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They have + forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. + They are estranged and backward. +001:005 Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? + The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. +001:006 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness + in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven't been closed, + neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil. +001:007 Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. + Strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate, + as overthrown by strangers. +001:008 The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, + like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city. +001:009 Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, + we would have been as Sodom; we would have been like Gomorrah. +001:010 Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law + of our God, you people of Gomorrah! +001:011 "What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says Yahweh. + "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat + of fed animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls, + or of lambs, or of male goats. +001:012 When you come to appear before me, who has required this + at your hand, to trample my courts? +001:013 Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; + new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can't bear + with evil assemblies. +001:014 My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. + They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them. +001:015 When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. + Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. + Your hands are full of blood. +001:016 Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil + of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. +001:017 Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. + Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow." +001:018 "Come now, and let us reason together," says Yahweh: "Though your + sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. + Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. +001:019 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good + of the land; +001:020 but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; + for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it." +001:021 How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full + of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers. +001:022 Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water. +001:023 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. + Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. + They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause + of the widow come to them. +001:024 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One + of Israel, says: "Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, + and avenge myself of my enemies; +001:025 and I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, + and will take away all your tin. +001:026 I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors + as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called 'The city + of righteousness, a faithful town.' +001:027 Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts + with righteousness. +001:028 But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, + and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed. +001:029 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, + and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen. +001:030 For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden + that has no water. +001:031 The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. + They will both burn together, and no one will quench them." +002:001 This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning + Judah and Jerusalem. +002:002 It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh's + house shall be established on the top of the mountains, + and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall + flow to it. +002:003 Many peoples shall go and say, "Come, let's go up to + the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; + and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths." + For out of Zion the law shall go forth, and the word of + Yahweh from Jerusalem. +002:004 He will judge between the nations, and will decide + concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords + into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. + Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall + they learn war any more. +002:005 House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh. +002:006 For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, + because they are filled from the east, with those who practice + divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with + the children of foreigners. +002:007 Their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any + end of their treasures. Their land also is full of horses, + neither is there any end of their chariots. +002:008 Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work + of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made. +002:009 Man is brought low, and mankind is humbled; therefore don't + forgive them. +002:010 Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from before the terror + of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty. +002:011 The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness + of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted + in that day. +002:012 For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that + is proud and haughty, and for all that is lifted up; + and it shall be brought low: +002:013 For all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, + for all the oaks of Bashan, +002:014 For all the high mountains, for all the hills that are lifted up, +002:015 For every lofty tower, for every fortified wall, +002:016 For all the ships of Tarshish, and for all pleasant imagery. +002:017 The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness + of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted + in that day. +002:018 The idols shall utterly pass away. +002:019 Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes + of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory + of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily. +002:020 In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver, + and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves + to worship, to the moles and to the bats; +002:021 To go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts + of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Yahweh, + and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake + the earth mightily. +002:022 Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; + for of what account is he? +003:001 For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem + and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, + and the whole supply of water; +003:002 the mighty man, the man of war, the judge, the prophet, + the diviner, the elder, +003:003 the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor, + the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter. +003:004 I will give boys to be their princes, and children shall + rule over them. +003:005 The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone + by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly + against the old man, and the base against the honorable. +003:006 Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house + of his father, saying, "You have clothing, you be our ruler, + and let this ruin be under your hand." +003:007 In that day he will cry out, saying, I will not be a healer; + for in my house is neither bread nor clothing. + You shall not make me ruler of the people. +003:008 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their + tongue and their doings are against Yahweh, to provoke the eyes + of his glory. +003:009 The look of their faces testify against them. They parade + their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! + For they have brought disaster upon themselves. +003:010 Tell the righteous "Good!" For they shall eat the fruit + of their deeds. +003:011 Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds + of his hands will be paid back to him. +003:012 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule + over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, + and destroy the way of your paths. +003:013 Yahweh stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples. +003:014 Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, + and their leaders: "It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. + The spoil of the poor is in your houses. +003:015 What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face + of the poor?" says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies. +003:016 Moreover Yahweh said, "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, + and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, + walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet; +003:017 therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head + of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald." +003:018 In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, + the headbands, the crescent necklaces, +003:019 the earrings, the bracelets, the veils, +003:020 the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume + bottles, the charms, +003:021 the signet rings, the nose rings, +003:022 the fine robes, the capes, the cloaks, the purses, +003:023 the hand mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, + and the shawls. +003:024 It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall + be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well + set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth; + and branding instead of beauty. +003:025 Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war. +003:026 Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate + and sit on the ground. +004:001 Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, + "We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: + only let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach." +004:002 In that day, Yahweh's branch will be beautiful and glorious, + and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory + of the survivors of Israel. +004:003 It will happen, that he who is left in Zion, and he who remains + in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even everyone who is + written among the living in Jerusalem; +004:004 when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters + of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from its midst, + by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning. +004:005 Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion, + and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, + and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all + the glory will be a canopy. +004:006 There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, + and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain. +005:001 Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about + his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill. +005:002 He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with + the choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and also cut + out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, + but it yielded wild grapes. +005:003 "Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge + between me and my vineyard. +005:004 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have + not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, + did it yield wild grapes? +005:005 Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. + I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. + I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down. +005:006 I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, + but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command + the clouds that they rain no rain on it." +005:007 For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, + and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked + for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, + but, behold, a cry of distress. +005:008 Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, + until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone + in the midst of the land! +005:009 In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: "Surely many houses will + be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied. +005:010 For ten acres{literally, ten yokes, or the amount of land + that ten yokes of oxen can plow in one day, which is about 10 + acres or 4 hectares.} of vineyard shall yield one bath,{1 + bath is about 22 litres, 5.8 U. S. gallons, or 4.8 imperial + gallons} and a homer{1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels} + of seed shall yield an ephah.{1 ephah is about 22 litres or 0.6 + bushels or about 2 pecks)--only one tenth of what was sown.}" +005:011 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they + may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, + until wine inflames them! +005:012 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at + their feasts; but they don't regard the work of Yahweh, + neither have they considered the operation of his hands. +005:013 Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. + Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are + parched with thirst. +005:014 Therefore Sheol{Sheol is the place of the dead.} has enlarged + its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, + their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, + descend into it. +005:015 So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes + of the arrogant ones are humbled; +005:016 but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One + is sanctified in righteousness. +005:017 Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers + will eat the ruins of the rich. +005:018 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, + and wickedness as with cart rope; +005:019 Who say, "Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, + that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One + of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!" +005:020 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness + for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, + and sweet for bitter! +005:021 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent + in their own sight! +005:022 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions + at mixing strong drink; +005:023 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice + for the innocent! +005:024 Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, + and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root + shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; + because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, + and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. +005:025 Therefore Yahweh's anger burns against his people, and he has + stretched out his hand against them, and has struck them. + The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse + in the midst of the streets. For all this, his anger is not + turned away, but his hand is still stretched out. +005:026 He will lift up a banner to the nations from far, + and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. + Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly. +005:027 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber + nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, + nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: +005:028 whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses' + hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind. +005:029 Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like + young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey + and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver. +005:030 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. + If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. + The light is darkened in its clouds. +006:001 In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on + a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. +006:002 Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. + With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. + With two he flew. +006:003 One called to another, and said, "Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh + of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!" +006:004 The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him + who called, and the house was filled with smoke. +006:005 Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of + unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: + for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!" +006:006 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, + which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. +006:007 He touched my mouth with it, and said, "Behold, this has + touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, + and your sin forgiven." +006:008 I heard the Lord's voice, saying, "Whom shall I send, + and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here I am. Send me!" +006:009 He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, + but don't understand; and you see indeed, but don't perceive.' +006:010 Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, + and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, + and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, + and turn again, and be healed." +006:011 Then I said, "Lord, how long?" He answered, "Until cities + are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, + and the land becomes utterly waste, +006:012 And Yahweh has removed men far away, and the forsaken places + are many in the midst of the land. +006:013 If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed: + as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains when they + are felled; so the holy seed is its stock." +007:001 It happened in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son + of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, + and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to + Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. +007:002 It was told the house of David, saying, "Syria is allied + with Ephraim." His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, + as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind. +007:003 Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, + you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit + of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller's field. +007:004 Tell him, 'Be careful, and keep calm. Don't be afraid, + neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails + of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, + and of the son of Remaliah. +007:005 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted + evil against you, saying, +007:006 "Let's go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let's divide + it among ourselves, and set up a king in the midst of it, + even the son of Tabeel." +007:007 This is what the Lord Yahweh says: "It shall not stand, + neither shall it happen." +007:008 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; + and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, + so that it shall not be a people; +007:009 and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria + is Remaliah's son. If you will not believe, surely you shall + not be established.'" +007:010 Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying, +007:011 "Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, + or in the height above." +007:012 But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, neither will I tempt Yahweh." +007:013 He said, "Listen now, house of David: Is it not enough for you + to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience + of my God also? +007:014 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. + Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall + call his name Immanuel.{"Immanuel" means "God with us."} +007:015 He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, + and choose the good. +007:016 For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, + the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken. +007:017 Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father's house, + days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed + from Judah; even the king of Assyria. +007:018 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly + that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, + and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. +007:019 They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, + in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, + and on all pastures. +007:020 In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired + in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, + the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also + consume the beard. +007:021 It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, + and two sheep; +007:022 and it shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk + which they shall give he shall eat butter: for everyone will + eat butter and honey that is left in the midst of the land. +007:023 It will happen in that day that every place where there + were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be + for briers and thorns. +007:024 People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all + the land will be briers and thorns. +007:025 All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall + not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be + for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep." +008:001 Yahweh said to me, "Take a large tablet, and write on it with a + man's pen, 'For Maher Shalal Hash Baz;{"Maher Shalal Hash Baz" + means "quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil."}' +008:002 and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: + Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah." +008:003 I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. + Then said Yahweh to me, "Call his name 'Maher Shalal Hash Baz.' +008:004 For before the child knows how to say, 'My father,' and, 'My mother,' + the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried + away by the king of Assyria." +008:005 Yahweh spoke to me yet again, saying, +008:006 "Because this people have refused the waters of Shiloah + that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son; +008:007 now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood + waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. + It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks. +008:008 It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through; + it will reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its + wings will fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel. +008:009 Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you + from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! + Dress for battle, and be shattered! +008:010 Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; + speak the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us." +008:011 For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed + me not to walk in the way of this people, saying, +008:012 "Don't say, 'A conspiracy!' concerning all about which this + people say, 'A conspiracy!' neither fear their threats, + nor be terrorized. +008:013 Yahweh of Armies is who you must regard as holy. + He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread. +008:014 He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, + he will be a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem. +008:015 Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, + and be captured." +008:016 Wrap up the testimony. Seal the law among my disciples. +008:017 I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, + and I will look for him. +008:018 Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are + for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, + who dwells in Mount Zion. +008:019 When they tell you, "Consult with those who have familiar + spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:" + shouldn't a people consult with their God? Should they + consult the dead on behalf of the living? +008:020 Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don't speak + according to this word, surely there is no morning for them. +008:021 They will pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; + and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, + and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn + their faces upward, +008:022 and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom + of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness. +009:001 But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. + In the former time, he brought into contempt the land + of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter + time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, + beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. +009:002 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. + Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them + the light has shined. +009:003 You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. + They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, + as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. +009:004 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, + the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian. +009:005 For all the armor of the armed man in the noisy battle, + and the garments rolled in blood, will be for burning, + fuel for the fire. +009:006 For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; + and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be + called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, + Prince of Peace. +009:007 Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall + be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, + to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and + with righteousness from that time on, even forever. + The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this. +009:008 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it falls on Israel. +009:009 All the people will know, including Ephraim and the inhabitants + of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart, +009:010 "The bricks have fallen, but we will build with hewn stone. + The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put + cedars in their place." +009:011 Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the adversaries + of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies, +009:012 The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they + will devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his anger + is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. +009:013 Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, + neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies. +009:014 Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, + palm branch and reed, in one day. +009:015 The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet + who teaches lies is the tail. +009:016 For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those + who are led by them are destroyed. +009:017 Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, + neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; + for everyone is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth + speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, + but his hand is stretched out still. +009:018 For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers + and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, + and they roll upward in a column of smoke. +009:019 Through the wrath of Yahweh of Armies, the land is + burnt up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. + No one spares his brother. +009:020 One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will + eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. + Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm: +009:021 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. +010:001 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers + who write oppressive decrees; +010:002 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among + my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, + and that they may make the fatherless their prey! +010:003 What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation + which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? + Where will you leave your wealth? +010:004 They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall + under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, + but his hand is stretched out still. +010:005 Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand + is my indignation! +010:006 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people + who anger me 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. +010:007 However he doesn't mean so, neither does his heart think so; + but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not + a few nations. +010:008 For he says, "Aren't all of my princes kings? +010:009 Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath like Arpad? + Isn't Samaria like Damascus?" +010:010 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved + images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria; +010:011 shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, + so do to Jerusalem and her idols? +010:012 Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed + his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish + the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, + and the insolence of his haughty looks. +010:013 For he has said, "By the strength of my hand I have done it, + and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed + the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. + Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers. +010:014 My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, + and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, have I gathered + all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, + or that opened their mouth, or chirped." +010:015 Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? + Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? + As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff + should lift up someone who is not wood. +010:016 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat + ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled + like the burning of fire. +010:017 The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One + for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his + briers in one day. +010:018 He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, + both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints. +010:019 The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, + so that a child could write their number. +010:020 It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, + and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more + again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, + the Holy One of Israel, in truth. +010:021 A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, + to the mighty God. +010:022 For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, + only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, + overflowing with righteousness. +010:023 For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end, + and that determined, in the midst of all the earth. +010:024 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, says "My people who dwell + in Zion, don't be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike + you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, + as Egypt did. +010:025 For yet a very little while, and the indignation against + you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed + to his destruction." +010:026 Yahweh of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, + as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. + His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like + he did against Egypt. +010:027 It will happen in that day, that his burden will depart + from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, + and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil. +010:028 He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. + At Michmash he stores his baggage. +010:029 They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging + at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled. +010:030 Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! + You poor Anathoth! +010:031 Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety. +010:032 This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at + the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. +010:033 Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. + The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low. +010:034 He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, + and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One. +011:001 A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch + out of his roots will bear fruit. +011:002 The Spirit of Yahweh will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom + and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit + of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh. +011:003 His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge + by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing + of his ears; +011:004 but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide + with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike + the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath + of his lips he will kill the wicked. +011:005 Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness + the belt of his waist. +011:006 The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down + with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened + calf together; and a little child will lead them. +011:007 The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie + down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox. +011:008 The nursing child will play near a cobra's hole, and the weaned + child will put his hand on the viper's den. +011:009 They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; + for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, + as the waters cover the sea. +011:010 It will happen in that day that the nations will seek + the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; + and his resting place will be glorious. +011:011 It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand + again the second time to recover the remnant that is left + of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, + from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands + of the sea. +011:012 He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble + the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed + of Judah from the four corners of the earth. +011:013 The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute + Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won't envy Judah, and Judah + won't persecute Ephraim. +011:014 They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. + Together they will plunder the children of the east. + They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children + of Ammon will obey them. +011:015 Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; + and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, + and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march + over in sandals. +011:016 There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his + people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day + that he came up out of the land of Egypt. +012:001 In that day you will say, "I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; + for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away + and you comfort me. +012:002 Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not + be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; + and he has become my salvation." +012:003 Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation. +012:004 In that day you will say, "Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. + Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his + name is exalted! +012:005 Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent things! + Let this be known in all the earth! +012:006 Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One + of Israel is great in the midst of you!" +013:001 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw: +013:002 Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! + Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. +013:003 I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called + my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones. +013:004 The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; + the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations + gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army + for the battle. +013:005 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, + even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy + the whole land. +013:006 Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand! It will come as + destruction from the Almighty. +013:007 Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone's heart will melt. +013:008 They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. + They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look + in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame. +013:009 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; + to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners + out of it. +013:010 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give + their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, + and the moon will not cause its light to shine. +013:011 I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked + for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud + to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible. +013:012 I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person + than the pure gold of Ophir. +013:013 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will + be shaken out of its place in the wrath of Yahweh of Armies, + and in the day of his fierce anger. +013:014 It will happen that like a a hunted gazelle, and like sheep + that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, + and will each flee to their own land. +013:015 Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is + captured will fall by the sword. +013:016 Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. + Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped. +013:017 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not + value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it. +013:018 Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; + and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. + Their eyes will not spare children. +013:019 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' + pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. +013:020 It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from + generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, + neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there. +013:021 But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their + houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, + and wild goats will frolic there. +013:022 Wolves will cry in their castles, and jackals in the + pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days + will not be prolonged. +014:001 For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will + yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. + The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite + with the house of Jacob. +014:002 The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. + The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh's land for servants + and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose + captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. +014:003 It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from + your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service + in which you were made to serve, +014:004 that you will take up this parable against the king + of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! + The golden city has ceased!" +014:005 Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter + of the rulers, +014:006 who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled + the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained. +014:007 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out song. +014:008 Yes, the fir trees rejoice with you, with the cedars + of Lebanon, saying, "Since you are humbled, no lumberjack + has come up against us." +014:009 Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. + It stirs up the dead for you, even all the rulers of the earth. + It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. +014:010 They all will answer and ask you, "Have you also become as weak + as we are? Have you become like us?" +014:011 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your + stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, + and worms cover you. +014:012 How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! + How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! +014:013 You said in your heart, "I will ascend into heaven! + I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit + on the mountain of assembly, in the far north! +014:014 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make + myself like the Most High!" +014:015 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit. +014:016 Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, + saying, "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, + who shook kingdoms; +014:017 who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; + who didn't release his prisoners to their home?" +014:018 All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in + his own house. +014:019 But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, + clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, + who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body + trodden under foot. +014:020 You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed + your land. You have killed your people. The seed of evil-doers + will not be named forever. +014:021 Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity + of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, + and fill the surface of the world with cities. +014:022 "I will rise up against them," says Yahweh of Armies, + "and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and + son's son," says Yahweh. +014:023 "I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools + of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," + says Yahweh of Armies. +014:024 Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought, + so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: +014:025 that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him + under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, + and his burden leave their shoulders. +014:026 This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. + This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. +014:027 For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? + His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?" +014:028 This burden was in the year that king Ahaz died. +014:029 Don't rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that + struck you is broken; for out of the serpent's root an adder + will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent. +014:030 The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie + down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, + and your remnant will be killed. +014:031 Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of you; + for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler + in his ranks. +014:032 What will they answer the messengers of the nation? + That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his + people will take refuge. +015:001 The burden of Moab: for in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste, + and brought to nothing; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, + and brought to nothing. +015:002 They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, + to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. + Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off. +015:003 In their streets, they dress themselves in sackcloth. + In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, + weeping abundantly. +015:004 Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even + to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. + Their souls tremble within them. +015:005 My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, + to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith + with weeping; for in the way of Horonaim, they raise up + a cry of destruction. +015:006 For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has + withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing. +015:007 Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, + and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows. +015:008 For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab; its wailing + to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer Elim. +015:009 For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring + yet more on Dimon, a lion on those of Moab who escape, + and on the remnant of the land. +016:001 Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, + to the mountain of the daughter of Zion. +016:002 For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, + so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon. +016:003 Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like + the night in the midst of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! + Don't betray the fugitive! +016:004 Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a + hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. + For the extortioner is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. + The oppressors are consumed out of the land. +016:005 A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit + on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, + and swift to do righteousness. +016:006 We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; + even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. + His boastings are nothing. +016:007 Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. + You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, + utterly stricken. +016:008 For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. + The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, + which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. + Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea. +016:009 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine + of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: + for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle + shout has fallen. +016:010 Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; + and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither + joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. + I have made the shouting stop. +016:011 Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward + parts for Kir Heres. +016:012 It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies + himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, + that he will not prevail. +016:013 This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time past. +016:014 But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, "Within three years, + as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab + shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; + and the remnant will be very small and feeble." +017:001 The burden of Damascus: "Behold, Damascus is taken away + from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap. +017:002 The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, + which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. +017:003 The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom + from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as + the glory of the children of Israel," says Yahweh of Armies. +017:004 "It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be + made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean. +017:005 It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his + arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans + grain in the valley of Rephaim. +017:006 Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, + two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, + four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree," + says Yahweh, the God of Israel. +017:007 In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes + will have respect for the Holy One of Israel. +017:008 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; + neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, + either the Asherim, or the incense altars. +017:009 In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places + in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from + before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation. +017:010 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not + remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant + pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings. +017:011 In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, + you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away + in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. +017:012 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; + and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing + of mighty waters! +017:013 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: + but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will + be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, + and like the whirling dust before the storm. +017:014 At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. + This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot + of those who rob us. +018:001 Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond + the rivers of Ethiopia; +018:002 that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of + papyrus on the waters, saying, "Go, you