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ISA-11:9 ...for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,

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11 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz which he saw concerning

Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah Jotham Ahaz and

Hezekiah kings of Judah .

12 Hear O heavens and give ear O earth for the LORD hath spoken

I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled

against me .

13 The ox knoweth his owner and the ass his master's crib but

Israel doth not know my people doth not consider .

14 Ah sinful nation a people laden with iniquity a seed of

evildoers children that are corrupters they have forsaken the

LORD they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger they

are gone away backward .

15 Why should ye be stricken any more ye will revolt more and

more the whole head is sick and the whole heart faint .

16 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no

soundness in it but wounds and bruises and putrifying sores they

have not been closed neither bound up neither mollified with

ointment .

17 Your country is desolate your cities are burned with fire

your land strangers devour it in your presence and it is

desolate as overthrown by strangers .

18 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard

as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers as a besieged city .

19 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small

remnant we should have been as Sodom and we should have been

like unto Gomorrah .

110 Hear the word of the LORD ye rulers of Sodom give ear unto

the law of our God ye people of Gomorrah .

111 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me

saith the LORD I am full of the burnt offerings of rams and the

fat of fed beasts and I delight not in the blood of bullocks or

of lambs or of he goats .

112 When ye come to appear before me who hath required this at

your hand to tread my courts .

113 Bring no more vain oblations incense is an abomination unto

me the new moons and sabbaths the calling of assemblies I cannot

away with it is iniquity even the solemn meeting .

114 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth

they are a trouble unto me I am weary to bear them .

115 And when ye spread forth your hands I will hide mine eyes

from you yea when ye make many prayers I will not hear your

hands are full of blood .

116 Wash you make you clean put away the evil of your doings

from before mine eyes cease to do evil .

117 Learn to do well seek judgment relieve the oppressed judge

the fatherless plead for the widow .

118 Come now and let us reason together saith the LORD though

your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow though

they be red like crimson they shall be as wool .

119 If ye be willing and obedient ye shall eat the good of the

land .

120 But if ye refuse and rebel ye shall be devoured with the

sword for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it .

121 How is the faithful city become an harlot it was full of

judgment righteousness lodged in it but now murderers .

122 Thy silver is become dross thy wine mixed with water .

123 Thy princes are rebellious and companions of thieves every

one loveth gifts and followeth after rewards they judge not the

fatherless neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them .

124 Therefore saith the Lord the LORD of hosts the mighty One

of Israel Ah I will ease me of mine adversaries and avenge me of

mine enemies .

125 And I will turn my hand upon thee and purely purge away thy

dross and take away all thy tin .

126 And I will restore thy judges as at the first and thy

counsellors as at the beginning afterward thou shalt be called

The city of righteousness the faithful city .

127 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment and her converts with

righteousness .

128 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners

shall be together and they that forsake the LORD shall be

consumed .

129 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired

and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen .

130 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth and as a garden

that hath no water .

131 And the strong shall be as tow and the maker of it as a

spark and they shall both burn together and none shall quench

them .

* 21 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah

and Jerusalem .

22 And it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain

of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the

mountains and shall be exalted above the hills and all nations

shall flow unto it .

23 And many people shall go and say Come ye and let us go up to

the mountain of the LORD to the house of the God of Jacob and he

will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths for out

of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the LORD from

Jerusalem .

24 And he shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many

people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and

their spears into pruninghooks nation shall not lift up sword

against nation neither shall they learn war any more .

25 O house of Jacob come ye and let us walk in the light of the

LORD .

26 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob

because they be replenished from the east and are soothsayers

like the Philistines and they please themselves in the children

of strangers .

27 Their land also is full of silver and gold neither is there

any end of their treasures their land is also full of horses

neither is there any end of their chariots .

28 Their land also is full of idols they worship the work of

their own hands that which their own fingers have made .

29 And the mean man boweth down and the great man humbleth

himself therefore forgive them not .

210 Enter into the rock and hide thee in the dust for fear of

the LORD and for the glory of his majesty .

211 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled and the haughtiness

of men shall be bowed down and the LORD alone shall be exalted

in that day .

212 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one

that is proud and lofty and upon every one that is lifted up and

he shall be brought low .

213 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted

up and upon all the oaks of Bashan .

214 And upon all the high mountains an .

* 31 For behold the Lord the LORD of hosts doth take away from

Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff the whole stay

of bread and the whole stay of water .

32 The mighty man and the man of war the judge and the prophet

and the prudent and the ancient .

33 The captain of fifty and the honourable man and the

counsellor and the cunning artificer and the eloquent orator .

34 And I will give children to be their princes and babes shall

rule over them .

35 And the people shall be oppressed every one by another and

every one by his neighbour the child shall behave himself

proudly against the ancient and the base against the honourable .

36 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of

his father saying Thou hast clothing be thou our ruler and let

this ruin be under thy hand .

37 In that day shall he swear saying I will not be an healer

for in my house is neither bread nor clothing make me not a

ruler of the people .

38 For Jerusalem is ruined and Judah is fallen because their

tongue and their doings are against the LORD to provoke the eyes

of his glory .

39 The show of their countenance doth witness against them and

they declare their sin as Sodom they hide it not Woe unto their

soul for they have rewarded evil unto themselves .

310 Say ye to the righteous that it shall be well with him for

they shall eat the fruit of their doings .

311 Woe unto the wicked it shall be ill with him for the reward

of his hands shall be given him .

312 As for my people children are their oppressors and women

rule over them O my people they which lead thee cause thee to

err and destroy the way of thy paths .

313 The LORD standeth up to plead and standeth to judge the

people .

314 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his

people and the princes thereof for ye have eaten up the vineyard

the spoil of the poor is in your houses .

315 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the

faces of the poor saith the Lord GOD of hosts .

316 Moreover the LORD saith Because the daughters of Zion are

haughty and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes

walking and mincing as they go and making a tinkling with their

feet .

317 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the

head of the daughters of Zion and the LORD will discover their

secret parts .

318 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their

tinkling ornaments about their feet and their cauls and their

round tires like the moon .

319 The chains and the bracelets and the mufflers .

320 The bonnets and the ornaments of the legs and the headbands

and the tablets and the earrings .

321 The rings and nose jewels .

322 The changeable suits of apparel and the mantles and the

wimples and the crisping pins .

323 The glasses and the fine linen and the hoods and the veils .

324 And it shall come to pass that instead of sweet smell there

shall be stink and instead of a girdle a rent and instead of

well set hair baldness and instead of a stomacher a girding of

sackcloth and burning instead of beauty .

325 Thy men shall fall by the sword and thy mighty in the war .

326 And her gates shall lament and mourn and she being desolate

shall sit upon the ground .

* 41 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man

saying We will eat our own bread and wear our own apparel only

let us be called by thy name to take away our reproach .

42 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and

glorious and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and

comely for them that are escaped of Israel .

43 And it shall come to pass that he that is left in Zion and

he that remaineth in Jerusalem shall be called holy even every

one that is written among the living in Jerusalem .

44 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the

daughters of Zion and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem

from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment and by the

spirit of burning .

45 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount

Zion and upon her assemblies a cloud and smoke by day and the

shining of a flaming fire by night for upon all the glory shall

be a defence .

46 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime

from the heat and for a place of refuge and for a covert from

storm and from rain .

* 51 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved

touching his vineyard My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very

fruitful hill .

52 And he fenced it and gathered out the stones thereof and

planted it with the choicest vine and built a tower in the midst

of it and also made a winepress therein and he looked that it

should bring forth grapes and it brought forth wild grapes .

53 And now O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah judge I

pray you betwixt me and my vineyard .

54 What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have

not done in it wherefore when I looked that it should bring

forth grapes brought it forth wild grapes .

55 And now go to I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard

I will take away the hedge thereof and it shall be eaten up and

break down the wall thereof and it shall be trodden down .

56 And I will lay it waste it shall not be pruned nor digged

but there shall come up briers and thorns I will also command

the clouds that they rain no rain upon it .

57 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel

and the men of Judah his pleasant plant and he looked for

judgment but behold oppression for righteousness but behold a

cry .

58 Woe unto them that join house to house that lay field to

field till there be no place that they may be placed alone in

the midst of the earth .

59 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts Of a truth many houses

shall be desolate even great and fair without inhabitant .

510 Yea ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath and the seed

of an homer shall yield an ephah .

511 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning that they

may follow strong drink that continue until night till wine

inflame them .

512 And the harp and the viol the tabret and pipe and wine are

in their feasts but they regard not the work of the LORD neither

consider the operation of his hands .

513 Therefore my people are gone into captivity because they

have no knowledge and their honourable men are famished and

their multitude dried up with thirst .

514 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself and opened her mouth

without measure and their glory and their multitude and their

pomp and he that rejoiceth shall descend into it .

515 And the mean man shall be brought down and the mighty man

shall be humbled and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled .

516 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment and God

that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness .

517 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner and the waste

places of the fat ones shall strangers eat .

518 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity and

sin as it were with a cart rope .

519 That say Let him make speed and hasten his work that we may

see it and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh

and come that we may know it .

520 Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil that put

darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for

sweet and sweet for bitter .

521 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes and prudent

in their own sight .

522 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine and men of

strength to mingle strong drink .

523 Which justify the wicked for reward and take away the

righteousness of the righteous from him .

524 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble and the flame

consumeth the chaff so their root shall be as rottenness and

their blossom shall go up as dust because they have cast away

the law of the LORD of hosts and despised the word of the Holy

One of Israel .

525 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his

people and he hath stretched forth his hand against them and

hath smitten them and the hills did tremble and their carcases

were torn in the midst of the streets For all this his anger is

not turned away but his hand is stretched out still .

526 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far and

will hiss unto them from the end of the earth and behold they

shall come with speed swiftly .

527 None shall be weary nor stumble among them none shall

slumber nor sleep neither shall the girdle of their loins be

loosed nor the latchet of their shoes be broken .

528 Whose arrows are sharp and all their bows bent their

horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint and their wheels like

a whirlwind .

529 Their roaring shall be like a lion they shall roar like

young lions yea they shall roar and lay hold of the prey and

shall carry it away safe and none shall deliver it .

530 And in that day they shall roar against them like the

roaring of the sea and if one look unto the land behold darkness

and sorrow and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof .

* 61 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord

sitting upon a throne high and lifted up and his train filled

the temple .

62 Above it stood the seraphims each one had six wings with

twain he covered his face and with twain he covered his feet and

with twain he did fly .

63 And one cried unto another and said Holy holy holy is the

LORD of hosts the whole earth is full of his glory .

64 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that

cried and the house was filled with smoke .

65 Then said I Woe is me for I am undone because I am a man of

unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean

lips for mine eyes have seen the King the LORD of hosts .

66 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me having a live coal in

his hand which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar .

67 And he laid it upon my mouth and said Lo this hath touched

thy lips and thine iniquity is taken away and thy sin purged .

68 Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying Whom shall I send

and who will go for us Then said I Here am I send me .

69 And he said Go and tell this people Hear ye indeed but

understand not and see ye indeed but perceive not .

610 Make the heart of this people fat and make their ears heavy

and shut their eyes lest they see with their eyes and hear with

their ears and understand with their heart and convert and be

healed .

611 Then said I Lord how long And he answered Until the cities

be wasted without inhabitant and the houses without man and the

land be utterly desolate .

612 And the LORD have removed men far away and there be a great

forsaking in the midst of the land .

613 But yet in it shall be a tenth and it shall return and

shall be eaten as a teil tree and as an oak whose substance is

in them when they cast their leaves so the holy seed shall be

the substance thereof .

* 71 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham

the son of Uzziah king of Judah that Rezin the king of Syria and

Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel went up toward

Jerusalem to war against it but could not prevail against it .

72 And it was told the house of David saying Syria is

confederate with Ephraim And his heart was moved and the heart

of his people as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind .

73 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah Go forth now to meet Ahaz

thou and Shearjashub thy son at the end of the conduit of the

upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field .

74 And say unto him Take heed and be quiet fear not neither be

fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands for

the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria and of the son of Remaliah .

75 Because Syria Ephraim and the son of Remaliah have taken

evil counsel against thee saying .

76 Let us go up against Judah and vex it and let us make a

breach therein for us and set a king in the midst of it even the

son of Tabeal .

77 Thus saith the Lord GOD It shall not stand neither shall it

come to pass .

78 For the head of Syria is Damascus and the head of Damascus

is Rezin and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be

broken that it be not a people .

79 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria and the head of Samaria

is Remaliah's son If ye will not believe surely ye shall not be

established .

710 Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz saying .

711 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God ask it either in the

depth or in the height above .

712 But Ahaz said I will not ask neither will I tempt the LORD .

713 And he said Hear ye now O house of David Is it a small

thing for you to weary men but will ye weary my God also .

714 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign Behold a

virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name

Immanuel .

715 Butter and honey shall he eat that he may know to refuse

the evil and choose the good .

716 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil and

choose the good the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken

of both her kings .

717 The LORD shall bring upon thee and upon thy people and upon

thy father's house days that have not come from the day that

Ephraim departed from Judah even the king of Assyria .

718 And it shall come to pass in that day that the LORD shall

hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of

Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria .

719 And they shall come and shall rest all of them in the

desolate valleys and in the holes of the rocks and upon all

thorns and upon all bushes .

720 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is

hired namely by them beyond the river by the king of Assyria the

head and the hair of the feet and it shall also consume the

beard .

721 And it shall come to pass in that day that a man shall

nourish a young cow and two sheep .

722 And it shall come to pass for the abundance of milk that

they shall give he shall eat butter for butter and honey shall

every one eat that is left in the land .

723 And it shall come to pass in that day that every place

shall be where there were a thousand vines at a thousand

silverlings it shall even be for briers and thorns .

724 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither because

all the land shall become briers and thorns .

725 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock

there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns but

it shall be for the sending forth of oxen and for the treading

of lesser cattle .

* 81 Moreover the LORD said unto me Take thee a great roll and

write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz .

82 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record Uriah the

priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah .

83 And I went unto the prophetess and she conceived and bare a

son Then said the LORD to me Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz .

84 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry My father

and my mother the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria

shall be taken away before the king of Assyria .

85 The LORD spake also unto me again saying .

86 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that

go softly and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son .

87 Now therefore behold the Lord bringeth up upon them the

waters of the river strong and many even the king of Assyria and

all his glory and he shall come up over all his channels and go

over all his banks .

88 And he shall pass through Judah he shall overflow and go

over he shall reach even to the neck and the stretching out of

his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land O Immanuel .

89 Associate yourselves O ye people and ye shall be broken in

pieces and give ear all ye of far countries gird yourselves and

ye shall be broken in pieces gird yourselves and ye shall be

broken in pieces .

810 Take counsel together and it shall come to nought speak the

word and it shall not stand for God is with us .

811 For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand and

instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people

saying .

812 Say ye not A confederacy to all them to whom this people

shall say A confederacy neither fear ye their fear nor be afraid

813 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself and let him be your fear

and let him be your dread .

814 And he shall be for a sanctuary but for a stone of

stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel

for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem .

815 And many among them shall stumble and fall and be broken

and be snared and be taken .

816 Bind up the testimony seal the law among my disciples .

817 And I will wait upon the LORD that hideth his face from the

house of Jacob and I will look for him .

818 Behold I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are

for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts which

dwelleth in mount Zion .

819 And when they shall say unto you Seek unto them that have

familiar spirits and unto wizards that peep and that mutter

should not a people seek unto their God for the living to the

dead .

820 To the law and to the testimony if they speak not according

to this word it is because there is no light in them .

821 And they shall pass through it hardly bestead and hungry

and it shall come to pass that when they shall be hungry they

shall fret themselves and curse their king and their God and

look upward .

822 And they shall look unto the earth and behold trouble and

darkness dimness of anguish and they shall be driven to darkness

* 91 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her

vexation when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of

Zebulun and the land of Naphtali and afterward did more

grievously afflict her by the way of the sea beyond Jordan in

Galilee of the nations .

92 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light

they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death upon them

hath the light shined .

93 Thou hast multiplied the nation and not increased the joy

they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest and as men

rejoice when they divide the spoil .

94 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden and the staff of

his shoulder the rod of his oppressor as in the day of Midian .

95 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise and

garments rolled in blood but this shall be with burning and fuel

of fire .

96 For unto us a child is born unto us a son is given and the

government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be

called Wonderful Counsellor The mighty God The everlasting

Father The Prince of Peace .

97 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be

no end upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to order it

and to establish it with judgment and with justice from

henceforth even for ever The zeal of the LORD of hosts will

perform this .

98 The Lord sent a word into Jacob and it hath lighted upon

Israel .

99 And all the people shall know even Ephraim and the

inhabitant of Samaria that say in the pride and stoutness of

heart .

910 The bricks are fallen down but we will build with hewn

stones the sycamores are cut down but we will change them into

cedars .

911 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin

against him and join his enemies together .

912 The Syrians before and the Philistines behind and they

shall devour Israel with open mouth For all this his anger is

not turned away but his hand is stretched out still .

