brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of
dragons, and a court for owls.
23:034:014 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild
beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the
screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of
rest.
23:034:015 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch,
and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered,
every one with her mate.
23:034:016 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of
these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath
commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
23:034:017 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided
it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation
to generation shall they dwell therein.
23:035:001 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for
them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
23:035:002 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and
singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of
Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the
excellency of our God.
23:035:003 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
23:035:004 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear
not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a
recompence; he will come and save you.
23:035:005 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of
the deaf shall be unstopped.
23:035:006 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of
the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and
streams in the desert.
23:035:007 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty
land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay,
shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
23:035:008 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be
called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it
shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err
therein.
23:035:009 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up
thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk
there:
23:035:010 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion
with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy
and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
23:036:001 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah,
that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced
cities of Judah, and took them.
23:036:002 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to
Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the
conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.
23:036:003 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was
over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the
recorder.
23:036:004 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus
saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this
wherein thou trustest?
23:036:005 I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have
counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou
rebellest against me?
23:036:006 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on
Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it:
so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
23:036:007 But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it
not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away,
and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
23:036:008 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the
king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be
able on thy part to set riders upon them.
23:036:009 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the
least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots
and for horsemen?
23:036:010 And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to
destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy
it.
23:036:011 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak,
I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we
understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears
of the people that are on the wall.
23:036:012 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and
to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit
upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own
piss with you?
23:036:013 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the
Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king
of Assyria.
23:036:014 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he
shall not be able to deliver you.
23:036:015 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The
LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the
hand of the king of Assyria.
23:036:016 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria,
Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye
every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye
every one the waters of his own cistern;
23:036:017 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land,
a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
23:036:018 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, the LORD will
deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out
of the hand of the king of Assyria?
23:036:019 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods
of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
23:036:020 Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have
delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver
Jerusalem out of my hand?
23:036:021 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for
the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
23:036:022 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the
recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words
of Rabshakeh.
23:037:001 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he
rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the
house of the LORD.
23:037:002 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna
the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto
Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
23:037:003 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a
day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are
come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
23:037:004 It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh,
whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living
God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard:
wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
23:037:005 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
23:037:006 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your
master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast
heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed
me.
23:037:007 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a
rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the
sword in his own land.
23:037:008 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring
against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
23:037:009 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is
come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent
messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
23:037:010 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let
not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem
shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
23:037:011 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done
to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?
23:037:012 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers
have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of
Eden which were in Telassar?
23:037:013 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the
king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
23:037:014 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the
messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the
LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
23:037:015 And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying,
23:037:016 O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the
cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of
the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.
23:037:017 Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O
LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent
to reproach the living God.
23:037:018 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all
the nations, and their countries,
23:037:019 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.
23:037:020 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that
all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even
thou only.
23:037:021 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus
saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against
Sennacherib king of Assyria:
23:037:022 This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him;
The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee
to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
23:037:023 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom
hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even
against the Holy One of Israel.
23:037:024 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast
said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the
mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars
thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the
height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
23:037:025 I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet
have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
23:037:026 Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of
ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass,
that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
23:037:027 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were
dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as
the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted
before it be grown up.
23:037:028 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in,
and thy rage against me.
23:037:029 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into
mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in
thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
23:037:030 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year
such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of
the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards,
and eat the fruit thereof.
23:037:031 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall
again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
23:037:032 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that
escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
23:037:033 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of
Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there,
nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.
23:037:034 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and
shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
23:037:035 For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake,
and for my servant David's sake.
23:037:036 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp
of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when
they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
23:037:037 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and
returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
23:037:038 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of
Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with
the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon
his son reigned in his stead.
23:038:001 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the
prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith
the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.
23:038:002 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed
unto the LORD,
23:038:003 And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have
walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done
that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
23:038:004 Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,
23:038:005 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of
David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears:
behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
23:038:006 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the
king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.
23:038:007 And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the
LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;
23:038:008 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which
is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun
returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
23:038:009 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been
sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
23:038:010 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the
gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
23:038:011 I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land
of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the
world.
23:038:012 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's
tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with
pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
23:038:013 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break
all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
23:038:014 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as
a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed;
undertake for me.
23:038:015 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself
hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my
soul.
23:038:016 O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is
the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
23:038:017 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in
love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast
cast all my sins behind thy back.
