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{\MTB The Book of the Prophet
\par }{\MT Isaiah

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
vision
of
Isaiah,
the
son
of
Amoz,
which
he
saw
about
Judah
and
Jerusalem,
in
the
days
of
Uzziah,
Jotham,
Ahaz,
and
Hezekiah,
kings
of
Judah.
\VS{2}Give
ear,
O
heavens,
and
you,
O
earth,
to
the
word which
the
Lord
has
said:
I
have taken care
of
my
children till
they
became
men,
but
their hearts
have
been turned away
from
me.
\VS{3}Even
the
ox
has
knowledge
of
its
owner,
and
the ass
of
the place
where
its master puts
its food:
but
Israel
has
no
knowledge,
my
people
give
no
thought
to
me.
\VS{4}O
nation full
of
sin,
a
people weighted
down
with
crime,
a
generation
of evil-doers, false-hearted
children:
they
have gone
away
from
the
Lord,
they
have no respect
for
the
Holy
One
of
Israel,
their hearts
are turned
back
from
him.
\VS{5}Why
will
you
have
more
and
more punishment?
why
keep
on
in
your evil ways?
Every
head
is tired
and
every
heart
is feeble.
\VS{6}The body,
from
head
to
foot,
is
all diseased;
it
is
a mass
of open
wounds, marks
of
blows,
and broken flesh:
the flow
of blood
has
not
been stopped,
and
no
oil
has
been put
on
the
wounds.
\VS{7}Your
country
has become
waste;
your
towns
are
burned
with
fire;
as
for
your
land,
it
is overturned
before
your eyes,
made
waste
and overcome
by men
from
strange
lands.
\VS{8}And
the
daughter
of
Zion
has become
like
a tent
in
a vine-garden,
like
a watchman's house
in
a
field
of fruit,
like
a
town shut
in
by armies.
\VS{9}If
the
Lord
of
armies
had
not kept
some
at least
of us safe,
we
would
have
been
like
Sodom,
and
the fate
of
Gomorrah
would
have
been ours.
\VS{10}Give
ear
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
you
rulers
of
Sodom; let
your hearts
be turned
to
the
law
of
our
God,
you
people
of
Gomorrah.
\VS{11}What use
to
me
is
the
number
of
the
offerings
which
you give
me?
says
the
Lord;
your burned
offerings
of
sheep,
and
the
best parts
of
fat
cattle,
are
a weariness
to
me;
I take
no
pleasure
in
the
blood
of
oxen,
or
of
lambs,
or
of he-goats.
\VS{12}At
whose
request
do
you
come
before
me, making
my house unclean
with
your feet?
\VS{13}Give
me
no
more
false
offerings;
the
smoke
of burning flesh
is
disgusting
to
me,
so
are
your
new
moons
and
Sabbaths
and
your holy meetings.
\VS{14}Your
new
moons
and
your regular
feasts
are
a grief
to
my
soul:
they
are
a weight
in
my
spirit;
I
am crushed
under
them.
\VS{15}And
when
your
hands
are
stretched
out
to
me,
my
eyes
will
be turned
away
from
you:
even
though
you go
on
making
prayers,
I
will
not
give ear:
your
hands
are
full
of
blood.
\VS{16}Be
washed,
make
yourselves
clean;
put
away
the
evil
of
your
doings
from
before
my
eyes;
let there
be an end
of
sinning;
\VS{17}Take pleasure
in well-doing; let
your ways be upright, keep
down
the cruel,
give
a
right
decision
for
the child
who
has no father, see
to
the
cause
of
the
widow.
\VS{18}Come
now,
and
let
us
have
an
argument together,
says
the
Lord:
how
may
your
sins which
are
red
like blood
be
white
as
snow?
how
may
their dark
purple seem
like
wool?
\VS{19}If
you
will
give ear
to
my word
and
do
it,
the
good
things
of
the
land
will
be yours;
\VS{20}But
if
your hearts
are turned
against
me,
I
will send destruction
on
you
by
the
sword;
so
the
Lord
has
said.
\VS{21}The upright
town
has
become untrue;
there
was
a
time
when
her judges
gave
right
decisions,
when
righteousness
had
a resting-place
in
her,
but
now she
is
full
of
those
who
take men's
lives.
\VS{22}Your
silver
is no longer true metal,
your wine
is mixed
with
water.
\VS{23}Your
chiefs
have
gone
against
the Lord,
they
have become
friends
of
thieves;
every
one
of
them
is looking
for profit
and
going
after
rewards;
they
do
not
give right decisions
for
the child
who
has
no father,
and
they
do
not
let
the
cause
of
the
widow
come
before
them.
\VS{24}For
this
reason
the
Lord,
the
Lord
of
armies,
the Strong
One
of
Israel,
has
said,
I
will put
an end
to
my haters,
and send punishment
on
those
who
are against
me;
\VS{25}And
my
hand
will
again
be
on
you, washing
away
what
is unclean
as
with soap,
and taking
away
all
your false metal;
\VS{26}And
I
will
give
you
judges
again
as
at
the
first,
and wise
guides
as
in
the
past;
then
you
will
be
named,
The
Town
of
Righteousness,
the
true
town.
\VS{27}Upright
acts
will
be
the
price
of Zion's forgiveness,
and
by
righteousness
will men
be living
there.
\VS{28}But
a common
destruction
will overtake
sinners
and evil-doers
together,
and those
who
have
gone
away
from
the
Lord
will
be cut off.
\VS{29}For
you
will
be
put
to
shame
because
of
the trees
of
your
desire,
and
because
of
the
gardens
of
your pleasure.
\VS{30}For
you
will
be
like
a tree
whose
leaves
have
become dry,
and
like
a
garden
without
water.
\VS{31}And
the
strong
will
be
as food
for
the fire,
and
his
work
as
a flame;
and
they
will
be
burned
together,
with
no
one
to
put
out
the fire.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
word
which
Isaiah,
the
son
of
Amoz,
saw
about
Judah
and
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}And
it
will
come
about
in
the
last
days,
that
the
mountain
of
the
Lord
will
be
placed
on
the
top
of
the
mountains,
and
be
lifted
up
over
the
hills;
and
all
nations
will
come
to
it.
\VS{3}And
the
peoples
will
say,
Come,
and
let
us
go
up
to
the
mountain
of
the
Lord,
to
the
house
of
the
God
of
Jacob:
and
he
will
give
us knowledge
of
his
ways,
and
we
will
be guided
by
his
word;
for
out
of
Zion
the
law
will
go
out,
and
the
word
of
the
Lord
from
Jerusalem.
\VS{4}And
he
will
be
the
judge
between
the
nations,
and
the
peoples
will
be
ruled
by
his
decisions:
and
their
swords
will
be
turned
into plough-blades,
and
their
spears
into vine-knives:
no
longer
will
the
nations
be turning
their
swords
against
one
another,
and
the knowledge
of
war
will
be
gone
for
ever.
\VS{5}O
family
of
Jacob, come,
and let us go
in
the
light
of
the
Lord.
\VS{6}For
you,
O Lord,
have
given up
your
people,
the
family
of
Jacob,
because
they
are
full
of
the evil ways
of
the
east,
and
make use
of secret arts
like
the
Philistines,
and
are friends
with
the
children
of strange countries.
\VS{7}And
their
land
is
full
of
silver
and
gold,
and
there
is
no
end
to
their
stores;
their
land
is
full
of
horses,
and
there
is
no
end
to
their carriages.
\VS{8}Their
land
is
full
of
images;
they give
worship
to
the
work
of
their
hands,
even
to
that
which
their
fingers
have
made.
\VS{9}And
the poor man's head
is bent,
and
the great
man goes
down
on
his face:
for
this cause there
will
be
no forgiveness
for
their sin.
\VS{10}Go
into
a hole
in
the
rock, covering
yourselves
with
dust,
in
fear
of
the
Lord,
before
the glory
of
his power.
\VS{11}The
high
looks
of
man
will
be put
to shame,
and
the
pride
of
men
will
be
made
low,
and
only
the
Lord
will
be
lifted up
in
that
day.
\VS{12}For
the
day
of
the
Lord
of
armies
is coming
on
all
the
pride
of
men,
and
on
all
who
are
high
and
lifted
up;
\VS{13}And
on
all
the
high trees
of
Lebanon,
and
on
all
the strong trees
of
Bashan;
\VS{14}And
on
all
the
high
mountains,
and
on
all
the
hills
which
are
lifted
up;
\VS{15}And
on
every
high
tower,
and
on
every strong
wall;
\VS{16}And
on
all
the
ships
of
Tarshish,
and
on
all
the fair
boats.
\VS{17}And
the
high looks
of
man
will
be put
to shame,
and
the
pride
of
men
will
be
made
low:
and
only
the
Lord
will
be
lifted up
in
that
day.
\VS{18}And the
images
will never be seen again.
\VS{19}And men
will
go
into cracks
of
the
rocks,
and
into
holes
of
the
earth,
for
fear
of
the
Lord,
and
before
the glory
of
his power,
when
he
comes
out
of
his
place, shaking
the
earth
with
his
strength.
\VS{20}In
that
day
men
will put
their
images
of
silver
and
of
gold,
which
they
made
for
worship,
in
the keeping
of
the beasts
of
the dark places;
\VS{21}To
take cover
in
the cracks
of
the
rocks,
and
in
the holes
of
the
hills,
for
fear
of
the
Lord,
and
before
the glory
of
his power,
when
he
comes
out
of
his
place, shaking
the
earth
with
his
strength.
\VS{22}Have
no
more
to
do
with
man,
whose
life
is only
a
breath,
for
he
is
of
no
value.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}For
the
Lord,
the
Lord
of
armies,
is
about
to
take
away
from
Jerusalem
and
from
Judah
all
their support;
their store
of
bread
and
of
water;
\VS{2}The
strong
man
and
the
man
of
war;
the
judge
and
the
prophet;
the
man
who
has knowledge
of secret arts,
and
the
man
who
is wise because
of
his years;
\VS{3}The
captain
of
fifty,
and
the
man
of
high position,
and
the
wise guide,
and
the wonder-worker,
and
he
who
makes
use
of secret powers.
\VS{4}And
I
will
make
children
their
chiefs,
and foolish ones
will
have
rule
over
them.
\VS{5}And
the
people
will
be crushed,
every
one
by
his neighbour;
the
young
will
be full
of pride
against
the
old,
and
those
of low position
will
be lifted up
against
the noble.
\VS{6}When
one
man puts
his
hand
on
another
in
his father's
house,
and says,
You
have
clothing,
be
our
ruler
and
be responsible
for
us
in
our sad condition:
\VS{7}Then
he
will
say
with
an oath,
I
will
not
be
a helper,
for
in
my
house
there
is
no
bread
or
clothing:
I
will
not
let
you
make
me
a
ruler
of
the
people.
\VS{8}For
Jerusalem
has become
feeble,
and destruction
has
come
on
Judah,
because
their words
and
their acts
are
against
the
Lord, moving
the
eyes
of
his
glory
to wrath.
\VS{9}Their
respect
for
a man's position
is
a witness
against
them;
and
their
sin
is
open
to
the view
of all;
like
that
of
Sodom,
it
is
not covered.
A curse
on
their
soul!
for
the measure
of
their
sin
is full.
\VS{10}Happy
is
the upright
man!
for
he
will
have joy
of
the
fruit
of
his ways.
\VS{11}Unhappy
is
the sinner!
for
the reward
of
his
evil doings
will come
on
him.
\VS{12}As
for
my
people,
their
ruler
is acting
like
a child,
and those
who
have
authority
over
them
are
women. O
my
people,
your guides
are
the cause
of
your
wandering, turning
your
footsteps out
of
the
right
way.
\VS{13}The
Lord
is ready
to
take
up
his cause
against
his
people,
and
is about
to come forward
as
their
judge.
\VS{14}The
Lord
comes
to
be
the
judge
of
their responsible
men
and
of
their
rulers:
it
is
you
who
have made waste
the vine-garden,
and
in
your
houses
is
the property
of
the
poor
which
you
have
taken
by force.
\VS{15}By what right
are
you
crushing
my
people,
and putting
a bitter yoke
on
the necks
of
the
poor? This
is
the word
of
the
Lord,
the
Lord
of
armies.
\VS{16}Again,
the
Lord
has
said,
Because
the
daughters
of
Zion
are full
of pride,
and
go
with
outstretched necks
and wandering
eyes,
with
their foot-chains sounding
when
they
go:
\VS{17}The
Lord
will send disease
on
the heads
of
the
daughters
of
Zion,
and
the
Lord
will let
their secret parts
be seen.
\VS{18}In
that
day
the
Lord
will
take
away
the
glory
of
their foot-rings,
and
their sun-jewels,
and
their moon-ornaments,
\VS{19}The ear-rings, and the chains, and the delicate clothing,
\VS{20}The head-bands,
and
the arm-chains,
and
the worked bands,
and
the perfume-boxes,
and
the jewels
with secret powers,
\VS{21}The
rings,
and
the nose-jewels,
\VS{22}The feast-day dresses, and the
robes, and the wide skirts, and the handbags,
\VS{23}The looking-glasses,
and the fair
linen,
and the high head-dresses,
and the
veils.
\VS{24}And
in
the
place
of
sweet
spices
will
be
an evil smell,
and
for
a fair band
a thick cord;
for
a well-dressed
head
there
will
be
the cutting-off
of
the
hair,
and
for
a
beautiful robe
there
will
be
the clothing
of sorrow;
the mark
of
the prisoner
in
place
of
the ornaments
of
the free.
\VS{25}Your
men
will
be put
to
the
sword,
and
your
men
of
war
will
come
to destruction
in
the
fight.
\VS{26}And
in
the public places
of her towns
will
be sorrow
and weeping;
and she
will
be
seated
on
the
earth, waste
and uncovered.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
in
that
day
seven
women
will
put
their hands
on
one
man,
saying, There
will
be no
need
for
you
to
give
us
food
or
clothing,
only let
us
go
under
your
name,
so
that
our
shame
may
be
taken
away.
\VS{2}In
that
day
will
the
young
growth
of
the
Lord
be
beautiful
in
glory,
and
the
fruit
of
the
earth
will
be
the
pride
of
those
who
are still living
in
Israel.
\VS{3}And
it
will
come
about
that
the
rest
of
the
living
in
Zion,
and
of
those
who
have
been kept
from destruction
in
Jerusalem,
will
be named
holy, even
everyone
who
has
been
recorded
for
life
in
Jerusalem:
\VS{4}When
Zion
has been
washed
from
her sin
by
the
Lord,
and
Jerusalem made clean
from
her
blood
by
a judging
and
a
burning
wind.
\VS{5}And
over
every living-place
on
Mount
Zion,
all
over
all
her meetings,
the
Lord
will
make
a
cloud
and
smoke
by
day,
and
the shining
of
a
flaming
fire
by
night,
for
over
all,
the
glory
of
the
Lord
will
be
a cover
and
a tent;
\VS{6}And
a
shade
in
the
daytime
from
the heat,
and
a safe cover
from
storm
and
from
rain.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Let
me make
a
song
about
my loved
one,
a
song
of
love
for
his vine-garden.
My loved
one
had
a vine-garden
on
a
fertile
hill:
\VS{2}And after working
the earth
of
it
with
a spade,
he took away
its
stones,
and put
in
it
a
very special vine;
and
he put
up
a
watchtower
in
the
middle
of
it, hollowing
out
in
the rock
a place
for
the grape-crushing;
and
he
was hoping
that
it
would give
the best
grapes,
but
it
gave common
grapes.
\VS{3}And
now,
you
people
of
Jerusalem
and
you
men
of
Judah,
be
the
judges
between
me
and
my vine-garden.
\VS{4}Is there
anything
which might
have
been
done
for
my vine-garden
which
I
have
not
done?
why
then,
when
I
was hoping
for
the best
grapes
did
it give
me common
grapes?
\VS{5}And
now,
this
is
what
I
will
do
to
my vine-garden:
I
will
take
away
the circle
of thorns round
it,
and
it
will
be
burned
up;
its
wall
will
be
broken
down
and
the beasts
of
the field
will
go
through
it;
\VS{6}And
I
will
make
it
waste;
its branches
will
not
be touched
with
the knife,
or
the
earth
worked
with
the spade;
but blackberries
and
thorns
will
come
up
in
it:
and
I
will
give
orders
to
the
clouds
not
to
send
rain
on
it.
\VS{7}For
the vine-garden
of
the
Lord
of
armies
is
the
people
of
Israel,
and
the
men
of
Judah
are
the
plant
of
his
delight:
and
he
was
looking
for upright judging,
and
there
was blood;
for
righteousness,
and
there
was
a
cry
for help.
\VS{8}Cursed
are
those
who
are joining
house
to
house,
and putting
field
to
field,
till
there
is
no
more living-space
for
any
but
themselves
in
all
the
land!
\VS{9}The
Lord
of
armies
has said
to
me secretly,
Truly, numbers
of
great
and fair
houses
will
be
waste,
with
no
one
living
in
them.
\VS{10}For
ten fields
of
vines
will
only give
one
measure
of wine,
and
a great amount
of
seed
will
only give
a small
measure
of
grain.
\VS{11}Cursed are
those
who get
up
early
in
the
morning
to give themselves
up
to
strong
drink;
who keep on drinking far into
the night till
they are heated
with
wine!
\VS{12}And corded instruments
and wind-instruments
and
wine
are
in
their feasts:
but
they
give
no thought
to
the
work
of
the
Lord,
and
they
are
not interested
in
what
his
hands
are
doing.
\VS{13}For
this cause
my
people
are
taken
away
as prisoners
into strange countries
for
need
of
knowledge:
and
their rulers
are wasted
for
need
of food,
and
their loud-voiced feasters
are dry
for
need
of water.
\VS{14}For
this
cause
the underworld
has
made
wide
its
throat,
opening
its
mouth
without
limit:
and
her glory,
and
the
noise
of
her
masses,
and
her loud-voiced feasters,
will
go
down
into
it.
\VS{15}And
the poor man's head
is bent,
and
the great
man goes
down
on
his
face,
and
the
eyes
of pride
are put
to shame:
\VS{16}But
the
Lord
of
armies
is lifted
up
as
judge,
and
the
Holy
God
is seen
to
be
holy
in
righteousness.
\VS{17}Then
the
lambs
will get
food
as
in
their grass-lands,
and
the
fat cattle
will be feasting
in
the
waste
places.
\VS{18}Cursed
are
those
who
make use
of ox-cords
for pulling
the
evil thing,
and
the bands
of
a young ox
for
their
sin!
\VS{19}Who
say, Let
him
do
his
work
quickly, let
him
make
it sudden,
so
that
we
may
see
it: let
the
design
of
the
Holy
One
of
Israel
come
near,
so
that
it
may
be clear
to
us.
\VS{20}Cursed are
those
who
give
the
name
of
good
to
evil,
and
of
evil
to
what
is
good:
who
make
light
dark,
and
dark
light:
who
make
bitter
sweet,
and
sweet
bitter!
\VS{21}Cursed
are
those
who
seem
wise
to themselves,
and
who take pride
in
their
knowledge!
\VS{22}Cursed
are
those
who
are
strong
to take
wine,
and
great
in making
mixed
drinks!
\VS{23}Who
for
a
reward
give support
to
the cause
of
the sinner,
and
who
take
away
the
righteousness
of
the
upright
from
him.
\VS{24}For
this
cause,
as
the waste
of
the grain
is burned
up
by
tongues
of
fire,
and
as
the
dry
grass
goes
down before
the
flame,
so
their
root
will
be
like
the
dry stems
of grain,
and
their
flower
will
go
up
in
dust:
because
they
have
gone
against
the
law
of
the
Lord
of
armies,
and
have
given no honour
to
the
word
of
the
Holy
One
of
Israel.
\VS{25}For
this
reason
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
has
been burning
against
his
people,
and
his
hand
has
been
stretched
out
against
them
in
punishment,
and
the
hills
were shaking,
and
their
dead
bodies
were
like waste
in
the
open
places
of
the town.
\VS{26}And
he
will let
a flag
be
lifted
up
as
a sign
to
a far-off
nation, whistling
to
them
from
the ends
of
the
earth:
and
they
will
come
quickly
and
suddenly.
\VS{27}There
is
no weariness
among
them,
and
no
man
is feeble-footed:
they come
without resting
or
sleeping,
and
the cord
of
their
shoes
is
not
broken.
\VS{28}Their
arrows
are
sharp,
and
every
bow
is
bent:
the feet
of
their
horses
are
like rock,
and
their
wheels
are
like
a rushing storm.
\VS{29}The sound
of
their armies
will
be
like
the voice
of
a
lion,
and
their war-cry
like
the noise
of
young
lions:
with loud
cries
they
will come down
on
their
food
and
will
take it
away safely,
and
there
will
be
no
one
to
take it
out
of
their hands.
\VS{30}And
his voice
will
be loud
over
him
in
that
day
like
the sounding
of
the
sea:
and
if
a man's eyes
are turned
to
the
earth,
it
is
all
dark
and
full
of
trouble;
and
the
light
is
made
dark
by thick
clouds.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
year
of
King Uzziah's
death
I
saw
the
Lord
seated
in
his place,
high
and
lifted
up,
and
the
Temple
was
full
of
the wide
skirts
of
his
robe.
\VS{2}Over
him
were
the
winged
ones:
every
one
had
six
wings;
two
for
covering
his
face,
two
for
covering
his feed,
and
two
for flight.
\VS{3}And
one
said
in
a loud voice
to
another,
Holy,
holy,
holy,
is
the
Lord
of
armies:
all
the
earth
is
full
of
his
glory.
\VS{4}And
the bases
of
the door-pillars
were shaking
at
the
sound
of
his
cry,
and
the
house
was
full
of
smoke.
\VS{5}Then
I
said,
The curse
is
on
me,
and
my fate
is destruction;
for
I
am
a
man
of
unclean
lips,
living
among
a
people
of
unclean
lips;
for
my
eyes
have
seen
the
King,
the
Lord
of
armies.
\VS{6}Then
a winged
one
came
to
me
with
a burning coal
in
his
hand, which
he
had
taken
from
off
the
altar
with
the fire-spoon.
\VS{7}And
after
touching
my
mouth
with
it,
he
said,
See,
your
lips
have been
touched
with
this;
and
your
evil
is
taken
away,
and
you
are made clean
from
sin.
\VS{8}And
the
voice
of
the
Lord
came
to
my ears,
saying,
Whom
am
I
to
send,
and
who
will
go
for
us?
Then
I
said,
Here
am
I,
send
me.
\VS{9}And
he
said, Go,
and
say
to
this
people,
You
will go
on
hearing,
but learning
nothing;
you
will go
on
seeing,
but
without getting wiser.
\VS{10}Make
the
hearts
of
this
people
fat,
and let
their
ears
be
stopped,
and
their
eyes shut;
for
fear
that
they
may
see
with
their
eyes,
and
be
hearing
with
their
ears,
and
their
heart
may
become wise,
and
they
may
be
turned
to
me
and
made
well.
\VS{11}Then
I
said,
Lord,
how
long?
And
he
said
in
answer,
Till
the
towns
are
waste
and unpeopled,
and
the
houses
have
no
men,
and
the
land becomes completely
waste,
\VS{12}And
the
Lord
has taken
men
far
away,
and
there
are wide waste
places
in
the
land.
\VS{13}And
even
if
there
is
still
a
tenth part
in
it,
it
will
again
be
burned,
like
a tree
of
the woods
whose broken end
is
still
in
the earth
after
the tree
has
been cut down (the
holy
seed
is
the broken end).

