of the deaf will be unstopped.
035:006 Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of
the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert.
035:007 The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground
springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in
the habitation of jackals, where they lay.
035:008 A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy Way.
The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those
who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.
035:009 No lion will be there, nor will any ravenous animal go up on it.
They will not be found there; but the redeemed will walk there.
035:010 The Yahweh's ransomed ones will return, and come with singing
to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads.
They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing
will flee away."
036:001 Now it happened in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah,
that Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified
cities of Judah, and captured them.
036:002 The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem
to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct
from the upper pool in the fuller's field highway.
036:003 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household,
and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder
came out to him.
036:004 Rabshakeh said to them, "Now tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says
the great king, the king of Assyria, "What confidence is this
in which you trust?
036:005 I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words.
Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
036:006 Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt,
which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it.
So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
036:007 But if you tell me, 'We trust in Yahweh our God,' isn't that
he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away,
and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall worship
before this altar?'"
036:008 Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king
of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you
are able on your part to set riders on them.
036:009 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least
of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots
and for horsemen?
036:010 Have I come up now without Yahweh against this land to destroy it?
Yahweh said to me, "Go up against this land, and destroy it."'"
036:011 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak
to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it;
and don't speak to us in the Jews' language in the hearing
of the people who are on the wall."
036:012 But Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me only to your master
and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit
on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own
urine with you?"
036:013 Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in
the Jews' language, and said, "Hear the words of the great king,
the king of Assyria!
036:014 Thus says the king, 'Don't let Hezekiah deceive you;
for he will not be able to deliver you.
036:015 Don't let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, "Yahweh will
surely deliver us. This city won't be given into the hand
of the king of Assyria."'
036:016 Don't listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king
of Assyria, 'Make your peace with me, and come out to me;
and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree,
and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;
036:017 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land,
a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
036:018 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, "Yahweh will deliver us."
Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands
from the hand of the king of Assyria?
036:019 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods
of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
036:020 Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have
delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should
deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'"
036:021 But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply,
for the king's commandment was, "Don't answer him."
036:022 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household,
and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder,
came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him
the words of Rabshakeh.
037:001 It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes,
covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh's house.
037:002 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe,
and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth,
to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
037:003 They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'This day is a day of trouble,
and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come
to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth.
037:004 It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh,
whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God,
and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard.
Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.'"
037:005 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
037:006 Isaiah said to them, "Tell your master, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Don't be
afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants
of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
037:007 Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news,
and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall
by the sword in his own land."'"
037:008 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring
against Libnah, for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
037:009 He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, "He has
come out to fight against you." When he heard it, he sent
messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
037:010 "Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, 'Don't let
your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, "Jerusalem won't
be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."
037:011 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria
have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly.
Shall you be delivered?
037:012 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers
have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden
who were in Telassar?
037:013 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king
of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?'"
037:014 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers
and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh's house,
and spread it before Yahweh.
037:015 Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying,
037:016 "Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among
the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms
of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
037:017 Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold.
Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy
the living God.
037:018 Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all
the countries and their land,
037:019 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods,
but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they
have destroyed them.
037:020 Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand,
that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh,
even you only."
037:021 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus
says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Because you have prayed
to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,
037:022 this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him.
The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you.
The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
037:023 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have
you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high?
Against the Holy One of Israel.
037:024 By your servants, have you defied the Lord, and have said,
"With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height
of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon.
I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice fir trees.
I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of
its fruitful field.
037:025 I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I
will dry up all the rivers of Egypt."
037:026 Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it
in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it
should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them
into ruinous heaps.
037:027 Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed
and confounded. They were like the grass of the field,
and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops,
and like a field before its crop has grown.
037:028 But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in,
and your raging against me.
037:029 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance
has come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook
in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you
back by the way by which you came.
037:030 This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that
which grows of itself, and in the second year that which
springs from the same; and in the third year sow and reap
and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
037:031 The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again
take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
037:032 For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go forth, and survivors
will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies
will perform this.'
037:033 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, 'He will
not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will
he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
037:034 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return,
and he shall not come to this city,' says Yahweh.
037:035 'For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake,
and for my servant David's sake.'"
037:036 The angel of Yahweh went out and struck one hundred and
eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians.
When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were
all dead bodies.
037:037 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away,
returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.
037:038 It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch
his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him
with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat.
Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.
038:001 In those days was Hezekiah sick and near death.
Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him,
"Thus says Yahweh, 'Set your house in order, for you will die,
and not live.'"
038:002 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh,
038:003 and said, "Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked
before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done
that which is good in your sight." Hezekiah wept bitterly.
038:004 Then the word of Yahweh came to Isaiah, saying,
038:005 "Go, and tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of David
your father, "I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears.
Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
038:006 I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king
of Assyria, and I will defend this city.
038:007 This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will
do this thing that he has spoken.
038:008 Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down
on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps.
So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it
had gone down."'"
038:009 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick,
and had recovered of his sickness.
038:010 I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol.
I am deprived of the residue of my years."
038:011 I said, "I won't see Yah, Yah in the land of the living.
I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
038:012 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a
shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life.
He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night
you will make an end of me.
038:013 I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like
a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
038:014 I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove.
My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed.
Be my security."
038:015 What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it.
I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish
of my soul.
038:016 Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life
in all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live.
038:017 Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love
for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption;
for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
038:018 For Sheol can't praise you. Death can't celebrate you.
Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.
038:019 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day.
The father shall make known your truth to the children.
038:020 Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed
instruments all the days of our life in the house of Yahweh.
038:021 Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs, and lay
it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover."
038:022 Hezekiah also had said, "What is the sign that I will go up
to the house of Yahweh?"
039:001 At that time, Merodach Baladan the son of Baladan,
king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah;
for he heard that he had been sick, and had recovered.
039:002 Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house
of his precious things, the silver, and the gold,
the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house
of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures.
There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion,
that Hezekiah didn't show them.
039:003 Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and asked him,
"What did these men say? Where did they come from to you?"
Hezekiah said, "They have come from a country far from me,
even from Babylon."
039:004 Then he asked, "What have they seen in your house?"
Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house.
There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them."
039:005 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of Yahweh of Armies:
039:006 'Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house,
and that which your fathers have stored up until this day,
will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,' says Yahweh.