913 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them

neither do they seek the LORD of hosts .

914 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail

branch and rush in one day .

915 The ancient and honourable he is the head and the prophet

that teacheth lies he is the tail .

916 For the leaders of this people cause them to err and they

that are led of them are destroyed .

917 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men

neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows for

every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer and every mouth

speaketh folly For all this his anger is not turned away but his

hand is stretched out still .

918 For wickedness burneth as the fire it shall devour the

briers and thorns and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest

and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke .

919 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened

and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire no man shall

spare his brother .

920 And he shall snatch on the right hand and be hungry and he

shall eat on the left hand and they shall not be satisfied they

shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm .

921 Manasseh Ephraim and Ephraim Manasseh and they together

shall be against Judah For all this his anger is not turned away

but his hand is stretched out still .

* 101 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees and that

write grievousness which they have prescribed .

102 To turn aside the needy from judgment and to take away the

right from the poor of my people that widows may be their prey

and that they may rob the fatherless .

103 And what will ye do in the day of visitation and in the

desolation which shall come from far to whom will ye flee for

help and where will ye leave your glory .

104 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners and they

shall fall under the slain For all this his anger is not turned

away but his hand is stretched out still .

105 O Assyrian the rod of mine anger and the staff in their

hand is mine indignation .

106 I will send him against an hypocritical nation and against

the people of my wrath will I give him a charge to take the

spoil and to take the prey and to tread them down like the mire

of the streets .

107 Howbeit he meaneth not so neither doth his heart think so

but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few .

108 For he saith Are not my princes altogether kings .

109 Is not Calno as Carchemish is not Hamath as Arpad is not

Samaria as Damascus .

1010 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols and whose

graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria .

1011 Shall I not as I have done unto Samaria and her idols so

do to Jerusalem and her idols .

1012 Wherefore it shall come to pass that when the Lord hath

performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem I will

punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria and

the glory of his high looks .

1013 For he saith By the strength of my hand I have done it and

by my wisdom for I am prudent and I have removed the bounds of

the people and have robbed their treasures and I have put down

the inhabitants like a valiant man .

1014 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people

and as one gathereth eggs that are left have I gathered all the

earth and there was none that moved the wing or opened the mouth

or peeped .

1015 Shall the ax boast itself against him that heweth

therewith or shall the saw magnify itself against him that

shaketh it as if the rod should shake itself against them that

lift it up or as if the staff should lift up itself as if it

were no wood .

1016 Therefore shall the Lord the Lord of hosts send among his

fat ones leanness and under his glory he shall kindle a burning

like the burning of a fire .

1017 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire and his Holy

One for a flame and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his

briers in one day .

1018 And shall consume the glory of his forest and of his

fruitful field both soul and body and they shall be as when a

standardbearer fainteth .

1019 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few that

a child may write them .

1020 And it shall come to pass in that day that the remnant of

Israel and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob shall no

more again stay upon him that smote them but shall stay upon the

LORD the Holy One of Israel in truth .

1021 The remnant shall return even the remnant of Jacob unto

the mighty God .

1022 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea yet

a remnant of them shall return the consumption decreed shall

overflow with righteousness .

1023 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption even

determined in the midst of all the land .

1024 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts O my people

that dwellest in Zion be not afraid of the Assyrian he shall

smite thee with a rod and shall lift up his staff against thee

after the manner of Egypt .

1025 For yet a very little while and the indignation shall

cease and mine anger in their destruction .

1026 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him

according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb and as

his rod was upon the sea so shall he lift it up after the manner

of Egypt .

1027 And it shall come to pass in that day that his burden

shall be taken away from off thy shoulder and his yoke from off

thy neck and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the

anointing .

1028 He is come to Aiath he is passed to Migron at Michmash he

hath laid up his carriages .

1029 They are gone over the passage they have taken up their

lodging at Geba Ramah is afraid Gibeah of Saul is fled .

1030 Lift up thy voice O daughter of Gallim cause it to be

heard unto Laish O poor Anathoth .

1031 Madmenah is removed the inhabitants of Gebim gather

themselves to flee .

1032 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day he shall shake his

hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion the hill of

Jerusalem .

1033 Behold the Lord the LORD of hosts shall lop the bough with

terror and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down and the

haughty shall be humbled .

1034 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron

and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one .

* 111 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse

and a Branch shall grow out of his roots .

112 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him the spirit

of wisdom and understanding the spirit of counsel and might the

spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD .

113 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of

the LORD and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes

neither reprove after the hearing of his ears .

114 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor and reprove

with equity for the meek of the earth and he shall smite the

earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips

shall he slay the wicked .

115 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins and

faithfulness the girdle of his reins .

116 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard

shall lie down with the kid and the calf and the young lion and

the fatling together and a little child shall lead them .

117 And the cow and the bear shall feed their young ones shall

lie down together and the lion shall eat straw like the ox .

118 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp and

the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den .

119 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain for

the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the

waters cover the sea .

1110 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse which shall

stand for an ensign of the people to it shall the Gentiles seek

and his rest shall be glorious .

1111 And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall

set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his

people which shall be left from Assyria and from Egypt and from

Pathros and from Cush and from Elam and from Shinar and from

Hamath and from the islands of the sea .

1112 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations and shall

assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather together the

dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth .

1113 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart and the adversaries

of Judah shall be cut off Ephraim shall not envy Judah and Judah

shall not vex Ephraim .

1114 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines

toward the west they shall spoil them of the east together they

shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab and the children of

Ammon shall obey them .

1115 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the

Egyptian sea and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand

over the river and shall smite it in the seven streams and make

men go over dryshod .

1116 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his

people which shall be left from Assyria like as it was to Israel

in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt .

* 121 And in that day thou shalt say O LORD I will praise thee

though thou wast angry with me thine anger is turned away and

thou comfortedst me .

122 Behold God is my salvation I will trust and not be afraid

for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song he also is

become my salvation .

123 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of

salvation .

124 And in that day shall ye say Praise the LORD call upon his

name declare his doings among the people make mention that his

name is exalted .

125 Sing unto the LORD for he hath done excellent things this

is known in all the earth .

126 Cry out and shout thou inhabitant of Zion for great is the

Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee .

* 131 The burden of Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz did

see .

132 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain exalt the voice

unto them shake the hand that they may go into the gates of the

nobles .

133 I have commanded my sanctified ones I have also called my

mighty ones for mine anger even them that rejoice in my highness

134 The noise of a multitude in the mountains like as of a

great people a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations

gathered together the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the

battle .

135 They come from a far country from the end of heaven even

the LORD and the weapons of his indignation to destroy the whole

land .

136 Howl ye for the day of the LORD is at hand it shall come as

a destruction from the Almighty .

137 Therefore shall all hands be faint and every man's heart

shall melt .

138 And they shall be afraid pangs and sorrows shall take hold

of them they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth they

shall be amazed one at another their faces shall be as flames .

139 Behold the day of the LORD cometh cruel both with wrath and

fierce anger to lay the land desolate and he shall destroy the

sinners thereof out of it .

1310 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof

shall not give their light the sun shall be darkened in his

going forth and the moon shall not cause her light to shine .

1311 And I will punish the world for their evil and the wicked

for their iniquity and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud

to cease and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible .

1312 I will make a man more precious than fine gold even a man

than the golden wedge of Ophir .

1313 Therefore I will shake the heavens and the earth shall

remove out of her place in the wrath of the LORD of hosts and in

the day of his fierce anger .

1314 And it shall be as the chased roe and as a sheep that no

man taketh up they shall every man turn to his own people and

flee every one into his own land .

1315 Every one that is found shall be thrust through and every

one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword .

1316 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their

eyes their houses shall be spoiled and their wives ravished .

1317 Behold I will stir up the Medes against them which shall

not regard silver and as for gold they shall not delight in it .

1318 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces and

they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb their eye shall

not spare children .

1319 And Babylon the glory of kingdoms the beauty of the

Chaldees' excellency shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and

Gomorrah .

1320 It shall never be inhabited neither shall it be dwelt in

from generation to generation neither shall the Arabian pitch

tent there neither shall the shepherds make their fold there .

1321 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there and their

houses shall be full of doleful creatures and owls shall dwell

there and satyrs shall dance there .

1322 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their

desolate houses and dragons in their pleasant palaces and her

time is near to come and her days shall not be prolonged .

* 141 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob and will yet choose

Israel and set them in their own land and the strangers shall be

joined with them and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob .

142 And the people shall take them and bring them to their

place and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of

the LORD for servants and handmaids and they shall take them

captives whose captives they were and they shall rule over their

oppressors .

143 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall

give thee rest from thy sorrow and from thy fear and from the

hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve .

144 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of

Babylon and say How hath the oppressor ceased the golden city

ceased .

145 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked and the

sceptre of the rulers .

146 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke he

that ruled the nations in anger is persecuted and none hindereth

147 The whole earth is at rest and is quiet they break forth

into singing .

148 Yea the fir trees rejoice at thee and the cedars of Lebanon

saying Since thou art laid down no feller is come up against us .

149 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy

coming it stirreth up the dead for thee even all the chief ones

of the earth it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings

of the nations .

1410 All they shall speak and say unto thee Art thou also

become weak as we art thou become like unto us .

1411 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave and the noise of thy

viols the worm is spread under thee and the worms cover thee .

1412 How art thou fallen from heaven O Lucifer son of the

morning how art thou cut down to the ground which didst weaken

the nations .

1413 For thou hast said in thine heart I will ascend into

heaven I will exalt my throne above the stars of God I will sit

also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the

north .

1414 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds I will be

like the most High .

1415 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell to the sides of the

pit .

1416 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee and

consider thee saying Is this the man that made the earth to

tremble that did shake kingdoms .

1417 That made the world as a wilderness and destroyed the

cities thereof that opened not the house of his prisoners .

1418 All the kings of the nations even all of them lie in glory

every one in his own house .

1419 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable

branch and as the raiment of those that are slain thrust through

with a sword that go down to the stones of the pit as a carcase

trodden under feet .

1420 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial because thou

hast destroyed thy land and slain thy people the seed of

evildoers shall never be renowned .

1421 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of

their fathers that they do not rise nor possess the land nor

fill the face of the world with cities .

1422 For I will rise up against them saith the LORD of hosts

and cut off from Babylon the name and remnant and son and nephew

saith the LORD .

1423 I will also make it a possession for the bittern and pools

of water and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction saith

the LORD of hosts .

1424 The LORD of hosts hath sworn saying Surely as I have

thought so shall it come to pass and as I have purposed so shall

it stand .

1425 That I will break the Assyrian in my land and upon my

mountains tread him under foot then shall his yoke depart from

off them and his burden depart from off their shoulders .

1426 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth

and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations .

1427 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed and who shall disannul

it and his hand is stretched out and who shall turn it back .

1428 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden .

1429 Rejoice not thou whole Palestina because the rod of him

that smote thee is broken for out of the serpent's root shall

come forth a cockatrice and his fruit shall be a fiery flying

serpent .

1430 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed and the needy

shall lie down in safety and I will kill thy root with famine

and he shall slay thy remnant .

1431 Howl O gate cry O city thou whole Palestina art dissolved

for there shall come from the north a smoke and none shall be

alone in his appointed times .

1432 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation

That the LORD hath founded Zion and the poor of his people shall

trust in it .

* 151 The burden of Moab Because in the night Ar of Moab is

laid waste and brought to silence because in the night Kir of

Moab is laid waste and brought to silence .

152 He is gone up to Bajith and to Dibon the high places to

weep Moab shall howl over Nebo and over Medeba on all their

heads shall be baldness and every beard cut off .

153 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth

on the tops of their houses and in their streets every one shall

howl weeping abundantly .

154 And Heshbon shall cry and Elealeh their voice shall be

heard even unto Jahaz therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall

cry out his life shall be grievous unto him .

155 My heart shall cry out for Moab his fugitives shall flee

unto Zoar an heifer of three years old for by the mounting up of

Luhith with weeping shall they go it up for in the way of

Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction .

156 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate for the hay is

withered away the grass faileth there is no green thing .

157 Therefore the abundance they have gotten and that which

they have laid up shall they carry away to the brook of the

willows .

158 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab the

howling thereof unto Eglaim and the howling thereof unto

Beerelim .

159 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood for I will

bring more upon Dimon lions upon him that escapeth of Moab and

upon the remnant of the land .

* 161 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to

the wilderness unto the mount of the daughter of Zion .

162 For it shall be that as a wandering bird cast out of the

nest so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon .

163 Take counsel execute judgment make thy shadow as the night

in the midst of the noonday hide the outcasts bewray not him

that wandereth .

164 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee Moab be thou a covert to

them from the face of the spoiler for the extortioner is at an

end the spoiler ceaseth the oppressors are consumed out of the

land .

165 And in mercy shall the throne be established and he shall

sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David judging and

seeking judgment and hasting righteousness .

166 We have heard of the pride of Moab he is very proud even of

his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath but his lies shall

not be so .

167 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab every one shall howl for

the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn surely they are

stricken .

168 For the fields of Heshbon languish and the vine of Sibmah

the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants

thereof they are come even unto Jazer they wandered through the

wilderness her branches are stretched out they are gone over the

sea .

169 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine

of Sibmah I will water thee with my tears O Heshbon and Elealeh

for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is

fallen .

1610 And gladness is taken away and joy out of the plentiful

field and in the vineyards there shall be no singing neither

shall there be shouting the treaders shall tread out no wine in

their presses I have made their vintage shouting to cease .

1611 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab and

mine inward parts for Kirharesh .

1612 And it shall come to pass when it is seen that Moab is

weary on the high place that he shall come to his sanctuary to

pray but he shall not prevail .

1613 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab

since that time .

1614 But now the LORD hath spoken saying Within three years as

the years of an hireling and the glory of Moab shall be

contemned with all that great multitude and the remnant shall be

very small and feeble .

* 171 The burden of Damascus Behold Damascus is taken away from

being a city and it shall be a ruinous heap .

172 The cities of Aroer are forsaken they shall be for flocks

which shall lie down and none shall make them afraid .

173 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim and the kingdom

from Damascus and the remnant of Syria they shall be as the

glory of the children of Israel saith the LORD of hosts .

174 And in that day it shall come to pass that the glory of

Jacob shall be made thin and the fatness of his flesh shall wax

lean .

175 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn

and reapeth the ears with his arm and it shall be as he that

gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim .

176 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it as the shaking of

an olive tree two or three berries in the top of the uppermost

bough four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof

saith the LORD God of Israel .

177 At that day shall a man look to his Maker and his eyes

shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel .

178 And he shall not look to the altars the work of his hands

neither shall respect that which his fingers have made either

the groves or the images .

179 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough

and an uppermost branch which they left because of the children

of Israel and there shall be desolation .

1710 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation and

hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength therefore

shalt thou plant pleasant plants and shalt set it with strange

slips .

1711 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow and in the

morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish but the harvest

shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow .

1712 Woe to the multitude of many people which make a noise

like the noise of the seas and to the rushing of nations that

make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters .

1713 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters but

God shall rebuke them and they shall flee far off and shall be

chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind and like a

rolling thing before the whirlwind .

1714 And behold at eveningtide trouble and before the morning

he is not This is the portion of them that spoil us and the lot

of them that rob us .

* 181 Woe to the land shadowing with wings which is beyond the

rivers of Ethiopia .

182 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea even in vessels of

bulrushes upon the waters saying Go ye swift messengers to a

nation scattered and peeled to a people terrible from their

beginning hitherto a nation meted out and trodden down whose

land the rivers have spoiled .

183 All ye inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth

see ye when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains and when he

bloweth a trumpet hear ye .

184 For so the LORD said unto me I will take my rest and I will

consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs and

like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest .

185 For afore the harvest when the bud is perfect and the sour

grape is ripening in the flower he shall both cut off the sprigs

with pruning hooks and take away and cut down the branches .

186 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains

and to the beasts of the earth and the fowls shall summer upon

them and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them .

187 In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of

hosts of a people scattered and peeled and from a people

terrible from their beginning hitherto a nation meted out and

trodden under foot whose land the rivers have spoiled to the

place of the name of the LORD of hosts the mount Zion .

* 191 The burden of Egypt Behold the LORD rideth upon a swift

cloud and shall come into Egypt and the idols of Egypt shall be

moved at his presence and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the

midst of it .

192 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians and they

shall fight every one against his brother and every one against

his neighbour city against city and kingdom against kingdom .

193 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof and

I will destroy the counsel thereof and they shall seek to the

idols and to the charmers and to them that have familiar spirits

and to the wizards .

194 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel

lord and a fierce king shall rule over them saith the Lord the

LORD of hosts .

195 And the waters shall fail from the sea and the river shall

be wasted and dried up .

196 And they shall turn the rivers far away and the brooks of

defence shall be emptied and dried up the reeds and flags shall

wither .

