voice, nor abase himself for the noise of
them: so will Yahweh of Hosts come down
to fight on Mount Zion, and on the hill
of it. 31:5As birds hovering, so will Yahweh of
Hosts protect Jerusalem; he will protect
and deliver it, he will pass over
and preserve it. 31:6Turn you to him
from whom you have deeply revolted, children
of Israel. 31:7For in that day they shall cast away
every man his idols of silver, and his idols
of gold, which your own hands have made
to you for a sin. 31:8The Assyrian shall
fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword,
not of men, shall devour him; and he shall
flee from the sword, and his young men shall
become subject to forced labor. 31:9His rock shall
pass away by reason of terror, and his princes
shall be dismayed at the ensign, says Yahweh,
whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in
Jerusalem.
32:1Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness,
and princes shall rule in justice. 32:2A man shall be
as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert
from the tempest, as streams of water in
a dry place, as the shade of a great rock
in a weary land. 32:3The eyes of those who see shall not be
dim, and the ears of those who hear shall
listen. 32:4The heart of the rash shall understand
knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers
shall be ready to speak plainly. 32:5The fool shall be no more called noble,
nor the scoundrel be highly respected. 32:6For the fool will
speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity,
to practice profanity, and to utter error
against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of
the hungry, and to cause the drink of the
thirsty to fail. 32:7The instruments of the churl are evil:
he devises wicked devices to destroy the
humble with lying words, even when the needy
speaks right. 32:8But the noble devises
noble things; and in noble things shall
he continue. 32:9Rise up, you women who are at ease, and
hear my voice; you careless daughters, give
ear to my speech. 32:10For days beyond a year shall you be
troubled, you careless women; for the vintage
shall fail, the harvest shall not come.
32:11Tremble, you women who are at ease;
be troubled, you careless ones; strip yourselves,
and make yourselves naked, and gird sackcloth
on your loins. 32:12They shall strike on the breasts for
the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
32:13On the land of
my people shall come up thorns and briers;
yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous
city. 32:14For the palace shall be forsaken; the
populous city shall be deserted; the hill
and the watch-tower shall be for dens forever,
a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
32:15until the Spirit be poured on us from
on high, and the wilderness become a fruitful
field, and the fruitful field be esteemed
as a forest. 32:16Then justice shall
dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness
shall abide in the fruitful field. 32:17The work of righteousness shall be peace;
and the effect of righteousness, quietness
and confidence forever. 32:18My people shall abide in a peaceable
habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in
quiet resting-places. 32:19But it shall hail in the downfall of
the forest; and the city shall be utterly
laid low. 32:20Blessed are you who sow beside all waters,
who send forth the feet of the ox and the
donkey.
33:1Woe to you who destroy, and you weren't
destroyed; and deal treacherously, and they
didn't deal treacherously with you! When
you have ceased to destroy, you shall be
destroyed; and when you have made an end
of dealing treacherously, they shall deal
treacherously with you. 33:2Yahweh, be gracious
to us; we have waited for you: be our arm
every morning, our salvation also in the
time of trouble. 33:3At the noise of
the thunder the peoples are fled; at the
lifting up of yourself the nations are scattered.
33:4Your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar
gathers: as locusts leap shall men leap
on it. 33:5Yahweh is exalted; for he dwells on high:
he has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
33:6There shall be stability in your times,
abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge:
the fear of Yahweh is your treasure. 33:7Behold, their valiant ones cry outside;
the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
33:8The highways lie
waste, the wayfaring man ceases: the
enemy has broken the covenant, he has
despised the cities, he doesn't regard man.
33:9The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon
is confounded and withers away; Sharon is
like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake
off their leaves. 33:10Now will I arise,
says Yahweh; now will I lift up myself;
now will I be exalted. 33:11You shall conceive chaff, you shall
bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire
that shall devour you. 33:12The peoples shall be as the burning
of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned
in the fire. 33:13Hear, you who are far off, what I have
done; and, you who are near, acknowledge
my might. 33:14The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling
has seized the godless ones: Who among us
can dwell with the devouring fire? who among
us can dwell with everlasting burning? 33:15He who walks righteously, and speaks
blamelessly; he who despises the gain of
oppressions, who shakes his hands from taking
a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing
of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking
on evil: 33:16He shall dwell
on high; his place of defense shall be the
munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given
him; his waters shall be sure. 33:17Your eyes shall see the king in his
beauty: they shall see a land that reaches
afar. 33:18Your heart shall muse on the terror:
Where is he who counted, where is he who
weighed the tribute? where is he
who counted the towers? 33:19You shall not
see the fierce people, a people of a deep
speech that you can not comprehend, of a
strange language that you can not understand.
33:20Look on Zion, the city of our solemnities:
your eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation,
a tent that shall not be removed, the stakes
of it shall never be plucked up, neither
shall any of the cords of it be broken.
33:21But there Yahweh
will be with us in majesty, a place of broad
rivers and streams, in which shall go no
galley with oars, neither shall gallant
ship pass thereby. 33:22For Yahweh is our judge, Yahweh is our
lawgiver, Yahweh is our king; he will save
us. 33:23Your rigging is untied; they could not
strengthen the foot of their mast, they
could not spread the sail: then was the
prey of a great spoil divided; the lame
took the prey. 33:24The inhabitant shall not say, I am sick:
the people who dwell therein shall be forgiven
their iniquity.
34:1Come near, you nations, to hear; and
listen, you peoples: let the earth hear,
and the fullness of it; the world, and all
things that come forth from it. 34:2For Yahweh has
indignation against all the nations, and
wrath against all their host: he has utterly
destroyed them, he has delivered them to
the slaughter. 34:3Their slain also shall be cast out, and
the stench of their dead bodies shall come
up; and the mountains shall be melted with
their blood. 34:4All the host of
the sky shall be dissolved, and the heavens
shall be rolled together as a scroll; and
all their host shall fade away, as the leaf
fades from off the vine, and as a fading
leaf from the fig tree. 34:5For my sword has drunk its fill in the
sky: behold, it shall come down on Edom,
and on the people of my curse, to judgment.
34:6The sword of Yahweh is filled with blood,
it is made fat with fatness, with the blood
of lambs and goats, with the fat of the
kidneys of rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice
in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the
land of Edom. 34:7The wild-oxen shall
come down with them, and the bulls with
the bulls: and their land shall be drunken
with blood, and their dust made fat with
fatness. 34:8For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a
year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
34:9The streams of Edom shall be turned
into pitch, and the dust of it into sulfur,
and the land of it shall become burning
pitch. 34:10It shall not be quenched night nor day;
the smoke of it shall go up for ever; from
generation to generation it shall lie waste;
none shall pass through it forever and ever.
34:11But the pelican and the porcupine shall
possess it; and the owl and the raven shall
dwell therein: and he will stretch over
it the line of confusion, and the plummet
of emptiness. 34:12They shall call the nobles of it to
the kingdom, but none shall be there; and
all its princes shall be nothing. 34:13Thorns shall come up in its palaces,
nettles and thistles in the fortresses of
it; and it shall be a habitation of jackals,
a court for ostriches. 34:14The wild animals
of the desert shall meet with the wolves,
and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow;
yes, the night-monster shall settle there,
and shall find her a place of rest. 34:15There shall the dart-snake make her
nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under
her shade; yes, there shall the kites be
gathered, everyone with her mate. 34:16Seek you out of
the book of Yahweh, and read: no one of
these shall be missing, none shall want
her mate; for my mouth, it has commanded,
and his Spirit, it has gathered them. 34:17He has cast the lot for them, and his
hand has divided it to them by line: they
shall possess it forever; from generation
to generation shall they dwell therein.
35:1The wilderness and the dry land shall
be glad; and the desert shall rejoice, and
blossom as the rose. 35:2It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice
even with joy and singing; the glory of
Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellency
of Carmel and Sharon: they shall see the
glory of Yahweh, the excellency of our God.
35:3Strengthen you
the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
35:4Tell those who
are of a fearful heart, Be strong, don't
be afraid: behold, your God will come with
vengeance, with the recompense of
God; he will come and save you. 35:5Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
35:6Then shall the lame man leap as a hart,
and the tongue of the mute shall sing; for
in the wilderness shall waters break out,
and streams in the desert. 35:7The glowing sand
shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground
springs of water: in the habitation of jackals,
where they lay, shall be grass with reeds
and rushes. 35:8A highway shall be there, and a way,
and it shall be called The way of holiness.
The unclean shall not pass over it, but
is shall be for for him who walks in the
Way. Wicked fools will not go there. 35:9No lion shall be there, nor shall any
ravenous animal go up thereon; they shall
not be found there; but the redeemed shall
walk there: 35:10and the ransomed
of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing
to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on
their heads: they shall obtain gladness
and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee
away.
36:1Now it happened in the fourteenth year
of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king
of Assyria came up against all the fortified
cities of Judah, and took them. 36:2The king of Assyria
sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem
to king Hezekiah with a great army. He stood
by the conduit of the upper pool in the
highway of the fuller's field. 36:3Then came forth to him Eliakim the son
of Hilkiah, who was over the household,
and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son
of Asaph, the recorder. 36:4Rabshakeh said
to them, Say you now to Hezekiah, Thus says
the great king, the king of Assyria, What
confidence is this in which you trust? 36:5I say, your counsel and strength
for the war are but vain words: now on whom
do you trust, that you have rebelled against
me? 36:6Behold, you trust on the staff of this
bruised reed, even on Egypt, whereon if
a man lean, it will go into his hand, and
pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to
all who trust on him. 36:7But if you tell me, We trust in Yahweh
our God: isn't that he, whose high places
and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away,
and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem,
You shall worship before this altar? 36:8Now therefore, please give pledges to
my master the king of Assyria, and I will
give you two thousand horses, if you are
able on your part to set riders on them.
36:9How then can you turn away the face of
one captain of the least of my master's
servants, and put your trust on Egypt for
chariots and for horsemen? 36:10Am I now come
up without Yahweh against this land to destroy
it? Yahweh said to me, Go up against this
land, and destroy it. 36:11Then said Eliakim
and Shebna and Joah to Rabshakeh, Please
speak, to your servants in the Syrian language;
for we understand it: and don't speak to
us in the Jews' language, in the ears of
the people who are on the wall. 36:12But Rabshakeh said, Has my master sent
me to your master, and to you, to speak
these words? has he not sent me
to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their
own dung, and to drink their own water with
you? 36:13Then Rabshakeh
stood, and cried with a loud voice in the
Jews' language, and said, Hear you the words
of the great king, the king of Assyria.