039:007 'They will take away your sons who will issue from you,
whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king
of Babylon's palace.'"
039:008 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "Yahweh's word which you have
spoken is good." He said moreover, "For there will be peace
and truth in my days."
040:001 "Comfort, comfort my people," says your God.
040:002 "Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her
warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned,
that she has received of Yahweh's hand double for all her sins."
040:003 The voice of one who calls out, "Prepare the way of Yahweh
in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert
for our God.
040:004 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall
be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough
places a plain.
040:005 The glory of Yahweh shall be revealed, and all flesh shall
see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it."
040:006 The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?"
"All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower
of the field.
040:007 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath
blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.
040:008 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our
God stands forever."
040:009 You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain.
You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your
voice with strength. Lift it up. Don't be afraid.
Say to the cities of Judah, "Behold, your God!"
040:010 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his
arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him,
and his recompense before him.
040:011 He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather
the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom.
He will gently lead those who have their young.
040:012 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,
and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust
of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales,
and the hills in a balance?
040:013 Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or has taught him
as his counselor?
040:014 Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him,
and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge,
and showed him the way of understanding?
040:015 Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are
regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts
up the islands like a very little thing.
040:016 Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient
for a burnt offering.
040:017 All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded
by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
040:018 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you
compare to him?
040:019 A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it
with gold, and casts silver chains for it.
040:020 He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree
that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up
an engraved image for him that will not be moved.
040:021 Haven't you known? Haven't you heard, yet? Haven't you
been told from the beginning? Haven't you understood from
the foundations of the earth?
040:022 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its
inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens
like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;
040:023 who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the
earth like meaningless.
040:024 They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely.
Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground.
He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind
takes them away as stubble.
040:025 "To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?"
says the Holy One.
040:026 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these,
who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name.
by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power,
Not one is lacking.
040:027 Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, "My way is hidden
from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?"
040:028 Haven't you known? Haven't you heard? The everlasting
God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint.
He isn't weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
040:029 He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him
who has no might.
040:030 Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;
040:031 But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength.
They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run,
and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
041:001 "Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew
their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak.
Let's meet together for judgment.
041:002 Who has raised up one from the east? Whom called him to his foot
in righteousness? He hands over nations to him, and makes him
rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword,
like the driven stubble to his bow.
041:003 He pursues them, and passes by safely, Even by a way that he had
not gone with his feet.
041:004 Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from
the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last,
I am he."
041:005 The islands have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble.
They approach, and come.
041:006 Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers,
"Be strong!"
041:007 So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes
with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil,
saying of the soldering, "It is good;" and he fastens it
with nails, that it might not totter.
041:008 "But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen,
the seed of Abraham my friend,
041:009 You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth,
and called from its corners, and said to you, 'You are my servant,
I have chosen you and not cast you away;'
041:010 Don't you be afraid, for I am with you. Don't be dismayed,
for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you.
Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
041:011 Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed
and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing,
and shall perish.
041:012 You will seek them, and won't find them, even those who contend
with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing,
as a non-existent thing.
041:013 For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you,
'Don't be afraid. I will help you.'
041:014 Don't be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel.
I will help you," says Yahweh, "and your Redeemer is
the Holy One of Israel.
041:015 Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument
with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small,
and will make the hills like chaff.
041:016 You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away,
and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh.
You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
041:017 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none.
Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them.
I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
041:018 I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst
of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
and the dry land springs of water.
041:019 I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness.
I will set fir trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;
041:020 that they may see, know, consider, and understand together,
that the hand of Yahweh has done this, and the Holy One
of Israel has created it.
041:021 Produce your cause," says Yahweh. "Bring forth your strong reasons,"
says the King of Jacob.
041:022 "Let them announce, and declare to us what shall happen.
Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them,
and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.
041:023 Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we
may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil,
that we may be dismayed, and see it together.
041:024 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing.
He who chooses you is an abomination.
041:025 "I have raised up one from the north, and he has come;
from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name; and he shall
come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.
041:026 Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know?
And before, that we may say, 'He is right?' Surely, there is
no one who declares. Surely, there is no one who shows.
Surely, there is no one who hears your words.
041:027 I am the first to say to Zion, 'Behold, look at them;'
and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem.
041:028 When I look, there is no man; even among them there is no
counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.
041:029 Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing.
Their molten images are wind and confusion.
042:001 "Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen,
in whom my soul delights--I have put my Spirit on him.
He will bring justice to the nations.
042:002 He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard
in the street.
042:003 He won't break a bruised reed. He won't quench a dimly burning wick.
He will faithfully bring justice.
042:004 He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice
in the earth, and the islands will wait for his law."
042:005 Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched
them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes
out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit
to those who walk in it.
042:006 "I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand,
and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people,
as a light for the nations;
042:007 to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon,
and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
042:008 "I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory
to another, nor my praise to engraved images.
042:009 Behold, the former things have happened, and I declare new things.
I tell you about them before they come up."
042:010 Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of
the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein,
the islands and their inhabitants.
042:011 Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the
villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing.
Let them shout from the top of the mountains!
042:012 Let them give glory to Yahweh, and declare his praise
in the islands.
042:013 Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a
man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud.
He will triumph over his enemies.
042:014 "I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and
restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman.
I will both gasp and pant.
042:015 I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs.
I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
042:016 I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know.
I will lead them in paths that they don't know. I will make
darkness light before them, and crooked places straight.
I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
042:017 "Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images,
'You are our gods' will be turned back. They will
be utterly disappointed.
042:018 "Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.
042:019 Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my
messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace,
and as blind as Yahweh's servant?
042:020 You see many things, but don't observe. His ears are open,
but he doesn't listen.
042:021 It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify
the law, and make it honorable.
042:022 But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them
are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons.
They have become a prey, and no one delivers; and a spoil,
and no one says, 'Restore them!'
042:023 Who is there among you who will give ear to this?
Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
042:024 Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers?
Didn't Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they
would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.
042:025 Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him,
and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire all around,
but he didn't know; and it burned him, but he didn't take
it to heart."
043:001 But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who
formed you, Israel: "Don't be afraid, for I have redeemed you.
I have called you by your name. You are mine.