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
it
came
about
in
the
days
of
Ahaz,
the
son
of
Jotham,
the
son
of
Uzziah,
king
of
Judah,
that
Rezin,
the
king
of
Aram,
and
Pekah,
the
son
of
Remaliah,
the
king
of
Israel,
came
up
to
Jerusalem
to make
war
against
it,
but
were
not
able
to
overcome
it.
\VS{2}And
word
came
to
the
family
of
David
that
Aram
had
put
up
its tents
in
Ephraim.
And
the king's
heart,
and
the
hearts
of
his
people,
were
moved,
like
the
trees
of
the
wood shaking
in
the
wind.
\VS{3}Then
the
Lord
said
to
Isaiah,
Go
out
now,
you
and
Shear-jashub,
your
son,
and
you
will
come across
Ahaz
at
the
end
of
the stream
flowing
from
the higher
pool,
in
the
highway
of
the washerman's
field;
\VS{4}And
say
to
him,
Take
care
and
be
quiet;
have
no
fear,
and
do
not
let
your
heart
be feeble,
because
of
these
two ends
of
smoking fire-wood,
because
of
the bitter
wrath
of
Rezin
and
Aram,
and
of
the
son
of
Remaliah.
\VS{5}Because
Aram
has made
evil designs
against
you,
saying,
\VS{6}Let
us
go
up
against
Judah, troubling
her,
and forcing
our way
into
her,
and let
us
put
up
a
king
in
her,
even
the
son
of
Tabeel:
\VS{7}This
is
the
word
of
the
Lord
God:
This design
will
not
come
about
or
be effected.
\VS{8}For
the
head
of
Aram
is
Damascus,
and
the
head
of
Damascus
is
Rezin (and
in sixty-five
years
from
now
Ephraim
will
be broken,
and
will no longer
be
a
people):
\VS{9}And
the
head
of
Ephraim
is
Samaria,
and
the
head
of
Samaria
is Remaliah's
son.
If
you
will
not
have
faith,
your kingdom
will
be broken.
\VS{10}And
Isaiah
said
again
to
Ahaz,
\VS{11}Make
a
request
to
the
Lord
your
God
for
a
sign,
a
sign
in
the
deep places
of
the underworld,
or
in
the
high heavens.
\VS{12}But
Ahaz
said,
I
will
not
put
the
Lord
to
the
test
by
making
such
a
request.
\VS{13}And
he
said,
Give ear
now,
O
family
of
David:
is
it
not
enough
that
you
are driving
men
to disgust?
will
you
do
the
same
to
my
God?
\VS{14}For
this
cause
the
Lord
himself
will
give
you
a
sign;
a
young
woman
is
now
with
child,
and
she
will
give
birth
to
a
son,
and
she
will
give
him
the
name
Immanuel.
\VS{15}Butter
and
honey
will be
his
food, when
he
is old
enough
to
make
a decision between
evil
and
good.
\VS{16}For
before
the
child
is
old enough
to
make
a decision between
evil
and
good,
the
land
whose
two
kings
you
are
now fearing
will
have become waste.
\VS{17}The
Lord
is
about
to send
on
you,
and
on
your
people,
and
on
your father's
house,
such
a
time
of trouble
as
there
has
not
been
from
the
days
of
the separating
of
Ephraim
from
Judah;
even
the
coming
of
the
king
of
Assyria.
\VS{18}And
it
will
be
in
that
day
that
the
Lord
will make
a piping sound
for
the
fly
which
is
in
the
end
of
the
rivers
of
Egypt,
and
for
the
bee
which
is
in
the
land
of
Assyria.
\VS{19}And
they
will
come, covering
all
the waste
valleys,
and
the holes
of
the
rocks,
and
the thorns,
and
all
the watering-places.
\VS{20}In
that
day
will
the
Lord take
away
the
hair
of
the
head
and
of
the
feet,
as
well
as
the
hair
of
the face,
with
a blade got
for
a price
from
the
other
side
of
the
River;
even
with
the
king
of
Assyria.
\VS{21}And
it
will
be
in
that
day
that
a
man
will
give food
to
a
young cow
and
two
sheep;
\VS{22}And
they
will
give
so
much
milk
that
he
will
be able
to
have
butter
for
his
food:
for
butter
and
honey
will
be
the
food
of
all
who
are still living
in
the
land.
\VS{23}And
it
will
be
in
that
day
that
in
every
place
where
before
there
were
a
thousand
vines valued
at
a
thousand
shekels
of
silver,
there
will
be
nothing
but blackberries
and
thorns.
\VS{24}Men
will
come
there
with
bows
and
arrows,
because
all
the
land
will
be
full
of blackberries
and
thorns.
\VS{25}And
they
will send
out
the
oxen
and
the
sheep
on
all
the
hills
which
before
were worked
with
the spade, ...
fear
of blackberries
and
thorns.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
Lord
said
to
me,
Take
a
great writing-board,
and
on
it
put
down
in common
letters,
Maher-shalal-hash-baz;
\VS{2}And take true
witnesses
to
the writing,
Uriah
the
priest,
and
Zechariah,
the
son
of
Jeberechiah.
\VS{3}And
I
went
in
to
my wife,
and
she
became
with
child,
and
gave
birth
to
a
son.
Then
the
Lord
said
to
me,
Give
him
the
name
Maher-shalal-hash-baz,
\VS{4}For
before
the
child
is
able
to say,
Father,
or,
Mother,
the
wealth
of
Damascus
and
the
goods
of
Samaria
will
be
taken
away
by
the
king
of
Assyria.
\VS{5}And
the
Lord
said
again
to
me,
\VS{6}Because
this
people
will
have nothing
to
do
with
the softly-flowing
waters
of Shiloah,
and
have fear
of
Rezin
and Remaliah's
son;
\VS{7}For
this cause
the
Lord
is sending
on
them
the
waters
of
the
River, deep
and
strong,
even
the
king
of
Assyria
and
all
his
glory:
and
it
will
come
up
through
all
its
streams, overflowing
all
its edges:
\VS{8}And
it
will
come
on
into
Judah; rushing
on
and
overflowing,
till
the waters
are
up
to
the
neck; ***and
his outstretched
wings
will
be
covering
the
land
from side
to side:
for God
is
with us.
\VS{9}Have knowledge, O
peoples,
and
be
in fear;
give
ear,
all
you far-off parts
of
the
earth:
\VS{10}Let
your
designs
be formed,
and
they
will
come
to
nothing;
give
your
orders,
and
they
will
not
be effected:
for
God
is
with
us.
\VS{11}For
the
Lord, controlling
me
with
a
strong
hand,
gave
me
orders
not
to go
in
the
way
of
this
people,
saying,
\VS{12}Do
not
say,
It
is holy,
about
everything
of
which
this
people
says,
It
is holy;
and
do
not
be
in
fear
of
what
they go
in
fear
of.
\VS{13}But let
the
Lord
of
armies
be
holy
to
you,
and go
in
fear
of
him, giving honour
to
him.
\VS{14}And
he
will
be
for
a
holy
place:
but
for
a
stone
of falling
and
a
rock
of trouble
to
the
two
houses
of
Israel,
and
to
the
men
of
Jerusalem,
for
a net
in
which
they
may
be
taken.
\VS{15}And numbers
of
them,
falling
on
the stone,
will
be
broken,
and
will
be
taken
in
the net.
\VS{16}Let my
teaching be kept secret:
and my
words be given
to my
disciples only.
\VS{17}And
I
will
be
waiting
for
the
Lord, whose
face
is veiled
from
the
house
of
Jacob,
and
I
will
be
looking
for
him.
\VS{18}See,
I
and
the
children
whom
the
Lord
has
given
me,
are
for
signs
and
for
wonders
in
Israel
from
the
Lord
of
armies,
whose resting-place
is
in
Mount
Zion.
\VS{19}And
when
they
say
to
you,
Make request
for
us
to
those
who
have control
of spirits,
and
to
those wise
in secret arts,
who
make hollow bird-like sounds;
is
it
not right
for
a
people
to
make request
to
their
gods,
to
make request
for
the
living
to
the
dead?
\VS{20}Then
say
to
them, Put
your faith
in
the
teaching
and
the witness. ...
If
they
do
not
say
such
things. ...
For
him
there
is
no
dawn. ...
\VS{21}And
he
will
go
through
the land
in bitter trouble
and
in need
of food;
and
when
he
is unable
to get food,
he
will
become
angry,
cursing
his
king
and
his
God,
and
his eyes
will
be
turned
to
heaven
on
high;
\VS{22}And
he
will
be looking
down
on
the
earth,
and
there
will
be
trouble
and dark clouds, black night
where
there
is no seeing.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In earlier times
he
made
the
land
of Zebulun
and
the
land
of Naphtali
of small value,
but
after
that
he gave
it glory,
by
the
way
of
the sea,
on
the other side
of Jordan, Galilee
of
the
nations.
\VS{2}The
people
who
went
in
the dark
have seen
a
great light,
and
for
those
who
were living
in
the
land
of
the deepest night,
the light
is shining.
\VS{3}You
have made
them very glad, increasing
their joy.
They
are glad
before
you
as men
are glad
in
the
time
of getting
in
the grain,
or
when
they
make division
of
the goods taken
in war.
\VS{4}For
by
your hand
the yoke
on
his neck
and
the rod
on
his back,
even
the rod
of
his cruel master,
have
been broken,
as
in
the day
of Midian.
\VS{5}For every boot
of
the
man
of war
with
his sounding step,
and
the clothing rolled
in blood,
will
be
for burning, food
for
the fire.
\VS{6}For
to
us
a child
has
come,
to
us
a son
is given;
and
the
government
has
been placed
in
his hands;
and
he
has
been named Wise Guide, Strong
God, Father
for
ever, Prince
of
Peace.
\VS{7}Of
the increase
of
his
rule
and
of peace there
will
be no end,
on
the seat
of
David,
and
in
his kingdom;
to make
it strong, supporting
it
with wise decision
and righteousness, now
and
for ever.
By
the fixed
purpose
of
the
Lord
of armies
this
will
be done.
\VS{8}The Lord
has
sent
a
word
to
Jacob,
and
it
has come
on
Israel;
\VS{9}And all
the people
will
have experience
of
it, even Ephraim
and
the men
of Samaria,
who say
in
the pride
of
their uplifted hearts,
\VS{10}The bricks
have come
down,
but we
will put
up buildings
of cut stone
in
their place:
the sycamores
are cut
down,
but
they
will
be changed
to cedars.
\VS{11}For
this
cause
the Lord
has
made strong
the haters
of
Israel, driving
them
on
to
make war
against
him;
\VS{12}Aram
on
the east,
and
the Philistines
on
the west,
who
have
come against
Israel
with open mouths.
For
all
this
his wrath
is
not
turned
away,
but
his hand
is stretched
out
still.
\VS{13}But
the heart
of
the people
was not turned
to
him
who sent punishment
on
them,
and
they
made no prayer
to
the
Lord
of armies.
\VS{14}For
this cause
the Lord
took
away
from Israel
head
and
tail,
high
and low,
in
one day.
\VS{15}The man
who
is honoured
and responsible
is
the head,
and
the prophet
who gives false teaching
is
the tail.
\VS{16}For
the guides
of
this
people
are
the
cause
of
their wandering
from
the
right
way,
and
those
who
are guided
by
them
come
to destruction.
\VS{17}For
this cause
the Lord
will
have no pleasure
in
their young men,
and no pity
on
their widows
and
the children without fathers:
for
they are
all haters
of God
and evil-doers,
and foolish words come
from every mouth.
For
all
this
his wrath
is
not turned
away,
but
his hand
is stretched
out still.
\VS{18}For evil
was
burning
like
a
fire;
the blackberries
and thorns
were
burned
up;
the thick woods
took
fire, rolling
up
in dark clouds
of smoke.
\VS{19}The land
was dark
with
the wrath
of
the
Lord
of
armies:
the
people
were
like
those
who take men's
flesh
for
food.
\VS{20}On
the right
a
man
was cutting
off bits
and
was
still
in need;
on
the
left
a
man
took
a meal
but
had
not
enough;
no
man
had pity
on
his brother;
every
man
was
making
a meal
of
the flesh
of
his neighbour.
\VS{21}Manasseh was making a meal of Ephraim, and Ephraim of Manasseh; and together they were attacking Judah. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Cursed
are
those
who make
evil
decisions,
and
the writers
who make
the records
of
their cruel acts:
\VS{2}Who do wrong
to
the
poor
in
their
cause,
and
take
away
the
right
of
the crushed among
my
people,
so
that
they
may
have
the property
of
widows,
and get under
their power
those
who
have no father.
\VS{3}And
what
will
you
do
in
the
day
of
punishment,
and
in
the
destruction
which
is
coming
from
far?
to
whom
will
you
go
for
help,
and
what
will become
of
your
glory?
\VS{4}...
For
all
this
his
wrath
is
not
turned
away,
but
his
hand
is
stretched
out
still.
\VS{5}Ho! Assyrian,
the
rod
of
my
wrath,
the instrument
of
my
punishment!
\VS{6}I
will
send
him
against
a
nation
of wrongdoers,
and
against
the
people
of
my
wrath
I
will
give
him
orders,
to
take
their wealth
in war, crushing
them
down
like
the dust
in
the
streets.
\VS{7}But
this
is
not
what
is
in
his
mind,
and
this
is
not
his design;
but
his
purpose
is
destruction,
and
the cutting
off
of
more
and
more
nations.
\VS{8}For
he
says,
Are
not
all
my
captains
kings?
\VS{9}Will
not
the fate
of Calno
be
like
that
of
Carchemish?
is
not
Hamath
as
Arpad?
is
not
Samaria
as
Damascus?
\VS{10}As
my
hand
has
come
on
the
kingdoms
of
the
images,
whose pictured
images
were more
in number than
those
of
Jerusalem
and
Samaria;
\VS{11}So,
as
I
have
done
to
Samaria
and
her
images,
I
will
do
to
Jerusalem
and
her
images.
\VS{12}For
this
cause
it
will
be
that,
when
the
purpose
of
the
Lord
against
Mount
Zion
and
Jerusalem
is
complete,
I
will send
punishment
on
the
pride
of
the
heart
of
the
king
of
Assyria,
and
on
the
glory
of
his uplifted
eyes.
\VS{13}For
he
has
said,
By
the
strength
of
my
hand
I
have
done
it,
and
by
my knowledge,
for
I am
wise:
and
I
have
taken
away
the limits
of
the peoples' lands,
and
the stores
of
their wealth
have become mine;
and
I
have
made towns low
in
the dust, sending destruction
on
those
living
in
them;
\VS{14}And
I
have
put
my
hands
on
the
wealth
of
the
peoples,
as
on
the
place
where
a
bird
has
put
her
eggs;
and
as
a
man
may
take
the
eggs
from which
a
bird
has
gone,
so
I
have
taken
all
the
earth
for
myself:
and
not
a
wing
was moved,
and
not
a
mouth
gave
out
a
sound.
\VS{15}Will
the
axe say high-sounding words
against
him
who
is using
it,
or
the blade
be full
of pride
against
him
who
is cutting
with
it?
As
if
a
rod
had
the power
of shaking
him
who
is using
it,
or
as
if
a
stick might
take
up
him
who
is
not
wood.
\VS{16}For
this cause
the
Lord,
the
Lord
of
armies,
will make
his fat become wasted;
and
in
his inner parts
a
fire
will
be lighted
like
a
burning
flame.
\VS{17}And
the
light
of
Israel
will
be
for
a
fire,
and
his
Holy
One
for
a
flame: wasting
and
burning
up
his
thorns
in
one
day.
\VS{18}And
he
will
put
an
end
to
the
glory
of
his
woods
and
of
his planted
fields,
soul
and
body together;
and
it
will
be
as
when
a
man
is wasted
by disease.
\VS{19}And
the
rest
of
the
trees
of
his
wood
will
be small
in
number,
so
that
a
child
may put
them
down
in
writing.
\VS{20}And
it
will
be
in
that
day
that
the
rest
of
Israel,
and
those
of
Jacob
who
have
come safely
through
these troubles,
will
no
longer
go
for help
to
him whose rod
was
on
their
back,
but
their
faith
will
be
in
the
Lord,
the
Holy
One
of
Israel.
\VS{21}The
rest, even
the
rest
of
Jacob,
will
come
back
to
the
Strong
God.
\VS{22}For
though
your
people,
O
Israel,
are
as
the
sand
of
the
sea,
only
a small number
will
come
back:
for
the
destruction
is fixed,
overflowing
in
righteousness.
\VS{23}For
the
Lord,
the
Lord
of
armies,
is
about
to
make
destruction
complete
in
all
the
land.
\VS{24}For
this cause
the
Lord,
the
Lord
of
armies,
says,
O
my
people
living
in
Zion,
have
no
fear
of
the Assyrian,
even
if
his
rod comes
on
your back,
and
his stick
is
lifted
up
as
in
Egypt.
\VS{25}For
in
a
very short
time
my passion
will
be
over,
and
my
wrath
will
be turned
to
their
destruction.
\VS{26}And
the
Lord
of
armies
will
be shaking
a
whip
against
him,
as
when
he overcame
Midian
at
the
rock
of
Oreb:
and
his
rod
will
be
lifted
up
against
them
as
it
was
against
the
Egyptians.
\VS{27}And
in
that
day
the weight
which
he
put
on
your
back
will
be
taken
away,
and
his
yoke broken
from
off
your
neck.
\VS{28}He has
gone
up
from Pene-Rimmon,
he has
come
to
Aiath;
he has
gone past
Migron,
at
Michmash
he puts
his forces
in order.
\VS{29}They have gone
across
the mountain;
Geba will be our resting-place tonight,
they say:
Ramah
is shaking with
fear;
Gibeah
of
Saul
has gone
in
flight.
\VS{30}Give
a loud
cry,
daughter
of
Gallim; let
Laishah
give ear; let
Anathoth
give answer
to
her.
\VS{31}Madmenah
has gone;
the men
of
Gebim are putting
their goods
in
a safe place.
\VS{32}This very
day
he
is stopping
at
Nob;
he
is shaking
his
hand
against
the
mountain
of
the
daughter
of Zion,
the
hill
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{33}See,
the
Lord,
the
Lord
of
armies,
is cutting
off
his
branches
with
a great noise,
and
his strong ones
are falling
and
his
high ones
are
coming
down.
\VS{34}And he
is cutting
down
the thick places
of
the wood
with
an
axe,
and
Lebanon
with its tall trees
is coming
down.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And there
will
come
a
rod
out
of
the broken
tree
of
Jesse,
and
a
branch
out
of
his
roots
will give
fruit.
\VS{2}And
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
will
be
resting
on
him,
the
spirit
of
wisdom
and good sense,
the
spirit
of
wise guiding
and
strength,
the
spirit
of
knowledge
and
of
the
fear
of
the
Lord;
\VS{3}And
he
will
not
be guided
in
his
judging
by
what
he sees,
or give
decisions
by
the
hearing
of
his
ears:
\VS{4}But
he
will do
right
in
the
cause
of
the
poor,
and give wise
decisions
for those
in
the
land
who
are
in need;
and
the
rod
of
his
mouth
will come
down
on
the
cruel,
and
with
the
breath
of
his
lips
he
will
put
an
end
to
the evil-doer.
\VS{5}And
righteousness
will
be
the cord
of
his robe,
and good
faith
the band round
his breast.
\VS{6}And
the
wolf
will
be
living
with
the
lamb,
and
the
leopard
will
take
his
rest
with
the
young
goat;
and
the
lion
will
take grass
for food
like
the ox;
and
the
young
lion
will go
with
the
young ones
of
the herd;
and
a
little
child
will
be
their guide.
\VS{7}And
the
cow
and
the
bear
will
be friends while
their
young ones
are sleeping
together.
\VS{8}And
the
child
at
the breast
will
be playing
by
the hole
of
the snake,
and
the older
child
will
put
his
hand
on
the bright eye
of
the poison-snake.
\VS{9}There
will
be
no cause
of pain
or
destruction
in
all
my
holy
mountain:
for
the
earth
will
be
full
of
the
knowledge
of
the
Lord
as
the
sea
is
covered
by
the
waters.
\VS{10}And
in
that
day,
the eyes
of
the
nations
will
be
turned
to
the
root
of
Jesse
which
will
be lifted
up
as
the flag
of
the
peoples;
and
his resting-place
will
be
glory.
\VS{11}And
in
that
day
the
hand
of
the
Lord
will
be stretched
out
the
second
time
to
get back
the
rest
of
his
people,
from
Assyria,
and
from
Egypt,
and
from
Pathros,
and
from
Cush,
and
from
Elam,
and
from
Shinar,
and
from
Hamath,
and
from
the sea-lands.
\VS{12}And
he
will
put
up
a flag
as
a sign
to
the
nations,
and
he
will get
together those
of
Israel
who
had
been sent
away,
and
the wandering ones
of
Judah,
from
the
four
ends
of
the
earth.
\VS{13}And
the
envy
of
Ephraim
will
be
gone,
and
those
who
make
trouble
for
Judah
will
come
to
an end:
Ephraim
will
have
no
more
envy
of
Judah,
and there
will
be
an end
of Judah's hate
for
Ephraim.
\VS{14}And
they
will
be
united
in attacking
the
Philistines
on
the
west,
and
together
they
will
take
the goods
of
the
children
of
the
east:
their
hand
will
be
on
Edom
and
Moab;
and
the
children
of
Ammon
will
be
under
their
rule.
\VS{15}And
the
Lord
will
make
the
tongue
of
the
Egyptian
sea
completely dry;
and
with
his burning
wind
his
hand
will
be stretched
out
over
the
River,
and
it
will
be parted
into
seven
streams,
so
that men
may go
over
it
with dry feet.
\VS{16}And
there
will
be
a
highway
for
the
rest
of
his
people
from
Assyria;
as
there
was
for
Israel
in
the
day
when
he
came
up
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
in
that
day
you
will
say
I
will
give
praise
to
you,
O
Lord;
for
though
you
were
angry
with
me,
your
wrath
is
turned
away,
and
I
am
comforted.
\VS{2}See,
God
is
my
salvation;
I
will
have faith
in
the
Lord,
without
fear:
for
the
Lord Jah
is
my
strength
and
song;
and
he
has
become
my
salvation.
\VS{3}So
with
joy
will
you get
water
out
of
the
springs
of
salvation.
\VS{4}And
in
that
day
you
will
say,
Give
praise
to
the
Lord,
let
his
name
be honoured,
give
word
of
his doings
among
the
peoples,
say
that
his
name
is
lifted up.
\VS{5}Make
a
song
to
the
Lord;
for
he
has
done noble
things: give news
of
them
through
all
the
earth.
\VS{6}Let
your voice
be sounding
in
a
cry
of
joy, O
daughter
of
Zion,
for
great
is
the
Holy
One
of
Israel
among
you.

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The word
of
the Lord about
Babylon
which
Isaiah,
the
son
of
Amoz,
saw.
\VS{2}Put
up
a flag
on
a clear mountain-top,
make
a
loud
outcry
to
them,
give
directions
with
the
hand,
so
that
they may
go
into
the
doors
of
the great ones.
\VS{3}I
have
given
orders
to
my
holy
ones,
I
have
sent out
my
men
of war, those
of mine
who take
pride
in
their power,
to
give effect
to
my
wrath.
\VS{4}The
noise
of
great numbers
in
the
mountains,
like
the
noise
of
a strong
people!
The
noise
of
the
kingdoms
of
the
nations meeting
together!
The
Lord
of
armies
is numbering
his
forces
for
war.
\VS{5}They
come
from
a
far
country,
from
the
farthest part
of
heaven,
even
the
Lord
and
the
instruments
of
his
wrath,
with destruction
for
all
the
land.
\VS{6}Send
out
a cry
of grief;
for
the
day
of
the
Lord
is
near;
it
comes
as
destruction
from
the Most High.
\VS{7}For
this cause
all
hands
will
be
feeble,
and
every
heart
of
man
be turned
to water;
\VS{8}Their hearts
will
be full
of fear;
pains
and sorrows
will overcome
them;
they
will
be
in pain
like
a woman
in
childbirth;
they
will
be
shocked
at
one
another;
their
faces
will
be
like
flames.
\VS{9}See,
the
day
of
the
Lord
is
coming,
cruel,
with
wrath
and
burning passion:
to
make
the
land
a
waste, driving
the
sinners
in
it
to
destruction.
\VS{10}For
the
stars
of
heaven
and
its bright
armies
will
not give
their
light:
the
sun
will
be
made
dark
in
his journey
through
the
heaven,
and
the
moon
will keep
back
her
light.
\VS{11}And
I
will send
punishment
on
the
world
for
its
evil,
and
on
the
sinners
for
their wrongdoing;
and
I
will
put
an end
to
all
pride,
and
will
make
low
the power
of
the
cruel.
\VS{12}I
will
make
men so small
in number, that
a
man
will
be harder
to get than
gold, even the best
gold
of
Ophir.
\VS{13}For
this cause
the
heavens
will
be shaking,
and
the
earth
will
be
moved
out
of
its
place,
in
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
of
armies,
and
in
the
day
of
his
burning passion.
\VS{14}And
it
will
be
that,
like
a roe
in
flight,
and
like wandering
sheep,
they
will
go
every
man
to
his
people
and
to
his
land.
\VS{15}Everyone
who
is
overtaken
will
have
a spear put
through
him,
and
everyone
who goes
in flight
will
be put
to
the
sword.
\VS{16}Their young
children
will
be broken up
before
their
eyes;
their goods
will
be taken away,
and
their
wives
made
the property
of others.
\VS{17}See,
I
am driving
the
Medes
against
them,
who put
no
value
on
silver
and
have
no
pleasure
in
gold.
\VS{18}In
their hands
are
bows
and spears;
they
are cruel, violently putting
the
young
men
to death,
and crushing
the
young women;
they
have
no
pity
for
children,
and
no
mercy
for
the
fruit
of
the
body.
\VS{19}And
Babylon,
the
glory
of
kingdoms,
the
beautiful town which
is
the
pride
of
the Chaldaeans,
will
be
like God's destruction
of
Sodom
and
Gomorrah.
\VS{20}People
will
never
be
living
in
it again,
and
it
will
have
no
more men
from
generation
to
generation:
the Arab
will
not put
up
his
tent
there;
and those
who keep sheep
will
not make
it
a resting-place
for
their flocks.
\VS{21}But
the beasts
of
the waste land
will
have
their holes
there;
and
the
houses
will
be
full
of crying jackals,
and
ostriches
will
have
their
place
there,
and evil spirits
will
be dancing
there.
\VS{22}And
wolves
will
be answering
one
another
in
their
towers,
and
jackals
in
their houses
of pleasure:
her
time
is
near,
and
her
days
of power
will quickly
be ended.

\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}For
the
Lord
will
have
mercy
on
Jacob,
and
will
again
make
Israel
his special
people,
and
will
put
them
in
their
land;
and
the man
from
a strange
country
will take
his
place
among
them
and
be joined
to
the
family
of
Jacob.
\VS{2}And
the
people
will
take
them
with
them
to
their
place:
and
the children
of
Israel
will
give
them
a heritage
in
the Lord's
land
as men-servants
and women-servants, making
them prisoners
whose prisoners
they
were;
and
they
will
be rulers
over
their
masters.
\VS{3}And
it
will
be,
in
the
day
when
the
Lord
gives
you
rest
from
your sorrow,
and
from
your trouble,
and
from
the
hard yoke
which
they
had
put
on
you,
\VS{4}That
you
will
take
up
this bitter song
against
the
king
of
Babylon,
and
say,
How
has
the cruel overseer come
to
an end!
He
who
was
lifted
up
in pride
is cut
off;
\VS{5}The stick
of
the evil-doers,
the
rod
of
the
rulers,
is
broken
by
the
Lord;
\VS{6}He
whose
rod
was
on
the
peoples
with
an unending
wrath, ruling
the
nations
in passion,
with
an uncontrolled
rule.
\VS{7}All
the
earth
is
at
rest
and
is
quiet:
they
are bursting
into song.
\VS{8}Even
the
trees
of
the wood
are
glad
over
you,
the
trees
of
Lebanon, saying,
From
the
time
of
your fall
no wood-cutter
has
come
up
against
us
with
an axe.
\VS{9}The underworld
is
moved
at
your
coming:
the shades
of
the
dead
are
awake
before
you,
even
the strong ones
of
the
earth;
all
the
kings
of
the
world
have
got
up
from
their seats.
\VS{10}They
all make
answer
and
say
to
you,
Have
you become feeble
like
us?
have
you
been
made
even
as
we
are?
\VS{11}Your
pride
has
gone
down
into
the underworld,
and
the noise
of
your instruments
of
music;
the
worms
are
under
you,
and
your body is covered
with
them.
\VS{12}How great
is
your
fall
from
heaven, O shining
one,
son
of
the
morning!
How
are
you
cut
down
to
the
earth,
low
among
the dead bodies!
\VS{13}For
you
said
in
your
heart,
I
will
go
up
to
heaven,
I
will
make
my
seat
higher
than
the
stars
of
God;
I
will
take
my
place
on
the
mountain
of
the meeting-place
of
the
gods,
in
the inmost
parts
of
the
north.
\VS{14}I will
go higher
than
the
clouds;
I will be
like
the Most
High.
\VS{15}But
you
will
come
down
to
the underworld, even
to its inmost
parts.
\VS{16}Those
who
see
you
will
be
looking
on
you
with care,
they
will
be
in deep thought, saying,
Is
this
the troubler
of
the
earth,
the shaker
of
kingdoms?
\VS{17}Who
made
the
world
a waste, overturning
its
towns;
who
did
not
let
his
prisoners loose
from
the prison-house.
\VS{18}All
the
kings
of
the earth
are
at
rest
in
glory,
every
man
in
his
house,
\VS{19}But
you,
like
a birth
before
its time,
are stretched
out
with no resting-place
in
the earth;
clothed
with
the
bodies
of
the
dead who
have been
put
to
the
sword, who
go
down
to
the lowest parts
of
the underworld;
a
dead body, crushed under foot.
\VS{20}As
for
your fathers,
you
will
not
be
united
with
them
in
their resting-place,
because
you
have
been
the
cause
of
destruction
to
your
land,
and
of death
to
your
people;
the
seed
of
the evil-doer
will
have
no
place
in
the memory
of man.
\VS{21}Make
ready
a
place
of death
for
his
children,
because
of
the evil-doing
of
their
father;
so
that
they
may
not
come
up
and
take
the
earth
for
their heritage, covering
the
face
of
the
world
with waste places.
\VS{22}For
I
will
come
up
against
them,
says
the
Lord
of
armies, cutting
off
from
Babylon
name
and
offspring, son
and son's son,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{23}And
I
will
make
you
a heritage
for
the
hedgehog,
and
pools
of
water:
and
I
will go through
it
with
the brush
of
destruction,
says
the
Lord
of
armies.
\VS{24}The
Lord
has
taken
an
oath,
saying,
My design
will
certainly
come
about,
and
my purpose
will
be effected:
\VS{25}To let
the Assyrian
be
broken
in
my
land,
and
crushed
under foot
on
my
mountains:
there
will
his
yoke
be
taken
away
from
them,
and
his rule
over
them come
to
an end.
\VS{26}This
is
the
purpose
for
all
the
earth:
and
this
is
the
hand
stretched
out
over
all
nations.
\VS{27}For
it
is
the purpose
of
the
Lord
of
armies,
and
who
will
make
it
of
no effect?
when
his
hand
is
stretched
out,
by
whom
may
it
be
turned
back?
\VS{28}In
the
year
of
the
death
of
King
Ahaz
this word
came
to
the prophet:
\VS{29}Be
not
glad,
O
Philistia,
all
of
you,
because
the
rod
which
was
on
you
is
broken:
for
out
of
the snake's
root
will
come
a poison-snake,
and
its
fruit
will
be
a winged poison-snake.
\VS{30}And
the poorest
of
the land
will have food,
and
those
in need
will
be given
a safe resting-place:
but
your seed
will come
to an end
for need
of food,
and
the
rest
of you
will
be
put
to
the sword.
\VS{31}Send
out
a
cry, O door!
Make sounds
of sorrow, O
town!
All
your land
has
come
to
nothing, O
Philistia;
for
there
comes
a
smoke
out
of
the
north,
and
everyone keeps
his
place
in
the
line.
\VS{32}What
answer,
then,
will
my
people
give
to
the representatives
of
the
nation?
That
the
Lord
is
the builder
of
Zion,
and
she
will
be
a safe place
for
the
poor
of
his
people.