36:14Thus says the king, Don't let Hezekiah
deceive you; for he will not be able to
deliver you: 36:15neither let Hezekiah make you trust
in Yahweh, saying, Yahweh will surely deliver
us; this city shall not be given into the
hand of the king of Assyria. 36:16Don't listen to
Hezekiah: for thus says the king of Assyria,
Make your peace with me, and come out to
me; and eat you everyone of his vine, and
everyone of his fig tree, and drink you
everyone the waters of his own cistern;
36:17until I come and take you away to a
land like your own land, a land of grain
and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
36:18Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying,
Yahweh will deliver us. Has any of the gods
of the nations delivered his land out of
the hand of the king of Assyria? 36:19Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad?
where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have
they delivered Samaria out of my hand? 36:20Who are they among all the gods of these
countries, that have delivered their country
out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver
Jerusalem out of my hand? 36:21But they held
their peace, and answered him not a word;
for the king's commandment was, saying,
Don't answer him. 36:22Then came Eliakim
the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household,
and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son
of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with
their clothes torn, and told him the words
of Rabshakeh.
37:1It happened, when king Hezekiah heard
it, that he tore his clothes, and covered
himself with sackcloth, and went into the
house of Yahweh. 37:2He sent Eliakim,
who was over the household, and Shebna the
scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered
with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the
son of Amoz. 37:3They said to him, Thus says Hezekiah,
This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke,
and of rejection; for the children have
come to the birth, and there is no strength
to bring forth. 37:4It may be Yahweh your God will hear the
words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria
his master has sent to defy the living God,
and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your
God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer
for the remnant that is left. 37:5So the servants of king Hezekiah came
to Isaiah. 37:6Isaiah said to them, Thus shall you tell
your master, Thus says Yahweh, Don't be
afraid of the words that you have heard,
with which the servants of the king of Assyria
have blasphemed me. 37:7Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and
he shall hear news, and shall return to
his own land; and I will cause him to fall
by the sword in his own land. 37:8So Rabshakeh returned,
and found the king of Assyria warring against
Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed
from Lachish. 37:9He heard say concerning
Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come out
to fight against you. When he heard it,
he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
37:10Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king
of Judah, saying, Don't let your God in
whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem
shall not be given into the hand of the
king of Assyria. 37:11Behold, you have heard what the kings
of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying
them utterly: and shall you be delivered?
37:12Have the gods of the nations delivered
them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan,
and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children
of Eden who were in Telassar? 37:13Where is the king of Hamath, and the
king of Arpad, and the king of the city
of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? 37:14Hezekiah received the letter from the
hand of the messengers, and read it; and
Hezekiah went up to the house of Yahweh,
and spread it before Yahweh. 37:15Hezekiah prayed
to Yahweh, saying, 37:16Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel,
who sits above the cherubim, you
are the God, even you alone, of all the
kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven
and earth. 37:17Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear; open
your eyes, Yahweh, and behold; and hear
all the words of Sennacherib, who has sent
to defy the living God. 37:18Of a truth, Yahweh,
the kings of Assyria have laid waste all
the countries, and their land, 37:19and have cast their gods into the fire:
for they were no gods, but the work of men's
hands, wood and stone; therefore they have
destroyed them. 37:20Now therefore,
Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that
all the kingdoms of the earth may know that
you are Yahweh, even you only. 37:21Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to
Hezekiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh, the
God of Israel, Whereas you have prayed to
me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,
37:22this is the word
which Yahweh has spoken concerning him:
The virgin daughter of Zion has despised
you and ridiculed you; the daughter of Jerusalem
has shaken her head at you. 37:23Whom have you defied and blasphemed?
and against whom have you exalted your voice
and lifted up your eyes on high? even
against the Holy One of Israel. 37:24By your servants have you defied the
Lord, and have said, With the multitude
of my chariots am I come up to the height
of the mountains, to the innermost parts
of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall
cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of
it; and I will enter into its farthest height,
the forest of its fruitful field; 37:25I have dug and drunk water, and with
the sole of my feet will I dry up all the
rivers of Egypt. 37:26Have you not heard how I have done it
long ago, and formed it of ancient times?
now have I brought it to pass, that it should
be your to lay waste fortified cities into
ruinous heaps. 37:27Therefore 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 a field of grain before it
is grown up. 37:28But I know your
sitting down, and your going out, and your
coming in, and your raging against me. 37:29Because of your raging against me, and
because your arrogance is come up into my
ears, therefore will I put my hook in your
nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I
will turn you back by the way by which you
came. 37:30This shall be
the sign to you: you shall eat this year
that which grows of itself, and in the second
year that which springs of the same; and
in the third year sow you, and reap, and
plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of it.
37:31The remnant that is escaped of the house
of Judah shall again take root downward,
and bear fruit upward. 37:32For out of Jerusalem shall go forth
a remnant, and out of Mount Zion those who
shall escape. The zeal of Yahweh of Hosts
will perform this. 37:33Therefore thus
says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria,
He shall not come to this city, nor shoot
an arrow there, neither shall he come before
it with shield, nor cast up a mound against
it. 37:34By the way that
he came, by the same shall he return, and
he shall not come to this city, says Yahweh.
37:35For I will defend this city to save
it, for my own sake, and for my servant
David's sake. 37:36The angel of Yahweh went forth, and
struck in the camp of the Assyrians one
hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when
men arose early in the morning, behold,
these were all dead bodies. 37:37So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed,
and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.
37:38It happened, as he was worshipping in
the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech
and Sharezer his sons struck him with the
sword; and they escaped into the land of
Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his
place.
38:1In those days was Hezekiah sick to death.
Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came
to him, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh,
Set your house in order; for you shall die,
and not live. 38:2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the
wall, and prayed to Yahweh, 38:3and said, Remember
now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked
before you in truth and with a perfect heart,
and have done that which is good in your
sight. Hezekiah wept sore. 38:4Then came the word of Yahweh to Isaiah,
saying, 38:5Go, and tell Hezekiah, Thus says Yahweh,
the God of David your father, I have heard
your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold,
I will add to your days fifteen years. 38:6I will deliver you and this city out
of the hand of the king of Assyria; and
I will defend this city. 38:7This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh,
that Yahweh will do this thing that he has
spoken: 38:8behold, I will cause the shadow on the
steps, which is gone down on the dial of
Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten
steps. So the sun returned ten steps on
the dial whereon it was gone down.
38:9The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah,
when he had been sick, and was recovered
of his sickness.
38:10I said, In the noontide of my days I
shall go into the gates of Sheol:
I am deprived of the residue of
my years.
38:11I said, I shall not see Yah, Yah in
the land of the living:
I shall see man no more with the
inhabitants of the world.
38:12My dwelling is removed, and is carried
away from me as a shepherd's tent:
I have rolled up, like a weaver,
my life; he will cut me off from the loom:
From day even to night will you
make an end of me.
38:13I quieted myself until morning;
as a lion, so he breaks all my bones:
From day even to night will you
make an end of me.
38:14Like a swallow or a crane, so
did I chatter;
I did moan as a dove; my eyes fail
with looking upward:
Lord, I am oppressed, be my collateral.
38:15What shall I say? he has both spoken
to me, and himself has done it:
I shall go softly all my years because
of the bitterness of my soul.
38:16Lord, by these things men live;
Wholly therein is the life of my
spirit:
You restore me, and cause me to
live.
38:17Behold, it was for my
peace that I had great bitterness:
But you have in love to my soul
delivered it from the pit of corruption;
For you have cast all my sins behind
your back.
38:18For Sheol can't praise you, death can't
celebrate you:
Those who go down into the pit can't
hope for your truth.
38:19The living, the living, he shall praise
you, as I do this day:
The father to the children shall
make known your truth.
38:20Yahweh is ready to save me:
Therefore we will sing my songs
with stringed instruments
All the days of our life in the
house of Yahweh.
38:21Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a
cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster on
the boil, and he shall recover. 38:22Hezekiah also had said, What is the
sign that I shall go up to the house of
Yahweh?
39:1At that time Merodach Baladan the son
of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters
and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard
that he had been sick, and was recovered.
39:2Hezekiah was glad of them, and shown
them the house of his precious things, the
silver, and the gold, and the spices, and
the precious oil, and all the house of his
armor, and all that was found in his treasures:
there was nothing in his house, nor in all
his dominion, that Hezekiah didn't show
them. 39:3Then came Isaiah
the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to
him, What said these men? and from whence
came they to you? Hezekiah said, They are
come from a far country to me, even from
Babylon. 39:4Then said he, What
have they seen in your house? Hezekiah answered,
All that is in my house have they seen:
there is nothing among my treasures that
I have not shown them. 39:5Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the
word of Yahweh of Hosts: 39:6Behold, the days
are coming, when all that is in your house,
and that which your fathers have laid up
in store until this day, shall be carried
to Babylon: nothing shall be left, says
Yahweh. 39:7Of your sons who
shall issue from you, whom you shall father,
shall they take away; and they shall be
eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
39:8Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is
the word of Yahweh which you have spoken.
He said moreover, For there shall be peace
and truth in my days.
40:1Comfort you, comfort you my people, says
your God. 40:2Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry
to her, that her warfare is accomplished,
that her iniquity is pardoned, that she
has received of Yahweh's hand double for
all her sins. 40:3The voice of one who cries, Prepare you
in the wilderness the way of Yahweh; make
level in the desert a highway for our God.
40:4Every valley shall be exalted, and every
mountain and hill shall be made low; and
the uneven shall be made level, and the
rough places a plain: 40:5and the glory of
Yahweh shall be revealed, and all flesh
shall see it together; for the mouth of
Yahweh has spoken it. 40:6The voice of one
saying, Cry. One said, What shall I cry?
All flesh is grass, and all the glory of
it is as the flower of the field. 40:7The grass withers,
the flower fades, because the breath of
Yahweh blows on it; surely the people is
grass. 40:8The grass withers, the flower fades;
but the word of our God shall stand forever.