043:002 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
and through the rivers, they will not overflow you.
When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned,
and flame will not scorch you.
043:003 For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.
I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba
in your place.
043:004 Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I
have loved you; therefore I will give people in your place,
and nations instead of your life.
043:005 Don't be afraid; for I am with you. I will bring your seed
from the east, and gather you from the west.
043:006 I will tell the north, 'Give them up!' and tell the south,
'Don't hold them back! Bring my sons from far, and my daughters
from the ends of the earth--
043:007 everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created
for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.'"
043:008 Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf
who have ears.
043:009 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples
be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us
former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they
may be justified; or let them hear, and say, "That is true."
043:010 "You are my witnesses," says Yahweh, "With my servant
whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me,
and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed,
neither will there be after me.
043:011 I myself am Yahweh; and besides me there is no savior.
043:012 I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown; and there was
no strange god among you. Therefore you are my witnesses,"
says Yahweh, "and I am God.
043:013 Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is no one who can
deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?"
043:014 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
"For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all
of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships
of their rejoicing.
043:015 I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King."
043:016 Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path
in the mighty waters;
043:017 who brings forth the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man
(they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct,
they are quenched like a wick):
043:018 "Don't remember the former things, and don't consider
the things of old.
043:019 Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs forth now.
Don't you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness,
and rivers in the desert.
043:020 The animals of the field shall honor me, the jackals and
the ostriches; because I give water in the wilderness and rivers
in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,
043:021 the people which I formed for myself, that they might set
forth my praise.
043:022 Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary
of me, Israel.
043:023 You have not brought me of your sheep for burnt offerings;
neither have you honored me with your sacrifices.
I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied
you with frankincense.
043:024 You have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled
me with the fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened me
with your sins. You have wearied me with your iniquities.
043:025 I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake;
and I will not remember your sins.
043:026 Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Set forth
your case, that you may be justified.
043:027 Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed
against me.
043:028 Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary;
and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling."
044:001 Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen.
044:002 This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb,
who will help you says: "Don't be afraid, Jacob my servant;
and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
044:003 For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams
on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your seed,
and my blessing on your offspring:
044:004 and they will spring up among the grass, as willows
by the watercourses.
044:005 One will say, 'I am Yahweh's;' and another will be called by the name
of Jacob; and another will write with his hand 'to Yahweh,'
and honor the name of Israel."
044:006 This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh
of Armies, says: "I am the first, and I am the last;
and besides me there is no God.
044:007 Who is like me? Who will call, and will declare it, and set
it in order for me, since I established the ancient people?
Let them declare the things that are coming, and that will happen.
044:008 Don't fear, neither be afraid. Haven't I declared it
to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses.
Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not.
I don't know any other Rock."
044:009 Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they
delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don't see,
nor know, that they may be disappointed.
044:010 Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is
profitable for nothing?
044:011 Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed; and the workmen are
mere men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up.
They will fear. They will be put to shame together.
044:012 The blacksmith takes an axe, works in the coals,
fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm.
He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water,
and is faint.
044:013 The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil.
He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses,
and shapes it like the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man,
to reside in a house.
044:014 He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak,
and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest.
He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it.
044:015 Then it will be for a man to burn; and he takes some of it,
and warms himself. Yes, he burns it, and bakes bread.
Yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it an engraved image,
and falls down to it.
044:016 He burns part of it in the fire. With part of it, he eats meat.
He roasts a roast, and is satisfied. Yes, he warms himself,
and says, "Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire."
044:017 The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image.
He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says,
"Deliver me; for you are my god!"
044:018 They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has
shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts,
that they can't understand.
044:019 No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say,
"I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked
bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it.
Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination?
Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?"
044:020 He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside;
and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, "Isn't there a lie
in my right hand?"
044:021 Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant.
I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will
not be forgotten by me.
044:022 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and,
as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
044:023 Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower
parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains,
O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob,
and will glorify himself in Israel.
044:024 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb:
"I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out
the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;
044:025 who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad;
who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
044:026 who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel
of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, 'She will be inhabited;'
and of the cities of Judah, 'They will be built,' and I
will raise up its waste places;'
044:027 who says to the deep, 'Be dry,' and 'I will dry up your rivers;'
044:028 Who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd, and shall perform all
my pleasure,' even saying of Jerusalem, 'She will be built;'
and of the temple, 'Your foundation will be laid.'"
045:001 Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand
I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings
of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates
shall not be shut:
045:002 "I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth.
I will break the doors of brass in pieces, and cut apart
the bars of iron.
045:003 I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches
of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh,
who call you by your name, even the God of Israel.
045:004 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my chosen, I have
called you by your name. I have surnamed you, though you
have not known me.
045:005 I am Yahweh, and there is none else. Besides me, there is no God.
I will strengthen{or, equip} you, though you have not known me;
045:006 that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west,
that there is none besides me. I am Yahweh, and there is
no one else.
045:007 I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace,
and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
045:008 Distil, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour
down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may bring
forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up
with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.
045:009 Woe to him who strives with his Maker--a clay pot among the clay
pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it,
'What are you making?' or your work, 'He has no hands?'
045:010 Woe to him who says to a father, 'What have you become the father of?'
or to a mother, 'To what have you given birth?'"
045:011 Thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: "You ask
me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons,
and you command me concerning the work of my hands!
045:012 I have made the earth, and created man on it: I, even my hands,
have stretched out the heavens; and all their army
have I commanded.
045:013 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight
all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles
go free, not for price nor reward, says Yahweh of Armies.
045:014 Thus says Yahweh: "The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise
of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over
to you, and they shall be yours. They shall go after you.
In chains they shall come over; and they shall fall down to you.
They shall make supplication to you: 'Surely God is in you;
and there is none else, there is no other god.
045:015 Most certainly you are a God who hid yourself, God of Israel,
the Savior.'"
045:016 They shall be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them;
they shall go into confusion together who are makers of idols.
045:017 [But] Israel shall be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation:
you shall not be disappointed nor confounded world without end.
045:018 For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God
who formed the earth and made it, who established it and
didn't create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited:
I am Yahweh; and there is no one else.
045:019 I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness;
I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain:
I, Yahweh, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
045:020 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you who
have escaped from the nations: they have no knowledge
who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god
that can't save.