23:038:018 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate
thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
23:038:019 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this
day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
23:038:020 The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my
songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house
of the LORD.
23:038:021 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay
it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
23:038:022 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up
to the house of the LORD?
23:039:001 At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of
Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that
he had been sick, and was recovered.
23:039:002 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of
his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the
precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was
found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his
dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
23:039:003 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said
unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And
Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from
Babylon.
23:039:004 Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And
Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is
nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.
23:039:005 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of
hosts:
23:039:006 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and
that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be
carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
23:039:007 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt
beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of
the king of Babylon.
23:039:008 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD
which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and
truth in my days.
23:040:001 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
23:040:002 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that
her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she
hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.
23:040:003 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye
the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
23:040:004 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill
shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the
rough places plain:
23:040:005 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh
shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
23:040:006 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All
flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the
field:
23:040:007 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit
of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
23:040:008 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our
God shall stand for ever.
23:040:009 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the
high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy
voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of
Judah, Behold your God!
23:040:010 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm
shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before
him.
23:040:011 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the
lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead
those that are with young.
23:040:012 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and
meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth
in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a
balance?
23:040:013 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his
counsellor hath taught him?
23:040:014 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and
taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and
shewed to him the way of understanding?
23:040:015 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are
counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the
isles as a very little thing.
23:040:016 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts
thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
23:040:017 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted
to him less than nothing, and vanity.
23:040:018 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye
compare unto him?
23:040:019 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith
spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
23:040:020 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth
a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to
prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
23:040:021 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told
you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of
the earth?
23:040:022 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the
inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the
heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
23:040:023 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges
of the earth as vanity.
23:040:024 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown:
yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also
blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take
them away as stubble.
23:040:025 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith
the Holy One.
23:040:026 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these
things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by
names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power;
not one faileth.
23:040:027 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is
hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
23:040:028 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the
everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth,
fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his
understanding.
23:040:029 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might
he increaseth strength.
23:040:030 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men
shall utterly fall:
23:040:031 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be
weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
23:041:001 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew
their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come
near together to judgment.
23:041:002 Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to
his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he
gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
23:041:003 He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he
had not gone with his feet.
23:041:004 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from
the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
23:041:005 The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were
afraid, drew near, and came.
23:041:006 They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to
his brother, Be of good courage.
23:041:007 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that
smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready
for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be
moved.
23:041:008 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen,
the seed of Abraham my friend.
23:041:009 Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and
called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my
servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
23:041:010 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am
thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will
uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
23:041:011 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be
ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive
with thee shall perish.
23:041:012 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them
that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as
nothing, and as a thing of nought.
23:041:013 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto
thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
23:041:014 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help
thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
23:041:015 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument
having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and
shalt make the hills as chaff.
23:041:016 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and
the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD,
and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
23:041:017 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and
their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God
of Israel will not forsake them.
23:041:018 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the
midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and
the dry land springs of water.
23:041:019 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree,
and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir
tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
23:041:020 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand
together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of
Israel hath created it.
23:041:021 Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong
reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
23:041:022 Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen:
let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider
them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to
come.
23:041:023 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know
that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed,
and behold it together.
23:041:024 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an
abomination is he that chooseth you.
23:041:025 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from
the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come
upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
23:041:026 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and
beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that
sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that
heareth your words.
23:041:027 The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will
give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
23:041:028 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and
there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a
word.
23:041:029 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their
molten images are wind and confusion.
23:042:001 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my
soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth
judgment to the Gentiles.
23:042:002 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be
heard in the street.
23:042:003 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax
shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
23:042:004 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set
judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
23:042:005 Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and
stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which
cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and
spirit to them that walk therein:
23:042:006 I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold
thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the
people, for a light of the Gentiles;
23:042:007 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the
prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
23:042:008 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give
to another, neither my praise to graven images.
23:042:009 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things
do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
23:042:010 Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end
of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the
isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
23:042:011 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their
voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the
rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
23:042:012 Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in
the islands.
23:042:013 The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up
jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail
against his enemies.
23:042:014 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and
refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will
destroy and devour at once.
23:042:015 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their
herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
23:042:016 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I
will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness
light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do
unto them, and not forsake them.
23:042:017 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed,
that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our
gods.
23:042:018 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
23:042:019 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that
I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD's
servant?
23:042:020 Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the
ears, but he heareth not.
23:042:021 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he
will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
23:042:022 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of
them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a
prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
23:042:023 Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and
hear for the time to come?