40:9You who tell good
news to Zion, go up on a high mountain;
you who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift
up your voice with strength; lift it up,
don't be afraid; say to the cities of Judah,
Behold, your God! 40:10Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as
a mighty one, and his arm will rule for
him: Behold, his reward is with him, and
his recompense before him. 40:11He will feed his
flock like a shepherd, he will gather the
lambs in his arm, and carry them in his
bosom, and will gently lead those
who have their young. 40:12Who has measured the waters in the hollow
of his hand, and meted out the sky with
the span, and comprehended the dust of the
earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains
in scales, and the hills in a balance? 40:13Who has directed
the Spirit of Yahweh, or being his counselor
has taught him? 40:14With whom took he counsel, and who instructed
him, and taught him in the path of justice,
and taught him knowledge, and shown to him
the way of understanding? 40:15Behold, the nations are as a drop of
a bucket, and are accounted as the small
dust of the balance: Behold, he takes up
the isles as a very little thing. 40:16Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor
the animals of it sufficient for a burnt
offering. 40:17All the nations are as nothing before
him; they are accounted by him as less than
nothing, and vanity. 40:18To whom then will you liken God? or
what likeness will you compare to him? 40:19The image, a workman
has cast it, and the goldsmith overlays
it with gold, and casts for it silver
chains. 40:20He who is too
impoverished for such an offering
chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks
to him a skillful workman to set up an engraved
image, that shall not be moved. 40:21Have you not known? have yet not heard?
has it not been told you from the beginning?
have you not understood from the foundations
of the earth? 40:22It is he
who sits above the circle of the earth,
and the inhabitants of it are as grasshoppers;
who stretches out the heavens as a curtain,
and spreads them out as a tent to dwell
in; 40:23who brings princes
to nothing; who makes the judges of the
earth as vanity. 40:24Yes, they have not been planted; yes,
they have not been sown; yes, their stock
has not taken root in the earth: moreover
he blows on them, and they wither, and the
whirlwind takes them away as stubble. 40:25To whom then will you liken me, that
I should be equal to him? says the
Holy One. 40:26Lift up your eyes on high, and see who
has created these, who brings out their
host by number; he calls them all by name;
by the greatness of his might, and because
he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
40:27Why say you, Jacob, and speak, Israel,
My way is hid from Yahweh, and the justice
due to me is passed away from my
God? 40:28Have you not known? have you not heard?
The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator
of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint,
neither is weary; there is no searching
of his understanding. 40:29He gives power to the faint; and to
him who has no might he increases strength.
40:30Even the youths
shall faint and be weary, and the young
men shall utterly fall: 40:31but those who wait for Yahweh shall
renew their strength; they shall mount up
with wings as eagles; they shall run, and
not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.
41:1Keep silence before me, islands; and
let the peoples renew their strength: let
them come near; then let them speak; let
us come near together to judgment. 41:2Who has raised
up one from the east, whom he calls in righteousness
to his foot? he gives nations before him,
and makes him rule over kings; he gives
them as the dust to his sword, as the driven
stubble to his bow. 41:3He pursues them, and passes on safely,
even by a way that he had not gone with
his feet. 41:4Who has worked and done it, calling the
generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh,
the first, and with the last, I am he. 41:5The isles have seen, and fear; the ends
of the earth tremble; they draw near, and
come. 41:6They help everyone his neighbor; and
every one says to his brother, Be
of good courage. 41:7So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith,
and he who smoothes with the hammer
him who strikes the anvil, saying of the
soldering, It is good; and he fastens it
with nails, that is should not be moved.
41:8But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom
I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,
41:9you whom I have taken hold of from the
ends of the earth, and called from the corners
of it, and said to you, You are my servant,
I have chosen you and not cast you away;
41:10Don't you be afraid, for I am with you;
don't be dismayed, for I am your God; I
will strengthen you; yes, I will help you;
yes, I will uphold you with the right hand
of my righteousness. 41:11Behold, all those who are incensed against
you shall be disappointed and confounded:
those who strive with you shall be as nothing,
and shall perish. 41:12You shall seek them, and shall not find
them, even those who contend with you: those
who war against you shall be as nothing,
and as a thing of nothing. 41:13For I, Yahweh
your God, will hold your right hand, saying
to you, Don't be afraid; I will help you.
41:14Don't be afraid, you worm Jacob, and
you men of Israel; I will help you, says
Yahweh, and your Redeemer is the Holy One
of Israel. 41:15Behold, I have made you to be
a new sharp threshing instrument having
teeth; you shall thresh the mountains, and
beat them small, and shall make the hills
as chaff. 41:16You shall winnow them, and the wind
shall carry them away, and the whirlwind
shall scatter them; and you shall rejoice
in Yahweh, you shall glory in the Holy One
of Israel. 41:17The poor and needy seek water, and there
is none, and their tongue fails for thirst;
I, Yahweh, will answer them, I, the God
of Israel, will not forsake them. 41:18I will open rivers on the bare heights,
and springs in the midst of the valleys;
I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
and the dry land springs of water. 41:19I will put in the wilderness the cedar,
the acacia, and the myrtle, and the oil
tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree,
the pine, and the box tree together: 41:20that they may see, and know, and consider,
and understand together, that the hand of
Yahweh has done this, and the Holy One of
Israel has created it. 41:21Produce your cause,
says Yahweh; bring forth your strong reasons,
says the King of Jacob. 41:22Let them bring forth, and declare to
us what shall happen: declare you the former
things, what they are, that we may consider
them, and know the latter end of them; or
show us things to come. 41:23Declare the things that are to come
hereafter, that we may know that you are
gods: yes, do good, or do evil, that we
may be dismayed, and see it together. 41:24Behold, you are
of nothing, and your work is of nothing;
an abomination is he who chooses you. 41:25I have raised up one from the north,
and he has come; from the rising of the
sun one who calls on my name: and he shall
come on rulers as on mortar, and as the
potter treads clay. 41:26Who has declared it from the beginning,
that we may know? and before, that we may
say, He is right? yes, there is none
who declares, yes, there is none who shows,
yes, there is none who hears your words.
41:27I am the
first who says to Zion, Behold, behold
them; and I will give to Jerusalem one who
brings good news. 41:28When I look, there
is no man: even among them there is no counselor
who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.
41:29Behold, all of
them, their works are vanity and
nothing; their molten images are wind and
confusion.
42:1Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my
chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have
put my Spirit on him; he will bring forth
justice to the Gentiles. 42:2He will not cry,
nor lift up his voice, nor cause it to be
heard in the street. 42:3A bruised reed will he not break, and
a dimly burning wick will he not quench:
he will bring forth justice in truth. 42:4He will not fail nor be discouraged,
until he have set justice in the earth;
and the isles shall wait for his law. 42:5Thus says God Yahweh, he who created
the heavens, and stretched them forth; he
who spread abroad the earth and that which
comes out of it; he who gives breath to
the people on it, and spirit to those who
walk therein: 42:6I, Yahweh, have
called you in righteousness, and will hold
your hand, and will keep you, and give you
for a covenant of the people, for a light
of the Gentiles; 42:7to open the blind eyes, to bring out
the prisoners from the dungeon, and those
who sit in darkness out of the prison-house.
42:8I am Yahweh, that is my name; and my
glory will I not give to another, neither
my praise to engraved images. 42:9Behold, the former things have happened,
and new things do I declare. Before they
spring forth I tell you of them. 42:10Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise
from the end of the earth; you who go down
to the sea, and all that is therein, the
isles, and the inhabitants of it. 42:11Let the wilderness and the cities of
it lift up their voice, the villages
that Kedar does inhabit; let the inhabitants
of Sela sing, let them shout from the top
of the mountains. 42:12Let them give glory to Yahweh, and declare
his praise in the islands. 42:13Yahweh will go
forth as a mighty man; he will stir up his
zeal like a man of war: he will cry, yes,
he will shout aloud; he will do mightily
against his enemies. 42:14I have long time held my peace; I have
been still, and refrained myself: now
will I cry out like a travailing woman;
I will gasp and pant together. 42:15I will lay waste
mountains and hills, and dry up all their
herbs; and I will make the rivers islands,
and will dry up the pools. 42:16I will bring the
blind by a way that they don't know; in
paths that they don't know will I lead them;
I will make darkness light before them,
and crooked places straight. These things
will I do, and I will not forsake them.
42:17They shall be turned back, they shall
be utterly disappointed, who trust in engraved
images, who tell molten images, You are
our gods. 42:18Hear, you deaf;
and look, you blind, that you may see. 42:19Who is blind,
but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger
whom I send? Who is blind as he who is at
peace, and blind as Yahweh's servant? 42:20You see many things, but don't observe.
His ears are open, but he doesn't hear.
42:21It pleased Yahweh,
for his righteousness' sake, to magnify
the law, and make it honorable. 42:22But this is a people robbed and plundered;
they are all of them snared in holes, and
they are hid in prison-houses: they are
for a prey, and none delivers; for a spoil,
and none says, Restore. 42:23Who is there among you who will give
ear to this? who will listen and hear for
the time to come? 42:24Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel
to the robbers? Didn't Yahweh? he against
whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they
would not walk, neither were they obedient
to his law. 42:25Therefore he poured on him the fierceness
of his anger, and the strength of battle;
and it set him on fire round about, yet
he didn't know; and it burned him, yet he
didn't lay it to heart.
43:1But now thus says Yahweh who created
you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel:
Don't be afraid, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by your name, you are
mine. 43:2When you pass through the waters, I will
be with you; and through the rivers, they
shall not overflow you: when you walk through
the fire, you shall not be burned, neither
shall the flame kindle on you. 43:3For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One
of Israel, your Savior; I have given Egypt
as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your
place. 43:4Since you have
been precious in my sight, and honorable,
and I have loved you; therefore will I give
men in your place, and peoples instead of
your life. 43:5Don't be afraid; for I am with you: I
will bring your seed from the east, and
gather you from the west; 43:6I will tell the north, Give up; and to
the south, Don't keep back; bring my sons
from far, and my daughters from the end
of the earth; 43:7everyone who is
called by my name, and whom I have created
for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom
I have made. 43:8Bring forth the
blind people who have eyes, and the deaf
who have ears. 43:9Let all the nations be gathered together,
and let the peoples be assembled: who among
them can declare this, and show us former
things? let them bring their witnesses,
that they may be justified; or let them
hear, and say, It is truth. 43:10You are my witnesses, says Yahweh, and
my servant whom I have chosen; that you
may know and believe me, and understand
that I am he: before me there was no God
formed, neither shall there be after me.
43:11I, even I, am
Yahweh; and besides me there is no savior.
43:12I have declared,
and I have saved, and I have shown; and
there was no strange god among you:
therefore you are my witnesses, says Yahweh,
and I am God. 43:13Yes, since the day was I am he; and
there is none who can deliver out of my
hand: I will work, and who can hinder it?
43:14Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the
Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have
sent to Babylon, and I will bring down all
of them as fugitives, even the Chaldeans,
in the ships of their rejoicing. 43:15I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator
of Israel, your King. 43:16Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in
the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
43:17who brings forth
the chariot and horse, the army and the
mighty man (they lie down together, they
shall not rise; they are extinct, they are
quenched as a wick): 43:18Don't remember the former things, neither
consider the things of old. 43:19Behold, I will
do a new thing; now shall it spring forth;
shall you not know it? I will even make
a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the
desert. 43:20The animals of the field shall honor
me, the jackals and the ostriches; because
I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers
in the desert, to give drink to my people,
my chosen, 43:21the people which I formed for myself,
that they might set forth my praise. 43:22Yet you have not
called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary
of me, Israel. 43:23You have not brought me of your sheep
for burnt offerings; neither have you honored
me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened
you with offerings, nor wearied you with
frankincense. 43:24You have bought me no sweet cane with
money, neither have you filled me with the
fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened
me with your sins, you have wearied me with
your iniquities. 43:25I, even I, am he who blots out your
transgressions for my own sake; and I will
not remember your sins. 43:26Put me in remembrance; let us plead
together: set you forth your cause,
that you may be justified. 43:27Your first father sinned, and your teachers
have transgressed against me. 43:28Therefore I will
profane the princes of the sanctuary; and
I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a
reviling.