045:021 Declare you, and bring [it] forth; yes, let them take
counsel together: who has shown this from ancient time?
who has declared it of old? Haven't I, Yahweh? and there
is no God else besides me, a just God and a Savior;
there is no one besides me.
045:022 Look to me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth;
for I am God, and there is none else.
045:023 By myself have I sworn, the word is gone forth from my mouth
[in] righteousness, and shall not return, that to me every
knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
045:024 Only in Yahweh, it is said of me, is righteousness and strength;
even to him shall men come; and all those who were incensed
against him shall be disappointed.
045:025 In Yahweh shall all the seed of Israel be justified,
and shall glory.
046:001 Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols are on the animals,
and on the livestock: the things that you carried about are
made a load, a burden to the weary [animal].
046:002 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver
the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
046:003 Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house
of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from their birth,
that have been carried from the womb;
046:004 and even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs will I
carry you. I have made, and I will bear; yes, I will carry,
and will deliver.
046:005 To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me,
that we may be like?
046:006 Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance.
They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god.
They fall down--yes, they worship.
046:007 They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in
its place, and it stands, from its place it shall not move:
yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer, nor save him
out of his trouble.
046:008 Remember this, and show yourselves men; bring it again
to mind, you transgressors.
046:009 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there
is none else; [I am] God, and there is none like me;
046:010 declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times
things that are not [yet] done; saying, My counsel shall stand,
and I will do all my pleasure;
046:011 calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from
a far country; yes, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass;
I have purposed, I will also do it.
046:012 Listen to me, you stout-hearted, who are far from righteousness:
046:013 I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off,
and my salvation shall not wait; and I will place salvation
in Zion for Israel my glory.
047:001 Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon;
sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans:
for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
047:002 Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil,
strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
047:003 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen:
I will take vengeance, and will spare no man.
047:004 Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
047:005 Sit you silent, and get you into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans;
for you shall no more be called The mistress of kingdoms.
047:006 I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance,
and gave them into your hand: you did show them no mercy;
on the aged have you very heavily laid your yoke.
047:007 You said, I shall be mistress forever; so that you did not lay
these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter
end of it.
047:008 Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures,
who sit securely, who say in your heart, I am, and there
is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow,
neither shall I know the loss of children:
047:009 but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day,
the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure
shall they come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries,
and the great abundance of your enchantments.
047:010 For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, None sees me;
your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you,
and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none
else besides me.
047:011 Therefore shall evil come on you; you shall not know the dawning
of it: and mischief shall fall on you; you shall not be able
to put it away: and desolation shall come on you suddenly,
which you don't know.
047:012 Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude
of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth;
if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail.
047:013 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let now
the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators,
stand up, and save you from the things that shall come on you.
047:014 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them;
they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame:
it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.
047:015 Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored:
those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander
everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you.
048:001 Hear you this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name
of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah;
who swear by the name of Yahweh, and make mention of the God
of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness
048:002 (for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves
on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name):
048:003 I have declared the former things from of old; yes, they went
forth out of my mouth, and I shown them: suddenly I did them,
and they happened.
048:004 Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an
iron sinew, and your brow brass;
048:005 therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it
came to pass I shown it you; lest you should say, My idol
has done them, and my engraved image, and my molten image,
has commanded them.
048:006 You have heard it; see all this; and you, will you not declare it?
I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things,
which you have not known.
048:007 They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day
you didn't hear them; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them.
048:008 Yes, you didn't hear; yes, you didn't know; yes, from of old
your ear was not opened: for I knew that you did deal
very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb.
048:009 For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise
will I refrain for you, that I not cut you off.
048:010 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen
you in the furnace of affliction.
048:011 For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it; for how should [my
name] be profaned? and my glory I will not give to another.
048:012 Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he;
I am the first, I also am the last.
048:013 Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my
right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them,
they stand up together.
048:014 Assemble yourselves, all you, and hear; who among them has
declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves shall perform his
pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the Chaldeans.
048:015 I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him; I have brought him,
and he shall make his way prosperous.
048:016 Come you near to me, hear you this; from the beginning I have
not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I:
and now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, and his Spirit.
048:017 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am
Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you
by the way that you should go.
048:018 Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then had your
peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves
of the sea:
048:019 your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your
body like the grains of it: his name would not be cut off
nor destroyed from before me.
048:020 Go you forth from Babylon, flee you from the Chaldeans;
with a voice of singing declare you, tell this, utter it
even to the end of the earth: say you, Yahweh has redeemed
his servant Jacob.
048:021 They didn't thirst when he led them through the deserts;
he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them;
he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
048:022 There is no peace, says Yahweh, to the wicked.
049:001 Listen, islands, to me; and listen, you peoples, from far:
Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my
mother has he made mention of my name:
049:002 and he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow
of his hand has he hid me: and he has made me a polished shaft;
in his quiver has he kept me close:
049:003 and he said to me, You are my servant; Israel, in whom I
will be glorified.
049:004 But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength
for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me
is with Yahweh, and my recompense with my God.
049:005 Now says Yahweh who formed me from the womb to be his servant,
to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered to him
(for I am honorable in the eyes of Yahweh, and my God is
become my strength);
049:006 yes, he says, It is too light a thing that you should be my servant
to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved
of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the nations,
that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.
049:007 Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One,
to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors,
to a servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise; princes,
and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful,
[even] the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.
049:008 Thus says Yahweh, In an acceptable time have I answered you,
and in a day of salvation have I helped you; and I will preserve you,
and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land,
to make them inherit the desolate heritage:
049:009 saying to those who are bound, Go forth; to those who are
in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways,
and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.
049:010 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor
sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them,
even by springs of water he will guide them.
049:011 I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways
shall be exalted.
049:012 Behold, these shall come from far; and behold, these from
the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
049:013 Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth; and break forth
into singing, mountains: for Yahweh has comforted his people,
and will have compassion on his afflicted.
049:014 But Zion said, Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord
has forgotten me.
049:015 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have
compassion on the son of her womb? yes, these may forget,
yet I will not forget you.
049:016 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are continually before me.
049:017 Your children make haste; your destroyers and those who made
you waste shall go forth from you.
