(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;