44:1Yet now hear, Jacob my servant, and Israel,
who I have chosen: 44:2Thus says Yahweh who made you, and formed
you from the womb, who will help you: Don't
be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun,
whom I have chosen. 44:3For I will pour
water on him who is thirsty, and streams
on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit
on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring:
44:4and they shall spring up among the grass,
as willows by the watercourses. 44:5One shall say,
I am Yahweh's; and another shall call himself
by the name of Jacob; and another shall
subscribe with his hand to Yahweh, and surname
himself by the name of Israel. 44:6Thus says Yahweh,
the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh
of Hosts: I am the first, and I am the last;
and besides me there is no God. 44:7Who, as I, shall call, and shall declare
it, and set it in order for me, since I
established the ancient people? and the
things that are coming, and that shall happen,
let them declare. 44:8Don't fear, neither be afraid: haven't
I declared to you of old, and shown it?
You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides
me? Indeed, there is not. I don't know any
Rock. 44:9Those who fashion an engraved image are
all of them vanity; and the things that
they delight in shall not profit; and their
own witnesses don't see, nor know: that
they may be disappointed. 44:10Who has fashioned a god, or molten an
image that is profitable for nothing? 44:11Behold, all his
fellows shall be disappointed; and the workmen,
they are of men: let them all be gathered
together, let them stand up; they shall
fear, they shall be put to shame together.
44:12The smith makes
an axe, and works in the coals, and fashions
it with hammers, and works it with his strong
arm: yes, he is hungry, and his strength
fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.
44:13The carpenter
stretches out a line; he marks it out with
a pencil; he shapes it with planes, and
he marks it out with the compasses, and
shapes it after the figure of a man, according
to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.
44:14He cuts down cedars for himself, and
takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens
for himself one among the trees of the forest:
he plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes
it. 44:15Then shall it be for a man to burn;
and he takes of it, and warms himself; yes,
he kindles it, and bakes bread: yes, he
makes a god, and worships it; he makes it
an engraved image, and falls down to it.
44:16He burns part of it in the fire; with
part of it he eats flesh; he roasts roast,
and is satisfied; yes, he warms himself,
and says, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the
fire. 44:17The residue of it he makes a god, even
his engraved image; he falls down to it
and worships, and prays to it, and says,
Deliver me; for you are my god. 44:18They don't know,
neither do they consider: for he has shut
their eyes, that they can't see; and their
hearts, that they can't understand. 44:19None calls to mind, neither is there
knowledge nor understanding to say, I have
burned part of it in the fire; yes, also
I have baked bread on the coals of it; I
have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall
I make the residue of it an abomination?
shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
44:20He feeds on ashes;
a deceived heart has turned him aside; and
he can't deliver his soul, nor say, Is there
not a lie in my right hand? 44:21Remember these
things, Jacob, and Israel; for you are my
servant: I have formed you; you are my servant:
Israel, you shall not be forgotten by me.
44:22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud,
your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your
sins: return to me; for I have redeemed
you. 44:23Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done
it; shout, you lower parts of the earth;
break forth into singing, you mountains,
O forest, and every tree therein: for Yahweh
has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself
in Israel. 44:24Thus says Yahweh,
your Redeemer, and he who formed you from
the womb: I am Yahweh, who makes all things;
who stretches forth the heavens alone; who
spreads abroad the earth (who is with me?);
44:25who frustrates
the signs of the liars, and makes diviners
mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes
their knowledge foolish; 44:26who confirms the
word of his servant, and performs the counsel
of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem,
She shall be inhabited; and of the cities
of Judah, They shall be built, and I will
raise up the waste places of it; 44:27who says to the deep, Be dry, and I
will dry up your rivers; 44:28Who says of Cyrus,
He is my shepherd, and shall perform
all my pleasure, even saying of Jerusalem,
She shall be built; and of the temple, Your
foundation shall be laid.
45:1Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to
Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to
subdue nations before him, and I will loose
the loins of kings; to open the doors before
him, and the gates shall not be shut: 45:2I will go before you, and make the rough
places smooth; I will break in pieces the
doors of brass, and cut in sunder the bars
of iron; 45:3and I will give
you the treasures of darkness, and hidden
riches of secret places, that you may know
that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your
name, even the God of Israel. 45:4For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel
my chosen, I have called you by your name:
I have surnamed you, though you have not
known me. 45:5I am Yahweh, and there is none else;
besides me there is no God. I will gird
you, though you have not known me; 45:6that they may know from the rising of
the sun, and from the west, that there is
none besides me: I am Yahweh, and there
is no one else. 45:7I form the light,
and create darkness; I make peace, and create
evil. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
45:8Distil, you heavens, from above, and
let the skies pour down righteousness: let
the earth open, that it may bring forth
salvation, and let it cause righteousness
to spring up together; I, Yahweh, have created
it. 45:9Woe to him who
strives with his Maker--a potsherd among
the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay
ask him who fashions it, "What are
you making?" or your work, "He
has no hands?" 45:10Woe to him who
says to a father, "What have you become
the father of?" or to a woman, "With
what do you travail?" 45:11Thus says Yahweh,
the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: Ask
me of the things that are to come; concerning
my sons, and concerning the work of my hands,
command you me. 45:12I have made the earth, and created man
on it: I, even my hands, have stretched
out the heavens; and all their host have
I commanded. 45:13I have raised
him up in righteousness, and I will make
straight all his ways: he shall build my
city, and he shall let my exiles go free,
not for price nor reward, says Yahweh of
Hosts. 45:14Thus says Yahweh: "The labor of
Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia,
and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come
over to you, and they shall be yours. They
shall go after you. In chains they shall
come over; and they shall fall down to you.
They shall make supplication to you: 'Surely
God is in you; and there is none else, there
is no other god. 45:15Most assuredly
you are a God who hid yourself, God of Israel,
the Savior.'
45:16They shall be disappointed, yes, confounded,
all of them; they shall go into confusion
together who are makers of idols. 45:17But Israel shall be saved by
Yahweh with an everlasting salvation: you
shall not be disappointed nor confounded
world without end. 45:18For thus says Yahweh who created the
heavens, the God who formed the earth and
made it, who established it and didn't create
it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited:
I am Yahweh; and there is no one else. 45:19I have not spoken in secret, in a place
of the land of darkness; I didn't say to
the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain:
I, Yahweh, speak righteousness, I declare
things that are right. 45:20Assemble yourselves and come; draw near
together, you who have escaped from the
nations: they have no knowledge who carry
the wood of their engraved image, and pray
to a god that can't save. 45:21Declare you, and bring it forth;
yes, let them take counsel together: who
has shown this from ancient time? who has
declared it of old? Haven't I, Yahweh? and
there is no God else besides me, a just
God and a Savior; there is no one besides
me. 45:22Look to me, and be you saved, all the
ends of the earth; for I am God, and there
is none else. 45:23By myself have I sworn, the word is
gone forth from my mouth in righteousness,
and shall not return, that to me every knee
shall bow, every tongue shall swear. 45:24Only in Yahweh, it is said of me, is
righteousness and strength; even to him
shall men come; and all those who were incensed
against him shall be disappointed. 45:25In Yahweh shall all the seed of Israel
be justified, and shall glory.
46:1Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols
are on the animals, and on the cattle: the
things that you carried about are made a
load, a burden to the weary animal.
46:2They stoop, they bow down together; they
could not deliver the burden, but themselves
are gone into captivity. 46:3Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all
the remnant of the house of Israel, that
have been borne by me from their
birth, that have been carried from the womb;
46:4and even to old age I am he, and even
to gray hairs will I carry you. I have made,
and I will bear; yes, I will carry, and
will deliver. 46:5To whom will you liken me, and make me
equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
46:6Some pour out gold
from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance.
They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a
god. They fall down--yes, they worship.
46:7They bear it on the shoulder, they carry
it, and set it in its place, and it stands,
from its place it shall not move: yes, one
may cry to it, yet it can not answer, nor
save him out of his trouble. 46:8Remember this, and show yourselves men;
bring it again to mind, you transgressors.
46:9Remember the former things of old: for
I am God, and there is none else; I am
God, and there is none like me; 46:10declaring the end from the beginning,
and from ancient times things that are not
yet done; saying, My counsel shall
stand, and I will do all my pleasure; 46:11calling a ravenous bird from the east,
the man of my counsel from a far country;
yes, I have spoken, I will also bring it
to pass; I have purposed, I will also do
it. 46:12Listen to me, you stout-hearted, who
are far from righteousness: 46:13I bring near my
righteousness, it shall not be far off,
and my salvation shall not wait; and I will
place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
47:1Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin
daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without
a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans: for
you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
47:2Take the millstones, and grind meal;
remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover
the leg, pass through the rivers. 47:3Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes,
your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance,
and will spare no man. 47:4Our Redeemer, Yahweh of hosts is his
name, the Holy One of Israel. 47:5Sit you silent,
and get you into darkness, daughter of the
Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called
The mistress of kingdoms. 47:6I was angry with
my people, I profaned my inheritance, and
gave them into your hand: you did show them
no mercy; on the aged have you very heavily
laid your yoke. 47:7You said, I shall be mistress forever;
so that you did not lay these things to
your heart, neither did remember the latter
end of it. 47:8Now therefore hear this, you who are
given to pleasures, who sit securely, who
say in your heart, I am, and there is none
else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow,
neither shall I know the loss of children:
47:9but these two things shall come to you
in a moment in one day, the loss of children,
and widowhood; in their full measure shall
they come on you, in the multitude of your
sorceries, and the great abundance of your
enchantments. 47:10For you have trusted in your wickedness;
you have said, None sees me; your wisdom
and your knowledge, it has perverted you,
and you have said in your heart, I am, and
there is none else besides me. 47:11Therefore shall evil come on you; you
shall not know the dawning of it: and mischief
shall fall on you; you shall not be able
to put it away: and desolation shall come
on you suddenly, which you don't know. 47:12Stand now with
your enchantments, and with the multitude
of your sorceries, in which you have labored
from your youth; if so be you shall be able
to profit, if so be you may prevail. 47:13You are wearied in the multitude of
your counsels: let now the astrologers,
the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators,
stand up, and save you from the things that
shall come on you. 47:14Behold, they shall be as stubble; the
fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver
themselves from the power of the flame:
it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a
fire to sit before. 47:15Thus shall the things be to you in which
you have labored: those who have trafficked
with you from your youth shall wander everyone
to his quarter; there shall be none to save
you.