\par }\Chap{15}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The word about
Moab.
For
in
a
night
Ar
of
Moab
has become
waste,
and
is seen no longer;
for
in
a
night
Kir
of
Moab
has become
waste,
and
is seen no longer.
\VS{2}The daughter
of
Dibon
has
gone
up
to
the
high
places,
weeping:
Moab
is sounding
her cry
of
sorrow
over
Nebo,
and
over
Medeba:
everywhere
the
hair
of
the
head
and
of
the face
is
cut
off.
\VS{3}In
their
streets
they are covering
themselves
with haircloth:
on
the tops
of
their houses,
and
in
their public
places,
there
is
crying
and bitter
weeping.
\VS{4}Heshbon
is
crying
out,
and
Elealeh;
their
voice
is
sounding
even
to
Jahaz:
for
this cause
the
heart
of
Moab
is shaking;
his
soul
is shaking
with fear.
\VS{5}My
heart
is
crying
out
for
Moab;
her
people
go
in flight
to
Zoar,
and
to Eglath-shelishiyah:
for
they
go
up
with
weeping
by
the
slope
of
Luhith;
on
the
way
to
Horonaim
they
send
up
a
cry
of
destruction.
\VS{6}The
waters
of
Nimrim
will
become
dry:
for
the
grass
is burned
up,
the young
grass
is coming
to
an
end, every
green
thing
is dead.
\VS{7}For
this cause
they
will
take
away
their wealth,
and
the stores
they
have got
together,
over
the
stream
of
the water-plants.
\VS{8}For
the
cry
has gone
round
the limits
of
Moab;
as
far
as
to
Eglaim
and
Beer-elim.
\VS{9}For
the
waters
of
Dimon
are
full
of
blood:
and I'm sending
even
more
on
Moab,
a
lion
on
those
of
Moab
who go
in flight,
and
on
the
rest
of
the
land.

\par }\Chap{16}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
they
will
send ...
to
the
mountain
of
the
daughter
of
Zion.
\VS{2}For
the
daughters
of
Moab
will
be
like wandering
birds,
like
a
place
from which
the young
birds
have
gone
in flight,
at
the ways across
the
Arnon.
\VS{3}Give wise directions,
make
a
decision;
let
your
shade
be
as
night
in full day:
keep safe those
who
are
in flight;
do
not
give
up
the wandering ones.
\VS{4}Let
those
who
have
been forced
out
of
Moab
have
a resting-place
with
you;
be
a cover
to
them
from
him
who
is making
waste
their
land: till
the cruel ones
are cut
off,
and wasting
has
come
to
an
end,
and
those
who take pleasure
in crushing
the poor
are
gone
from
the
land.
\VS{5}Then
a king's
seat
will
be based
on mercy,
and one
will
be
seated
on
it
in
the
tent
of
David
for ever;
judging uprightly,
and quick
to do
righteousness.
\VS{6}We
have
had word
of
the
pride
of
Moab,
how
great
it
is;
how
he
is lifted up
in
pride
and passion:
his high words
about
himself
are false.
\VS{7}For
this cause
everyone
in
Moab
will give cries
of grief
for
Moab: crushed
to
the earth,
they
will
be weeping
for
the
men
of
Kir-hareseth.
\VS{8}For
the
fields
of
Heshbon
are waste,
the
vine
of
Sibmah
is dead;
the
lords
of
nations
were
overcome
by
the produce
of
her
vines;
her vine-plants
went
as
far
as
Jazer,
and
came
even
to
the waste land;
her branches
were stretched
out
to
the
sea.
\VS{9}For
this cause
my
sorrow
for
the
vine
of
Sibmah
will
be
like
the
weeping
for
Jazer:
my eyes are dropping
water
on
you, O
Heshbon
and
Elealeh!
For
they are sounding
the war-cry
over
your
summer fruits
and
the getting
in
of
your grain;
\VS{10}And
all
joy
is
gone;
no
longer
are
they glad
for
the
fertile
field;
and
in
the vine-gardens there
are
no songs
or sounds
of
joy:
the crushing
of grapes has
come
to
an end,
and
its glad
cry has
been stopped.
\VS{11}For
this cause
the cords
of
my
heart are sounding
for
Moab,
and
I am full
of
sorrow
for
Kir-heres.
\VS{12}And
when
Moab
goes
up
to
the
high
place,
and
makes prayer
in
the house
of
his
god,
it
will
have
no effect.
\VS{13}This
is
the
word
which
the
Lord
said
about
Moab
in
the past.
\VS{14}But
now
the
Lord
has
said,
In
three
years,
the
years
of
a
servant working
for payment,
the
glory
of
Moab,
all
that
great
people,
will
be turned
to shame,
and
the
rest
of
Moab
will
be
very
small
and
without honour.

\par }\Chap{17}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The word
about
Damascus.
See,
they
have
made
Damascus
a
town no
longer;
it
has
become
a waste
place.
\VS{2}Her
towns
are unpeopled
for ever;
there
the
flocks
take
their
rest
in peace,
without
fear.
\VS{3}The strong tower
has
gone
from
Ephraim,
and
the
kingdom
from
Damascus:
the
rest
of
Aram
will
come
to destruction,
and
be
made
like
the
glory
of
the
children
of
Israel,
says
the
Lord
of
armies.
\VS{4}And
it
will
be
in
that
day
that
the
glory
of
Jacob
will
be
made small,
and
the strength
of
his
body
will
become feeble.
\VS{5}And
it
will
be
like
a man cutting
the growth
of
his
grain, pulling
together
the
heads
of
the
grain
with
his
arm; even
as
when
they get
in
the
grain
in
the
valley
of
Rephaim.
\VS{6}But
it
will
be
like
a
man
shaking
an olive-tree, something
will still
be
there,
two
or
three berries
on
the
top
of
the highest branch,
four
or
five
on
the outside
branches
of
a fertile
tree,
says
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{7}In
that
day
a man's heart
will
be
turned
to
his Maker,
and
his
eyes
to
the
Holy
One
of
Israel.
\VS{8}He
will
not
be
looking
to
the
altars,
the
work
of
his
hands,
or
to
the wood pillars
or
to
the sun-images
which
his
fingers
have
made.
\VS{9}In
that
day
your
towns
will
be
like
the
waste places
of
the Hivites
and
the Amorites
which
the
children
of
Israel
took
for
a heritage,
and
they
will
come
to destruction.
\VS{10}For
you
have
not given honour
to
the
God
of
your
salvation,
and
have
not kept
in
mind
the
Rock
of
your
strength;
for
this cause
you made
a garden
of Adonis,
and
put
in
it
the vine-cuttings
of
a
strange
god;
\VS{11}In
the
day
of
your
planting
you
were watching its growth,
and
in
the
morning
your
seed
was flowering:
but its fruit
is wasted away
in
the
day
of grief
and bitter
sorrow.
\VS{12}Ah!
the voice
of
peoples,
like
the loud sounding
of
the
seas,
and
the thundering
of
great
nations rushing
on
like
the bursting
out
of
waters!
\VS{13}But
he
will
put
a stop
to
them,
and make
them go
in
flight
far
away, driving
them
like
the waste
of
the grain
on
the
tops
of
the
mountains
before
the
wind,
and
like
the circling
dust
before
the storm.
\VS{14}In
the
evening
there
is fear,
and
in
the
morning
they
are
gone.
This
is
the fate
of
those
who
take
our goods,
and
the
reward
of
those
who violently
take
our
property
for themselves.

\par }\Chap{18}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Ho!
land
of
the sounding
of
wings,
on
the
other
side
of
the
rivers
of
Ethiopia:
\VS{2}Which
sends
its representatives
by
the
sea,
even
in ships
of
papyrus
on
the
waters.
Go
back quickly, O representatives,
to
a
nation
tall
and smooth,
to
a
people causing
fear
through
all
their history;
a
strong
nation, crushing
down
its haters,
whose
land
is cut
through
by
rivers.
\VS{3}All
you peoples
of
the
world,
and
you
who
are
living
on
the
earth,
when
a flag
is
lifted
up
on
the
mountains,
give
attention;
and
when
the
horn
is
sounded,
give ear.
\VS{4}For
this
is
what
the
Lord
has
said
to
me:
I
will
be
quiet, watching
from
my
place;
like
the clear
heat
when
the
sun
is
shining,
like
a mist
of
dew
in
the
heat
of summer.
\VS{5}For
before
the
time
of getting
in
the
grapes,
after
the opening
of
the
bud,
when
the
flower
has
become
a
grape
ready
for crushing,
he
will
take
away
the small
branches
with
knives, cutting
down
and taking
away
the wide-stretching
branches.
\VS{6}They
will
be
for
the
birds
of
the
mountains,
and
for
the
beasts
of
the
earth:
the
birds
will come
down
on
them
in
the summer,
and
the
beasts
of
the
earth
in
the winter.
\VS{7}In
that
time
an
offering
will
be
made
to
the
Lord
of
armies
from
a
people
tall
and smooth, causing
fear
through
all
their history;
a
strong
nation, crushing
down
its haters,
whose
land
is cut
through
by
rivers,
an
offering taken
to
the
place
of
the
name
of
the
Lord
of
armies,
even
Mount
Zion.

\par }\Chap{19}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The word
about
Egypt.
See,
the
Lord
is
seated
on
a quick-moving
cloud,
and
is
coming
to
Egypt:
and
the false gods
of
Egypt
will
be troubled
at
his
coming,
and
the
heart
of
Egypt
will
be turned
to water.
\VS{2}And
I
will send
the
Egyptians
against
the
Egyptians:
and
they
will
be
fighting
every
one
against
his
brother,
and
every
one
against
his neighbour;
town
against
town,
and
kingdom
against
kingdom.
\VS{3}And
the
spirit
of
Egypt
will be troubled
in
her,
and
I
will make
her
decisions without effect:
and
they
will be turning
to
the false gods,
and
to those
who make hollow sounds,
and
to those
who
have control
of
spirits,
and
to those
who
are wise
in secret arts.
\VS{4}And
I
will
give
the
Egyptians
into
the
hand
of
a
cruel
lord;
and
a
hard
king
will
be
their
ruler,
says
the
Lord,
the
Lord
of
armies.
\VS{5}And
the
waters
of
the
sea
will
be cut off,
and
the
river
will
become
dry
and waste:
\VS{6}And the
rivers
will
have an evil smell; the
stream
of
Egypt
will become small
and
dry: all the water-plants
will come
to nothing.
\VS{7}The grass-lands
by
the
Nile,
and
everything planted
by
the
Nile,
will
become
dry,
or taken
away
by
the wind,
and
will come
to
an
end.
\VS{8}The fishermen
will
be sad,
and
all
those
who put fishing-lines
into
the
Nile
will
be
full
of grief,
and
those
whose nets
are
stretched
out
on
the
waters
will
have
sorrow
in
their hearts.
\VS{9}And
all
the
workers
in
linen thread,
and those
who
make cotton cloth,
will
be
put
to
shame.
\VS{10}And
the makers
of twisted thread
will
be
crushed,
and
those
who ...
will
be sad
in
heart.
\VS{11}The
chiefs
of
Zoan
are
completely
foolish;
the
wisest guides
of
Pharaoh
have become
like
beasts:
how
do
you
say
to
Pharaoh,
I
am
the
son
of
the
wise,
the
offspring
of early
kings?
\VS{12}Where,
then,
are
your
wise
men?
let
them
make clear
to
you,
let
them
give
you
knowledge
of
the purpose
of
the
Lord
of
armies
for
Egypt.
\VS{13}The
chiefs
of
Zoan
have
become
foolish,
the
chiefs
of Noph
are
tricked,
the
heads
of her
tribes
are
the cause
of Egypt's
wandering
out
of
the way.
\VS{14}The
Lord
has sent
among
them
a
spirit
of error:
and
by
them
Egypt
is turned
out
of
the right
way
in
all
her doings,
as
a
man overcome
by wine
is uncertain
in
his steps.
\VS{15}And
in
Egypt
there
will
be
no
work
for
any
man,
head
or
tail, high
or low,
to
do.
\VS{16}In
that
day
the
Egyptians
will
be
like
women:
and
the
land
will
be shaking
with
fear
because
of
the
waving
of
the Lord's
hand stretched
out
over
it.
\VS{17}And
the
land
of
Judah
will
become
a
cause
of great
fear
to
Egypt;
whenever
its name
comes
to
mind,
Egypt
will
be
in
fear
before
the
Lord
of
armies
because
of
his
purpose
against
it.
\VS{18}In
that
day
there
will
be
five
towns
in
the
land
of
Egypt using
the
language
of
Canaan,
and making
oaths
to
the
Lord
of
armies;
and
one
of
them
will
be
named,
The
Town
of
the Sun.
\VS{19}In
that
day
there
will
be
an
altar
to
the
Lord
in
the
middle
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
and
a
pillar
to
the
Lord
at
the edge
of
the
land.
\VS{20}And
it
will
be
a
sign
and
a
witness
to
the
Lord
of
armies
in
the
land
of
Egypt:
when
they
are
crying
out
to
the
Lord
because
of
their cruel masters,
then
he
will
send
them
a saviour
and
a strong
one
to
make
them
free.
\VS{21}And
the
Lord
will give
the
knowledge
of
himself
to
Egypt,
and
the
Egyptians
will give honour
to
the
Lord
in
that
day;
they
will give
him
worship
with
offerings
and
meal
offerings,
and
will
take
an oath
to
the
Lord
and give
effect
to
it.
\VS{22}And
the
Lord
will send punishment
on
Egypt,
and
will
make
them well
again;
and
when
they
come
back
to
the
Lord
he
will
give ear
to
their
prayer
and
take
away
their disease.
\VS{23}In
that
day
there
will
be
a
highway
out
of
Egypt
to
Assyria,
and
Assyria
will
come
into
Egypt,
and
Egypt
will
come
into
Assyria;
and
the
Egyptians
will
give
worship
to
the Lord together
with
the Assyrians.
\VS{24}In
that
day
Israel
will
be
the
third together
with
Egypt
and
Assyria,
a
blessing
in
the
earth:
\VS{25}Because
of
the
blessing
of
the
Lord
of
armies
which
he
has
given
them,
saying,
A
blessing
on
Egypt
my
people,
and
on
Assyria
the
work
of
my
hands,
and
on
Israel
my
heritage.

\par }\Chap{20}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
year
when
the
Tartan
came
to
Ashdod,
sent
by
Sargon,
king
of
Assyria,
and made war
against
it
and
took
it;
\VS{2}At
that
time
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Isaiah,
the
son
of
Amoz,
saying,
Go,
and
take
off
your robe,
and
your
shoes
from
your
feet;
and
he
did
so,
walking unclothed
and without
shoes
on
his
feet.
\VS{3}And
the
Lord
said,
As
my
servant
Isaiah
has
gone unclothed
and without shoes
for
three
years
as
a
sign
and
a
wonder
to
Egypt
and
Ethiopia,
\VS{4}So
will
the
king
of
Assyria take
away
the
prisoners
of
Egypt
and
those forced
out
of
Ethiopia,
young
and
old, unclothed
and without shoes,
and
with backs
uncovered,
to
the
shame
of
Egypt.
\VS{5}And
they
will
be full
of fear,
and
will
no longer
have faith
in
Ethiopia which
was
their
hope,
or
in
Egypt which
was
their
glory.
\VS{6}And
those
living
by
the sea
will
say
in
that
day,
See
the
fate
of
our
hope
to
whom
we
went
for
help
and salvation
from
the
king
of
Assyria:
what
hope
have
we
then
of salvation?

\par }\Chap{21}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The word
about
the waste
land.
As storm-winds
in
the
South
go rushing
through,
it
comes
from
the waste
land,
from
the
land greatly
to
be
feared.
\VS{2}A
vision
of fear
comes before
my eyes;
the worker
of deceit
goes
on
in
his false
way,
and
the waster
goes
on
making
waste.
Up!
Elam;
to
the
attack!
Media; I
have
put an end
to
her sorrow.
\VS{3}For
this cause
I am
full
of bitter grief; pains
like
the pains
of
a woman
in
childbirth
have
come
on
me:
I am bent
down
with
sorrow
at
what
comes
to
my ears;
I am shocked
by
what
I
see.
\VS{4}My
mind
is
wandering,
fear
has overcome
me:
the
evening
of
my
desire
has been
turned into shaking for
me.
\VS{5}They
make ready
the
table,
they put
down
the covers,
they
take
food
and
drink.
Up!
you
captains; put
oil
on
your breastplates.
\VS{6}For
so
has
the
Lord
said
to
me, Go,
let
a
watchman
be
placed;
let
him
give
word
of
what
he
sees:
\VS{7}And
when
he
sees war-carriages,
horsemen by twos, war-carriages
with asses, war-carriages
with
camels, let
him
give special
attention.
\VS{8}And
the watchman
gave
a loud
cry,
O
my
lord,
I
am
on
the
watchtower
all
day,
and
am
placed
in
my
watch
every
night:
\VS{9}See,
here
come war-carriages
with
men,
horsemen
by twos:
and
in
answer
he
said,
Babylon
is
made
low,
is
made
low,
and
all
her
images
are
broken
on
the
earth.
\VS{10}O
my crushed
ones,
the grain
of
my
floor!
I
have
given
you
the
word
which came
to
me
from
the
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{11}The word
about Edom.
A voice comes
to
me
from
Seir,
Watchman,
how
far gone
is
the
night?
how
far gone
is
the
night?
\VS{12}The
watchman
says,
The
morning
has
come,
but
night
is
still
to
come:
if
you
have questions
to
put,
put
them,
and
come
back
again.
\VS{13}The word about
Arabia. In the thick
woods
of
Arabia will be your night's resting-place, O travelling bands
of
Dedanites!
\VS{14}Give
water
to
him
who
is
in need
of
water; give
bread, O men
of
the
land
of
Tema,
to those
in flight.
\VS{15}For
they
are
in flight
from
the sharp
sword,
and
the
bent
bow,
and
from
the trouble
of
war.
\VS{16}For
so
has
the
Lord
said
to
me,
In
a
year,
by
the
years
of
a
servant working
for payment,
all
the
glory
of
Kedar
will
come
to
an
end:
\VS{17}And
the
rest
of
the
bowmen,
the
men
of war
of
the
children
of
Kedar,
will
be
small
in
number:
for
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
has
said
it.

\par }\Chap{22}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The word
about
the
valley
of
vision.
Why
have
all
your people
gone
up
to
the house-tops?
\VS{2}You,
who
are
full
of loud voices,
a
town
of outcries, given up
to joy;
your
dead men
have
not
been
put
to
the
sword,
or come
to
their
death
in
war.
\VS{3}All
your
rulers ...
have
gone
in
flight;
all
your strong ones
have
gone
far
away.
\VS{4}For
this cause
I
have
said,
Let
your
eyes
be turned
away
from
me
in
my
bitter
weeping;
I
will
not
be
comforted
for
the wasting
of
the
daughter
of
my
people.
\VS{5}For
it
is
a
day
of trouble
and
of crushing
down
and
of destruction
from
the
Lord,
the
Lord
of
armies,
in
the
valley
of
vision; ...
\VS{6}And
Elam
was
armed
with arrows,
and Aram came
on horseback;
and
the breastplate
of
Kir
was
uncovered.
\VS{7}And
your most fertile
valleys
were
full
of war-carriages,
and
the
horsemen
took
up
their
positions
in front
of
the
town.
\VS{8}He
took
away
the cover
of
Judah;
and
in
that
day
you
were looking
with care
at
the store
of arms
in
the
house
of
the
woods.
\VS{9}And
you
saw all
the broken places
in
the wall
of
the
town
of
David:
and
you got
together
the
waters
of
the
lower
pool.
\VS{10}And
you
had
the
houses
of
Jerusalem
numbered, pulling
down
the
houses
to make
the
wall stronger.
\VS{11}And
you
made
a place
between
the
two
walls
for storing
the
waters
of
the
old
pool:
but
you
gave
no thought
to
him
who
had
done
this,
and
were
not
looking
to
him
by whom
it
had
been purposed
long
before.
\VS{12}And
in
that
day
the
Lord,
the
Lord
of
armies,
was looking
for
weeping,
and
cries
of
sorrow, cutting off
of
the hair,
and putting
on
the clothing
of grief:
\VS{13}But
in place
of
these
there
was
joy
and
delight,
oxen
and
sheep
were being made ready
for
food,
there
was
feasting
and
drinking:
men said,
Now
is
the
time
for
food
and
wine,
for
tomorrow
death comes.
\VS{14}And
the
Lord
of
armies
said
to
me secretly,
Truly,
this
sin
will
not
be
taken
from
you
till
your
death,
says
the
Lord,
the
Lord
of
armies.
\VS{15}The
Lord,
the
Lord
of
armies,
says,
Go
to
this
person
in
authority,
this
Shebna,
who
is
over
the
house;
who
has
made
himself
a resting-place
on high, cutting
out
a
place
for
himself
in
the rock,
and
say,
\VS{16}Who
are
you,
and
by
what right
have
you made
for yourself
a resting-place
here?
\VS{17}See,
O strong
man,
the
Lord
will send
you violently away, gripping
you
with force,
\VS{18}Twisting
you round
and round
like
a
ball
he
will send
you
out
into
a
wide
country:
there
you
will come
to
your end,
and
there
will
be
the carriages
of
your pride,
O
shame
of
your lord's
house!
\VS{19}And I will have
you forced
out
of
your
place
of authority,
and pulled
down
from
your position.
\VS{20}And
in
that
day
I
will send
for
my
servant,
Eliakim,
the
son
of
Hilkiah:
\VS{21}And
I
will
put
your
robe
on
him,
and
put
your band
about
him,
and
I
will
give
your
authority
into
his
hand:
and
he
will
be
a
father
to
the men
of
Jerusalem,
and
to
the
family
of
Judah.
\VS{22}And
I
will
give
the
key
of
the
family
of
David
into
his
care;
and
what
he keeps
open
will
be
shut
by
no
one,
and
what
he keeps
shut
no
one
will
make
open.
\VS{23}And
I
will
put
him
like
a nail
in
a safe
place;
and
he
will
be
for
a
seat
of
glory
to
his father's
family.
\VS{24}And
all
the
glory
of
his father's
family
will
be
hanging
on
him,
all
their
offspring,
every
small
vessel,
even
the cups
and
the
basins.
\VS{25}In
that
day,
says
the
Lord
of
armies,
will
the nail fixed
in
a safe
place
give
way;
and
it
will
be
cut
down,
and
in
its
fall
the weight hanging
on
it
will
be
cut
off,
for
the
Lord
has
said
it.

\par }\Chap{23}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The word
about
Tyre.
Let
a cry
of sorrow
go
up,
O
ships
of
Tarshish,
because
your strong
place
is
made
waste;
on
the way
back
from
the
land
of
Kittim
the news
is given
to
them.
\VS{2}Send
out
a cry
of grief,
you men
of
the sea-land,
traders
of Zidon,
who
go
over
the
sea, whose representatives
are
on great waters;
\VS{3}Who get
in
the
seed
of
Shihor,
whose wealth
is
the trade
of
the
nations.
\VS{4}Be
shamed, O Zidon:
for
the
sea,
the
strong
place
of
the
sea
has
said,
I
have
not
been
with
child,
or
given
birth;
I
have
not taken care
of
young
men,
or kept watch over
the growth
of
virgins.
\VS{5}When
the
news comes
to
Egypt
they
will be bitterly pained at
the fate
of
Tyre.
\VS{6}Go
over
to
Tarshish; give cries
of sorrow, O men
of
the sea-land.
\VS{7}Is
this
the town which
was
full
of joy, whose start goes back
to
times
long past, whose wanderings took
her into far-off countries?
\VS{8}By
whom
was
this
purposed
against
Tyre,
the crowning town,
whose
traders
are
chiefs,
whose business
men
are honoured
in
the
land?
\VS{9}It
was
the purpose
of
the
Lord
of
armies
to put
pride
to shame,
to
make sport
of
the
glory
of
those
who
are honoured
in
the
earth.
\VS{10}Let
your
land
be worked
with
the plough, O
daughter
of
Tarshish;
there
is
no
longer
any harbour.
\VS{11}His
hand
is
stretched
out
over
the
sea,
the
kingdoms
are shaking:
the
Lord
has
given
orders
about
Canaan,
to
make waste
its
strong places.
\VS{12}And
he
said,
There
is
no
more joy
for
you, O
crushed
virgin
daughter
of Zidon:
up!
go
over
to
Kittim;
even
there
you
will
have
no
rest.
\VS{13}...
\VS{14}Let
a cry
of sorrow go up, O
ships
of
Tarshish:
because
your
strong place
is made
waste.
\VS{15}And
it
will
be
in
that
day
that
Tyre
will
go out
of mind
for
seventy
years,
that
is,
the
days
of
one
king:
after
the
end
of
seventy
years
it
will
be
for
Tyre
as
in
the
song
of
the loose woman.
\VS{16}Take
an instrument
of
music,
go
about
the
town,
O loose woman
who
has gone
out
from
the memory
of man;
make sweet melody
with
songs,
so
that
you
may
come
back
to men's minds.
\VS{17}And
it
will
be
after
the
end
of
seventy
years,
that
the
Lord
will
have
mercy
on
Tyre,
and
she
will
go
back
to
her trade, acting
as
a
loose woman
with
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
world
on
the
face
of
the
earth.
\VS{18}And
her goods
and
her trade
will
be
holy
to
the
Lord:
they
will
not
be
kept back
or
stored
up;
for
her
produce
will
be
for
those
living
in
the Lord's
land,
to
give
them
food
for
their
needs,
and fair clothing.

