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,