48:1Hear you this, house of Jacob, who are
called by the name of Israel, and are come
forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear
by the name of Yahweh, and make mention
of the God of Israel, but not in truth,
nor in righteousness 48:2(for they call
themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves
on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Hosts is
his name): 48:3I have declared
the former things from of old; yes, they
went forth out of my mouth, and I shown
them: suddenly I did them, and they happened.
48:4Because I knew that you are obstinate,
and your neck is an iron sinew, and your
brow brass; 48:5therefore I have declared it to you from
of old; before it came to pass I shown it
you; lest you should say, My idol has done
them, and my engraved image, and my molten
image, has commanded them. 48:6You have heard it; see all this; and
you, will you not declare it? I have shown
you new things from this time, even hidden
things, which you have not known. 48:7They are created
now, and not from of old; and before this
day you didn't hear them; lest you should
say, Behold, I knew them. 48:8Yes, you didn't
hear; yes, you didn't know; yes, from of
old your ear was not opened: for I knew
that you did deal very treacherously, and
was called a transgressor from the womb.
48:9For my name's sake will I defer my anger,
and for my praise will I refrain for you,
that I not cut you off. 48:10Behold, I have refined you, but not
as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace
of affliction. 48:11For my own sake, for my own sake, will
I do it; for how should my name be
profaned? and my glory I will not give to
another. 48:12Listen to me,
O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he;
I am the first, I also am the last. 48:13Yes, my hand has laid the foundation
of the earth, and my right hand has spread
out the heavens: when I call to them, they
stand up together. 48:14Assemble yourselves,
all you, and hear; who among them has declared
these things? He whom Yahweh loves shall
perform his pleasure on Babylon, and his
arm shall be on the Chaldeans. 48:15I, even I, have
spoken; yes, I have called him; I have brought
him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
48:16Come you near to me, hear you this;
from the beginning I have not spoken in
secret; from the time that it was, there
am I: and now the Lord Yahweh has sent me,
and his Spirit. 48:17Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the
Holy One of Israel: I am Yahweh your God,
who teaches you to profit, who leads you
by the way that you should go. 48:18Oh that you had
listened to my commandments! then had your
peace been as a river, and your righteousness
as the waves of the sea: 48:19your seed also
had been as the sand, and the offspring
of your loins like the grains of it: his
name would not be cut off nor destroyed
from before me. 48:20Go you forth from Babylon, flee you
from the Chaldeans; with a voice of singing
declare you, tell this, utter it even to
the end of the earth: say you, Yahweh has
redeemed his servant Jacob. 48:21They didn't thirst when he led them
through the deserts; he caused the waters
to flow out of the rock for them; he split
the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
48:22There is no peace, says Yahweh, to the
wicked.
49:1Listen, isles, to me; and listen, you
peoples, from far: Yahweh has called me
from the womb; from the bowels of my mother
has he made mention of my name: 49:2and he has made
my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow
of his hand has he hid me: and he has made
me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he
kept me close: 49:3and he said to me, You are my servant;
Israel, in whom I will be glorified. 49:4But I said, I have
labored in vain, I have spent my strength
for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice
due to me is with Yahweh, and my
recompense with my God. 49:5Now says Yahweh who formed me from the
womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again
to him, and that Israel be gathered to him
(for I am honorable in the eyes of Yahweh,
and my God is become my strength); 49:6yes, he says, It is too light a thing
that you should be my servant to raise up
the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the
preserved of Israel: I will also give you
for a light to the Gentiles, that you may
be my salvation to the end of the earth.
49:7Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel,
and his Holy One, to him whom man
despises, to him whom the nation abhors,
to a servant of rulers: Kings shall see
and arise; princes, and they shall worship;
because of Yahweh who is faithful, even
the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.
49:8Thus says Yahweh,
In an acceptable time have I answered you,
and in a day of salvation have I helped
you; and I will preserve you, and give you
for a covenant of the people, to raise up
the land, to make them inherit the desolate
heritage: 49:9saying to those who are bound, Go forth;
to those who are in darkness, Show yourselves.
They shall feed in the ways, and on all
bare heights shall be their pasture. 49:10They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither
shall the heat nor sun strike them: for
he who has mercy on them will lead them,
even by springs of water will he guide them.
49:11I will make all my mountains a way,
and my highways shall be exalted. 49:12Behold, these
shall come from far; and, behold, these
from the north and from the west; and these
from the land of Sinim. 49:13Sing, heavens;
and be joyful, earth; and break forth into
singing, mountains: for Yahweh has comforted
his people, and will have compassion on
his afflicted. 49:14But Zion said, Yahweh has forsaken me,
and the Lord has forgotten me. 49:15Can a woman forget
her sucking child, that she should not have
compassion on the son of her womb? yes,
these may forget, yet I will not forget
you. 49:16Behold, I have engraved you on the palms
of my hands; your walls are continually
before me. 49:17Your children make haste; your destroyers
and those who made you waste shall go forth
from you. 49:18Lift up your eyes round about, and see:
all these gather themselves together, and
come to you. As I live, says Yahweh, you
shall surely clothe you with them all as
with an ornament, and gird yourself with
them, like a bride. 49:19For, as for your waste and your desolate
places, and your land that has been destroyed,
surely now shall you be too small for the
inhabitants, and those who swallowed you
up shall be far away. 49:20The children of your bereavement shall
yet say in your ears, The place is too small
for me; give place to me that I may dwell.
49:21Then shall you say in your heart, Who
has conceived these for me, seeing I have
been bereaved of my children, and am solitary,
an exile, and wandering back and forth?
and who has brought up these? Behold, I
was left alone; these, where were they?
49:22Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I
will lift up my hand to the nations, and
set up my ensign to the peoples; and they
shall bring your sons in their bosom, and
your daughters shall be carried on their
shoulders. 49:23Kings shall be
your nursing fathers, and their queens your
nursing mothers: they shall bow down to
you with their faces to the earth, and lick
the dust of your feet; and you shall know
that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for
me shall not be disappointed. 49:24Shall the prey be taken from the mighty,
or the lawful captives be delivered? 49:25But thus says
Yahweh, 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 who contends with you,
and I will save your children. 49:26I will feed those
who oppress you with their own flesh; and
they shall be drunken with their own blood,
as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall
know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, and
your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
50:1Thus says Yahweh, Where is the bill of
your mother's divorce, with which I have
put her away? or which of my creditors is
it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for
your iniquities were you sold, and for your
transgressions was your mother put away.
50:2Why, when I came, was there no man? when
I called, was there none to answer? Is my
hand shortened at all, that it can't 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 stink, because
there is no water, and die for thirst. 50:3I clothe the heavens
with blackness, and I make sackcloth their
covering. 50:4The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue
of those who are taught, that I may know
how to sustain with words him who is weary:
he wakens morning by morning, he wakens
my ear to hear as those who are taught.
50:5The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and
I was not rebellious, neither turned away
backward. 50:6I gave my back to the strikers, and my
cheeks to those who plucked off the hair;
I didn't hide my face from shame and spitting.
50:7For the Lord Yahweh will help me; therefore
I have not been confounded: therefore have
I set my face like a flint, and I know that
I shall not be disappointed. 50:8He is near who
justifies me; who will bring charges against
me? Let us stand up together: who is my
adversary? Let him come near to me. 50:9Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me;
who is he who shall condemn me? Behold,
all they shall wax old as a garment, the
moth shall eat them up. 50:10Who is among you
who fears Yahweh, who obeys the voice of
his servant? He who walks in darkness, and
has no light, let him trust in the name
of Yahweh, and rely on his God. 50:11Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who
gird yourselves about with firebrands; walk
you in the flame of your fire, and among
the brands that you have kindled. This shall
you have of my hand; you shall lie down
in sorrow.
51:1Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness,
you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock whence
you were hewn, and to the hold of the pit
whence you were dug. 51:2Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah
who bore you; for when he was but one I
called him, and I blessed him, and made
him many. 51:3For Yahweh has comforted Zion; he has
comforted all her waste places, and has
made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert
like the garden of Yahweh; joy and gladness
shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and
the voice of melody. 51:4Attend to me, my
people; and give ear to me, my nation: for
a law shall go forth from me, and I will
establish my justice for a light of the
peoples. 51:5My righteousness is near, my salvation
is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the
peoples; the isles shall wait for me, and
on my arm shall they trust. 51:6Lift up your eyes
to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath;
for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke,
and the earth shall wax old like a garment;
and those who dwell therein shall die in
like manner: but my salvation shall be forever,
and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
51:7Listen to me, you who know righteousness,
the people in whose heart is my law; don't
you fear the reproach of men, neither be
you dismayed at their insults. 51:8For the moth shall eat them up like a
garment, and the worm shall eat them like
wool; but my righteousness shall be forever,
and my salvation to all generations. 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of
Yahweh; awake, as in the days of old, the
generations of ancient times. Isn't it you
who did cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced
the monster? 51:10Isn't it you who dried up the sea, the
waters of the great deep; who made the depths
of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass
over? 51:11The ransomed of
Yahweh shall return, and come with singing
to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on
their heads: they shall obtain gladness
and joy; and sorrow and sighing shall
flee away. 51:12I, even I, am
he who comforts you: who are you, that you
are afraid of man who shall die, and of
the son of man who shall be made as grass;
51:13and have forgotten Yahweh your Maker,
who stretched forth the heavens, and laid
the foundations of the earth; and fear continually
all the day because of the fury of the oppressor,
when he makes ready to destroy? and where
is the fury of the oppressor? 51:14The captive exile shall speedily be
freed; and he shall not die and go down
into the pit, neither shall his bread fail.
51:15For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs
up the sea, so that the waves of it roar:
Yahweh of Hosts is his name. 51:16I have put my words in your mouth, and
have covered you in the shadow of my hand,
that I may plant the heavens, and lay the
foundations of the earth, and tell Zion,
You are my people. 51:17Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, that
have drunk at the hand of Yahweh the cup
of his wrath; you have drunken the bowl
of the cup of staggering, and drained it.
51:18There is none to guide her among all
the sons whom she has brought forth; neither
is there any who takes her by the hand among
all the sons who she has brought up. 51:19These two things have happened to you.
Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction,
and the famine and the sword; how shall
I comfort you? 51:20Your sons have
fainted, they lie at the head of all the
streets, as an antelope in a net; they are
full of the wrath of Yahweh, the rebuke
of your God. 51:21Therefore hear now this, you afflicted,
and drunken, but now with wine: 51:22Thus says your
Lord Yahweh, and your God who pleads the
cause of his people, Behold, I have taken
out of your hand the cup of staggering,
even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; you
shall no more drink it again: 51:23and I will put
it into the hand of those who afflict you,
who have said to your soul, Bow down, that
we may go over; and you have laid your back
as the ground, and as the street, to those
who go over.