23:042:024 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did
not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk
in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
23:042:025 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and
the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he
knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
23:043:001 But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and
he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I
have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
23:043:002 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee;
and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest
through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame
kindle upon thee.
23:043:003 For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy
Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
23:043:004 Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been
honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee,
and people for thy life.
23:043:005 Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the
east, and gather thee from the west;
23:043:006 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not
back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the
earth;
23:043:007 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created
him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
23:043:008 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf
that have ears.
23:043:009 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people
be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former
things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be
justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
23:043:010 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I
have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am
he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
23:043:011 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
23:043:012 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when
there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses,
saith the LORD, that I am God.
23:043:013 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can
deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
23:043:014 Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel;
For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their
nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.
23:043:015 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your
King.
23:043:016 Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a
path in the mighty waters;
23:043:017 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the
power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are
extinct, they are quenched as tow.
23:043:018 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the
things of old.
23:043:019 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth;
shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and
rivers in the desert.
23:043:020 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the
owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the
desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
23:043:021 This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth
my praise.
23:043:022 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast
been weary of me, O Israel.
23:043:023 Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt
offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have
not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with
incense.
23:043:024 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast
thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to
serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
23:043:025 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for
mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
23:043:026 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou,
that thou mayest be justified.
23:043:027 Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have
transgressed against me.
23:043:028 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and
have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
23:044:001 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have
chosen:
23:044:002 Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the
womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou,
Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
23:044:003 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods
upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my
blessing upon thine offspring:
23:044:004 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by
the water courses.
23:044:005 One shall say, I am the LORD's; and another shall call
himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand
unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
23:044:006 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the
LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there
is no God.
23:044:007 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it
in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things
that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them.
23:044:008 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from
that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a
God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
23:044:009 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and
their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own
witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
23:044:010 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is
profitable for nothing?
23:044:011 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen,
they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up;
yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.
23:044:012 The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and
fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his
arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no
water, and is faint.
23:044:013 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out
with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the
compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the
beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
23:044:014 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the
oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest:
he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
23:044:015 Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take
thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea,
he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and
falleth down thereto.
23:044:016 He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he
eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth
himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:
23:044:017 And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven
image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto
it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.
23:044:018 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their
eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot
understand.
23:044:019 And none considereth in his heart, neither is there
knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the
fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have
roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an
abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
23:044:020 He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside,
that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my
right hand?
23:044:021 Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant:
I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be
forgotten of me.
23:044:022 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions,
and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
23:044:023 Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye
lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O
forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and
glorified himself in Israel.
23:044:024 Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee
from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth
forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
23:044:025 That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh
diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their
knowledge foolish;
23:044:026 That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the
counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be
inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will
raise up the decayed places thereof:
23:044:027 That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy
rivers:
23:044:028 That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform
all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to
the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
23:045:001 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right
hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the
loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates
shall not be shut;
23:045:002 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight:
I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars
of iron:
23:045:003 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden
riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which
call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
23:045:004 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have
even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast
not known me.
23:045:005 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God
beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
23:045:006 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the
west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none
else.
23:045:007 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and
create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
23:045:008 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour
down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth
salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have
created it.
23:045:009 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd
strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that
fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
23:045:010 Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest
thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?
23:045:011 Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker,
Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of
my hands command ye me.
23:045:012 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my
hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I
commanded.
23:045:013 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all
his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not
for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
23:045:014 Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of
Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee,
and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they
shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make
supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is
none else, there is no God.
23:045:015 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel,
the Saviour.
23:045:016 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them:
they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.
23:045:017 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting
salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
23:045:018 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God
himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he
created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD;
and there is none else.
23:045:019 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I
said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak
righteousness, I declare things that are right.
23:045:020 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that
are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood
of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
23:045:021 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel
together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it
from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside
me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
23:045:022 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth:
for I am God, and there is none else.
23:045:023 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in
righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow,
every tongue shall swear.
23:045:024 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and
strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against
him shall be ashamed.
23:045:025 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and
shall glory.
23:046:001 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the
beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are
a burden to the weary beast.
23:046:002 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver
the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
23:046:003 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of
the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are
carried from the womb:
23:046:004 And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs
will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and
will deliver you.
23:046:005 To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me,
that we may be like?
23:046:006 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the
balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down,
yea, they worship.
23:046:007 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him
in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea,
one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his
trouble.
