| Book 23 Isaiah |
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The vision of Isaiah
the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning
Judah and Jerusalem
in the days of Uzziah, Jotham,
Ahaz, and Hezekiah,
kings of Judah. |
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Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O
earth: for the LORD
hath spoken, I have nourished and brought
up children, and they have rebelled
against me. |
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The ox knoweth his owner,
and the ass his master's
crib: but Israel
doth not know, my people doth not consider. |
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Ah sinful
nation, a people laden with iniquity,
a seed of evildoers,
children that are corrupters:
they have forsaken the LORD,
they have provoked the Holy One
of Israel unto anger,
they are gone away backward. |
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Why should ye be stricken any more?
ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. |
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From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness
in it; but wounds, and bruises,
and putrifying sores:
they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified
with ointment. |
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Your country is desolate, your cities
are burned with fire: your land, strangers
devour it in your presence, and it is
desolate, as overthrown
by strangers. |
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And the daughter of Zion
is left as a cottage in a vineyard,
as a lodge in a garden
of cucumbers, as a besieged
city. |
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Except the LORD of hosts had
left unto us a very small remnant,
we should have been as Sodom,
and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. |
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Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers
of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our
God, ye people of Gomorrah. |
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To what purpose is the multitude
of your sacrifices unto me? saith the
LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings
of rams, and the fat of fed beasts;
and I delight not in the blood of bullocks,
or of lambs, or of he goats. |
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When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand,
to tread my courts? |
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Bring no more vain oblations;
incense is an abomination unto me; the
new moons and sabbaths,
the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity,
even the solemn meeting. |
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Your new moons and your appointed
feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear
them. |
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And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea,
when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. |
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Wash you, make you clean; put
away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; |
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Learn to do well; seek judgment,
relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless,
plead for the widow. |
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Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD:
though your sins be as scarlet, they
shall be as white
as snow; though they be red like crimson,
they shall be as wool. |
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If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall
eat the good of the land: |
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But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall
be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD
hath spoken it. |
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How is the faithful city become an harlot!
it was full of judgment; righteousness
lodged in it; but now murderers. |
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Thy silver is become  dross,
thy wine mixed
with water: |
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Thy princes are rebellious,
and companions of thieves: every one
loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge
not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow
come unto them. |
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Therefore saith the LORD, the
LORD of hosts, the mighty
One of Israel, Ah, I will ease
me of mine adversaries, and avenge
me of mine enemies: |
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And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross,
and take away all thy tin: |
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And I will restore thy judges
as at the first, and thy counsellers
as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness,
the faithful city. |
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Zion shall
be redeemed with judgment,
and her converts with righteousness. |
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And the destruction of the transgressors
and of the sinners shall be together,
and they that forsake the LORD shall
be consumed. |
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For they shall be ashamed
of the oaks which ye have desired, and
ye shall be confounded
for the gardens that ye have chosen. |
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For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf
fadeth, and as a garden that hath no
water. |
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And the strong shall be as tow, and
the maker of it as a spark, and they shall
both burn together, and none shall quench
them. |
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The word that Isaiah the son
of Amoz saw concerning Judah
and Jerusalem. |
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And it shall come to pass in the
last days, that the mountain of the LORD's
house shall be established in the top
of the mountains, and shall
be exalted above the hills; and all nations
shall flow unto it. |
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And many people shall
go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain
of the LORD, to the house of the God
of Jacob; and he will teach us of his
ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion
shall go forth the law, and the word
of the LORD from Jerusalem. |
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And he shall judge
among the nations, and shall
rebuke many people: and they shall
beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruninghooks: nation
shall not lift up sword
against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more. |
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O house of Jacob, come ye,
and let us walk in the light of the LORD. |
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Therefore thou hast forsaken
thy people the house of Jacob,
because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers
like the Philistines, and they
please themselves in the children
of strangers. |
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Their land also is full of silver
and gold, neither is there any end of
their treasures; their land is also full
of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots: |
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Their land also is full of idols;
they worship the work of their own hands,
that which their own fingers have made: |
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And the mean man
boweth down, and the great man
humbleth himself: therefore forgive
them not. |
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Enter into the rock, and hide
thee in the dust, for fear of
the LORD, and for the glory of
his majesty. |
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The lofty looks of man shall
be humbled, and the haughtiness
of men shall be bowed down, and
the LORD alone shall be exalted
in that day. |
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For the day of the LORD of
hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every
one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought
low: |
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And upon all the cedars of Lebanon,
that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks
of Bashan, |
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And upon all the high mountains,
and upon all the hills that are lifted up, |
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And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall, |
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And upon all the ships of Tarshish,
and upon all pleasant pictures. |
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And the loftiness of man shall
be bowed down, and the haughtiness
of men shall be made low: and
the LORD alone shall be exalted
in that day. |
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And the idols he shall utterly abolish. |
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And they shall go into the holes
of the rocks, and into the caves
of the earth, for fear
of the LORD, and for the glory of his
majesty, when he ariseth
to shake terribly
the earth. |
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In that day a man shall cast his idols
of silver, and his idols
of gold, which they made each one for
himself to worship,
to the moles and to the bats; |
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To go into the clefts of the rocks,
and into the tops of the ragged rocks,
for fear of the LORD,
and for the glory of his majesty, when
he ariseth to shake terribly
the earth. |
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Cease ye from man, whose breath
is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ? |
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For, behold, the Lord, the LORD
of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem
and from Judah the stay and the
staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water. |
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The mighty man,
and the man of war, the judge,
and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, |
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The captain of fifty, and the honourable
man, and the counseller,
and the cunning artificer,
and the eloquent orator. |
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And I will give children to be their
princes, and babes
shall rule over them. |
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And the people shall be oppressed,
every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself
proudly against the ancient,
and the base against the honourable. |
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When a man shall take hold of
his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be
thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand: |
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In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in
my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people. |
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For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah
is fallen: because their tongue
and their doings are against the LORD,
to provoke the eyes of his glory. |
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The shew of their countenance doth witness against
them; and they declare their sin as Sodom,
they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. |
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Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat
the fruit of their doings. |
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Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his
hands shall be given him. |
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As for my people, children
are their oppressors, and women rule
over them. O my people, they which lead
thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. |
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The LORD standeth up to plead,
and standeth to judge the people. |
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The LORD will enter into judgment
with the ancients of his people,
and the princes thereof: for
ye have eaten up the vineyard;
the spoil of the poor is in your houses. |
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What mean ye that ye beat my people
to pieces, and grind the faces of the
poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts. |
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Moreover the LORD saith, Because
the daughters of Zion
are haughty, and walk with stretched
forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling
with their feet: |
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Therefore the LORD will smite with
a scab the crown of the head of the daughters
of Zion, and the LORD
will discover their secret
parts. |
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In that day the Lord will take away
the bravery of their tinkling ornaments
about their feet, and their cauls, and
their round tires like the moon, |
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The chains, and the bracelets, and
the mufflers, |
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The bonnets, and the ornaments
of the legs, and the headbands, and the
tablets, and the earrings, |
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The rings, and nose
jewels, |
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The changeable suits of apparel,
and the mantles, and the wimples,
and the crisping pins, |
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The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails. |
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And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink;
and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness;
and instead of a stomacher a girding
of sackcloth; and burning
instead of beauty. |
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Thy men shall fall by the sword,
and thy mighty in the war. |
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And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate
shall sit upon the ground. |
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And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man,
saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel:
only let us be called by thy name, to
take away our reproach. |
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In that day shall the branch of the
LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the
fruit of the earth
shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped
of Israel. |
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And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion,
and he that remaineth in Jerusalem,
shall be called holy, even every
one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: |
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When the Lord shall have washed away
the filth of the daughters of Zion,
and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem
from the midst thereof by the spirit
of judgment, and by the spirit
of burning. |
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And the LORD will create upon every
dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon
her assemblies, a cloud and smoke
by day, and the shining of a flaming fire
by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence. |
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And there shall be a tabernacle for
a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert
from storm and from rain. |
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Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard.
My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very
fruitful hill: |
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And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones
thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst
of it, and also made a winepress therein:
and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought
forth wild grapes. |
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And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and men of Judah,
judge, I pray you, betwixt me
and my vineyard. |
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What could have been done more to my vineyard,
that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring
forth grapes, brought it forth
wild grapes? |
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And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard:
I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break
down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: |
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And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall
come up briers and thorns:
I will also command the clouds that they
rain no rain upon it. |
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For the vineyard of the LORD
of hosts is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah
his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment,
but behold oppression; for righteousness,
but behold a cry. |
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Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till
there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! |
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In mine ears said the LORD
of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate,
even great and fair, without inhabitant. |
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Yea, ten acres of vineyard
shall yield one bath, and the seed
of an homer shall yield an ephah. |
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Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning,
that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine
inflame them! |
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And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe,
and wine, are in their feasts:
but they regard not the work of the LORD,
neither consider the operation of his hands. |
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Therefore my people are gone into
captivity, because they have no knowledge:
and their honourable men
are famished, and their multitude dried
up with thirst. |
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Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure:
and their glory, and their multitude,
and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. |
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And the mean man
shall be brought down, and the
mighty man
shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled: |
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But the LORD of hosts shall
be exalted in judgment, and God
that is holy shall be sanctified
in righteousness. |
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Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of
the fat ones shall strangers
eat. |
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Woe unto them that draw iniquity
with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: |
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That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it:
and let the counsel of the Holy
One of Israel
draw nigh and come, that we may know it! |
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Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness
for light, and light for darkness;
that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! |
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Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their
own sight! |
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Woe unto them that are mighty to
drink wine, and men
of strength to mingle strong drink: |
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Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness
of the righteous from him! |
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Therefore as the fire devoureth
the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root
shall be as rottenness, and their blossom
shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD
of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy
One of Israel. |
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Therefore is the anger of the LORD
kindled against his people,
and he hath stretched forth his hand against
them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble,
and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger
is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. |
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And he will lift up an ensign to
the nations from far, and will hiss unto
them from the end of the earth: and, behold,
they shall come with speed swiftly: |
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None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep;
neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of
their shoes be broken: |
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Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs
shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind: |
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Their roaring shall be like
a lion, they shall roar like
young lions: yea, they shall roar,
and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall
deliver it. |
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And in that day they shall roar against
them like the roaring of the sea:
and if one look unto the land, behold darkness
and sorrow, and the light is darkened
in the heavens thereof. |
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In the year that king Uzziah
died I saw also the LORD sitting
upon a throne, high and lifted
up, and his train filled the temple. |
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Above it stood the seraphims: each
one had six wings; with twain he covered
his face, and with twain he covered
his feet, and with twain he did fly. |
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And one cried unto another, and said, Holy,
holy, holy,
is the LORD of hosts: the whole
earth is full of his glory. |
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And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and
the house was filled with smoke. |
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Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man
of unclean lips, and I dwell
in the midst of a people of unclean
lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD
of hosts. |
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Then flew one of the seraphims unto
me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs
from off the altar: |
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And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips;
and thine iniquity is taken away,
and thy sin purged. |
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Also I heard the voice of the Lord,
saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am
I; send me. |
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And he said, Go, and tell this people,
Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and
see ye indeed, but perceive not. |
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Make the heart of this people fat,
and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears, and understand
with their heart, and convert, and be healed. |
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Then said I, Lord, how long?
And he answered, Until the cities
be wasted without inhabitant,
and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, |
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And the LORD have removed men
far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. |
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But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as
a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance
is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy
seed shall be the substance thereof. |
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And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz
the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah,
king of Judah, that Rezin
the king of Syria, and Pekah
the son of Remaliah, king of Israel,
went up toward Jerusalem to war against
it, but could not prevail against it. |
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And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria
is confederate with Ephraim. And
his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees
of the wood are moved with the
wind. |
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Then said the LORD unto Isaiah,
Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou,
and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in
the highway of the fuller's field; |
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And say unto him, Take heed,
and be quiet; fear
not, neither be fainthearted
for the two tails
of these smoking firebrands,
for the fierce anger
of Rezin with Syria,
and of the son of Remaliah. |
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Because Syria, Ephraim,
and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil
counsel against thee, saying, |
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Let us go up against Judah,
and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst
of it, even the son of Tabeal: |
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Thus saith the Lord GOD, It
shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. |
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For the head of Syria is Damascus,
and the head of Damascus is Rezin;
and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim
be broken, that it be not a people. |
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And the head of Ephraim is Samaria,
and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's
son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established. |
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Moreover the LORD spake again
unto Ahaz, saying, |
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Ask thee a sign of the LORD
thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. |
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But Ahaz said, I will not ask,
neither will I tempt the LORD. |
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And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for
you to weary men, but will ye
weary my God also? |
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Therefore the Lord himself
shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin
shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. |
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Butter and honey
shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil,
and choose the good. |
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For before the child shall know to refuse the evil,
and choose the good, the land that thou
abhorrest shall be forsaken
of both her kings. |
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The LORD shall bring upon thee,
and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come,
from the day that Ephraim departed
from Judah; even the king of
Assyria. |
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD
shall hiss for the fly that is in the
uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt,
and for the bee that is in the land of
Assyria. |
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And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate
valleys, and in the holes of the rocks,
and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes. |
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In the same day shall the Lord
shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by
the king of Assyria, the head,
and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard. |
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man
shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep; |
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And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk
that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every
one eat that is left in the land. |
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there
were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings,
it shall even be for briers and thorns. |
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With arrows and with bows shall men
come thither; because all the land shall become briers
and thorns. |
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And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock,
there shall not come thither the fear
of briers and thorns:
but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen,
and for the treading of lesser cattle. |
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Moreover the LORD said unto
me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning
Maher-shalal-hash-baz. |
| 008:002 |
|
And I took unto me faithful witnesses
to record, Uriah the priest, and
Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. |
| 008:003 |
|
And I went unto the prophetess;
and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD
to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz. |
| 008:004 |
|
For before the child shall have knowledge
to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches
of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria
shall be taken away before the king of Assyria. |
| 008:005 |
|
The LORD spake also unto me
again, saying, |
| 008:006 |
|
Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters
of Shiloah that go softly, and
rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's
son; |
| 008:007 |
|
Now therefore, behold, the Lord
bringeth up upon them the waters
of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria,
and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go
over all his banks: |
| 008:008 |
|
And he shall pass through Judah;
he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the
stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel. |
| 008:009 |
|
Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces;
and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be
broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. |
| 008:010 |
|
Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak
the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us. |
| 008:011 |
|
For the LORD spake thus to
me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the
way of this people, saying, |
| 008:012 |
|
Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say,
A confederacy; neither fear ye
their fear, nor be afraid. |
| 008:013 |
|
Sanctify the LORD of hosts
himself; and let him be your fear,
and let him be your dread. |
| 008:014 |
|
And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for
a rock of offence to both the
houses of Israel, for a gin and
for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. |
| 008:015 |
|
And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared,
and be taken. |
| 008:016 |
|
Bind up the testimony, seal
the law among my disciples. |
| 008:017 |
|
And I will wait upon the LORD, that
hideth his face from the house of Jacob,
and I will look for him. |
| 008:018 |
|
Behold, I and the children
whom the LORD hath given me are
for signs and for wonders in Israel
from the LORD of hosts, which
dwelleth in mount Zion. |
| 008:019 |
|
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar
spirits, and unto wizards that
peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the
living to the dead? |
| 008:020 |
|
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak
not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. |
| 008:021 |
|
And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall
come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves,
and curse their king and their God, and look upward. |
| 008:022 |
|
And they shall look unto the earth;
and behold trouble and darkness,
dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness. |
| 009:001 |
|
Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when
at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun
and the land of Naphtali, and
afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea,
beyond Jordan, in Galilee
of the nations. |
| 009:002 |
|
The people that walked in darkness
have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of
death, upon them hath the light shined. |
| 009:003 |
|
Thou hast multiplied the nation,
and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in
harvest, and as men rejoice when
they divide the spoil. |
| 009:004 |
|
For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder,
the rod of his oppressor, as in the day
of Midian. |
| 009:005 |
|
For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments
rolled in blood; but this shall be with
burning and fuel of fire. |
| 009:006 |
|
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government
shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called
Wonderful,
Counseller, The mighty
God, The everlasting
Father, The
Prince of Peace. |
| 009:007 |
|
Of the increase of his government
and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne
of David, and upon his kingdom, to order
it, and to establish it with judgment
and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD
of hosts will perform this. |
| 009:008 |
|
The Lord sent a word into Jacob,
and it hath lighted upon Israel. |
| 009:009 |
|
And all the people shall know, even Ephraim
and the inhabitant of Samaria,
that say in the pride and stoutness of heart, |
| 009:010 |
|
The bricks are fallen down,
but we will build with hewn stones:
the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. |
| 009:011 |
|
Therefore the LORD shall set up the
adversaries of Rezin
against him, and join his enemies
together; |
| 009:012 |
|
The Syrians before, and the
Philistines behind; and they
shall devour Israel with open
mouth. For all this his anger
is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. |
| 009:013 |
|
For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they
seek the LORD of hosts. |
| 009:014 |
|
Therefore the LORD will cut
off from Israel head and tail,
branch and rush, in one day. |
| 009:015 |
|
The ancient and honourable,
he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. |
| 009:016 |
|
For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are
led of them are destroyed. |
| 009:017 |
|
Therefore the LORD shall have no joy
in their young men, neither shall have
mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite
and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh
folly. For all this his anger is not turned
away, but his hand is stretched out still. |
| 009:018 |
|
For wickedness burneth
as the fire: it shall devour the briers
and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets
of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke. |
| 009:019 |
|
Through the wrath of the LORD
of hosts is the land darkened,
and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire:
no man shall spare his brother. |
| 009:020 |
|
And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat
on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every
man the flesh
of his own arm: |
| 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 unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness
which they have prescribed; |
| 010:002 |
|
To turn aside the needy from judgment,
and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may
be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! |
| 010:003 |
|
And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation
which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will
ye leave your glory? |
| 010:004 |
|
Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners,
and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger
is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. |
| 010:005 |
|
O Assyrian, the rod
of mine anger, and the staff in their
hand is mine indignation. |
| 010:006 |
|
I will send him against an hypocritical
nation, and against
the people of my wrath will I give him
a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like
the mire of the streets. |
| 010:007 |
|
Howbeit he meaneth not so,
neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and
cut off nations not a few. |
| 010:008 |
|
For he saith, Are not my princes
altogether kings? |
| 010:009 |
|
Is not Calno as Carchemish?