049:018 Lift up your eyes round about, and see: all these gather
themselves together, and come to you. As I live, says Yahweh,
you shall surely clothe you with them all as with an ornament,
and gird yourself with them, like a bride.
049:019 For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land
that has been destroyed, surely now shall you be too small
for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall
be far away.
049:020 The children of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears,
The place is too small for me; give place to me that I may dwell.
049:021 Then shall you say in your heart, Who has conceived these for me,
seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary,
an exile, and wandering back and forth? and who has brought
up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?
049:022 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will lift up my hand
to the nations, and set up my banner to the peoples;
and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your
daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
049:023 Kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens
your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with
their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet;
and you shall know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me
shall not be disappointed.
049:024 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful
captives be delivered?
049:025 But thus says Yahweh, Even the captives of the mighty shall
be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered;
for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I
will save your children.
049:026 I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they
shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine:
and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior,
and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
050:001 Thus says Yahweh, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce,
with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it
to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold,
and for your transgressions was your mother put away.
050:002 Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there
none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't
redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my
rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness:
their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
050:003 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth
their covering.
050:004 The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught,
that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary:
he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear
as those who are taught.
050:005 The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious,
neither turned away backward.
050:006 I gave my back to the strikers, and my cheeks to those who plucked
off the hair; I didn't hide my face from shame and spitting.
050:007 For the Lord Yahweh will help me; therefore I have not
been confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint,
and I know that I shall not be disappointed.
050:008 He is near who justifies me; who will bring charges against me?
Let us stand up together: who is my adversary?
Let him come near to me.
050:009 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me; who is he who shall
condemn me? Behold, all they shall wax old as a garment,
the moth shall eat them up.
050:010 Who is among you who fears Yahweh, who obeys the voice
of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light,
let him trust in the name of Yahweh, and rely on his God.
050:011 Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who gird yourselves
about with firebrands; walk you in the flame of your fire,
and among the brands that you have kindled. This shall you
have of my hand; you shall lie down in sorrow.
051:001 Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness,
you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock whence you were hewn,
and to the hold of the pit whence you were dug.
051:002 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you;
for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him,
and made him many.
051:003 For Yahweh has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her
waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden,
and her desert like the garden of Yahweh; joy and gladness
shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
051:004 Attend to me, my people; and give ear to me, my nation:
for a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish my
justice for a light of the peoples.
051:005 My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and my
arms shall judge the peoples; the islands shall wait for me,
and on my arm shall they trust.
051:006 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath;
for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth
shall wax old like a garment; and those who dwell therein
shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be forever,
and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
051:007 Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose
heart is my law; don't you fear the reproach of men,
neither be you dismayed at their insults.
051:008 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall
eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be forever,
and my salvation to all generations.
051:009 Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh; awake, as in
the days of old, the generations of ancient times.
Isn't it you who did cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?
051:010 Isn't it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep;
who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed
to pass over?
051:011 The ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing
to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads:
they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and sighing
shall flee away.
051:012 I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you are
afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall
be made as grass;
051:013 and have forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched forth
the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fear
continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor,
when he makes ready to destroy? and where is the fury
of the oppressor?
051:014 The captive exile shall speedily be freed; and he shall not die
[and go down] into the pit, neither shall his bread fail.
051:015 For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves
of it roar: Yahweh of Armies is his name.
051:016 I have put my words in your mouth, and have covered you in
the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay
the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, You are my people.
051:017 Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand
of Yahweh the cup of his wrath; you have drunken the bowl
of the cup of staggering, and drained it.
051:018 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has
brought forth; neither is there any who takes her by the hand
among all the sons who she has brought up.
051:019 These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you?
Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword;
how shall I comfort you?
051:020 Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets,
as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Yahweh,
the rebuke of your God.
051:021 Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken,
but now with wine:
051:022 Thus says your Lord Yahweh, and your God who pleads the cause
of his people, Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup
of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath;
you shall no more drink it again:
051:023 and I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you,
who have said to your soul, Bow down, that we may go over;
and you have laid your back as the ground, and as the street,
to those who go over.
052:001 Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful
garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall
no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.
052:002 Shake yourself from the dust; arise, sit [on your throne], Jerusalem:
loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter
of Zion.
052:003 For thus says Yahweh, You were sold for nothing; and you shall
be redeemed without money.
052:004 For thus says the Lord Yahweh, My people went down at the first
into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian has oppressed
them without cause.
052:005 Now therefore, what do I here, says Yahweh, seeing that my people
is taken away for nothing? those who rule over them do howl,
says Yahweh, and my name continually all the day is blasphemed.
052:006 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore [they shall
know] in that day that I am he who does speak; behold, it is I.
052:007 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings
good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of good,
who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, Your God reigns!
052:008 The voice of your watchmen! they lift up the voice,
together do they sing; for they shall see eye to eye,
when Yahweh returns to Zion.
052:009 Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem;
for Yahweh has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.
052:010 Yahweh has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations;
and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation
of our God.
052:011 Depart you, depart you, go you out from there, touch no unclean thing;
go you out of the midst of her; cleanse yourselves,
you who bear the vessels of Yahweh.
052:012 For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight:
for Yahweh will go before you; and the God of Israel will
be your rearward.
052:013 Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be exalted
and lifted up, and shall be very high.
052:014 Like as many were astonished at you (his visage was so marred
more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men),
052:015 so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths
at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see;
and that which they had not heard shall they understand.
053:001 Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of
Yahweh been revealed?
053:002 For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root
out of dry ground. He has no form nor comeliness.
When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
053:003 He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering,
and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom
men hide their face; and we didn't respect him.
053:004 Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering;
yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
053:005 But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed
for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace
was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.
053:006 All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his
own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
053:007 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn't open his mouth.
As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that
before its shearers is mute, so he didn't open his mouth.
053:008 He was taken away by oppression and judgment; and as for
his generation, who considered that he was cut off out
of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience
of my people?
053:009 They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man
in his death; although he had done no violence, neither was
any deceit in his mouth.
053:010 Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer.
When you make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed.
He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahweh shall
prosper in his hand.
053:011 After the suffering of his soul, he will see the
light{So read the Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint.
Masoretic Text omits "the light".} and be satisfied.