52:1Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion;
put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem,
the holy city: for henceforth there shall
no more come into you the uncircumcised
and the unclean. 52:2Shake yourself from the dust; arise,
sit on your throne, Jerusalem: loose
yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive
daughter of Zion. 52:3For thus says Yahweh,
You were sold for nothing; and you shall
be redeemed without money. 52:4For thus says the Lord Yahweh, My people
went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn
there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them
without cause. 52:5Now therefore,
what do I here, says Yahweh, seeing that
my people is taken away for nothing? those
who rule over them do howl, says Yahweh,
and my name continually all the day is blasphemed.
52:6Therefore my people
shall know my name: therefore they shall
know in that day that I am he who does
speak; behold, it is I. 52:7How beautiful on
the mountains are the feet of him who brings
good news, who publishes peace, who brings
good news of good, who publishes salvation,
who says to Zion, Your God reigns! 52:8The voice of your
watchmen! they lift up the voice, together
do they sing; for they shall see eye to
eye, when Yahweh returns to Zion. 52:9Break forth into
joy, sing together, you waste places of
Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his
people, he has redeemed Jerusalem. 52:10Yahweh has made
bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the
nations; and all the ends of the earth have
seen the salvation of our God. 52:11Depart you, depart
you, go you out from there, touch no unclean
thing; go you out of the midst of her; cleanse
yourselves, you who bear the vessels of
Yahweh. 52:12For you shall not go out in haste, neither
shall you go by flight: for Yahweh will
go before you; and the God of Israel will
be your rearward. 52:13Behold, my servant
shall deal wisely, he shall be exalted and
lifted up, and shall be very high. 52:14Like as many were astonished at you
(his visage was so marred more than any
man, and his form more than the sons of
men), 52:15so shall he sprinkle many nations; 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 understand.
53:1Who has believed our message? and to
whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?
53:2For he grew up
before him as a tender plant, and as a root
out of a dry ground: he has no form nor
comeliness; and when we see him, there is
no beauty that we should desire him. 53:3He was despised, and rejected by men;
a man of suffering, and acquainted with
disease: and as one from whom men hide their
face he was despised; and we didn't respect
him. 53:4Surely he has borne our sickness, and
carried our suffering; yet we considered
him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
53:5But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment
that brought our peace was on him; and by
his wounds we are healed. 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray; everyone
has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has
laid on him the iniquity of us all. 53:7He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted
he didn't open his mouth; as a lamb that
is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep
that before its shearers is mute, so he
didn't open his mouth. 53:8By oppression and judgment he was taken
away; and as for his generation, who among
them considered that he was cut off
out of the land of the living for the disobedience
of my people to whom the stroke was due?
53:9They made his grave
with the wicked, and with a rich man in
his death; although he had done no violence,
neither was any deceit in his mouth. 53:10Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him;
he has put him to grief: when you shall
make his soul an offering for sin, he shall
see his seed, he shall prolong his
days, and the pleasure of Yahweh shall prosper
in his hand. 53:11He shall see of
the travail of his soul, and shall
be satisfied: by the knowledge of himself
shall my righteous servant justify many;
and he shall bear their iniquities. 53:12Therefore will I divide him a portion
with the great, and he shall divide the
spoil with the strong; because he poured
out his soul to death, and was numbered
with the transgressors: yet he bore the
sin of many, and made intercession for the
transgressors.
54:1Sing, barren, you who didn't bear; break
forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who
did not travail with child: for more are
the children of the desolate than the children
of the married wife, says Yahweh. 54:2Enlarge the place of your tent, and let
them stretch forth the curtains of your
habitations; don't spare: lengthen your
cords, and strengthen your stakes. 54:3For you shall spread
aboard on the right hand and on the left;
and your seed shall possess the nations,
and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
54:4Don't be afraid; for you shall not be
ashamed: neither be confounded; for you
shall not be disappointed: for you shall
forget the shame of your youth; and the
reproach of your widowhood shall you remember
no more. 54:5For your Maker
is your husband; Yahweh of Hosts is his
name: and the Holy One of Israel is your
Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall
he be called. 54:6For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken
and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth,
when she is cast off, says your God. 54:7For a small moment have I forsaken you;
but with great mercies will I gather you.
54:8In overflowing wrath I hid my face from
you for a moment; but with everlasting loving
kindness will I have mercy on you, says
Yahweh your Redeemer. 54:9For this is as
the waters of Noah to me; for as I have
sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more
go over the earth, so have I sworn that
I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke
you. 54:10For the mountains
may depart, and the hills be removed; but
my loving kindness shall not depart from
you, neither shall my covenant of peace
be removed, says Yahweh who has mercy on
you. 54:11you afflicted,
tossed with tempest, and not comforted,
behold, I will set your stones in beautiful
colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
54:12I will make your pinnacles of rubies,
and your gates of emeralds, and all your
border of precious stones. 54:13All your children shall be taught of
Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of
your children. 54:14In righteousness shall you be established:
you shall be far from oppression, for you
shall not be afraid; and from terror, for
it shall not come near you. 54:15Behold, they may gather together, but
not by me: whoever shall gather together
against you shall fall because of you. 54:16Behold, I have created the smith who
blows the fire of coals, and brings forth
a weapon for his work; and I have created
the waster to destroy. 54:17No weapon that
is formed against you shall prosper; and
every tongue that shall rise against you
in judgment you shall condemn. This is the
heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and
their righteousness which is of me, says
Yahweh.
55:1Ho, everyone who thirsts, come you to
the waters, and he who has no money; come
you, buy, and eat; yes, come, buy wine and
milk without money and without price. 55:2Why do you spend money for that which
is not bread? and your labor for that which
doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me,
and eat you that which is good, and let
your soul delight itself in fatness. 55:3Turn your ear, and come to me; hear,
and your soul shall live: and I will make
an everlasting covenant with you, even the
sure mercies of David. 55:4Behold, I have
given him for a witness to the peoples,
a leader and commander to the peoples. 55:5Behold, you shall call a nation that
you don't know; and a nation that didn't
know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh
your God, and for the Holy One of Israel;
for he has glorified you. 55:6Seek you Yahweh while he may be found;
call you on him while he is near: 55:7let the wicked
forsake his way, and the unrighteous man
his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh,
and he will have mercy on him; and to our
God, for he will abundantly pardon. 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, says Yahweh.
55:9For as the heavens are higher than the
earth, so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts. 55:10For as the rain comes down and the snow
from the sky, and doesn't return there,
but waters the earth, and makes it bring
forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower
and bread to the eater; 55:11so shall my word be that goes forth
out of my mouth: it shall not return to
me void, but it shall accomplish that which
I please, and it shall prosper in the thing
whereto I sent it. 55:12For you 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 fields
shall clap their hands. 55:13Instead 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 Yahweh for a name, for an everlasting
sign that shall not be cut off.
56:1Thus says Yahweh, Keep you justice, and
do righteousness; for my salvation is near
to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
56:2Blessed is the man who does this, and
the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps
the Sabbath from profaning it, and keeps
his hand from doing any evil. 56:3Neither let the
foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh,
speak, saying, Yahweh will surely separate
me from his people; neither let the eunuch
say, Behold, I am a dry tree. 56:4For thus says Yahweh of the eunuchs who
keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things
that please me, and hold fast my covenant:
56:5To them will I give in my house and within
my walls a memorial and a name better than
of sons and of daughters; I will give them
an everlasting name, that shall not be cut
off. 56:6Also the foreigners who join themselves
to Yahweh, to minister to him, and to love
the name of Yahweh, to be his servants,
everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning
it, and holds fast my covenant; 56:7even 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 on my altar; for my house
shall be called a house of prayer for all
peoples. 56:8The Lord Yahweh,
who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says,
Yet will I gather others to him,
besides his own who are gathered. 56:9All you animals of the field, come to
devour, yes, all you animals in the
forest. 56:10His watchmen are blind, they are all
without knowledge; they are all mute dogs,
they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving
to slumber. 56:11Yes, the dogs
are greedy, they can never have enough;
and these are shepherds who can't understand:
they have all turned to their own way, each
one to his gain, from every quarter. 56:12Come you, say they, I will get
wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong
drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day,
a day great beyond measure.
57:1The righteous perishes, and no man lays
it to heart; and merciful men are taken
away, none considering that the righteous
is taken away from the evil to come.
57:2He enters into peace; they rest in their
beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.
57:3But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress,
the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute.
57:4Against whom do you sport yourselves?
against whom make you a wide mouth, and
put out the tongue? Aren't you children
of disobedience, a seed of falsehood, 57:5you who inflame yourselves among the
oaks, under every green tree; who kill the
children in the valleys, under the clefts
of the rocks? 57:6Among the smooth stones of the
valley is your portion; they, they are your
lot; even to them have you poured a drink-offering,
you have offered an offering. Shall I be
appeased for these things? 57:7On a high and lofty mountain have you
set your bed; there also you went up to
offer sacrifice. 57:8Behind the doors and the posts have you
set up your memorial: for you have uncovered
yourself to another than me, and
are gone up; you have enlarged your bed,
and made you a covenant with them: you loved
their bed where you saw it. 57:9You went to the king with oil, and did
increase your perfumes, and did send your
ambassadors far off, and did debase yourself
even to Sheol. 57:10You were wearied
with the length of your way; yet you didn't
say, It is in vain: you found a reviving
of your strength; therefore you weren't
faint. 57:11Of whom have you been afraid and in
fear, that you lie, and have not remembered
me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven't I
held my peace even of long time, and you
don't fear me? 57:12I will declare your righteousness; and
as for your works, they shall not profit
you. 57:13When you cry, let those who you have
gathered deliver you; but the wind shall
take them, a breath shall carry them all
away: but he who takes refuge in me shall
possess the land, and shall inherit my holy
mountain. 57:14He will say, Cast
up, cast up, prepare the way, take up the
stumbling-block out of the way of my people.
57:15For thus says the high and lofty One
who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
I dwell in the high and holy place, with
him also who is of a contrite and humble
spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble,
and to revive the heart of the contrite.
57:16For I will not contend forever, neither
will I be always angry; for the spirit would
faint before me, and the souls who I have
made. 57:17For the iniquity of his covetousness
was I angry, and struck him; I hid my
face and was angry; and he went on backsliding
in the way of his heart. 57:18I have seen his ways, and will heal
him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts
to him and to his mourners. 57:19I create the fruit of the lips: Peace,
peace, to him who is far off and to him
who is near, says Yahweh; and I will heal
him. 57:20But the wicked are like the troubled
sea; for it can't rest, and its waters cast
up mire and dirt. 57:21There is no peace, says my God, to the
wicked.