197 The paper reeds by the brooks by the mouth of the brooks

and every thing sown by the brooks shall wither be driven away

and be no more .

198 The fishers also shall mourn and all they that cast angle

into the brooks shall lament and they that spread nets upon the

waters shall languish .

199 Moreover they that work in fine flax and they that weave

networks shall be confounded .

1910 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof all that

make sluices and ponds for fish .

1911 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools the counsel of the

wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish how say ye unto

Pharaoh I am the son of the wise the son of ancient kings .

1912 Where are they where are thy wise men and let them tell

thee now and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed

upon Egypt .

1913 The princes of Zoan are become fools the princes of Noph

are deceived they have also seduced Egypt even they that are the

stay of the tribes thereof .

1914 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst

thereof and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof

as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit .

1915 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt which the head

or tail branch or rush may do .

1916 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women and it shall be

afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD

of hosts which he shaketh over it .

1917 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt every

one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself

because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts which he hath

determined against it .

1918 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak

the language of Canaan and swear to the LORD of hosts one shall

be called The city of destruction .

1919 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the

midst of the land of Egypt and a pillar at the border thereof to

the LORD .

1920 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD

of hosts in the land of Egypt for they shall cry unto the LORD

because of the oppressors and he shall send them a saviour and a

great one and he shall deliver them .

1921 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt and the Egyptians

shall know the LORD in that day and shall do sacrifice and

oblation yea they shall vow a vow unto the LORD and perform it .

1922 And the LORD shall smite Egypt he shall smite and heal it

and they shall return even to the LORD and he shall be entreated

of them and shall heal them .

1923 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to

Assyria and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt and the Egyptian

into Assyria and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians .

1924 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with

Assyria even a blessing in the midst of the land .

1925 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless saying Blessed be Egypt

my people and Assyria the work of my hands and Israel mine

inheritance .

* 201 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod when Sargon the

king of Assyria sent him and fought against Ashdod and took it .

202 At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz

saying Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins and put off

thy shoe from thy foot And he did so walking naked and barefoot .

203 And the LORD said Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked

naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt

and upon Ethiopia .

204 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians

prisoners and the Ethiopians captives young and old naked and

barefoot even with their buttocks uncovered to the shame of

Egypt .

205 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their

expectation and of Egypt their glory .

206 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day

Behold such is our expectation whither we flee for help to be

delivered from the king of Assyria and how shall we escape .

* 211 The burden of the desert of the sea As whirlwinds in the

south pass through so it cometh from the desert from a terrible

land .

212 A grievous vision is declared unto me the treacherous

dealer dealeth treacherously and the spoiler spoileth Go up O

Elam besiege O Media all the sighing thereof have I made to

cease .

213 Therefore are my loins filled with pain pangs have taken

hold upon me as the pangs of a woman that travaileth I was bowed

down at the hearing of it I was dismayed at the seeing of it .

214 My heart panted fearfulness affrighted me the night of my

pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me .

215 Prepare the table watch in the watchtower eat drink arise

ye princes and anoint the shield .

216 For thus hath the Lord said unto me Go set a watchman let

him declare what he seeth .

217 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen a chariot of

asses and a chariot of camels and he hearkened diligently with

much heed .

218 And he cried A lion My lord I stand continually upon the

watchtower in the daytime and I am set in my ward whole nights .

219 And behold here cometh a chariot of men with a couple of

horsemen And he answered and said Babylon is fallen is fallen

and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the

ground .

2110 O my threshing and the corn of my floor that which I have

heard of the LORD of hosts the God of Israel have I declared

unto you .

2111 The burden of Dumah He calleth to me out of Seir Watchman

what of the night Watchman what of the night .

2112 The watchman said The morning cometh and also the night if

ye will inquire inquire ye return come .

2113 The burden upon Arabia In the forest in Arabia shall ye

lodge O ye travelling companies of Dedanim .

2114 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him

that was thirsty they prevented with their bread him that fled .

2115 For they fled from the swords from the drawn sword and

from the bent bow and from the grievousness of war .

2116 For thus hath the Lord said unto me Within a year

according to the years of an hireling and all the glory of Kedar

shall fail .

2117 And the residue of the number of archers the mighty men of

the children of Kedar shall be diminished for the LORD God of

Israel hath spoken it .

* 221 The burden of the valley of vision What aileth thee now

that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops .

222 Thou that art full of stirs a tumultuous city a joyous city

thy slain men are not slain with the sword nor dead in battle .

223 All thy rulers are fled together they are bound by the

archers all that are found in thee are bound together which have

fled from far .

224 Therefore said I Look away from me I will weep bitterly

labour not to comfort me because of the spoiling of the daughter

of my people .

225 For it is a day of trouble and of treading down and of

perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision

breaking down the walls and of crying to the mountains .

226 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen

and Kir uncovered the shield .

227 And it shall come to pass that thy choicest valleys shall

be full of chariots and the horsemen shall set themselves in

array at the gate .

228 And he discovered the covering of Judah and thou didst look

in that day to the armour of the house of the forest .

229 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David that

they are many and ye gathered together the waters of the lower

pool .

2210 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem and the

houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall .

2211 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water

of the old pool but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof

neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago .

2212 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping

and to mourning and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth .

2213 And behold joy and gladness slaying oxen and killing sheep

eating flesh and drinking wine let us eat and drink for to

morrow we shall die .

2214 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts

Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die

saith the Lord GOD of hosts .

2215 Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts Go get thee unto this

treasurer even unto Shebna which is over the house and say .

2216 What hast thou here and whom hast thou here that thou hast

hewed thee out a sepulchre here as he that heweth him out a

sepulchre on high and that graveth an habitation for himself in

a rock .

2217 Behold the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty

captivity and will surely cover thee .

2218 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball

into a large country there shalt thou die and there the chariots

of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house .

2219 And I will drive thee from thy station and from thy state

shall he pull thee down .

2220 And it shall come to pass in that day that I will call my

servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah .

2221 And I will clothe him with thy robe and strengthen him

with thy girdle and I will commit thy government into his hand

and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to

the house of Judah .

2222 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his

shoulder so he shall open and none shall shut and he shall shut

and none shall open .

2223 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place and he

shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house .

2224 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's

house the offspring and the issue all vessels of small quantity

from the vessels of cups even to all the vessels of flagons .

2225 In that day saith the LORD of hosts shall the nail that is

fastened in the sure place be removed and be cut down and fall

and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off for the LORD

hath spoken it .

* 231 The burden of Tyre Howl ye ships of Tarshish for it is

laid waste so that there is no house no entering in from the

land of Chittim it is revealed to them .

232 Be still ye inhabitants of the isle thou whom the merchants

of Zidon that pass over the sea have replenished .

233 And by great waters the seed of Sihor the harvest of the

river is her revenue and she is a mart of nations .

234 Be thou ashamed O Zidon for the sea hath spoken even the

strength of the sea saying I travail not nor bring forth

children neither do I nourish up young men nor bring up virgins .

235 As at the report concerning Egypt so shall they be sorely

pained at the report of Tyre .

236 Pass ye over to Tarshish howl ye inhabitants of the isle .

237 Is this your joyous city whose antiquity is of ancient days

her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn .

238 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre the crowning city

whose merchants are princes whose traffickers are the honourable

of the earth .

239 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it to stain the pride of

all glory and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the

earth .

2310 Pass through thy land as a river O daughter of Tarshish

there is no more strength .

2311 He stretched out his hand over the sea he shook the

kingdoms the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant

city to destroy the strong holds thereof .

2312 And he said Thou shalt no more rejoice O thou oppressed

virgin daughter of Zidon arise pass over to Chittim there also

shalt thou have no rest .

2313 Behold the land of the Chaldeans this people was not till

the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness

they set up the towers thereof they raised up the palaces

thereof and he brought it to ruin .

2314 Howl ye ships of Tarshish for your strength is laid waste .

2315 And it shall come to pass in that day that Tyre shall be

forgotten seventy years according to the days of one king after

the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot .

2316 Take an harp go about the city thou harlot that hast been

forgotten make sweet melody sing many songs that thou mayest be

remembered .

2317 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years

that the LORD will visit Tyre and she shall turn to her hire and

shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon

the face of the earth .

2318 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the

LORD it shall not be treasured nor laid up for her merchandise

shall be for them that dwell before the LORD to eat sufficiently

and for durable clothing .

* 241 Behold the LORD maketh the earth empty and maketh it

waste and turneth it upside down and scattereth abroad the

inhabitants thereof .

242 And it shall be as with the people so with the priest as

with the servant so with his master as with the maid so with her

mistress as with the buyer so with the seller as with the lender

so with the borrower as with the taker of usury so with the

giver of usury to him .

243 The land shall be utterly emptied and utterly spoiled for

the LORD hath spoken this word .

244 The earth mourneth and fadeth away the world languisheth

and fadeth away the haughty people of the earth do languish .

245 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof

because they have transgressed the laws changed the ordinance

broken the everlasting covenant .

246 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth and they that

dwell therein are desolate therefore the inhabitants of the

earth are burned and few men left .

247 The new wine mourneth the vine languisheth all the

merryhearted do sigh .

248 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth the noise of them that rejoice

endeth the joy of the harp ceaseth .

249 They shall not drink wine with a song strong drink shall be

bitter to them that drink it .

2410 The city of confusion is broken down every house is shut

up that no man may come in .

2411 There is a crying for wine in the streets all joy is

darkened the mirth of the land is gone .

2412 In the city is left desolation and the gate is smitten

with destruction .

2413 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the

people there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree and as the

gleaning grapes when the vintage is done .

2414 They shall lift up their voice they shall sing for the

majesty of the LORD they shall cry aloud from the sea .

2415 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires even the name

of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea .

2416 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs

even glory to the righteous But I said My leanness my leanness

woe unto me the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously yea

the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously .

2417 Fear and the pit and the snare are upon thee O inhabitant

of the earth .

2418 And it shall come to pass that he who fleeth from the

noise of the fear shall fall into the pit and he that cometh up

out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare for the

windows from on high are open and the foundations of the earth

do shake .

2419 The earth is utterly broken down the earth is clean

dissolved the earth is moved exceedingly .

2420 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard and shall

be removed like a cottage and the transgression thereof shall be

heavy upon it and it shall fall and not rise again .

2421 And it shall come to pass in that day that the LORD shall

punish the host of the high ones that are on high and the kings

of the earth upon the earth .

2422 And they shall be gathered together as prisoners are

gathered in the pit and shall be shut up in the prison and after

many days shall they be visited .

2423 Then the moon shall be confounded and the sun ashamed when

the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion and in Jerusalem and

before his ancients gloriously .

* 251 O LORD thou art my God I will exalt thee I will praise

thy name for thou hast done wonderful things thy counsels of old

are faithfulness and truth .

252 For thou hast made of a city an heap of a defenced city a

ruin a palace of strangers to be no city it shall never be built

253 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee the city of

the terrible nations shall fear thee .

254 For thou hast been a strength to the poor a strength to the

needy in his distress a refuge from the storm a shadow from the

heat when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against

the wall .

255 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers as the heat in

a dry place even the heat with the shadow of a cloud the branch

of the terrible ones shall be brought low .

256 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all

people a feast of fat things a feast of wines on the lees of fat

things full of marrow of wines on the lees well refined .

257 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the

covering cast over all people and the veil that is spread over

all nations .

258 He will swallow up death in victory and the Lord GOD will

wipe away tears from off all faces and the rebuke of his people

shall he take away from off all the earth for the LORD hath

spoken it .

259 And it shall be said in that day Lo this is our God we have

waited for him and he will save us this is the LORD we have

waited for him we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation .

2510 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest and

Moab shall be trodden down under him even as straw is trodden

down for the dunghill .

2511 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them

as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim and he

shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their

hands .

2512 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he

bring down lay low and bring to the ground even to the dust .

* 261 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah

We have a strong city salvation will God appoint for walls and

bulwarks .

262 Open ye the gates that the righteous nation which keepeth

the truth may enter in .

263 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on

thee because he trusteth in thee .

264 Trust ye in the LORD for ever for in the LORD JEHOVAH is

everlasting strength .

265 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high the lofty city

he layeth it low he layeth it low even to the ground he bringeth

it even to the dust .

266 The foot shall tread it down even the feet of the poor and

the steps of the needy .

267 The way of the just is uprightness thou most upright dost

weigh the path of the just .

268 Yea in the way of thy judgments O LORD have we waited for

thee the desire of our soul is to thy name and to the

remembrance of thee .

269 With my soul have I desired thee in the night yea with my

spirit within me will I seek thee early for when thy judgments

are in the earth the inhabitants of the world will learn

righteousness .

2610 Let favour be showed to the wicked yet will he not learn

righteousness in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly

and will not behold the majesty of the LORD .

2611 LORD when thy hand is lifted up they will not see but they

shall see and be ashamed for their envy at the people yea the

fire of thine enemies shall devour them .

2612 LORD thou wilt ordain peace for us for thou also hast

wrought all our works in us .

2613 O LORD our God other lords beside thee have had dominion

over us but by thee only will we make mention of thy name .

2614 They are dead they shall not live they are deceased they

shall not rise therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them

and made all their memory to perish .

2615 Thou hast increased the nation O LORD thou hast increased

the nation thou art glorified thou hadst removed it far unto all

the ends of the earth .

2616 LORD in trouble have they visited thee they poured out a

prayer when thy chastening was upon them .

2617 Like as a woman with child that draweth near the time of

her delivery is in pain and crieth out in her pangs so have we

been in thy sight O LORD .

2618 We have been with child we have been in pain we have as it

were brought forth wind we have not wrought any deliverance in

the earth neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen .

2619 Thy dead men shall live together with my dead body shall

they arise Awake and sing ye that dwell in dust for thy dew is

as the dew of herbs and the earth shall cast out the dead .

2620 Come my people enter thou into thy chambers and shut thy

doors about thee hide thyself as it were for a little moment

until the indignation be overpast .

2621 For behold the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the

inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity the earth also shall

disclose her blood and shall no more cover her slain .

* 271 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong

sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent even leviathan

that crooked serpent and he shall slay the dragon that is in the

sea .

272 In that day sing ye unto her A vineyard of red wine .

273 I the LORD do keep it I will water it every moment lest any

hurt it I will keep it night and day .

274 Fury is not in me who would set the briers and thorns

against me in battle I would go through them I would burn them

together .

275 Or let him take hold of my strength that he may make peace

with me and he shall make peace with me .

276 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root Israel

shall blossom and bud and fill the face of the world with fruit .

277 Hath he smitten him as he smote those that smote him or is

he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by

him .

278 In measure when it shooteth forth thou wilt debate with it

he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind .

279 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged and

this is all the fruit to take away his sin when he maketh all

the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder

the groves and images shall not stand up .

2710 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate and the habitation

forsaken and left like a wilderness there shall the calf feed

and there shall he lie down and consume the branches thereof .

2711 When the boughs thereof are withered they shall be broken

off the women come and set them on fire for it is a people of no

understanding therefore he that made them will not have mercy on

them and he that formed them will show them no favour .

2712 And it shall come to pass in that day that the LORD shall

beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt

and ye shall be gathered one by one O ye children of Israel .

2713 And it shall come to pass in that day that the great

trumpet shall be blown and they shall come which were ready to

perish in the land of Assyria and the outcasts in the land of

Egypt and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem .

* 281 Woe to the crown of pride to the drunkards of Ephraim

whose glorious beauty is a fading flower which are on the head

of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine .

282 Behold the Lord hath a mighty and strong one which as a

tempest of hail and a destroying storm as a flood of mighty

waters overflowing shall cast down to the earth with the hand .

283 The crown of pride the drunkards of Ephraim shall be

trodden under feet .

284 And the glorious beauty which is on the head of the fat

valley shall be a fading flower and as the hasty fruit before

the summer which when he that looketh upon it seeth while it is

yet in his hand he eateth it up .

285 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory

and for a diadem of beauty unto the residue of his people 286

And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment and

for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate .

287 But they also have erred through wine and through strong

drink are out of the way the priest and the prophet have erred

through strong drink they are swallowed up of wine they are out

of the way through strong drink they err in vision they stumble

in judgment .

288 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness so that

there is no place clean .

289 Whom shall he teach knowledge and whom shall he make to

understand doctrine them that are weaned from the milk and drawn

from the breasts .

2810 For precept must be upon precept precept upon precept line

upon line line upon line here a little and there a little .

2811 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak

to this people .

2812 To whom he said This is the rest wherewith ye may cause

the weary to rest and this is the refreshing yet they would not

hear .

2813 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon

precept precept upon precept line upon line line upon line here

a little and there a little that they might go and fall backward

and be broken and snared and taken .

2814 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD ye scornful men that

rule this people which is in Jerusalem .

2815 Because ye have said We have made a covenant with death

and with hell are we at agreement when the overflowing scourge

shall pass through it shall not come unto us for we have made

lies our refuge and under falsehood have we hid ourselves .

2816 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I lay in Zion for

a foundation a stone a tried stone a precious corner stone a

sure foundation he that believeth shall not make haste .