My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself;
and he will bear their iniquities.
053:012 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured
out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession
for the transgressors.
054:001 Sing, barren, you who didn't bear; break forth into singing,
and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child:
for more are the children of the desolate than the children
of the married wife, says Yahweh.
054:002 Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch
forth the curtains of your habitations; don't spare:
lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.
054:003 For you shall spread aboard on the right hand and on the left;
and your seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate
cities to be inhabited.
054:004 Don't be afraid; for you shall not be ashamed:
neither be confounded; for you shall not be disappointed:
for you shall forget the shame of your youth; and the reproach
of your widowhood shall you remember no more.
054:005 For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name:
and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole
earth shall he be called.
054:006 For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved
in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,
says your God.
054:007 For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies
will I gather you.
054:008 In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment;
but with everlasting loving kindness will I have mercy on you,
says Yahweh your Redeemer.
054:009 For this is [as] the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn
that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth,
so have I sworn that I will not be angry with you,
nor rebuke you.
054:010 For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed;
but my loving kindness shall not depart from you,
neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, says Yahweh
who has mercy on you.
054:011 You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold,
I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your
foundations with sapphires.
054:012 I will make your pinnacles of rubies, and your gates of
sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.
054:013 All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall
be the peace of your children.
054:014 In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far
from oppression, for you shall not be afraid; and from terror,
for it shall not come near you.
054:015 Behold, they may gather together, but not by me: whoever shall
gather together against you shall fall because of you.
054:016 Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals,
and brings forth a weapon for his work; and I have created
the waster to destroy.
054:017 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every
tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their
righteousness which is of me, says Yahweh.
055:001 Ho, everyone who thirsts, come you to the waters, and he who has
no money; come you, buy, and eat; yes, come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
055:002 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your
labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me,
and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight
itself in fatness.
055:003 Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live:
and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure
mercies of David.
055:004 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples,
a leader and commander to the peoples.
055:005 Behold, you shall call a nation that you don't know;
and a nation that didn't know you shall run to you,
because of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel;
for he has glorified you.
055:006 Seek you Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while
he is near:
055:007 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him;
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
055:008 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways
my ways, says Yahweh.
055:009 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways
higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
055:010 For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky,
and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it
bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread
to the eater;
055:011 so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth:
it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish
that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent
it to do.
055:012 For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace:
the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you
into singing; and all the trees of the fields shall
clap their hands.
055:013 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree;
and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree:
and it shall be to Yahweh for a name, for an everlasting sign
that shall not be cut off.
056:001 Thus says Yahweh, Keep you justice, and do righteousness;
for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness
to be revealed.
056:002 Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds
it fast; who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and keeps
his hand from doing any evil.
056:003 Neither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh,
speak, saying, Yahweh will surely separate me from his people;
neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
056:004 For thus says Yahweh of the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,
and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant:
056:005 To them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial
and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give
them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
056:006 Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh, to minister
to him, and to love the name of Yahweh, to be his servants,
everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds
fast my covenant;
056:007 even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them
joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their
sacrifices shall be accepted on my altar; for my house shall
be called a house of prayer for all peoples.
056:008 The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, Yet will
I gather [others] to him, besides his own who are gathered.
056:009 All you animals of the field, come to devour, [yes], all you
animals in the forest.
056:010 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge;
they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down,
loving to slumber.
056:011 Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough;
and these are shepherds who can't understand:
they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain,
from every quarter.
056:012 Come you, [say they], I will get wine, and we will fill
ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day,
[a day] great beyond measure.
057:001 The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful
men are taken away, none considering that the righteous
is taken away from the evil [to come].
057:002 He enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who walks
in his uprightness.
057:003 But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed
of the adulterer and the prostitute.
057:004 Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you
a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? Aren't you children
of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,
057:005 you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree;
who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts
of the rocks?
057:006 Among the smooth [stones] of the valley is your portion;
they, they are your lot; even to them have you poured
a drink offering, you have offered an offering.
Shall I be appeased for these things?
057:007 On a high and lofty mountain have you set your bed;
there also you went up to offer sacrifice.
057:008 Behind the doors and the posts have you set up your memorial:
for you have uncovered [yourself] to another than me,
and are gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and made you
a covenant with them: you loved their bed where you saw it.
057:009 You went to the king with oil, and did increase your perfumes,
and did send your ambassadors far off, and did debase yourself
even to Sheol.
057:010 You were wearied with the length of your way; yet you didn't say,
It is in vain: you found a reviving of your strength;
therefore you weren't faint.
057:011 Of whom have you been afraid and in fear, that you lie,
and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart?
Haven't I held my peace even of long time, and you don't fear me?
057:012 I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works,
they shall not profit you.
057:013 When you cry, let those who you have gathered deliver you;
but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away:
but he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land,
and shall inherit my holy mountain.
057:014 He will say, Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up
the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.
057:015 For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity,
whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place,
with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart
of the contrite.
057:016 For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry;
for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who
I have made.
057:017 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him;
I hid [my face] and was angry; and he went on backsliding
in the way of his heart.
057:018 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also,
and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
057:019 I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far
off and to him who is near, says Yahweh; and I will heal him.
057:020 But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest,
and its waters cast up mire and dirt.
057:021 There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked.
058:001 Cry aloud, don't spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet,
and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house
of Jacob their sins.
058:002 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways:
as a nation that did righteousness, and didn't forsake
the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments;
they delight to draw near to God.
058:003 Why have we fasted, [say they], and you don't see? [why]
have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?
Behold, in the day of your fast you find [your own] pleasure,
and exact all your labors.
058:004 Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike
with the fist of wickedness: you don't fast this day so as
to make your voice to be heard on high.
058:005 Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man
to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call
this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?
058:006 Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds
of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let
the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
058:007 Isn't it to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring
the poor who are cast out to your house? when you see the naked,
that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from
your own flesh?
058:008 Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your healing
shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go
before you; the glory of Yahweh shall be your rear guard.
058:009 Then shall you call, and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry,
and he will say, Here I am. If you take away from
the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger,
and speaking wickedly;
058:010 and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy
the afflicted soul: then shall your light rise in darkness,
and your obscurity be as the noonday;
058:011 and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul
in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall
be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water,
whose waters don't fail.