\par }\Chap{24}{\PP \VerseOne{1}See,
the
Lord
is making
the
earth
waste
and unpeopled,
he
is turning
it upside
down,
and sending
the
people
in
all
directions.
\VS{2}And
it
will
be
the same
for
the
people
as
for
the
priest;
for
the
servant
as
for
his
master;
and
for
the woman-servant
as
for
her
owner;
the same
for
the
one
offering goods
for
a price
as
for
him
who takes
them;
the same
for
him
who gives money
at interest
and
for
him
who takes
it;
the same
for
him
who lets
others
have
the
use
of
his
property
as
for
those
who
make
use
of
it.
\VS{3}The
earth
will
be
completely waste
and without men;
for
this
is
the
word
of
the
Lord.
\VS{4}The
earth
is sorrowing
and wasting
away,
the
world
is full
of grief
and wasting
away,
the
high ones
of
the
earth come
to nothing.
\VS{5}The
earth
has
been made unclean
by
those
living
in
it;
because
the
laws
have
not
been kept
by
them,
the orders
have
been
changed,
and
the
eternal
agreement
has
been
broken.
\VS{6}For
this cause
the
earth
is given
up
to
the
curse,
and
those
in
it
are judged
as sinners:
for
this cause
those
living
on
the
earth
are
burned
up,
and
the
rest
are small
in number.
\VS{7}The
new
wine
is thin,
the
vine
is feeble,
and
all
the glad-hearted make sounds
of grief.
\VS{8}The pleasing sound
of all instruments
of music
has come
to an end,
and
the voices
of those who are glad.
\VS{9}There
is
no
more
drinking
of
wine
with
a
song;
strong
drink
will
be
bitter
to those
who take
it.
\VS{10}The
town
is
waste
and
broken
down:
every
house
is
shut
up,
so
that
no
man
may
come
in.
\VS{11}There
is
a crying
in
the
streets
because
of
the
wine;
there
is
an end
of
all
delight,
the
joy
of
the
land
is
gone.
\VS{12}In
the
town all
is
waste,
and
in
the public place
is
destruction.
\VS{13}For
it
will
be
in
the
heart
of
the
earth
among
the
peoples,
like
the
shaking
of
an olive-tree,
as
the last
of
the grapes
after
the getting-in
is
done.
\VS{14}But
those
will
be making
sounds
of
joy;
they
will
be
crying
loudly
from
the
sea
for
the glory
of
the
Lord.
\VS{15}Give praise
to
the
Lord
in
the east,
to
the
name
of
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
in
the sea-lands.
\VS{16}From
the farthest part
of
the
earth comes
the
sound
of
songs, glory
to
the upright.
But
I
said,
I am wasting
away, wasting
away,
the curse
is
on me!
The false
ones go
on
in
their false way, yes,
they go
on acting falsely.
\VS{17}Fear,
and death,
and
the net,
are come
on
you, O
people
of
the
earth.
\VS{18}And
it
will
be
that
he
who
goes
in
flight
from
the
sound
of
fear
will
be overtaken
by death;
and
he
who gets free
from death
will
be
taken
in
the net:
for
the
windows
on
high
are
open,
and
the bases
of
the
earth
are shaking.
\VS{19}The
earth
is completely
broken, it
is parted
in two, it
is
violently
moved.
\VS{20}The
earth
will
be
moving uncertainly,
like
a
man
overcome
by drink;
it
will
be shaking
like
a tent;
and
the weight
of
its sin
will
be
on
it, crushing
it
down
so
that
it
will
not
get
up
again.
\VS{21}And
in
that
day
the
Lord
will send
punishment
on
the
army
of
the
high ones
on
high,
and
on
the
kings
of
the
earth
on
the
earth.
\VS{22}And
they
will
be got
together,
like
prisoners
in
the prison-house;
and
after
a
long
time
they
will
have
their
punishment.
\VS{23}Then
the
moon
will
be veiled,
and
the
sun
put
to
shame;
for
the
Lord
of
armies
will
be ruling
in
Mount
Zion
and
in
Jerusalem,
and
before
his judges
he
will let
his
glory
be seen.

\par }\Chap{25}{\PP \VerseOne{1}O
Lord,
you
are
my
God;
I
will
give
praise
to
you,
I
will
give honour
to
your
name;
for
you
have
done
great
acts
of power;
your purposes
in
the past
have
been
made
true
and certain
in effect.
\VS{2}For
you
have
made
a
town
a waste
place:
a strong
town
a mass
of broken walls;
the tower
of
the men
of pride
has come
to
an end;
it
will
never
be
put
up again.
\VS{3}For
this cause
will
the
strong
people give
glory
to
you,
the
town
of
the cruel
ones
will
be
in
fear
of
you.
\VS{4}For
you
have
been
a
strong
place
for
the
poor
and
the crushed
in
their
trouble,
a safe
place
from
the
storm,
a
shade
from
the heat,
when
the
wrath
of
the cruel
ones
is
like
a winter
storm.
\VS{5}As heat by
the
shade
of a
cloud,
the
noise
of
the
men
of pride
has been made quiet by
you;
as heat by
the
shade
of a
cloud,
the
song
of
the cruel
ones
has been stopped.
\VS{6}And
in
this
mountain
will
the
Lord
of
armies
make
for
all
peoples
a
feast
of good
things,
a
feast
of wines long stored,
of good
things sweet
to
the taste,
of wines long
kept
and tested.
\VS{7}And
in
this
mountain
he
will put
an
end
to
the shade
covering
the
face
of
all
peoples,
and
the veil
which
is
stretched
over
all
nations.
\VS{8}He
has
put
an
end
to
death
for
ever;
and
the
Lord
God
will
take
away
all weeping;
and
he
will
put
an
end
to
the
shame
of
his
people
in
all
the
earth:
for
the
Lord
has
said
it.
\VS{9}And
in
that
day
it
will
be
said,
See,
this
is
our
God;
we
have
been waiting
for
him,
and
he
will
be
our saviour:
this
is
the
Lord
in whom
is
our
hope;
we
will
be
glad
and
have
delight
in
his
salvation.
\VS{10}For
in
this
mountain
will
the
hand
of
the
Lord come
to
rest,
and
Moab
will
be crushed
down
in
his
place,
even
as
the dry stems
of
the grain
are crushed
under
foot
in
the waste
place.
\VS{11}And
if
he
puts
out
his
hands,
like
a
man
stretching
out
his
hands
in swimming,
the Lord
will
make
low
his
pride, however expert
his designs.
\VS{12}And
the strong tower
of
your
walls
has
been broken
by
him,
made
low,
and crushed
even
to
the
dust.

\par }\Chap{26}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
that
day
will
this
song
be
made
in
the
land
of
Judah:
We
have
a
strong
town;
he
will
make
salvation
our
walls
and towers.
\VS{2}Let
the doors
be
open,
so
that
the upright
nation
which
keeps faith
may
come
in.
\VS{3}The
man
whose heart
is unmoved
you
will
keep
in
peace,
because
his hope
is
in
you.
\VS{4}Let
your hope
be
in
the
Lord
for
ever:
for
the
Lord Jah
is
an unchanging
Rock.
\VS{5}For
he
has
made
low
those
who
are
lifted
up,
all
the
people
of
the
town
of pride:
he
makes
it
low, crushing
it
down
to
the
earth;
he
makes
it
low
in
the
dust.
\VS{6}It
will be crushed
under
the
feet
of
the
poor
and
the
steps
of those
who
are
in need.
\VS{7}The
way
of
the good
man
is
straight;
the road
of
the
upright
is made
smooth
by you.
\VS{8}We
have
been waiting
for
you,
O
Lord;
the
desire
of
our
soul
is
for
the
memory
of
your
name.
\VS{9}In
the
night
the
desire
of
my
soul
has
been
for
you; early
will
my
spirit
be searching
for
you;
for
when
your punishments come
on
the
earth,
the
people
of
the
world
will get
the knowledge
of
righteousness.
\VS{10}Even
if
you
are kind
to
the evil-doer,
he
will
not go
after
righteousness;
even
in
the
land
of
the upright
he
will still go
on
in
his wrongdoing,
and
will
not
see
the glory
of
the
Lord.
\VS{11}Lord,
your
hand
is
lifted
up,
but
they
do
not
see:
let
them
see ...
yes,
your haters
will
be burned
up
in
the
fire.
\VS{12}Lord,
you
will give
us
peace:
for
all
our
works
are
the outcome
of
your purpose.
\VS{13}O
Lord,
our
God, other
lords than
you
have
had rule
over
us;
but
in
you
only
is
our salvation,
and no other
name
will
we
take
on
our lips.
\VS{14}The
dead
will
not
come back
to
life:
their
spirits
will
not
come back
to earth;
for
this cause
you
have sent
destruction
on
them,
so
that
the
memory
of
them
is
dead.
\VS{15}You
have
made
the
nation great,
O
Lord,
you
have
made
it great;
glory
is yours:
you
have
made wide
the limits
of
the
land.
\VS{16}Lord,
in
trouble
our eyes
have
been turned
to
you, we sent up
a
prayer
when
your
punishment
was
on us.
\VS{17}As
a
woman
with
child, whose
time
is
near,
is troubled,
crying
out
in
her pain;
so
have we
been
before
you,
O
Lord.
\VS{18}We
have
been
with
child,
we
have
been
in pain,
we
have
given
birth
to
wind;
no
salvation
has
come
to
the
earth
through
us,
and
no
children
have
come
into
the
world.
\VS{19}Your
dead
will
come back;
their
dead
bodies
will
come
to
life
again.
Those
in
the
dust, awaking
from
their sleep,
will send
out
a song;
for
your
dew
is
a
dew
of light,
and
the
earth
will
give
birth
to
the shades.
\VS{20}Come,
my
people,
into
your secret places,
and let
your
doors
be
shut:
keep yourself safe
for
a short
time,
till
his
wrath
is
over.
\VS{21}For
the
Lord
is
coming
out
of
his
place
to
send
punishment
on
the
people
of
the
earth
for
their evil-doing:
the
earth
will
let
the
blood drained
out
on
her
be seen,
and
will
keep
her dead
covered
no
longer.

\par }\Chap{27}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
that
day
the
Lord,
with
his
great
and
strong
and
cruel
sword,
will send
punishment
on
Leviathan,
the quick-moving
snake,
and
on
Leviathan,
the
twisted
snake;
and
he
will
put
to death
the
dragon
which
is
in
the
sea.
\VS{2}In
that
day
it
will
be
said,
A vine-garden
of delight, make
a song
about
it.
\VS{3}I,
the
Lord,
am watching
it;
I
will
give
it
water
at
all
times:
I
will
keep
it
night
and
day,
for
fear
that
any
damage
comes
to
it.
\VS{4}My passion
is
over: if
the
thorns
were fighting
against
me,
I
would
make
an
attack
on
them,
and
they
would
be burned
up
together.
\VS{5}Or let
him
put
himself under
my
power,
and
make
peace
with
me.
\VS{6}In days
to
come
Jacob
will
take
root:
Israel
will
put
out buds
and flowers;
and
the
face
of
the
world
will
be
full
of
fruit.
\VS{7}Is
his punishment
like
the punishment
of those
who overcame
him?
or
are
his dead
as great
in number
as those
he put
to
the sword?
\VS{8}Your
anger
against
her
has been made clear
by
driving
her
away;
he
has taken
her
away
with
his storm-wind
in
the
day
of
his
east
wind.
\VS{9}So
by
this
will
the
sin
of
Jacob
be covered,
and
this
is
all
the
fruit
of
taking
away
his
punishment;
when
all
the
stones
of
the
altar
are crushed together,
so
that
the wood pillars
and
the sun-images
will
not
be
put
up
again.
\VS{10}For
the strong
town
is without men,
an unpeopled living-place;
and
she
has become
a
waste land:
there
the young ox
will take
his
rest,
and
its
branches
will
be food
for
him.
\VS{11}When
its branches
are
dry
they
will
be
broken
off;
the
women
will
come
and
put
fire
to
them:
for
it
is
a foolish
people;
for
this cause
he
who
made
them
will
have
no
mercy
on
them,
and
he whose work
they
are
will
not
have
pity
on
them.
\VS{12}And
it
will
be
in
that
day
that
the
Lord
will get
together
his
grain,
from
the
River
to
the
stream
of
Egypt,
and
you
will
be got
together
with care,
O
children
of
Israel.
\VS{13}And
it
will
be
in
that
day
that
a
great
horn
will
be
sounded;
and
those
who
were
wandering
in
the
land
of
Assyria,
and
those
who
had
been sent
away
into
the
land
of
Egypt,
will
come;
and
they
will
give
worship
to
the
Lord
in
the
holy
mountain
at
Jerusalem.

\par }\Chap{28}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Ho!
crown
of
pride
of
those
who
are given
up
to
wine
in
Ephraim,
and
the dead
flower
of
his
glory
which
is
on
the
head
of
those
who
are
overcome
by strong drink!
\VS{2}See,
the
Lord
has
a
strong
and cruel
one;
like
a
rain
of ice,
a
storm
of
destruction,
like
the
overflowing
of
a
strong
river,
he
will
violently overcome
them.
\VS{3}The
crown
of pride
of those who
are given up
to wine
in
Ephraim
will be crushed
under
foot;
\VS{4}And
the dead
flower
of
his
glory,
which
is
on
the
head
of
the
fertile
valley,
will
be
like
the
first
early
fruit
before
the
summer;
which
a
man takes
and puts
in
his mouth
the minute
he
sees
it.
\VS{5}In
that
day
will
the
Lord
of
armies
be
a
crown
of
glory,
and
a fair ornament,
to
the
rest
of
his
people;
\VS{6}And
a
spirit
of wisdom
to
the
judge,
and
strength
to
those
who keep
back
the attackers
at
the door
of
the
town.
\VS{7}And further,
these
are uncertain
through
wine,
and
have
gone
out
of
the
right way
through
strong
drink:
the
priest
and
the
prophet
are uncertain
through
strong
drink,
they
are overcome
by
wine,
they
have
gone
out
of
the way
through
strong
drink;
their vision
is false,
they
go wrong
in
their decisions.
\VS{8}For
all
the
tables
are
covered
with coughed-up food,
so
that
there
is
not
a clean
place.
\VS{9}To
whom
will
he
give
knowledge?
and
to
whom
will
he make clear
the word?
Will
it be
to
those
who
have newly given
up
milk,
and
who
have only now been
taken
from
the
breast?
\VS{10}For
it
is
one rule
after another;
one line
after another;
here
a
little,
there
a
little.
\VS{11}No,
but
with broken
talk,
and
with
a strange
tongue,
he
will
give
his
word
to
this
people:
\VS{12}To
whom
he
said,
This
is
the
rest,
give
rest
to
him
who
is
tired;
and
by
this
you
may get new strength;
but
they
would
not
give ear.
\VS{13}For
this
cause
the
word
of
the
Lord
will
be
to
them
rule
after
rule,
line
after
line,
here
a
little,
there
a
little;
so
that
they
may
go
on
their
way,
and falling
back
may
be
broken,
and
taken
in
the net.
\VS{14}Give ear
then
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
you
men
of pride,
the
rulers
of
this
people
in
Jerusalem:
\VS{15}Because
you
have
said,
We
have
made
death
our friend,
and
with
the underworld
we
have
made
an
agreement;
when
the
overflowing waters
come
through
they
will
not
come
near
us;
for
we
are looking
to
false words
for help,
taking
cover
in
what
is untrue:
\VS{16}For
this cause
says
the
Lord
God,
See,
I
am placing
in
Zion
as
a base,
a
stone,
a
tested
stone,
an angle-stone
which
is certain
and
of great value:
and
he
who
has
faith
will
not give
way.
\VS{17}And
I
will
make
right
decision
the measuring-line,
and
righteousness
the weight:
and
the ice-storm
will
take
away
the safe
place
of
false words,
and
the secret
place
will
be covered
by
the
flowing
waters.
\VS{18}And
the
help
you
were
looking
for
from
death
will
come
to
nothing,
and
your
agreement
with
the underworld
will
be
broken;
when
the
overflowing waters
come
through,
then
you
will
be overcome
by
them.
\VS{19}Whenever
they
come
through
they
will overtake
you;
for
they
will
come
through
morning
after
morning,
by
day
and
by
night:
and
the
news
will
be nothing
but fear.
\VS{20}For
the
bed
is
not long enough
for
a man
to
be stretched out on: and
the cover
is
not wide enough
for
him
to
be covered
with.
\VS{21}For
the
Lord
will
come
up
as
on
Mount
Perazim,
he
will
be
moved
to wrath
as
in
the
valley
of
Gibeon;
so
that
he
may
do
his
work —
strange
is
his
work;
and give
effect
to
his
act — unnatural
is
his
act.
\VS{22}And
now,
take
care
that
you
do
not
make sport
of
him,
or
your
bands
will
be
made
strong;
for
I
have
had word
from
the
Lord,
the
Lord
of
armies,
of
an
end,
of
a
complete
end,
which
is
to
come
on
all
the
land.
\VS{23}Let
your ears
be open
to
my
voice;
give
attention
to
what
I
say.
\VS{24}Is
the ploughman
for ever ploughing? does
he not get
the
earth ready
and broken
up
for
the
seed?
\VS{25}When
the
face
of
the earth
has
been levelled,
does
he
not
put
in
the different sorts
of seed,
and
the
grain
in lines,
and
the
barley
in
its
place,
and
the
spelt
at
the
edge?
\VS{26}For
his
God
is
his
teacher, giving
him
the knowledge
of these things.
\VS{27}For
the fitches
are
not crushed
with
a sharp instrument,
and
a cart-wheel
is
not rolled
over
the
cummin;
but
the grain
of
the fitches
is hammered
out
with
a stick,
and
of
the
cummin
with
a
rod.
\VS{28}Is
the
grain
for
bread
crushed?
He
does
not go
on crushing
it
for
ever,
but
he lets
his cart-wheels
and
his
horses go over
it
without crushing
it.
\VS{29}This
comes
from
the
Lord
of
armies, purposing
wonders,
and wise
in
all
his
acts.

\par }\Chap{29}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Ho!
Ariel,
Ariel,
the
town
against which
David made war; put
year
to
year, let
the
feasts come
round:
\VS{2}And
I
will send trouble
on
Ariel,
and
there
will
be weeping
and cries
of grief;
and she
will
be
to
me
as
Ariel.
\VS{3}And
I will
make war
on
you
like David,
and
you will be shut
in
by earthworks,
and
I will
make
towers round
you.
\VS{4}And
you
will
be
made
low,
and
your
voice
will
come out
of
the
earth,
and
your
words
will
be
low out
of
the
dust;
and
your
voice
will
come out
of
the
earth
like
that
of
a
spirit, making bird-like noises out
of
the
dust.
\VS{5}And
the
army
of
your attackers
will
be
like small
dust,
and all
the cruel
ones
like dry stems
gone before
the wind;
suddenly
it
will
come
about.
\VS{6}The
Lord
of
armies
will
come
in
with
thunder
and earth-shaking
and
great
noise,
with rushing wind
and
storm,
and
the
flame
of
burning
fire.
\VS{7}And
all
the
nations
making
war
on
Ariel,
and
all
those
who
are fighting
against
her
and shutting
her
in
with
their
towers,
will
be
like
a
dream,
like
a
vision
of
the
night.
\VS{8}And
it
will
be
like
a
man desiring
food,
and
dreaming
that
he
is
feasting;
but
when
he
is awake
there
is
nothing
in
his
mouth:
or
like
a
man
in
need
of water,
dreaming
that
he
is
drinking;
but
when
he
is awake
he
is feeble
and
his
soul
is
full
of
desire:
so
will
all
the
nations
be
which make
war
on
Mount
Zion.
\VS{9}Be surprised
and full
of
wonder;
let
your eyes
be covered
and
be
blind:
be overcome,
but
not
with
wine; go
with uncertain steps,
but
not because
of
strong
drink.
\VS{10}For
the
Lord
has sent
on
you
a
spirit
of
deep
sleep;
and
by
him
your
eyes,
the
prophets,
are shut,
and
your
heads,
the
seers,
are
covered.
\VS{11}And
the
vision
of
all
this
has
become
to
you
like
the
words
of
a
book
which
is
shut,
which
men
give
to
one
who
has
knowledge
of writing,
saying,
Make
clear
to
us
what
is
in
the
book:
and
he
says,
I
am
not
able
to,
for
the
book
is
shut:
\VS{12}And
they
give
it
to
one
without learning,
saying,
Make clear
to
us
what
is
in
the
book:
and
he
says,
I
have
no
knowledge
of writing.
\VS{13}And
the
Lord
said,
because
this
people
come
near
to
me
with
their
mouths,
and
give honour
to
me
with
their
lips,
but
their
heart
is
far
from
me,
and
their
fear
of
me
is false,
a rule
given
them
by
the
teaching
of
men;
\VS{14}For
this cause
I
will
again
do
a strange
thing
among
this
people,
a
thing
to
be wondered
at:
and
the
wisdom
of
their
wise
men
will come
to nothing,
and
the sense
of
their guides
will
no
longer
be seen.
\VS{15}Cursed
are
those
who
go
deep
to
keep
their
designs
secret
from
the
Lord,
and
whose
works
are
in
the
dark,
and
who
say,
Who
sees
us?
and
who
has
knowledge
of
our acts?
\VS{16}You
are turning
things upside
down!
Is
the wet earth
the same
to
you
as
the
one
who
is
forming
it?
will
the
thing
made
say
of
him
who
made
it,
He
made
me
not:
or
the
thing
formed
say
of
him
who
gave
it form,
He
has
no knowledge?
\VS{17}In
a
very short
time
Lebanon
will
become
a
fertile
field,
and
the
fertile
field
will
seem
like
a wood.
\VS{18}And
in
that
day
those whose ears
are stopped
will
be
hearing
the
words
of
the
book;
and
the
eyes
of
the
blind
will
see
through
the mist
and
the
dark.
\VS{19}And
the
poor
will
have
their
joy
in
the
Lord
increased,
and
those
in need
will
be
glad
in
the
Holy
One
of
Israel.
\VS{20}For
the cruel
one
has
come
to
nothing;
and
those
who
make sport
of
the Lord are
gone;
and
those
who are
watching
to
do
evil are
cut
off:
\VS{21}Who
give help
to
a
man
in
a
wrong
cause,
and
who put
a net
for
the feet
of
him
who gives
decisions
in
the public
place, taking
away
a man's
right without
cause.
\VS{22}For
this
reason
the
Lord,
the saviour
of
Abraham,
says
about
the
family
of
Jacob,
Jacob
will
not
now
be
put
to
shame,
or
his
face
be clouded
with fear.
\VS{23}But
when
they,
the
children
of
Jacob,
see
the
work
of
my
hands
among
them,
they
will
give honour
to
my
name;
yes,
they
will
give honour
to
the
Holy
One
of
Jacob,
and go
in fear
of
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{24}Those whose hearts were turned
away
from
him
will get
knowledge,
and those
who
made
an outcry against
him
will give
attention
to
his
teaching.