23:046:008 Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to
mind, O ye transgressors.
23:046:009 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there
is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
23:046:010 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times
the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I
will do all my pleasure:
23:046:011 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that
executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will
also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
23:046:012 Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from
righteousness:
23:046:013 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and
my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for
Israel my glory.
23:047:001 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of
Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the
Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
23:047:002 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make
bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
23:047:003 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be
seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
23:047:004 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy
One of Israel.
23:047:005 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of
the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
23:047:006 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine
inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no
mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
23:047:007 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou
didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the
latter end of it.
23:047:008 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures,
that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none
else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the
loss of children:
23:047:009 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one
day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in
their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great
abundance of thine enchantments.
23:047:010 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said,
None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee;
and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.
23:047:011 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know
from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt
not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee
suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
23:047:012 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of
thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou
shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
23:047:013 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now
the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up,
and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
23:047:014 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them;
they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there
shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
23:047:015 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured,
even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his
quarter; none shall save thee.
23:048:001 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name
of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear
by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not
in truth, nor in righteousness.
23:048:002 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay
themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.
23:048:003 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and
they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them
suddenly, and they came to pass.
23:048:004 Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an
iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
23:048:005 I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before
it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol
hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath
commanded them.
23:048:006 Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I
have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and
thou didst not know them.
23:048:007 They are created now, and not from the beginning; even
before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say,
Behold, I knew them.
23:048:008 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from
that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest
deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
23:048:009 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my
praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
23:048:010 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have
chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
23:048:011 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for
how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto
another.
23:048:012 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I
am the first, I also am the last.
23:048:013 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my
right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand
up together.
23:048:014 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath
declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure
on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
23:048:015 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have
brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
23:048:016 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in
secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and
now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
23:048:017 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I
am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee
by the way that thou shouldest go.
23:048:018 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy
peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
23:048:019 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy
bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off
nor destroyed from before me.
23:048:020 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a
voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the
earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
23:048:021 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts:
he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the
rock also, and the waters gushed out.
23:048:022 There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.
23:049:001 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far;
The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother
hath he made mention of my name.
23:049:002 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow
of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver
hath he hid me;
23:049:003 And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I
will be glorified.
23:049:004 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my
strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the
LORD, and my work with my God.
23:049:005 And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be
his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not
gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God
shall be my strength.
23:049:006 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my
servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved
of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou
mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
23:049:007 Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy
One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a
servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall
worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of
Israel, and he shall choose thee.
23:049:008 Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard
thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve
thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the
earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
23:049:009 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them
that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and
their pastures shall be in all high places.
23:049:010 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor
sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by
the springs of water shall he guide them.
23:049:011 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways
shall be exalted.
23:049:012 Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the
north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
23:049:013 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth
into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and
will have mercy upon his afflicted.
23:049:014 But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath
forgotten me.
23:049:015 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not
have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will
I not forget thee.
23:049:016 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy
walls are continually before me.
23:049:017 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that
made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
23:049:018 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather
themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou
shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind
them on thee, as a bride doeth.
23:049:019 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy
destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants,
and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
23:049:020 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the
other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me:
give place to me that I may dwell.
23:049:021 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me
these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and
removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left
alone; these, where had they been?
23:049:022 Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to
the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall
bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon
their shoulders.
23:049:023 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy
nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the
earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am
the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
23:049:024 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful
captive delivered?
23:049:025 But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty
shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered:
for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save
thy children.
23:049:026 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh;
and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and
all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer,
the mighty One of Jacob.
23:050:001 Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's
divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to
whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold
yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
23:050:002 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was
there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot
redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up
the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because
there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
23:050:003 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth
their covering.
23:050:004 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I
should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he
wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the
learned.
23:050:005 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious,
neither turned away back.
23:050:006 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that
plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
23:050:007 For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be
confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that
I shall not be ashamed.
23:050:008 He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let
us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
23:050:009 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall
condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat
them up.
23:050:010 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the
voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let
him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
23:050:011 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves
about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks
that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie
down in sorrow.
23:051:001 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that
seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole
of the pit whence ye are digged.
23:051:002 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you:
for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
23:051:003 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her
waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert
like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein,
thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
23:051:004 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my
nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to
rest for a light of the people.
23:051:005 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and
mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on
mine arm shall they trust.