058:012 Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places;
you shall raise up the foundations of many generations;
and you shall be called The repairer of the breach,
The restorer of paths to dwell in.
058:013 If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your
pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight,
[and] the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor it,
not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure,
nor speaking [your own] words:
058:014 then shall you delight yourself in Yahweh; and I will
make you to ride on the high places of the earth;
and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father:
for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.
059:001 Behold, Yahweh's hand is not shortened, that it can't save;
neither his ear heavy, that it can't hear:
059:002 but your iniquities have separated between you and your God,
and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he
will not hear.
059:003 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.
059:004 None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth:
they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief,
and bring forth iniquity.
059:005 They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web:
he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed
breaks out into a viper.
059:006 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover
themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity,
and the act of violence is in their hands.
059:007 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood:
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and
destruction are in their paths.
059:008 The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice
in their goings: they have made them crooked paths;
whoever goes therein does not know peace.
059:009 Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness
overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness;
for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
059:010 We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those
who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight;
among those who are lusty we are as dead men.
059:011 We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves:
we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation,
but it is far off from us.
059:012 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins
testify against us; for our transgressions are with us,
and as for our iniquities, we know them:
059:013 transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following
our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering
from the heart words of falsehood.
059:014 Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off;
for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter.
059:015 Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself
a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there
was no justice.
059:016 He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was
no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation to him;
and his righteousness, it upheld him.
059:017 He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation
on his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing,
and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
059:018 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay,
wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies;
to the islands he will repay recompense.
059:019 So shall they fear the name of Yahweh from the west,
and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come
as a rushing stream, which the breath of Yahweh drives.
059:020 A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from
disobedience in Jacob, says Yahweh.
059:021 As for me, this is my covenant with them, says Yahweh:
my Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth,
shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth
of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed,
says Yahweh, from henceforth and forever.
060:001 Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of Yahweh
is risen on you.
060:002 For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness
the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory
shall be seen on you.
060:003 Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness
of your rising.
060:004 Lift up your eyes round about, and see: they all gather
themselves together, they come to you; your sons shall come
from far, and your daughters shall be carried in the arms.
060:005 Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall thrill
and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be
turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.
060:006 The multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries
of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come;
they shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim
the praises of Yahweh.
060:007 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you,
the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; they shall come
up with acceptance on my altar; and I will glorify the house
of my glory.
060:008 Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
060:009 Surely the islands shall wait for me, and the ships of
Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver
and their gold with them, for the name of Yahweh your God,
and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.
060:010 Foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall
minister to you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor
have I had mercy on you.
060:011 Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be
shut day nor night; that men may bring to you the wealth
of the nations, and their kings led captive.
060:012 For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish;
yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
060:013 The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the fir tree, the pine,
and the box tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary;
and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
060:014 The sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending to you;
and all those who despised you shall bow themselves down at
the soles of your feet; and they shall call you The city
of Yahweh, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
060:015 Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no man
passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency,
a joy of many generations.
060:016 You shall also suck the milk of the nations, and shall suck the breast
of kings; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior,
and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
060:017 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver,
and for wood brass, and for stones iron. I will also make
your officers peace, and righteousness your ruler.
060:018 Violence shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor
destruction within your borders; but you shall call your
walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
060:019 The sun shall be no more your light by day; neither for brightness
shall the moon give light to you: but Yahweh will be to you
an everlasting light, and your God your glory.
060:020 Your sun shall no more go down, neither shall your moon
withdraw itself; for Yahweh will be your everlasting light,
and the days of your mourning shall be ended.
060:021 Your people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit
the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands,
that I may be glorified.
060:022 The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one
a strong nation; I, Yahweh, will hasten it in its time.
061:001 The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed
me to preach good news to the humble; he has sent me to bind
up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and the opening [of the prison] to those who are bound;
061:002 to proclaim the year of Yahweh's favor, and the day of vengeance
of our God; to comfort all who mourn;
061:003 to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them
a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment
of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be
called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh,
that he may be glorified.
061:004 They shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the
former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities,
the desolations of many generations.
061:005 Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners
shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
061:006 But you shall be named the priests of Yahweh; men shall call
you the ministers of our God: you shall eat the wealth
of the nations, and in their glory shall you boast yourselves.
061:007 Instead of your shame [you shall have] double; and instead
of dishonor they shall rejoice in their portion:
therefore in their land they shall possess double;
everlasting joy shall be to them.
061:008 For I, Yahweh, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity;
and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will
make an everlasting covenant with them.
061:009 Their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring
among the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them,
that they are the seed which Yahweh has blessed.
061:010 I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall be joyful in my God;
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has
covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom
decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself
with her jewels.
061:011 For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden
causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth;
so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise
to spring forth before all the nations.
062:001 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake
I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness,
and her salvation as a lamp that burns.
062:002 The nations shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory,
and you shall be called by a new name, which the mouth
of Yahweh shall name.
062:003 You shall also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh,
and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
062:004 You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land
any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah,
and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your
land shall be married.
062:005 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you;
and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall
your God rejoice over you.
062:006 I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall
never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh,
take no rest,
062:007 and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes
Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
062:008 Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength,
Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies;
and foreigners shall not drink your new wine, for which
you have labored:
062:009 but those who have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Yahweh;
and those who have gathered it shall drink it in the courts
of my sanctuary.
062:010 Go through, go through the gates; prepare you the way of the people;
cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones;
lift up a banner for the peoples.
062:011 Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth,
Say you to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes;
behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
062:012 They shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Yahweh:
and you shall be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.
063:001 Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from
Bozrah? this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in
the greatness of his strength? I who speak in righteousness,
mighty to save.
063:002 Why are you red in your clothing, and your garments like him
who treads in the wine vat?
063:003 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was
no man with me: yes, I trod them in my anger, and trampled them
in my wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments,
and I have stained all my clothing.
063:004 For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my
redeemed is come.
063:005 I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there
was none to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation to me;
and my wrath, it upheld me.
063:006 I trod down the peoples in my anger, and made them drunk
in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.