swift messengers, + to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their + beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, + whose land the rivers divide!" +018:003 All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, + when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! + When the trumpet is blown, listen! +018:004 For Yahweh said to me, "I will be still, and I will see in my + dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud + of dew in the heat of harvest." +018:005 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, + and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off + the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take + away the spreading branches. +018:006 They will be left together for the ravenous birds + of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. + The ravenous birds will summer on them, and all the animals + of the earth will winter on them. +018:007 In that time, a present will be brought to Yahweh of Armies + from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome + from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out + and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place + of the name of Yahweh of Armies, Mount Zion. +019:001 The burden of Egypt: "Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, + and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; + and the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst. +019:002 I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they + will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against + his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. +019:003 The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst. I will destroy + its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, + those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards. +019:004 I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord. + A fierce king will rule over them," says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies. +019:005 The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted + and become dry. +019:006 The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be + diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away. +019:007 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all + the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, + and be no more. +019:008 The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile + will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish. +019:009 Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave + white cloth, will be confounded. +019:010 The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work + for hire will be grieved in soul. +019:011 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel + of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. + How do you say to Pharaoh, "I am the son of the wise, + the son of ancient kings?" +019:012 Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let + them know what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt. +019:013 The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis + are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, who are + the cornerstone of her tribes. +019:014 Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; + and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, + like a drunken man staggers in his vomit. +019:015 Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, + palm branch or rush, may do. +019:016 In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble + and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Yahweh of Armies, + which he shakes over them. +019:017 The land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt. Everyone to whom + mention is made of it will be afraid, because of the plans + of Yahweh of Armies, which he determines against it. +019:018 In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that + speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of Armies. + One will be called "The city of destruction." +019:019 In that day, there will be an altar to Yahweh in the midst + of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to Yahweh at its border. +019:020 It will be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of Armies + in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to Yahweh because + of oppressors, and he will send them a savior and a defender, + and he will deliver them. +019:021 Yahweh will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know Yahweh + in that day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and offering, + and will vow a vow to Yahweh, and will perform it. +019:022 Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. + They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, + and will heal them. +019:023 In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, + and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian + into Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. +019:024 In that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, + a blessing in the midst of the earth; +019:025 because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, + "Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, + and Israel my inheritance." +020:001 In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king + of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it; +020:002 at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, + saying, "Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, + and take your shoes from off your feet." He did so, + walking naked and barefoot. +020:003 Yahweh said, "As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and + barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt + and concerning Ethiopia, +020:004 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt + and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, + and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. +020:005 They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia + their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. +020:006 The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, 'Behold, + this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered + from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?'" +021:001 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds + in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, + from an awesome land. +021:002 A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous + man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. + Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media's sighing. +021:003 Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have + taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. + I am in so much pain that I can't hear. I so am dismayed + that I can't see. +021:004 My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight + that I desired has been turned into trembling for me. +021:005 They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. + They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield! +021:006 For the Lord said to me, "Go, set a watchman. Let him declare + what he sees. +021:007 When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop + of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness." +021:008 He cried like a lion: "Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower + in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post. +021:009 Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs." + He answered, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved + images of her gods are broken to the ground. +021:010 You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!" + That which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God + of Israel, I have declared to you. +021:011 The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, "Watchman, + what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?" +021:012 The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. + If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again." +021:013 The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, + you caravans of Dedanites. +021:014 They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants + of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread. +021:015 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, + from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle. +021:016 For the Lord said to me, "Within a year, as a worker bound + by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail, +021:017 and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty + men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, + the God of Israel, has spoken it." +022:001 The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, + that you have all gone up to the housetops? +022:002 You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; + your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they + dead in battle. +022:003 All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by + the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. + They fled far away. +022:004 Therefore I said, "Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. + Don't labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter + of my people. +022:005 For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, + from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, in the valley of vision; + a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains." +022:006 Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; + and Kir uncovered the shield. +022:007 It happened that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, + and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate. +022:008 He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day + to the armor in the house of the forest. +022:009 You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; + and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool. +022:010 You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down + the houses to fortify the wall. +022:011 You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water + of the old pool. But you didn't look to him who had done this, + neither did you have respect for him who purposed it long ago. +022:012 In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, + and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth: +022:013 and behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and killing sheep, + eating flesh and drinking wine: "Let us eat and drink, + for tomorrow we will die." +022:014 Yahweh of Armies revealed himself in my ears, "Surely this + iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die," + says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies. +022:015 Thus says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, "Go, get yourself to + this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say, +022:016 'What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have + dug out a tomb here?' Cutting himself out a tomb on high, + chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!" +022:017 Behold, Yahweh will overcome you and hurl you away violently. + Yes, he will grasp you firmly. +022:018 He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you + like a ball into a large country. There you will die, + and there the chariots of your glory will be, you shame + of your lord's house. +022:019 I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down + from your station. +022:020 It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim + the son of Hilkiah, +022:021 and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him + with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; + and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, + and to the house of Judah. +022:022 I will lay the key of the house of David on his shoulder. + He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no + one will open. +022:023 I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. + He will be for a throne of glory to his father's house. +022:024 They will hang on him all the glory of his father's house, + the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups + even to all the pitchers. +022:025 "In that day," says Yahweh of Armies, "the nail that was fastened + in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down, and fall. + The burden that was on it will be cut off, for Yahweh + has spoken it." +023:001 The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it + is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. + From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them. +023:002 Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants + of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. +023:003 On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, + was her revenue. She was the market of nations. +023:004 Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold + of the sea, saying, "I have not travailed, nor brought forth, + neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins." +023:005 When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at + the report of Tyre. +023:006 Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast! +023:007 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, + whose feet carried her far away to travel? +023:008 Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, + whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable + of the earth? +023:009 Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, + to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth. +023:010 Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. + There is no restraint any more. +023:011 He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has + shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction + of Canaan's strongholds. +023:012 He said, "You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed + virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. + Even there you will have no rest." +023:013 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people was not. + The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. + They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. + They made it a ruin. +023:014 Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste! +023:015 It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten + seventy years, according to the days of one king. + After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in + the song of the prostitute. +023:016 Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that has + been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, + that you may be remembered. +023:017 It will happen after the end of seventy years that Yahweh + will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her wages, + and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world + on the surface of the earth. +023:018 Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. + It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise + will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, + and for durable clothing. +024:001 Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, + turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants. +024:002 It will be as with the people, so with the priest; + as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, + so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; + as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker + of interest, so with the giver of interest. +024:003 The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; + for Yahweh has spoken this word. +024:004 The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and + fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish. +024:005 The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they + have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken + the everlasting covenant. +024:006 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who + dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants + of the earth are burned, and few men left. +024:007 The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. + All the merry-hearted sigh. +024:008 The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who + rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases. +024:009 They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be + bitter to those who drink it. +024:010 The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, + that no man may come in. +024:011 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. + All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone. +024:012 The city is left in desolation, and the gate is + struck with destruction. +024:013 For it will be so in the midst of the earth among the peoples, + as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when + the vintage is done. +024:014 These shall lift up their voice. They will shout for the majesty + of Yahweh. They cry aloud from the sea. +024:015 Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, + the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea! +024:016 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. + Glory to the righteous! But I said, "I pine away! + I pine away! woe is me!" The treacherous have dealt treacherously. + Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously. +024:017 Fear, the pit, and the snare, are on you who inhabitant the earth. +024:018 It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear + will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst + of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high + are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. +024:019 The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. + The earth is shaken violently. +024:020 The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back + and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, + and it will fall and not rise again. +024:021 It shall happen in that day that Yahweh will punish the army + of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth + on the earth. +024:022 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. +024:023 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; + for Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; + and before his elders will be glory. +025:001 Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, + for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, + in complete faithfulness and truth. +025:002 For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city + into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. + It will never be built. +025:003 Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome + nations will fear you. +025:004 For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold + to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, + a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones + is like a storm against the wall. +025:005 As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise + of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song + of the dreaded ones will be brought low. +025:006 In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast + of fat things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things full + of marrow, of well refined choice wines. +025:007 He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering + that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread + over all nations. +025:008 He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe + away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach + of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh + has spoken it. +025:009 It shall be said in that day, "Behold, this is our God! We have + waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have + waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!" +025:010 For in this mountain the hand of Yahweh will rest. + Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw + is trodden down in the water of the dunghill. +025:011 He will spread out his hands in its midst, like one who swims + spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled + together with the craft of his hands. +025:012 He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, + and brought to the ground, even to the dust. +026:001 In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have + a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks. +026:002 Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: + the one which keeps faith. +026:003 You will keep whoever's mind is steadfast in perfect peace, + because he trusts in you. +026:004 Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock. +026:005 For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. + He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. + He brings it even to the dust. +026:006 The foot shall tread it down; Even the feet of the poor, + and the steps of the needy." +026:007 The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make + the path of the righteous level. +026:008 Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you. + Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul. +026:009 With my soul have I desired you in the night. + Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; + for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants + of the world learn righteousness. +026:010 Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not + learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will + deal wrongfully, and will not see Yahweh's majesty. +026:011 Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see; but they + will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. + Yes, fire will consume your adversaries. +026:012 Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also worked + all our works for us. +026:013 Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us, + but by you only will we make mention of your name. +026:014 The dead shall not live. The deceased shall not rise. + Therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and caused + all memory of them to perish. +026:015 You have increased the nation, O Yahweh. You have increased + the nation! You are glorified! You have enlarged all + the borders of the land. +026:016 Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out + a prayer when your chastening was on them. +026:017 Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time + of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; + so we have been before you, Yahweh. +026:018 We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, + it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance + in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. +026:019 Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. + Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is + like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast forth the dead. +026:020 Come, my people, enter into your chambers, and shut your + doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, + until the indignation is past. +026:021 For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish + the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. + The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer + cover her slain. +027:001 In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword + will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan + the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is + in the sea. +027:002 In that day, sing to her, "A pleasant vineyard! +027:003 I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. + Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day. +027:004 Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, + I would do battle! I would march on them and I would + burn them together. +027:005 Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make + peace with me. Let him make peace with me." +027:006 In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. + They will fill the surface of the world with fruit. +027:007 Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? + Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed? +027:008 In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. + He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of + the east wind. +027:009 Therefore, by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, + and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: + that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones + that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherim and the incense + altars shall rise no more. +027:010 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted + and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, + and there he will lie down, and consume its branches. +027:011 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. + The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people + of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not + have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show + them no favor. +027:012 It will happen in that day, that Yahweh will thresh from + the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; + and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel. +027:013 It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; + and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, + and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; + and they will worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem. +028:001 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to + the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head + of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine! +028:002 Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of hail, + a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, + he will cast them down to the earth with his hand. +028:003 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be + trodden under foot. +028:004 The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head + of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig + before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon + as he sees it. +028:005 In that day, Yahweh of Armies will become a crown of glory, + and a diadem of beauty, to the residue of his people; +028:006 and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, + and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate. +028:007 They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. + The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. + They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. + They err in vision. They stumble in judgment. +028:008 For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness. +028:009 Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? + Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? +028:010 For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, + line on line; here a little, there a little. +028:011 But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and + in another language; +028:012 to whom he said, "This is the resting place. Give rest to weary;" + and "This is the refreshing;" yet they would not hear. +028:013 Therefore the word of Yahweh will be to them precept on precept, + precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, + there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, + be snared, and be taken. +028:014 Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, you scoffers, that rule + this people in Jerusalem: +028:015 "Because you have said, 'We have made a covenant with death, + and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge + passes through, it won't come to us; for we have made lies + our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.'" +028:016 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I lay in Zion + for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone + of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily. +028:017 I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness + the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, + and the waters will overflow the hiding place. +028:018 Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement + with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge + passes through, then you will be trampled down by it. +028:019 As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning + by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; + and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message." +028:020 For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket + is too narrow to wrap oneself in. +028:021 For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim. + He will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may + do his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, + his extraordinary act. +028:022 Now therefore don't be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; + for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh + of Armies, on the whole earth. +028:023 Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech! +028:024 Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep + turning the soil and breaking the clods? +028:025 When he has leveled its surface, doesn't he plant the dill, + and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, + the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place? +028:026 For his God instructs him in right judgment, and teaches him. +028:027 For the dill are not threshed with a sharp instrument, + neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill + is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod. +028:028 Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. + Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, + his horses don't grind it. +028:029 This also comes forth from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful + in counsel, and excellent in wisdom. +029:001 Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! + Add year to year; let the feasts come around; +029:002 then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning + and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth{or, Ariel}. +029:003 I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay + siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege + works against you. +029:004 You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. + Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will + be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, + and your speech will whisper out of the dust. +029:005 But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, + and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. + Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly. +029:006 She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with thunder, + with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, + and with the flame of a devouring fire. +029:007 The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, + even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who + distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night. +029:008 It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, + he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn't satisfied; + or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; + but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. + The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion + will be like that. +029:009 Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! + They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not + with strong drink. +029:010 For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, + and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered + your heads, the seers. +029:011 All vision has become to you like the words of a book that + is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, + "Read this, please;" and he says, "I can't, for it is sealed:" +029:012 and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, + "Read this, please;" and he says, "I can't read." +029:013 The Lord said, "Because this people draws near with their mouth + and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their + heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment + of men which has been taught; +029:014 therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work + among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; + and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding + of their prudent men will be hidden." +029:015 Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, + and whose works are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us?" + and "Who knows us?" +029:016 You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought + to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him + who made it, "He didn't make me;" or the thing formed say + of him who formed it, "He has no understanding?" +029:017 Isn't it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned + into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded + as a forest? +029:018 In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, + and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and + out of darkness. +029:019 The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor + among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. +029:020 For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, + and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off-- +029:021 who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare + for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent + of justice with false testimony. +029:022 Therefore thus says Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, concerning + the house of Jacob: "Jacob shall no longer be ashamed, + neither shall his face grow pale. +029:023 But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, + in the midst of him, they will sanctify my name. + Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand + in awe of the God of Israel. +029:024 They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, + and those who grumble will receive instruction." +030:001 "Woe to the rebellious children," says Yahweh, "who take counsel, + but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, + that they may add sin to sin, +030:002 who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice; + to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, + and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt! +030:003 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, + and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. +030:004 For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have + come to Hanes. +030:005 They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can't + profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, + and also a reproach." +030:006 The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land + of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper + and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders + of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, + to an unprofitable people. +030:007 For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I + called her Rahab who sits still. +030:008 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, + that it may be for the time to come forever and ever. +030:009 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who + will not hear the law of Yahweh; +030:010 who tell the seers, "Don't see!" and to the prophets, + "Don't prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. + Prophesy deceits. +030:011 Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. + Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us." +030:012 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you + despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, + and rely on it; +030:013 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready + to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes + suddenly in an instant. +030:014 He will break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it + in pieces without sparing, so that there won't be found among + the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, + or to dip up water out of the cistern." +030:015 For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, "You will + be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in + quietness and in confidence." You refused, +030:016 but you said, "No, for we will flee on horses;" + therefore you will flee; and, "We will ride on the swift;" + therefore those who pursue you will be swift. +030:017 One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat + of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon + on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill. +030:018 Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; + and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, + for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who + wait for him. +030:019 For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep + no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice + of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you. +030:020 Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water + of affliction, yet your teachers won't be hidden anymore, + but your eyes will see your teachers; +030:021 and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, + your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way. + Walk in it." +030:022 You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images + of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. + You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall + tell it, "Go away!" +030:023 He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow + the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be + rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed + in large pastures. +030:024 The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will + eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel + and with the fork. +030:025 There shall be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain + and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, + when the towers fall. +030:026 Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, + and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, + like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds + up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they + were struck with. +030:027 Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from far away, burning with + his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full + of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire. +030:028 His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to + the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; + and a bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws + of the peoples. +030:029 You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; + and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come + to Yahweh's mountain, to Israel's Rock. +030:030 Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show + the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, + and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, + storm, and hailstones. +030:031 For through the voice of Yahweh the Assyrian will be dismayed. + He will strike him with his rod. +030:032 Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which Yahweh will lay + on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. + He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons. +030:033 For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king + it is made ready. He has made its pyre deep and large + with fire and much wood. Yahweh's breath, like a stream + of sulfur, kindles it. +031:001 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, + and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen + because they are very strong, but they don't look to the Holy One + of Israel, and they don't seek Yahweh! +031:002 Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back + his words, but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, + and against the help of those who work iniquity. +031:003 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, + and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, + both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, + and they all shall be consumed together. +031:004 For thus says Yahweh to me, "As the lion and the young lion + growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called + together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, + nor abase himself for the noise of them, so Yahweh of Armies + will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights. +031:005 As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect Jerusalem. + He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over + and preserve it." +031:006 Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, + children of Israel. +031:007 For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and + his idols of gold--sin which your own hands have made for you. +031:008 "The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, + not of mankind, shall devour him. He will flee from the sword, + and his young men will become subject to forced labor. +031:009 His rock will pass away by reason of terror, and his princes will + be afraid of the banner," says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion, + and his furnace in Jerusalem. +032:001 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall + rule in justice. +032:002 A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert + from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, + as the shade of a large rock in a weary land. +032:003 The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears + of those who hear will listen. +032:004 The heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue + of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly. +032:005 The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel + be highly respected. +032:006 For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, + to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, To make + empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of + the thirsty to fail. +032:007 The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked + devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when + the needy speaks right. +032:008 But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue + in noble things. +032:009 Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! + You careless daughters, give ear to my speech! +032:010 For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women; + for the vintage shall fail. The harvest won't come. +032:011 Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! + Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth + on your waist. +032:012 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. +032:013 Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land; yes, on all + the houses of joy in the joyous city. +032:014 For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. + The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, + a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks; +032:015 Until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the + wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field + is considered a forest. +032:016 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness + will remain in the fruitful field. +032:017 The work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect + of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever. +032:018 My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, + and in quiet resting places. +032:019 Though hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled completely. +032:020 Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet + of the ox and the donkey. +033:001 Woe to you who destroy, but you weren't destroyed; and who betray, + but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, + you will be destroyed; and when you have made an end of betrayal, + you will be betrayed. +033:002 Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. + Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the + time of trouble. +033:003 At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. + When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered. +033:004 Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. + Men will leap on it as locusts leap. +033:005 Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion + with justice and righteousness. +033:006 There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, + wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of Yahweh is your treasure. +033:007 Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors + of peace weep bitterly. +033:008 The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. + The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. + He doesn't regard man. +033:009 The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and + withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel + are stripped bare. +033:010 "Now I will arise," says Yahweh; "Now I will lift myself up. + Now I will be exalted. +033:011 You will conceive chaff. You will bring forth stubble. + Your breath is a fire that will devour you. +033:012 The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns + that are cut down and burned in the fire. +033:013 Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, + acknowledge my might." +033:014 The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the + godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? + Who among us can live with everlasting burning? +033:015 He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who + despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, + refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing + of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil-- +033:016 he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be + the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. + His waters will be sure. +033:017 Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see + a distant land. +033:018 Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? + Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers? +033:019 You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep + speech that you can't comprehend, with a strange language + that you can't understand. +033:020 Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. + Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent + that won't be removed. Its stakes will never be plucked up, + nor will any of its cords be broken. +033:021 But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a place of broad + rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars will go, + neither will any gallant ship pass by there. +033:022 For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. + Yahweh is our king. He will save us. +033:023 Your rigging is untied. They couldn't strengthen the foot + of their mast. They couldn't spread the sail. Then the prey + of a great spoil was divided. The lame took the prey. +033:024 The inhabitant won't say, "I am sick." The people who dwell + therein will be forgiven their iniquity. +034:001 Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. + Let the earth and all it contains hear; the world, + and everything that comes from it. +034:002 For Yahweh is enraged against all the nations, and angry + with all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. + He has given them over for slaughter. +034:003 Their slain will also be cast out, and the stench of their dead + bodies will come up; and the mountains will melt in their blood. +034:004 All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be + rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, + as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree. +034:005 For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come + down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment. +034:006 Yahweh's sword is filled with blood. It is covered with fat, + with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys + of rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great + slaughter in the land of Edom. +034:007 The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls + with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, + and their dust made greasy with fat. +034:008 For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense + for the cause of Zion. +034:009 Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, + And its land will become burning pitch. +034:010 It won't be quenched night nor day. Its smoke will go up forever. + From generation to generation, it will lie waste. + No one will pass through it forever and ever. +034:011 But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. + The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch + the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness. +034:012 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; + and all its princes shall be nothing. +034:013 Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles + in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, + a court for ostriches. +034:014 The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves, + and the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the night + creature{literally, lilith, which could also be a night demon + or night monster} shall settle there, and shall find herself + a place of rest. +034:015 The arrow snake will make her nest there, and lay, hatch, and gather + under her shade. Yes, the kites will be gathered there, + every one with her mate. +034:016 Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will + be missing. none will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, + and his Spirit has gathered them. +034:017 He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it + to them with a measuring line. They shall possess it forever. + From generation to generation they will dwell in it. +035:001 The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert + will rejoice and blossom like a rose. +035:002 It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. + Lebanon's glory Lebanon will be given to it, the excellence + of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh's glory, + the excellence of our God. +035:003 Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees. +035:004 Tell those who have a fearful heart, "Be strong. Don't be afraid. + Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God's retribution. + He will come and save you. +035:005 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears + of the deaf will be unstopped. +035:006 Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of + the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, + and streams in the desert. +035:007 The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground + springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in + the habitation of jackals, where they lay. +035:008 