2817 Judgment also will I lay to the line and righteousness to

the plummet and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies and

the waters shall overflow the hiding place .

2818 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled and your

agreement with hell shall not stand when the overflowing scourge

shall pass through then ye shall be trodden down by it .

2819 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you for

morning by morning shall it pass over by day and by night and it

shall be a vexation only to understand the report .

2820 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself

on it and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in

it .

2821 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim he shall be

wroth as in the valley of Gibeon that he may do his work his

strange work and bring to pass his act his strange act .

2822 Now therefore be ye not mockers lest your bands be made

strong for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption

even determined upon the whole earth .

2823 Give ye ear and hear my voice hearken and hear my speech .

2824 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow doth he open and

break the clods of his ground .

2825 When he hath made plain the face thereof doth he not cast

abroad the fitches and scatter the cummin and cast in the

principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their

place .

2826 For his God doth instruct him to discretion and doth teach

him .

2827 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing

instrument neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin

but the fitches are beaten out with a staff and the cummin with

a rod .

2828 Bread corn is bruised because he will not ever be

threshing it nor break it with the wheel of his cart nor bruise

it with his horsemen .

2829 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts which is

wonderful in counsel and excellent in working .

* 291 Woe to Ariel to Ariel the city where David dwelt add ye

year to year let them kill sacrifices .

292 Yet I will distress Ariel and there shall be heaviness and

sorrow and it shall be unto me as Ariel .

293 And I will camp against thee round about and will lay siege

against thee with a mount and I will raise forts against thee .

294 And thou shalt be brought down and shalt speak out of the

ground and thy speech shall be low out of the dust and thy voice

shall be as of one that hath a familiar spirit out of the ground

and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust .

295 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small

dust and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff

that passeth away yea it shall be at an instant suddenly .

296 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder and

with earthquake and great noise with storm and tempest and the

flame of devouring fire .

297 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against

Ariel even all that fight against her and her munition and that

distress her shall be as a dream of a night vision .

298 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth and behold

he eateth but he awaketh and his soul is empty or as when a

thirsty man dreameth and behold he drinketh but he awaketh and

behold he is faint and his soul hath appetite so shall the

multitude of all the nations be that fight against mount Zion .

299 Stay yourselves and wonder cry ye out and cry they are

drunken but not with wine they stagger but not with strong drink

2910 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep

sleep and hath closed your eyes the prophets and your rulers the

seers hath he covered .

2911 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a

book that is sealed which men deliver to one that is learned

saying Read this I pray thee and he saith I cannot for it is

sealed .

2912 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned

saying Read this I pray thee and he saith I am not learned .

2913 Wherefore the Lord said Forasmuch as this people draw near

me with their mouth and with their lips do honour me but have

removed their heart far from me and their fear toward me is

taught by the precept of men .

2914 Therefore behold I will proceed to do a marvellous work

among this people even a marvellous work and a wonder for the

wisdom of their wise men shall perish and the understanding of

their prudent men shall be hid .

2915 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from

the LORD and their works are in the dark and they say Who seeth

us and who knoweth us .

2916 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be

esteemed as the potter's clay for shall the work say of him that

made it He made me not or shall the thing framed say of him that

framed it He had no understanding .

2917 Is it not yet a very little while and Lebanon shall be

turned into a fruitful field and the fruitful field shall be

esteemed as a forest .

2918 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book

and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of

darkness .

2919 The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD and the

poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel .

2920 For the terrible one is brought to nought and the scorner

is consumed and all that watch for iniquity are cut off .

2921 That make a man an offender for a word and lay a snare for

him that reproveth in the gate and turn aside the just for a

thing of nought .

2922 Therefore thus saith the LORD who redeemed Abraham

concerning the house of Jacob Jacob shall not now be ashamed

neither shall his face now wax pale .

2923 But when he seeth his children the work of mine hands in

the midst of him they shall sanctify my name and sanctify the

Holy One of Jacob and shall fear the God of Israel .

2924 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding

and they that murmured shall learn doctrine .

* 301 Woe to the rebellious children saith the LORD that take

counsel but not of me and that cover with a covering but not of

my spirit that they may add sin to sin .

302 That walk to go down into Egypt and have not asked at my

mouth to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh and to

trust in the shadow of Egypt .

303 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame and

the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion .

304 For his princes were at Zoan and his ambassadors came to

Hanes .

305 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit

them nor be an help nor profit but a shame and also a reproach .

306 The burden of the beasts of the south into the land of

trouble and anguish from whence come the young and old lion the

viper and fiery flying serpent they will carry their riches upon

the shoulders of young asses and their treasures upon the

bunches of camels to a people that shall not profit them .

307 For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose

therefore have I cried concerning this Their strength is to sit

still .

308 Now go write it before them in a table and note it in a

book that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever .

309 That this is a rebellious people lying children children

that will not hear the law of the LORD .

3010 Which say to the seers See not and to the prophets

Prophesy not unto us right things speak unto us smooth things

prophesy deceits .

3011 Get you out of the way turn aside out of the path cause

the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us .

3012 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel Because ye

despise this word and trust in oppression and perverseness and

stay thereon .

3013 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready

to fall swelling out in a high wall whose breaking cometh

suddenly at an instant .

3014 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters'

vessel that is broken in pieces he shall not spare so that there

shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire

from the hearth or to take water withal out of the pit .

3015 For thus saith the Lord GOD the Holy One of Israel In

returning and rest shall ye be saved in quietness and in

confidence shall be your strength and ye would not .

3016 But ye said No for we will flee upon horses therefore

shall ye flee and We will ride upon the swift therefore shall

they that pursue you be swift .

3017 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one at the rebuke

of five shall ye flee till ye be left as a beacon upon the top

of a mountain and as an ensign on an hill .

3018 And therefore will the LORD wait that he may be gracious

unto you and therefore will he be exalted that he may have mercy

upon you for the LORD is a God of judgment blessed are all they

that wait for him .

3019 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem thou shalt

weep no more he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of

thy cry when he shall hear it he will answer thee .

3020 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and

the water of affliction yet shall not thy teachers be removed

into a corner any more but thine eyes shall see thy teachers .

3021 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee saying This

is the way walk ye in it when ye turn to the right hand and when

ye turn to the left .

3022 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of

silver and the ornament of thy molten images of gold thou shalt

cast them away as a menstruous cloth thou shalt say unto it Get

thee hence .

3023 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed that thou shalt

sow the ground withal and bread of the increase of the earth and

it shall be fat and plenteous in that day shall thy cattle feed

in large pastures .

3024 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground

shall eat clean provender which hath been winnowed with the

shovel and with the fan .

3025 And there shall be upon every high mountain and upon every

high hill rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great

slaughter when the towers fall .

3026 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of

the sun and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold as the light

of seven days in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of

his people and healeth the stroke of their wound .

3027 Behold the name of the LORD cometh from far burning with

his anger and the burden thereof is heavy his lips are full of

indignation and his tongue as a devouring fire .

3028 And his breath as an overflowing stream shall reach to the

midst of the neck to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity

and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people causing

them to err .

3029 Ye shall have a song as in the night when a holy solemnity

is kept and gladness of heart as when one goeth with a pipe to

come into the mountain of the LORD to the mighty One of Israel .

3030 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard

and shall show the lighting down of his arm with the indignation

of his anger and with the flame of a devouring fire with

scattering and tempest and hailstones .

3031 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be

beaten down which smote with a rod .

3032 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass

which the LORD shall lay upon him it shall be with tabrets and

harps and in battles of shaking will he fight with it .

3033 For Tophet is ordained of old yea for the king it is

prepared he hath made it deep and large the pile thereof is fire

and much wood the breath of the LORD like a stream of brimstone

doth kindle it .

* 311 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help and stay on

horses and trust in chariots because they are many and in

horsemen because they are very strong but they look not unto the

Holy One of Israel neither seek the LORD .

312 Yet he also is wise and will bring evil and will not call

back his words but will arise against the house of the evildoers

and against the help of them that work iniquity .

313 Now the Egyptians are men and not God and their horses

flesh and not spirit When the LORD shall stretch out his hand

both he that helpeth shall fall and he that is holpen shall fall

down and they all shall fail together .

314 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me Like as the lion and

the young lion roaring on his prey when a multitude of shepherds

is called forth against him he will not be afraid of their voice

nor abase himself for the noise of them so shall the LORD of

hosts come down to fight for mount Zion and for the hill thereof

315 As birds flying so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem

defending also he will deliver it and passing over he will

preserve it .

316 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have

deeply revolted .

317 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of

silver and his idols of gold which your own hands have made unto

you for a sin .

318 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword not of a mighty

man and the sword not of a mean man shall devour him but he

shall flee from the sword and his young men shall be discomfited

319 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear and his

princes shall be afraid of the ensign saith the LORD whose fire

is in Zion and his furnace in Jerusalem .

* 321 Behold a king shall reign in righteousness and princes

shall rule in judgment .

322 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind and a

covert from the tempest as rivers of water in a dry place as the

shadow of a great rock in a weary land .

323 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim and the ears

of them that hear shall hearken .

324 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge and

the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly .

325 The vile person shall be no more called liberal nor the

churl said to be bountiful .

326 For the vile person will speak villany and his heart will

work iniquity to practice hypocrisy and to utter error against

the LORD to make empty the soul of the hungry and he will cause

the drink of the thirsty to fail .

327 The instruments also of the churl are evil he deviseth

wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words even when

the needy speaketh right .

328 But the liberal deviseth liberal things and by liberal

things shall he stand .

329 Rise up ye women that are at ease hear my voice ye careless

daughters give ear unto my speech .

3210 Many days and years shall ye be troubled ye careless women

for the vintage shall fail the gathering shall not come .

3211 Tremble ye women that are at ease be troubled ye careless

ones strip you and make you bare and gird sackcloth upon your

loins .

3212 They shall lament for the teats for the pleasant fields

for the fruitful vine .

3213 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers

yea upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city .

3214 Because the palaces shall be forsaken the multitude of the

city shall be left the forts and towers shall be for dens for

ever a joy of wild asses a pasture of flocks .

3215 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high and the

wilderness be a fruitful field and the fruitful field be counted

for a forest .

3216 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness and

righteousness remain in the fruitful field .

3217 And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the

effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever .

3218 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation and in

sure dwellings and in quiet resting places .

3219 When it shall hail coming down on the forest and the city

shall be low in a low place .

3220 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters that send forth

thither the feet of the ox and the ass .

* 331 Woe to thee that spoilest and thou wast not spoiled and

dealest treacherously and they dealt not treacherously with thee

when thou shalt cease to spoil thou shalt be spoiled and when

thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously they shall deal

treacherously with thee .

332 O LORD be gracious unto us we have waited for thee be thou

their arm every morning our salvation also in the time of

trouble .

333 At the noise of the tumult the people fled at the lifting

up of thyself the nations were scattered .

334 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the

caterpillar as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run

upon them .

335 The LORD is exalted for he dwelleth on high he hath filled

Zion with judgment and righteousness .

336 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy

times and strength of salvation the fear of the LORD is his

treasure .

337 Behold their valiant ones shall cry without the ambassadors

of peace shall weep bitterly .

338 The highways lie waste the wayfaring man ceaseth he hath

broken the covenant he hath despised the cities he regardeth no

man .

339 The earth mourneth and languisheth Lebanon is ashamed and

hewn down Sharon is like a wilderness and Bashan and Carmel

shake off their fruits .

3310 Now will I rise saith the LORD now will I be exalted now

will I lift up myself .

3311 Ye shall conceive chaff ye shall bring forth stubble your

breath as fire shall devour you .

3312 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime as thorns

cut up shall they be burned in the fire .

3313 Hear ye that are far off what I have done and ye that are

near acknowledge my might .

3314 The sinners in Zion are afraid fearfulness hath surprised

the hypocrites Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire

who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings .

3315 He that walketh righteously and speaketh uprightly he that

despiseth the gain of oppressions that shaketh his hands from

holding of bribes that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood

and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil .

3316 He shall dwell on high his place of defence shall be the

munitions of rocks bread shall be given him his waters shall be

sure .

3317 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty they shall

behold the land that is very far off .

3318 Thine heart shall meditate terror Where is the scribe

where is the receiver where is he that counted the towers .

3319 Thou shalt not see a fierce people a people of a deeper

speech than thou canst perceive of a stammering tongue that thou

canst not understand .

3320 Look upon Zion the city of our solemnities thine eyes

shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation a tabernacle that shall

not be taken down not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be

removed neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken .

3321 But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of

broad rivers and streams wherein shall go no galley with oars

neither shall gallant ship pass thereby .

3322 For the LORD is our judge the LORD is our lawgiver the

LORD is our king he will save us .

3323 Thy tacklings are loosed they could not well strengthen

their mast they could not spread the sail then is the prey of a

great spoil divided the lame take the prey .

3324 And the inhabitant shall not say I am sick the people that

dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity .

* 341 Come near ye nations to hear and hearken ye people let

the earth hear and all that is therein the world and all things

that come forth of it .

342 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations and his

fury upon all their armies he hath utterly destroyed them he

hath delivered them to the slaughter .

343 Their slain also shall be cast out and their stink shall

come up out of their carcases and the mountains shall be melted

with their blood .

344 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved and the

heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll and all their host

shall fall down as the leaf falleth off from the vine and as a

falling fig from the fig tree .

345 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven behold it shall come

down upon Idumea and upon the people of my curse to judgment .

346 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood it is made fat

with fatness and with the blood of lambs and goats with the fat

of the kidneys of rams for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah

and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea .

347 And the unicorns shall come down with them and the bullocks

with the bulls and their land shall be soaked with blood and

their dust made fat with fatness .

348 For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance and the year of

recompenses for the controversy of Zion .

349 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch and the

dust thereof into brimstone and the land thereof shall become

burning pitch .

3410 It shall not be quenched night nor day the smoke thereof

shall go up for ever from generation to generation it shall lie

waste none shall pass through it for ever and ever .

3411 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it the owl

also and the raven shall dwell in it and he shall stretch out

upon it the line of confusion and the stones of emptiness .

3412 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom but none

shall be there and all her princes shall be nothing .

3413 And thorns shall come up in her palaces nettles and

brambles in the fortresses thereof and it shall be an habitation

of dragons and a court for owls .

3414 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the

wild beasts of the island and the satyr shall cry to his fellow

the screech owl also shall rest there and find for herself a

place of rest .

3415 There shall the great owl make her nest and lay and hatch

and gather under her shadow there shall the vultures also be

gathered every one with her mate .

3416 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD and read no one of

these shall fail none shall want her mate for my mouth it hath

commanded and his spirit it hath gathered them .

3417 And he hath cast the lot for them and his hand hath

divided it unto them by line they shall possess it for ever from

generation to generation shall they dwell therein .

* 351 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for

them and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose .

352 It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice even with joy and

singing the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it the

excellency of Carmel and Sharon they shall see the glory of the

LORD and the excellency of our God .

353 Strengthen ye the weak hands and confirm the feeble knees .

354 Say to them that are of a fearful heart Be strong fear not

behold your God will come with vengeance even God with a

recompense he will come and save you .

355 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened and the ears of

the deaf shall be unstopped .

356 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart and the tongue of

the dumb sing for in the wilderness shall waters break out and

streams in the desert .

357 And the parched ground shall become a pool and the thirsty

land springs of water in the habitation of dragons where each

lay shall be grass with reeds and rushes .

358 And an highway shall be there and a way and it shall be

called The way of holiness the unclean shall not pass over it

but it shall be for those the wayfaring men though fools shall

not err therein .

359 No lion shall be there nor any ravenous beast shall go up

thereon it shall not be found there but the redeemed shall walk

there .

3510 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion

with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads they shall

obtain joy and gladness and sorrow and sighing shall flee away .

* 361 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king

Hezekiah that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all

the defenced cities of Judah and took them .

362 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to

Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army And he stood by

the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's

field .

363 Then came forth unto him Eliakim Hilkiah's son which was

over the house and Shebna the scribe and Joah Asaph's son the

recorder .

364 And Rabshakeh said unto them Say ye now to Hezekiah Thus

saith the great king the king of Assyria What confidence is this

wherein thou trustest .

365 I say sayest thou but they are but vain words I have

counsel and strength for war now on whom dost thou trust that

thou rebellest against me .

366 Lo thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed on Egypt

whereon if a man lean it will go into his hand and pierce it so

is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him .

367 But if thou say to me We trust in the LORD our God is it

not he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken

away and said to Judah and to Jerusalem Ye shall worship before

this altar .

368 Now therefore give pledges I pray thee to my master the

king of Assyria and I will give thee two thousand horses if thou

be able on thy part to set riders upon them .

369 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the

least of my master's servants and put thy trust on Egypt for

chariots and for horsemen .

3610 And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to

destroy it the LORD said unto me Go up against this land and

destroy it .

3611 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh Speak

I pray thee unto thy servants in the Syrian language for we

understand it and speak not to us in the Jews' language in the

ears of the people that are on the wall .