\par }\Chap{30}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Ho! uncontrolled
children,
says
the
Lord,
who give effect
to
a
purpose
which
is
not
mine,
and
who
make
an agreement,
but
not
by
my
spirit, increasing
their
sin:
\VS{2}Who
make
a
move
to
go
down
into
Egypt,
without authority
from
me;
who
are looking
to
the
strength
of
Pharaoh
for help,
and whose hope
is
in
the
shade
of
Egypt.
\VS{3}And
the
strength
of
Pharaoh
will
be
your
shame,
and
your hope
in
the
shade
of
Egypt
will
come
to nothing.
\VS{4}For
his
chiefs
are
at
Zoan,
and
his representatives
have
come
to
Hanes.
\VS{5}For
they
have
all come
with
offerings
to
a
people
of
no use
to
them,
in whom
is
no
help
or
profit,
but
only
shame
and
a bad name.
\VS{6}The word
about
the
Beasts
of
the
South.
Through
the
land
of
trouble
and grief,
the
land
of
the she-lion
and
the voice
of
the
lion,
of
the
snake
and
the burning winged
snake,
they
take
their
wealth
on
the
backs
of
young asses,
and
their
stores
on
camels,
to
a
people
in whom
is
no
profit.
\VS{7}For
there
is no use or purpose
in
the
help
of
Egypt:
so
I
have
said about
her,
She
is
Rahab,
who
has come
to
an end.
\VS{8}Now
go,
put
it
in
writing
before
them
on
a board,
and make
a
record
of
it
in
a
book,
so
that
it
may
be
for
the future,
a
witness
for
all
time
to
come.
\VS{9}For
they
are
an uncontrolled
people, false-hearted,
who
will
not
give ear
to
the
teaching
of
the
Lord:
\VS{10}Who
say
to
the
seers,
See
not;
and
to
the
prophets, Do
not
give
us
word
of
what
is true,
but
say false
things
to
give
us
pleasure:
\VS{11}Get
out
of
the good
way,
turning
from
the right
road;
do
not
keep
the
Holy
One
of
Israel
before
our minds.
\VS{12}For
this
cause
the
Holy
One
of
Israel
says,
Because
you
will
not give ear
to
this
word,
and
are looking
for help
in
ways
of deceit
and evil,
and
are putting
your hope
in
them:
\VS{13}This
sin
will
be
to
you
like
a crack
in
a
high
wall,
causing
its
fall
suddenly
and
in
a minute.
\VS{14}And
he
will
let
it
be
broken
as
a potter's
vessel
is
broken:
it
will
be
smashed
to bits
without
mercy;
so
that
there
will
not
be
a bit
in
which
one
may
take
fire
from
the fireplace,
or
water
from
the
spring.
\VS{15}For
the
Lord,
the
Holy
One
of
Israel,
said,
In
quiet
and
rest
is
your
salvation:
peace
and hope
are
your
strength:
but
you
would
not
have
it
so.
\VS{16}Saying,
No,
for
we
will go
in
flight
on
horses;
so
you
will
certainly go
in
flight:
and,
We
will go
on
the backs
of quick-running beasts;
so
those
who go
after
you
will
be quick-footed.
\VS{17}A
thousand
will go
in fear
before
one;
even
before
five
you
will go
in
flight:
till
you
are
like
a pillar
by itself
on
the
top
of
a
mountain,
and
like
a
flag
on
a
hill.
\VS{18}For
this
cause
the
Lord
will
be
waiting,
so
that
he
may
be
kind
to
you;
and
he
will
be
lifted
up,
so
that
he
may
have
mercy
on
you;
for
the
Lord
is
a
God
of righteousness:
there
is
a blessing
on
all
whose hope
is
in
him.
\VS{19}O
people,
living
in
Zion,
at
Jerusalem,
your
weeping
will
be ended;
he
will
certainly
have
mercy
on
you
at
the
sound
of
your
cry;
when
it comes
to
his ear,
he
will
give
you
an
answer.
\VS{20}And though
the
Lord
will
give
you
the
bread
of
trouble
and
the
water
of grief,
you
will
no
longer
put
your
teacher
on
one side,
but
you
will
see
your
teacher:
\VS{21}And
at
your
back,
when
you
are turning
to
the right hand
or
to
the
left,
a voice
will
be sounding
in
your
ears,
saying,
This
is
the
way
in
which
you
are
to
go.
\VS{22}And
you
will
make
unclean what
is
covering
your pictured
images
of
silver,
and
the
plating
of
your
images
of
gold:
you
will
send
them
away
as
an
unclean
thing,
saying,
Be
gone!
\VS{23}And
he
will
give
rain
for
your
seed,
so
that
you
may
put
it
in
the
earth;
and
you
will
have
bread
from
the
produce
of
the
earth, good
and more than enough
for
your
needs:
in
that
day
the
cattle
will get
their
food
in
wide grass-lands.
\VS{24}And
the
oxen
and
the
young asses
which
are
used
for ploughing,
will
have
salted grain
which
has
been
made free
from
the waste
with
fork
and basket.
\VS{25}And
there
will
be rivers
and
streams
of
water
on
every tall
mountain
and
on
every
high
hill,
in
the
day
when
great numbers
are
put
to
the sword,
when
the
towers
come
down.
\VS{26}And
the
light
of
the
moon
will
be
as
the
light
of
the
sun,
and
the
light
of
the
sun
will
be
seven
times greater,
as
the
light
of
seven
days,
in
the
day
when
the
Lord puts oil
on
the
wounds
of
his
people,
and
makes
them well
from
the
blows
they
have undergone.
\VS{27}See,
the
name
of
the
Lord
is
coming
from
far,
burning
with
his
wrath,
with thick
smoke
going
up:
his
lips
are
full
of passion,
and
his
tongue
is
like
a
burning
fire:
\VS{28}And
his
breath
is
as
an
overflowing
stream, coming
up
even
to
the
neck, shaking
the
nations
for
their destruction,
like
the shaking
of grain
in
a basket:
and
he
will put
a cord
in
the mouths
of
the
people, turning
them
out
of
their
way.
\VS{29}You
will
have
a
song,
as
in
the
night
when
a
holy
feast
is kept;
and
you
will
be glad
in
heart,
as
when
they
go
with
music
of
the pipe
to
the
mountain
of
the
Lord,
the
Rock
of
Israel.
\VS{30}And
the
Lord
will send
out
the
sound
of
his great
voice,
and
they
will
see
his
arm stretched
out,
with
the heat
of
his
wrath,
and
the
flame
of
a
burning
fire;
with
a cloud-burst,
and
storm,
and
a rain
of ice.
\VS{31}For
through
the
voice
of
the
Lord
the Assyrian
will
be broken,
and
the Lord's
rod
will
be lifted up against
him.
\VS{32}And
every
blow
of
the
rod
of
his
punishment,
which
the
Lord
will send
on
him,
will
be
with
the sound
of music:
and
with
the
waving
of
his sword
the
Lord
will make
war
against
him.
\VS{33}For
a
place
of
fire
has long
been
ready;
yes,
it
has
been
made
ready
for
the
king;
he
has
made
it
deep
and
wide:
it
is massed
with
fire
and
much
wood;
the
breath
of
the
Lord,
like
a
stream
of
fire, puts
a light
to
it.

\par }\Chap{31}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Cursed
are
those
who
go
down
to
Egypt
for
help,
and
who
put
their faith
in
horses; looking
to war-carriages
for salvation,
because
of
their numbers;
and
to
horsemen,
because
they
are
very
strong;
but
they
are
not looking
to
the
Holy
One
of
Israel,
or turning
their hearts
to
the
Lord;
\VS{2}Though
he
is
wise,
and able
to send
evil,
and
his
purpose
will
not
be changed;
but
he
will
go
against
the
house
of
the evil-doers,
and
against
those
to whom
they
are looking
for
help.
\VS{3}For
the
Egyptians
are
men,
and
not
God;
and
their
horses
are
flesh,
and
not
spirit:
and
when
the Lord's
hand
is
stretched
out,
the
helper
and
he
who
is
helped
will
come
down
together.
\VS{4}For
the
Lord
has
said
to
me,
As
a
lion,
or
a
young
lion,
makes
an angry
noise
over
his
food,
and
if
a
band
of herdsmen
come
out
against
him,
he
will
not
be
in fear
of
their
voices,
or give
up
his
food
for
their
noise:
so
the
Lord
of
armies
will
come
down
to
make
war
against
Mount
Zion
and
its
hill.
\VS{5}Like
birds
with outstretched wings,
so
will
the
Lord
of
armies
be
a cover
to
Jerusalem;
he
will
be
a cover
and salvation
for
it, going
over
it
he
will keep
it
from danger.
\VS{6}Come
back
to
him
who
has
been
so
deeply sinned against
by
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{7}For
in
that
day
they
will
all give up
their
images
of
silver
and
of
gold,
the
sin
which
they
made
for themselves.
\VS{8}Then
the Assyrian
will
come
down
by
the
sword,
but
not
of
man;
the
sword,
not
of
men,
will
be
the
cause
of
his destruction:
and
he
will
go
in
flight
from
the
sword,
and
his
young
men
will
be
put
to
forced work.
\VS{9}And
his
rock
will come
to nothing
because
of fear,
and
his
chiefs
will
go
in flight
from
the flag,
says
the
Lord,
whose
fire
is
in
Zion,
and
his altar
in
Jerusalem.

\par }\Chap{32}{\PP \VerseOne{1}See,
a
king
will
be
ruling
in
righteousness,
and
chiefs
will give
right
decisions.
\VS{2}And
a
man
will
be
as
a safe
place
from
the
wind,
and
a cover
from
the
storm;
as rivers
of
water
in
a
dry
place,
as
the
shade
of
a
great
rock
in
a waste
land.
\VS{3}And
the
eyes
of those
who
see
will
not
be shut,
and those
who
have
hearing
will
give
ear
to
the word.
\VS{4}The man
of sudden impulses
will become wise
in
heart,
and
he whose
tongue
is slow
will
get
the power
of
talking
clearly.
\VS{5}The
foolish
man
will
no
longer
be
named
noble,
and
they
will
not
say
of
the false
man
that
he
is
a
man
of honour.
\VS{6}For
the
foolish
man
will
say
foolish things,
having
evil
thoughts
in
his
heart, working
what
is unclean,
and
talking falsely
about
the
Lord,
to
keep food
from
him
who
is
in
need
of
it,
and water
from
him whose
soul
is desiring
it.
\VS{7}The designs
of
the
false
are
evil,
purposing
the
destruction
of
the
poor
man
by
false
words,
even
when
he
is
in
the
right.
\VS{8}But
the noble-hearted
man
has
noble purposes,
and
by
these
he
will
be guided.
\VS{9}Give
ear
to
my
voice,
you
women
who
are living
in comfort;
give
attention
to
my
words,
you
daughters
who
have no fear
of danger.
\VS{10}In
not
much
more
than
a
year,
you,
who
are
not looking
for evil,
will
be
troubled:
for
the produce
of
the vine-gardens
will
be cut
off,
and
there
will
be
no getting
in
of
the grapes.
\VS{11}Be shaking
with
fear,
you women
who are living
in comfort; be
troubled,
you
who
have no
fear
of danger:
take
off
your robes
and
put
on clothing
of grief.
\VS{12}Have
sorrow
for
the
fields,
the pleasing
fields,
the fertile
vine;
\VS{13}And
for
the
land
of
my
people,
where
thorns
will
come
up;
even
for
all
the
houses
of
joy
in
the glad
town.
\VS{14}For
the fair houses
will
have no man living
in
them;
the
town which
was full
of
noise
will
become
a waste;
the
hill
and
the watchtower
will
be unpeopled
for
ever,
a
joy
for
the asses
of
the woods,
a
place
of food
for
the
flocks;
\VS{15}Till
the
spirit
comes
on
us
from
on
high,
and
the waste
land
becomes
a
fertile
field,
and
the
fertile
field
is changed
into
a wood.
\VS{16}Then
in
the waste
land
there
will be an upright
rule,
and
righteousness
will have its
place
in
the
fertile
field.
\VS{17}And
the
work
of
righteousness
will
be
peace;
and
the effect
of
an upright rule
will
be
to
take away fear
for
ever.
\VS{18}And
my
people
will be
living
in
peace,
in houses
where
there
is no fear,
and
in
quiet resting-places.
\VS{19}But
the tall trees
will
come
down
with
a great
fall,
and
the
town
will be
low
in
a
low place.
\VS{20}Happy
are
you
who
are planting
seed
by
all
the
waters,
and
sending
out
the
ox
and
the ass.

\par }\Chap{33}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Ho!
you
who
make
waste
those
who
did
not
make
you
waste; acting falsely
to
those
who were
not false
to
you. When
you
have
come
to
an
end
of wasting,
you
will
be made
waste,
and after
your false acts,
they
will do
the same
to
you.
\VS{2}O
Lord,
have
mercy
on us;
for we
have
been waiting
for
your
help:
be
our
strength
every
morning,
our
salvation
in
time
of
trouble.
\VS{3}At
the loud
noise
the
peoples
have gone
in flight;
at
your coming up
the
nations
have gone
in all directions.
\VS{4}And
the goods
taken
in war will be got
together like
the massing
of young locusts;
men will be
rushing
on
them like
the
rushing
of locusts.
\VS{5}The
Lord
is
lifted
up;
his
place
is
on
high:
he
has made
Zion
full
of
righteousness
and
true religion.
\VS{6}And
she
will
have no more
fear
of change,
being full
of
salvation,
wisdom,
and
knowledge:
the
fear
of
the
Lord
is
her
wealth.
\VS{7}See,
the
men
of war are sorrowing
outside
the town: those
who came looking
for
peace are
weeping
bitterly.
\VS{8}The
highways
are
waste,
no
man
is journeying there:
the
agreement
is
broken,
he
has
made sport
of
the
towns,
he
has
no
thought
for
man.
\VS{9}The
earth
is sorrowing
and wasting
away;
Lebanon
is put
to
shame
and
has
become waste;
Sharon
is
like
the
Arabah;
and
in
Bashan
and
Carmel
the leaves
are falling.
\VS{10}Now
will
I
come forward,
says
the
Lord;
now
will
I
be
lifted
up;
now
will
my power
be seen.
\VS{11}Your designs
will be without profit,
and
their
effect
will be nothing:
you
will be burned
up
by
the
fire
of
my
breath.
\VS{12}And
the
peoples
will
be
like
the
burning
of chalk:
as
thorns
cut
down,
which
are
burned
in
the
fire.
\VS{13}Give ear,
you
who
are
far
off,
to
what
I
have
done:
see
my
power,
you
who
are
near.
\VS{14}The
sinners
in
Zion
are full
of
fear;
the haters
of God
are shaking
with wonder.
Who
among us
may keep
his place before
the
burning
fire?
who
among us
may see
the
eternal burnings?
\VS{15}He whose ways
are true,
and whose words
are
upright;
he
who gives no
thought
to
the profits
of false
acts, whose
hands
have not taken rewards,
who
will
have no part
in putting
men
to
death,
and whose
eyes
are shut
against
evil;
\VS{16}He
will
have
a
place
on
high:
he
will
be safely shut
in
by
the
high
rocks:
his
bread
will
be
given
to
him;
his
waters
will
be certain.
\VS{17}Your
eyes
will
see
the
king
in
his glory:
they
will
be
looking
on
a far-stretching
land.
\VS{18}Your
heart
will give
thought
to
the cause
of
your
fear:
where
is
the
scribe,
where
is
he who made
a record
of
the payments,
where
is
he by whom
the
towers were
numbered?
\VS{19}Never again
will
you
see
the cruel
people,
a
people whose
tongue
has
no sense
for
you; whose
language
is strange
to
you.
\VS{20}Let
your
eyes
be resting
on
Zion,
the
town
of
our holy
feasts:
you
will
see
Jerusalem,
a quiet resting-place,
a
tent
which
will
not
be
moved,
whose tent-pins
will
never
be
pulled
up,
and
whose
cords
will
never
be
broken.
\VS{21}But
there
the
Lord
will
be
with
us
in
his glory, ...
wide
rivers
and
streams;
where
no
boat
will
go
with blades,
and
no fair ship
will
be sailing.
\VS{22}For
the
Lord
is
our
judge,
the
Lord
is
our law-giver,
the
Lord
is
our
king;
he
will
be
our saviour.
\VS{23}Your
cords
have become loose;
they
were
not able
to
make
strong
the
support
of
their sails,
the
sail
was
not
stretched
out:
then
the blind
will
take much property,
the feeble-footed
will
make division
of
the goods
of war.
\VS{24}And
the
men
of Zion
will
not
say,
I am ill:
for
its
people
will
have forgiveness
for
their
sin.

\par }\Chap{34}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Come
near,
you
nations,
and
give ear; take note,
you
peoples: let
the
earth
and
everything
in
it
give ear;
the
world
and
all
those living
in
it.
\VS{2}For
the
Lord
is
angry
with
all
the
nations,
and
his
wrath
is
burning
against
all
their
armies:
he
has
put
them
to
the curse,
he
has
given
them
to destruction.
\VS{3}Their
dead
bodies
will be thick
on
the face
of
the
earth,
and
their smell
will
come
up,
and
the
mountains
will be flowing
with
their
blood,
and
all
the
hills
will
come
to nothing.
\VS{4}And
the
heavens
will
be
rolled together
like
the
roll
of
a
book:
and
all
their
army
will
be gone,
like
a dead
leaf
from
the
vine,
or
a dry
fruit
from
the fig-tree.
\VS{5}For
my
sword
in
heaven
is full
of wrath:
see,
it
is
coming
down
on
Edom,
in punishment
on
the
people
of
my curse.
\VS{6}The
sword
of
the
Lord
is
full
of
blood,
it
is
fat
with
the
best
of
the meat,
with
the
blood
of
lambs
and
goats,
with
the
best
parts
of
the sheep:
for
the
Lord
has
a feast
in
Bozrah,
and
much cattle
will
be put
to
death
in
the
land
of
Edom.
\VS{7}And
the
strong
oxen
will
go
down
to
death
together
with
the smaller cattle.
\VS{8}For
it
is
the
day
of
the Lord's punishment,
when
he gives payment
for
the wrongs done
to
Zion.
\VS{9}And
its
streams
will
be
turned
into boiling oil,
and
its
dust
into
burning stone,
and all
the
land
will
be
on fire.
\VS{10}It
will
not
be
put out
day
or
night;
its
smoke
will
go
up
for
ever:
it
will
be waste
from
generation
to
generation;
no
one
will
go
through
it
for
ever.
\VS{11}But
the birds
of
the
waste land
will
have
their
place there;
it
will be
a heritage
for
the bittern
and
the
raven:
and
it
will be measured
out
with
line
and
weight as
a
waste land.
\VS{12}The jackals
will
be
there,
and
her great ones
will
be
gone;
they
will say,
There
is
no
longer
a
kingdom
there,
and
all
her
chiefs
will
have
come
to
an end.
\VS{13}And
thorns
will
come
up
in
her fair houses,
and waste plants
in
her strong
towers:
and foxes
will make
their holes
there,
and
it
will
be
a meeting-place
for
ostriches.
\VS{14}And
the beasts
of
the waste places
will
come
together
with
the
jackals,
and
the evil spirits
will
be
crying
to
one
another,
even
the night-spirit
will
come
and
make
her resting-place
there.
\VS{15}The arrowsnake
will
make
her hole
and put
her
eggs
there,
and
get
her young
together under
her
shade:
there
the
hawks
will come
together
by twos.
\VS{16}See
what
is recorded
in
the
book
of
the
Lord:
all
these
will
be
there,
not
one
without
the
other:
the
mouth
of
the
Lord
has
given
the
order,
and
his
spirit
has
made
them come
together.
\VS{17}And
he
has
given
them
their heritage,
and
by
his
hand
it
has
been measured
out
to
them:
it
will
be
theirs
for
ever,
their resting-place
from
generation
to
generation.

\par }\Chap{35}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The waste
land
and the
dry
places
will be
glad; the lowland
will have joy
and be full
of flowers.
\VS{2}It
will
be flowering
like
the rose;
it
will
be full
of
delight
and songs;
the
glory
of
Lebanon
will
be
given
to
it;
the pride
of
Carmel
and
Sharon:
they
will
see
the
glory
of
the
Lord,
the power
of
our
God.
\VS{3}Make
strong
the
feeble
hands, give
support
to
the shaking
knees.
\VS{4}Say
to
those
who
are full
of
fear,
Be
strong
and
take
heart:
see,
your
God
will
give punishment;
the reward
of
God
will
come;
he
himself
will
come
to
be
your saviour.
\VS{5}Then
the
eyes
of
the
blind
will
see,
and
the
ears
which
are stopped
will
be
open.
\VS{6}Then
will
the feeble-footed
be jumping like
a roe,
and
the voice
which
was stopped
will
be loud
in song:
for
in
the waste land
streams
will
be bursting
out,
and
waters
in
the dry places.
\VS{7}And
the burning sand
will
become
a
pool,
and
the dry earth
springs
of
waters:
the fields where
the sheep
take
their food
will
become wet
land,
and water-plants
will
take
the
place
of
grass.
\VS{8}And
a
highway
will
be
there;
its
name
will
be,
The
Holy
Way;
the
unclean
and
the sinner
may
not
go
over
it,
and
those
who
go
on
it
will
not
be
turned
out
of
the
way
by
the
foolish.
\VS{9}No
lion
will
be
there,
or
any cruel
beast;
they
will
not
be seen
there;
but
those
for whom
the Lord
has given
a price,
\VS{10}Even
those whom
he
has
made free,
will
come
back
again;
they
will
come
with songs
to
Zion;
on
their
heads
will
be
eternal
joy;
delight
and
joy
will
be theirs,
and
sorrow
and sounds
of
grief
will
be
gone
for
ever.

\par }\Chap{36}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
it
came
about
in
the fourteenth
year
of
King
Hezekiah
that
Sennacherib,
king
of
Assyria,
came
up
against
all
the walled
towns
of
Judah
and
took
them.
\VS{2}And
the
king
of
Assyria
sent
the Rab-shakeh
from
Lachish
to
Jerusalem
to
King
Hezekiah
with
a strong force,
and
he
took
up
his
position
by
the stream
of
the higher
pool,
by
the
highway
of
the washerman's
\VS{3}And
there
came
out
to
him
Eliakim,
the
son
of
Hilkiah,
who
was
over
the
house,
and
Shebna
the
scribe,
and
Joah,
the
son
of
Asaph,
the
recorder.
\VS{4}And
the Rab-shakeh
said
to
them,
Say
now
to
Hezekiah,
These
are
the words
of
the
great
king,
the
king
of
Assyria:
In
what
are
you placing
your
hope?
\VS{5}You
say
you
have
a design
and
strength
for
war,
but these
are
only
words:
now
to
whom
are
you looking
for support,
that
you
have gone
against
my
authority?
\VS{6}See,
you
are basing
your hope
on
that broken
rod
of
Egypt,
which
will
go
into
a man's
hand
if
he makes use
of
it
for
a
support;
for
so
is
Pharaoh,
king
of
Egypt,
to
all
who
put
their faith
in
him.
\VS{7}And
if
you
say
to
me,
Our hope
is
in
the
Lord
our
God;
is
it
not
he
whose
high
places
and
altars
Hezekiah
has
taken
away,
saying
to
Judah
and
Jerusalem
that
worship
may only
be given
before
this
altar?
\VS{8}And
now,
take
a chance
with
my
master,
the
king
of
Assyria,
and
I
will
give
you two
thousand
horses,
if
you
are
able
to
put
horsemen
on
them.
\VS{9}How
then
may
you
put
to shame
the least
of
my master's
servants?
and
you
have
put
your hope
in
Egypt
for war-carriages
and
horsemen:
\VS{10}And
have
I
now
come
to
send
destruction
on
this
land
without
the Lord's
authority?
It
was
the
Lord
himself
who
said
to
me,
Go
up
against
this
land
and make
it
waste.
\VS{11}Then
Eliakim
and
Shebna
and
Joah
said
to
the Rab-shakeh,
Please
make use
of
the Aramaean
language
in
talking
to
your
servants,
for
we
are used
to
it,
and
do
not
make use
of
the Jews'
language
in
the
hearing
of
the
people
on
the
wall.
\VS{12}But
the Rab-shakeh
said,
Is
it
to
your
master
or
to
you
that
my
master
has
sent
me
to
say
these
words?
has
he
not
sent
me
to
the
men
seated
on
the
wall?
for
they
are
the
people
who
will
be short
of
food
with
you
when
the town
is shut
in.
\VS{13}Then
the Rab-shakeh got
up
and
said
with
a
loud
voice
in
the Jews'
language,
Give ear
to
the
words
of
the
great
king,
the
king
of
Assyria:
\VS{14}This
is
what
the
king
says:
Do
not
be
tricked
by
Hezekiah,
for
there
is
no salvation
for
you
in
him.
\VS{15}And
do
not
let
Hezekiah
make
you
put
your faith
in
the
Lord,
saying,
The
Lord
will
certainly keep
us safe,
and
this
town
will
not
be
given
into
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Assyria.
\VS{16}Do
not
give ear
to
Hezekiah,
for
this
is
what
the
king
of
Assyria
says,
Make
peace
with
me,
and
come
out
to
me;
and
everyone
will
be
free
to
take
the fruit
of
his
vine
and
of
his fig-tree,
and
the
water
of
his
spring;
\VS{17}Till
I
come
and
take
you
away
to
a
land
like yours,
a
land
of
grain
and
wine,
a
land
of
bread
and vine-gardens.
\VS{18}Give
no attention
to
Hezekiah
when
he
says
to
you,
The
Lord
will keep
us safe.
Has
any
one
of
the
gods
of
the
nations kept
his
land
from falling
into
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Assyria?
\VS{19}Where
are
the
gods
of
Hamath
and
of
Arpad?
where
are
the
gods
of
Sepharvaim?
where
are
the
gods
of
Samaria?
and
have
they kept
Samaria
out
of
my
hand?
\VS{20}Who
among
all
the
gods
of
these
countries
have kept
their
country
from falling
into
my
hand,
to give cause
for
the thought
that
the
Lord
will keep
Jerusalem
from falling
into
my
hand?
\VS{21}But
they kept quiet
and
gave
him
no
answer:
for
the king's
order
was,
Give
him
no
answer.
\VS{22}Then
Eliakim,
the
son
of
Hilkiah,
who
was
over
the
house,
and
Shebna
the
scribe,
and
Joah,
the
son
of
Asaph,
the
recorder,
came
to
Hezekiah
with
their
clothing parted
as
a sign
of
grief,
and
gave
him
an
account
of
what
the Rab-shakeh
had
said.