A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy Way. + The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those + who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there. +035:009 No lion will be there, nor will any ravenous animal go up on it. + They will not be found there; but the redeemed will walk there. +035:010 The Yahweh's ransomed ones will return, and come with singing + to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. + They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing + will flee away." +036:001 Now it happened in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, + that Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified + cities of Judah, and captured them. +036:002 The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem + to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct + from the upper pool in the fuller's field highway. +036:003 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, + and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder + came out to him. +036:004 Rabshakeh said to them, "Now tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says + the great king, the king of Assyria, "What confidence is this + in which you trust? +036:005 I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. + Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? +036:006 Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, + which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. + So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. +036:007 But if you tell me, 'We trust in Yahweh our God,' isn't that + he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, + and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall worship + before this altar?'" +036:008 Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king + of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you + are able on your part to set riders on them. +036:009 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least + of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots + and for horsemen? +036:010 Have I come up now without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? + Yahweh said to me, "Go up against this land, and destroy it."'" +036:011 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak + to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; + and don't speak to us in the Jews' language in the hearing + of the people who are on the wall." +036:012 But Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me only to your master + and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit + on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own + urine with you?" +036:013 Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in + the Jews' language, and said, "Hear the words of the great king, + the king of Assyria! +036:014 Thus says the king, 'Don't let Hezekiah deceive you; + for he will not be able to deliver you. +036:015 Don't let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, "Yahweh will + surely deliver us. This city won't be given into the hand + of the king of Assyria."' +036:016 Don't listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king + of Assyria, 'Make your peace with me, and come out to me; + and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, + and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern; +036:017 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, + a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. +036:018 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, "Yahweh will deliver us." + Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands + from the hand of the king of Assyria? +036:019 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods + of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand? +036:020 Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have + delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should + deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'" +036:021 But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, + for the king's commandment was, "Don't answer him." +036:022 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, + and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, + came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him + the words of Rabshakeh. +037:001 It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, + covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh's house. +037:002 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, + and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, + to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. +037:003 They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'This day is a day of trouble, + and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come + to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth. +037:004 It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, + whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, + and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. + Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.'" +037:005 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. +037:006 Isaiah said to them, "Tell your master, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Don't be + afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants + of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. +037:007 Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news, + and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall + by the sword in his own land."'" +037:008 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring + against Libnah, for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. +037:009 He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, "He has + come out to fight against you." When he heard it, he sent + messengers to Hezekiah, saying, +037:010 "Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, 'Don't let + your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, "Jerusalem won't + be given into the hand of the king of Assyria." +037:011 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria + have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. + Shall you be delivered? +037:012 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers + have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden + who were in Telassar? +037:013 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king + of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?'" +037:014 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers + and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh's house, + and spread it before Yahweh. +037:015 Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying, +037:016 "Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among + the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms + of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. +037:017 Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. + Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy + the living God. +037:018 Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all + the countries and their land, +037:019 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. +037:020 Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, + that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, + even you only." +037:021 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus + says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Because you have prayed + to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, +037:022 this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. + The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. + The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you. +037:023 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have + you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? + Against the Holy One of Israel. +037:024 By your servants, have you defied the Lord, and have said, + "With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height + of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. + I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice fir trees. + I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of + its fruitful field. +037:025 I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I + will dry up all the rivers of Egypt." +037:026 Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it + in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it + should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them + into ruinous heaps. +037:027 Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed + and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, + and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, + and like a field before its crop has grown. +037:028 But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, + and your raging against me. +037:029 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance + has come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook + in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you + back by the way by which you came. +037:030 This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that + which grows of itself, and in the second year that which + springs from the same; and in the third year sow and reap + and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. +037:031 The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again + take root downward, and bear fruit upward. +037:032 For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go forth, and survivors + will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies + will perform this.' +037:033 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, 'He will + not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will + he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. +037:034 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, + and he shall not come to this city,' says Yahweh. +037:035 'For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, + and for my servant David's sake.'" +037:036 The angel of Yahweh went out and struck one hundred and + eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. + When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were + all dead bodies. +037:037 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, + returned to Nineveh, and stayed there. +037:038 It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch + his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him + with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. + Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place. +038:001 In those days was Hezekiah sick and near death. + Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, + "Thus says Yahweh, 'Set your house in order, for you will die, + and not live.'" +038:002 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh, +038:003 and said, "Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked + before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done + that which is good in your sight." Hezekiah wept bitterly. +038:004 Then the word of Yahweh came to Isaiah, saying, +038:005 "Go, and tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of David + your father, "I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. + Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life. +038:006 I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king + of Assyria, and I will defend this city. +038:007 This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will + do this thing that he has spoken. +038:008 Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down + on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. + So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it + had gone down."'" +038:009 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, + and had recovered of his sickness. +038:010 I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. + I am deprived of the residue of my years." +038:011 I said, "I won't see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. + I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world. +038:012 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a + shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. + He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night + you will make an end of me. +038:013 I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like + a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me. +038:014 I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. + My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. + Be my security." +038:015 What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. + I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish + of my soul. +038:016 Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life + in all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live. +038:017 Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love + for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; + for you have cast all my sins behind your back. +038:018 For Sheol can't praise you. Death can't celebrate you. + Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth. +038:019 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day. + The father shall make known your truth to the children. +038:020 Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed + instruments all the days of our life in the house of Yahweh. +038:021 Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs, and lay + it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover." +038:022 Hezekiah also had said, "What is the sign that I will go up + to the house of Yahweh?" +039:001 At that time, Merodach Baladan the son of Baladan, + king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; + for he heard that he had been sick, and had recovered. +039:002 Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house + of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, + the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house + of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. + There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, + that Hezekiah didn't show them. +039:003 Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and asked him, + "What did these men say? Where did they come from to you?" + Hezekiah said, "They have come from a country far from me, + even from Babylon." +039:004 Then he asked, "What have they seen in your house?" + Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house. + There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them." +039:005 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of Yahweh of Armies: +039:006 'Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, + and that which your fathers have stored up until this day, + will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,' says Yahweh. +039:007 'They will take away your sons who will issue from you, + whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king + of Babylon's palace.'" +039:008 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "Yahweh's word which you have + spoken is good." He said moreover, "For there will be peace + and truth in my days." +040:001 "Comfort, comfort my people," says your God. +040:002 "Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her + warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, + that she has received of Yahweh's hand double for all her sins." +040:003 The voice of one who calls out, "Prepare the way of Yahweh + in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert + for our God. +040:004 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall + be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough + places a plain. +040:005 The glory of Yahweh shall be revealed, and all flesh shall + see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it." +040:006 The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" + "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower + of the field. +040:007 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath + blows on it. Surely the people are like grass. +040:008 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our + God stands forever." +040:009 You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. + You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your + voice with strength. Lift it up. Don't be afraid. + Say to the cities of Judah, "Behold, your God!" +040:010 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his + arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, + and his recompense before him. +040:011 He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather + the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. + He will gently lead those who have their young. +040:012 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, + and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust + of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, + and the hills in a balance? +040:013 Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or has taught him + as his counselor? +040:014 Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, + and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, + and showed him the way of understanding? +040:015 Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are + regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts + up the islands like a very little thing. +040:016 Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient + for a burnt offering. +040:017 All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded + by him as less than nothing, and vanity. +040:018 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you + compare to him? +040:019 A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it + with gold, and casts silver chains for it. +040:020 He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree + that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up + an engraved image for him that will not be moved. +040:021 Haven't you known? Haven't you heard, yet? Haven't you + been told from the beginning? Haven't you understood from + the foundations of the earth? +040:022 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its + inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens + like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in; +040:023 who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the + earth like meaningless. +040:024 They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. + Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. + He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind + takes them away as stubble. +040:025 "To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?" + says the Holy One. +040:026 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, + who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. + by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, + Not one is lacking. +040:027 Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, "My way is hidden + from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?" +040:028 Haven't you known? Haven't you heard? The everlasting + God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint. + He isn't weary. His understanding is unsearchable. +040:029 He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him + who has no might. +040:030 Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall; +040:031 But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. + They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, + and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint. +041:001 "Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew + their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. + Let's meet together for judgment. +041:002 Who has raised up one from the east? Whom called him to his foot + in righteousness? He hands over nations to him, and makes him + rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, + like the driven stubble to his bow. +041:003 He pursues them, and passes by safely, Even by a way that he had + not gone with his feet. +041:004 Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from + the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, + I am he." +041:005 The islands have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble. + They approach, and come. +041:006 Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, + "Be strong!" +041:007 So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes + with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, + saying of the soldering, "It is good;" and he fastens it + with nails, that it might not totter. +041:008 "But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, + the seed of Abraham my friend, +041:009 You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, + and called from its corners, and said to you, 'You are my servant, + I have chosen you and not cast you away;' +041:010 Don't you be afraid, for I am with you. Don't be dismayed, + for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. + Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness. +041:011 Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed + and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, + and shall perish. +041:012 You will seek them, and won't find them, even those who contend + with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing, + as a non-existent thing. +041:013 For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, + 'Don't be afraid. I will help you.' +041:014 Don't be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. + I will help you," says Yahweh, "and your Redeemer is + the Holy One of Israel. +041:015 Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument + with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, + and will make the hills like chaff. +041:016 You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, + and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. + You will glory in the Holy One of Israel. +041:017 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. + Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. + I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. +041:018 I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst + of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, + and the dry land springs of water. +041:019 I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. + I will set fir trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert; +041:020 that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, + that the hand of Yahweh has done this, and the Holy One + of Israel has created it. +041:021 Produce your cause," says Yahweh. "Bring forth your strong reasons," + says the King of Jacob. +041:022 "Let them announce, and declare to us what shall happen. + Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, + and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come. +041:023 Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we + may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, + that we may be dismayed, and see it together. +041:024 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing. + He who chooses you is an abomination. +041:025 "I have raised up one from the north, and he has come; + from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name; and he shall + come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay. +041:026 Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? + And before, that we may say, 'He is right?' Surely, there is + no one who declares. Surely, there is no one who shows. + Surely, there is no one who hears your words. +041:027 I am the first to say to Zion, 'Behold, look at them;' + and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem. +041:028 When I look, there is no man; even among them there is no + counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word. +041:029 Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. + Their molten images are wind and confusion. +042:001 "Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, + in whom my soul delights--I have put my Spirit on him. + He will bring justice to the nations. +042:002 He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard + in the street. +042:003 He won't break a bruised reed. He won't quench a dimly burning wick. + He will faithfully bring justice. +042:004 He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice + in the earth, and the islands will wait for his law." +042:005 Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched + them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes + out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit + to those who walk in it. +042:006 "I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, + and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, + as a light for the nations; +042:007 to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, + and those who sit in darkness out of the prison. +042:008 "I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory + to another, nor my praise to engraved images. +042:009 Behold, the former things have happened, and I declare new things. + I tell you about them before they come up." +042:010 Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of + the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, + the islands and their inhabitants. +042:011 Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the + villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. + Let them shout from the top of the mountains! +042:012 Let them give glory to Yahweh, and declare his praise + in the islands. +042:013 Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a + man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. + He will triumph over his enemies. +042:014 "I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and + restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. + I will both gasp and pant. +042:015 I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. + I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools. +042:016 I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know. + I will lead them in paths that they don't know. I will make + darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. + I will do these things, and I will not forsake them. +042:017 "Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, + 'You are our gods' will be turned back. They will + be utterly disappointed. +042:018 "Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see. +042:019 Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my + messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, + and as blind as Yahweh's servant? +042:020 You see many things, but don't observe. His ears are open, + but he doesn't listen. +042:021 It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify + the law, and make it honorable. +042:022 But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them + are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. + They have become a prey, and no one delivers; and a spoil, + and no one says, 'Restore them!' +042:023 Who is there among you who will give ear to this? + Who will listen and hear for the time to come? +042:024 Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? + Didn't Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they + would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law. +042:025 Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, + and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire all around, + but he didn't know; and it burned him, but he didn't take + it to heart." +043:001 But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who + formed you, Israel: "Don't be afraid, for I have redeemed you. + I have called you by your name. You are mine. +043:002 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; + and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. + When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, + and flame will not scorch you. +043:003 For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. + I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba + in your place. +043:004 Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I + have loved you; therefore I will give people in your place, + and nations instead of your life. +043:005 Don't be afraid; for I am with you. I will bring your seed + from the east, and gather you from the west. +043:006 I will tell the north, 'Give them up!' and tell the south, + 'Don't hold them back! Bring my sons from far, and my daughters + from the ends of the earth-- +043:007 everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created + for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.'" +043:008 Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf + who have ears. +043:009 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples + be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us + former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they + may be justified; or let them hear, and say, "That is true." +043:010 "You are my witnesses," says Yahweh, "With my servant + whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, + and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, + neither will there be after me. +043:011 I myself am Yahweh; and besides me there is no savior. +043:012 I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown; and there was + no strange god among you. Therefore you are my witnesses," + says Yahweh, "and I am God. +043:013 Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is no one who can + deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?" +043:014 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: + "For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all + of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships + of their rejoicing. +043:015 I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King." +043:016 Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path + in the mighty waters; +043:017 who brings forth the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man + (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, + they are quenched like a wick): +043:018 "Don't remember the former things, and don't consider + the things of old. +043:019 Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs forth now. + Don't you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, + and rivers in the desert. +043:020 The animals of the field shall honor me, the jackals and + the ostriches; because I give water in the wilderness and rivers + in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen, +043:021 the people which I formed for myself, that they might set + forth my praise. +043:022 Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary + of me, Israel. +043:023 You have not brought me of your sheep for burnt offerings; + neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. + I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied + you with frankincense. +043:024 You have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled + me with the fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened me + with your sins. You have wearied me with your iniquities. +043:025 I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; + and I will not remember your sins. +043:026 Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Set forth + your case, that you may be justified. +043:027 Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed + against me. +043:028 Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; + and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling." +044:001 Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen. +044:002 This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, + who will help you says: "Don't be afraid, Jacob my servant; + and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. +044:003 For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams + on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your seed, + and my blessing on your offspring: +044:004 and they will spring up among the grass, as willows + by the watercourses. +044:005 One will say, 'I am Yahweh's;' and another will be called by the name + of Jacob; and another will write with his hand 'to Yahweh,' + and honor the name of Israel." +044:006 This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh + of Armies, says: "I am the first, and I am the last; + and besides me there is no God. +044:007 Who is like me? Who will call, and will declare it, and set + it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? + Let them declare the things that are coming, and that will happen. +044:008 Don't fear, neither be afraid. Haven't I declared it + to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. + Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. + I don't know any other Rock." +044:009 Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they + delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don't see, + nor know, that they may be disappointed. +044:010 Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is + profitable for nothing? +044:011 Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed; and the workmen are + mere men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. + They will fear. They will be put to shame together. +044:012 The blacksmith takes an axe, works in the coals, + fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. + He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, + and is faint. +044:013 The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. + He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses, + and shapes it like the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, + to reside in a house. +044:014 He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, + and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. + He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it. +044:015 Then it will be for a man to burn; and he takes some of it, + and warms himself. Yes, he burns it, and bakes bread. + Yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it an engraved image, + and falls down to it. +044:016 He burns part of it in the fire. With part of it, he eats meat. + He roasts a roast, and is satisfied. Yes, he warms himself, + and says, "Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire." +044:017 The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image. + He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, + "Deliver me; for you are my god!" +044:018 They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has + shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, + that they can't understand. +044:019 No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, + "I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked + bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. + Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? + Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?" +044:020 He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; + and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, "Isn't there a lie + in my right hand?" +044:021 Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant. + I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will + not be forgotten by me. +044:022 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, + as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you. +044:023 Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower + parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, + O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, + and will glorify himself in Israel. +044:024 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb: + "I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out + the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself; +044:025 who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; + who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish; +044:026 who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel + of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, 'She will be inhabited;' + and of the cities of Judah, 'They will be built,' and I + will raise up its waste places;' +044:027 who says to the deep, 'Be dry,' and 'I will dry up your rivers;' +044:028 Who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd, and shall perform all + my pleasure,' even saying of Jerusalem, 'She will be built;' + and of the temple, 'Your foundation will be laid.'" +045:001 Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand + I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings + of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates + shall not be shut: +045:002 "I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth. + I will break the doors of brass in pieces, and cut apart + the bars of iron. +045:003 I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches + of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, + who call you by your name, even the God of Israel. +045:004 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my chosen, I have + called you by your name. I have surnamed you, though you + have not known me. +045:005 I am Yahweh, and there is none else. Besides me, there is no God. + I will strengthen{or, equip} you, though you have not known me; +045:006 that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, + that there is none besides me. I am Yahweh, and there is + no one else. +045:007 I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, + and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things. +045:008 Distil, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour + down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may bring + forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up + with it. I, Yahweh, have created it. +045:009 Woe to him who strives with his Maker--a clay pot among the clay + pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, + 'What are you making?' or your work, 'He has no hands?' +045:010 Woe to him who says to a father, 'What have you become the father of?' + or to a mother, 'To what have you given birth?'" +045:011 Thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: "You ask + me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, + and you command me concerning the work of my hands! +045:012 I have made the earth, and created man on it: I, even my hands, + have stretched out the heavens; and all their army + have I commanded. +045:013 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight + all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles + go free, not for price nor reward, says Yahweh of Armies. +045:014 Thus says Yahweh: "The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise + of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over + to you, and they shall be yours. They shall go after you. + In chains they shall come over; and they shall fall down to you. + They shall make supplication to you: 'Surely God is in you; + and there is none else, there is no other god. +045:015 Most certainly you are a God who hid yourself, God of Israel, + the Savior.'" +045:016 They shall be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them; + they shall go into confusion together who are makers of idols. +045:017 [But] Israel shall be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation: + you shall not be disappointed nor confounded world without end. +045:018 For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God + who formed the earth and made it, who established it and + didn't create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: + I am Yahweh; and there is no one else. +045:019 I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; + I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: + I, Yahweh, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right. +045:020 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you who + have escaped from the nations: they have no knowledge + who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god + that can't save. +045:021 Declare you, and bring [it] forth; yes, let them take + counsel together: who has shown this from ancient time? + who has declared it of old? Haven't I, Yahweh? and there + is no God else besides me, a just God and a Savior; + there is no one besides me. +045:022 Look to me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth; + for I am God, and there is none else. +045:023 By myself have I sworn, the word is gone forth from my mouth + [in] righteousness, and shall not return, that to me every + knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. +045:024 Only in Yahweh, it is said of me, is righteousness and strength; + even to him shall men come; and all those who were incensed + against him shall be disappointed. +045:025 In Yahweh shall all the seed of Israel be justified, + and shall glory. +046:001 Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols are on the animals, + and on the livestock: the things that you carried about are + made a load, a burden to the weary [animal]. +046:002 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver + the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. +046:003 Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house + of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from their birth, + that have been carried from the womb; +046:004 and even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs will I + carry you. I have made, and I will bear; yes, I will carry, + and will deliver. +046:005 To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, + that we may be like? +046:006 Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. + They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. + They fall down--yes, they worship. +046:007 They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in + its place, and it stands, from its place it shall not move: + yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer, nor save him + out of his trouble. +046:008 Remember this, and show yourselves men; bring it again + to mind, you transgressors. +046:009 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there + is none else; [I am] God, and there is none like me; +046:010 declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times + things that are not [yet] done; saying, My counsel shall stand, + and I will do all my pleasure; +046:011 calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from + a far country; yes, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; + I have purposed, I will also do it. +046:012 Listen to me, you stout-hearted, who are far from righteousness: +046:013 I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, + and my salvation shall not wait; and I will place salvation + in Zion for Israel my glory. +047:001 Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; + sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans: + for you shall no more be called tender and delicate. +047:002 Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, + strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers. +047:003 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: + I will take vengeance, and will spare no man. +047:004 Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name, the Holy One of Israel. +047:005 Sit you silent, and get you into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; + for you shall no more be called The mistress of kingdoms. +047:006 I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, + and gave them into your hand: you did show them no mercy; + on the aged have you very heavily laid your yoke. +047:007 You said, I shall be mistress forever; so that you did not lay + these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter + end of it. +047:008 Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, + who sit securely, who say in your heart, I am, and there + is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, + neither shall I know the loss of children: +047:009 but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, + the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure + shall they come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries, + and the great abundance of your enchantments. +047:010 For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, None sees me; + your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, + and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none + else besides me. +047:011 Therefore shall evil come on you; you shall not know the dawning + of it: and mischief shall fall on you; you shall not be able + to put it away: and desolation shall come on you suddenly, + which you don't know. +047:012 Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude + of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; + if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail. +047:013 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let now + the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, + stand up, and save you from the things that shall come on you. +047:014 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; + they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: + it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before. +047:015 Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored: + those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander + everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you. +048:001 Hear you this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name + of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah; + who swear by the name of Yahweh, and make mention of the God + of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness +048:002 (for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves + on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name): +048:003 I have declared the former things from of old; yes, they went + forth out of my mouth, and I shown them: suddenly I did them, + and they happened. +048:004 Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an + iron sinew, and your brow brass; +048:005 therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it + came to pass I shown it you; lest you should say, My idol + has done them, and my engraved image, and my molten image, + has commanded them. +048:006 You have heard it; see all this; and you, will you not declare it? + I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, + which you have not known. +048:007 They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day + you didn't hear them; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them. +048:008 Yes, you didn't hear; yes, you didn't know; yes, from of old + your ear was not opened: for I knew that you did deal + very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb. +048:009 For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise + will I refrain for you, that I not cut you off. +048:010 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen + you in the furnace of affliction. +048:011 For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it; for how should [my + name] be profaned? and my glory I will not give to another. +048:012 Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; + I am the first, I also am the last. +048:013 Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my + right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them, + they stand up together. +048:014 Assemble yourselves, all you, and hear; who among them has + declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves shall perform his + pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the Chaldeans. +048:015 I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him; I have brought him, + and he shall make his way prosperous. +048:016 Come you near to me, hear you this; from the beginning I have + not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I: + and now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, and his Spirit. +048:017 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am + Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you + by the way that you should go. +048:018 Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then had your + peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves + of the sea: +048:019 your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your + body like the grains of it: his name would not be cut off + nor destroyed from before me. +048:020 Go you forth from Babylon, flee you from the Chaldeans; + with a voice of singing declare you, tell this, utter it + even to the end of the earth: say you, Yahweh has redeemed + his servant Jacob. +048:021 They didn't thirst when he led them through the deserts; + he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; + he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out. +048:022 There is no peace, says Yahweh, to the wicked. +049:001 Listen, islands, to me; and listen, you peoples, from far: + Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my + mother has he made mention of my name: +049:002 and he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow + of his hand has he hid me: and he has made me a polished shaft; + in his quiver has he kept me close: +049:003 and he said to me, You are my servant; Israel, in whom I + will be glorified. +049:004 But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength + for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me + is with Yahweh, and my recompense with my God. +049:005 Now says Yahweh who formed me from the womb to be his servant, + to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered to him + (for I am honorable in the eyes of Yahweh, and my God is + become my strength); +049:006 yes, he says, It is too light a thing that you should be my servant + to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved + of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the nations, + that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth. +049:007 Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, + to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, + to a servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise; princes, + and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, + [even] the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you. +049:008 Thus says Yahweh, In an acceptable time have I answered you, + and in a day of salvation have I helped you; and I will preserve you, + and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, + to make them inherit the desolate heritage: +049:009 saying to those who are bound, Go forth; to those who are + in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, + and on all bare heights shall be their pasture. +049:010 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor + sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them, + even by springs of water he will guide them. +049:011 I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways + shall be exalted. +049:012 Behold, these shall come from far; and behold, these from + the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim. +049:013 Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth; and break forth + into singing, mountains: for Yahweh has comforted