is not Hamath as Arpad?
is not Samaria as Damascus? |
| 010:010 |
|
As my hand hath found the kingdoms
of the idols, and whose graven images
did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; |
| 010:011 |
|
Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria
and her idols, so do to Jerusalem
and her idols? |
| 010:012 |
|
Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord
hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion
and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit
of the stout heart of the king of Assyria,
and the glory of his high looks. |
| 010:013 |
|
For he saith, By the strength of
my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed
the bounds of the people,
and have robbed their treasures,
and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man: |
| 010:014 |
|
And my hand hath found as a nest the riches
of the people: and as one gathereth
eggs that are left, have I gathered
all the earth; and there was none
that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. |
| 010:015 |
|
Shall the axe boast itself against
him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against
him that shaketh it? as if the rod should
shake itself against them that lift it
up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood. |
| 010:016 |
|
Therefore shall the Lord, the
Lord of hosts, send among his
fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like
the burning of a fire. |
| 010:017 |
|
And the light of Israel
shall be for a fire, and his Holy
One for a flame: and it shall burn and
devour his thorns and his briers
in one day; |
| 010:018 |
|
And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful
field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth. |
| 010:019 |
|
And the rest of the trees of
his forest shall be few, that a child may write them. |
| 010:020 |
|
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant
of Israel, and such as are escaped
of the house of Jacob, shall no more
again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD,
the Holy One
of Israel, in truth. |
| 010:021 |
|
The remnant shall return, even
the remnant of Jacob,
unto the mighty God. |
| 010:022 |
|
For though thy people Israel
be as the sand of the sea, yet
a remnant of them shall return:
the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness. |
| 010:023 |
|
For the Lord GOD of hosts shall
make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land. |
| 010:024 |
|
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD
of hosts, O my people that dwellest in
Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian:
he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall
lift up his staff against thee, after
the manner of Egypt. |
| 010:025 |
|
For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine
anger in their destruction. |
| 010:026 |
|
And the LORD of hosts shall stir
up a scourge for him according to the slaughter
of Midian at the rock
of Oreb: and as his rod
was upon the sea, so shall he lift it
up after the manner of Egypt. |
| 010:027 |
|
And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken
away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke
shall be destroyed because of the anointing. |
| 010:028 |
|
He is come to Aiath, he is passed
to Migron; at Michmash
he hath laid up his carriages: |
| 010:029 |
|
They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at
Geba; Ramah
is afraid; Gibeah of Saul
is fled. |
| 010:030 |
|
Lift up thy voice, O daughter of
Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish,
O poor Anathoth. |
| 010:031 |
|
Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim
gather themselves to flee. |
| 010:032 |
|
As yet shall he remain at Nob that
day: he shall shake his hand against
the mount of the daughter of Zion,
the hill of Jerusalem. |
| 010:033 |
|
Behold, the Lord, the LORD
of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror:
and the high ones of stature shall be
hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled. |
| 010:034 |
|
And he shall cut down the thickets
of the forest with iron, and Lebanon
shall fall by a mighty one. |
| 011:001 |
|
And there shall come forth a rod
out of the stem of Jesse,
and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: |
| 011:002 |
|
And the spirit of the LORD
shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom
and understanding, the spirit
of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge
and of the fear of the LORD; |
| 011:003 |
|
And shall make him of quick understanding
in the fear of the LORD:
and he shall not judge after the sight
of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: |
| 011:004 |
|
But with righteousness shall he judge
the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth:
and he shall smite the earth: with the
rod of his mouth, and with the breath
of his lips shall he slay the wicked. |
| 011:005 |
|
And righteousness shall be
the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness
the girdle of his reins. |
| 011:006 |
|
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young
lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. |
| 011:007 |
|
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down
together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. |
| 011:008 |
|
And the sucking child shall
play on the hole of the asp,
and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice'
den. |
| 011:009 |
|
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
mountain: for the earth
shall be full of the knowledge of the
LORD, as the waters
cover the sea. |
| 011:010 |
|
And in that day there shall be a root
of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign
of the people; to it shall the Gentiles
seek: and his rest shall be glorious. |
| 011:011 |
|
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord
shall set his hand again the second time to recover
the remnant of his people,
which shall be left, from Assyria, and
from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from
Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath,
and from the islands of the sea. |
| 011:012 |
|
And he shall set up an ensign for
the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts
of Israel, and gather together the dispersed
of Judah from the four corners of the
earth. |
| 011:013 |
|
The envy also of Ephraim shall
depart, and the adversaries of
Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim
shall not envy Judah, and Judah
shall not vex Ephraim. |
| 011:014 |
|
But they shall fly upon the
shoulders of the Philistines
toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall
lay their hand upon Edom and Moab;
and the children of Ammon
shall obey them. |
| 011:015 |
|
And the LORD shall utterly destroy
the tongue of the Egyptian
sea; and with his mighty
wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams,
and make men go over dryshod. |
| 011:016 |
|
And there shall be an highway for the remnant
of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria;
like as it was to Israel in the day that
he came up out of the land of Egypt. |
| 012:001 |
|
And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD,
I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger
is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. |
| 012:002 |
|
Behold, God is my salvation; I will
trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD
JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he
also is become my salvation. |
| 012:003 |
|
Therefore with joy shall ye draw water
out of the wells of salvation. |
| 012:004 |
|
And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD,
call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention
that his name is exalted. |
| 012:005 |
|
Sing unto the LORD; for he
hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth. |
| 012:006 |
|
Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion:
for great is the Holy One
of Israel in the midst of thee. |
| 013:001 |
|
The burden of Babylon, which
Isaiah the son of Amoz
did see. |
| 013:002 |
|
Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain,
exalt the voice unto them, shake
the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. |
| 013:003 |
|
I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty
ones for mine anger, even them
that rejoice in my highness. |
| 013:004 |
|
The noise of a multitude in the mountains,
like as of a great people; a tumultuous
noise of the kingdoms of nations
gathered together: the LORD of hosts
mustereth the host of the battle. |
| 013:005 |
|
They come from a far country, from the end of heaven,
even the LORD, and the weapons
of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. |
| 013:006 |
|
Howl ye; for the day of the LORD
is at hand; it shall come as a destruction
from the Almighty. |
| 013:007 |
|
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: |
| 013:008 |
|
And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they
shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth:
they shall be amazed one at another; their faces
shall be as flames. |
| 013:009 |
|
Behold, the day of the LORD
cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce
anger, to lay the land desolate:
and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. |
| 013:010 |
|
For the stars of heaven
and the constellations thereof
shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened
in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. |
| 013:011 |
|
And I will punish the world for their
evil, and the wicked for their iniquity;
and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness
of the terrible. |
| 013:012 |
|
I will make a man more precious
than fine gold; even a man
than the golden wedge of Ophir. |
| 013:013 |
|
Therefore I will shake the heavens,
and the earth shall remove out
of her place, in the wrath of the LORD
of hosts, and in the day of his fierce
anger. |
| 013:014 |
|
And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep
that no man taketh up: they shall
every man turn to his own people,
and flee every one into his own land. |
| 013:015 |
|
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that
is joined unto them shall fall by the sword. |
| 013:016 |
|
Their children also shall be
dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and
their wives ravished. |
| 013:017 |
|
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against
them, which shall not regard silver;
and as for gold, they shall not delight
in it. |
| 013:018 |
|
Their bows also shall dash the young men
to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit
of the womb; their eyes shall not spare
children. |
| 013:019 |
|
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,
the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency,
shall be as when God overthrew Sodom
and Gomorrah. |
| 013:020 |
|
It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation
to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall
the shepherds make their fold there. |
| 013:021 |
|
But wild beasts of the desert
shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures;
and owls shall dwell there,
and satyrs shall dance there. |
| 013:022 |
|
And the wild beasts of the islands
shall cry in their desolate houses,
and dragons in their pleasant
palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. |
| 014:001 |
|
For the LORD will have mercy
on Jacob, and will yet choose
Israel, and set them in their
own land: and the strangers shall
be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. |
| 014:002 |
|
And the people shall take them, and
bring them to their place: and the house of Israel
shall possess them in the land of the LORD
for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives
they were; and they shall rule over their
oppressors. |
| 014:003 |
|
And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD
shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear,
and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, |
| 014:004 |
|
That thou shalt take up this proverb against
the king of Babylon, and say, How hath
the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! |
| 014:005 |
|
The LORD hath broken the staff of
the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. |
| 014:006 |
|
He who smote the people in wrath
with a continual stroke, he that ruled
the nations in anger,
is persecuted, and none hindereth. |
| 014:007 |
|
The whole earth is at rest,
and is quiet: they break forth into singing. |
| 014:008 |
|
Yea, the fir trees
rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon,
saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against
us. |
| 014:009 |
|
Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth
up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth;
it hath raised up from their thrones
all the kings of the nations. |
| 014:010 |
|
All they shall speak and say unto
thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? |
| 014:011 |
|
Thy pomp is brought down to the grave,
and the noise of thy viols: the worm
is spread under thee, and the worms cover
thee. |
| 014:012 |
|
How art thou fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
how art thou cut down to the ground,
which didst weaken the nations! |
| 014:013 |
|
For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend
into heaven, I will exalt
my throne above the stars
of God: I will sit also upon the
mount of the congregation,
in the sides of the north: |
| 014:014 |
|
I will ascend above the heights
of the clouds; I will be like
the most High. |
| 014:015 |
|
Yet thou shalt be brought down
to hell, to the sides of the
pit. |
| 014:016 |
|
They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying,
Is this the man that made the earth
to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; |
| 014:017 |
|
That made the world as a wilderness,
and destroyed the cities thereof; that
opened not the house of his prisoners? |
| 014:018 |
|
All the kings of the nations,
even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. |
| 014:019 |
|
But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable
branch, and as the raiment
of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword,
that go down to the stones of the
pit; as a carcase trodden under
feet. |
| 014:020 |
|
Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed
thy land, and slain thy people: the seed
of evildoers shall never be renowned. |
| 014:021 |
|
Prepare slaughter for his children
for the iniquity of their fathers; that
they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face
of the world with cities. |
| 014:022 |
|
For I will rise up against them,
saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off
from Babylon the name, and remnant,
and son, and nephew, saith the LORD. |
| 014:023 |
|
I will also make it a possession for the bittern,
and pools of water:
and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction,
saith the LORD of hosts. |
| 014:024 |
|
The LORD of hosts hath sworn,
saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have
purposed, so shall it stand: |
| 014:025 |
|
That I will break the Assyrian
in my land, and upon my mountains
tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his
burden depart from off their shoulders. |
| 014:026 |
|
This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth:
and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. |
| 014:027 |
|
For the LORD of hosts hath
purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and
who shall turn it back? |
| 014:028 |
|
In the year that king Ahaz died
was this burden. |
| 014:029 |
|
Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina,
because the rod of him that smote thee
is broken: for out of the serpent's root
shall come forth a cockatrice, and his
fruit shall be a fiery
flying serpent. |
| 014:030 |
|
And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in
safety: and I will kill thy root with
famine, and he shall slay thy remnant. |
| 014:031 |
|
Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina,
art dissolved: for there shall come from the north
a smoke, and none shall be alone
in his appointed times. |
| 014:032 |
|
What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation?