3612 But Rabshakeh said Hath my master sent me to thy master

and to thee to speak these words hath he not sent me to the men

that sit upon the wall that they may eat their own dung and

drink their own piss with you .

3613 Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the

Jews' language and said Hear ye the words of the great king the

king of Assyria .

3614 Thus saith the king Let not Hezekiah deceive you for he

shall not be able to deliver you .

3615 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD saying The

LORD will surely deliver us this city shall not be delivered

into the hand of the king of Assyria .

3616 Hearken not to Hezekiah for thus saith the king of Assyria

Make an agreement with me by a present and come out to me and

eat ye every one of his vine and every one of his fig tree and

drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern .

3617 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own

land a land of corn and wine a land of bread and vineyards .

3618 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you saying The LORD will

deliver us Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his

land out of the hand of the king of Assyria .

3619 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad where are the gods

of Sepharvaim and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand .

3620 Who are they among all the gods of these lands that have

delivered their land out of my hand that the LORD should deliver

Jerusalem out of my hand .

3621 But they held their peace and answered him not a word for

the king's commandment was saying Answer him not .

3622 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah that was over the

household and Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph the

recorder to Hezekiah with their clothes rent and told him the

words of Rabshakeh .

* 371 And it came to pass when king Hezekiah heard it that he

rent his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went

into the house of the LORD .

372 And he sent Eliakim who was over the household and Shebna

the scribe and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth

unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz .

373 And they said unto him Thus saith Hezekiah This day is a

day of trouble and of rebuke and of blasphemy for the children

are come to the birth and there is not strength to bring forth .

374 It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh

whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the

living God and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God

hath heard wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is

left .

375 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah .

376 And Isaiah said unto them Thus shall ye say unto your

master Thus saith the LORD Be not afraid of the words that thou

hast heard wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have

blasphemed me .

377 Behold I will send a blast upon him and he shall hear a

rumour and return to his own land and I will cause him to fall

by the sword in his own land .

378 So Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring

against Libnah for he had heard that he was departed from

Lachish .

379 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia He is

come forth to make war with thee And when he heard it he sent

messengers to Hezekiah saying .

3710 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah saying Let

not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee saying Jerusalem

shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria .

3711 Behold thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done

to all lands by destroying them utterly and shalt thou be

delivered .

3712 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my

fathers have destroyed as Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the

children of Eden which were in Telassar .

3713 Where is the king of Hamath and the king of Arphad and the

king of the city of Sepharvaim Hena and Ivah .

3714 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the

messengers and read it and Hezekiah went up unto the house of

the LORD and spread it before the LORD .

3715 And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD saying .

3716 O LORD of hosts God of Israel that dwellest between the

cherubims thou art the God even thou alone of all the kingdoms

of the earth thou hast made heaven and earth .

3717 Incline thine ear O LORD and hear open thine eyes O LORD

and see and hear all the words of Sennacherib which hath sent to

reproach the living God .

3718 Of a truth LORD the kings of Assyria have laid waste all

the nations and their countries .

3719 And have cast their gods into the fire for they were no

gods but the work of men's hands wood and stone therefore they

have destroyed them .

3720 Now therefore O LORD our God save us from his hand that

all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD

even thou only .

3721 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah saying Thus

saith the LORD God of Israel Whereas thou hast prayed to me

against Sennacherib king of Assyria .

3722 This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him

The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee and laughed

thee to scorn the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at

thee .

3723 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed and against whom

hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high

even against the Holy One of Israel .

3724 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord and hast

said By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height

of the mountains to the sides of Lebanon and I will cut down the

tall cedars thereof and the choice fir trees thereof and I will

enter into the height of his border and the forest of his Carmel

3725 I have digged and drunk water and with the sole of my feet

have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places .

3726 Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it and of

ancient times that I have formed it now have I brought it to

pass that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into

ruinous heaps .

3727 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power they were

dismayed and confounded they were as the grass of the field and

as the green herb as the grass on the housetops and as corn

blasted before it be grown up .

3728 But I know thy abode and thy going out and thy coming in

and thy rage against me .

3729 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into

mine ears therefore will I put my hook in thy nose and my bridle

in thy lips and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou

camest .

3730 And this shall be a sign unto thee Ye shall eat this year

such as groweth of itself and the second year that which

springeth of the same and in the third year sow ye and reap and

plant vineyards and eat the fruit thereof .

3731 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah

shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward .

3732 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant and they

that escape out of mount Zion the zeal of the LORD of hosts

shall do this .

3733 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of

Assyria He shall not come into this city nor shoot an arrow

there nor come before it with shields nor cast a bank against it

3734 By the way that he came by the same shall he return and

shall not come into this city saith the LORD .

3735 For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake

and for my servant David's sake .

3736 Then the angel of the LORD went forth and smote in the

camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand

and when they arose early in the morning behold they were all

dead corpses .

3737 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went and

returned and dwelt at Nineveh .

3738 And it came to pass as he was worshipping in the house of

Nisroch his god that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him

with the sword and they escaped into the land of Armenia and

Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead .

* 381 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death And Isaiah the

prophet the son of Amoz came unto him and said unto him Thus

saith the LORD Set thine house in order for thou shalt die and

not live .

382 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall and prayed

unto the LORD .

383 And said Remember now O LORD I beseech thee how I have

walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart and have

done that which is good in thy sight And Hezekiah wept sore .

384 Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah saying .

385 Go and say to Hezekiah Thus saith the LORD the God of David

thy father I have heard thy prayer I have seen thy tears behold

I will add unto thy days fifteen years .

386 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of

the king of Assyria and I will defend this city .

387 And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD that the

LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken .

388 Behold I will bring again the shadow of the degrees which

is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz ten degrees backward So the

sun returned ten degrees by which degrees it was gone down .

389 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah when he had been sick

and was recovered of his sickness .

3810 I said in the cutting off of my days I shall go to the

gates of the grave I am deprived of the residue of my years .

3811 I said I shall not see the LORD even the LORD in the land

of the living I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of

the world .

3812 Mine age is departed and is removed from me as a

shepherd's tent I have cut off like a weaver my life he will cut

me off with pining sickness from day even to night wilt thou

make an end of me .

3813 I reckoned till morning that as a lion so will he break

all my bones from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me .

3814 Like a crane or a swallow so did I chatter I did mourn as

a dove mine eyes fail with looking upward O LORD I am oppressed

undertake for me .

3815 What shall I say he hath both spoken unto me and himself

hath done it I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of

my soul .

3816 O Lord by these things men live and in all these things is

the life of my spirit so wilt thou recover me and make me to

live .

3817 Behold for peace I had great bitterness but thou hast in

love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption for thou

hast cast all my sins behind thy back .

3818 For the grave cannot praise thee death can not celebrate

thee they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth .

3819 The living the living he shall praise thee as I do this

day the father to the children shall make known thy truth .

3820 The LORD was ready to save me therefore we will sing my

songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in

the house of the LORD .

3821 For Isaiah had said Let them take a lump of figs and lay

it for a plaster upon the boil and he shall recover .

3822 Hezekiah also had said What is the sign that I shall go up

to the house of the LORD .

* 391 At that time Merodachbaladan the son of Baladan king of

Babylon sent letters and a present to Hezekiah for he had heard

that he had been sick and was recovered .

392 And Hezekiah was glad of them and showed them the house of

his precious things the silver and the gold and the spices and

the precious ointment and all the house of his armour and all

that was found in his treasures there was nothing in his house

nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah showed them not .

393 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah and said

unto him What said these men and from whence came they unto thee

And Hezekiah said They are come from a far country unto me even

from Babylon .

394 Then said he What have they seen in thine house And

Hezekiah answered All that is in mine house have they seen there

is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them .

395 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah Hear the word of the LORD of

hosts .

396 Behold the days come that all that is in thine house and

that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day

shall be carried to Babylon nothing shall be left saith the LORD

397 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee which thou shalt

beget shall they take away and they shall be eunuchs in the

palace of the king of Babylon .

398 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah Good is the word of the LORD

which thou hast spoken He said moreover For there shall be peace

and truth in my days .

* 401 Comfort ye comfort ye my people saith your God .

402 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem and cry unto her that her

warfare is accomplished that her iniquity is pardoned for she

hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins .

403 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness Prepare ye

the way of the LORD make straight in the desert a highway for

our God .

404 Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill

shall be made low and the crooked shall be made straight and the

rough places plain .

405 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed and all flesh

shall see it together for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it .

406 The voice said Cry And he said What shall I cry All flesh

is grass and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the

field .

407 The grass withereth the flower fadeth because the spirit of

the LORD bloweth upon it surely the people is grass .

408 The grass withereth the flower fadeth but the word of our

God shall stand for ever .

409 O Zion that bringest good tidings get thee up into the high

mountain O Jerusalem that bringest good tidings lift up thy

voice with strength lift it up be not afraid say unto the cities

of Judah Behold your God .

4010 Behold the Lord GOD will come with strong hand and his arm

shall rule for him behold his reward is with him and his work

before him .

4011 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd he shall gather

the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom and shall

gently lead those that are with young .

4012 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and

meted out heaven with the span and comprehended the dust of the

earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the

hills in a balance .

4013 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD or being his

counsellor hath taught him .

4014 With whom took he counsel and who instructed him and

taught him in the path of judgment and taught him knowledge and

showed to him the way of understanding .

4015 Behold the nations are as a drop of a bucket and are

counted as the small dust of the balance behold he taketh up the

isles as a very little thing .

4016 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn nor the beasts

thereof sufficient for a burnt offering .

4017 All nations before him are as nothing and they are counted

to him less than nothing and vanity .

4018 To whom then will ye liken God or what likeness will ye

compare unto him .

4019 The workman melteth a graven image and the goldsmith

spreadeth it over with gold and casteth silver chains .

4020 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation

chooseth a tree that will not rot he seeketh unto him a cunning

workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved .

4021 Have ye not known have ye not heard hath it not been told

you from the beginning have ye not understood from the

foundations of the earth .

4022 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth and the

inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers that stretcheth out the

heavens as a curtain and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell

in .

4023 That bringeth the princes to nothing he maketh the judges

of the earth as vanity .

4024 Yea they shall not be planted yea they shall not be sown

yea their stock shall not take root in the earth and he shall

also blow upon them and they shall wither and the whirlwind

shall take them away as stubble .

4025 To whom then will ye liken me or shall I be equal saith

the Holy One .

4026 Lift up your eyes on high and behold who hath created

these things that bringeth out their host by number he calleth

them all by names by the greatness of his might for that he is

strong in power not one faileth .

4027 Why sayest thou O Jacob and speakest O Israel My way is

hid from the LORD and my judgment is passed over from my God .

4028 Hast thou not known hast thou not heard that the

everlasting God the LORD the Creator of the ends of the earth

fainteth not neither is weary there is no searching of his

understanding .

4029 He giveth power to the faint and to them that have no

might he increaseth strength .

4030 Even the youths shall faint and be weary and the young men

shall utterly fall .

4031 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their

strength they shall mount up with wings as eagles they shall run

and not be weary and they shall walk and not faint .

* 411 Keep silence before me O islands and let the people renew

their strength let them come near then let them speak let us

come near together to judgment .

412 Who raised up the righteous man from the east called him to

his foot gave the nations before him and made him rule over

kings he gave them as the dust to his sword and as driven

stubble to his bow .

413 He pursued them and passed safely even by the way that he

had not gone with his feet .

414 Who hath wrought and done it calling the generations from

the beginning I the LORD the first and with the last I am he .

415 The isles saw it and feared the ends of the earth were

afraid drew near and came .

416 They helped every one his neighbour and every one said to

his brother Be of good courage .

417 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith and he that

smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil saying It is

ready for the soldering and he fastened it with nails that it

should not be moved .

418 But thou Israel art my servant Jacob whom I have chosen the

seed of Abraham my friend .

419 Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth and

called thee from the chief men thereof and said unto thee Thou

art my servant I have chosen thee and not cast thee away .

4110 Fear thou not for I am with thee be not dismayed for I am

thy God I will strengthen thee yea I will help thee yea I will

uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness .

4111 Behold all they that were incensed against thee shall be

ashamed and confounded they shall be as nothing and they that

strive with thee shall perish .

4112 Thou shalt seek them and shalt not find them even them

that contended with thee they that war against thee shall be as

nothing and as a thing of nought .

4113 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand saying

unto thee Fear not I will help thee .

4114 Fear not thou worm Jacob and ye men of Israel I will help

thee saith the LORD and thy redeemer the Holy One of Israel .

4115 Behold I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument

having teeth thou shalt thresh the mountains and beat them small

and shalt make the hills as chaff .

4116 Thou shalt fan them and the wind shall carry them away and

the whirlwind shall scatter them and thou shalt rejoice in the

LORD and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel .

4117 When the poor and needy seek water and there is none and

their tongue faileth for thirst I the LORD will hear them I the

God of Israel will not forsake them .

4118 I will open rivers in high places and fountains in the

midst of the valleys I will make the wilderness a pool of water

and the dry land springs of water .

4119 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar the shittah tree

and the myrtle and the oil tree I will set in the desert the fir

tree and the pine and the box tree together .

4120 That they may see and know and consider and understand

together that the hand of the LORD hath done this and the Holy

One of Israel hath created it .

4121 Produce your cause saith the LORD bring forth your strong

reasons saith the King of Jacob .

4122 Let them bring them forth and show us what shall happen

let them show the former things what they be that we may

consider them and know the latter end of them or declare us

things for to come .

4123 Show the things that are to come hereafter that we may

know that ye are gods yea do good or do evil that we may be

dismayed and behold it together .

4124 Behold ye are of nothing and your work of nought an

abomination is he that chooseth you .

4125 I have raised up one from the north and he shall come from

the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name and he shall

come upon princes as upon mortar and as the potter treadeth clay

4126 Who hath declared from the beginning that we may know and

beforetime that we may say He is righteous yea there is none

that showeth yea there is none that declareth yea there is none

that heareth your words .

4127 The first shall say to Zion Behold behold them and I will

give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings .

4128 For I beheld and there was no man even among them and

there was no counsellor that when I asked of them could answer a

word .

4129 Behold they are all vanity their works are nothing their

molten images are wind and confusion .

* 421 Behold my servant whom I uphold mine elect in whom my

soul delighteth I have put my spirit upon him he shall bring

forth judgment to the Gentiles .

422 He shall not cry nor lift up nor cause his voice to be

heard in the street .

423 A bruised reed shall he not break and the smoking flax

shall he not quench he shall bring forth judgment unto truth .

424 He shall not fail nor be discouraged till he have set

judgment in the earth and the isles shall wait for his law .

425 Thus saith God the LORD he that created the heavens and

stretched them out he that spread forth the earth and that which

cometh out of it he that giveth breath unto the people upon it

and spirit to them that walk therein .

426 I the LORD have called thee in righteousness and will hold

thine hand and will keep thee and give thee for a covenant of

the people for a light of the Gentiles .

427 To open the blind eyes to bring out the prisoners from the

prison and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house .

428 I am the LORD that is my name and my glory will I not give

to another neither my praise to graven images .

429 Behold the former things are come to pass and new things do

I declare before they spring forth I tell you of them .

4210 Sing unto the LORD a new song and his praise from the end

of the earth ye that go down to the sea and all that is therein

the isles and the inhabitants thereof .

4211 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their

voice the villages that Kedar doth inhabit let the inhabitants

of the rock sing let them shout from the top of the mountains .

4212 Let them give glory unto the LORD and declare his praise

in the islands .

4213 The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man he shall stir up

jealousy like a man of war he shall cry yea roar he shall

prevail against his enemies .

4214 I have long time holden my peace I have been still and

refrained myself now will I cry like a travailing woman I will

destroy and devour at once .

4215 I will make waste mountains and hills and dry up all their

herbs and I will make the rivers islands and I will dry up the

pools .

4216 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not I

will lead them in paths that they have not known I will make

darkness light before them and crooked things straight These

things will I do unto them and not forsake them .

4217 They shall be turned back they shall be greatly ashamed

that trust in graven images that say to the molten images Ye are

our gods .

4218 Hear ye deaf and look ye blind that ye may see .

4219 Who is blind but my servant or deaf as my messenger that I

sent who is blind as he that is perfect and blind as the LORD's

servant .

4220 Seeing many things but thou observest not opening the ears

but he heareth not .

4221 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake he

will magnify the law and make it honourable .

4222 But this is a people robbed and spoiled they are all of

them snared in holes and they are hid in prison houses they are

for a prey and none delivereth for a spoil and none saith

Restore .

4223 Who among you will give ear to this who will hearken and

hear for the time to come .

4224 Who gave Jacob for a spoil and Israel to the robbers did

not the LORD he against whom we have sinned for they would not

walk in his ways neither were they obedient unto his law .

4225 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger

and the strength of battle and it hath set him on fire round

about yet he knew not and it burned him yet he laid it not to

heart .