063:007 I will make mention of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh,
[and] the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has
bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel,
which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies,
and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
063:008 For he said, Surely, they are my people, children who will
not deal falsely: so he was their Savior.
063:009 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his
presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them;
and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
063:010 But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit:
therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] himself
fought against them.
063:011 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his people,
[saying], Where is he who brought them up out of the sea
with the shepherds of his flock? where is he who put his holy
Spirit in the midst of them?
063:012 who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses?
who divided the waters before them, to make himself
an everlasting name?
063:013 who led them through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness,
so that they didn't stumble?
063:014 As the livestock that go down into the valley, the Spirit
of Yahweh caused them to rest; so did you lead your people,
to make yourself a glorious name.
063:015 Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your
holiness and of your glory: where are your zeal and your
mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion
is restrained toward me.
063:016 For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn't know us,
and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, Yahweh, are our Father;
our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.
063:017 O Yahweh, why do you make us to err from your ways,
and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants'
sake, the tribes of your inheritance.
063:018 Your holy people possessed [it] but a little while:
our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
063:019 We are become as they over whom you never bear rule,
as those who were not called by your name.
064:001 Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down,
that the mountains might quake at your presence,
064:002 as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes
the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries,
that the nations may tremble at your presence!
064:003 When you did terrible things which we didn't look for,
you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
064:004 For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear,
neither has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him
who waits for him.
064:005 You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember
you in your ways: behold, you were angry, and we sinned:
in them [have we been] of long time; and shall we be saved?
064:006 For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our
righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf;
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
064:007 There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself
to take hold of you; for you have hid your face from us,
and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
064:008 But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you
our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
064:009 Don't be furious, Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever:
see, look, we beg you, we are all your people.
064:010 Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become
a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
064:011 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you,
is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
064:012 Will you refrain yourself for these things, Yahweh? will you
hold your peace, and afflict us very sore?
065:001 I am inquired of by those who didn't ask; I am found by those
who didn't seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation
that was not called by my name.
065:002 I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
065:003 a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing
in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;
065:004 who sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places;
who eat pig's flesh, and broth of abominable things is
in their vessels;
065:005 who say, Stand by yourself, don't come near to me,
for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose,
a fire that burns all the day.
065:006 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence,
but will recompense, yes, I will recompense into their bosom,
065:007 your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together,
says Yahweh, who have burned incense on the mountains,
and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore will I first measure
their work into their bosom.
065:008 Thus says Yahweh, As the new wine is found in the cluster,
and one says, Don't destroy it, for a blessing is in it:
so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not
destroy them all.
065:009 I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah
an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it,
and my servants shall dwell there.
065:010 Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place
for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me.
065:011 But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain,
who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed
wine to Destiny;
065:012 I will destine you to the sword, and you shall all bow down
to the slaughter; because when I called, you did not answer;
when I spoke, you did not hear; but you did that which was
evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight.
065:013 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, my servants shall eat,
but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink,
but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice,
but you shall be disappointed;
065:014 behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall
cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for vexation of spirit.
065:015 You shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen;
and the Lord Yahweh will kill you; and he will call his servants
by another name:
065:016 so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself
in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear
by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten,
and because they are hid from my eyes.
065:017 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former
things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
065:018 But be you glad and rejoice forever in that which I create;
for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
065:019 I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people;
and there shall be heard in her no more the voice of weeping
and the voice of crying.
065:020 There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old
man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die
one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years
old shall be accursed.
065:021 They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall
plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
065:022 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant,
and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days
of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work
of their hands.
065:023 They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity;
for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their
offspring with them.
065:024 It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer;
and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
065:025 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall
eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,
says Yahweh.
066:001 Thus says Yahweh, heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool:
what manner of house will you build to me? and what place
shall be my rest?
066:002 For all these things has my hand made, and [so] all these things
came to be, says Yahweh: but to this man will I look,
even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who
trembles at my word.
066:003 He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices
a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering,
[as he who offers] pig's blood; he who burns frankincense,
as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways,
and their soul delights in their abominations:
066:004 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears
on them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke,
they did not hear: but they did that which was evil in my eyes,
and chose that in which I didn't delight.
066:005 Hear the word of Yahweh, you who tremble at his word:
Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name's sake,
have said, Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;
but it is those who shall be disappointed.
066:006 A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple,
a voice of Yahweh that renders recompense to his enemies.
066:007 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came,
she was delivered of a boy.
066:008 Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such things?
Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation be brought
forth at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought
forth her children.
066:009 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth?
says Yahweh: shall I who cause to bring forth shut [the
womb]? says your God.
066:010 Rejoice you with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who
love her: rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;
066:011 that you may suck and be satisfied with the breasts of
her consolations; that you may milk out, and be delighted
with the abundance of her glory.
066:012 For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,
and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream:
and you shall suck [of it]; you shall be borne on the side,
and shall be dandled on the knees.
066:013 As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you;
and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
066:014 You shall see [it], and your heart shall rejoice,
and your bones shall flourish like the tender grass:
and the hand of Yahweh shall be known toward his servants;
and he will have indignation against his enemies.
066:015 For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots shall
be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness,
and his rebuke with flames of fire.
066:016 For by fire will Yahweh execute judgment, and by his sword,
on all flesh; and the slain of Yahweh shall be many.
066:017 Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves [to go]
to the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating pig's flesh,
and the abomination, and the mouse, they shall come to an
end together, says Yahweh.
066:018 For I [know] their works and their thoughts: [the time] comes,
that I will gather all nations and languages; and they shall come,
and shall see my glory.
066:019 I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape
of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw
the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the islands afar off,
who have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory;
and they shall declare my glory among the nations.
066:020 They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an
offering to Yahweh, on horses, and in chariots, and in litters,
and on mules, and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem,
says Yahweh, as the children of Israel bring their offering
in a clean vessel into the house of Yahweh.
066:021 Of them also will I take for priests [and] for Levites, says Yahweh.
066:022 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make,
shall remain before me, says Yahweh, so shall your seed
and your name remain.
066:023 It shall happen, that from one new moon to another, and from
one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship
before me, says Yahweh.
066:024 They shall go forth, and look on the dead bodies of the men
who have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die,
neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be
an abhorring to all flesh.