his people, + and will have compassion on his afflicted. +049:014 But Zion said, Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord + has forgotten me. +049:015 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have + compassion on the son of her womb? yes, these may forget, + yet I will not forget you. +049:016 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; + your walls are continually before me. +049:017 Your children make haste; your destroyers and those who made + you waste shall go forth from you. +049:018 Lift up your eyes round about, and see: all these gather + themselves together, and come to you. As I live, says Yahweh, + you shall surely clothe you with them all as with an ornament, + and gird yourself with them, like a bride. +049:019 For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land + that has been destroyed, surely now shall you be too small + for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall + be far away. +049:020 The children of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears, + The place is too small for me; give place to me that I may dwell. +049:021 Then shall you say in your heart, Who has conceived these for me, + seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, + an exile, and wandering back and forth? and who has brought + up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they? +049:022 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will lift up my hand + to the nations, and set up my banner to the peoples; + and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your + daughters shall be carried on their shoulders. +049:023 Kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens + your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with + their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; + and you shall know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me + shall not be disappointed. +049:024 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful + captives be delivered? +049:025 But thus says Yahweh, Even the captives of the mighty shall + be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; + for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I + will save your children. +049:026 I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they + shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: + and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, + and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. +050:001 Thus says Yahweh, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, + with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it + to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, + and for your transgressions was your mother put away. +050:002 Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there + none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't + redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my + rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: + their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst. +050:003 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth + their covering. +050:004 The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, + that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: + he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear + as those who are taught. +050:005 The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, + neither turned away backward. +050:006 I gave my back to the strikers, and my cheeks to those who plucked + off the hair; I didn't hide my face from shame and spitting. +050:007 For the Lord Yahweh will help me; therefore I have not + been confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, + and I know that I shall not be disappointed. +050:008 He is near who justifies me; who will bring charges against me? + Let us stand up together: who is my adversary? + Let him come near to me. +050:009 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me; who is he who shall + condemn me? Behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, + the moth shall eat them up. +050:010 Who is among you who fears Yahweh, who obeys the voice + of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, + let him trust in the name of Yahweh, and rely on his God. +050:011 Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who gird yourselves + about with firebrands; walk you in the flame of your fire, + and among the brands that you have kindled. This shall you + have of my hand; you shall lie down in sorrow. +051:001 Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, + you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock whence you were hewn, + and to the hold of the pit whence you were dug. +051:002 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; + for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, + and made him many. +051:003 For Yahweh has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her + waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, + and her desert like the garden of Yahweh; joy and gladness + shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. +051:004 Attend to me, my people; and give ear to me, my nation: + for a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish my + justice for a light of the peoples. +051:005 My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and my + arms shall judge the peoples; the islands shall wait for me, + and on my arm shall they trust. +051:006 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; + for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth + shall wax old like a garment; and those who dwell therein + shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be forever, + and my righteousness shall not be abolished. +051:007 Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose + heart is my law; don't you fear the reproach of men, + neither be you dismayed at their insults. +051:008 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall + eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be forever, + and my salvation to all generations. +051:009 Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh; awake, as in + the days of old, the generations of ancient times. + Isn't it you who did cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster? +051:010 Isn't it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; + who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed + to pass over? +051:011 The ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing + to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads: + they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and sighing + shall flee away. +051:012 I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you are + afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall + be made as grass; +051:013 and have forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched forth + the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fear + continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, + when he makes ready to destroy? and where is the fury + of the oppressor? +051:014 The captive exile shall speedily be freed; and he shall not die + [and go down] into the pit, neither shall his bread fail. +051:015 For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves + of it roar: Yahweh of Armies is his name. +051:016 I have put my words in your mouth, and have covered you in + the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay + the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, You are my people. +051:017 Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand + of Yahweh the cup of his wrath; you have drunken the bowl + of the cup of staggering, and drained it. +051:018 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has + brought forth; neither is there any who takes her by the hand + among all the sons who she has brought up. +051:019 These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? + Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; + how shall I comfort you? +051:020 Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, + as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Yahweh, + the rebuke of your God. +051:021 Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, + but now with wine: +051:022 Thus says your Lord Yahweh, and your God who pleads the cause + of his people, Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup + of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; + you shall no more drink it again: +051:023 and I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, + who have said to your soul, Bow down, that we may go over; + and you have laid your back as the ground, and as the street, + to those who go over. +052:001 Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful + garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall + no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean. +052:002 Shake yourself from the dust; arise, sit [on your throne], Jerusalem: + loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter + of Zion. +052:003 For thus says Yahweh, You were sold for nothing; and you shall + be redeemed without money. +052:004 For thus says the Lord Yahweh, My people went down at the first + into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian has oppressed + them without cause. +052:005 Now therefore, what do I here, says Yahweh, seeing that my people + is taken away for nothing? those who rule over them do howl, + says Yahweh, and my name continually all the day is blasphemed. +052:006 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore [they shall + know] in that day that I am he who does speak; behold, it is I. +052:007 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings + good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of good, + who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, Your God reigns! +052:008 The voice of your watchmen! they lift up the voice, + together do they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, + when Yahweh returns to Zion. +052:009 Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; + for Yahweh has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem. +052:010 Yahweh has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; + and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation + of our God. +052:011 Depart you, depart you, go you out from there, touch no unclean thing; + go you out of the midst of her; cleanse yourselves, + you who bear the vessels of Yahweh. +052:012 For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight: + for Yahweh will go before you; and the God of Israel will + be your rearward. +052:013 Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be exalted + and lifted up, and shall be very high. +052:014 Like as many were astonished at you (his visage was so marred + more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men), +052:015 so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths + at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; + and that which they had not heard shall they understand. +053:001 Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of + Yahweh been revealed? +053:002 For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root + out of dry ground. He has no form nor comeliness. + When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. +053:003 He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, + and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom + men hide their face; and we didn't respect him. +053:004 Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; + yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. +053:005 But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed + for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace + was on him; and by his wounds we are healed. +053:006 All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his + own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all. +053:007 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn't open his mouth. + As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that + before its shearers is mute, so he didn't open his mouth. +053:008 He was taken away by oppression and judgment; and as for + his generation, who considered that he was cut off out + of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience + of my people? +053:009 They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man + in his death; although he had done no violence, neither was + any deceit in his mouth. +053:010 Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. + When you make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed. + He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahweh shall + prosper in his hand. +053:011 After the suffering of his soul, he will see the + light{So read the Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint. + Masoretic Text omits "the light".} and be satisfied. + My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; + and he will bear their iniquities. +053:012 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, + and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured + out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; + yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession + for the transgressors. +054:001 Sing, barren, you who didn't bear; break forth into singing, + and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: + for more are the children of the desolate than the children + of the married wife, says Yahweh. +054:002 Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch + forth the curtains of your habitations; don't spare: + lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. +054:003 For you shall spread aboard on the right hand and on the left; + and your seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate + cities to be inhabited. +054:004 Don't be afraid; for you shall not be ashamed: + neither be confounded; for you shall not be disappointed: + for you shall forget the shame of your youth; and the reproach + of your widowhood shall you remember no more. +054:005 For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: + and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole + earth shall he be called. +054:006 For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved + in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off, + says your God. +054:007 For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies + will I gather you. +054:008 In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; + but with everlasting loving kindness will I have mercy on you, + says Yahweh your Redeemer. +054:009 For this is [as] the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn + that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, + so have I sworn that I will not be angry with you, + nor rebuke you. +054:010 For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; + but my loving kindness shall not depart from you, + neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, says Yahweh + who has mercy on you. +054:011 You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, + I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your + foundations with sapphires. +054:012 I will make your pinnacles of rubies, and your gates of + sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones. +054:013 All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall + be the peace of your children. +054:014 In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far + from oppression, for you shall not be afraid; and from terror, + for it shall not come near you. +054:015 Behold, they may gather together, but not by me: whoever shall + gather together against you shall fall because of you. +054:016 Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, + and brings forth a weapon for his work; and I have created + the waster to destroy. +054:017 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every + tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. + This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their + righteousness which is of me, says Yahweh. +055:001 Ho, everyone who thirsts, come you to the waters, and he who has + no money; come you, buy, and eat; yes, come, buy wine and milk + without money and without price. +055:002 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your + labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, + and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight + itself in fatness. +055:003 Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: + and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure + mercies of David. +055:004 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, + a leader and commander to the peoples. +055:005 Behold, you shall call a nation that you don't know; + and a nation that didn't know you shall run to you, + because of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; + for he has glorified you. +055:006 Seek you Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while + he is near: +055:007 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; + and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; + and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. +055:008 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways + my ways, says Yahweh. +055:009 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways + higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. +055:010 For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, + and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it + bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread + to the eater; +055:011 so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: + it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish + that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent + it to do. +055:012 For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: + the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you + into singing; and all the trees of the fields shall + clap their hands. +055:013 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 Yahweh for a name, for an everlasting sign + that shall not be cut off. +056:001 Thus says Yahweh, Keep you justice, and do righteousness; + for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness + to be revealed. +056:002 Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds + it fast; who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and keeps + his hand from doing any evil. +056:003 Neither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh, + speak, saying, Yahweh will surely separate me from his people; + neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. +056:004 For thus says Yahweh of the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, + and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant: +056:005 To them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial + and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give + them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. +056:006 Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh, to minister + to him, and to love the name of Yahweh, to be his servants, + everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds + fast my covenant; +056:007 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 on my altar; for my house shall + be called a house of prayer for all peoples. +056:008 The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, Yet will + I gather [others] to him, besides his own who are gathered. +056:009 All you animals of the field, come to devour, [yes], all you + animals in the forest. +056:010 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; + they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, + loving to slumber. +056:011 Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; + and these are shepherds who can't understand: + they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, + from every quarter. +056:012 Come you, [say they], I will get wine, and we will fill + ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, + [a day] great beyond measure. +057:001 The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful + men are taken away, none considering that the righteous + is taken away from the evil [to come]. +057:002 He enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who walks + in his uprightness. +057:003 But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed + of the adulterer and the prostitute. +057:004 Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you + a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? Aren't you children + of disobedience, a seed of falsehood, +057:005 you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; + who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts + of the rocks? +057:006 Among the smooth [stones] of the valley is your portion; + they, they are your lot; even to them have you poured + a drink offering, you have offered an offering. + Shall I be appeased for these things? +057:007 On a high and lofty mountain have you set your bed; + there also you went up to offer sacrifice. +057:008 Behind the doors and the posts have you set up your memorial: + for you have uncovered [yourself] to another than me, + and are gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and made you + a covenant with them: you loved their bed where you saw it. +057:009 You went to the king with oil, and did increase your perfumes, + and did send your ambassadors far off, and did debase yourself + even to Sheol. +057:010 You were wearied with the length of your way; yet you didn't say, + It is in vain: you found a reviving of your strength; + therefore you weren't faint. +057:011 Of whom have you been afraid and in fear, that you lie, + and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? + Haven't I held my peace even of long time, and you don't fear me? +057:012 I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, + they shall not profit you. +057:013 When you cry, let those who you have gathered deliver you; + but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: + but he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land, + and shall inherit my holy mountain. +057:014 He will say, Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up + the stumbling-block out of the way of my people. +057:015 For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, + whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, + with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, + to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart + of the contrite. +057:016 For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; + for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who + I have made. +057:017 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him; + I hid [my face] and was angry; and he went on backsliding + in the way of his heart. +057:018 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, + and restore comforts to him and to his mourners. +057:019 I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far + off and to him who is near, says Yahweh; and I will heal him. +057:020 But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest, + and its waters cast up mire and dirt. +057:021 There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked. +058:001 Cry aloud, don't spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, + and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house + of Jacob their sins. +058:002 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: + as a nation that did righteousness, and didn't forsake + the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; + they delight to draw near to God. +058:003 Why have we fasted, [say they], and you don't see? [why] + have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? + Behold, in the day of your fast you find [your own] pleasure, + and exact all your labors. +058:004 Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike + with the fist of wickedness: you don't fast this day so as + to make your voice to be heard on high. +058:005 Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man + to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, + and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call + this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh? +058:006 Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds + of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let + the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? +058:007 Isn't it to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring + the poor who are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, + that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from + your own flesh? +058:008 Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your healing + shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go + before you; the glory of Yahweh shall be your rear guard. +058:009 Then shall you call, and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry, + and he will say, Here I am. If you take away from + the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, + and speaking wickedly; +058:010 and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy + the afflicted soul: then shall your light rise in darkness, + and your obscurity be as the noonday; +058:011 and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul + in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall + be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, + whose waters don't fail. +058:012 Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; + you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; + and you shall be called The repairer of the breach, + The restorer of paths to dwell in. +058:013 If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your + pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, + [and] the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor it, + not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, + nor speaking [your own] words: +058:014 then shall you delight yourself in Yahweh; and I will + make you to ride on the high places of the earth; + and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: + for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it. +059:001 Behold, Yahweh's hand is not shortened, that it can't save; + neither his ear heavy, that it can't hear: +059:002 but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, + and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he + will not hear. +059:003 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; + your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. +059:004 None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: + they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, + and bring forth iniquity. +059:005 They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: + he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed + breaks out into a viper. +059:006 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. +059:007 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: + their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and + destruction are in their paths. +059:008 The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice + in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; + whoever goes therein does not know peace. +059:009 Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness + overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; + for brightness, but we walk in obscurity. +059:010 We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those + who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; + among those who are lusty we are as dead men. +059:011 We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: + we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, + but it is far off from us. +059:012 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins + testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, + and as for our iniquities, we know them: +059:013 transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following + our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering + from the heart words of falsehood. +059:014 Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; + for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter. +059:015 Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself + a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there + was no justice. +059:016 He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was + no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; + and his righteousness, it upheld him. +059:017 He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation + on his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, + and was clad with zeal as a mantle. +059:018 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, + wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; + to the islands he will repay recompense. +059:019 So shall they fear the name of Yahweh from the west, + and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come + as a rushing stream, which the breath of Yahweh drives. +059:020 A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from + disobedience in Jacob, says Yahweh. +059:021 As for me, this is my covenant with them, says Yahweh: + my Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, + shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth + of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed, + says Yahweh, from henceforth and forever. +060:001 Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of Yahweh + is risen on you. +060:002 For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness + the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory + shall be seen on you. +060:003 Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness + of your rising. +060:004 Lift up your eyes round about, and see: they all gather + themselves together, they come to you; your sons shall come + from far, and your daughters shall be carried in the arms. +060:005 Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall thrill + and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be + turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you. +060:006 The multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries + of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come; + they shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim + the praises of Yahweh. +060:007 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you, + the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; they shall come + up with acceptance on my altar; and I will glorify the house + of my glory. +060:008 Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? +060:009 Surely the islands shall wait for me, and the ships of + Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver + and their gold with them, for the name of Yahweh your God, + and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you. +060:010 Foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall + minister to you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor + have I had mercy on you. +060:011 Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be + shut day nor night; that men may bring to you the wealth + of the nations, and their kings led captive. +060:012 For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; + yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted. +060:013 The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the fir tree, the pine, + and the box tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; + and I will make the place of my feet glorious. +060:014 The sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending to you; + and all those who despised you shall bow themselves down at + the soles of your feet; and they shall call you The city + of Yahweh, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel. +060:015 Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no man + passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, + a joy of many generations. +060:016 You shall also suck the milk of the nations, and shall suck the breast + of kings; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, + and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. +060:017 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 + your officers peace, and righteousness your ruler. +060:018 Violence shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor + destruction within your borders; but you shall call your + walls Salvation, and your gates Praise. +060:019 The sun shall be no more your light by day; neither for brightness + shall the moon give light to you: but Yahweh will be to you + an everlasting light, and your God your glory. +060:020 Your sun shall no more go down, neither shall your moon + withdraw itself; for Yahweh will be your everlasting light, + and the days of your mourning shall be ended. +060:021 Your people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit + the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, + that I may be glorified. +060:022 The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one + a strong nation; I, Yahweh, will hasten it in its time. +061:001 The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed + me to preach good news to the humble; he has sent me to bind + up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, + and the opening [of the prison] to those who are bound; +061:002 to proclaim the year of Yahweh's favor, and the day of vengeance + of our God; to comfort all who mourn; +061:003 to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them + a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment + of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be + called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, + that he may be glorified. +061:004 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. +061:005 Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners + shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. +061:006 But you shall be named the priests of Yahweh; men shall call + you the ministers of our God: you shall eat the wealth + of the nations, and in their glory shall you boast yourselves. +061:007 Instead of your shame [you shall have] double; and instead + of dishonor they shall rejoice in their portion: + therefore in their land they shall possess double; + everlasting joy shall be to them. +061:008 For I, Yahweh, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; + and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will + make an everlasting covenant with them. +061:009 Their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring + among the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, + that they are the seed which Yahweh has blessed. +061:010 I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall be joyful in my God; + for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has + covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom + decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself + with her jewels. +061:011 For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden + causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth; + so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise + to spring forth before all the nations. +062:001 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake + I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, + and her salvation as a lamp that burns. +062:002 The nations shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory, + and you shall be called by a new name, which the mouth + of Yahweh shall name. +062:003 You shall also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, + and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. +062:004 You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land + any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, + and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your + land shall be married. +062:005 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you; + and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall + your God rejoice over you. +062:006 I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall + never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, + take no rest, +062:007 and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes + Jerusalem a praise in the earth. +062:008 Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, + Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; + and foreigners shall not drink your new wine, for which + you have labored: +062:009 but those who have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Yahweh; + and those who have gathered it shall drink it in the courts + of my sanctuary. +062:010 Go through, go through the gates; prepare you the way of the people; + cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; + lift up a banner for the peoples. +062:011 Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, + Say you to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes; + behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. +062:012 They shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Yahweh: + and you shall be called Sought out, A city not forsaken. +063:001 Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from + Bozrah? this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in + the greatness of his strength? I who speak in righteousness, + mighty to save. +063:002 Why are you red in your clothing, and your garments like him + who treads in the wine vat? +063:003 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was + no man with me: yes, I trod them in my anger, and trampled them + in my wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, + and I have stained all my clothing. +063:004 For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my + redeemed is come. +063:005 I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there + was none to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation to me; + and my wrath, it upheld me. +063:006 I trod down the peoples in my anger, and made them drunk + in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth. +063:007 I will make mention of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh, + [and] the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has + bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, + which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, + and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. +063:008 For he said, Surely, they are my people, children who will + not deal falsely: so he was their Savior. +063:009 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his + presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; + and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old. +063:010 But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: + therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] himself + fought against them. +063:011 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his people, + [saying], Where is he who brought them up out of the sea + with the shepherds of his flock? where is he who put his holy + Spirit in the midst of them? +063:012 who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? + who divided the waters before them, to make himself + an everlasting name? +063:013 who led them through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, + so that they didn't stumble? +063:014 As the livestock that go down into the valley, the Spirit + of Yahweh caused them to rest; so did you lead your people, + to make yourself a glorious name. +063:015 Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your + holiness and of your glory: where are your zeal and your + mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion + is restrained toward me. +063:016 For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn't know us, + and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, Yahweh, are our Father; + our Redeemer from everlasting is your name. +063:017 O Yahweh, why do you make us to err from your ways, + and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' + sake, the tribes of your inheritance. +063:018 Your holy people possessed [it] but a little while: + our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary. +063:019 We are become as they over whom you never bear rule, + as those who were not called by your name. +064:001 Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, + that the mountains might quake at your presence, +064:002 as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes + the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, + that the nations may tremble at your presence! +064:003 When you did terrible things which we didn't look for, + you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence. +064:004 For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, + neither has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him + who waits for him. +064:005 You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember + you in your ways: behold, you were angry, and we sinned: + in them [have we been] of long time; and shall we be saved? +064:006 For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our + righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; + and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. +064:007 There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself + to take hold of you; for you have hid your face from us, + and have consumed us by means of our iniquities. +064:008 But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you + our potter; and we all are the work of your hand. +064:009 Don't be furious, Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever: + see, look, we beg you, we are all your people. +064:010 Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become + a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. +064:011 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, + is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste. +064:012 Will you refrain yourself for these things, Yahweh? will you + hold your peace, and afflict us very sore? +065:001 I am inquired of by those who didn't ask; I am found by those + who didn't seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation + that was not called by my name. +065:002 I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, + who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts; +065:003 a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing + in gardens, and burning incense on bricks; +065:004 who sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; + who eat pig's flesh, and broth of abominable things is + in their vessels; +065:005 who say, Stand by yourself, don't come near to me, + for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, + a fire that burns all the day. +065:006 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, + but will recompense, yes, I will recompense into their bosom, +065:007 your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, + says Yahweh, who have burned incense on the mountains, + and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore will I first measure + their work into their bosom. +065:008 Thus says Yahweh, As the new wine is found in the cluster, + and one says, Don't destroy it, for a blessing is in it: + so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not + destroy them all. +065:009 I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah + an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, + and my servants shall dwell there. +065:010 Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place + for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me. +065:011 But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain, + who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed + wine to Destiny; +065:012 I will destine you to the sword, and you shall all bow down + to the slaughter; because when I called, you did not answer; + when I spoke, you did not hear; but you did that which was + evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight. +065:013 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, my servants shall eat, + but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, + but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, + but you shall be disappointed; +065:014 behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall + cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for vexation of spirit. +065:015 You shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen; + and the Lord Yahweh will kill you; and he will call his servants + by another name: +065:016 so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself + in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear + by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, + and because they are hid from my eyes. +065:017 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former + things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. +065:018 But be you glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; + for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. +065:019 I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; + and there shall be heard in her no more the voice of weeping + and the voice of crying. +065:020 There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old + man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die + one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years + old shall be accursed. +065:021 They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall + plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. +065:022 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, + and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days + of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work + of their hands. +065:023 They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; + for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their + offspring with them. +065:024 It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; + and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. +065:025 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall + eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. + They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, + says Yahweh. +066:001 Thus says Yahweh, heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: + what manner of house will you build to me? and what place + shall be my rest? +066:002 For all these things has my hand made, and [so] all these things + came to be, says Yahweh: but to this man will I look, + even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who + trembles at my word. +066:003 He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices + a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering, + [as he who offers] pig's blood; he who burns frankincense, + as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, + and their soul delights in their abominations: +066:004 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears + on them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, + they did not hear: but they did that which was evil in my eyes, + and chose that in which I didn't delight. +066:005 Hear the word of Yahweh, you who tremble at his word: + Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name's sake, + have said, Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy; + but it is those who shall be disappointed. +066:006 A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, + a voice of Yahweh that renders recompense to his enemies. +066:007 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, + she was delivered of a boy. +066:008 Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such things? + Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation be brought + forth at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought + forth her children. +066:009 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? + says Yahweh: shall I who cause to bring forth shut [the + womb]? says your God. +066:010 Rejoice you with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who + love her: rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her; +066:011 that you may suck and be satisfied with the breasts of + her consolations; that you may milk out, and be delighted + with the abundance of her glory. +066:012 For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, + and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream: + and you shall suck [of it]; you shall be borne on the side, + and shall be dandled on the knees. +066:013 As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; + and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. +066:014 You shall see [it], and your heart shall rejoice, + and your bones shall flourish like the tender grass: + and the hand of Yahweh shall be known toward his servants; + and he will have indignation against his enemies. +066:015 For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots shall + be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, + and his rebuke with flames of fire. +066:016 For by fire will Yahweh execute judgment, and by his sword, + on all flesh; and the slain of Yahweh shall be many. +066:017 Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves [to go] + to the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating pig's flesh, + and the abomination, and the mouse, they shall come to an + end together, says Yahweh. +066:018 For I [know] their works and their thoughts: [the time] comes, + that I will gather all nations and languages; and they shall come, + and shall see my glory. +066:019 I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape + of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw + the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the islands afar off, + who have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; + and they shall declare my glory among the nations. +066:020 They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an + offering to Yahweh, on horses, and in chariots, and in litters, + and on mules, and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, + says Yahweh, as the children of Israel bring their offering + in a clean vessel into the house of Yahweh. +066:021 Of them also will I take for priests [and] for Levites, says Yahweh. +066:022 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, + shall remain before me, says Yahweh, so shall your seed + and your name remain. +066:023 It shall happen, that from one new moon to another, and from + one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship + before me, says Yahweh. +066:024 They shall go forth, and look on the dead bodies of the men + who have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, + neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be + an abhorring to all flesh. + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE (WEB): ISAIAH *** + +This file should be named 8250.txt or 8250.zip + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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