\par }\Chap{37}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
on
hearing
it
Hezekiah
took
off
his robe
and
put
on haircloth
and
went
into
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{2}And
he
sent
Eliakim,
who
was
over
the
house,
and
Shebna
the
scribe,
and
the
chief
priests, dressed
in haircloth,
to
Isaiah
the
prophet,
the
son
of
Amoz.
\VS{3}And
they
said
to
him,
Hezekiah
says,
This
day
is
a
day
of
trouble
and punishment
and shame:
for
the
children
are ready
to
come
to
birth,
but
there
is
no
strength
to
give
birth
to
them.
\VS{4}It
may
be
that
the
Lord
your
God
will
give ear
to
the
words
of
the Rab-shakeh,
whom
the
king
of
Assyria,
his
master,
has
sent
to
say evil
things
against
the
living
God,
and
will
make
his
words
come
to
nothing:
so
make
your
prayer
for
the
rest
of
the
people.
\VS{5}So
the
servants
of
King
Hezekiah
came
to
Isaiah.
\VS{6}And
Isaiah
said
to
them,
This
is
what
you
are
to
say
to
your
master:
The
Lord
says,
Be
not troubled
by
the
words
which
the
servants
of
the
king
of
Assyria
have
said
against
me
in
your
hearing.
\VS{7}See,
I
will
put
a
spirit
into
him,
and bad
news
will
come
to
his ears,
and
he
will
go
back
to
his
land;
and
there
I
will
have
him
put
to death.
\VS{8}So
the Rab-shakeh
went
back,
and
when
he got
there
the
king
of
Assyria
was making war
against
Libnah:
for
it
had
come
to
his ears
that
the
king
of
Assyria
had
gone
away
from
Lachish.
\VS{9}And
when
news
came
to
him
that
Tirhakah,
king
of
Ethiopia,
had
made
an
attack
on
him, ...
And
he
sent representatives
to
Hezekiah,
king
of Judah,
saying,
\VS{10}This
is
what
you
are
to
say
to
Hezekiah,
king
of
Judah:
Let
not
your
God,
in
whom
is
your faith,
give
you
a false hope,
saying,
Jerusalem
will
not
be
given
into
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Assyria.
\VS{11}No doubt
the story
has come
to
your ears
of
what
the
kings
of
Assyria
have
done
to
all
lands, putting
them
to
the curse:
and
will
you
be
kept safe
from
their fate?
\VS{12}Did
the
gods
of
the
nations keep safe
those
on
whom
my
fathers sent
destruction,
Gozan
and
Haran
and
Rezeph,
and
the
children
of
Eden
who
were
in
Telassar?
\VS{13}Where
is
the
king
of
Hamath,
and
the
king
of
Arpad,
and
the
king
of
the
town
of
Sepharvaim,
of
Hena,
and Ivva?
\VS{14}And
Hezekiah
took
the
letter
from
the
hands
of
those
who
had
come
with
it;
and after
reading
it,
Hezekiah
went
up
to
the
house
of
the
Lord, opening
the
letter
there
before
the
Lord,
\VS{15}And
he
made prayer
to
the
Lord,
saying,
\VS{16}O
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
seated between
the winged ones,
you
only
are
the
God
of
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth;
you
have
made
heaven
and
earth.
\VS{17}Let
your
ear
be
turned
to
us,
O
Lord;
let
your
eyes
be
open,
O
Lord,
and
see:
take
note
of
all
the
words
of
Sennacherib
who
has
sent
men
to
say evil
against
the
living
God.
\VS{18}Truly,
O
Lord,
the
kings
of
Assyria
have
made waste
all
the
nations
and
their
lands,
\VS{19}And
have
given
their
gods
to
the
fire:
for
they
were
no
gods,
but
wood
and
stone,
the
work
of men's
hands;
so
they
have
given
them
to
destruction.
\VS{20}But
now,
O
Lord
our
God, give
us
salvation
from
his
hand,
so
that
it
may
be
clear
to
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth
that
you,
and
you
only,
are
the
Lord.
\VS{21}Then
Isaiah,
the
son
of
Amoz,
sent
to
Hezekiah,
saying,
The
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
says,
The prayer
you
have
made
to
me
against
Sennacherib,
king
of
Assyria,
has come
to
my ears.
\VS{22}This
is
the
word
which
the
Lord
has
said
about
him:
In
the eyes
of
the
virgin
daughter
of
Zion
you
are shamed
and laughed
at;
the
daughter
of
Jerusalem
has
made sport
of
you.
\VS{23}Against
whom
have
you
said evil
and bitter
things?
and
against
whom
has
your
voice
been
loud
and
your
eyes
lifted
up?
even
against
the
Holy
One
of
Israel.
\VS{24}You
have
sent
your
servants
with evil words
against
the
Lord,
and
have
said,
With
all
my war-carriages
I
have
come
up
to
the top
of
the
mountains,
to
the inmost
parts
of
Lebanon;
and
its
tall
cedars
will
be
cut
down,
and
the best
trees
of
its
woods:
I
will
come
up
into
his
highest
places,
into
his thick
woods.
\VS{25}I
have
made water-holes
and taken
their
waters,
and
with
my foot
I
have
made
all
the
rivers
of
Egypt
dry.
\VS{26}Has
it
not
come
to
your ears
how
I
did
it
long
before, purposing
it
in
times
long past?
Now
I
have
given
effect
to
my design,
so
that
by
you strong
towns might
be
turned
into masses
of broken walls.
\VS{27}This
is why
their townsmen
had no
power,
they
were broken
and
put
to
shame;
they
were
like
the
grass
of
the
field,
or
a
green
plant;
like
the
grass
on
the house-tops,
which
a cold wind
makes waste.
\VS{28}But
I
have
knowledge
of
your getting
up
and
your resting,
of
your
going
out
and
your
coming
in.
\VS{29}Because
your
wrath
against
me
and
your pride
have
come
to
my
ears,
I
will
put
my
hook
in
your
nose
and
my cord
in
your
lips,
and
I
will
make
you
go
back
by
the
way
you
came.
\VS{30}And
this
will
be
the
sign
to
you:
you
will get
your
food
this
year
from
what comes
up
of
itself,
and
in
the
second
year
from
the
produce
of
the
same;
and
in
the
third
year
you
will put
in
your
seed,
and get
in
the grain,
and make vine-gardens,
and take
of
their
fruit.
\VS{31}And those
of
Judah
who
are still living
will
again
take
root
in
the earth,
and
give
fruit.
\VS{32}For
from
Jerusalem
those
who
have
been
kept safe
will
go
out,
and
those
who
are still living
will
go
out
of
Mount
Zion:
by
the fixed purpose
of
the
Lord
of
armies
this
will
be
done.
\VS{33}For
this cause
the
Lord
says
about
the
king
of
Assyria,
He
will
not
come
into
this
town,
or
send
an
arrow
against
it;
he
will
not
come
before
it
with arms,
or
put
up
an earthwork
against
it.
\VS{34}By
the
way
he
came
he
will
go
back,
and
he
will
not
get
into
this
town.
\VS{35}For
I
will keep
this
town
safe,
for
my honour,
and
for
the honour
of
my
servant
David.
\VS{36}And
the
angel
of
the
Lord
went
out
and
put
to
death
in
the
army
of
the Assyrians
a
hundred
and
eighty-five
thousand
men:
and
when
the people
got
up
early
in
the
morning,
there
was
nothing
to
be seen
but
dead
bodies.
\VS{37}Sennacherib,
king
of
Assyria,
went
back
to
his place
at
Nineveh.
\VS{38}And
it
came
about,
when
he
was worshipping
in
the
house
of
Nisroch
his
god,
that
his
sons
Adrammelech
and
Sharezer put
him
to death
with
the
sword,
and
they
went
in flight
into
the
land
of
Ararat.
And Esar-haddon,
his
son,
became
king
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{38}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
those
days
Hezekiah
was ill
and
near
death.
And
Isaiah
the
prophet,
the
son
of
Amoz,
came
to
him,
and
said
to
him,
The
Lord
says,
Put
your
house
in
order;
for
your
death
is
near.
\VS{2}And
Hezekiah,
turning
his
face
to
the
wall,
made
his prayer
to
the
Lord, saying,
\VS{3}O
Lord,
keep
in
mind
how
I
have
been
true
to
you
with
all
my
heart,
and
have
done
what
is
good
in
your
eyes.
And
Hezekiah
gave
way
to bitter
weeping.
\VS{4}Then
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Isaiah,
saying,
\VS{5}Go
to
Hezekiah,
and
say,
The
Lord,
the
God
of
David,
your
father,
says,
Your
prayer
has
come
to
my ears,
and
I
have
seen
your weeping:
see,
I
will
give
you
fifteen
more
years
of
life.
\VS{6}And
I
will keep
you
and
this
town safe
from
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Assyria:
and
I
will keep watch
over
this
town.
\VS{7}And Isaiah
said,
This
is
the
sign
the
Lord
will
give
you,
that
he
will
do
what
he
has
said:
\VS{8}See,
I
will
make
the
shade
which
has
gone
down
on
the
steps
of
Ahaz
with
the
sun,
go
back
ten
steps.
So
the
shade
went
back
the
ten
steps
by
which
it
had
gone
down.
\VS{9}The
writing
of
Hezekiah,
king
of
Judah, after
he
had been ill,
and
had got better
from
his
disease.
\VS{10}I
said,
In
the
quiet
of
my
days
I
am going down into
the underworld:
the
rest
of
my
years
are being taken away
from
me.
\VS{11}I
said,
I
will
not
see
the
Lord,
even
the
Lord
in
the
land
of
the
living:
I
will
not
see
man
again
or
those
living
in
the
world.
\VS{12}My resting-place
is
pulled
up
and
taken
away
from
me
like
a herdsman's
tent:
my
life
is
rolled
up
like
a linen-worker's thread;
I am
cut
off
from
the cloth
on
the frame:
from
day
even
to
night
you
give
me
up
to pain.
\VS{13}I am crying
out
with pain
till
the
morning;
it
is
as
if
a
lion
was crushing
all
my
bones.
\VS{14}I
make cries
like
a bird;
I give out sounds
of grief
like
a
dove:
my
eyes
are looking up
with desire;
O
Lord,
I am crushed, take up
my cause.
\VS{15}What am
I
to
say? seeing
that
it
is
he
who
has
done
it:
all
my
time
of sleeping
I am turning
from side
to side without rest.
\VS{16}O
Lord,
for
this cause
I am waiting
for
you,
give rest
to
my
spirit: make
me well again,
and let
me come back
to
life.
\VS{17}See,
in
place
of
peace
my
soul
had
bitter sorrow.
but
you
have kept
back
my
soul
from
the underworld;
for
you
have put
all
my
sins
out
of
your memory.
\VS{18}For
the underworld
is
not able
to
give
you
praise,
death gives
you
no honour:
for
those
who
go
down
into
the underworld there
is
no hope
in
your mercy.
\VS{19}The
living,
the
living
man,
he
will
give
you
praise,
as
I do
this
day:
the
father
will
give
the story
of
your mercy
to
his
children.
\VS{20}O
Lord, quickly
be
my saviour;
so
we
will make
my
songs
to corded
instruments
all
the
days
of
our
lives
in
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{21}And
Isaiah
said, Let
them
take
a
cake
of
figs,
and
put
it
on
the diseased place,
and
he
will get well.
\VS{22}And
Hezekiah
said,
What
is
the
sign
that
I
will
go
up
to
the
house
of
the
Lord?

\par }\Chap{39}{\PP \VerseOne{1}At
that
time
Merodach-baladan,
the
son
of
Baladan,
king
of
Babylon,
sent
letters
with
an
offering
to
Hezekiah,
because
he
had news
that
Hezekiah
had
been ill,
and
was well
again.
\VS{2}And
Hezekiah
was
glad
at
their coming,
and
let
them
see
all
his store
of
wealth,
the
silver
and
the
gold
and
the
spices
and
the
oil,
and
all
the
house
of
his arms,
and
everything
there
was
in
his
stores:
there
was
nothing
in
all
his
house
or
his
kingdom
which
he
did
not
let
them
see.
\VS{3}Then
Isaiah
the
prophet
came
to
King
Hezekiah,
and
said
to
him,
What
did
these
men
say,
and
where
did
they
come
from?
And
Hezekiah
said,
They
came
from
a
far
country,
even
from
Babylon.
\VS{4}And
he
said,
What
have
they
seen
in
your
house?
And
Hezekiah
said
in
answer,
They
saw
everything
in
my
house:
there
is
nothing
among
my
stores
which
I
did
not
let
them
see.
\VS{5}Then
said
Isaiah
to
Hezekiah,
Give ear
to
the
word
of
the
Lord
of
armies:
\VS{6}Truly,
the
days
are
coming
when
everything
in
your
house,
and
whatever
your
fathers
have
put
in
store
till
this
day,
will
be
taken
away
to
Babylon:
all
will
be
gone.
\VS{7}And
your
sons, even
your
offspring,
will
they
take
away
to
be unsexed servants
in
the house
of
the
king
of
Babylon.
\VS{8}Then
said
Hezekiah
to
Isaiah,
Good
is
the
word
of
the
Lord
which
you
have
said.
And
he
said
in
his heart,
There
will
be
peace
and quiet
in
my
days.

\par }\Chap{40}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Give
comfort,
give
comfort,
to
my
people,
says
your
God.
\VS{2}Say kind words
to
the
heart
of
Jerusalem,
crying
out
to
her
that
her
time
of trouble
is
ended,
that
her
punishment
is
complete;
that
she
has
been rewarded
by
the Lord's
hand twice
over
for
all
her
sins.
\VS{3}A
voice
of
one
crying,
Make ready
in
the waste land
the
way
of
the
Lord,
make level
in
the lowland
a
highway
for
our
God.
\VS{4}Let
every
valley
be
lifted
up,
and
every
mountain
and
hill
be
made
low,
and
let
the rough
places
become
level,
and
the hilltops
become
a
valley,
\VS{5}And
the
glory
of
the
Lord
will
be
made
clear,
and
all
flesh
will
see
it
together,
for
the
mouth
of
the
Lord
has
said
it.
\VS{6}A
voice
of
one
saying, Give
a
cry!
And
I
said,
What
is
my
cry
to
be?
All
flesh
is
grass,
and
all
its strength like
the
flower
of
the
field.
\VS{7}The
grass
becomes
dry,
the
flower
is dead;
because
the
breath
of
the
Lord goes
over
it:
truly
the
people
is
grass.
\VS{8}The
grass
is
dry,
the
flower
is dead; but
the
word
of
our
God
is
eternal.
\VS{9}You
who
give
good
news
to
Zion,
get
up
into
the
high
mountain;
you
who
give
good
news
to
Jerusalem,
let
your
voice
be
strong;
let
it
be sounding
without
fear;
say
to
the
towns
of
Judah,
See,
your
God!
\VS{10}See,
the
Lord
God
will
come
as
a
strong one,
ruling
in
power:
see, those made free
by
him
are
with
him,
and those whom
he
has made safe
go
before
him.
\VS{11}He
will
give food
to
his
flock
like
a keeper
of
sheep;
with
his
arm
he
will get
it
together,
and
will
take
up
the
lambs
on
his breast, gently guiding those which
are
with young.
\VS{12}In
the
hollow
of
whose
hand
have
the
waters
been
measured?
and
who
is able
to take
the
heavens
in
his stretched-out fingers?
who
has got together
the
dust
of
the
earth
in
a
measure?
who
has taken
the weight
of
the
mountains,
or put
the
hills
into
the
scales?
\VS{13}By
whom
has
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
been guided,
or
who
has
been
his teacher?
\VS{14}Who
gave
him suggestions,
and
made clear
to
him
the
right
way?
who
gave
him
knowledge, guiding
him
in
the
way
of
wisdom?
\VS{15}See,
the
nations
are
to
him
like
a
drop hanging
from
a
bucket,
and
like
the small
dust
in
the
scales:
he takes up
the
islands
like small
dust.
\VS{16}And
Lebanon
is
not
enough
to make
a fire
with,
or all
its cattle
enough for
a
burned offering.
\VS{17}All
the
nations
are
as
nothing
before
him; even
less
than
nothing,
a
thing
of
no
value.
\VS{18}Whom
then
is
God
like,
in
your opinion?
or
what
will
you put forward
as
a comparison
with
him?
\VS{19}The workman makes an
image,
and the gold-worker puts
gold
plates over
it,
and makes
silver bands
for
it.
\VS{20}The
wise workman
makes selection
of
the mulberry-tree
of
the
offering,
a
wood
which
will
not become soft;
so
that
the
image
may
be
fixed
to
it
and
not
be
moved.
\VS{21}Have
you
no
knowledge
of
it?
has
it
not come
to
your ears?
has
not news
of
it
been
given
to
you
from
the
first?
has
it
not
been clear
to
you
from
the
time
when
the
earth
was placed
on
its base?
\VS{22}It
is
he
who
is
seated
over
the arch
of
the
earth,
and
the
people
in
it
are
as small
as
locusts;
by
him
the
heavens
are
stretched
out
like
an arch,
and made ready
like
a
tent
for
a living-place.
\VS{23}He
makes
rulers come
to
nothing;
the
judges
of
the
earth
are
of
no value.
\VS{24}They
have
only
now
been
planted,
and
their
seed
put
into
the
earth,
and
they
have
only
now
taken
root,
when
he sends out
his breath
over
them
and
they
become
dry,
and
the storm-wind
takes
them
away
like
dry grass.
\VS{25}Who
then seems
to
you
to be
my
equal?
says
the
Holy
One.
\VS{26}Let
your
eyes
be
lifted
up
on
high,
and
see:
who
has
made
these?
He
who sends
out
their
numbered
army:
who
has
knowledge
of
all
their
names:
by
whose
great
strength,
because
he
is
strong
in
power,
all
of
them
are
in
their
places.
\VS{27}Why
do
you
say,
O
Jacob,
such words
as
these,
O
Israel,
The Lord's eyes
are
not
on
my
way,
and
my
God gives no
attention
to
my
cause?
\VS{28}Have
you
no
knowledge
of
it?
has
it
not come
to
your ears?
The
eternal
God,
the
Lord,
the Maker
of
the
ends
of
the
earth,
is
never feeble
or
tired;
there
is
no
searching
out
of
his
wisdom.
\VS{29}He
gives
power
to
the feeble, increasing
the
strength
of
him
who
has
no force.
\VS{30}Even
the
young
men
will
become
feeble
and
tired,
and
the best
of them
will come
to
the end
of his strength;
\VS{31}But those
who
are waiting
for
the
Lord
will
have
new
strength;
they
will
get
wings
like
eagles:
running,
they
will
not
be
tired,
and walking,
they
will
have
no weariness.

\par }\Chap{41}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Come quietly
before
me, O sea-lands,
and let
the
peoples get
together
their
strength: let
them
come
near;
then let
them
say
what
they
have
to
say: let
us
put
forward
our
cause
against
one another.
\VS{2}Who
sent
out
from
the
east
one
who
is
right wherever
he
goes?
he
gives
the
nations
into
his hands,
and
makes
him ruler
over
kings;
he
gives
them
as
the
dust
to
his
sword,
as
dry stems
before
the wind
to
his
bow.
\VS{3}He
goes
after
them
safely,
not touching
the road
with
his
feet.
\VS{4}Whose purpose
and
work
was
it?
His
who sent
out
the
generations
from
the start.
I
the
Lord,
the
first,
and
with
the
last,
I
am
he.
\VS{5}The sea-lands
saw
it,
and
were
in
fear;
the
ends
of
the
earth
were shaking:
they
came
near.
\VS{6}They
gave
help
everyone
to
his neighbour;
and
everyone
said
to
his
brother,
Take heart!
\VS{7}So
the metal-worker
put heart into
the gold-worker,
and
he
who
was hammering
the metal smooth
said
kind words
to
the iron-worker,
saying
of
the plate,
It
is ready:
and
he
put
it
together
with
nails,
so
that there might
be
no slipping.
\VS{8}But
as
for
you,
Israel,
my
servant,
and
you,
Jacob,
whom
I
have taken
for myself,
the
seed
of
Abraham
my
friend:
\VS{9}You
whom
I
have
taken
from
the
ends
of
the
earth,
and
sent
for
from
its farthest
parts,
saying
to
you,
You
are
my
servant,
whom
I
have
taken
for myself,
and
whom
I
have
not
given up:
\VS{10}Have
no
fear,
for
I
am
with
you;
do
not
be looking about
in trouble,
for
I
am
your
God;
I
will give
you
strength,
yes,
I
will
be
your
helper;
yes,
my true
right
hand
will
be
your
support.
\VS{11}Truly,
all
those
who
are
angry
with
you
will
be
made low
and
put
to
shame:
those desiring
to
do
you wrong
will
come
to
nothing
and
never
again
be seen.
\VS{12}You
will make
search
for
your haters
but
they
will
not
be
there;
those
who make
war
against
you
will
be
as
nothing
and
will
come
to destruction.
\VS{13}For
I,
the
Lord
your
God,
have
taken
your
right
hand
in mine,
saying
to
you,
Have
no
fear;
I
will
be
your
helper.
\VS{14}Have
no
fear,
you worm
Jacob,
and
you
men
of
Israel;
I
will
be
your
helper,
says
the
Lord,
even
he
who takes
up
your cause,
the
Holy
One
of
Israel.
\VS{15}See,
I
will
make
you
like
a
new grain-crushing instrument
with teeth, crushing
the
mountains small,
and making
the
hills
like dry stems.
\VS{16}You
will send
the
wind
over
them,
and
it
will
take
them
away;
they
will go
in all directions before
the storm-wind:
you
will
have joy
in
the
Lord,
and
be
glad
in
the
Holy
One
of
Israel.
\VS{17}The
poor
and crushed
are
looking
for
water
where
no
water
is,
and
their
tongue
is
dry
for need
of
it:
I
the
Lord
will
give ear
to
their prayer,
I
the
God
of
Israel
will
not
give
them
up.
\VS{18}I
will
make
rivers
on
the
dry mountain-tops,
and
fountains
in
the
valleys:
I
will
make
the waste
land
a
pool
of
water,
and
the
dry
land
springs
of
water.
\VS{19}I
will
put
in
the waste land
the
cedar,
the
acacia,
the
myrtle,
and
the olive-tree;
and
in
the lowland
will
be
planted
the fir-tree,
the plane,
and
the
cypress
together:
\VS{20}So
that
they
may
see
and
be
wise
and
give
their
mind
to
it,
and
that
it
may
be clear
to
them
all
that
the
hand
of
the
Lord
has
done
this,
and
that
the
Holy
One
of
Israel
has
made
it.
\VS{21}Put
forward
your
cause,
says
the
Lord; let
your
strong argument
come out,
says
the
King
of
Jacob.
\VS{22}Let
the
future
be
made clear
to
us:
give
us news
of
the
past
things,
so
that
we
may
give
thought
to
them;
or
of
the
things
to
come,
so
that
we
may
see
if
they
are true.
\VS{23}Give
us
word
of
what
will
be
after
this,
so
that
we
may
be
certain
that
you
are
gods:
yes,
do
good
or
do
evil,
so
that
we
may
all
see
it
and
be surprised.
\VS{24}But
you
are
nothing,
and
your
work
is
of
no value: foolish
is
he
who takes
you
for his gods.
\VS{25}I
have sent
for
one
from
the
north,
and
from
the dawn
he
has
come;
in
my
name
he
will
get
rulers together
and
go
against
them;
they
will
be
like dust, even
as
the wet
earth
is stamped
on
by
the feet
of
the
potter.
\VS{26}Who
has
given
knowledge
of
it
from
the
first,
so
that
we
may
be
certain
of
it?
and
from
the start,
so
that
we
may
say,
His
word
is true?
There
is
no
one
who gives
news,
or
says anything,
or
who gives ear
to
your
words.
\VS{27}I
was
the
first
to
give word
of
it
to
Zion,
and
I
gave
the
good
news
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{28}And
I
saw
that
there
was
no
man, even
no wise
man
among
them,
who might
give
an
answer
to
my
questions.
\VS{29}Truly
they
are
all
nothing,
their
works
are
nothing
and
of
no value:
their metal images
are
of
no
more use
than
wind.

\par }\Chap{42}{\PP \VerseOne{1}See
my
servant, whom
I
am supporting,
my loved
one,
in whom
I
take
delight:
I
have
put
my
spirit
on
him;
he
will
give
the knowledge
of
the true
God
to
the
nations.
\VS{2}He
will
make
no
cry,
his
voice
will
not
be loud:
his words
will
not come
to men's ears
in
the
streets.
\VS{3}He
will
not
let
a
crushed stem
be quite
broken,
and
he
will
not
let
a feebly
burning light
be
put
out:
he
will
go
on sending
out
the
true word
to
the peoples.
\VS{4}His
light
will
not
be
put
out,
and
he
will
not
be
crushed,
till
he
has given
the knowledge
of
the true
God
to
the
earth,
and
the sea-lands
will
be
waiting
for
his
teaching.
\VS{5}God
the
Lord,
even
he
who
made
the
heavens, measuring
them
out
on
high;
stretching
out
the
earth,
and
giving
its
produce;
he
who
gives
breath
to
the
people
on
it,
and
life
to
those
who
go
about
on
it,
says:
\VS{6}I
the
Lord
have
made
you
the vessel
of
my purpose,
I
have
taken
you
by
the
hand,
and
kept
you safe,
and
I
have
given
you
to
be
an
agreement
to
the
people,
and
a
light
to
the
nations:
\VS{7}To give
eyes
to
the
blind,
to make
free
the
prisoners
from
the
prison,
to let
out those
who
are shut
up
in
the
dark.
\VS{8}I
am
the
Lord;
that
is
my
name:
I
will
not
give
my
glory
to
another,
or
my
praise
to pictured
images.
\VS{9}See,
the
things
said
before
have
come
about,
and
now
I
give
word
of
new
things:
before
they
come
I
give
you news
of
them.
\VS{10}Make
a
new
song
to
the
Lord,
and
let
his
praise
be sounded
from
the
end
of
the
earth;
you
who
go
down
to
the
sea,
and everything
in
it,
the sea-lands
and
their
people.
\VS{11}Let
the waste land
and
its flocks
be glad,
the tent-circles
of
Kedar; let
the
people
of
the rock
give
a glad
cry,
from
the
top
of
the
mountains let
them
make
a sound
of
joy.
\VS{12}Let
them
give
glory
to
the
Lord, sounding
his
praise
in
the sea-lands.
\VS{13}The
Lord
will
go
out
as
a
man
of
war,
he
will
be
moved
to
wrath
like
a fighting-man:
his voice
will
be
strong,
he
will
give
a
loud
cry;
he
will
go
against
his attackers
like
a
man
of
war.
\VS{14}I
have
long
been quiet, I
have
kept myself
in
and done
nothing: now I will make sounds
of pain
like
a woman
in
childbirth, breathing hard
and quickly.
\VS{15}I
will
make waste
mountains
and
hills, drying
up
all
their
plants;
and
I
will
make
rivers
dry,
and
pools
dry land.
\VS{16}And
I
will
take
the
blind
by
a
way
of
which
they
had
no
knowledge, guiding
them
by
roads strange
to
them:
I
will
make
the
dark
places
light
before
them,
and
the rough
places
level.
These
things
will
I
do
and
will
not
give
them
up.
\VS{17}They
will
be
turned
back
and
be greatly
shamed
who
put
their hope
in pictured
images,
who
say
to
metal
images,
You
are
our
gods.
\VS{18}Give ear,
you whose ears
are shut;
and let
your eyes be open,
you
blind,
so
that
you
may
see.
\VS{19}Who
is
blind,
but
my
servant?
who
has
his ears stopped,
but
he
whom
I
send?
who
is
blind
as
my
true
one,
or
who
has
his ears shut
like
the Lord's
servant?
\VS{20}Seeing
much,
but
keeping
nothing
in
mind;
his
ears
are
open,
but there
is
no
hearing.
\VS{21}It
was
the Lord's
pleasure,
because
of
his
righteousness,
to
make
the
teaching
great
and give
it honour.
\VS{22}But
this
is
a
people
whose property
has
been
taken
away
from
them
by force;
they
are
all
taken
in holes,
and shut
up
in
prisons:
they
are
made prisoners,
and
no
one
makes
them free;
they
are
taken
by force
and
no
one
says,
Give
them
back.
\VS{23}Who
is
there
among
you
who
will
give
ear
to
this?
who
will
give
attention
to it
for
the time
to come?
\VS{24}Who
gave
up
Jacob
to
those
who
took
away
his goods,
and
Israel
to
his attackers?
Did
not
the
Lord?
he
against
whom
they
did
wrong,
and
in
whose
ways
they
would
not
go,
turning
away
from
his
teaching.
\VS{25}For
this
reason
he
let
loose
on
him
the
heat
of
his
wrath,
and
his
strength
was
like
a flame;
and
it
put
fire
round
about
him,
but
he
did
not
see
it;
he
was
burned,
but
did
not
take
it
to
heart.