23:051:006 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth
beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth
shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in
like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness
shall not be abolished.
23:051:007 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in
whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye
afraid of their revilings.
23:051:008 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm
shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and
my salvation from generation to generation.
23:051:009 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as
in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that
hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
23:051:010 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the
great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed
to pass over?
23:051:011 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come
with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head:
they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee
away.
23:051:012 I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that
thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man
which shall be made as grass;
23:051:013 And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth
the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared
continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he
were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
23:051:014 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that
he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
23:051:015 But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves
roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.
23:051:016 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered
thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay
the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
23:051:017 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the
hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of
the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
23:051:018 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath
brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all
the sons that she hath brought up.
23:051:019 These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for
thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by
whom shall I comfort thee?
23:051:020 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the
streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the
LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
23:051:021 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but
not with wine:
23:051:022 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the
cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of
trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more
drink it again:
23:051:023 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee;
which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou
hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went
over.
23:052:001 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy
beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there
shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
23:052:002 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O
Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter
of Zion.
23:052:003 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought;
and ye shall be redeemed without money.
23:052:004 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime
into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without
cause.
23:052:005 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my
people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to
howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
23:052:006 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall
know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
23:052:007 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that
bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good
tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy
God reigneth!
23:052:008 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice
together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD
shall bring again Zion.
23:052:009 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of
Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed
Jerusalem.
23:052:010 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the
nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our
God.
23:052:011 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no
unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear
the vessels of the LORD.
23:052:012 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for
the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your
rereward.
23:052:013 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted
and extolled, and be very high.
23:052:014 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more
than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
23:052:015 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut
their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they
see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.
23:053:001 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the
LORD revealed?
23:053:002 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a
root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we
shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
23:053:003 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and
acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was
despised, and we esteemed him not.
23:053:004 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:
yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
23:053:005 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised
for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and
with his stripes we are healed.
23:053:006 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one
to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
23:053:007 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not
his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep
before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
23:053:008 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall
declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the
living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
23:053:009 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in
his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in
his mouth.
23:053:010 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to
grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see
his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall
prosper in his hand.
23:053:011 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be
satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many;
for he shall bear their iniquities.
23:053:012 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he
shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his
soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he
bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
23:054:001 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into
singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for
more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married
wife, saith the LORD.
23:054:002 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth
the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and
strengthen thy stakes;
23:054:003 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the
left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate
cities to be inhabited.
23:054:004 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou
confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget
the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy
widowhood any more.
23:054:005 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his
name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole
earth shall he be called.
23:054:006 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and
grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith
thy God.
23:054:007 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great
mercies will I gather thee.
23:054:008 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but
with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy
Redeemer.
23:054:009 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have
sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have
I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
23:054:010 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed;
but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant
of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
23:054:011 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted,
behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy
foundations with sapphires.
23:054:012 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of
carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
23:054:013 And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great
shall be the peace of thy children.
23:054:014 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be
far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it
shall not come near thee.
23:054:015 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me:
whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.
23:054:016 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in
the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I
have created the waster to destroy.
23:054:017 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and
every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt
condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their
righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
23:055:001 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he
that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
23:055:002 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and
your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me,
and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in
fatness.
23:055:003 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul
shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the
sure mercies of David.
23:055:004 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a
leader and commander to the people.
23:055:005 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and
nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy
God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.
23:055:006 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him
while he is near:
23:055:007 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his
thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon
him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
23:055:008 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways
my ways, saith the LORD.
23:055:009 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways
higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
23:055:010 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and
returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring
forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the
eater:
23:055:011 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it
shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I
please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
23:055:012 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace:
the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
23:055:013 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead
of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD
for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
23:056:001 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for
my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
23:056:002 Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that
layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and
keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
23:056:003 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined
himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me
from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
23:056:004 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my
sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my
covenant;
23:056:005 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls
a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give
them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
23:056:006 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the
LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his
servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and
taketh hold of my covenant;
23:056:007 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them
joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their
sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be
called an house of prayer for all people.
23:056:008 The Lord GOD, which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith,
Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto
him.
23:056:009 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye
beasts in the forest.
23:056:010 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all
dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
23:056:011 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and
they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own
way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
23:056:012 Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill
ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and
much more abundant.
23:057:001 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and
merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is
taken away from the evil to come.
23:057:002 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds,
each one walking in his uprightness.