That the LORD hath founded
Zion, and the poor of his people
shall trust in it. |
| 015:001 |
|
The burden of Moab. Because
in the night Ar of Moab
is laid waste, and brought to
silence; because in the night Kir
of Moab is laid waste, and brought
to silence; |
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He is gone up to Bajith, and
to Dibon, the high places, to
weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo,
and over Medeba: on all their
heads shall be baldness, and
every beard cut off. |
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In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth:
on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl,
weeping abundantly. |
| 015:004 |
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And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh:
their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz:
therefore the armed soldiers of Moab
shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him. |
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My heart shall cry out for Moab;
his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar,
an heifer of three years old:
for by the mounting up of Luhith
with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim
they shall raise up a cry of destruction. |
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For the waters of Nimrim
shall be desolate: for the hay is withered
away, the grass faileth, there is no
green thing. |
| 015:007 |
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Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid
up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows. |
| 015:008 |
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For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab;
the howling thereof unto Eglaim,
and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim. |
| 015:009 |
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For the waters of Dimon
shall be full of blood: for I will bring
more upon Dimon, lions upon him that
escapeth of Moab,
and upon the remnant of the land. |
| 016:001 |
|
Send ye the lamb to the ruler
of the land from Sela to the
wilderness, unto the mount of
the daughter of Zion. |
| 016:002 |
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For it shall be, that, as a wandering
bird cast
out of the nest, so the daughters
of Moab shall be at the fords
of Arnon. |
| 016:003 |
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Take counsel, execute judgment;
make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday;
hide the outcasts; bewray
not him that wandereth. |
| 016:004 |
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Let mine outcasts dwell with thee,
Moab; be thou a covert
to them from the face of the spoiler:
for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler
ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land. |
| 016:005 |
|
And in mercy shall the throne be
established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle
of David, judging, and seeking judgment,
and hasting righteousness. |
| 016:006 |
|
We have heard of the pride of Moab;
he is very proud: even of his haughtiness,
and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so. |
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|
Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab,
every one shall howl: for the foundations
of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn; surely
they are stricken. |
| 016:008 |
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For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah:
the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are
come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness:
her branches are stretched out, they
are gone over the sea. |
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Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah:
I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon,
and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy
summer fruits and for thy harvest is
fallen. |
| 016:010 |
|
And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and
in the vineyards there shall
be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread
out no wine in their presses;
I have made their vintage shouting to cease. |
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Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab,
and mine inward parts for Kirharesh. |
| 016:012 |
|
And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab
is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray;
but he shall not prevail. |
| 016:013 |
|
This is the word that the LORD
hath spoken concerning Moab since
that time. |
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|
But now the LORD hath spoken,
saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory
of Moab shall be contemned, with
all that great multitude; and
the remnant shall be very small
and feeble. |
| 017:001 |
|
The burden of Damascus. Behold,
Damascus is taken away from being
a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. |
| 017:002 |
|
The cities of Aroer are forsaken:
they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them
afraid. |
| 017:003 |
|
The fortress also shall cease from
Ephraim, and the kingdom
from Damascus, and the remnant
of Syria: they shall be as the glory of
the children of Israel,
saith the LORD of hosts. |
| 017:004 |
|
And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob
shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh
shall wax lean. |
| 017:005 |
|
And it shall be as when the harvestman
gathereth the corn, and reapeth
the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth
ears in the valley of Rephaim. |
| 017:006 |
|
Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree,
two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough,
four or five in the outmost fruitful
branches thereof, saith the LORD
God of Israel. |
| 017:007 |
|
At that day shall a man look
to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy
One of Israel. |
| 017:008 |
|
And he shall not look to the altars,
the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have
made, either the groves, or the images. |
| 017:009 |
|
In that day shall his strong cities
be as a forsaken bough,
and an uppermost branch, which they left
because of the children of Israel:
and there shall be desolation. |
| 017:010 |
|
Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation,
and hast not been mindful of the rock
of thy strength, therefore shalt thou
plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips: |
| 017:011 |
|
In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning
shalt thou make thy seed to flourish:
but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. |
| 017:012 |
|
Woe to the multitude of many
people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing
of nations, that make a rushing
like the rushing of mighty waters! |
| 017:013 |
|
The nations shall rush like
the rushing of many waters: but
God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased
as the chaff of the mountains
before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. |
| 017:014 |
|
And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning
he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them
that rob us. |
| 018:001 |
|
Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers
of Ethiopia: |
| 018:002 |
|
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea,
even in vessels of bulrushes
upon the waters, saying, Go,
ye swift messengers, to a nation
scattered and peeled, to a people terrible
from their beginning hitherto; a nation
meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers
have spoiled! |
| 018:003 |
|
All ye inhabitants of the world,
and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when
he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains;
and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. |
| 018:004 |
|
For so the LORD said unto me,
I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear
heat upon herbs, and like a cloud
of dew in the heat of harvest. |
| 018:005 |
|
For afore the harvest, when the bud
is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off
the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. |
| 018:006 |
|
They shall be left together unto the fowls
of the mountains, and to the
beasts of the earth:
and the fowls shall summer upon
them, and all the beasts of the
earth shall winter upon them. |
| 018:007 |
|
In that time shall the present be brought
unto the LORD of hosts of a people
scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible
from their beginning hitherto; a nation
meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers
have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD
of hosts, the mount Zion. |
| 019:001 |
|
The burden of Egypt. Behold, the
LORD rideth upon a swift cloud,
and shall come into Egypt: and the idols
of Egypt shall be moved at his presence,
and the heart of Egypt shall melt in
the midst of it. |
| 019:002 |
|
And I will set the Egyptians against
the Egyptians: and they shall fight
every one against his brother, and every
one against his neighbour; city against
city, and kingdom against
kingdom. |
| 019:003 |
|
And the spirit of Egypt
shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they
shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers,
and to them that have familiar spirits,
and to the wizards. |
| 019:004 |
|
And the Egyptians will I give over
into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce
king shall rule over them, saith the
Lord, the LORD
of hosts. |
| 019:005 |
|
And the waters shall fail from
the sea, and the river shall
be wasted and dried up. |
| 019:006 |
|
And they shall turn the rivers far
away; and the brooks of defence
shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds
and flags shall wither. |
| 019:007 |
|
The paper reeds by the brooks,
by the mouth of the brooks, and every
thing sown by the brooks, shall wither,
be driven away, and be no more. |
| 019:008 |
|
The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks
shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters
shall languish. |
| 019:009 |
|
Moreover they that work in fine flax,
and they that weave networks, shall be confounded. |
| 019:010 |
|
And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices
and ponds for fish. |
| 019:011 |
|
Surely the princes of Zoan
are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellers
of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of
the wise, the son of ancient
kings? |
| 019:012 |
|
Where are they? where are thy wise men?
and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD
of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. |
| 019:013 |
|
The princes of Zoan
are become fools, the princes of Noph
are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt,
even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. |
| 019:014 |
|
The LORD hath mingled a perverse
spirit in the midst thereof: and they
have caused Egypt to err in every work
thereof, as a drunken man staggereth
in his vomit. |
| 019:015 |
|
Neither shall there be any work for Egypt,
which the head or tail, branch or rush,
may do. |
| 019:016 |
|
In that day shall Egypt be like unto
women: and it shall be afraid and fear
because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD
of hosts, which he shaketh over it. |
| 019:017 |
|
And the land of Judah shall be a
terror unto Egypt,
every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself,
because of the counsel of the LORD of
hosts, which he hath determined against
it. |
| 019:018 |
|
In that day shall five cities in
the land of Egypt speak
the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD
of hosts; one shall be called,  The city of destruction.
(destruction the righteous.) |
| 019:019 |
|
In that day shall there be an altar
to the LORD in the midst of the land
of Egypt, and a pillar at the border
thereof to the LORD. |
| 019:020 |
|
And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD
of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they
shall cry unto the LORD because of the
oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour,
and a great one, and he shall deliver them. |
| 019:021 |
|
And the LORD shall be known to Egypt,
and the Egyptians shall know the LORD
in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto
the LORD, and perform it. |
| 019:022 |
|
And the LORD shall smite Egypt:
he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD,
and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them. |
| 019:023 |
|
In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt
to Assyria, and the Assyrian
shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian
into Assyria, and the Egyptians
shall serve with the Assyrians. |
| 019:024 |
|
In that day shall Israel be the third
with Egypt and with Assyria,
even a blessing in the midst of the land: |
| 019:025 |
|
Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless,
saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and
Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel
mine inheritance. |
| 020:001 |
|
In the year that Tartan came unto
Ashdod, (when Sargon
the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought
against Ashdod,
and took it; |
| 020:002 |
|
At the same time spake the LORD
by Isaiah the son of Amoz,
saying, Go and loose the sackcloth
from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so,
walking naked and barefoot. |
| 020:003 |
|
And the LORD said, Like as my servant
Isaiah hath walked naked
and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt
and upon Ethiopia; |
| 020:004 |
|
So shall the king of Assyria lead
away the Egyptians prisoners,
and the Ethiopians captives, young and
old, naked
and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered,
to the shame of Egypt. |
| 020:005 |
|
And they shall be afraid and ashamed
of Ethiopia their expectation, and of
Egypt their glory. |
| 020:006 |
|
And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our
expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria:
and how shall we escape? |
| 021:001 |
|
The burden of the desert of
the sea. As whirlwinds
in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert,
from a terrible land. |
| 021:002 |
|
A grievous vision is declared unto
me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously,
and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam:
besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. |
| 021:003 |
|
Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon
me, as the pangs of a woman that
travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed
at the seeing of it. |
| 021:004 |
|
My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure
hath he turned into fear unto
me. |
| 021:005 |
|
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower,
eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint
the shield. |
| 021:006 |
|
For thus hath the LORD said
unto me, Go, set a watchman,
let him declare what he seeth. |
| 021:007 |
|
And he saw a chariot with a
couple of horsemen, a chariot
of asses, and a chariot of camels;
and he hearkened diligently with much heed: |
| 021:008 |
|
And he cried, A lion: My lord,
I stand continually upon the watchtower
in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights: |
| 021:009 |
|
And, behold, here cometh a chariot
of men, with a couple of horsemen.
And he answered and said, Babylon
is fallen, is fallen;
and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground. |
| 021:010 |
|
O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of
the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel, have I declared unto
you. |
| 021:011 |
|
The burden of Dumah. He calleth
to me out of Seir, Watchman,
what of the night? Watchman,
what of the night? |
| 021:012 |
|
The watchman said, The morning
cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come. |
| 021:013 |
|
The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye
travelling companies of Dedanim. |
| 021:014 |
|
The inhabitants of the land of Tema
brought water
to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled. |
| 021:015 |
|
For they fled from the swords,
from the drawn sword, and from
the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. |
| 021:016 |
|
For thus hath the LORD said
unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all
the glory of Kedar shall fail: |
| 021:017 |
|
And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty
men of the children
of Kedar, shall be diminished:
for the LORD God of Israel
hath spoken it. |
| 022:001 |
|
The burden of the valley of vision.
What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? |
| 022:002 |
|
Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city: thy slain
men are not slain with the sword,
nor dead in battle. |
| 022:003 |
|
All thy rulers are fled together,
they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together,
which have fled from far. |
| 022:004 |
|
Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly,
labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter
of my people. |
| 022:005 |
|
For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the
Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision,
breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains. |
| 022:006 |
|
And Elam bare the quiver with chariots
of men and horsemen,
and Kir uncovered
the shield. |
| 022:007 |
|
And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots,
and the horsemen shall set themselves
in array at the gate. |
| 022:008 |
|
And he discovered the covering
of Judah, and thou didst look in that
day to the armour of the house of the forest. |
| 022:009 |
|
Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many:
and ye gathered together the waters
of the lower pool. |
| 022:010 |
|
And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem,
and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall. |
| 022:011 |
|
Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water
of the old pool: but ye have
not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned
it long ago. |
| 022:012 |
|
And in that day did the Lord
GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness,
and to girding with sackcloth: |
| 022:013 |
|
And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen,
and killing sheep, eating flesh,
and drinking wine: let us eat
and drink; for to morrow we shall die. |
| 022:014 |
|
And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD
of hosts, Surely this iniquity
shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord
GOD of hosts. |
| 022:015 |
|
Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts,
Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna,
which is over the house, and say, |
| 022:016 |
|
What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee
out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and
that graveth an habitation for himself
in a rock? |
| 022:017 |
|
Behold, the LORD will carry thee
away with a mighty captivity, and will
surely cover thee. |
| 022:018 |
|
He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country:
there shalt thou die, and there the chariots
of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's
house. |
| 022:019 |
|
And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he
pull thee down. |
| 022:020 |
|
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim
the son of Hilkiah: |
| 022:021 |
|
And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen
him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government
into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and to the house of Judah. |
| 022:022 |
|
And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he
shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. |
| 022:023 |
|
And I will fasten him as a nail in
a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne
to his father's house. |
| 022:024 |
|
And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring
and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to
all the vessels of flagons. |
| 022:025 |
|
In that day, saith the LORD of hosts,
shall the nail that is fastened in the
sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon
it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath
spoken it. |
| 023:001 |
|
The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye
ships of Tarshish; for it is
laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of
Chittim it is revealed to them. |
| 023:002 |
|
Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants
of Zidon, that pass over the
sea, have replenished. |
| 023:003 |
|
And by great waters the seed
of Sihor, the harvest of the
river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations. |
| 023:004 |
|
Be thou ashamed, O Zidon:
for the sea hath spoken,
even the strength of the sea,
saying, I travail not, nor bring forth
children, neither do I nourish
up young men, nor bring up virgins. |
| 023:005 |
|
As at the report concerning Egypt,
so shall they be sorely pained
at the report of Tyre. |
| 023:006 |
|
Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl,
ye inhabitants of the isle. |
| 023:007 |
|
Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity
is of ancient days? her own feet shall
carry her afar off to sojourn. |
| 023:008 |
|
Who hath taken this counsel against
Tyre, the crowning
city, whose merchants are princes,
whose traffickers are the honourable
of the earth? |
| 023:009 |
|
The LORD of hosts hath purposed it,
to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable
of the earth. |
| 023:010 |
|
Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter
of Tarshish: there is no more strength. |
| 023:011 |
|
He stretched out his hand over the sea,
he shook the kingdoms: the LORD
hath given a commandment against the merchant
city, to destroy the strong holds thereof. |
| 023:012 |
|
And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin,
daughter of Zidon:
arise, pass over to Chittim; there also
shalt thou have no rest. |
| 023:013 |
|
Behold the land of the Chaldeans;
this people was not, till the Assyrian
founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness:
they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought
it to ruin. |
| 023:014 |
|
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your
strength is laid waste. |
| 023:015 |
|
And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre
shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after
the end of seventy years shall Tyre
sing as an harlot. |
| 023:016 |
|
Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot
that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest
be remembered. |
| 023:017 |
|
And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD
will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to
her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms
of the world upon the face
of the earth. |
| 023:018 |
|
And her merchandise and her hire
shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall
not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise
shall be for them that dwell before the LORD,
to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing. |
| 024:001 |
|
Behold, the LORD maketh the
earth empty, and maketh it waste,
and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. |
| 024:002 |
|
And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the
servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as
with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower;
as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. |
| 024:003 |
|
The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD
hath spoken this word. |
| 024:004 |
|
The earth mourneth and fadeth away,
the world languisheth and fadeth away,
the haughty people
of the earth do languish. |
| 024:005 |
|
The earth also is defiled under the
inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance,
broken the everlasting covenant. |
| 024:006 |
|
Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth,
and they that dwell therein are desolate:
therefore the inhabitants of the earth
are burned, and few men left. |
| 024:007 |
|
The new wine mourneth, the
vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. |
| 024:008 |
|
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth,
the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. |
| 024:009 |
|
They shall not drink wine with
a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. |
| 024:010 |
|
The city of confusion is broken down:
every house is shut up, that no man may
come in. |
| 024:011 |
|
There is a crying for wine
in the streets; all joy is darkened,
the mirth of the land is gone. |
| 024:012 |
|
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. |
| 024:013 |
|
When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people,
there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree,
and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done. |
| 024:014 |
|
They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty
of the LORD, they shall cry aloud
from the sea. |
| 024:015 |
|
Wherefore glorify ye the LORD
in the fires, even the name of the LORD
God of Israel in the isles of
the sea. |
| 024:016 |
|
From the uttermost part of the earth
have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my
leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous
dealers have dealt treacherously; yea,
the treacherous dealers have dealt very
treacherously. |
| 024:017 |
|
Fear, and the pit,
and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. |
| 024:018 |
|
And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the
fear shall fall into the pit;
and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit
shall be taken in the snare: for the windows
from on high are open, and the foundations
of the earth do shake. |
| 024:019 |
|
The earth is utterly broken
down, the earth is clean
dissolved, the earth is moved
exceedingly. |
| 024:020 |
|
The earth shall reel to and
fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage;
and the transgression thereof
shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. |
| 024:021 |
|
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD
shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings
of the earth upon the earth. |
| 024:022 |
|
And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners
are gathered in the pit, and shall be
shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited. |
| 024:023 |
|
Then the moon shall be confounded,
and the sun ashamed, when the
LORD of hosts shall reign in
mount Zion, and in Jerusalem,
and before his ancients gloriously. |
| 025:001 |
|
O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt
thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful
things; thy counsels of old
are faithfulness and truth. |
| 025:002 |
|
For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced
city a ruin: a palace of strangers to
be no city; it shall never be built. |
| 025:003 |
|
Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible
nations shall fear
thee. |
| 025:004 |
|
For thou hast been a strength to
the poor, a strength to the needy in
his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast
of the terrible ones is as a storm against
the wall. |
| 025:005 |
|
Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers,
as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud:
the branch of the terrible
ones shall be brought low. |
| 025:006 |
|
And in this mountain shall
the LORD of hosts make unto all
people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things
full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. |
| 025:007 |
|
And he will destroy in this mountain
the face of the covering
cast over all people, and the vail that
is spread over all nations. |
| 025:008 |
|
He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord
GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces;
and the rebuke of his people shall he
take away from off all the earth: for
the LORD hath spoken it. |
| 025:009 |
|
And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited
for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD;
we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. |
| 025:010 |
|
For in this mountain shall the hand
of the LORD rest, and Moab
shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. |
| 025:011 |
|
And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that
swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their
pride together with the spoils of their hands. |
| 025:012 |
|
And the fortress of the high
fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground,
even to the dust. |
| 026:001 |
|
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah;
We have a strong city; salvation
will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. |
| 026:002 |
|
Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation
which keepeth the truth may enter in. |
| 026:003 |
|
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because
he trusteth in thee. |
| 026:004 |
|
Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for
in the LORD JEHOVAH
is everlasting strength: |
| 026:005 |
|
For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth
it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground;
he bringeth it even to the dust. |
| 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: thou, most upright, dost weigh the
path of the just. |
| 026:008 |
|
Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD,
have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to
the remembrance of thee. |
| 026:009 |
|
With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit
within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth,
the inhabitants of the world will learn
righteousness. |
| 026:010 |
|
Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness:
in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold
the majesty of the LORD. |
| 026:011 |
|
LORD, when thy hand is lifted
up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed
for their envy at the people; yea, the fire
of thine enemies shall devour
them. |
| 026:012 |
|
LORD, thou wilt ordain peace
for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us. |
| 026:013 |
|
O LORD our God, other lords
beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention
of thy name. |
| 026:014 |
|
They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not
rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their
memory to perish. |
| 026:015 |
|
Thou hast increased the nation,
O LORD, thou hast increased the
nation: thou art glorified: thou
hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth. |
| 026:016 |
|
LORD, in trouble have they
visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. |
| 026:017 |
|
Like as a woman with child,
that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out
in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD. |
| 026:018 |
|
We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought
forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth;
neither have the inhabitants of the world
fallen. |
| 026:019 |
|
Thy dead men shall live, together
with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust:
for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth
shall cast out the dead. |
| 026:020 |
|
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about
thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation
be overpast. |
| 026:021 |
|
For, behold, the LORD cometh out
of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth
for their iniquity: the earth
also shall disclose her blood, and shall
no more cover her slain. |
| 027:001 |
|
In that day the LORD with his
sore and great and strong sword
shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent,
even leviathan that crooked serpent;
and he shall slay the dragon
that is in the sea. |
| 027:002 |
|
In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard
of red wine. |
| 027:003 |
|
I the LORD do keep it; I will
water it every moment: lest any
hurt it, I will keep it night and day. |
| 027:004 |
|
Fury is not in me: who would set the briers
and thorns against
me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together. |
| 027:005 |
|
Or let him take hold of my strength,
that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me. |
| 027:006 |
|
He shall cause them that come of Jacob
to take root: Israel
shall blossom and bud,
and fill the face of the world
with fruit. |
| 027:007 |
|
Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain
according to the slaughter of
them that are slain by him? |
| 027:008 |
|
In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth
his rough wind in the day of the east wind. |
| 027:009 |
|
By this therefore shall the iniquity
of Jacob be purged; and this is all the
fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh
all the stones of the altar
as chalkstones that are beaten in
sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. |
| 027:010 |
|
Yet the defenced city shall be desolate,
and the habitation forsaken, and left
like a wilderness: there shall the calf
feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches
thereof. |
| 027:011 |
|
When the boughs thereof are withered,
they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire:
for it is a people of no understanding:
therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them
will shew them no favour. |
| 027:012 |
|
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD
shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream
of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one
by one, O ye children of Israel. |
| 027:013 |
|
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet
shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of
Assyria, and the outcasts
in the land of Egypt, and shall worship
the LORD in the holy
mount at Jerusalem. |
| 028:001 |
|
Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim,
whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the
fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! |
| 028:002 |
|
Behold, the Lord hath a mighty
and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as
a flood of mighty waters
overflowing, shall cast down to the earth
with the hand. |
| 028:003 |
|
The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim,
shall be trodden under feet: |
| 028:004 |
|
And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be
a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit
before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in
his hand he eateth it up. |
| 028:005 |
|
In that day shall the LORD
of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the
residue of his people, |
| 028:006 |
|
And for a spirit of judgment
to him that sitteth in judgment, and
for strength to them that turn the battle
to the gate. |
| 028:007 |
|
But they also have erred through wine,
and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred
through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine,
they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision,
they stumble in judgment. |
| 028:008 |
|
For all tables are full of vomit
and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. |
| 028:009 |
|
Whom shall he teach knowledge? and
whom shall he make to understand doctrine?