\par }\Chap{43}{\PP \VerseOne{1}But
now,
says
the
Lord
your
Maker,
O
Jacob,
and
your life-giver,
O
Israel:
have
no
fear,
for
I
have taken up
your
cause; naming
you
by
your
name,
I
have
made
you mine.
\VS{2}When
you
go
through
the
waters,
I
will
be
with
you;
and
through
the
rivers,
they
will
not
go
over
you:
when
you
go
through
the
fire,
you
will
not
be
burned;
and
the
flame
will
have
no power
over
you.
\VS{3}For
I
am
the
Lord
your
God,
the
Holy
One
of
Israel,
your saviour;
I
have
given
Egypt
as
a
price
for
you,
Ethiopia
and
Seba
for
you.
\VS{4}Because
of
your
value
in
my
eyes,
you
have
been honoured,
and
loved
by
me;
so
I
will
give
men
for
you,
and
peoples
for
your
life.
\VS{5}Have
no
fear,
for
I
am
with
you:
I
will
take
your
seed
from
the
east,
and
get
you
together
from
the
west;
\VS{6}I
will
say
to
the
north,
Give
them
up;
and
to
the
south,
Do
not
keep
them
back;
send
back
my
sons
from
far,
and
my
daughters
from
the
end
of
the
earth;
\VS{7}Every
one
who
is
named
by
my
name,
and
whom
I
have
made
for
my
glory,
who
has
been
formed
and designed
by
me.
\VS{8}Send
out
the
blind
people
who
have
eyes,
and those
who
have
ears,
but
they
are shut.
\VS{9}Let
all
the
nations come
together,
and
let
the
peoples
be
present:
who
among
them
is able
to
make
this
clear,
and
give
us
word
of
earlier
things?
let
their
witnesses come forward,
so
that
they
may
be seen
to
be
true,
and
that
they
may
give ear,
and
say,
It
is
true.
\VS{10}You
are
my
witnesses,
says
the
Lord,
and
my
servant
whom
I
have
taken
for
myself:
so
that
you
may
see
and
have
faith
in
me,
and
that
it
may
be clear
to
you
that
I
am
he;
before
me
there
was
no
God
formed,
and
there
will
not
be
after
me.
\VS{11}I, even
I,
am
the
Lord;
and
there
is
no saviour
but
me.
\VS{12}I
gave
the
word,
and
made
it clear,
and
there
was
no
strange
god among
you:
for
this reason
you
are
my
witnesses,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{13}From
time
long past
I
am
God,
and
from
this
day
I
am
he:
there
is
no
one
who
is
able
to
take
you
out
of
my
hand:
when
I undertake
a
thing,
by
whom
will
my purpose
be changed?
\VS{14}The
Lord,
who
has
taken
up
your cause,
the
Holy
One
of
Israel,
says,
Because
of
you
I
have
sent
to
Babylon,
and
made
all
their seers
come south,
and
the Chaldaeans
whose
cry
is
in
the
ships.
\VS{15}I
am
the
Lord,
your
Holy
One,
the Maker
of
Israel,
your
King.
\VS{16}This
is
the
word
of
the
Lord,
who
makes
a
way
in
the
sea,
and
a
road
through
the deep
waters;
\VS{17}Who sends
out
the war-carriages
and
the
horses,
the
army
with
all
its force;
they have
come
down,
they
will
not
get
up
again;
like
a feebly burning light
they
are
put
out.
\VS{18}Give
no
thought
to
the
things which
are
past;
let
the early times go
out
of
your
minds.
\VS{19}See,
I
am
doing
a
new
thing;
now
it
is starting;
will
you
not
take
note
of
it?
I
will
even
make
a
way
in
the waste land,
and
rivers
in
the dry country.
\VS{20}The
beasts
of
the
field
will
give
me honour,
the
jackals
and
the
ostriches:
because
I
send
out
waters
in
the waste
land,
and
rivers
in
the dry
country,
to
give
drink
to
the
people whom
I
have
taken
for myself:
\VS{21}Even
the
people
whom
I
made
to
be
the witnesses
of
my
praise.
\VS{22}But
you
have
made
no prayer
to
me, O
Jacob:
and
you
have
given
no thought
to
me, O
Israel.
\VS{23}You
have
not
made
me burned
offerings
of
sheep,
or
given
me honour
with
your
offerings
of beasts;
I
did
not
make
you
servants
to
give
me
an
offering,
and
I
did
not
make
you
tired
with requests
for perfumes.
\VS{24}You
have
not got
me sweet-smelling plants
with
your
money,
or
given
me pleasure
with
the
fat
of
your
offerings:
but
you
have
made
me
a
servant
to
your
sins,
and
you
have
made
me
tired
with
your
evil doings.
\VS{25}I,
even
I,
am
he
who takes away
your
sins;
and
I
will
no
longer
keep
your evil doings
in
mind.
\VS{26}Put
me
in
mind
of
this;
let
us
take up
the cause between
us:
put forward
your cause,
so
that
you
may
be seen
to
be
in
the
right.
\VS{27}Your
first
father
was
a
sinner,
and
your guides
have gone
against my word.
\VS{28}Your
chiefs
have
made
my
holy
place unclean,
so
I
have
made
Jacob
a curse,
and
Israel
a
thing
of shame.

\par }\Chap{44}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
now,
give ear,
O
Jacob
my
servant,
and
Israel whom
I
have taken
for myself:
\VS{2}The
Lord
who
made
you,
forming
you
in
your mother's
body,
the
Lord,
your
helper,
says,
Have
no
fear,
O
Jacob
my
servant,
and
you,
Jeshurun, whom
I
have taken
for myself.
\VS{3}For
I
will send
water
on
the
land needing
it,
and
streams
on
the
dry earth:
I
will let
my
spirit come
down
on
your
seed,
and
my
blessing
on
your
offspring.
\VS{4}And
they
will come
up
like
grass
in
a well-watered field,
like water-plants
by
the
streams.
\VS{5}One
will
say,
I
am
the Lord's;
and
another
will give
himself
the
name,
Jacob;
another
will
put
a mark
on
his
hand,
I
am
the Lord's,
and
another
will take
the
name
of
Israel
for
himself.
\VS{6}The
Lord,
the
King
of
Israel,
even
the
Lord
of
armies
who
has taken
up
his cause,
says,
I
am
the
first
and
the
last,
and
there
is
no
God
but
me.
\VS{7}If
there
is
one
like
me,
let
him
come
forward
and say
it,
let
him
make
it clear
and
put
it
in order before
me:
who
has
made clear
in
the
past
the
things
to
come?
let
him
make clear
the future
to
me.
\VS{8}Have
no
fear,
be strong
in
heart;
have
I
not
made
it clear
to
you
in
the past,
and
let
you
see
it?
and
you
are
my
witnesses.
Is
there
any
God
but
me,
or
a
Rock
of whom
I
have
no
knowledge?
\VS{9}Those
who
make
a pictured
image
are
all
of
them
as
nothing,
and
the
things
of
their
desire
will
be
of
no
profit
to
them:
and
their servants
see
not,
and
have
no
knowledge;
so
they
will
be
put
to
shame.
\VS{10}Whoever makes
a
god, makes
nothing but
a metal
image
in
which there
is
no
profit.
\VS{11}Truly,
all
those
who
make use
of secret arts
will
be
put
to
shame,
and
their words
of power
are
only words
of
men: let
them
all
come forward
together;
they
will
all
be
in
fear
and
be
put
to
shame.
\VS{12}The iron-worker
is heating
the metal
in
the fire, giving
it form
with
his
hammers,
and
working
on
it
with
his
strong
arm:
then
for need
of food
his
strength gives way,
and
for need
of
water
he
becomes feeble.
\VS{13}The woodworker
is measuring
out
the
wood
with
his line, marking
it
out
with
his pencil: after smoothing
it
with
his plane,
and
making circles
on
it
with
his instrument,
he gives
it
the
form
and
glory
of
a
man,
so
that
it
may
be
placed
in
the
house.
\VS{14}He
has
cedars
cut
down
for
himself,
he
takes
an
oak
and lets
it
get
strong among
the
trees
of
the
wood;
he
has
an ash-tree
planted,
and
the
rain gives
it growth.
\VS{15}Then
it
will
be
used
to
make
a fire,
so
that
a
man
may
get
warm;
he
has
the oven
heated
with
it
and
makes
bread:
he
makes
a
god
with
it,
to
which
he gives
worship:
he
makes
a pictured
image
out
of
it,
and goes
down
on
his face before
it.
\VS{16}With
part
of
it
he
makes
a
fire,
and
on
the
fire
he gets
meat cooked
and takes
a
full meal:
he
makes himself
warm,
and
says,
Aha!
I am
warm,
I
have
seen
the
fire:
\VS{17}And
the
rest
of
it
he
makes
into
a
god,
even
his pictured
image:
he goes
down
on
his face
before
it, giving
worship
to
it,
and
making prayer
to
it,
saying,
Be
my saviour;
for
you
are
my
god.
\VS{18}They
have
no
knowledge
or
wisdom;
for
he
has put
a veil
over
their
eyes,
so
that
they
may
not
see;
and
on
their
hearts,
so
that
they
may
not
give
attention.
\VS{19}And
no
one takes note,
no
one
has
enough
knowledge
or
wisdom
to
say,
I
have
put
part
of
it
in
the
fire,
and
made
bread
on
it;
I
have
had
a
meal
of
the
flesh cooked
with
it:
and am
I now
to
make
the
rest
of
it
into
a false
god? am
I
to
go
down
on
my face
before
a bit
of
wood?
\VS{20}As
for
him whose food
is
the
dust
of
a
dead fire,
he
has
been
turned
from
the way
by
a twisted
mind,
so
that
he
is unable
to keep
himself safe
by
saying, What
I
have here
in
my
hand
is
false.
\VS{21}Keep
these
things
in
mind,
O
Jacob;
and
you
Israel,
for
you
are
my
servant:
I
have
made
you;
you
are
my
servant;
O
Israel,
I
will
not
let
you go
out
of
my memory.
\VS{22}I
have
put
your evil doings
out
of
my mind
like
a
thick
cloud,
and
your
sins
like
a
mist:
come
back
to
me;
for
I
have taken
up
your
cause.
\VS{23}Make
a song,
O
heavens,
for
the
Lord
has
done
it:
give
a
loud
cry,
you deep
parts
of
the
earth:
let
your voices
be
loud
in song,
you
mountains,
and
you
woods
with
all
your
trees:
for
the
Lord
has taken
up
the cause
of
Jacob,
and
will
let
his
glory
be seen
in
Israel.
\VS{24}The
Lord,
who
has taken
up
your cause,
and
who
gave
you life
in
your mother's
body,
says,
I
am
the
Lord
who
makes
all
things;
stretching
out
the
heavens
by
myself,
and giving
the
earth
its limits;
who
was
with
me?
\VS{25}Who makes
the
signs
of
those
who
give word
of
the future
come
to nothing,
so
that
those
who
have
knowledge
of secret arts
go off
their heads;
turning
the
wise
men
back,
and making
their
knowledge
foolish:
\VS{26}Who
makes
the
word
of
his
servants certain,
and gives
effect
to
the purposes
of
his representatives;
who
says
of
Jerusalem,
Her
people
will
come
back
to
her;
and
of
the
towns
of
Judah,
I
will give
orders
for
their
building,
and
will
make
her
waste
places fertile
again:
\VS{27}Who
says
to
the deep, Be
dry,
and
I
will
make
your
rivers
dry:
\VS{28}Who
says
of
Cyrus,
He
will
take
care
of
my sheep,
and
will
do
all
my
pleasure:
who
says
of
Jerusalem,
I
will give
the
word
for
your
building;
and
of
the
Temple,
Your bases
will
be put
in
place.

\par }\Chap{45}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
Lord
says
to
the
man
of
his selection,
to
Cyrus,
whom
I
have
taken
by
the
right
hand, putting
down
nations
before
him,
and taking away
the arms
of
kings;
making
the
doors
open
before
him,
so
that
the ways into
the
towns
may
not
be
shut;
\VS{2}I
will go
before
you,
and
make
the
rough
places level:
the
doors
of brass
will
be
broken,
and
the
iron rods
cut
in two:
\VS{3}And
I
will
give
you
the
stores
of
the
dark,
and
the
wealth
of
secret
places,
so
that
you
may
be
certain
that
I
am
the
Lord,
who
gave
you
your
name,
even
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{4}Because
of
Jacob
my
servant,
and
Israel
whom
I
have taken
for
myself,
I
have sent
for
you
by
name, giving
you
a
name
of honour, though
you
had
no
knowledge
of
me.
\VS{5}I
am
the
Lord,
and
there
is
no
other;
there
is
no
God
but
me:
I
will
make
you ready
for war,
though
you
had
no
knowledge
of
me:
\VS{6}So
that
they
may
see
from
the
east
and
from
the
west
that
there
is
no
God
but
me:
I
am
the
Lord,
and
there
is
no
other.
\VS{7}I
am
the giver
of
light
and
the
maker
of
the
dark; causing blessing,
and sending troubles;
I
am
the
Lord,
who
does
all
these
things.
\VS{8}Let
righteousness come
down,
O
heavens,
from
on
high,
and let
the
sky send
it
down
like
rain: let
the
earth
be
open
to give
the
fruit
of
salvation, causing
righteousness
to come
up
with
it;
I
the
Lord
have
made
it come
about.
\VS{9}Cursed
is
he
who
has
an argument
with
his
Maker,
the pot
which
has
an argument
with
the
Potter!
Will
the wet
earth
say
to
him
who
is working
with
it,
What
are
you
doing,
that
your
work
has
nothing
by
which
it
may
be gripped?
\VS{10}Cursed
is
he
who
says
to
a
father,
To
what
are
you
giving life?
or
to
a
woman,
What
are
you
in birth-pains
with?
\VS{11}The
Lord,
the
Holy
One
of
Israel,
and
his
Maker,
says,
Will
you
put
a
question
to
me
about
the
things which
are
to
come,
or
will
you
give
me
orders
about
my
sons,
and
the
work
of
my
hands?
\VS{12}I
have
made
the
earth, forming
man
on
it:
by
my
hands
the
heavens
have
been
stretched
out,
and
all
the stars
put
in
their
ordered
places.
\VS{13}I
have
sent
him
out
to overcome
the nations,
and
I
will
make
all
his
ways
straight:
I
will give
him
the work
of
building
my
town,
and
he
will
let
my prisoners
go
free,
without
price
or
reward,
says
the
Lord
of
armies.
\VS{14}The
Lord
says,
The workmen
of
Egypt,
and
the traders
of
Ethiopia,
and
the
tall Sabaeans,
will
come
over
the sea
to
you,
and
they
will
be yours;
they
will
go
after
you;
in chains
they
will
come
over:
and
they
will
go
down
on
their faces
before
you,
and
will
make prayer
to
you,
saying,
Truly,
God
is
among
you;
and
there
is
no
other
God.
\VS{15}Truly,
you
have
a
secret
God,
the
God
of
Israel
is
a Saviour!
\VS{16}All
those
who
have
gone
against
him
will
be
put
to
shame;
the makers
of images
will
be
made low.
\VS{17}But
the
Lord
will make
Israel free
with
an
eternal
salvation:
you
will
not
be
put
to
shame
or made low
for
ever
and
ever.
\VS{18}For
this
is
the
word
of
the
Lord
who
made
the
heavens;
he
is
God;
the
maker
and designer
of
the
earth;
who
made
it
not
to
be
a
waste,
but
as
a living-place
for
man:
I
am
the
Lord,
and
there
is
no
other.
\VS{19}I
have
not
given
my
word
in secret,
in
a
place
in
the underworld;
I
did
not
say
to
the
seed
of
Jacob, Go
into
a
waste
land
to
make
request
of
me:
I
the
Lord
say
what
is
true,
my
word
is
righteousness.
\VS{20}Come
together,
even
come
near,
you
nations
who
are
still living:
they
have
no
knowledge
who
take
up
their
image
of
wood,
and
make prayer
to
a
god
in whom
is
no
salvation.
\VS{21}Give
the
word,
put
forward
your cause,
let
us
have
a discussion
together:
who
has
given news
of
this
in
the past?
who
made
it clear
in early times?
did
not
I,
the
Lord?
and
there
is
no
God
but
me;
a
true
God
and
a saviour;
there
is
no
other.
\VS{22}Let
your hearts
be
turned
to
me,
so
that
you
may
have
salvation,
all
the
ends
of
the
earth:
for
I
am
God,
and
there
is
no
other.
\VS{23}By myself
have
I
taken
an
oath,
a true
word
has
gone
from
my
mouth,
and
will
not
be changed,
that
to
me
every
knee
will
be bent,
and
every
tongue
will
give honour.
\VS{24}Only
in
the
Lord
will
Jacob overcome
and
be
strong: together
all
those
who were
angry
with
him
will
be
put
to
shame
and
come
to destruction.
\VS{25}In
the
Lord
will
all
the
seed
of
Israel get
their rights,
and
they
will
give glory
to
him.

\par }\Chap{46}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Bel
is bent
down,
Nebo
is falling;
their
images
are
on
the
beasts
and
on
the
cattle:
the
things
which
you
took
about
have
become
a weight
to
the
tired
beast.
\VS{2}They
are bent
down,
they
are falling
together:
they
were
not
able
to keep
their images safe,
but
they
themselves
have
been taken prisoner.
\VS{3}Give ear
to
me,
O
family
of
Jacob,
and
all
the
rest
of
the
people
of
Israel,
who
have
been
supported
by
me
from
their
birth,
and
have
been
my care
from
their earliest days:
\VS{4}Even
when
you
are
old
I
will
be
the
same,
and
when
you
are grey-haired
I
will
take care
of
you:
I
will
still
be
responsible
for
what
I
made; yes,
I
will
take
you
and
keep
you safe.
\VS{5}Who
in your eyes
is my
equal?
or
what comparison
will you
make with
me?
\VS{6}As
for those
who take
gold
out
of
a
bag,
and put
silver
in
the scales,
they give payment
to
a gold-worker,
to
make
it
into
a
god;
they go
down
on
their faces
and give
it
worship.
\VS{7}They
put
him
on
their
backs,
and
take
him
up,
and
put
him
in
his
fixed
place,
from which
he
may
not
be moved; if
a
man
gives
a
cry
for
help
to
him,
he
is unable
to
give
an
answer,
or get
him
out
of
his
trouble.
\VS{8}Keep
this
in
mind
and
be shamed;
let
it
come
back
to
your memory,
you sinners.
\VS{9}Let
the
things which
are
past
come
to
your memory:
for
I
am
God,
and
there
is
no
other;
I
am
God,
and
there
is
no
one
like
me;
\VS{10}Making
clear
from
the
first
what
is
to
come,
and
from past times
the
things
which
have
not
so
far
come
about;
saying,
My
purpose
is fixed,
and
I
will
do
all
my
pleasure;
\VS{11}Sending
for
a
bird
of strong flight
from
the
east,
the
man
of
my
purpose
from
a
far
country;
I
have
said
it,
and
I
will
give effect
to
it;
the thing designed
by
me
will
certainly
be
done.
\VS{12}Give ear
to
me,
you feeble-hearted,
who
have no faith
in
my
righteousness:
\VS{13}My
righteousness
is
near,
it
is
not
far
off;
salvation
will
come quickly;
and
I
will
make
Zion free,
and
give
Israel
my
glory.

\par }\Chap{47}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Come
and
take
your
seat
in
the
dust, O
virgin
daughter
of
Babylon;
come
down
from
your
seat
of power,
and
take
your
place
on
the
earth, O
daughter
of
the Chaldaeans:
for
you
will
never
again seem
soft
and
delicate.
\VS{2}Take
the crushing-stones
and
get
the
meal crushed:
take
off
your
veil,
put
away
your robe,
let
your
legs be
uncovered,
go
through
the
rivers.
\VS{3}The
shame
of
your unclothed condition
will
be
seen
by
all:
I
will
give punishment
without mercy,
\VS{4}Says
the
Lord
who takes up
our cause;
the
Lord
of
armies
is
his
name,
the
Holy
One
of
Israel.
\VS{5}Be
seated
in
the
dark
without
a word, O
daughter
of
the Chaldaeans:
for
you
will
no
longer
be
named,
The
Queen
of
Kingdoms.
\VS{6}I
was
angry
with
my
people,
I
put shame
on
my
heritage,
and
gave
them
into
your
hands:
you
had
no
mercy
on
them;
you
put
a cruel
yoke
on
those
who
were
old;
\VS{7}And
you
said,
I
will
be
a
queen
for
ever:
you
did
not
give
attention
to
these
things,
and
did
not
keep
in
mind
what
would
come
after.
\VS{8}So
now
take
note
of
this,
you
who
are
given
up
to pleasure,
living
without fear
of evil,
saying
in
your
heart,
I
am,
and
there
is
no
one
like
me;
I
will
never
be
a
widow,
or
have
my
children
taken
from
me.
\VS{9}But
these
two
things
will
come
on
you
suddenly
in
one
day,
the
loss
of
children
and
of husband:
in
full
measure
they
will
come
on
you,
for
all
your secret arts,
and
all
your wonders.
\VS{10}For
you
had faith
in
your evil-doing;
you
said,
No
one
sees
me;
by
your
wisdom
and
knowledge
you
have been
turned
out
of
the way:
and
you
have
said
in
your
heart,
I
am,
and
there
is
no
other.
\VS{11}Because
of
this
evil
will
come
on
you, which
may
not
be turned
away
for
any price:
and
trouble
will
overtake
you,
from which
no money
will
give salvation:
destruction
will
come
on
you
suddenly,
without
your
knowledge.
\VS{12}Go
on
now
with
your secret arts,
and
all
your wonder-working,
to
which
you
have given yourself
up
from
your earliest days;
it
may
be
that
they
will
be
of
profit
to
you,
or
by
them
you
may put fear into
your attackers.
\VS{13}But
your
mind
is troubled
by
the
number
of
your guides:
let
them
now
come
forward
for
your
salvation:
the measurers
of
the
heavens,
the watchers
of
the
stars,
and
those
who
are able
to say
from
month
to
month
what
things
are
coming
on
you.
\VS{14}Truly,
they
have
become
like dry stems,
they
have
been
burned
in
the
fire;
they
are
not
able
to
keep
themselves safe
from
the
power
of
the
flame:
it
is
not
a
coal
for warming
them,
or
a
fire
by
which
a
man
may
be
seated.
\VS{15}Small profit
have
you
had
from
those
who,
from
your earliest
days, got great profit
out
of
you;
they
have
gone
in flight,
every
one
straight before
him,
and
you
have
no saviour.

\par }\Chap{48}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Give ear
to
this,
O
family
of
Jacob,
you
who
are
named
by
the
name
of
Israel,
and
have
come
out
of
the body
of
Judah;
who
take
oaths
by
the
name
of
the
Lord,
and
make use
of
the
name
of
the
God
of
Israel,
but
not
truly
and
not
in good
faith.
\VS{2}For
they
say
that
they
are
of
the
holy
town,
and put
their faith
in
the
God
of
Israel:
the
Lord
of
armies
is
his
name.
\VS{3}I
gave
word
in
the
past
of
the
things which
came
about;
they
came
from
my
mouth,
and
I
made
them
clear:
suddenly
I
did
them,
and
they
came
about.
\VS{4}Because
I saw
that
your heart was
hard,
and
that
your
neck was
an
iron cord,
and
your brow brass;
\VS{5}For
this reason
I
made
it clear
to
you
in
the past,
before
it
came
I
gave
you
word
of
it:
for
fear
that
you
might
say,
My
god
did these things,
and
my pictured
and
metal
images
made
them
come
about.
\VS{6}All
this
has come
to
your ears
and
you
have
seen
it;
will
you
not
give
witness
to
it?
I am
now
making
clear
new
things,
even
secret
things,
of which
you
had
no
knowledge.
\VS{7}They
have only
now
been effected,
and
not
in
the past:
and
before
this
day
they
had
not come
to
your ears;
for
fear
that
you
might
say,
I
had
knowledge
of
them.
\VS{8}Truly
you
had
no word
of
them,
no
knowledge
of
them;
no news
of
them
in
the past
had come
to
your
ears;
because
I saw
how false
was
your behaviour,
and
that
your
heart
was turned
against
me
from
your earliest days.
\VS{9}Because
of
my
name
I
will put away
my
wrath,
and
for
my
praise
I
will keep myself
from cutting
you
off.
\VS{10}See,
I
have
been testing
you
for myself
like
silver;
I
have put
you through
the fire
of trouble.
\VS{11}For myself,
even
because
of
my name,
I
will
do
it;
for
I
will
not
let
my name
be shamed;
and
my
glory
I
will
not
give
to
another.
\VS{12}Give ear
to
me,
Jacob,
and
Israel,
my loved
one;
I
am
he,
I
am
the
first
and
I
am
the
last.
\VS{13}Yes,
by
my
hand
was
the
earth
placed
on
its base,
and
by
my
right
hand
the
heavens
were stretched
out;
at
my word
they
take
up
their places.
\VS{14}Come
together,
all
of
you,
and
give ear;
who
among
you
has
given news
of
these
things?
the Lord's
loved
one
will
do
his
pleasure
with
Babylon,
and
with
the seed
of
the Chaldaeans.
\VS{15}I,
even
I,
have
given
the
word;
I
have sent
for
him:
I
have
made
him
come,
and
have
given effect
to
his undertakings.
\VS{16}Come
near
to
me,
and
give ear
to
this;
from
the start
I
did
not
keep
it secret;
from
the
time
of
its coming
into existence
I
was
there:
and
now
the
Lord
God
has
sent
me,
and
given
me
his
spirit.
\VS{17}The
Lord
who takes
up
your cause,
the
Holy
One
of
Israel,
says,
I
am
the
Lord
your
God,
who
is
teaching
you
for
your
profit, guiding
you
by
the
way
in which
you
are
to go.
\VS{18}If
only
you
had
given ear
to
my
orders,
then
your
peace
would
have
been
like
a
river,
and
your
righteousness
as
the
waves
of
the
sea:
\VS{19}Your
seed
would
have
been
like
the
sand,
and
your
offspring
like
the dust:
your
name
would
not
be
cut
off
or
come
to
an end
before
me.
\VS{20}Go
out
of
Babylon,
go
in
flight
from
the Chaldaeans;
with
the
sound
of song
make
it
clear,
give
the
news,
let
the
word
go
out
even
to
the
end
of
the
earth:
say,
The
Lord
has
taken
up
the cause
of
his
servant
Jacob.
\VS{21}They
had
no need
of
water when
he
was guiding them
through
the
waste lands:
he made
water come
out
of
the
rock
for them:
the
rock
was parted
and
the
waters came
flowing
out.
\VS{22}There
is
no
peace,
says
the
Lord,
for
the evil-doers.