58:1Cry aloud, don't spare, lift up your
voice like a trumpet, and declare to my
people their disobedience, and to the house
of Jacob their sins. 58:2Yet they seek me
daily, and delight to know my ways: as a
nation that did righteousness, and didn't
forsake the ordinance of their God, they
ask of me righteous judgments; they delight
to draw near to God. 58:3Why have we fasted, say they,
and you don't see? why have we afflicted
our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold,
in the day of your fast you find your
own pleasure, and exact all your labors.
58:4Behold, you fast
for strife and contention, and to strike
with the fist of wickedness: you don't fast
this day so as to make your voice to be
heard on high. 58:5Is such the fast that I have chosen?
the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is
it to bow down his head as a rush, and to
spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will
you call this a fast, and an acceptable
day to Yahweh? 58:6Isn't this the
fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds
of wickedness, to undo the bands of the
yoke, and to let the oppressed go free,
and that you break every yoke? 58:7Isn't it to deal your bread to the hungry,
and that you bring the poor who are cast
out to your house? when you see the naked,
that you cover him; and that you not hide
yourself from your own flesh? 58:8Then shall your light break forth as
the morning, and your healing shall spring
forth speedily; and your righteousness shall
go before you; the glory of Yahweh shall
by your rearward. 58:9Then shall you call, and Yahweh will
answer; you shall cry, and he will say,
Here I am. If you take away from the midst
of you the yoke, the putting forth of the
finger, and speaking wickedly; 58:10and if you draw out your soul to the
hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul:
then shall your light rise in darkness,
and your obscurity be as the noonday; 58:11and Yahweh will
guide you continually, and satisfy your
soul in dry places, and make strong your
bones; and you shall be like a watered garden,
and like a spring of water, whose waters
don't fail. 58:12Those who shall
be of you shall build the old waste places;
you shall raise up the foundations of many
generations; and you shall be called The
repairer of the breach, The restorer of
paths to dwell in. 58:13If you turn away
your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your
pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath
a delight, and the holy of Yahweh
honorable; and shall honor it, not doing
your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure,
nor speaking your own words: 58:14then shall you
delight yourself in Yahweh; and I will make
you to ride on the high places of the earth;
and I will feed you with the heritage of
Jacob your father: for the mouth of Yahweh
has spoken it.
59:1Behold, Yahweh's hand is not shortened,
that it can't save; neither his ear heavy,
that it can't hear: 59:2but your iniquities have separated between
you and your God, and your sins have hidden
his face from you, so that he will not hear.
59:3For your hands
are defiled with blood, and your fingers
with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies,
your tongue mutters wickedness. 59:4None sues in righteousness,
and none pleads in truth: they trust in
vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief,
and bring forth iniquity. 59:5They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the
spider's web: he who eats of their eggs
dies; and that which is crushed breaks out
into a viper. 59:6Their webs shall
not become garments, neither shall they
cover themselves with their works: their
works are works of iniquity, and the act
of violence is in their hands. 59:7Their feet run to evil, and they make
haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts
are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and
destruction are in their paths. 59:8The way of peace they don't know; and
there is no justice in their goings: they
have made them crooked paths; whoever goes
therein does not know peace. 59:9Therefore is justice
far from us, neither does righteousness
overtake us: we look for light, but, behold,
darkness; for brightness, but we walk in
obscurity. 59:10We grope for the wall like the blind;
yes, we grope as those who have no eyes:
we stumble at noonday as in the twilight;
among those who are lusty we are as dead
men. 59:11We roar all like bears, and moan sore
like doves: we look for justice, but there
is none; for salvation, but it is far off
from us. 59:12For our transgressions are multiplied
before you, and our sins testify against
us; for our transgressions are with us,
and as for our iniquities, we know them:
59:13transgressing and denying Yahweh, and
turning away from following our God, speaking
oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering
from the heart words of falsehood. 59:14Justice is turned away backward, and
righteousness stands afar off; for truth
is fallen in the street, and uprightness
can't enter. 59:15Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs
from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw
it, and it displeased him who there was
no justice. 59:16He saw that there
was no man, and wondered that there was
no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought
salvation to him; and his righteousness,
it upheld him. 59:17He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
and a helmet of salvation on his head; and
he put on garments of vengeance for clothing,
and was clad with zeal as a mantle. 59:18According to their deeds, accordingly
he will repay, wrath to his adversaries,
recompense to his enemies; to the islands
he will repay recompense. 59:19So shall they
fear the name of Yahweh from the west, and
his glory from the rising of the sun; for
he will come as a rushing stream, which
the breath of Yahweh drives. 59:20A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to
those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,
says Yahweh. 59:21As for me, this is my covenant with
them, says Yahweh: my Spirit who is on you,
and my words which I have put in your mouth,
shall not depart out of your mouth, nor
out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of
the mouth of your seed's seed, says Yahweh,
from henceforth and forever.
60:1Arise, shine; for your light is come,
and the glory of Yahweh is risen on you.
60:2For, behold, darkness
shall cover the earth, and gross darkness
the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you,
and his glory shall be seen on you. 60:3Nations shall come to your light, and
kings to the brightness of your rising.
60:4Lift up your eyes
round about, and see: they all gather themselves
together, they come to you; your sons shall
come from far, and your daughters shall
be carried in the arms. 60:5Then you shall see and be radiant, and
your heart shall thrill and be enlarged;
because the abundance of the sea shall be
turned to you, the wealth of the nations
shall come to you. 60:6The multitude of camels shall cover you,
the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all
they from Sheba shall come; they shall bring
gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim
the praises of Yahweh. 60:7All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered
together to you, the rams of Nebaioth shall
minister to you; they shall come up with
acceptance on my altar; and I will glorify
the house of my glory. 60:8Who are these who fly as a cloud, and
as the doves to their windows? 60:9Surely the isles
shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish
first, to bring your sons from far, their
silver and their gold with them, for the
name of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy
One of Israel, because he has glorified
you. 60:10Foreigners shall build up your walls,
and their kings shall minister to you: for
in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor
have I had mercy on you. 60:11Your gates also
shall be open continually; they shall not
be shut day nor night; that men may bring
to you the wealth of the nations, and their
kings led captive. 60:12For that nation and kingdom that will
not serve you shall perish; yes, those nations
shall be utterly wasted. 60:13The glory of Lebanon shall come to you,
the fir tree, the pine, and the box tree
together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary;
and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
60:14The sons of those who afflicted you
shall come bending to you; and all those
who despised you shall bow themselves down
at the soles of your feet; and they shall
call you The city of Yahweh, The Zion of
the Holy One of Israel. 60:15Whereas you have
been forsaken and hated, so that no man
passed through you, I will make you an eternal
excellency, a joy of many generations. 60:16You shall also suck the milk of the
nations, and shall suck the breast of kings;
and you shall know that I, Yahweh, am your
Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One
of Jacob. 60:17For brass I will bring gold, and for
iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass,
and for stones iron. I will also make your
officers peace, and righteousness your ruler.
60:18Violence shall no more be heard in your
land, desolation nor destruction within
your borders; but you shall call your walls
Salvation, and your gates Praise. 60:19The sun shall be no more your light
by day; neither for brightness shall the
moon give light to you: but Yahweh will
be to you an everlasting light, and your
God your glory. 60:20Your sun shall no more go down, neither
shall your moon withdraw itself; for Yahweh
will be your everlasting light, and the
days of your mourning shall be ended. 60:21Your people also shall be all righteous;
they shall inherit the land forever, the
branch of my planting, the work of my hands,
that I may be glorified. 60:22The little one
shall become a thousand, and the small one
a strong nation; I, Yahweh, will hasten
it in its time.
61:1The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me;
because Yahweh has anointed me to preach
good news to the humble; he has sent me
to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim
liberty to the captives, and the opening
of the prison to those who are bound;
61:2to proclaim the year of Yahweh's favor,
and the day of vengeance of our God; to
comfort all who mourn; 61:3to appoint to those who mourn in Zion,
to give to them a garland for ashes, the
oil of joy for mourning, the garment of
praise for the spirit of heaviness; that
they may be called trees of righteousness,
the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
61:4They shall build the old wastes, they
shall raise up the former desolations, and
they shall repair the waste cities, the
desolations of many generations. 61:5Strangers shall
stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners
shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers.
61:6But you shall be named the priests of
Yahweh; men shall call you the ministers
of our God: you shall eat the wealth of
the nations, and in their glory shall you
boast yourselves. 61:7Instead of your shame you shall have
double; and instead of dishonor they shall
rejoice in their portion: therefore in their
land they shall possess double; everlasting
joy shall be to them. 61:8For I, Yahweh, love justice, I hate robbery
with iniquity; and I will give them their
recompense in truth, and I will make an
everlasting covenant with them. 61:9Their seed shall be known among the nations,
and their offspring among the peoples; all
who see them shall acknowledge them, that
they are the seed which Yahweh has blessed.
61:10I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my
soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has
clothed me with the garments of salvation,
he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland,
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
61:11For as the earth brings forth its bud,
and as the garden causes the things that
are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord
Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise
to spring forth before all the nations.
62:1For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace,
and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest,
until her righteousness go forth as brightness,
and her salvation as a lamp that burns.
62:2The nations shall see your righteousness,
and all kings your glory, and you shall
be called by a new name, which the mouth
of Yahweh shall name. 62:3You shall also
be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh,
and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
62:4You shall no more be termed Forsaken;
neither shall your land any more be termed
Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah,
and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights
in you, and your land shall be married.
62:5For as a young
man marries a virgin, so shall your sons
marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices
over the bride, so shall your God rejoice
over you. 62:6I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem;
they shall never hold their peace day nor
night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest,
62:7and give him no rest, until he establish,
and until he make Jerusalem a praise in
the earth. 62:8Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and
by the arm of his strength, Surely I will
no more give your grain to be food for your
enemies; and foreigners shall not drink
your new wine, for which you have labored:
62:9but those who have
garnered it shall eat it, and praise Yahweh;
and those who have gathered it shall drink
it in the courts of my sanctuary. 62:10Go through, go through the gates; prepare
you the way of the people; cast up, cast
up the highway; gather out the stones; lift
up an ensign for the peoples. 62:11Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the
end of the earth, Say you to the daughter
of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes; behold,
his reward is with him, and his recompense
before him. 62:12They shall call them The holy people,
The redeemed of Yahweh: and you shall be
called Sought out, A city not forsaken.