* 431 But now thus saith the LORD that created thee O Jacob and

he that formed thee O Israel Fear not for I have redeemed thee I

have called thee by thy name thou art mine .

432 When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee

and through the rivers they shall not overflow thee when thou

walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burned neither shall

the flame kindle upon thee .

433 For I am the LORD thy God the Holy One of Israel thy

Saviour I gave Egypt for thy ransom Ethiopia and Seba for thee .

434 Since thou wast precious in my sight thou hast been

honourable and I have loved thee therefore will I give men for

thee and people for thy life .

435 Fear not for I am with thee I will bring thy seed from the

east and gather thee from the west .

436 I will say to the north Give up and to the south Keep not

back bring my sons from far and my daughters from the ends of

the earth .

437 Even every one that is called by my name for I have created

him for my glory I have formed him yea I have made him .

438 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes and the deaf

that have ears .

439 Let all the nations be gathered together and let the people

be assembled who among them can declare this and show us former

things let them bring forth their witnesses that they may be

justified or let them hear and say It is truth .

4310 Ye are my witnesses saith the LORD and my servant whom I

have chosen that ye may know and believe me and understand that

I am he before me there was no God formed neither shall there be

after me .

4311 I even I am the LORD and beside me there is no saviour .

4312 I have declared and have saved and I have showed when

there was no strange god among you therefore ye are my witnesses

saith the LORD that I am God .

4313 Yea before the day was I am he and there is none that can

deliver out of my hand I will work and who shall let it .

4314 Thus saith the LORD your redeemer the Holy One of Israel

For your sake I have sent to Babylon and have brought down all

their nobles and the Chaldeans whose cry is in the ships .

4315 I am the LORD your Holy One the creator of Israel your

King .

4316 Thus saith the LORD which maketh a way in the sea and a

path in the mighty waters .

4317 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse the army and

the power they shall lie down together they shall not rise they

are extinct they are quenched as tow .

4318 Remember ye not the former things neither consider the

things of old .

4319 Behold I will do a new thing now it shall spring forth

shall ye not know it I will even make a way in the wilderness

and rivers in the desert .

4320 The beast of the field shall honour me the dragons and the

owls because I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the

desert to give drink to my people my chosen .

4321 This people have I formed for myself they shall show forth

my praise .

4322 But thou hast not called upon me O Jacob but thou hast

been weary of me O Israel .

4323 Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt

offerings neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices I

have not caused thee to serve with an offering nor wearied thee

with incense .

4324 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money neither hast

thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices but thou hast made

me to serve with thy sins thou hast wearied me with thine

iniquities .

4325 I even I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for

mine own sake and will not remember thy sins .

4326 Put me in remembrance let us plead together declare thou

that thou mayest be justified .

4327 Thy first father hath sinned and thy teachers have

transgressed against me .

4328 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary and

have given Jacob to the curse and Israel to reproaches .

* 441 Yet now hear O Jacob my servant and Israel whom I have

chosen .

442 Thus saith the LORD that made thee and formed thee from the

womb which will help thee Fear not O Jacob my servant and thou

Jesurun whom I have chosen .

443 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty and floods

upon the dry ground I will pour my spirit upon thy seed and my

blessing upon thine offspring .

444 And they shall spring up as among the grass as willows by

the water courses .

445 One shall say I am the LORD's and another shall call

himself by the name of Jacob and another shall subscribe with

his hand unto the LORD and surname himself by the name of Israel

446 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel and his redeemer the

LORD of hosts I am the first and I am the last and beside me

there is no God .

447 And who as I shall call and shall declare it and set it in

order for me since I appointed the ancient people and the things

that are coming and shall come let them show unto them .

448 Fear ye not neither be afraid have not I told thee from

that time and have declared it ye are even my witnesses Is there

a God beside me yea there is no God I know not any .

449 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity and

their delectable things shall not profit and they are their own

witnesses they see not nor know that they may be ashamed .

4410 Who hath formed a god or molten a graven image that is

profitable for nothing .

4411 Behold all his fellows shall be ashamed and the workmen

they are of men let them all be gathered together let them stand

up yet they shall fear and they shall be ashamed together .

4412 The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals and

fashioneth it with hammers and worketh it with the strength of

his arms yea he is hungry and his strength faileth he drinketh

no water and is faint .

4413 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule he marketh it out

with a line he fitteth it with planes and he marketh it out with

the compass and maketh it after the figure of a man according to

the beauty of a man that it may remain in the house .

4414 He heweth him down cedars and taketh the cypress and the

oak which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the

forest he planteth an ash and the rain doth nourish it .

4415 Then shall it be for a man to burn for he will take

thereof and warm himself yea he kindleth it and baketh bread yea

he maketh a god and worshippeth it he maketh it a graven image

and falleth down thereto .

4416 He burneth part thereof in the fire with part thereof he

eateth flesh he roasteth roast and is satisfied yea he warmeth

himself and saith Aha I am warm I have seen the fire .

4417 And the residue thereof he maketh a god even his graven

image he falleth down unto it and worshippeth it and prayeth

unto it and saith Deliver me for thou art my god .

4418 They have not known nor understood for he hath shut their

eyes that they cannot see and their hearts that they cannot

understand .

4419 And none considereth in his heart neither is there

knowledge nor understanding to say I have burned part of it in

the fire yea also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof I

have roasted flesh and eaten it and shall I make the residue

thereof an abomination shall I fall down to the stock of a tree .

4420 He feedeth on ashes a deceived heart hath turned him aside

that he cannot deliver his soul nor say Is there not a lie in my

right hand .

4421 Remember these O Jacob and Israel for thou art my servant

I have formed thee thou art my servant O Israel thou shalt not

be forgotten of me .

4422 I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions and

as a cloud thy sins return unto me for I have redeemed thee .

4423 Sing O ye heavens for the LORD hath done it shout ye lower

parts of the earth break forth into singing ye mountains O

forest and every tree therein for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob

and glorified himself in Israel .

4424 Thus saith the LORD thy redeemer and he that formed thee

from the womb I am the LORD that maketh all things that

stretcheth forth the heavens alone that spreadeth abroad the

earth by myself .

4425 That frustrateth the tokens of the liars and maketh

diviners mad that turneth wise men backward and maketh their

knowledge foolish .

4426 That confirmeth the word of his servant and performeth the

counsel of his messengers that saith to Jerusalem Thou shalt be

inhabited and to the cities of Judah Ye shall be built and I

will raise up the decayed places thereof .

4427 That saith to the deep Be dry and I will dry up thy rivers

4428 That saith of Cyrus He is my shepherd and shall perform

all my pleasure even saying to Jerusalem Thou shalt be built and

to the temple Thy foundation shall be laid .

* 451 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed to Cyrus whose right

hand I have holden to subdue nations before him and I will loose

the loins of kings to open before him the two leaved gates and

the gates shall not be shut .

452 I will go before thee and make the crooked places straight

I will break in pieces the gates of brass and cut in sunder the

bars of iron .

453 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness and hidden

riches of secret places that thou mayest know that I the LORD

which call thee by thy name am the God of Israel .

454 For Jacob my servant's sake and Israel mine elect I have

even called thee by thy name I have surnamed thee though thou

hast not known me .

455 I am the LORD and there is none else there is no God beside

me I girded thee though thou hast not known me .

456 That they may know from the rising of the sun and from the

west that there is none beside me I am the LORD and there is

none else .

457 I form the light and create darkness I make peace and

create evil I the LORD do all these things .

458 Drop down ye heavens from above and let the skies pour down

righteousness let the earth open and let them bring forth

salvation and let righteousness spring up together I the LORD

have created it .

459 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker Let the potsherd

strive with the potsherds of the earth Shall the clay say to him

that fashioneth it What makest thou or thy work He hath no hands

4510 Woe unto him that saith unto his father What begettest

thou or to the woman What hast thou brought forth .

4511 Thus saith the LORD the Holy One of Israel and his Maker

Ask me of things to come concerning my sons and concerning the

work of my hands command ye me .

4512 I have made the earth and created man upon it I even my

hands have stretched out the heavens and all their host have I

commanded .

4513 I have raised him up in righteousness and I will direct

all his ways he shall build my city and he shall let go my

captives not for price nor reward saith the LORD of hosts .

4514 Thus saith the LORD The labour of Egypt and merchandise of

Ethiopia and of the Sabeans men of stature shall come over unto

thee and they shall be thine they shall come after thee in

chains they shall come over and they shall fall down unto thee

they shall make supplication unto thee saying Surely God is in

thee and there is none else there is no God .

4515 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself O God of Israel

the Saviour .

4516 They shall be ashamed and also confounded all of them they

shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols .

4517 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting

salvation ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without

end .

4518 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens God

himself that formed the earth and made it he hath established it

he created it not in vain he formed it to be inhabited I am the

LORD and there is none else .

4519 I have not spoken in secret in a dark place of the earth I

said not unto the seed of Jacob Seek ye me in vain I the LORD

speak righteousness I declare things that are right .

4520 Assemble yourselves and come draw near together ye that

are escaped of the nations they have no knowledge that set up

the wood of their graven image and pray unto a god that cannot

save .

4521 Tell ye and bring them near yea let them take counsel

together who hath declared this from ancient time who hath told

it from that time have not I the LORD and there is no God else

beside me a just God and a Saviour there is none beside me .

4522 Look unto me and be ye saved all the ends of the earth for

I am God and there is none else .

4523 I have sworn by myself the word is gone out of my mouth in

righteousness and shall not return That unto me every knee shall

bow every tongue shall swear .

4524 Surely shall one say in the LORD have I righteousness and

strength even to him shall men come and all that are incensed

against him shall be ashamed .

4525 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified and

shall glory .

* 461 Bel boweth down Nebo stoopeth their idols were upon the

beasts and upon the cattle your carriages were heavy loaden they

are a burden to the weary beast .

462 They stoop they bow down together they could not deliver

the burden but themselves are gone into captivity .

463 Hearken unto me O house of Jacob and all the remnant of the

house of Israel which are borne by me from the belly which are

carried from the womb .

464 And even to your old age I am he and even to hoar hairs

will I carry you I have made and I will bear even I will carry

and will deliver you .

465 To whom will ye liken me and make me equal and compare me

that we may be like .

466 They lavish gold out of the bag and weigh silver in the

balance and hire a goldsmith and he maketh it a god they fall

down yea they worship .

467 They bear him upon the shoulder they carry him and set him

in his place and he standeth from his place shall he not remove

yea one shall cry unto him yet can he not answer nor save him

out of his trouble .

468 Remember this and show yourselves men bring it again to

mind O ye transgressors .

469 Remember the former things of old for I am God and there is

none else I am God and there is none like me .

4610 Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient

times the things that are not yet done saying My counsel shall

stand and I will do all my pleasure .

4611 Calling a ravenous bird from the east the man that

executeth my counsel from a far country yea I have spoken it I

will also bring it to pass I have purposed it I will also do it .

4612 Hearken unto me ye stouthearted that are far from

righteousness .

4613 I bring near my righteousness it shall not be far off and

my salvation shall not tarry and I will place salvation in Zion

for Israel my glory .

* 471 Come down and sit in the dust O virgin daughter of

Babylon sit on the ground there is no throne O daughter of the

Chaldeans for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate .

472 Take the millstones and grind meal uncover thy locks make

bare the leg uncover the thigh pass over the rivers .

473 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered yea thy shame shall be

seen I will take vengeance and I will not meet thee as a man .

474 As for our redeemer the LORD of hosts is his name the Holy

One of Israel .

475 Sit thou silent and get thee into darkness O daughter of

the Chaldeans for thou shalt no more be called The lady of

kingdoms .

476 I was wroth with my people I have polluted mine inheritance

and given them into thine hand thou didst show them no mercy

upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke .

477 And thou saidst I shall be a lady for ever so that thou

didst not lay these things to thy heart neither didst remember

the latter end of it .

478 Therefore hear now this thou that art given to pleasures

that dwellest carelessly that sayest in thine heart I am and

none else beside me I shall not sit as a widow neither shall I

know the loss of children .

479 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one

day the loss of children and widowhood they shall come upon thee

in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries and for

the great abundance of thine enchantments .

4710 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness thou hast said

None seeth me Thy wisdom and thy knowledge it hath perverted

thee and thou hast said in thine heart I am and none else beside

me .

4711 Therefore shall evil come upon thee thou shalt not know

from whence it riseth and mischief shall fall upon thee thou

shalt not be able to put it off and desolation shall come upon

thee suddenly which thou shalt not know .

4712 Stand now with thine enchantments and with the multitude

of thy sorceries wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth if so

be thou shalt be able to profit if so be thou mayest prevail .

4713 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels Let now

the astrologers the stargazers the monthly prognosticators stand

up and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee .

4714 Behold they shall be as stubble the fire shall burn them

they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame

there shall not be a coal to warm at nor fire to sit before it .

4715 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured

even thy merchants from thy youth they shall wander every one to

his quarter none shall save thee .

* 481 Hear ye this O house of Jacob which are called by the

name of Israel and are come forth out of the waters of Judah

which swear by the name of the LORD and make mention of the God

of Israel but not in truth nor in righteousness .

482 For they call themselves of the holy city and stay

themselves upon the God of Israel The LORD of hosts is his name .

483 I have declared the former things from the beginning and

they went forth out of my mouth and I showed them I did them

suddenly and they came to pass .

484 Because I knew that thou art obstinate and thy neck is an

iron sinew and thy brow brass .

485 I have even from the beginning declared it to thee before

it came to pass I showed it thee lest thou shouldest say Mine

idol hath done them and my graven image and my molten image hath

commanded them .

486 Thou hast heard see all this and will not ye declare it I

have showed thee new things from this time even hidden things

and thou didst not know them .

487 They are created now and not from the beginning even before

the day when thou heardest them not lest thou shouldest say

Behold I knew them .

488 Yea thou heardest not yea thou knewest not yea from that

time that thine ear was not opened for I knew that thou wouldest

deal very treacherously and wast called a transgressor from the

womb .

489 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger and for my

praise will I refrain for thee that I cut thee not off .

4810 Behold I have refined thee but not with silver I have

chosen thee in the furnace of affliction .

4811 For mine own sake even for mine own sake will I do it for

how should my name be polluted and I will not give my glory unto

another .

4812 Hearken unto me O Jacob and Israel my called I am he I am

the first I also am the last .

4813 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth and

my right hand hath spanned the heavens when I call unto them

they stand up together .

4814 All ye assemble yourselves and hear which among them hath

declared these things The LORD hath loved him he will do his

pleasure on Babylon and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans .

4815 I even I have spoken yea I have called him I have brought

him and he shall make his way prosperous .

4816 Come ye near unto me hear ye this I have not spoken in

secret from the beginning from the time that it was there am I

and now the Lord GOD and his Spirit hath sent me .

4817 Thus saith the LORD thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel I

am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit which leadeth

thee by the way that thou shouldest go .

4818 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments then had

thy peace been as a river and thy righteousness as the waves of

the sea .

4819 Thy seed also had been as the sand and the offspring of

thy bowels like the gravel thereof his name should not have been

cut off nor destroyed from before me .

4820 Go ye forth of Babylon flee ye from the Chaldeans with a

voice of singing declare ye tell this utter it even to the end

of the earth say ye The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob .

4821 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts

he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them he clave

the rock also and the waters gushed out .

4822 There is no peace saith the LORD unto the wicked .

* 491 Listen O isles unto me and hearken ye people from far The

LORD hath called me from the womb from the bowels of my mother

hath he made mention of my name .

492 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword in the shadow

of his hand hath he hid me and made me a polished shaft in his

quiver hath he hid me .

493 And said unto me Thou art my servant O Israel in whom I

will be glorified .

494 Then I said I have laboured in vain I have spent my

strength for nought and in vain yet surely my judgment is with

the LORD and my work with my God .

495 And now saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be

his servant to bring Jacob again to him Though Israel be not

gathered yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD and my

God shall be my strength .

496 And he said It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my

servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the

preserved of Israel I will also give thee for a light to the

Gentiles that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the

earth .

497 Thus saith the LORD the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One

to him whom man despiseth to him whom the nation abhorreth to a

servant of rulers Kings shall see and arise princes also shall

worship because of the LORD that is faithful and the Holy One of

Israel and he shall choose thee .

498 Thus saith the LORD In an acceptable time have I heard thee

and in a day of salvation have I helped thee and I will preserve

thee and give thee for a covenant of the people to establish the

earth to cause to inherit the desolate heritages .

499 That thou mayest say to the prisoners Go forth to them that

are in darkness Show yourselves They shall feed in the ways and

their pastures shall be in all high places .

4910 They shall not hunger nor thirst neither shall the heat

nor sun smite them for he that hath mercy on them shall lead

them even by the springs of water shall he guide them .

4911 And I will make all my mountains a way and my highways

shall be exalted .

4912 Behold these shall come from far and lo these from the

north and from the west and these from the land of Sinim .

4913 Sing O heavens and be joyful O earth and break forth into

singing O mountains for the LORD hath comforted his people and

will have mercy upon his afflicted .