them that are weaned from the milk, and
drawn from the breasts. |
| 028:010 |
|
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line,
line upon line; here a little, and there a little: |
| 028:011 |
|
For with stammering lips and another
tongue will he speak
to this people. |
| 028:012 |
|
To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to
rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. |
| 028:013 |
|
But the word of the LORD was
unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line,
line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go,
and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. |
| 028:014 |
|
Wherefore hear the word of the LORD,
ye scornful men, that rule
this people which is in Jerusalem. |
| 028:015 |
|
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant
with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge
shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our
refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: |
| 028:016 |
|
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD,
Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation
a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation:
he that believeth shall not make haste. |
| 028:017 |
|
Judgment also will I lay to
the line, and righteousness to
the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the
waters shall overflow the hiding
place. |
| 028:018 |
|
And your covenant with death
shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when
the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down
by it. |
| 028:019 |
|
From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning
by morning shall it pass over, by day
and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand
the report. |
| 028:020 |
|
For the bed is shorter than that a man
can stretch himself on it: and the covering
narrower than that he can wrap himself
in it. |
| 028:021 |
|
For the LORD shall rise up
as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that
he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange
act. |
| 028:022 |
|
Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for
I have heard from the Lord GOD
of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth. |
| 028:023 |
|
Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. |
| 028:024 |
|
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods
of his ground? |
| 028:025 |
|
When he hath made plain the face
thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast
in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place? |
| 028:026 |
|
For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. |
| 028:027 |
|
For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a
cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a
staff, and the cummin with a rod. |
| 028:028 |
|
Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor
break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen. |
| 028:029 |
|
This also cometh forth from the LORD
of hosts, which is wonderful
in counsel, and excellent in working. |
| 029:001 |
|
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let
them kill sacrifices. |
| 029:002 |
|
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow:
and it shall be unto me as Ariel. |
| 029:003 |
|
And I will camp against thee round
about, and will lay siege against thee
with a mount, and I will raise forts against
thee. |
| 029:004 |
|
And thou shalt be brought down, and
shalt speak out of the ground,
and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one
that hath a familiar spirit,
out of the ground, and thy speech shall
whisper out of the dust. |
| 029:005 |
|
Moreover the multitude of thy
strangers shall be like small
dust, and the multitude of the
terrible ones shall be as chaff
that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly. |
| 029:006 |
|
Thou shalt be visited of the LORD
of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake,
and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring
fire. |
| 029:007 |
|
And the multitude of all the nations
that fight against
Ariel, even all that fight against
her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream
of a night vision. |
| 029:008 |
|
It shall even be as when an hungry man
dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but
he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man
dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but
he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the
multitude of all the nations
be, that fight against
mount Zion. |
| 029:009 |
|
Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken,
but not with wine; they stagger,
but not with strong drink. |
| 029:010 |
|
For the LORD hath poured out upon
you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath
closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers,
the seers hath he covered. |
| 029:011 |
|
And the vision of all is become unto
you as the words of a book that is sealed,
which men deliver to one that is learned,
saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: |
| 029:012 |
|
And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this,
I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned. |
| 029:013 |
|
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch
as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour
me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear
toward me is taught by the precept of men: |
| 029:014 |
|
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people,
even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men
shall perish, and the understanding of
their prudent men shall be hid. |
| 029:015 |
|
Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD,
and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth
us? |
| 029:016 |
|
Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's
clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the
thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding? |
| 029:017 |
|
Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon
shall be turned into a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field shall be esteemed
as a forest? |
| 029:018 |
|
And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes
of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. |
| 029:019 |
|
The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD,
and the poor among men shall rejoice
in the Holy One
of Israel. |
| 029:020 |
|
For the terrible one is brought
to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity
are cut off: |
| 029:021 |
|
That make a man an offender
for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn
aside the just for a thing of nought. |
| 029:022 |
|
Therefore thus saith the LORD, who
redeemed Abraham,
concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob
shall not now be ashamed, neither shall
his face now wax
pale. |
| 029:023 |
|
But when he seeth his children,
the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name,
and sanctify the Holy One
of Jacob, and shall fear
the God of Israel. |
| 029:024 |
|
They also that erred in spirit shall
come to understanding, and they that murmured
shall learn doctrine. |
| 030:001 |
|
Woe to the rebellious children,
saith the LORD, that take counsel, but
not of me; and that cover with a covering,
but not of my spirit, that they may add
sin to sin: |
| 030:002 |
|
That walk to go down into Egypt,
and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen
themselves in the strength of Pharaoh,
and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! |
| 030:003 |
|
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh
be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt
your confusion. |
| 030:004 |
|
For his princes were at Zoan,
and his ambassadors came to Hanes. |
| 030:005 |
|
They were all ashamed of a
people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame,
and also a reproach. |
| 030:006 |
|
The burden of the beasts of the south:
into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old
lion, the viper
and fiery flying
serpent, they will carry their riches
upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures
upon the bunches of camels, to a people
that shall not profit them. |
| 030:007 |
|
For the Egyptians shall help in vain,
and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength
is to sit still. |
| 030:008 |
|
Now go, write it before them in a table,
and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and
ever: |
| 030:009 |
|
That this is a rebellious people,
lying children, children
that will not hear the law of the LORD: |
| 030:010 |
|
Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us
right things, speak unto us smooth things,
prophesy deceits: |
| 030:011 |
|
Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy
One of Israel
to cease from before us. |
| 030:012 |
|
Wherefore thus saith the Holy
One of Israel,
Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness,
and stay thereon: |
| 030:013 |
|
Therefore this iniquity shall
be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose
breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. |
| 030:014 |
|
And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is
broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found
in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire
from the hearth, or to take water
withal out of the pit. |
| 030:015 |
|
For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy
One of Israel;
In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall
be your strength: and ye would not. |
| 030:016 |
|
But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee:
and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you
be swift. |
| 030:017 |
|
One thousand shall flee at the rebuke
of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon
the top of a mountain, and as an ensign
on an hill. |
| 030:018 |
|
And therefore will the LORD
wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted,
that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD
is a God of judgment: blessed
are all they that wait for him. |
| 030:019 |
|
For the people shall dwell in Zion
at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep
no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when
he shall hear it, he will answer thee. |
| 030:020 |
|
And though the Lord give you the bread
of adversity, and the water of affliction,
yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall
see thy teachers: |
| 030:021 |
|
And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way,
walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the
left. |
| 030:022 |
|
Ye shall defile also the covering
of thy graven images of silver, and the
ornament of thy molten images of gold:
thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee
hence. |
| 030:023 |
|
Then shall he give the rain of thy seed,
that thou shalt sow the ground
withal; and bread of the increase of the earth,
and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle
feed in large pastures. |
| 030:024 |
|
The oxen likewise and the young
asses that ear the ground shall
eat clean provender, which hath
been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. |
| 030:025 |
|
And there shall be upon every high mountain,
and upon every high hill, rivers
and streams of waters
in the day of the great slaughter,
when the towers fall. |
| 030:026 |
|
Moreover the light of the moon
shall be as the light of the
sun, and the light of the
sun shall be sevenfold, as
the light of seven days,
in the day that the LORD
bindeth up the breach
of his people, and healeth
the stroke of their wound. |
| 030:027 |
|
Behold, the name of the LORD cometh
from far, burning with his anger, and
the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue
as a devouring fire: |
| 030:028 |
|
And his breath, as an overflowing stream,
shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations
with the sieve of vanity:
and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people,
causing them to err. |
| 030:029 |
|
Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy
solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe
to come into the mountain of
the LORD, to the mighty
One of Israel. |
| 030:030 |
|
And the LORD shall cause his
glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm,
with the indignation of his anger,
and with the flame of a devouring
fire, with scattering, and tempest,
and hailstones. |
| 030:031 |
|
For through the voice of the LORD
shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which
smote with a rod. |
| 030:032 |
|
And in every place where the grounded
staff shall pass, which the LORD shall
lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets
and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight
with it. |
| 030:033 |
|
For Tophet is ordained of old;
yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the
pile thereof is fire and much
wood; the breath of the LORD,
like a stream of brimstone, doth
kindle it. |
| 031:001 |
|
Woe to them that go down to Egypt
for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots,
because they are many; and in horsemen,
because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy
One of Israel,
neither seek the LORD! |
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Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words:
but will arise against the house of the
evildoers, and against the help of them
that work iniquity. |
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Now the Egyptians are men,
and not God; and their horses flesh,
and not spirit. When the LORD
shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen
shall fall down, and they all shall fail together. |
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For thus hath the LORD spoken unto
me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring
on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds
is called forth against him, he will
not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself
for the noise of them: so shall the LORD
of hosts come down to fight for mount
Zion, and for the hill thereof. |
| 031:005 |
|
As birds flying, so will the LORD
of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending
also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it. |
| 031:006 |
|
Turn ye unto him from whom the children
of Israel have deeply revolted. |
| 031:007 |
|
For in that day every man shall cast
away his idols of silver,
and his idols of gold,
which your own hands have made unto you for a sin. |
| 031:008 |
|
Then shall the Assyrian fall with
the sword, not of a mighty
man; and the sword,
not of a mean man,
shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword,
and his young men shall be discomfited. |
| 031:009 |
|
And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear,
and his princes shall be afraid of the
ensign, saith the LORD,
whose fire is in Zion,
and his furnace in Jerusalem. |
| 032:001 |
|
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness,
and princes shall rule
in judgment. |
| 032:002 |
|
And a man shall be as an hiding place
from the wind, and a covert from the
tempest; as rivers of water
in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock
in a weary land. |
| 032:003 |
|
And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them
that hear shall hearken. |
| 032:004 |
|
The heart also of the rash shall
understand knowledge,
and the tongue of the stammerers
shall be ready to speak plainly. |
| 032:005 |
|
The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said
to be bountiful. |
| 032:006 |
|
For the vile person will speak villany,
and his heart will work iniquity, to practise
hypocrisy, and to utter error against
the LORD, to make empty the soul of the
hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. |
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The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to
destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh
right. |
| 032:008 |
|
But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall
he stand. |
| 032:009 |
|
Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters;
give ear unto my speech. |
| 032:010 |
|
Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the
vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. |
| 032:011 |
|
Tremble, ye women that are
at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare,
and gird sackcloth upon your
loins. |
| 032:012 |
|
They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful
vine. |
| 032:013 |
|
Upon the land of my people shall
come up thorns and briers;
yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: |
| 032:014 |
|
Because the palaces shall be forsaken;
the multitude of the city shall
be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild
asses, a pasture of flocks; |
| 032:015 |
|
Until the spirit be poured upon us
from on high, and the wilderness be a
fruitful field, and the fruitful
field be counted for a forest. |
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|
Then judgment shall dwell in
the wilderness, and righteousness
remain in the fruitful field. |
| 032:017 |
|
And the work of righteousness
shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness
quietness and assurance for ever. |
| 032:018 |
|
And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings,
and in quiet resting places; |
| 032:019 |
|
When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be
low in a low place. |
| 032:020 |
|
Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters,
that send forth thither the feet of the ox
and the ass. |
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|
Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously,
and they dealt not treacherously with
thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt
make an end to deal treacherously, they
shall deal treacherously with thee. |
| 033:002 |
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O LORD, be gracious unto us;
we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning,
our salvation also in the time
of trouble. |
| 033:003 |
|
At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself
the nations were scattered. |
| 033:004 |
|
And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller:
as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them. |
| 033:005 |
|
The LORD is exalted; for he
dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion
with judgment and righteousness. |
| 033:006 |
|
And wisdom and knowledge shall be
the stability of thy times, and strength
of salvation: the fear
of the LORD is his treasure. |
| 033:007 |
|
Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace
shall weep bitterly. |
| 033:008 |
|
The highways lie waste, the wayfaring
man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,
he hath despised the cities, he regardeth
no man. |
| 033:009 |
|
The earth mourneth and languisheth:
Lebanon is ashamed
and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness;
and Bashan and Carmel shake off their
fruits. |
| 033:010 |
|
Now will I rise, saith the LORD;
now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself. |
| 033:011 |
|
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath,
as fire, shall devour you. |
| 033:012 |
|
And the people shall be as the burnings
of lime: as thorns cut up shall they
be burned in the fire. |
| 033:013 |
|
Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near,
acknowledge my might. |
| 033:014 |
|
The sinners in Zion are afraid;
fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with
the devouring fire?
who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? |
| 033:015 |
|
He that walketh righteously,
and speaketh uprightly;
he that despiseth the gain
of oppressions, that shaketh his hands
from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood,
and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; |
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|
He shall dwell on high: his place of defence
shall be the munitions of rocks: bread
shall be given him; his waters shall
be sure. |
| 033:017 |
|
Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land
that is very far off. |
| 033:018 |
|
Thine heart shall meditate terror.