63:1Who is this who comes from Edom, with
dyed garments from Bozrah? this who is glorious
in his clothing, marching in the greatness
of his strength? I who speak in righteousness,
mighty to save. 63:2Why are you red in your clothing, and
your garments like him who treads in the
wine vat? 63:3I have trodden the winepress alone; and
of the peoples there was no man with me:
yes, I trod them in my anger, and trampled
them in my wrath; and their lifeblood is
sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained
all my clothing. 63:4For the day of
vengeance was in my heart, and the year
of my redeemed is come. 63:5I looked, and there was none to help;
and I wondered that there was none to uphold:
therefore my own arm brought salvation to
me; and my wrath, it upheld me. 63:6I trod down the
peoples in my anger, and made them drunk
in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood
on the earth. 63:7I will make mention of the loving kindnesses
of Yahweh, and the praises of Yahweh,
according to all that Yahweh has bestowed
on us, and the great goodness toward the
house of Israel, which he has bestowed on
them according to his mercies, and according
to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
63:8For he said, Surely,
they are my people, children who will not
deal falsely: so he was their Savior. 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted,
and the angel of his presence saved them:
in his love and in his pity he redeemed
them; and he bore them, and carried them
all the days of old. 63:10But they rebelled, and grieved his holy
Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their
enemy, and himself fought against
them. 63:11Then he remembered the days of old,
Moses and his people, saying,
Where is he who brought them up out of the
sea with the shepherds of his flock? where
is he who put his holy Spirit in the midst
of them? 63:12who caused his
glorious arm to go at the right hand of
Moses? who divided the waters before them,
to make himself an everlasting name? 63:13who led them through
the depths, as a horse in the wilderness,
so that they didn't stumble? 63:14As the cattle that go down into the
valley, the Spirit of Yahweh caused them
to rest; so did you lead your people, to
make yourself a glorious name. 63:15Look down from
heaven, and see from the habitation of your
holiness and of your glory: where are your
zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning
of your heart and your compassion is restrained
toward me. 63:16For you are our
Father, though Abraham doesn't know us,
and Israel does not acknowledge us: you,
Yahweh, are our Father; our Redeemer from
everlasting is your name. 63:17O Yahweh, why do you make us to err
from your ways, and harden our heart from
your fear? Return for your servants' sake,
the tribes of your inheritance. 63:18Your holy people
possessed it but a little while:
our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
63:19We are become as they over whom you
never bear rule, as those who were not called
by your name.
64:1Oh that you would tear the heavens, that
you would come down, that the mountains
might quake at your presence, 64:2as when fire kindles the brushwood, and
the fire causes the waters to boil; to make
your name known to your adversaries, that
the nations may tremble at your presence!
64:3When you did terrible things which we
didn't look for, you came down, the mountains
quaked at your presence. 64:4For from of old men have not heard, nor
perceived by the ear, neither has the eye
seen a God besides you, who works for him
who waits for him. 64:5You meet him who
rejoices and works righteousness, those
who remember you in your ways: behold, you
were angry, and we sinned: in them have
we been of long time; and shall we be
saved? 64:6For we are all
become as one who is unclean, and all our
righteousness are as a polluted garment:
and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities,
like the wind, take us away. 64:7There is none who calls on your name,
who stirs up himself to take hold of you;
for you have hid your face from us, and
have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
64:8But now, Yahweh, you are our Father;
we are the clay, and you our potter; and
we all are the work of your hand. 64:9Don't be angry very sore, Yahweh, neither
remember iniquity forever: see, look, we
beg you, we are all your people. 64:10Your holy cities are become a wilderness,
Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a
desolation. 64:11Our holy and our beautiful house, where
our fathers praised you, is burned with
fire; and all our pleasant places are laid
waste. 64:12Will you refrain
yourself for these things, Yahweh? will
you hold your peace, and afflict us very
sore?
65:1I am inquired of by those who didn't
ask; I am found by those who didn't seek
me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation
that was not called by my name. 65:2I have spread out
my hands all the day to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not good, after
their own thoughts; 65:3a people who provoke
me to my face continually, sacrificing in
gardens, and burning incense on bricks;
65:4who sit among the graves, and lodge in
the secret places; who eat pig's flesh,
and broth of abominable things is in their
vessels; 65:5who say, Stand by yourself, don't come
near to me, for I am holier than you. These
are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns
all the day. 65:6Behold, it is written before me: I will
not keep silence, but will recompense, yes,
I will recompense into their bosom, 65:7your own iniquities, and the iniquities
of your fathers together, says Yahweh, who
have burned incense on the mountains, and
blasphemed me on the hills; therefore will
I first measure their work into their bosom.
65:8Thus says Yahweh,
As the new wine is found in the cluster,
and one says, Don't destroy it, for a blessing
is in it: so will I do for my servants'
sake, that I may not destroy them all. 65:9I will bring forth
a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an
inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen
shall inherit it, and my servants shall
dwell there. 65:10Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and
the valley of Achor a place for herds to
lie down in, for my people who have sought
me. 65:11But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget
my holy mountain, who prepare a table for
Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;
65:12I will destine you to the sword, and
you shall all bow down to the slaughter;
because when I called, you did not answer;
when I spoke, you did not hear; but you
did that which was evil in my eyes, and
chose that in which I didn't delight. 65:13Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh,
Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall
be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink,
but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants
shall rejoice, but you shall be disappointed;
65:14behold, my servants
shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall
cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail
for vexation of spirit. 65:15You shall leave
your name for a curse to my chosen; and
the Lord Yahweh will kill you; and he will
call his servants by another name: 65:16so that he who
blesses himself in the earth shall bless
himself in the God of truth; and he who
swears in the earth shall swear by the God
of truth; because the former troubles are
forgotten, and because they are hid from
my eyes. 65:17For, behold, I create new heavens and
a new earth; and the former things shall
not be remembered, nor come into mind. 65:18But be you glad and rejoice forever
in that which I create; for, behold, I create
Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a
joy. 65:19I will rejoice
in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and
there shall be heard in her no more the
voice of weeping and the voice of crying.
65:20There shall be no more there an infant
of days, nor an old man who has not filled
his days; for the child shall die one hundred
years old, and the sinner being one hundred
years old shall be accursed. 65:21They shall build houses, and inhabit
them; and they shall plant vineyards, and
eat the fruit of them. 65:22They shall not build, and another inhabit;
they shall not plant, and another eat: for
as the days of a tree shall be the days
of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy
the work of their hands. 65:23They shall not labor in vain, nor bring
forth for calamity; for they are the seed
of the blessed of Yahweh, and their offspring
with them. 65:24It shall happen
that, before they call, I will answer; and
while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
65:25The wolf and the lamb shall feed together,
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox;
and dust shall be the serpent's food. They
shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
mountain, says Yahweh.
66:1Thus says Yahweh, heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool: what manner
of house will you build to me? and what
place shall be my rest? 66:2For all these things
has my hand made, and so all these
things came to be, says Yahweh: but to this
man will I look, even to him who is poor
and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles
at my word. 66:3He who kills an
ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices
a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he
who offers an offering, as he who offers
pig's blood; he who burns frankincense,
as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have
chosen their own ways, and their soul delights
in their abominations: 66:4I also will choose their delusions, and
will bring their fears on them; because
when I called, none did answer; when I spoke,
they did not hear: but they did that which
was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which
I didn't delight. 66:5Hear the word of Yahweh, you who tremble
at his word: Your brothers who hate you,
who cast you out for my name's sake, have
said, Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may
see your joy; but it is those who shall
be disappointed. 66:6A voice of tumult
from the city, a voice from the temple,
a voice of Yahweh that renders recompense
to his enemies. 66:7Before she travailed,
she brought forth; before her pain came,
she was delivered of a man-child. 66:8Who has heard such a thing? who has seen
such things? Shall a land be born in one
day? shall a nation be brought forth at
once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she
brought forth her children. 66:9Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause
to bring forth? says Yahweh: shall I who
cause to bring forth shut the womb?
says your God. 66:10Rejoice you with
Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you
who love her: rejoice for joy with her,
all you who mourn over her; 66:11that you may suck
and be satisfied with the breasts of her
consolations; that you may milk out, and
be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
66:12For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will
extend peace to her like a river, and the
glory of the nations like an overflowing
stream: and you shall suck of it;
you shall be borne on the side, and shall
be dandled on the knees. 66:13As one whom his
mother comforts, so will I comfort you;
and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
66:14You shall see it, and your heart
shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish
like the tender grass: and the hand of Yahweh
shall be known toward his servants; and
he will have indignation against his enemies.
66:15For, behold, Yahweh
will come with fire, and his chariots shall
be like the whirlwind; to render his anger
with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames
of fire. 66:16For by fire will Yahweh execute judgment,
and by his sword, on all flesh; and the
slain of Yahweh shall be many. 66:17Those who sanctify themselves and purify
themselves to go to the gardens,
behind one in the midst, eating pig's flesh,
and the abomination, and the mouse, they
shall come to an end together, says Yahweh.
66:18For I know
their works and their thoughts: the time
comes, that I will gather all nations and
languages; and they shall come, and shall
see my glory. 66:19I will set a sign among them, and I
will send such as escape of them to the
nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who
draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the
isles afar off, who have not heard my fame,
neither have seen my glory; and they shall
declare my glory among the nations. 66:20They shall bring all your brothers out
of all the nations for an offering to Yahweh,
on horses, and in chariots, and in litters,
and on mules, and on dromedaries, to my
holy mountain Jerusalem, says Yahweh, as
the children of Israel bring their offering
in a clean vessel into the house of Yahweh.
66:21Of them also will I take for priests
and for Levites, says Yahweh. 66:22For as the new
heavens and the new earth, which I will
make, shall remain before me, says Yahweh,
so shall your seed and your name remain.
66:23It shall happen, that from one new moon
to another, and from one Sabbath to another,
shall all flesh come to worship before me,
says Yahweh. 66:24They shall go
forth, and look on the dead bodies of the
men who have transgressed against me: for
their worm shall not die, neither shall
their fire be quenched; and they shall be
an abhorring to all flesh.
Notes:
[1] back
to 5:10 Literally, ten yokes, or the
amount of land that ten yokes of oxen can
plow in one day, which is about 10 acres
or 4 hectares.
[2] back to 5:10 1 bath is about 22 litres, 5.8
U. S. gallons, or 4.8 imperial gallons
[3] back to 5:10 1 homer is about 220 litres or
6 bushels
[4] back
to 5:10 1 ephah is about 22 litres or
0.6 bushels or about 2 pecks)-- only one
tenth of what was sown.
[5] back
to 5:14 Sheol is the place of the dead.
[6] back to 7:14 "Immanuel" means "God with us."
[7] back
to 8:1 "Maher Shalal Hash Baz"
means "quick to the plunder, swift
to the spoil."
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