4914 But Zion said The LORD hath forsaken me and my Lord hath

forgotten me .

4915 Can a woman forget her sucking child that she should not

have compassion on the son of her womb yea they may forget yet

will I not forget thee .

4916 Behold I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands thy

walls are continually before me .

4917 Thy children shall make haste thy destroyers and they that

made thee waste shall go forth of thee .

4918 Lift up thine eyes round about and behold all these gather

themselves together and come to thee As I live saith the LORD

thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all as with an ornament

and bind them on thee as a bride doeth .

4919 For thy waste and thy desolate places and the land of thy

destruction shall even now be too narrow by reason of the

inhabitants and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away .

4920 The children which thou shalt have after thou hast lost

the other shall say again in thine ears The place is too strait

for me give place to me that I may dwell .

4921 Then shalt thou say in thine heart Who hath begotten me

these seeing I have lost my children and am desolate a captive

and removing to and fro and who hath brought up these Behold I

was left alone these where had they been .

4922 Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will lift up mine hand to

the Gentiles and set up my standard to the people and they shall

bring thy sons in their arms and thy daughters shall be carried

upon their shoulders .

4923 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers and their queens

thy nursing mothers they shall bow down to thee with their face

toward the earth and lick up the dust of thy feet and thou shalt

know that I am the LORD for they shall not be ashamed that wait

for me .

4924 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty or the lawful

captive delivered .

4925 But thus saith the LORD Even the captives of the mighty

shall be taken away and the prey of the terrible shall be

delivered for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee

and I will save thy children .

4926 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own

flesh and they shall be drunken with their own blood as with

sweet wine and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy

Saviour and thy Redeemer the mighty One of Jacob .

* 501 Thus saith the LORD Where is the bill of your mother's

divorcement whom I have put away or which of my creditors is it

to whom I have sold you Behold for your iniquities have ye sold

yourselves and for your transgressions is your mother put away .

502 Wherefore when I came was there no man when I called was

there none to answer Is my hand shortened at all that it cannot

redeem or have I no power to deliver behold at my rebuke I dry

up the sea I make the rivers a wilderness their fish stinketh

because there is no water and dieth for thirst .

503 I clothe the heavens with blackness and I make sackcloth

their covering .

504 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned that I

should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary

he wakeneth morning by morning he wakeneth mine ear to hear as

the learned .

505 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear and I was not rebellious

neither turned away back .

506 I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to them that

plucked off the hair I hid not my face from shame and spitting .

507 For the Lord GOD will help me therefore shall I not be

confounded therefore have I set my face like a flint and I know

that I shall not be ashamed .

508 He is near that justifieth me who will contend with me let

us stand together who is mine adversary let him come near to me .

509 Behold the Lord GOD will help me who is he that shall

condemn me lo they all shall wax old as a garment the moth shall

eat them up .

5010 Who is among you that feareth the LORD that obeyeth the

voice of his servant that walketh in darkness and hath no light

let him trust in the name of the LORD and stay upon his God .

5011 Behold all ye that kindle a fire that compass yourselves

about with sparks walk in the light of your fire and in the

sparks that ye have kindled This shall ye have of mine hand ye

shall lie down in sorrow .

* 511 Hearken to me ye that follow after righteousness ye that

seek the LORD look unto the rock whence ye are hewn and to the

hole of the pit whence ye are digged .

512 Look unto Abraham your father and unto Sarah that bare you

for I called him alone and blessed him and increased him .

513 For the LORD shall comfort Zion he will comfort all her

waste places and he will make her wilderness like Eden and her

desert like the garden of the LORD joy and gladness shall be

found therein thanksgiving and the voice of melody .

514 Hearken unto me my people and give ear unto me O my nation

for a law shall proceed from me and I will make my judgment to

rest for a light of the people .

515 My righteousness is near my salvation is gone forth and

mine arms shall judge the people the isles shall wait upon me

and on mine arm shall they trust .

516 Lift up your eyes to the heavens and look upon the earth

beneath for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke and the

earth shall wax old like a garment and they that dwell therein

shall die in like manner but my salvation shall be for ever and

my righteousness shall not be abolished .

517 Hearken unto me ye that know righteousness the people in

whose heart is my law fear ye not the reproach of men neither be

ye afraid of their revilings .

518 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment and the worm

shall eat them like wool but my righteousness shall be for ever

and my salvation from generation to generation .

519 Awake awake put on strength O arm of the LORD awake as in

the ancient days in the generations of old Art thou not it that

hath cut Rahab and wounded the dragon .

5110 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea the waters of the

great deep that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the

ransomed to pass over .

5111 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return and come

with singing unto Zion and everlasting joy shall be upon their

head they shall obtain gladness and joy and sorrow and mourning

shall flee away .

5112 I even I am he that comforteth you who art thou that thou

shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die and of the son of

man which shall be made as grass .

5113 And forgettest the LORD thy maker that hath stretched

forth the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth and hast

feared continually every day because of the fury of the

oppressor as if he were ready to destroy and where is the fury

of the oppressor .

5114 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed and that

he should not die in the pit nor that his bread should fail .

5115 But I am the LORD thy God that divided the sea whose waves

roared The LORD of hosts is his name .

5116 And I have put my words in thy mouth and I have covered

thee in the shadow of mine hand that I may plant the heavens and

lay the foundations of the earth and say unto Zion Thou art my

people .

5117 Awake awake stand up O Jerusalem which hast drunk at the

hand of the LORD the cup of his fury thou hast drunken the dregs

of the cup of trembling and wrung them out .

5118 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she

hath brought forth neither is there any that taketh her by the

hand of all the sons that she hath brought up .

5119 These two things are come unto thee who shall be sorry for

thee desolation and destruction and the famine and the sword by

whom shall I comfort thee .

5120 Thy sons have fainted they lie at the head of all the

streets as a wild bull in a net they are full of the fury of the

LORD the rebuke of thy God .

5121 Therefore hear now this thou afflicted and drunken but not

with wine .

5122 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD and thy God that pleadeth the

cause of his people Behold I have taken out of thine hand the

cup of trembling even the dregs of the cup of my fury thou shalt

no more drink it again .

5123 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee

which have said to thy soul Bow down that we may go over and

thou hast laid thy body as the ground and as the street to them

that went over .

* 521 Awake awake put on thy strength O Zion put on thy

beautiful garments O Jerusalem the holy city for henceforth

there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the

unclean .

522 Shake thyself from the dust arise and sit down O Jerusalem

loose thyself from the bands of thy neck O captive daughter of

Zion .

523 For thus saith the LORD Ye have sold yourselves for nought

and ye shall be redeemed without money .

524 For thus saith the Lord GOD My people went down aforetime

into Egypt to sojourn there and the Assyrian oppressed them

without cause .

525 Now therefore what have I here saith the LORD that my

people is taken away for nought they that rule over them make

them to howl saith the LORD and my name continually every day is

blasphemed .

526 Therefore my people shall know my name therefore they shall

know in that day that I am he that doth speak behold it is I .

527 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that

bringeth good tidings that publisheth peace that bringeth good

tidings of good that publisheth salvation that saith unto Zion

Thy God reigneth .

528 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice with the voice

together shall they sing for they shall see eye to eye when the

LORD shall bring again Zion .

529 Break forth into joy sing together ye waste places of

Jerusalem for the LORD hath comforted his people he hath

redeemed Jerusalem .

5210 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all

the nations and all the ends of the earth shall see the

salvation of our God .

5211 Depart ye depart ye go ye out from thence touch no unclean

thing go ye out of the midst of her be ye clean that bear the

vessels of the LORD .

5212 For ye shall not go out with haste nor go by flight for

the LORD will go before you and the God of Israel will be your

rereward .

5213 Behold my servant shall deal prudently he shall be exalted

and extolled and be very high .

5214 As many were astonied at thee his visage was so marred

more than any man and his form more than the sons of men .

5215 So shall he sprinkle many nations the kings shall shut

their mouths at him for that which had not been told them shall

they see and that which they had not heard shall they consider .

* 531 Who hath believed our report and to whom is the arm of

the LORD revealed .

532 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a

root out of a dry ground he hath no form nor comeliness and when

we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him .

533 He is despised and rejected of men a man of sorrows and

acquainted with grief and we hid as it were our faces from him

he was despised and we esteemed him not .

534 Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows yet

we did esteem him stricken smitten of God and afflicted .

535 But he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised

for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him

and with his stripes we are healed .

536 All we like sheep have gone astray we have turned every one

to his own way and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us

all .

537 He was oppressed and he was afflicted yet he opened not his

mouth he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep

before her shearers is dumb so he openeth not his mouth .

538 He was taken from prison and from judgment and who shall

declare his generation for he was cut off out of the land of the

living for the transgression of my people was he stricken .

539 And he made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in

his death because he had done no violence neither was any deceit

in his mouth .

5310 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him he hath put him to

grief when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin he shall

see his seed he shall prolong his days and the pleasure of the

LORD shall prosper in his hand .

5311 He shall see of the travail of his soul and shall be

satisfied by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify

many for he shall bear their iniquities .

5312 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great and

he shall divide the spoil with the strong because he hath poured

out his soul unto death and he was numbered with the

transgressors and he bare the sin of many and made intercession

for the transgressors .

* 541 Sing O barren thou that didst not bear break forth into

singing and cry aloud thou that didst not travail with child for

more are the children of the desolate than the children of the

married wife saith the LORD .

542 Enlarge the place of thy tent and let them stretch forth

the curtains of thine habitations spare not lengthen thy cords

and strengthen thy stakes .

543 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the

left and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles and make the

desolate cities to be inhabited .

544 Fear not for thou shalt not be ashamed neither be thou

confounded for thou shalt not be put to shame for thou shalt

forget the shame of thy youth and shalt not remember the

reproach of thy widowhood any more .

545 For thy Maker is thine husband the LORD of hosts is his

name and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel The God of the

whole earth shall he be called .

546 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and

grieved in spirit and a wife of youth when thou wast refused

saith thy God .

547 For a small moment have I forsaken thee but with great

mercies will I gather thee .

548 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment but

with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee saith the

LORD thy Redeemer .

549 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me for as I have

sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth

so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee nor rebuke

thee .

5410 For the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed

but my kindness shall not depart from thee neither shall the

covenant of my peace be removed saith the LORD that hath mercy

on thee .

5411 O thou afflicted tossed with tempest and not comforted

behold I will lay thy stones with fair colours and lay thy

foundations with sapphires .

5412 And I will make thy windows of agates and thy gates of

carbuncles and all thy borders of pleasant stones .

5413 And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD and great

shall be the peace of thy children .

5414 In righteousness shalt thou be established thou shalt be

far from oppression for thou shalt not fear and from terror for

it shall not come near thee .

5415 Behold they shall surely gather together but not by me

whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy

sake .

5416 Behold I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in

the fire and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work and

I have created the waster to destroy .

5417 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper and

every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt

condemn This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and

their righteousness is of me saith the LORD .

* 551 Ho every one that thirsteth come ye to the waters and he

that hath no money come ye buy and eat yea come buy wine and

milk without money and without price .

552 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread and

your labour for that which satisfieth not hearken diligently

unto me and eat ye that which is good and let your soul delight

itself in fatness .

553 Incline your ear and come unto me hear and your soul shall

live and I will make an everlasting covenant with you even the

sure mercies of David .

554 Behold I have given him for a witness to the people a

leader and commander to the people .

555 Behold thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not and

nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the

LORD thy God and for the Holy One of Israel for he hath

glorified thee .

556 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found call ye upon him

while he is near .

557 Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his

thoughts and let him return unto the LORD and he will have mercy

upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon .

558 For my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways

my ways saith the LORD .

559 For as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways

higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts .

5510 For as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven and

returneth not thither but watereth the earth and maketh it bring

forth and bud that it may give seed to the sower and bread to

the eater .

5511 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth it

shall not return unto me void but it shall accomplish that which

I please and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it .

5512 For ye shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace

the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into

singing and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands .

5513 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree and

instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree and it shall

be to the LORD for a name for an everlasting sign that shall not

be cut off .

* 561 Thus saith the LORD Keep ye judgment and do justice for

my salvation is near to come and my righteousness to be revealed

562 Blessed is the man that doeth this and the son of man that

layeth hold on it that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it and

keepeth his hand from doing any evil .

563 Neither let the son of the stranger that hath joined

himself to the LORD speak saying The LORD hath utterly separated

me from his people neither let the eunuch say Behold I am a dry

tree .

564 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my

sabbaths and choose the things that please me and take hold of

my covenant .

565 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my

walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters I

will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off .

566 Also the sons of the stranger that join themselves to the

LORD to serve him and to love the name of the LORD to be his

servants every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it

and taketh hold of my covenant .

567 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain and make them

joyful in my house of prayer their burnt offerings and their

sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar for mine house

shall be called an house of prayer for all people .

568 The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith

Yet will I gather others to him beside those that are gathered

unto him .

569 All ye beasts of the field come to devour yea all ye beasts

in the forest .

5610 His watchmen are blind they are all ignorant they are all

dumb dogs they cannot bark sleeping lying down loving to slumber

5611 Yea they are greedy dogs which can never have enough and

they are shepherds that cannot understand they all look to their

own way every one for his gain from his quarter .

5612 Come ye say they I will fetch wine and we will fill

ourselves with strong drink and to morrow shall be as this day

and much more abundant .

* 571 The righteous perisheth and no man layeth it to heart and

merciful men are taken away none considering that the righteous

is taken away from the evil to come .

572 He shall enter into peace they shall rest in their beds

each one walking in his uprightness .

573 But draw near hither ye sons of the sorceress the seed of

the adulterer and the whore .

574 Against whom do ye sport yourselves against whom make ye a

wide mouth and draw out the tongue are ye not children of

transgression a seed of falsehood .

575 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree

slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the

rocks .

576 Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion they

they are thy lot even to them hast thou poured a drink offering

thou hast offered a meat offering Should I receive comfort in

these .

577 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed even

thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice .

578 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy

remembrance for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me

and art gone up thou hast enlarged thy bed and made thee a

covenant with them thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it .

579 And thou wentest to the king with ointment and didst

increase thy perfumes and didst send thy messengers far off and

didst debase thyself even unto hell .

5710 Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way yet saidst

thou not There is no hope thou hast found the life of thine hand

therefore thou wast not grieved .

5711 And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared that thou hast

lied and hast not remembered me nor laid it to thy heart have

not I held my peace even of old and thou fearest me not .

5712 I will declare thy righteousness and thy works for they

shall not profit thee .

5713 When thou criest let thy companies deliver thee but the

wind shall carry them all away vanity shall take them but he

that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land and shall

inherit my holy mountain .

5714 And shall say Cast ye up cast ye up prepare the way take

up the stumbling block out of the way of my people .

5715 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth

eternity whose name is Holy I dwell in the high and holy place

with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive

the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite

ones .

5716 For I will not contend for ever neither will I be always

wroth for the spirit should fail before me and the souls which I

have made .

5717 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth and smote

him I hid me and was wroth and he went on frowardly in the way

of his heart .

5718 I have seen his ways and will heal him I will lead him

also and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners .

5719 I create the fruit of the lips Peace peace to him that is

far off and to him that is near saith the LORD and I will heal

him .

5720 But the wicked are like the troubled sea when it cannot

rest whose waters cast up mire and dirt .

5721 There is no peace saith my God to the wicked .

* 581 Cry aloud spare not lift up thy voice like a trumpet and

show my people their transgression and the house of Jacob their

sins .

582 Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways as a

nation that did righteousness and forsook not the ordinance of

their God they ask of me the ordinances of justice they take

delight in approaching to God .

583 Wherefore have we fasted say they and thou seest not

wherefore have we afflicted our soul and thou takest no

knowledge Behold in the day of your fast ye find pleasure and

exact all your labours .

584 Behold ye fast for strife and debate and to smite with the

fist of wickedness ye shall not fast as ye do this day to make

your voice to be heard on high .

585 Is it such a fast that I have chosen a day for a man to

afflict his soul is it to bow down his head as a bulrush and to

spread sackcloth and ashes under him wilt thou call this a fast

and an acceptable day to the LORD .

586 Is not this the fast that I have chosen to loose the bands

of wickedness to undo the heavy burdens and to let the oppressed

go free and that ye break every yoke .

587 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry and that thou

bring the poor that are cast out to thy house when thou seest

the naked that thou cover him and that thou hide not thyself

from thine own flesh .

588 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning and thine

health shall spring forth speedily and thy righteousness shall

go before thee the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward .

589 Then shalt thou call and the LORD shall answer thou shalt

cry and he shall say Here I am If thou take away from the midst

of thee the yoke the putting forth of the finger and speaking

vanity .

5810 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry and satisfy

the afflicted soul then shall thy light rise in obscurity and

thy darkness be as the noon day .

5811 And the LORD shall guide thee continually and satisfy thy

soul in drought and make fat thy bones and thou shalt be like a

watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not .

5812 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste

places thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations

and thou shalt be called The repairer of the breach The restorer

of paths to dwell in .