Where is the scribe? where is the receiver?
where is he that counted the towers? |
| 033:019 |
|
Thou shalt not see a fierce people,
a people of a deeper speech than thou
canst perceive; of a stammering tongue,
that thou canst not understand. |
| 033:020 |
|
Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities:
thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet
habitation, a tabernacle that shall not
be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall
any of the cords thereof be broken. |
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|
But there the glorious LORD
will be unto us a place of broad rivers
and streams; wherein shall go
no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. |
| 033:022 |
|
For the LORD is our judge,
the LORD is our lawgiver, the
LORD is our king; he will save
us. |
| 033:023 |
|
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen
their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil
divided; the lame take the prey. |
| 033:024 |
|
And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein
shall be forgiven their iniquity. |
| 034:001 |
|
Come near, ye nations, to hear; and
hearken, ye people: let the earth
hear, and all that is therein; the world,
and all things that come forth of it. |
| 034:002 |
|
For the indignation of the LORD
is upon all nations, and his
fury upon all their armies: he
hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. |
| 034:003 |
|
Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their
carcases, and the mountains shall be
melted with their blood. |
| 034:004 |
|
And all the host of heaven shall
be dissolved, and the heavens shall be
rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth
off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree. |
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|
For my sword shall be bathed
in heaven: behold, it shall come
down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. |
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|
The sword of the LORD
is filled with blood, it is made fat
with fatness, and with the blood of lambs
and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams:
for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah,
and a great slaughter in the land of
Idumea. |
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|
And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls;
and their land shall be soaked with blood,
and their dust made fat with fatness. |
| 034:008 |
|
For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance,
and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion. |
| 034:009 |
|
And the streams thereof shall
be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land
thereof shall become burning pitch. |
| 034:010 |
|
It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke
thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie
waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. |
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|
But the cormorant and the bittern
shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch
out upon it the line of confusion, and
the stones of emptiness. |
| 034:012 |
|
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom,
but none shall be there, and all her princes
shall be nothing. |
| 034:013 |
|
And thorns shall come up in her palaces,
nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation
of dragons, and a court for owls. |
| 034:014 |
|
The wild beasts of the desert
shall also meet with the wild beasts
of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl
also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. |
| 034:015 |
|
There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather
under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one
with her mate. |
| 034:016 |
|
Seek ye out of the book of the LORD,
and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my
mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit
it hath gathered them. |
| 034:017 |
|
And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto
them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation
shall they dwell therein. |
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|
The wilderness and the solitary place
shall be glad for them; and the desert
shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. |
| 035:002 |
|
It shall blossom abundantly, and
rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon
shall be given unto it, the excellency
of Carmel and Sharon,
they shall see the glory of the LORD,
and the excellency of our God. |
| 035:003 |
|
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and
confirm the feeble knees. |
| 035:004 |
|
Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear
not: behold, your God will come with vengeance,
even God with a recompence; he will come and save you. |
| 035:005 |
|
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf
shall be unstopped. |
| 035:006 |
|
Then shall the lame man leap as an
hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing:
for in the wilderness shall waters
break out, and streams in the desert. |
| 035:007 |
|
And the parched ground shall become
a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water:
in the habitation of dragons, where each
lay, shall be grass with reeds
and rushes. |
| 035:008 |
|
And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The
way of holiness; the unclean
shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men,
though fools, shall not err therein. |
| 035:009 |
|
No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon,
it shall not be found there; but the redeemed
shall walk there: |
| 035:010 |
|
And the ransomed of the LORD
shall return, and come to Zion
with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy
and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. |
| 036:001 |
|
Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah,
that Sennacherib king of Assyria
came up against all the defenced
cities of Judah,
and took them. |
| 036:002 |
|
And the king of Assyria sent
Rabshakeh from Lachish
to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah
with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the
highway of the fuller's field. |
| 036:003 |
|
Then came forth unto him Eliakim,
Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna
the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the
recorder. |
| 036:004 |
|
And Rabshakeh said unto them,
Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus
saith the great king, the king of Assyria,
What confidence is this wherein thou trustest? |
| 036:005 |
|
I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength
for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against
me? |
| 036:006 |
|
Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt;
whereon if a man lean, it will go into
his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt
to all that trust in him. |
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|
But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD
our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars
Hezekiah hath taken away, and
said to Judah and to Jerusalem,
Ye shall worship before this
altar? |
| 036:008 |
|
Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria,
and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part
to set riders upon them. |
| 036:009 |
|
How then wilt thou turn away the face
of one captain of the least of my master's
servants, and put thy trust on Egypt
for chariots and for horsemen? |
| 036:010 |
|
And am I now come up without the LORD
against this land to destroy it? the
LORD said unto me, Go up against
this land, and destroy it. |
| 036:011 |
|
Then said Eliakim and Shebna
and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak,
I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian
language; for we understand it: and speak
not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people
that are on the wall. |
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|
But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master
sent me to thy master and to thee to speak
these words? hath he not sent me to the men
that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own
piss with you? |
| 036:013 |
|
Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried
with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of
the great king, the king of Assyria. |
| 036:014 |
|
Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah
deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you. |
| 036:015 |
|
Neither let Hezekiah make you
trust in the LORD, saying, The
LORD will surely deliver us:
this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. |
| 036:016 |
|
Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus
saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement
with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and
every one of his fig tree, and drink
ye every one the waters of his own cistern; |
| 036:017 |
|
Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land
of corn and wine, a land of bread
and vineyards. |
| 036:018 |
|
Beware lest Hezekiah persuade
you, saying, the LORD will deliver
us. Hath any of the gods of the nations
delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? |
| 036:019 |
|
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim?
and have they delivered Samaria
out of my hand? |
| 036:020 |
|
Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered
their land out of my hand, that the LORD
should deliver Jerusalem out
of my hand? |
| 036:021 |
|
But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's
commandment was, saying, Answer him not. |
| 036:022 |
|
Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah,
that was over the household, and Shebna
the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph,
the recorder, to Hezekiah with their
clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh. |
| 037:001 |
|
And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah
heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered
himself with sackcloth,
and went into the house of the LORD. |
| 037:002 |
|
And he sent Eliakim, who was over
the household, and Shebna the scribe,
and the elders of the priests covered
with sackcloth, unto Isaiah
the prophet the son of Amoz. |
| 037:003 |
|
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah,
This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children
are come to the birth, and there is not strength
to bring forth. |
| 037:004 |
|
It may be the LORD thy God
will hear the words of Rabshakeh,
whom the king of Assyria his master
hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which
the LORD thy God hath heard:
wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant
that is left. |
| 037:005 |
|
So the servants of king Hezekiah
came to Isaiah. |
| 037:006 |
|
And Isaiah said unto them,
Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the LORD,
Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants
of the king of Assyria have blasphemed
me. |
| 037:007 |
|
Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and
return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword
in his own land. |
| 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 |
|
And he heard say concerning Tirhakah
king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to
make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah,
saying, |
| 037:010 |
|
Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah
king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God,
in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem
shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. |
| 037:011 |
|
Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria
have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered? |
| 037:012 |
|
Have the gods of the nations
delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and
Rezeph, and the children of Eden
which were in Telassar? |
| 037:013 |
|
Where is the king of Hamath,
and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim,
Hena, and Ivah? |
| 037:014 |
|
And Hezekiah received the letter
from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah
went up unto the house of the LORD,
and spread it before the LORD. |
| 037:015 |
|
And Hezekiah prayed unto the
LORD, saying, |
| 037:016 |
|
O LORD of hosts, God of Israel,
that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all
the kingdoms of the earth:
thou hast made heaven and earth. |
| 037:017 |
|
Incline thine ear, O LORD,
and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD,
and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib,
which hath sent to reproach the living God. |
| 037:018 |
|
Of a truth, LORD, the kings
of Assyria have laid waste all
the nations, and their countries, |
| 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, O LORD our God, save
us from his hand, that all the kingdoms
of the earth may know that thou art the
LORD, even thou only. |
| 037:021 |
|
Then Isaiah the son of Amoz
sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith
the LORD God of Israel,
Whereas thou hast prayed to me against
Sennacherib king of Assyria: |
| 037:022 |
|
This is the word which the LORD hath
spoken concerning him; The virgin, the
daughter of Zion,
hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter
of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at
thee. |
| 037:023 |
|
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed?
and against whom hast thou exalted thy
voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against
the Holy One
of Israel. |
| 037:024 |
|
By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord,
and hast said, By the multitude of my
chariots am I come up to the height of
the mountains, to the sides
of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall
cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees
thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his
Carmel. |
| 037:025 |
|
I have digged, and drunk water;
and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers
of the besieged places. |
| 037:026 |
|
Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient
times, that I have formed it? now have I brought
it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced
cities into ruinous heaps. |
| 037:027 |
|
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded:
they were as the grass of the field,
and as the green herb, as the grass on
the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up. |
| 037:028 |
|
But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against
me. |
| 037:029 |
|
Because thy rage against me, and thy
tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and
my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest. |
| 037:030 |
|
And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth
of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third
year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards,
and eat the fruit thereof. |
| 037:031 |
|
And the remnant that is escaped
of the house of Judah shall again take
root downward, and bear fruit
upward: |
| 037:032 |
|
For out of Jerusalem shall go forth
a remnant, and they that escape
out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD
of hosts shall do this. |
| 037:033 |
|
Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning
the king of Assyria, He shall not come
into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields,
nor cast a bank against it. |
| 037:034 |
|
By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not
come into this city, saith the LORD. |
| 037:035 |
|
For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my
servant David's sake. |
| 037:036 |
|
Then the angel of the LORD
went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians
a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning,
behold, they were all dead corpses. |
| 037:037 |
|
So Sennacherib king of Assyria
departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. |
| 037:038 |
|
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping
in the house of Nisroch his god, that
Adrammelech and Sharezer
his sons smote him with the sword; and
they escaped into the land of Armenia:
and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his
stead. |
| 038:001 |
|
In those days was Hezekiah
sick unto death. And Isaiah the
prophet the son of Amoz came unto
him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD,
Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live. |
| 038:002 |
|
Then Hezekiah turned his face
toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, |
| 038:003 |
|
And said, Remember now, O LORD,
I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart,
and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah
wept sore. |
| 038:004 |
|
Then came the word of the LORD
to Isaiah, saying, |
| 038:005 |
|
Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus
saith the LORD, the God of David
thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I
will add unto thy days fifteen years. |
| 038:006 |
|
And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of
Assyria: and I will defend this
city. |
| 038:007 |
|
And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD,
that the LORD will do this thing
that he hath spoken; |
| 038:008 |
|
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone
down in the sun dial of Ahaz,
ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees
it was gone down. |
| 038:009 |
|
The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah,
when he had been sick, and was recovered
of his sickness: |
| 038:010 |
|
I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the
grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. |
| 038:011 |
|
I said, I shall not see the LORD,
even the LORD, in the land of the living:
I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants
of the world. |
| 038:012 |
|
Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I
have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness:
from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. |
| 038:013 |
|
I reckoned till morning, that,
as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt
thou make an end of me. |
| 038:014 |
|
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove:
mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD,
I am oppressed; undertake for me. |
| 038:015 |
|
What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself
hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness
of my soul. |
| 038:016 |
|
O LORD, by these things men
live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit:
so wilt thou recover me, and make me
to live. |
| 038:017 |
|
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness:
but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit
of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. |
| 038:018 |
|
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they
that go down into the pit cannot
hope for thy truth. |
| 038:019 |
|
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the
father to the children shall
make known thy truth. |
| 038:020 |
|
The LORD was ready to save
me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the
days of our life in the house of the LORD. |
| 038:021 |
|
For Isaiah had said, Let them take
a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover. |
| 038:022 |
|
Hezekiah also had said, What
is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD? |
| 039:001 |
|
At that time Merodach-baladan, the
son of Baladan, king of Babylon,
sent letters and a present to Hezekiah:
for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered. |
| 039:002 |
|
And Hezekiah was glad of them, and
shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver,
and the gold, and the spices, and the
precious ointment, and all the house
of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures:
there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah
shewed them not. |
| 039:003 |
|
Then came Isaiah the prophet
unto king Hezekiah, and said
unto him, What said these men?
and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah
said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon. |
| 039:004 |
|
Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah
answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my
treasures that I have not shewed them. |
| 039:005 |
|
Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah,
Hear the word of the LORD of
hosts: |
| 039:006 |
|
Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which
thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to
Babylon: nothing shall be left,
saith the LORD. |
| 039:007 |
|
And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget,
shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king
of Babylon. |
| 039:008 |
|
Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah,
Good is the word of the LORD
which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and
truth in my days. |
| 040:001 |
|
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. |
| 040:002 |
|
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem,
and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity
is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD's
hand double for all her sins. |
| 040:003 |
|
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make
straight in the desert a highway for
our God. |
| 040:004 |
|
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain
and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and
the rough places plain: |
| 040:005 |
|
And the glory of the LORD shall
be revealed, and all flesh shall
see it together: for the mouth of the LORD
hath spoken it. |
| 040:006 |
|
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh
is grass, and all the goodliness thereof
is as the flower of the field: |
| 040:007 |
|
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth:
because the spirit of the LORD
bloweth upon it: surely the people is
grass. |
| 040:008 |
|
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth:
but the word of our God shall stand for ever. |
| 040:009 |
|
O Zion, that bringest good tidings,
get thee up into the high mountain; O
Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings,
lift up thy voice with strength; lift
it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities
of Judah, Behold your God! |
| 040:010 |
|
Behold, the Lord GOD will come with
strong hand, and his arm shall rule for
him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. |
| 040:011 |
|
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with
his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that
are with young. |
| 040:012 |
|
Who hath measured the waters
in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven
with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth
in a measure, and weighed the mountains
in scales, and the hills in a balance? |
| 040:013 |
|
Who hath directed the Spirit
of the LORD, or being his counseller
hath taught him? |
| 040:014 |
|
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path
of judgment, and taught him knowledge,
and shewed to him the way of understanding? |
| 040:015 |
|
Behold, the nations are as
a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance:
behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. |
| 040:016 |
|
And Lebanon is not sufficient
to burn, nor the beasts thereof
sufficient for a burnt offering. |
| 040:017 |
|
All nations before him are
as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. |
| 040:018 |
|
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto
him? |
| 040:019 |
|
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith
spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth
silver chains. |
| 040:020 |
|
He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree
that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning
workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved. |
| 040:021 |
|
Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from
the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations
of the earth? |
| 040:022 |
|
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,
and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers;
that stretcheth out the heavens
as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: |
| 040:023 |
|
That bringeth the princes to
nothing; he maketh the judges
of the earth as vanity. |
| 040:024 |
|
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock
shall not take root in the earth:
and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind
shall take them away as stubble. |
| 040:025 |
|
To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy
One. |
| 040:026 |
|
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things,
that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by
the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth. |
| 040:027 |
|
Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest,
O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD,
and my judgment is passed over from my
God? |
| 040:028 |
|
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD,
the Creator of the ends of the earth,
fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. |
| 040:029 |
|
He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth
strength. |
| 040:030 |
|
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men
shall utterly fall: |
| 040:031 |
|
But they that wait upon the LORD
shall renew their strength; they shall
mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall
walk, and not faint. |
| 041:001 |
|
Keep silence before me, O islands;
and let the people renew their strength:
let them come near; then let them speak:
let us come near together to judgment. |
| 041:002 |
|
Who raised up the righteous man from
the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations
before him, and made him rule over kings?