23:057:003 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of
the adulterer and the whore.
23:057:004 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a
wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of
transgression, a seed of falsehood.
23:057:005 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree,
slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
23:057:006 Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they,
they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou
hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?
23:057:007 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even
thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
23:057:008 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy
remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and
art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with
them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.
23:057:009 And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst
increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst
debase thyself even unto hell.
23:057:010 Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst
thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand;
therefore thou wast not grieved.
23:057:011 And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast
lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I
held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?
23:057:012 I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they
shall not profit thee.
23:057:013 When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the
wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that
putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my
holy mountain;
23:057:014 And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take
up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
23:057:015 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth
eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with
him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit
of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
23:057:016 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always
wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have
made.
23:057:017 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote
him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of
his heart.
23:057:018 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him
also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
23:057:019 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is
far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.
23:057:020 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot
rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
23:057:021 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
23:058:001 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and
shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
23:058:002 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a
nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their
God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in
approaching to God.
23:058:003 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not?
wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge?
Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your
labours.
23:058:004 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the
fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your
voice to be heard on high.
23:058:005 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to
afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to
spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and
an acceptable day to the LORD?
23:058:006 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands
of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go
free, and that ye break every yoke?
23:058:007 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou
bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the
naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine
own flesh?
23:058:008 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine
health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go
before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
23:058:009 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt
cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of
thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
23:058:010 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the
afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy
darkness be as the noon day:
23:058:011 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy
soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a
watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
23:058:012 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste
places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and
thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths
to dwell in.
23:058:013 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy
pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of
the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways,
nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
23:058:014 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will
cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee
with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath
spoken it.
23:059:001 Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot
save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
23:059:002 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God,
and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
23:059:003 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with
iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered
perverseness.
23:059:004 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they
trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring
forth iniquity.
23:059:005 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he
that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out
into a viper.
23:059:006 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.
23:059:007 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent
blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction
are in their paths.
23:059:008 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in
their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth
therein shall not know peace.
23:059:009 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice
overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness,
but we walk in darkness.
23:059:010 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we
had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate
places as dead men.
23:059:011 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look
for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from
us.
23:059:012 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our
sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for
our iniquities, we know them;
23:059:013 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing
away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and
uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
23:059:014 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth
afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
23:059:015 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh
himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there
was no judgment.
23:059:016 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there
was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and
his righteousness, it sustained him.
23:059:017 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet
of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for
clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
23:059:018 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to
his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will
repay recompence.
23:059:019 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and
his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like
a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
23:059:020 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn
from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
23:059:021 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My
spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth,
shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed,
nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from
henceforth and for ever.
23:060:001 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the
LORD is risen upon thee.
23:060:002 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross
darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory
shall be seen upon thee.
23:060:003 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the
brightness of thy rising.
23:060:004 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather
themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far,
and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
23:060:005 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart
shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be
converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.
23:060:006 The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of
Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold
and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD.
23:060:007 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto
thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up
with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my
glory.
23:060:008 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their
windows?
23:060:009 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of
Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold
with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of
Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
23:060:010 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and
their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but
in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
23:060:011 Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall
not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of
the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.
23:060:012 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall
perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
23:060:013 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the
pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary;
and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
23:060:014 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending
unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at
the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee; The city of the LORD,
The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
23:060:015 Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man
went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of
many generations.
23:060:016 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt
suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy
Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
23:060:017 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring
silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy
officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.
23:060:018 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor
destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls
Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
23:060:019 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for
brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be
unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
23:060:020 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon
withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the
days of thy mourning shall be ended.
23:060:021 Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit
the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands,
that I may be glorified.
23:060:022 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a
strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.
23:061:001 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath
anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to
bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the
opening of the prison to them that are bound;
23:061:002 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of
vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
23:061:003 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them
beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise
for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of
righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
23:061:004 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the
former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the
desolations of many generations.
23:061:005 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons
of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
23:061:006 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall
call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the
Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
23:061:007 For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they
shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall
possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
23:061:008 For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt
offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an
everlasting covenant with them.
23:061:009 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their
offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them,
that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.
23:061:010 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful
in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he
hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh
himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her
jewels.
23:061:011 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden
causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD
will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the
nations.
23:062:001 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for
Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go
forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
23:062:002 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings
thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of
the LORD shall name.