5813 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath from doing thy

pleasure on my holy day and call the sabbath a delight the holy

of the LORD honourable and shalt honour him not doing thine own

ways nor finding thine own pleasure nor speaking thine own words

5814 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD and I will

cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth and feed

thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father for the mouth of the

LORD hath spoken it .

* 591 Behold the LORD'S hand is not shortened that it cannot

save neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear .

592 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God

and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear .

593 For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with

iniquity your lips have spoken lies your tongue hath muttered

perverseness .

594 None calleth for justice nor any pleadeth for truth they

trust in vanity and speak lies they conceive mischief and bring

forth iniquity .

595 They hatch cockatrice' eggs and weave the spider's web he

that eateth of their eggs dieth and that which is crushed

breaketh out into a viper .

596 Their webs shall not become garments neither shall they

cover themselves with their works their works are works of

iniquity and the act of violence is in their hands .

597 Their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed innocent

blood their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity wasting and

destruction are in their paths .

598 The way of peace they know not and there is no judgment in

their goings they have made them crooked paths whosoever goeth

therein shall not know peace .

599 Therefore is judgment far from us neither doth justice

overtake us we wait for light but behold obscurity for

brightness but we walk in darkness .

5910 We grope for the wall like the blind and we grope as if we

had no eyes we stumble at noon day as in the night we are in

desolate places as dead men .

5911 We roar all like bears and mourn sore like doves we look

for judgment but there is none for salvation but it is far off

from us .

5912 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee and our

sins testify against us for our transgressions are with us and

as for our iniquities we know them .

5913 In transgressing and lying against the LORD and departing

away from our God speaking oppression and revolt conceiving and

uttering from the heart words of falsehood .

5914 And judgment is turned away backward and justice standeth

afar off for truth is fallen in the street and equity cannot

enter .

5915 Yea truth faileth and he that departeth from evil maketh

himself a prey and the LORD saw it and it displeased him that

there was no judgment .

5916 And he saw that there was no man and wondered that there

was no intercessor therefore his arm brought salvation unto him

and his righteousness it sustained him .

5917 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate and an helmet

of salvation upon his head and he put on the garments of

vengeance for clothing and was clad with zeal as a cloak .

5918 According to their deeds accordingly he will repay fury to

his adversaries recompense to his enemies to the islands he will

repay recompense .

5919 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west and

his glory from the rising of the sun When the enemy shall come

in like a flood the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard

against him .

5920 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion and unto them that

turn from transgression in Jacob saith the LORD .

5921 As for me this is my covenant with them saith the LORD My

spirit that is upon thee and my words which I have put in thy

mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of

thy seed nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed saith the LORD

from henceforth and for ever .

* 601 Arise shine for thy light is come and the glory of the

LORD is risen upon thee .

602 For behold the darkness shall cover the earth and gross

darkness the people but the LORD shall arise upon thee and his

glory shall be seen upon thee .

603 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light and kings to the

brightness of thy rising .

604 Lift up thine eyes round about and see all they gather

themselves together they come to thee thy sons shall come from

far and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side .

605 Then thou shalt see and flow together and thine heart shall

fear and be enlarged because the abundance of the sea shall be

converted unto thee the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto

thee .

606 The multitude of camels shall cover thee the dromedaries of

Midian and Ephah all they from Sheba shall come they shall bring

gold and incense and they shall show forth the praises of the

LORD .

607 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto

thee the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee they shall

come up with acceptance on mine altar and I will glorify the

house of my glory .

608 Who are these that fly as a cloud and as the doves to their

windows .

609 Surely the isles shall wait for me and the ships of

Tarshish first to bring thy sons from far their silver and their

gold with them unto the name of the LORD thy God and to the Holy

One of Israel because he hath glorified thee .

6010 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls and

their kings shall minister unto thee for in my wrath I smote

thee but in my favour have I had mercy on thee .

6011 Therefore thy gates shall be open continually they shall

not be shut day nor night that men may bring unto thee the

forces of the Gentiles and that their kings may be brought .

6012 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall

perish yea those nations shall be utterly wasted .

6013 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee the fir tree the

pine tree and the box together to beautify the place of my

sanctuary and I will make the place of my feet glorious .

6014 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come

bending unto thee and all they that despised thee shall bow

themselves down at the soles of thy feet and they shall call

thee The city of the LORD The Zion of the Holy One of Israel .

6015 Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated so that no man

went through thee I will make thee an eternal excellency a joy

of many generations .

6016 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles and shalt

suck the breast of kings and thou shalt know that I the LORD am

thy Saviour and thy Redeemer the mighty One of Jacob .

6017 For brass I will bring gold and for iron I will bring

silver and for wood brass and for stones iron I will also make

thy officers peace and thine exactors righteousness .

6018 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land wasting nor

destruction within thy borders but thou shalt call thy walls

Salvation and thy gates Praise .

6019 The sun shall be no more thy light by day neither for

brightness shall the moon give light unto thee but the LORD

shall be unto thee an everlasting light and thy God thy glory .

6020 Thy sun shall no more go down neither shall thy moon

withdraw itself for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light

and the days of thy mourning shall be ended .

6021 Thy people also shall be all righteous they shall inherit

the land for ever the branch of my planting the work of my hands

that I may be glorified .

6022 A little one shall become a thousand and a small one a

strong nation I the LORD will hasten it in his time .

* 611 The spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me because the LORD

hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek he hath

sent me to bind up the brokenhearted to proclaim liberty to the

captives and the opening of the prison to them that are bound .

612 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD and the day of

vengeance of our God to comfort all that mourn .

613 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion to give unto them

beauty for ashes the oil of joy for mourning the garment of

praise for the spirit of heaviness that they might be called

trees of righteousness the planting of the LORD that he might be

glorified .

614 And they shall build the old wastes they shall raise up the

former desolations and they shall repair the waste cities the

desolations of many generations .

615 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks and the sons

of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers .

616 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD men shall

call you the Ministers of our God ye shall eat the riches of the

Gentiles and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves .

617 For your shame ye shall have double and for confusion they

shall rejoice in their portion therefore in their land they

shall possess the double everlasting joy shall be unto them .

618 For I the LORD love judgment I hate robbery for burnt

offering and I will direct their work in truth and I will make

an everlasting covenant with them .

619 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles and their

offspring among the people all that see them shall acknowledge

them that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed .

6110 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD my soul shall be joyful

in my God for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation

he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness as a

bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments and as a bride

adorneth herself with her jewels .

6111 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud and as the garden

causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth so the

Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth

before all the nations .

* 621 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace and for

Jerusalem's sake I will not rest until the righteousness thereof

go forth as brightness and the salvation thereof as a lamp that

burneth .

622 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness and all kings

thy glory and thou shalt be called by a new name which the mouth

of the LORD shall name .

623 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD

and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God .

624 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken neither shall thy

land any more be termed Desolate but thou shalt be called

Hephzibah and thy land Beulah for the LORD delighteth in thee

and thy land shall be married .

625 For as a young man marrieth a virgin so shall thy sons

marry thee and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride so

shall thy God rejoice over thee .

626 I have set watchmen upon thy walls O Jerusalem which shall

never hold their peace day nor night ye that make mention of the

LORD keep not silence .

627 And give him no rest till he establish and till he make

Jerusalem a praise in the earth .

628 The LORD hath sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his

strength Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for

thine enemies and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy

wine for the which thou hast laboured .

629 But they that have gathered it shall eat it and praise the

LORD and they that have brought it together shall drink it in

the courts of my holiness .

6210 Go through go through the gates prepare ye the way of the

people cast up cast up the highway gather out the stones lift up

a standard for the people .

6211 Behold the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world

Say ye to the daughter of Zion Behold thy salvation cometh

behold his reward is with him and his work before him .

6212 And they shall call them The holy people The redeemed of

the LORD and thou shalt be called Sought out A city not forsaken

* 631 Who is this that cometh from Edom with dyed garments from

Bozrah this that is glorious in his apparel travelling in the

greatness of his strength I that speak in righteousness mighty

to save .

632 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel and thy garments

like him that treadeth in the winefat .

633 I have trodden the winepress alone and of the people there

was none with me for I will tread them in mine anger and trample

them in my fury and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my

garments and I will stain all my raiment .

634 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart and the year of

my redeemed is come .

635 And I looked and there was none to help and I wondered that

there was none to uphold therefore mine own arm brought

salvation unto me and my fury it upheld me .

636 And I will tread down the people in mine anger and make

them drunk in my fury and I will bring down their strength to

the earth .

637 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD and the

praises of the LORD according to all that the LORD hath bestowed

on us and the great goodness toward the house of Israel which he

hath bestowed on them according to his mercies and according to

the multitude of his lovingkindnesses .

638 For he said Surely they are my people children that will

not lie so he was their Saviour .

639 In all their affliction he was afflicted and the angel of

his presence saved them in his love and in his pity he redeemed

them and he bare them and carried them all the days of old .

6310 But they rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit therefore he

was turned to be their enemy and he fought against them .

6311 Then he remembered the days of old Moses and his people

saying Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the

shepherd of his flock where is he that put his holy Spirit

within him .

6312 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious

arm dividing the water before them to make himself an

everlasting name .

6313 That led them through the deep as an horse in the

wilderness that they should not stumble .

6314 As a beast goeth down into the valley the Spirit of the

LORD caused him to rest so didst thou lead thy people to make

thyself a glorious name .

6315 Look down from heaven and behold from the habitation of

thy holiness and of thy glory where is thy zeal and thy strength

the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me are they

restrained .

6316 Doubtless thou art our father though Abraham be ignorant

of us and Israel acknowledge us not thou O LORD art our father

our redeemer thy name is from everlasting .

6317 O LORD why hast thou made us to err from thy ways and

hardened our heart from thy fear Return for thy servants' sake

the tribes of thine inheritance .

6318 The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little

while our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary .

6319 We are thine thou never barest rule over them they were

not called by thy name .

* 641 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens that thou wouldest

come down that the mountains might flow down at thy presence .

642 As when the melting fire burneth the fire causeth the

waters to boil to make thy name known to thine adversaries that

the nations may tremble at thy presence .

643 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for

thou camest down the mountains flowed down at thy presence .

644 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor

perceived by the ear neither hath the eye seen O God beside thee

what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him .

645 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness

those that remember thee in thy ways behold thou art wroth for

we have sinned in those is continuance and we shall be saved .

646 But we are all as an unclean thing and all our

righteousnesses are as filthy rags and we all do fade as a leaf

and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away .

647 And there is none that calleth upon thy name that stirreth

up himself to take hold of thee for thou hast hid thy face from

us and hast consumed us because of our iniquities .

648 But now O LORD thou art our father we are the clay and thou

our potter and we all are the work of thy hand .

649 Be not wroth very sore O LORD neither remember iniquity for

ever behold see we beseech thee we are all thy people .

6410 Thy holy cities are a wilderness Zion is a wilderness

Jerusalem a desolation .

6411 Our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praised

thee is burned up with fire and all our pleasant things are laid

waste .

6412 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things O LORD wilt

thou hold thy peace and afflict us very sore .

* 651 I am sought of them that asked not for me I am found of

them that sought me not I said Behold me behold me unto a nation

that was not called by my name .

652 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious

people which walketh in a way that was not good after their own

thoughts .

653 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face

that sacrificeth in gardens and burneth incense upon altars of

brick .

654 Which remain among the graves and lodge in the monuments

which eat swine's flesh and broth of abominable things is in

their vessels .

655 Which say Stand by thyself come not near to me for I am

holier than thou These are a smoke in my nose a fire that

burneth all the day .

656 Behold it is written before me I will not keep silence but

will recompense even recompense into their bosom .

657 Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together

saith the LORD which have burned incense upon the mountains and

blasphemed me upon the hills therefore will I measure their

former work into their bosom .

658 Thus saith the LORD As the new wine is found in the cluster

and one saith Destroy it not for a blessing is in it so will I

do for my servants' sakes that I may not destroy them all .

659 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob and out of Judah

an inheritor of my mountains and mine elect shall inherit it and

my servants shall dwell there .

6510 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks and the valley of

Achor a place for the herds to lie down in for my people that

have sought me .

6511 But ye are they that forsake the LORD that forget my holy

mountain that prepare a table for that troop and that furnish

the drink offering unto that number .

6512 Therefore will I number you to the sword and ye shall all

bow down to the slaughter because when I called ye did not

answer when I spake ye did not hear but did evil before mine

eyes and did choose that wherein I delighted not .

6513 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold my servants shall

eat but ye shall be hungry behold my servants shall drink but ye

shall be thirsty behold my servants shall rejoice but ye shall

be ashamed .

6514 Behold my servants shall sing for joy of heart but ye

shall cry for sorrow of heart and shall howl for vexation of

spirit .

6515 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen

for the Lord GOD shall slay thee and call his servants by

another name .

6516 That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless

himself in the God of truth and he that sweareth in the earth

shall swear by the God of truth because the former troubles are

forgotten and because they are hid from mine eyes .

6517 For behold I create new heavens and a new earth and the

former shall not be remembered nor come into mind .

6518 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create

for behold I create Jerusalem a rejoicing and her people a joy .

6519 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem and joy in my people and

the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her nor the voice

of crying .

6520 There shall be no more thence an infant of days nor an old

man that hath not filled his days for the child shall die an

hundred years old but the sinner being an hundred years old

shall be accursed .

6521 And they shall build houses and inhabit them and they

shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them .

6522 They shall not build and another inhabit they shall not

plant and another eat for as the days of a tree are the days of

my people and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their

hands .

6523 They shall not labour in vain nor bring forth for trouble

for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD and their

offspring with them .

6524 And it shall come to pass that before they call I will

answer and while they are yet speaking I will hear .

6525 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together and the lion

shall eat straw like the bullock and dust shall be the serpent's

meat They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain

saith the LORD .

* 661 Thus saith the LORD The heaven is my throne and the earth

is my footstool where is the house that ye build unto me and

where is the place of my rest .

662 For all those things hath mine hand made and all those

things have been saith the LORD but to this man will I look even

to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit and trembleth at my

word .

663 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man he that

sacrificeth a lamb as if he cut off a dog's neck he that

offereth an oblation as if he offered swine's blood he that

burneth incense as if he blessed an idol Yea they have chosen

their own ways and their soul delighteth in their abominations .

664 I also will choose their delusions and will bring their

fears upon them because when I called none did answer when I

spake they did not hear but they did evil before mine eyes and

chose that in which I delighted not .

665 Hear the word of the LORD ye that tremble at his word Your

brethren that hated you that cast you out for my name's sake

said Let the LORD be glorified but he shall appear to your joy

and they shall be ashamed .

666 A voice of noise from the city a voice from the temple a

voice of the LORD that rendereth recompense to his enemies .

667 Before she travailed she brought forth before her pain came

she was delivered of a man child .

668 Who hath heard such a thing who hath seen such things Shall

the earth be made to bring forth in one day or shall a nation be

born at once for as soon as Zion travailed she brought forth her

children .

669 Shall I bring to the birth and not cause to bring forth

saith the LORD shall I cause to bring forth and shut the womb

saith thy God .

6610 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem and be glad with her all ye that

love her rejoice for joy with her all ye that mourn for her .

6611 That ye may suck and be satisfied with the breasts of her

consolations that ye may milk out and be delighted with the

abundance of her glory .

6612 For thus saith the LORD Behold I will extend peace to her

like a river and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream

then shall ye suck ye shall be borne upon her sides and be

dandled upon her knees .

6613 As one whom his mother comforteth so will I comfort you

and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem .

6614 And when ye see this your heart shall rejoice and your

bones shall flourish like an herb and the hand of the LORD shall

be known toward his servants and his indignation toward his

enemies .

6615 For behold the LORD will come with fire and with his

chariots like a whirlwind to render his anger with fury and his

rebuke with flames of fire .

6616 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all

flesh and the slain of the LORD shall be many .

6617 They that sanctify themselves and purify themselves in the

gardens behind one tree in the midst eating swine's flesh and

the abomination and the mouse shall be consumed together saith

the LORD .

6618 For I know their works and their thoughts it shall come

that I will gather all nations and tongues and they shall come

and see my glory .

6619 And I will set a sign among them and I will send those

that escape of them unto the nations to Tarshish Pul and Lud

that draw the bow to Tubal and Javan to the isles afar off that

have not heard my fame neither have seen my glory and they shall

declare my glory among the Gentiles .

6620 And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering

unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses and in chariots and

in litters and upon mules and upon swift beasts to my holy

mountain Jerusalem saith the LORD as the children of Israel

bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD .

6621 And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites

saith the LORD .

6622 For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make

shall remain before me saith the LORD so shall your seed and

your name remain .

6623 And it shall come to pass that from one new moon to

another and from one sabbath to another shall all flesh come to

worship before me saith the LORD .

6624 And they shall go forth and look upon the carcases of the

men that have transgressed against me for their worm shall not

die neither shall their fire be quenched and they shall be an

abhorring unto all flesh .