he gave them as the dust to his sword,
and as driven stubble to his bow. |
| 041:003 |
|
He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not
gone with his feet. |
| 041:004 |
|
Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations
from the beginning? I the LORD, the first,
and with the last; I am
he. |
| 041:005 |
|
The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth
were afraid, drew near, and came. |
| 041:006 |
|
They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother,
Be of good courage. |
| 041:007 |
|
So the carpenter encouraged
the goldsmith, and he that smootheth
with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the
sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved. |
| 041:008 |
|
But thou, Israel, art my servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen, the
seed of Abraham
my friend. |
| 041:009 |
|
Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,
and called thee from the chief men
thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee,
and not cast thee away. |
| 041:010 |
|
Fear thou not; for I am with thee:
be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen
thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my
righteousness. |
| 041:011 |
|
Behold, all they that were incensed against
thee shall be ashamed and confounded:
they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish. |
| 041:012 |
|
Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with
thee: they that war against thee shall
be as nothing, and as a thing of nought. |
| 041:013 |
|
For I the LORD thy God will
hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear
not; I will help thee. |
| 041:014 |
|
Fear not, thou worm
Jacob, and ye men
of Israel; I will help thee,
saith the LORD, and thy redeemer,
the Holy One
of Israel. |
| 041:015 |
|
Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth:
thou shalt thresh the mountains,
and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. |
| 041:016 |
|
Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind
shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD,
and shalt glory in the Holy One
of Israel. |
| 041:017 |
|
When the poor and needy seek water,
and there is none, and their tongue faileth
for thirst, I the LORD will hear them,
I the God of Israel will not forsake
them. |
| 041:018 |
|
I will open rivers in high
places, and fountains in the
midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness
a pool of water, and the dry
land springs of water. |
| 041:019 |
|
I will plant in the wilderness the
cedar, the shittah tree,
and the myrtle, and the oil
tree; I will set in the desert
the fir tree,
and the pine, and the box tree together: |
| 041:020 |
|
That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand
together, that the hand of the LORD hath
done this, and the Holy One
of Israel hath created it. |
| 041:021 |
|
Produce your cause, saith the LORD;
bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. |
| 041:022 |
|
Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the
former things, what they be, that
we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for
to come. |
| 041:023 |
|
Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye
are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold
it together. |
| 041:024 |
|
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination
is he that chooseth you. |
| 041:025 |
|
I have raised up one from the north,
and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name:
and he shall come upon princes
as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay. |
| 041:026 |
|
Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime,
that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea,
there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words. |
| 041:027 |
|
The first shall say to Zion,
Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem
one that bringeth good tidings. |
| 041:028 |
|
For I beheld, and there was no man;
even among them, and there was no counseller,
that, when I asked of them, could answer a word. |
| 041:029 |
|
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images
are wind and confusion. |
| 042:001 |
|
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth;
I have put my spirit upon him:
he shall bring forth judgment
to the Gentiles. |
| 042:002 |
|
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the
street. |
| 042:003 |
|
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking
flax shall he not quench: he
shall bring forth judgment unto
truth. |
| 042:004 |
|
He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment
in the earth: and the isles shall
wait for his law. |
| 042:005 |
|
Thus saith God the LORD, he
that created the heavens, and
stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth,
and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people
upon it, and spirit to them that
walk therein: |
| 042:006 |
|
I the LORD have called thee
in righteousness, and will hold
thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant
of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; |
| 042:007 |
|
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners
from the prison, and them that sit in darkness
out of the prison house. |
| 042:008 |
|
I am the LORD: that is my name:
and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. |
| 042:009 |
|
Behold, the former things are
come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you
of them. |
| 042:010 |
|
Sing unto the LORD a new song,
and his praise from the end of the earth,
ye that go down to the sea, and
all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. |
| 042:011 |
|
Let the wilderness and the
cities thereof lift up their
voice, the villages that Kedar
doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock
sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. |
| 042:012 |
|
Let them give glory unto the LORD,
and declare his praise in the islands. |
| 042:013 |
|
The LORD shall go forth as a mighty
man, he shall stir up jealousy like a
man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar;
he shall prevail against his enemies. |
| 042:014 |
|
I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself:
now will I cry like a travailing
woman; I will destroy and devour
at once. |
| 042:015 |
|
I will make waste mountains
and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers
islands, and I will dry up the
pools. |
| 042:016 |
|
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead
them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness
light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do
unto them, and not forsake them. |
| 042:017 |
|
They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed,
that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our
gods. |
| 042:018 |
|
Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. |
| 042:019 |
|
Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent?
who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD's
servant? |
| 042:020 |
|
Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he
heareth not. |
| 042:021 |
|
The LORD is well pleased for his
righteousness' sake; he will magnify
the law, and make it honourable. |
| 042:022 |
|
But this is a people robbed
and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes,
and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth;
for a spoil, and none saith, Restore. |
| 042:023 |
|
Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the
time to come? |
| 042:024 |
|
Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel
to the robbers? did not the LORD, he
against whom we have sinned? for they
would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law. |
| 042:025 |
|
Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury
of his anger, and the strength
of battle: and it hath set him on fire
round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart. |
| 043:001 |
|
But now thus saith the LORD
that created thee, O Jacob, and
he that formed thee, O Israel,
Fear not: for I have redeemed
thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. |
| 043:002 |
|
When thou passest through the waters,
I will be with thee; and through the rivers,
they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire,
thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. |
| 043:003 |
|
For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy
One of Israel,
thy Saviour: I gave Egypt
for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for
thee. |
| 043:004 |
|
Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable,
and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men
for thee, and people for thy life. |
| 043:005 |
|
Fear not: for I am with thee:
I will bring thy seed from the
east, and gather thee from the west; |
| 043:006 |
|
I will say to the north, Give
up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters
from the ends of the earth; |
| 043:007 |
|
Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for
my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him. |
| 043:008 |
|
Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have
ears. |
| 043:009 |
|
Let all the nations be gathered together,
and let the people be assembled: who
among them can declare this, and shew us former
things? let them bring forth their witnesses,
that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth. |
| 043:010 |
|
Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD,
and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand
that I am
he: before me there
was no God formed,
neither shall there be after me. |
| 043:011 |
|
I, even I, am the LORD; and
beside me there is no saviour. |
| 043:012 |
|
I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no
strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses,
saith the LORD, that I am God. |
| 043:013 |
|
Yea, before the day was I am
he; and there is none that can deliver
out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it? |
| 043:014 |
|
Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer,
the Holy One of Israel;
For your sake I have sent to Babylon,
and have brought down all their nobles,
and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the
ships. |
| 043:015 |
|
I am the LORD, your Holy
One, the creator of Israel,
your King. |
| 043:016 |
|
Thus saith the LORD, which
maketh a way in the sea, and
a path in the mighty waters; |
| 043:017 |
|
Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power;
they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they
are quenched as tow. |
| 043:018 |
|
Remember ye not the former
things, neither consider the things of
old. |
| 043:019 |
|
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know
it? I will even make a way in the wilderness,
and rivers in the desert. |
| 043:020 |
|
The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons
and the owls: because I give waters
in the wilderness, and rivers
in the desert, to give drink to my
people, my chosen. |
| 043:021 |
|
This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. |
| 043:022 |
|
But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob;
but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel. |
| 043:023 |
|
Thou hast not brought me the small
cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither
hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices.
I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense. |
| 043:024 |
|
Thou hast bought me no sweet cane
with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices:
but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine
iniquities. |
| 043:025 |
|
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions
for mine own sake, and will not remember
thy sins. |
| 043:026 |
|
Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou
mayest be justified. |
| 043:027 |
|
Thy first father
hath sinned, and thy teachers
have transgressed against
me. |
| 043:028 |
|
Therefore I have profaned the princes
of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob
to the curse, and Israel to reproaches. |
| 044:001 |
|
Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant;
and Israel, whom I have chosen: |
| 044:002 |
|
Thus saith the LORD that made
thee, and formed thee from the womb,
which will help thee; Fear not,
O Jacob, my servant; and thou,
Jesurun, whom I have chosen. |
| 044:003 |
|
For I will pour water upon him that
is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground:
I will pour my spirit upon thy seed,
and my blessing upon thine offspring: |
| 044:004 |
|
And they shall spring up as among the grass,
as willows by the water courses. |
| 044:005 |
|
One shall say, I am the LORD's;
and another shall call himself by the
name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe
with his hand unto the LORD, and surname
himself by the name of Israel. |
| 044:006 |
|
Thus saith the LORD the King
of Israel, and his redeemer
the LORD of hosts; I am the first,
and I am the last; and beside me there is no God. |
| 044:007 |
|
And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order
for me, since I appointed the ancient
people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew
unto them. |
| 044:008 |
|
Fear ye not, neither be afraid:
have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even
my witnesses. Is there a God
beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any. |
| 044:009 |
|
They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable
things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses;
they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. |
| 044:010 |
|
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for
nothing? |
| 044:011 |
|
Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed:
and the workmen, they are of men:
let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear,
and they shall be ashamed together. |
| 044:012 |
|
The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals,
and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength
of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength
faileth: he drinketh no water, and is
faint. |
| 044:013 |
|
The carpenter stretcheth out
his rule; he marketh it out with a line;
he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh
it after the figure of a man, according
to the beauty of a man; that it may remain
in the house. |
| 044:014 |
|
He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth
for himself among the trees
of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish
it. |
| 044:015 |
|
Then shall it be for a man to
burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself;
yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth
it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto. |
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He burneth part thereof in
the fire; with part thereof he
eateth flesh; he roasteth roast,
and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself,
and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire: |
| 044:017 |
|
And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth
down unto it, and worshippeth
it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god. |
| 044:018 |
|
They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they
cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand. |
| 044:019 |
|
And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge
nor understanding to say, I have burned
part of it in the fire; yea, also I have
baked bread upon the coals thereof; I
have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and
shall I make the residue thereof an abomination?
shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? |
| 044:020 |
|
He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he
cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand? |
| 044:021 |
|
Remember these, O Jacob
and Israel; for thou art my servant:
I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel,
thou shalt not be forgotten of me. |
| 044:022 |
|
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud,
thy transgressions, and, as a
cloud, thy sins: return unto
me; for I have redeemed thee. |
| 044:023 |
|
Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD
hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth:
break forth into singing, ye mountains,
O forest, and every tree therein: for
the LORD hath redeemed
Jacob, and glorified himself
in Israel. |
| 044:024 |
|
Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer,
and he that formed thee from the womb,
I am the LORD that maketh all
things; that stretcheth forth the heavens
alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth
by myself; |
| 044:025 |
|
That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth
wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge
foolish; |
| 044:026 |
|
That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel
of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem,
Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities
of Judah, Ye shall be built,
and I will raise up the decayed places thereof: |
| 044:027 |
|
That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers: |
| 044:028 |
|
That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure:
even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt
be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation
shall be laid. |
| 045:001 |
|
Thus saith the LORD to his
anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations
before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the
two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; |
| 045:002 |
|
I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will
break in pieces the gates of brass,
and cut in sunder the bars of iron: |
| 045:003 |
|
And I will give thee the treasures
of darkness, and hidden riches
of secret places, that thou mayest know
that I, the LORD, which call thee by
thy name, am the God of Israel. |
| 045:004 |
|
For Jacob my servant's sake,
and Israel mine elect, I have
even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not
known me. |
| 045:005 |
|
I am the LORD, and there is
none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast
not known me: |
| 045:006 |
|
That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that
there is none beside me. I am the LORD,
and there is none else. |
| 045:007 |
|
I form the light, and create darkness:
I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD
do all these things. |
| 045:008 |
|
Drop down, ye heavens, from
above, and let the skies pour down righteousness:
let the earth open, and let them
bring forth salvation, and let
righteousness spring up together;
I the LORD have created it. |
| 045:009 |
|
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with
the potsherds of the earth. Shall
the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work,
He hath no hands? |
| 045:010 |
|
Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to
the woman, What hast thou brought
forth? |
| 045:011 |
|
Thus saith the LORD, the Holy
One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask
me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command
ye me. |
| 045:012 |
|
I have made the earth, and created
man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens,
and all their host have I commanded. |
| 045:013 |
|
I have raised him up in righteousness,
and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let
go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD
of hosts. |
| 045:014 |
|
Thus saith the LORD, The labour of
Egypt, and merchandise
of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans,
men of stature, shall come over unto thee,
and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains
they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication
unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no
God. |
| 045:015 |
|
Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel,
the Saviour. |
| 045:016 |
|
They shall be ashamed, and also confounded,
all of them: they shall go to confusion
together that are makers of idols. |
| 045:017 |
|
But Israel shall be saved in the
LORD with an everlasting salvation:
ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded
world without end. |
| 045:018 |
|
For thus saith the LORD that
created the heavens; God himself
that formed the earth and made
it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to
be inhabited: I am the LORD;
and there is none else. |
| 045:019 |
|
I have not spoken in secret, in a
dark place of the earth: I said not unto
the seed of Jacob,
Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak
righteousness, I declare things that
are right. |
| 045:020 |
|
Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped
of the nations: they have no knowledge
that set up the wood of their graven
image, and pray unto a god that cannot save. |
| 045:021 |
|
Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who
hath declared this from ancient
time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD?
and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour;
there is none beside me. |
| 045:022 |
|
Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth:
for I am God, and there is none else. |
| 045:023 |
|
I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness,
and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue
shall swear. |
| 045:024 |
|
Surely, shall one say, in the LORD
have I righteousness and strength:
even to him shall men come; and all that
are incensed against him shall be ashamed. |
| 045:025 |
|
In the LORD shall all the seed
of Israel be justified, and shall
glory. |
| 046:001 |
|
Bel boweth
down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols
were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle:
your carriages were heavy loaden; they
are a burden to the weary beast. |
| 046:002 |
|
They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden,
but themselves are gone into captivity. |
| 046:003 |
|
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob,
and all the remnant of the house
of Israel, which are borne by
me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: |
| 046:004 |
|
And even to your old age I
am he;
and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I
will carry, and will deliver you. |
| 046:005 |
|
To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we
may be like? |
| 046:006 |
|
They lavish gold out of the
bag, and weigh silver in the
balance, and hire a goldsmith;
and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship. |
| 046:007 |
|
They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his
place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall
cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble. |
| 046:008 |
|
Remember this, and shew yourselves
men: bring it again to mind, O ye 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 the 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 that executeth
my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring
it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it. |
| 046:012 |
|
Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness: |
| 046:013 |
|
I bring near my righteousness;
it shall not be far off, and my salvation
shall not tarry: and I will place salvation
in Zion for Israel
my glory. |
| 047:001 |
|
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin
daughter of Babylon,
sit on the ground: there is no throne,
O daughter of the Chaldeans:
for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. |
| 047:002 |
|
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover
thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover
the thigh, pass over the rivers. |
| 047:003 |
|
Thy nakedness shall be uncovered,
yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance,
and I will not meet thee as a man. |
| 047:004 |
|
As for our redeemer, the LORD
of hosts is his name, the Holy One of
Israel. |
| 047:005 |
|
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness,
O daughter of the Chaldeans:
for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms. |
| 047:006 |
|
I was wroth with my people, I have
polluted mine inheritance, and given
them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient
hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. |
| 047:007 |
|
And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these
things to thy heart, neither didst remember
the latter end of it. |
| 047:008 |
|
Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly,
that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as
a widow, neither shall I know the loss
of children: |
| 047:009 |
|
But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the
loss of children, and widowhood:
they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude
of thy sorceries, and for the
great abundance of thine enchantments. |
| 047:010 |
|
For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness:
thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge,
it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else
beside me. |
| 047:011 |
|
Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence
it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to
put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt
not know. |
| 047:012 |
|
Stand now with thine enchantments,
and with the multitude of thy
sorceries, wherein thou hast
laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so
be thou mayest prevail. |
| 047:013 |
|
Thou art wearied in the multitude
of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers,
the stargazers, the monthly
prognosticators, stand up, and save thee
from these things that shall come upon thee. |
| 047:014 |
|
Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire
shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the
flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire
to sit before it. |
| 047:015 |
|
Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy
merchants, from thy youth: they
shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee. |
| 048:001 |
|
Hear ye this, O house of Jacob,
which are called by the name of Israel,
and are come forth out of the waters
of Judah, which swear by the
name of the LORD, and make mention
of the God of Israel, but not
in truth, nor in righteousness. |
| 048:002 |
|
For they call themselves of the holy
city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel;
The LORD of hosts is his name. |
| 048:003 |
|
I have declared the former things
from the beginning; and they went forth
out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass. |
| 048:004 |
|
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron
sinew, and thy brow brass; |
| 048:005 |
|
I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to
pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them,
and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them. |
| 048:006 |
|
Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed
thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not
know them. |
| 048:007 |
|
They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day
when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them. |
| 048:008 |
|
Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine
ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously,
and wast called a transgressor from the
womb. |
| 048:009 |
|
For my name's sake will I defer mine anger,
and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. |
| 048:010 |
|
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver;
I have chosen thee in the furnace of
affliction. |
| 048:011 |
|
For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my
name be polluted? and I will not give
my glory unto another. |
| 048:012 |
|
Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel,
my called; I am
he; I am the first, I also am the last. |
| 048:013 |
|
Mine hand also hath laid the foundation
of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned
the heavens: when I call unto them, they
stand up together. |
| 048:014 |
|
All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these
things? The LORD hath loved him: he will
do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm
shall be on the Chaldeans. |
| 048:015 |
|
I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought
him, and he shall make his way prosperous. |
| 048:016 |
|
Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret
from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord
GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me. |
| 048:017 |
|
Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer,
the Holy One of Israel;
I am the LORD thy God which teacheth
thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. |
| 048:018 |
|
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been
as a river, and thy righteousness
as the waves of the sea: |
| 048:019 |
|
Thy seed also had been as the sand,
and the offspring of thy bowels like
the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before
me. |
| 048:020 |
|
Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from
the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing
declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth;
say ye, The LORD hath redeemed
his servant Jacob. |
| 048:021 |
|
And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused
the waters to flow out of the
rock for them: he clave the rock
also, and the waters gushed out. |
| 048:022 |
|
There is no peace, saith the LORD,
unto the wicked. |
| 049:001 |
|
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people,
from far; The LORD hath called me from
the womb; from the bowels of my mother
hath he made mention of my name. |
| 049:002 |
|
And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword;
in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft;
in his quiver hath he hid me; |
| 049:003 |
|
And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel,
in whom I will be glorified. |
| 049:004 |
|
Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength
for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment
is with the LORD, and my work with my
God. |
| 049:005 |
|
And now, saith the LORD that formed
me from the womb to be his servant, to
bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel
be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD,
and my God shall be my strength. |
| 049:006 |
|
And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to
raise up the tribes of Jacob,
and to restore the preserved of Israel:
I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles,
that thou mayest be my salvation
unto the end of the earth. |
| 049:007 |
|
Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer
of Israel, and his Holy
One, to him whom man despiseth,
to him whom the nation abhorreth,
to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see
and arise, princes also shall worship,
because of the LORD that is faithful,
and the Holy One of Israel,
and he shall choose thee. |
| 049:008 |
|
Thus saith the LORD, In an
acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation
have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant
of the people, to establish the earth,
to cause to inherit the desolate
heritages; |
| 049:009 |
|
That thou mayest say to the prisoners,
Go forth; to them that are in darkness,
Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all
high places. |
| 049:010 |
|
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite
them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs
of water shall he guide them. |
| 049:011 |
|
And I will make all my mountains
a way, and my highways shall be exalted. |
| 049:012 |
|
Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north
and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim. |
| 049:013 |
|
Sing, O heavens; and be joyful,
O earth; and break forth into
singing, O mountains: for the
LORD hath comforted his people,
and will have mercy upon his afflicted. |
| 049:014 |
|
But Zion said, The LORD
hath forsaken me, and my Lord
hath forgotten me. |
| 049:015 |
|
Can a woman forget her sucking
child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. |
| 049:016 |
|
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are
continually before me. |
| 049:017 |
|
Thy children shall make haste;
thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee. |
| 049:018 |
|
Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves
together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD,
thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and
bind them on thee, as a bride
doeth. |
| 049:019 |
|
For thy waste and thy desolate
places, and the land of thy destruction,
shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that
swallowed thee up shall be far away. |
| 049:020 |
|
The children which thou shalt
have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The
place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell. |
| 049:021 |
|
Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing
I have lost my children, and
am desolate, a captive, and removing
to and fro? and who hath brought
up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been? |
| 049:022 |
|
Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold,
I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles,
and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in
their arms, and thy daughters
shall be carried upon their shoulders. |
| 049:023 |
|
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers:
they shall bow down to thee with their face
toward the earth, and lick up the dust
of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:
for they shall not be ashamed that wait
for me. |
| 049:024 |
|
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty,
or the lawful captive delivered? |
| 049:025 |
|
But thus saith the LORD, Even
the captives of the mighty shall
be taken away, and the prey of the terrible
shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee,
and I will save thy children. |
| 049:026 |
|
And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh;
and they shall be drunken with their own blood,
as with sweet wine: and all flesh
shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour
and thy Redeemer, the mighty
One of Jacob. |
| 050:001 |
|
Thus saith the LORD, Where
is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which
of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities
have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions
is your mother put away. |
| 050:002 |
|
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man?