23:062:003 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD,
and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
23:062:004 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy
land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah,
and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land
shall be married.
23:062:005 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons
marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall
thy God rejoice over thee.
23:062:006 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall
never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD,
keep not silence,
23:062:007 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make
Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
23:062:008 The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his
strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine
enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the
which thou hast laboured:
23:062:009 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the
LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the
courts of my holiness.
23:062:010 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the
people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a
standard for the people.
23:062:011 Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world,
Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold,
his reward is with him, and his work before him.
23:062:012 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of
the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
23:063:001 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from
Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the
greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to
save.
23:063:002 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments
like him that treadeth in the winefat?
23:063:003 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there
was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them
in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I
will stain all my raiment.
23:063:004 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of
my redeemed is come.
23:063:005 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered
that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation
unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
23:063:006 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make
them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the
earth.
23:063:007 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the
praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on
us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath
bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the
multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
23:063:008 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will
not lie: so he was their Saviour.
23:063:009 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of
his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them;
and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
23:063:010 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he
was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
23:063:011 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people,
saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the
shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?
23:063:012 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious
arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting
name?
23:063:013 That led them through the deep, as an horse in the
wilderness, that they should not stumble?
23:063:014 As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the
LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself
a glorious name.
23:063:015 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy
holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the
sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they
restrained?
23:063:016 Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of
us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our
redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
23:063:017 O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and
hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the
tribes of thine inheritance.
23:063:018 The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little
while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
23:063:019 We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were
not called by thy name.
23:064:001 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest
come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
23:064:002 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the
waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the
nations may tremble at thy presence!
23:064:003 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for,
thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
23:064:004 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor
perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee,
what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
23:064:005 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness,
those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we
have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
23:064:006 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our
righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and
our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
23:064:007 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth
up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us,
and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
23:064:008 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and
thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
23:064:009 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity
for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
23:064:010 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
23:064:011 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised
thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid
waste.
23:064:012 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt
thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
23:065:001 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of
them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation
that was not called by my name.
23:065:002 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious
people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own
thoughts;
23:065:003 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face;
that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
23:065:004 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments,
which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their
vessels;
23:065:005 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am
holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all
the day.
23:065:006 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence,
but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
23:065:007 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers
together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains,
and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former
work into their bosom.
23:065:008 Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the
cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so
will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
23:065:009 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah
an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my
servants shall dwell there.
23:065:010 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of
Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have
sought me.
23:065:011 But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy
mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the
drink offering unto that number.
23:065:012 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all
bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer;
when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did
choose that wherein I delighted not.
23:065:013 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall
eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye
shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be
ashamed:
23:065:014 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye
shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
23:065:015 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for
the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:
23:065:016 That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless
himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall
swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten,
and because they are hid from mine eyes.
23:065:017 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the
former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
23:065:018 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create:
for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
23:065:019 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and
the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of
crying.
23:065:020 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old
man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred
years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
23:065:021 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they
shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
23:065:022 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not
plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my
people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
23:065:023 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble;
for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring
with them.
23:065:024 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will
answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
23:065:025 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion
shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the
LORD.
23:066:001 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth
is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is
the place of my rest?
23:066:002 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those
things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to
him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
23:066:003 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that
sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an
oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as
if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their
soul delighteth in their abominations.
23:066:004 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their
fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake,
they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that
in which I delighted not.
23:066:005 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your
brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said,
Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they
shall be ashamed.
23:066:006 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a
voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
23:066:007 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain
came, she was delivered of a man child.
23:066:008 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things?
Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be
born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her
children.
23:066:009 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth?
saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith
thy God.
23:066:010 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that
love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
23:066:011 That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her
consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance
of her glory.
23:066:012 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her
like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then
shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon
her knees.
23:066:013 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you;
and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
23:066:014 And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your
bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be
known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
23:066:015 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his
chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his
rebuke with flames of fire.
23:066:016 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all
flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
23:066:017 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the
gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the
abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
23:066:018 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come,
that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and
see my glory.
23:066:019 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that
escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw
the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not
heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my
glory among the Gentiles.
23:066:020 And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto
the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in
litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain
Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering
in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.
23:066:021 And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites,
saith the LORD.
23:066:022 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make,
shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your
name remain.
23:066:023 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to
another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to
worship before me, saith the LORD.
23:066:024 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the
men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die,
neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring
unto all flesh.