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.