when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all,
that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke
I dry up the sea, I make the
rivers a wilderness:
their fish stinketh, because there
is no water, and dieth for thirst. |
| 050:003 |
|
I clothe the heavens with blackness,
and I make sackcloth their covering. |
| 050:004 |
|
The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue
of the learned, that I should know how to speak
a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning
by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear
as the learned. |
| 050:005 |
|
The Lord GOD hath opened mine
ear, and I was not rebellious,
neither turned away back. |
| 050:006 |
|
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the
hair: I hid not my face from shame and
spitting. |
| 050:007 |
|
For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore
shall I not be confounded: therefore
have I set my face like a flint, and
I know that I shall not be ashamed. |
| 050:008 |
|
He is near that justifieth
me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary?
let him come near to me. |
| 050:009 |
|
Behold, the Lord GOD will help
me; who is he that shall condemn
me? lo, they all shall wax old
as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. |
| 050:010 |
|
Who is among you that feareth the LORD,
that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh
in darkness, and hath no light? let him
trust in the name of the LORD, and stay
upon his God. |
| 050:011 |
|
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire,
that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire,
and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand;
ye shall lie down in sorrow. |
| 051:001 |
|
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness,
ye that seek the LORD: look unto
the rock whence ye are hewn,
and to the hole of the pit whence
ye are digged. |
| 051:002 |
|
Look unto Abraham your father,
and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him,
and increased him. |
| 051:003 |
|
For the LORD shall comfort
Zion: he will comfort all her
waste places; and he will make her wilderness
like Eden, and her desert
like the garden of the LORD;
joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of
melody. |
| 051:004 |
|
Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation:
for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment
to rest for a light of the people. |
| 051:005 |
|
My righteousness is near; my
salvation is gone forth, and
mine arms shall judge the people;
the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust. |
| 051:006 |
|
Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
and look upon the earth beneath:
for the heavens shall vanish
away like smoke, and the earth
shall wax old
like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner:
but my salvation shall be for
ever, and my righteousness shall
not be abolished. |
| 051:007 |
|
Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness,
the people in whose heart is my law; fear
ye not the reproach of men, neither
be ye afraid of their revilings. |
| 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 for
ever, and my salvation from generation
to generation. |
| 051:009 |
|
Awake, awake, put on strength, O
arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient
days, in the generations of old.
Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab,
and wounded the dragon? |
| 051:010 |
|
Art thou not it which hath dried the sea,
the waters of the great deep;
that hath made the depths of the sea
a way for the ransomed to pass over? |
| 051:011 |
|
Therefore the redeemed of the
LORD shall return, and come with
singing unto Zion; and everlasting
joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and
sorrow and mourning shall flee away. |
| 051:012 |
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I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be
afraid of a man that shall die, and of
the son of man which shall be made as
grass; |
| 051:013 |
|
And forgettest the LORD thy
maker, that hath stretched forth
the heavens, and laid the foundations
of the earth; and hast feared continually
every day because of the fury of the
oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy?
and where is the fury of the oppressor? |
| 051:014 |
|
The captive exile
hasteneth that he may be loosed,
and that he should not die in the pit,
nor that his bread should fail. |
| 051:015 |
|
But I am the LORD thy God,
that divided the sea, whose waves
roared: The LORD of hosts is
his name. |
| 051:016 |
|
And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered
thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens,
and lay the foundations of the earth,
and say unto Zion, Thou art my people. |
| 051:017 |
|
Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem,
which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD
the cup of his fury; thou hast
drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out. |
| 051:018 |
|
There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought
forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons
that she hath brought up. |
| 051:019 |
|
These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation,
and destruction, and the famine,
and the sword: by whom shall
I comfort thee? |
| 051:020 |
|
Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a
wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury
of the LORD, the rebuke of thy
God. |
| 051:021 |
|
Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: |
| 051:022 |
|
Thus saith thy Lord the LORD,
and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken
out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my
fury; thou shalt no more drink
it again: |
| 051:023 |
|
But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have
said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy
body as the ground, and as the
street, to them that went over. |
| 052:001 |
|
Awake, awake; put on thy strength,
O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem, the holy
city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and
the unclean. |
| 052:002 |
|
Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem:
loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter
of Zion. |
| 052:003 |
|
For thus saith the LORD, Ye
have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed
without money. |
| 052:004 |
|
For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people
went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn
there; and the Assyrian oppressed them
without cause. |
| 052:005 |
|
Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD,
that my people is taken away for nought?
they that rule over them make them to
howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually
every day is blasphemed. |
| 052:006 |
|
Therefore my people shall know my
name: therefore they shall know in that day that I
am he
that doth speak: behold, it is I. |
| 052:007 |
|
How beautiful upon the mountains
are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace;
that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation;
that saith unto Zion, Thy God
reigneth! |
| 052:008 |
|
Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall
they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD
shall bring again Zion. |
| 052:009 |
|
Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem:
for the LORD hath comforted his
people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. |
| 052:010 |
|
The LORD hath made bare his
holy arm in the eyes of all the
nations; and all the ends of
the earth shall see the salvation
of our God. |
| 052:011 |
|
Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean
thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean,
that bear the vessels of the LORD. |
| 052:012 |
|
For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD
will go before you; and the God of Israel
will be your rereward. |
| 052:013 |
|
Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled,
and be very high. |
| 052:014 |
|
As many were astonied at thee; 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;
the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been
told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they
consider. |
| 053:001 |
|
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD
revealed? |
| 053:002 |
|
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root
out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor
comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire
him. |
| 053:003 |
|
He is despised and rejected of men;
a man of sorrows, and acquainted with
grief: and we hid as it were our faces
from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. |
| 053:004 |
|
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem
him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. |
| 053:005 |
|
But he was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon
him; and with his stripes we are healed. |
| 053:006 |
|
All we like sheep have gone
astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD
hath laid on him the iniquity
of us all. |
| 053:007 |
|
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth:
he is brought as a lamb
to the slaughter, and as a sheep
before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. |
| 053:008 |
|
He was taken from prison and from judgment:
and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the
living: for the transgression of my people
was he stricken. |
| 053:009 |
|
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death;
because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. |
| 053:010 |
|
Yet it pleased the LORD to
bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an
offering for sin, he shall see his seed,
he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD
shall prosper in his hand. |
| 053:011 |
|
He shall see of the travail of his
soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge
shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. |
| 053:012 |
|
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide
the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death:
and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors. |
| 054:001 |
|
Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry
aloud, thou that didst not travail with
child: for more are the children of the
desolate than the children
of the married wife, saith the LORD. |
| 054:002 |
|
Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of
thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen
thy stakes; |
| 054:003 |
|
For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy
seed shall inherit the Gentiles,
and make the desolate cities
to be inhabited. |
| 054:004 |
|
Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed:
neither be thou confounded; for thou
shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt
not remember the reproach of thy widowhood
any more. |
| 054:005 |
|
For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD
of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer
the Holy One of Israel;
The God of the whole earth shall he be
called. |
| 054:006 |
|
For the LORD hath called thee
as a woman forsaken
and grieved in spirit, and a
wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. |
| 054:007 |
|
For a small moment have I forsaken
thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. |
| 054:008 |
|
In a little wrath I hid my face from
thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith
the LORD thy Redeemer. |
| 054:009 |
|
For this is as the waters of
Noah unto me: for as I have sworn
that the waters of Noah
should no more go over the earth;
so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. |
| 054:010 |
|
For the mountains shall depart,
and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee,
neither shall the covenant of
my peace be removed, saith the LORD
that hath mercy on thee. |
| 054:011 |
|
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I
will lay thy stones with fair colours,
and lay thy foundations with
sapphires. |
| 054:012 |
|
And I will make thy windows
of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles,
and all thy borders of pleasant stones. |
| 054:013 |
|
And all thy children shall
be taught of the LORD; and great
shall be the peace of thy children. |
| 054:014 |
|
In righteousness shalt thou
be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not
fear: and from terror;
for it shall not come near thee. |
| 054:015 |
|
Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall
gather together against thee shall fall
for thy sake. |
| 054:016 |
|
Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals
in the fire, and that bringeth
forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. |
| 054:017 |
|
No weapon that is formed against
thee shall prosper; and every tongue
that shall rise against thee in judgment
thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage
of the servants of the LORD, and their
righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. |
| 055:001 |
|
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters,
and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine
and milk without money and without
price. |
| 055:002 |
|
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour
for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye
that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. |
| 055:003 |
|
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live;
and I will make an everlasting covenant
with you, even the sure mercies of David. |
| 055:004 |
|
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people,
a leader and commander to the people. |
| 055:005 |
|
Behold, thou shalt call a nation
that thou knowest not, and nations that
knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD
thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel;
for he hath glorified thee. |
| 055:006 |
|
Seek ye the LORD while he may
be found, call ye upon him while he is near: |
| 055:007 |
|
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man
his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD,
and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly
pardon. |
| 055:008 |
|
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,
saith the LORD. |
| 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 cometh down, and the snow
from heaven, and returneth not thither,
but watereth the earth,
and maketh it bring forth and bud, that
it may give seed to the sower, and bread
to the eater: |
| 055:011 |
|
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return
unto me void, but it shall accomplish
that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent
it. |
| 055:012 |
|
For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains
and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees
of the field shall clap their hands. |
| 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 the LORD for a name,
for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. |
| 056:001 |
|
Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye
judgment, and do justice: for
my salvation is near to come,
and my righteousness to be revealed. |
| 056:002 |
|
Blessed is the man that doeth
this, and the son of man that
layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth
his hand from doing any evil. |
| 056:003 |
|
Neither let the son of the stranger,
that hath joined himself to the LORD,
speak, saying, The LORD
hath utterly separated me from his people:
neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. |
| 056:004 |
|
For thus saith the LORD unto
the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths,
and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; |
| 056:005 |
|
Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place
and a name better than of sons and of daughters:
I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. |
| 056:006 |
|
Also the sons of the stranger,
that join themselves to the LORD,
to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD,
to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting
it, and taketh hold of my covenant; |
| 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 upon mine altar; for
mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people. |
| 056:008 |
|
The Lord GOD, which gathereth
the outcasts of Israel
saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered
unto him. |
| 056:009 |
|
All ye beasts of the field,
come to devour, yea, all ye beasts
in the forest. |
| 056:010 |
|
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs,
they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. |
| 056:011 |
|
Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds
that cannot understand: they all look
to their own way, every one for his gain,
from his quarter. |
| 056:012 |
|
Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine,
and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as
this day, and much more abundant. |
| 057:001 |
|
The righteous perisheth, and no man
layeth it to heart: and merciful men
are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from
the evil to come. |
| 057:002 |
|
He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking
in his uprightness. |
| 057:003 |
|
But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress,
the seed of the adulterer and
the whore. |
| 057:004 |
|
Against whom do ye sport yourselves?
against whom make ye a wide mouth, and
draw out the tongue? are ye not children
of transgression, a seed
of falsehood. |
| 057:005 |
|
Enflaming yourselves with idols
under every green tree, slaying the children
in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? |
| 057:006 |
|
Among the smooth stones of
the stream is thy portion; they,
they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou
hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these? |
| 057:007 |
|
Upon a lofty and high mountain
hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. |
| 057:008 |
|
Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for
thou hast discovered thyself to another
than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant
with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it. |
| 057:009 |
|
And thou wentest to the king with ointment,
and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off,
and didst debase thyself even unto hell. |
| 057:010 |
|
Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There
is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast
not grieved. |
| 057:011 |
|
And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast
not remembered me, nor laid it to thy
heart? have not I held my peace even of old,
and thou fearest me not? |
| 057:012 |
|
I will declare thy righteousness,
and thy works; for they shall not profit thee. |
| 057:013 |
|
When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall
carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust
in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy
mountain; |
| 057:014 |
|
And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the
stumblingblock out of the way of my people. |
| 057:015 |
|
For thus saith the high and lofty One
that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy;
I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite
and humble spirit, to revive the spirit
of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite
ones. |
| 057:016 |
|
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for
the spirit should fail before
me, and the souls which I have made. |
| 057:017 |
|
For the iniquity of his covetousness
was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly
in the way of his heart. |
| 057:018 |
|
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore
comforts unto him and to his mourners. |
| 057:019 |
|
I create the fruit of the lips; Peace,
peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will
heal him. |
| 057:020 |
|
But the wicked are like the troubled sea,
when it cannot rest, whose waters
cast up mire and dirt. |
| 057:021 |
|
There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. |
| 058:001 |
|
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet,
and shew my people their transgression,
and 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 forsook not
the ordinance of their God: they ask
of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. |
| 058:003 |
|
Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we
afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge?
Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. |
| 058:004 |
|
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of
wickedness: ye shall not fast
as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. |
| 058:005 |
|
Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man
to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread
sackcloth and ashes under him?
wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? |
| 058:006 |
|
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness,
to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that
ye break every yoke? |
| 058:007 |
|
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that
are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked,
that thou cover him; and that thou hide
not thyself from thine own flesh? |
| 058:008 |
|
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning,
and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall
go before thee; the glory of the LORD
shall be thy rereward. |
| 058:009 |
|
Then shalt thou call, and the LORD
shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from
the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking
vanity; |
| 058:010 |
|
And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted
soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness
be as the noonday: |
| 058:011 |
|
And the LORD shall guide thee
continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones:
and thou shalt be like a watered
garden, and like a spring of
water, whose waters
fail not. |
| 058:012 |
|
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old
waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations
of many generations; and thou
shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to
dwell in. |
| 058:013 |
|
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my
holy day; and call the sabbath a delight,
the holy of the LORD, honourable;
and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure,
nor speaking thine own words: |
| 058:014 |
|
Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD;
and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth,
and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob
thy father: for the mouth of the LORD
hath spoken it. |
| 059:001 |
|
Behold, the LORD's hand is
not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot
hear: |
| 059:002 |
|
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins
have hid his face from you, 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 hath
muttered perverseness. |
| 059:004 |
|
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity,
and speak lies; they conceive mischief,
and bring forth iniquity. |
| 059:005 |
|
They hatch cockatrice' eggs,
and weave the spider's web:
he that eateth of their eggs
dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. |
| 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;
wasting and destruction are in their
paths. |
| 059:008 |
|
The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment
in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein
shall not know peace. |
| 059:009 |
|
Therefore is judgment far from
us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity;
for brightness, but we walk in darkness. |
| 059:010 |
|
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes:
we stumble at noonday as in the
night; we are in desolate places
as dead men. |
| 059:011 |
|
We roar all like bears, and
mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment,
but there is none; for salvation,
but it is far off from us. |
| 059:012 |
|
For our transgressions are multiplied
before thee, and our sins testify against
us: for our transgressions are with us;
and as for our iniquities, we know them; |
| 059:013 |
|
In transgressing and lying against
the LORD, and departing away from our
God, speaking oppression and revolt,
conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. |
| 059:014 |
|
And judgment is turned away
backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen
in the street, and equity cannot enter. |
| 059:015 |
|
Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself
a prey: and the LORD saw it,
and it displeased him that there was no judgment. |
| 059:016 |
|
And he saw that there was no man,
and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought
salvation unto him; and his righteousness,
it sustained him. |
| 059:017 |
|
For he put on righteousness as a
breastplate, and an helmet
of salvation upon his head;
and he put on the garments of vengeance
for clothing, and was clad
with zeal as a cloke. |
| 059:018 |
|
According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury
to his adversaries, recompence
to his enemies; to the islands
he will repay recompence. |
| 059:019 |
|
So shall they fear the name of the
LORD from the west, and his glory from
the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit
of the LORD shall lift up a standard
against him. |
| 059:020 |
|
And the Redeemer shall come
to Zion, and unto them that turn
from transgression in Jacob,
saith the LORD. |
| 059:021 |
|
As for me, this is my covenant
with them, saith the LORD; My
spirit that is upon thee, and
my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth,
nor out of the mouth of thy seed,
nor out of the mouth of thy seed's
seed, saith the LORD,
from henceforth and for ever. |
| 060:001 |
|
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD
is risen upon thee. |
| 060:002 |
|
For, behold, the darkness shall cover
the earth, and gross darkness
the people: but the LORD
shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. |
| 060:003 |
|
And the Gentiles shall come
to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. |
| 060:004 |
|
Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves
together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters
shall be nursed at thy side. |
| 060:005 |
|
Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear,
and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea
shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles
shall come unto thee. |
| 060:006 |
|
The multitude of camels shall cover
thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah;
all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold
and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD. |
| 060:007 |
|
All the flocks of Kedar shall
be gathered together unto thee, the rams
of Nebaioth shall minister unto
thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar,
and I will glorify the house of my glory. |
| 060:008 |
|
Who are these that fly as a
cloud, and as the doves to their
windows? |
| 060:009 |
|
Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish
first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver
and their gold with them, unto the name
of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy
One of Israel, because he hath glorified
thee. |
| 060:010 |
|
And the sons of strangers shall
build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my
wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee. |
| 060:011 |
|
Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut
day nor night; that men may bring
unto thee the forces of the Gentiles,
and that their kings may be brought. |
| 060:012 |
|
For the nation and kingdom
that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations
shall be utterly wasted. |
| 060:013 |
|
The glory of Lebanon shall come unto
thee, the fir tree,
the pine tree, and the box together,
to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious. |
| 060:014 |
|
The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and
all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet;
and they shall call thee; The city of the LORD,
The Zion of the Holy
One of Israel. |
| 060:015 |
|
Whereas thou has been forsaken
and hated, so that no man
went through thee, I will make
thee an eternal excellency,
a joy of many generations. |
| 060:016 |
|
Thou shalt also suck
the milk of the Gentiles,
and shalt suck
the breast of kings: and thou
shalt know that I the LORD
am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer,
the mighty One
of Jacob. |
| 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 thy officers peace, and thine exactors
righteousness. |
| 060:018 |
|
Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction
within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation,
and thy gates Praise. |
| 060:019 |
|
The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall
the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD
shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. |
| 060:020 |
|
Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself:
for the LORD shall be thine everlasting
light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. |
| 060:021 |
|
Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land
for ever, the branch of my planting,
the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. |
| 060:022 |
|
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation:
I the LORD will hasten it in
his time. |
| 061:001 |
|
The Spirit of the Lord
GOD is upon me; because the LORD
hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me
to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and
the opening of the prison to them that are bound; |
| 061:002 |
|
To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD,
and the day of vengeance of our God;
to comfort all that mourn; |
| 061:003 |
|
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion,
to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil
of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit
of heaviness; that they might be called trees
of righteousness, the planting of the
LORD, that he might be glorified. |
| 061:004 |
|
And they shall build the old
wastes, they shall raise up the
former desolations, and they
shall repair the waste cities,
the desolations of many generations. |
| 061:005 |
|
And strangers shall stand and
feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien
shall be your plowmen and your
vinedressers. |
| 061:006 |
|
But ye shall be named the Priests
of the LORD: men
shall call you the Ministers
of our God: ye shall eat the riches
of the Gentiles, and in their
glory shall ye boast yourselves. |
| 061:007 |
|
For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion
they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess
the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them. |
| 061:008 |
|
For I the LORD love judgment,
I hate robbery for burnt offering;
and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting
covenant with them. |
| 061:009 |
|
And their seed shall be known among
the Gentiles, and their offspring
among the people: all that see them shall
acknowledge them, that they are the seed
which the LORD hath blessed. |
| 061:010 |
|
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD,
my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments
of salvation, he hath covered
me with the robe of righteousness, as
a bridegroom decketh
himself with ornaments,
and as a bride adorneth herself with
her jewels. |
| 061:011 |
|
For as the earth bringeth forth her
bud, and as the garden
causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord
GOD will cause righteousness and praise
to spring forth before all the nations. |
| 062:001 |
|
For Zion's sake will I not
hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's
sake I will not rest, until the righteousness
thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation
thereof as a lamp that burneth. |
| 062:002 |
|
And the Gentiles shall see
thy righteousness, and all kings
thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of
the LORD shall name. |
| 062:003 |
|
Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD,
and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. |
| 062:004 |
|
Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken;
neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate:
but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD
delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. |
| 062:005 |
|
For as a young man marrieth
a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom
rejoiceth over the bride, so
shall thy God rejoice over thee. |
| 062:006 |
|
I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem,
which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention
of the LORD, keep not silence, |
| 062:007 |
|
And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem
a praise in the earth. |
| 062:008 |
|
The LORD hath sworn by his right
hand, and by the arm of his strength,
Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies;
and the sons of the stranger shall not
drink thy wine, for the which thou hast
laboured: |
| 062:009 |
|
But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD;
and they that have brought it
together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness. |
| 062:010 |
|
Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people;
cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones;
lift up a standard for the people. |
| 062:011 |
|
Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed
unto the end of the world, Say ye to the
daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation
cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. |
| 062:012 |
|
And they shall call them, The holy
people, The redeemed of the LORD:
and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken. |
| 063:001 |
|
Who is this that cometh from Edom,
with dyed garments
from Bozrah? this that is glorious in
his apparel, travelling in the greatness
of his strength? I that speak
in righteousness, mighty
to save. |
| 063:002 |
|
Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel,
and thy garments like him that treadeth
in the winefat? |
| 063:003 |
|
I have trodden the winepress alone;
and of the people there was none with
me: for I will tread them in mine anger,
and trample them in my fury; and their
blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments,
and I will stain all my raiment. |
| 063:004 |
|
For the day of vengeance is in mine
heart, and the year of my redeemed is
come. |
| 063:005 |
|
And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there
was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought
salvation unto me; and my fury,
it upheld me. |
| 063:006 |
|
And I will tread down the people in mine anger,
and make them drunk in my fury, and I
will bring down their strength to the
earth. |
| 063:007 |
|
I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD,
and the praises of the LORD,
according to all that the LORD
hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel,
which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according
to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. |
| 063:008 |
|
For he said, Surely they are my people, children
that will not lie: so he was their Saviour. |
| 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 bare them, and carried them all the days of old. |
| 063:010 |
|
But they rebelled, and vexed his
holy Spirit:
therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against
them. |
| 063:011 |
|
Then he remembered the days of old,
Moses, and his people, saying, Where
is he that brought them up out of the
sea with the shepherd of his flock? where
is he that put his holy Spirit
within him? |
| 063:012 |
|
That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing
the water before them, to make
himself an everlasting name? |
| 063:013 |
|
That led them through the deep, as an horse in
the wilderness, that they should not stumble? |
| 063:014 |
|
As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit
of the LORD caused him to rest:
so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name. |
| 063:015 |
|
Look down from heaven, and behold
from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy
strength, the sounding of thy bowels
and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained? |
| 063:016 |
|
Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham
be ignorant of us, and Israel
acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD,
art our father, our redeemer;
thy name is from everlasting. |
| 063:017 |
|
O LORD, why hast thou made
us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear?
Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. |
| 063:018 |
|
The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our
adversaries have trodden down
thy sanctuary. |
| 063:019 |
|
We are thine: thou never barest rule
over them; they were not called by thy name. |
| 064:001 |
|
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens,
that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains
might flow down at thy presence, |
| 064:002 |
|
As when the melting fire burneth,
the fire causeth the waters
to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries,
that the nations may tremble
at thy presence! |
| 064:003 |
|
When thou didst terrible things which
we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains
flowed down at thy presence. |
| 064:004 |
|
For since the beginning of the world
men have not heard, nor perceived by
the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared
for him that waiteth for him. |
| 064:005 |
|
Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness,
those that remember thee in thy ways:
behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall
be saved. |
| 064:006 |
|
But we are all as an unclean
thing, and all our righteousnesses
are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities,
like the wind, have taken us away. |
| 064:007 |
|
And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself
to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face
from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. |
| 064:008 |
|
But now, O LORD, thou art our
father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work
of thy hand. |
| 064:009 |
|
Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither
remember iniquity
for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. |
| 064:010 |
|
Thy holy cities
are a wilderness, Zion
is a wilderness, Jerusalem
a desolation. |
| 064:011 |
|
Our holy and our beautiful
house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire:
and all our pleasant things are laid waste. |
| 064:012 |
|
Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD?
wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? |
| 065:001 |
|
I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought
me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation
that was not called by my name. |
| 065:002 |
|
I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious
people, which walketh
in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts; |
| 065:003 |
|
A people that provoketh me to anger
continually to my face; that sacrificeth
in gardens, and burneth
incense upon altars of brick; |
| 065:004 |
|
Which remain among the graves,
and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh,
and broth of abominable things
is in their vessels; |
| 065:005 |
|
Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than
thou. These are a smoke in my
nose, a fire that burneth
all the day. |
| 065:006 |
|
Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense,
even recompense into their bosom, |
| 065:007 |
|
Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith
the LORD, which have burned incense
upon the mountains, and blasphemed
me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their
bosom. |
| 065:008 |
|
Thus saith the LORD, As the
new wine is found in the cluster,
and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for
my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all. |
| 065:009 |
|
And I will bring forth a seed
out of Jacob, and out of Judah
an inheritor of my mountains:
and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there. |
| 065:010 |
|
And Sharon shall be a fold
of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in,
for my people that have sought me. |
| 065:011 |
|
But ye are they that forsake the LORD,
that forget my holy mountain,
that prepare a table for that
troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number. |
| 065:012 |
|
Therefore will I number you to the sword,
and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter:
because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear;
but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted
not. |
| 065:013 |
|
Therefore thus saith the Lord
GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my
servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall
rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed: |
| 065:014 |
|
Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for
sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit. |
| 065:015 |
|
And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord
GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name: |
| 065:016 |
|
That he who blesseth himself
in the earth shall bless himself
in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth
shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten,
and because they are hid from mine eyes. |
| 065:017 |
|
For, behold, I create new heavens
and a new earth: and the former shall
not be remembered, nor come into mind. |
| 065:018 |
|
But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold,
I create Jerusalem a rejoicing,
and her people a joy. |
| 065:019 |
|
And I will rejoice in Jerusalem,
and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard
in her, nor the voice of crying. |
| 065:020 |
|
There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old
man that hath not filled his
days: for the child shall die an hundred years old;
but the sinner being an hundred years old
shall be accursed. |
| 065:021 |
|
And 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 are the
days of my people, and mine elect shall
long enjoy the work of their hands. |
| 065:023 |
|
They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the
seed of the blessed of the LORD,
and their offspring with them. |
| 065:024 |
|
And it shall come to pass, 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 bullock: and dust
shall be the serpent's meat.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
mountain, saith the LORD. |
| 066:001 |
|
Thus saith the LORD, The heaven
is my throne, and the earth
is my footstool: where is
the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? |
| 066:002 |
|
For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been,
saith the LORD: but to this man
will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite
spirit, and trembleth
at my word. |
| 066:003 |
|
He that killeth an ox is as if he
slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb,
as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered
swine's blood; he that burneth
incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their
soul delighteth in their abominations. |
| 066:004 |
|
I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon
them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not
hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted
not. |
| 066:005 |
|
Hear the word of the LORD,
ye that tremble at his word;
Your brethren that hated you,
that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD
be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed. |
| 066:006 |
|
A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of
the LORD that rendereth recompence
to his enemies. |
| 066:007 |
|
Before she travailed,
she brought
forth; before her pain came, she
was delivered of a man child. |
| 066:008 |
|
Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth
be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation
be born at once? for as soon as Zion
travailed, she brought
forth her children. |
| 066:009 |
|
Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the
LORD: shall I cause to bring
forth, and shut the womb? saith
thy God. |
| 066:010 |
|
Rejoice ye with Jerusalem,
and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her,
all ye that mourn for her: |
| 066:011 |
|
That ye may suck, and be satisfied
with the breasts of her consolations;
that ye may milk out, and be
delighted with the abundance of her glory. |
| 066:012 |
|
For thus saith the LORD, Behold,
I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles
like a flowing stream:
then shall ye suck, ye shall
be borne upon her sides, and
be dandled upon her knees. |
| 066:013 |
|
As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall
be comforted in Jerusalem. |
| 066:014 |
|
And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall
flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD
shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies. |
| 066:015 |
|
For, behold, the LORD will
come with fire, and with his chariots
like a whirlwind, to render
his anger with fury,
and his rebuke with flames
of fire. |
| 066:016 |
|
For by fire and by his sword
will the LORD plead with all
flesh: and the slain of the LORD
shall be many. |
| 066:017 |
|
They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens
behind one tree in the midst, eating
swine's flesh, and the abomination,
and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD. |
| 066:018 |
|
For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will
gather all nations and tongues;
and they shall come, and see my glory. |
| 066:019 |
|
And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape
of them unto the nations, to Tarshish,
Pul, and Lud,
that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan,
to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory;
and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles. |
| 066:020 |
|
And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD
out of all nations upon horses, and in
chariots, and in litters,
and upon mules, and upon swift beasts,
to my holy mountain
Jerusalem, saith the LORD,
as the children of Israel
bring an offering in a clean vessel into
the house of the LORD. |
| 066:021 |
|
And I will also take of them for priests
and for Levites, saith the LORD. |
| 066:022 |
|
For as the new heavens and
the new earth, which I will make,
shall remain before me, saith the LORD,
so shall your seed and your name
remain. |
| 066:023 |
|
And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from
one sabbath to another, shall all flesh
come to worship before me, saith
the LORD. |
| 066:024 |
|
And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men
that have transgressed against me: for
their worm shall not die, neither shall
their fire be quenched; and they shall
be an abhorring unto all flesh. |