\par }\Chap{49}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Give ear,
O sea-lands,
to
me;
and
take
note,
you
peoples
from
far:
I
have
been marked
out
by
the
Lord
from
the first;
when
I
was still
in
my mother's
body,
he
had
my
name
in
mind:
\VS{2}And
he
has
made
my
mouth
like
a
sharp
sword,
in
the
shade
of
his
hand
he
has kept
me;
and
he
has
made
me
like
a polished
arrow, keeping
me
in
his
secret
place;
\VS{3}And
he
said
to
me,
You
are
my
servant,
Israel,
in
whom
my
glory
will
be seen;
\VS{4}And
I
said,
I
have undergone weariness
for
nothing,
I
have given
my
strength
for no purpose
or profit:
but
still
the
Lord
will take
up
my
cause,
and
my
God
will give
me
my
reward.
\VS{5}And
now,
says
the
Lord,
who
made
me
his
servant
when
I
was
still
in
my mother's
body,
so
that
I
might
make
Jacob
come
back
to
him,
and
so
that
Israel
might
come
together
to
him:
and
I
was honoured
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
and
my
God
became
my
strength.
\VS{6}It
is
not enough
for
one
who
is
my
servant
to
put
the
tribes
of
Jacob
again
in
their
place,
and
to
get
back
those
of
Israel
who
have
been
sent
away:
my purpose
is
to
give
you
as
a
light
to
the
nations,
so
that
you
may
be
my
salvation
to
the
end
of
the
earth.
\VS{7}The
Lord
who takes
up Israel's cause,
even
his
Holy
One,
says
to
him
whom
men
make sport
of,
who
is hated
by
the
nations,
a
servant
of
rulers:
Kings
will
see
and
get
up
from
their
places,
and
chiefs
will
give
worship:
because
of
the
Lord
who keeps
faith;
even
the
Holy
One
of
Israel
who
has
taken
you
for
himself.
\VS{8}This
is
the
word
of
the
Lord:
I
have
given ear
to
you
at
a
good
time,
and
I
have
been
your
helper
in
a
day
of
salvation:
and
I
will
keep
you safe,
and
will
make
you
a glory
for
the
people,
putting
the
land
in
order,
and
giving
them
the
heritages which
now
are
waste;
\VS{9}Saying
to
those
who
are
in chains,
Go
free;
to
those
who
are
in
the
dark,
Come
out
into
the light.
They
will
get food
by
the
way
wherever
they
go,
and
have grass-lands
on
all
the dry mountain-tops.
\VS{10}They
will
not
be
in need
of food
or drink,
or
be
troubled
by
the
heat
or
the
sun:
for
he
who
has
mercy
on
them
will
be
their
guide, taking
them
by
the
springs
of
water.
\VS{11}And
I
will
make
all
my
mountains
a
way,
and
my
highways
will
be
lifted
up.
\VS{12}See,
these
are
coming
from
far;
and
these
from
the
north
and
the
west;
and
these
from
the
land
of
Sinim.
\VS{13}Let
your voice
be loud
in song,
O
heavens;
and
be
glad,
O
earth;
make sounds
of
joy,
O
mountains,
for
the
Lord
has given
comfort
to
his
people,
and
will
have
mercy
on
his crushed ones.
\VS{14}But
Zion
said,
The
Lord
has given
me up,
I
have gone
from
his memory.
\VS{15}Will
a
woman give
up
the
child
at
her breast,
will
she
be
without
pity
for
the fruit
of
her
body?
yes,
these
may,
but
I
will
not
let
you go out
of
my memory.
\VS{16}See,
your name
is
marked
on
my
hands;
your
walls
are
ever
before
me.
\VS{17}Your
builders
are
coming
quickly;
your haters
and
those
who
made
you waste
will
go
out
of
you.
\VS{18}Let
your
eyes
be
lifted
up
round
about,
and
see:
they
are
all
coming
together
to
you.
By
my
life,
says
the
Lord,
truly
you
will
put
them
all
on
you
as
an ornament,
and
be
clothed
with
them
like
a
bride.
\VS{19}For
though
the
waste
places
of
your
land
have
been given
to destruction,
now
you
will
not
be wide enough
for
your
people,
and
those
who
made
you
waste
will
be
far
away.
\VS{20}The
children
to whom
you
gave birth
in
other lands
will
say
in
your
ears,
The
place
is
not wide enough
for
me:
make
room
for
me
to
have
a resting-place.
\VS{21}Then
you
will
say
in
your
heart,
Who
has
given
me all
these
children?
when
my
children
had
been
taken
from
me,
and
I
was
no
longer
able
to
have
others,
who
took care
of
these?
when
I
was
by
myself,
where
then
were
these?
\VS{22}This
is
the
word
of
the
Lord
God:
See,
I
will
make
a sign
with
my
hand
to
the
nations,
and
put
up
my flag
for
the
peoples;
and
they
will
take
up
your
sons
on
their
beasts,
and
your
daughters
on
their
backs.
\VS{23}And
kings
will
take care
of
you,
and queens
will
give
you
their milk:
they
will
go
down
on
their
faces
before
you, kissing
the
dust
of
your
feet;
and
you
will
be
certain
that
I
am
the
Lord,
and
that
those
who
put
their
hope
in
me
will
not
be
shamed.
\VS{24}Will
the goods
of war
be
taken
from
the
strong
man,
or
the
prisoners
of
the cruel
one
be let go?
\VS{25}But
the
Lord
says,
Even
the
prisoners
of
the
strong
will
be
taken
from
him,
and
the cruel
made
to let go
his goods:
for
I
will
take
up
your cause
against
your haters,
and
I
will
keep
your
children
safe.
\VS{26}And
the
flesh
of
your attackers
will
be taken
by themselves
for
food;
and
they
will
take
their
blood
for drink,
as
if
it
was
sweet
wine:
and
all
men
will
see
that
I
the
Lord
am
your saviour,
even
he
who takes
up
your cause,
the Strong
One
of
Jacob.

\par }\Chap{50}{\PP \VerseOne{1}This
is
the
word
of
the
Lord:
Where
is
the statement
which
I
gave
your
mother
when
I
put
her
away?
or
to
which
of
my
creditors
have
I given
you
for money?
It
was
for
your
sins
that
you
were given
into
the hands
of others,
and
for
your evil-doing
was
your
mother
put
away.
\VS{2}Why,
then,
when
I
came,
was
there
no
man?
and
no
one
to
give
answer
to
my voice?
has
my
hand
become feeble,
so
that
it
is unable
to
take
up
your
cause?
or
have
I
no
power
to
make
you free?
See,
at
my word
the
sea
becomes
dry,
I
make
the
rivers
a waste land:
their
fish
are
dead
for
need
of
water,
and
make
an evil smell.
\VS{3}By
me
the
heavens
are
clothed
with black,
and
I
make haircloth
their robe.
\VS{4}The
Lord
God
has
given
me
the
tongue
of
those who
are
experienced,
so
that
I
may
be able
to
give
the
word
a special sense
for
the feeble:
every
morning
my
ear
is open
to
his teaching,
like
those who
are
experienced:
\VS{5}And
I
have
not put
myself
against him,
or
let
my heart
be
turned
back
from him.
\VS{6}I
was offering
my back
to those
who
gave
me
blows,
and
my
face
to those
who
were pulling
out
my
hair:
I
did
not keep
my
face covered
from marks
of
shame.
\VS{7}For
the
Lord
God
is
my
helper;
I
will
not
be
put
to
shame:
so
I
have
made
my
face
like
a rock,
and
I am
certain
that
he
will
give
me
my
right.
\VS{8}He
who
takes
up
my
cause
is
near;
who
will
go
to law
with
me? let
us
come
together
before
the
judge:
who
is
against
me? let
him
come
near
to
me.
\VS{9}See,
the
Lord
God
is
my
helper;
who
will
give
a decision
against
me? truly,
all
of
them
will
become
old
like
a robe;
they
will
be
food
for
the worm.
\VS{10}Who
among
you
has
the
fear
of
the
Lord, giving ear
to
the
voice
of
his
servant
who
has
been
walking
in
the dark
and
has
no
light?
Let
him
put
his faith
in
the
name
of
the
Lord, looking
to
his
God
for support.
\VS{11}See,
all
you
who
make
a
fire, arming
yourselves
with
burning branches:
go
in
the
flame
of
your
fire,
and among
the branches
you
have
put
a
light
to.
This
will
you
have
from
my
hand,
you
will
make
your
bed
in sorrow.

\par }\Chap{51}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Give ear
to
me,
you
who
are
searching
for
righteousness,
who
are
looking
for
the
Lord:
see
the
rock
from which
you
were
cut
out,
and
the hole
out
of which
you
were taken.
\VS{2}Let
your thoughts
be
turned
to
Abraham,
your
father,
and
to
Sarah,
who
gave
you birth:
for
when
he
was
but
one,
my voice
came
to
him,
and
I
gave
him
my
blessing,
and
made
him
a great people.
\VS{3}For
the
Lord
has given
comfort
to
Zion:
he
has
made glad
all
her broken walls;
making
her
waste
places
like
Eden,
and changing
her dry land into
the
garden
of
the
Lord;
joy
and
delight
will
be
there,
praise
and
the
sound
of
melody.
\VS{4}Give
attention
to
me, O
my
people;
and
give
ear
to
me, O
my
nation;
for
teaching
will
go
out
from
me,
and
the knowledge
of
the true
God
will
be
a
light
to
the
peoples.
\VS{5}Suddenly
will
my
righteousness
come
near,
and
my
salvation
will
be shining
out
like
the light;
the sea-lands
will
be waiting
for
me,
and
they
will
put
their
hope
in
my strong
arm.
\VS{6}Let
your
eyes
be
lifted
up
to
the
heavens,
and
turned
to
the
earth
which
is
under
them:
for
the
heavens
will
go
in flight
like
smoke,
and
the
earth
will
become
old
like
a coat,
and
its
people
will
come
to destruction
like insects:
but
my
salvation
will
be
for
ever,
and
my
righteousness
will
not
come
to
an end.
\VS{7}Give ear
to
me,
you
who
have
knowledge
of
righteousness,
in whose
heart
is
my
law;
have
no
fear
of
the evil
words
of
men,
and
give
no
thought
to
their curses.
\VS{8}For
like
a coat
they
will
be
food
for
the insect,
the worm
will
make
a meal
of
them
like
wool:
but
my
righteousness
will
be
for
ever,
and
my
salvation
to
all
generations.
\VS{9}Awake!
awake!
put
on
strength,
O
arm
of
the
Lord,
awake!
as
in
the
old
days,
in
the
generations
long
past.
Was
it
not
by
you
that
Rahab
was
cut
in
two,
and
the
dragon
Wounded?
\VS{10}Did
you
not
make
the
sea
dry,
the
waters
of
the
great
deep?
did
you
not
make
the
deep
waters
of
the
sea
a
way
for
the Lord's
people
to
go
through?
\VS{11}Those whom
the
Lord
has
made free
will
come
back
with songs
to
Zion;
and
on
their
heads
will
be
eternal
joy:
delight
and
joy
will
be theirs,
and
sorrow
and sounds
of
grief
will
be
gone
for
ever.
\VS{12}I, even
I,
am
your
comforter:
are
you
so poor
in heart
as
to
be
in
fear
of
man
who
will come
to
an end,
and
of
the
son
of
man
who
will
be
like
grass?
\VS{13}And
you
have
given
no thought
to
the
Lord
your Maker,
by
whom
the
heavens
were
stretched
out,
and
the
earth
placed
on
its base;
and
you
went
all
day
in
fear
of
the
wrath
of
the cruel
one,
when
he
was
making
ready
for
your
destruction.
And
where
is
the
wrath
of
the cruel
one?
\VS{14}The prisoner, bent under
his chain,
will
quickly
be
made free,
and
will
not go
down into
the underworld,
and
his
bread
will
not come
to an end.
\VS{15}For
I
am
the
Lord
your
God,
who
makes
the
sea calm
when
its
waves
are thundering:
the
Lord
of
armies
is
his
name.
\VS{16}And
I
have
put
my
words
in
your
mouth,
covering
you
with
the
shade
of
my
hand, stretching
out
the
heavens,
and placing
the
earth
on
its base,
and
saying
to
Zion,
You
are
my
people.
\VS{17}Awake!
awake!
up!
O
Jerusalem,
you
who
have
taken
from
the Lord's
hand
the
cup
of
his
wrath; tasting
in full measure
the wine
which overcomes.
\VS{18}She
has
no
one among
all
her
children
to
be
her
guide;
not
one
of
the
sons she
has
taken
care
of
takes
her
by
the
hand.
\VS{19}These
two
things
have
come
on
you;
who
will
be weeping
for
you? wasting
and
destruction; death
from need
of food,
and
from
the
sword;
how
may
you
be
comforted?
\VS{20}Your
sons
are overcome,
like
a roe
in
a net;
they
are
full
of
the
wrath
of
the
Lord,
the punishment
of
your
God.
\VS{21}So
now
give ear
to
this,
you
who
are troubled
and overcome,
but
not
with
wine:
\VS{22}This
is
the
word
of
the
Lord
your
master,
even
your
God
who
takes
up
the cause
of
his
people:
See,
I
have
taken
out
of
your
hand
the
cup which overcomes,
even
the
cup
of
my
wrath;
it
will
not
again
be
given
to
you:
\VS{23}And
I
will
put
it
into
the
hand
of
your cruel masters,
and
of
those
whose yoke
has
been hard
on
you;
who
have
said
to
your
soul,
Down
on
your face!
so
that
we
may
go
over
you:
and
you
have
given
your backs
like
the
earth,
even
like
the
street,
for
them
to
go
over.

\par }\Chap{52}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Awake!
awake!
put
on
your
strength, O
Zion;
put
on
your
beautiful
robes, O
Jerusalem,
the
holy
town:
for
from
now there
will
never
again
come
into
you
the
unclean
and
those
without circumcision.
\VS{2}Make
yourself clean
from
the
dust;
up!
and
take
the
seat
of
your power, O
Jerusalem:
the
bands
of
your
neck
are
loose, O prisoned
daughter
of
Zion.
\VS{3}For
the
Lord
says,
You were given
for
nothing,
and
you
will
be made
free
without
price.
\VS{4}For
the
Lord
God
says,
My
people
went
down
at
first
into
Egypt,
to get
a
place
for themselves
there:
and
the Assyrian
put
a cruel yoke
on
them
without
cause.
\VS{5}Now
then,
what
have
I
here?
says
the
Lord,
for
my
people
are
taken
away
without
cause;
they
are
made waste
and
give cries
of sorrow,
says
the
Lord,
and
all
the
day
the
nations
put shame
on
my
name.
\VS{6}For
this cause
I
will
make
my
name clear
to
my
people;
in
that
day
they
will
be
certain
that
it
is
my
word
which
comes
to
them;
see,
here
am
I.
\VS{7}How beautiful
on
the
mountains
are
the
feet
of
him
who comes
with
good
news,
who
gives
word
of
peace,
saying
that
salvation
is
near;
who
says
to
Zion,
Your
God
is ruling!
\VS{8}The
voice
of
your
watchmen!
their
voices
are loud
in song
together;
for
they
will
see
him,
eye
to
eye,
when
the
Lord comes
back
to
Zion.
\VS{9}Give sounds
of
joy,
make melody
together,
waste
places
of
Jerusalem:
for
the
Lord
has given
comfort
to
his
people,
he
has taken up
the cause
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{10}The
Lord
has let
his
holy
arm
be
seen
by
the
eyes
of
all
nations;
and
all
the
ends
of
the
earth
will
see
the
salvation
of
our
God.
\VS{11}Away!
away!
go
out
from
there,
touching
no
unclean
thing;
go
out
from
among
her;
be clean,
you
who
take
up
the
vessels
of
the
Lord.
\VS{12}For
you
will
not
go
out suddenly,
and
you
will
not
go
in flight:
for
the
Lord
will
go
before
you,
and
the
God
of
Israel
will
come
after
you
to keep
you.
\VS{13}See,
my
servant
will do
well
in
his undertakings,
he
will
be honoured,
and
lifted
up,
and
be
very
high.
\VS{14}As
peoples
were surprised
at
him,
And
his
face
was
not
beautiful,
so
as
to
be desired:
his
face
was
so changed
by disease
as
to
be unlike
that
of
a
man,
and
his
form
was no longer
that
of
the
sons
of
men.
\VS{15}So
will
nations
give
him honour;
kings
will
keep quiet
because
of
him:
for
what
had
not
been
made clear
to
them
they
will
see;
and
they
will
give
their
minds
to
what
had
not come
to
their ears.

\par }\Chap{53}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Who
would
have
had
faith
in
the word
which
has come
to
our ears,
and
to
whom
had
the
arm
of
the
Lord
been unveiled?
\VS{2}For
his growth
was
like
that
of
a delicate plant
before
him,
and
like
a
root
out
of
a
dry
place:
he
had
no grace
of
form,
to
give
us
pleasure;
\VS{3}Men
made sport
of
him, turning
away
from
him;
he
was
a
man
of
sorrows, marked
by
disease;
and
like
one
from whom men's
faces
are turned
away,
he
was looked
down
on,
and we put
no
value
on
him.
\VS{4}But
it
was
our
pain
he
took,
and
our diseases
were
put
on
him:
while
to us
he seemed
as
one diseased,
on whom God's punishment
had
come.
\VS{5}But
it
was
for
our
sins
he
was
wounded,
and
for
our
evil doings
he
was
crushed:
he took
the
punishment
by
which we
have
peace,
and
by
his
wounds we
are made
well.
\VS{6}We
all
went
wandering
like
sheep; going
every
one
of
us after
his desire;
and
the
Lord put
on
him
the
punishment
of
us
all.
\VS{7}Men
were cruel
to
him,
but
he
was gentle
and quiet;
as
a
lamb taken
to
its death,
and
as
a
sheep
before
those
who take
her wool
makes
no
sound,
so
he
said
not
a
word.
\VS{8}They
took
away
from
him
help
and
right,
and
who
gave
a thought
to
his fate?
for
he
was
cut
off
from
the
land
of
the
living:
he came
to
his death
for
the sin
of
my
people.
\VS{9}And
they
put
his body
into
the earth
with sinners,
and
his last resting-place
was
with
the evil-doers, though
he
had
done
no
wrong,
and
no
deceit
was
in
his
mouth.
\VS{10}And
the
Lord
was
pleased ...
see
a
seed,
long
life, ...
will
do well
in
his
hand. ...
\VS{11}...
made clear
his
righteousness before
men ...
had taken
their
sins
on
himself.
\VS{12}For
this cause
he
will
have
a heritage
with
the
great,
and
he
will
have
a
part
in
the goods
of war
with
the
strong,
because
he gave
up
his
life,
and
was
numbered
with
the evil-doers; taking
on
himself
the
sins
of
the
people,
and making prayer
for
the wrongdoers.

\par }\Chap{54}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Let
your voice
be loud
in song,
O
woman
without
children;
make melody
and sounds
of
joy,
you
who
did
not
give
birth:
for
the
children
of
her
who
had
no
husband
are
more
than
those
of
the
married
wife,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{2}Make
wide
the
place
of
your
tent,
and
let
the
curtains
of
your house
be
stretched
out
without limit:
make
your
cords
long,
and
your tent-pins
strong.
\VS{3}For
I
will
make wide
your limits
on
the
right
hand
and
on
the
left;
and
your
seed
will
take
the
nations
for
a heritage,
and
make
the
waste
towns full
of
people.
\VS{4}Have
no
fear;
for
you
will
not
be
shamed
or
without hope:
you
will
not
be
put
to
shame,
for
the
shame
of
your earlier days
will go
out
of
your memory,
and
you
will
no
longer
keep
in
mind
the sorrows
of
your widowed years.
\VS{5}For
your Maker
is
your
husband;
the
Lord
of
armies
is
his
name:
and
the
Holy
One
of
Israel
is
he
who takes
up
your
cause;
he
will
be
named
the
God
of
all
the
earth.
\VS{6}For
the
Lord
has
made
you come back
to
him,
like
a
wife
who
has
been
sent away
in grief
of
spirit;
for
one
may
not give up
the
wife
of one's early days.
\VS{7}For
a short
time
I gave
you up;
but with
great
mercies
I
will take
you back again.
\VS{8}In overflowing
wrath
my
face
was veiled
from
you
for
a minute,
but
I
will
have
pity
on
you
for
ever,
says
the
Lord
who takes
up
your cause.
\VS{9}For
this
is
like
the days
of
Noah
to
me:
for
as
I
took
an
oath
that
the
waters
of
Noah
would never
again
go
over
the
earth,
so
have
I
taken
an
oath
that
I
will
not
again
be
angry
with
you,
or say bitter words
to
you.
\VS{10}For
the
mountains
may
be taken
away,
and
the
hills
be
moved
out
of
their
places,
but
my
love
will
not
be taken
from
you,
or
my
agreement
of
peace broken,
says
the
Lord,
who
has
had
mercy
on
you.
\VS{11}O troubled
one, storm-crushed, uncomforted!
see,
your
stones
will
be framed
in fair colours,
and
your bases
will
be
sapphires.
\VS{12}I
will
make
your towers
of
rubies,
and
your doors
of carbuncles,
and
the
wall round
you
will
be
of
all sorts
of beautiful
stones.
\VS{13}And
all
your
builders
will
be
made wise
by
the
Lord;
and
great
will
be
the
peace
of
your
children.
\VS{14}All
your
rights
will
be
made
certain
to
you:
have
no
fear
of evil,
and destruction
will
not
come
near
you.
\VS{15}See,
they
may be moved
to war,
but
not
by
my
authority: all
those
who
come
together
to make
an attack
on
you,
will be broken
against
you.
\VS{16}See,
I
have
made
the iron-worker, blowing
on
the
burning
coals,
and making
the instrument
of war
by
his
work;
and
I
have
made
the waster
for
destruction.
\VS{17}No instrument
of war which
is
formed
against
you
will
be
of
any use;
and
every
tongue which
says
evil
against
you
will
be
judged false.
This
is
the
heritage
of
the
servants
of
the
Lord,
and
their
righteousness comes
from
me,
says
the
Lord.

\par }\Chap{55}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Ho!
everyone
in need, come
to
the
waters,
and
he
who
has
no strength,
let
him get
food: come, get bread
without
money;
wine
and
milk
without
price.
\VS{2}Why
do
you
give
your
money
for
what
is
not
bread,
and
the
fruit
of
your work
for
what
will
not
give
you pleasure?
Give ear
to
me,
so
that
your
food
may
be
good,
and
you
may
have
the
best
in full measure.
\VS{3}Give
ear,
and come
to
me, take note
with care,
so
that
your
souls
may
have
life:
and
I
will
make
an
eternal
agreement
with
you, even
the
certain mercies
of
David.
\VS{4}See,
I
have
given
him
as
a
witness
to
the
peoples,
a
ruler
and
a guide
to
the
nations.
\VS{5}See,
you
will send
for
a
nation
of
which
you
had
no
knowledge,
and
those
who
had
no
knowledge
of
you
will come
running
to
you,
because
of
the
Lord
your
God,
and
because
of
the
Holy
One
of
Israel,
for
he
has
given
you
glory.
\VS{6}Make
search
for
the
Lord
while
he
is
there,
make prayer
to
him
while
he
is
near:
\VS{7}Let
the sinner
give
up
his
way,
and
the evil-doer
his purpose:
and let
him
come
back
to
the
Lord,
and
he
will
have
mercy
on
him;
and
to
our
God,
for
there
is
full forgiveness
with
him.
\VS{8}For
my
thoughts
are
not
your
thoughts,
or
your
ways
my
ways,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{9}For
as
the
heavens
are
higher
than
the
earth,
so
are
my
ways
higher
than
your
ways,
and
my
thoughts
than
your
thoughts.
\VS{10}For
as
the
rain
comes
down,
and
the
snow
from
heaven,
and
does
not
go
back
again,
but
gives
water
to
the
earth,
and
makes
it
fertile,
giving
seed
to
the planter,
and
bread
for
food;
\VS{11}So
will
my
word
be
which
goes
out
of
my
mouth:
it
will
not
come
back
to
me
with
nothing
done,
but
it
will
give effect
to
my
purpose,
and
do
that
for
which
I
have
sent
it.
\VS{12}For
you
will
go
out
with
joy,
and
be guided
in
peace:
the
mountains
and
the
hills
will
make melody
before
you,
and
all
the
trees
of
the
fields
will
make sounds
of
joy.
\VS{13}In
place
of
the
thorn
will
come
up
the fir-tree,
and
in
place
of
the blackberry
the
myrtle:
and
it
will
be
to
the
Lord
for
a
name,
for
an
eternal
sign
which
will
not
be
cut
off.

\par }\Chap{56}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
Lord
says,
Let
your
way
of
life
be upright,
and
let
your behaviour
be rightly
ordered:
for
my
salvation
is
near,
and
my
righteousness
will quickly
be seen.
\VS{2}Happy
is
the
man
who
does
this,
and
the
son
of
man
whose behaviour
is
so ordered;
who
keeps
the
Sabbath holy,
and
his
hand
from
doing
any
evil.
\VS{3}And
let
not
the
man
from
a
strange country,
who
has
been
joined
to
the
Lord,
say,
The
Lord
will certainly put
a division
between
me
and
his
people:
and
let
not
the unsexed
man
say,
See,
I
am
a
dry
tree.
\VS{4}For
the
Lord
says,
As
for
the unsexed
who
keep
my
Sabbaths,
and
give
their hearts
to pleasing
me,
and
keep
their
agreement
with
me:
\VS{5}I
will
give
to
them
in
my
house,
and
inside
my
walls,
a
place
and
a
name
better
than
that
of
sons
and
daughters;
I
will
give
them
an
eternal
name
which
will
not
be
cut
off.
\VS{6}And
as
for
those
from
a
strange country,
who
are joined
to
the
Lord,
to
give worship
to
him
and honour
to
his
name,
to
be
his
servants,
even
everyone
who
keeps
the
Sabbath holy,
and
keeps
his
agreement
with
me:
\VS{7}I
will
make
them
come
to
my
holy
mountain,
and
will
give
them
joy
in
my
house
of
prayer;
I
will
take
pleasure
in
the burned
offerings
which
they
make
on
my
altar:
for
my
house
will
be
named
a
house
of
prayer
for
all
peoples.
\VS{8}The
Lord
God,
who gets
together
the wandering ones
of
Israel,
says,
I
will get
together others
in
addition
to
those
of
Israel
who
have come
back.
\VS{9}All
you
beasts
of
the
field,
come together
for
your meat, even
all
you
beasts
of
the wood.
\VS{10}His
watchmen
are
blind,
they
are
all
without
knowledge;
they
are
all
dogs
without tongues,
unable
to
make
a sound; stretched
out dreaming,
loving
sleep.
\VS{11}Yes,
the
dogs
are
for ever looking
for food;
while
these,
the
keepers
of
the sheep,
are
without wisdom:
they
have
all
gone
after
their pleasure,
every
one looking
for
profit;
they
are
all
the same.
\VS{12}Come,
they say,
I
will
get
wine,
and
we
will
take
strong
drink
in
full
measure;
and
tomorrow
will
be
like
today,
full
of pleasure.

\par }\Chap{57}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The upright
man
goes
to
his death,
and
no
one
gives
a
thought
to
it;
and god-fearing
men
are
taken
away,
and
no
one
is troubled
by
it;
for
the upright
man
is
taken
away
because
of evil-doing,
and
goes
into peace.
\VS{2}They are
at
rest
in
their last resting-places, every one
going straight
before
him.
\VS{3}But
come
near,
you
sons
of
her
who
is wise
in secret arts,
the
seed
of
her
who
is false
to
her husband,
and
of
the loose woman.
\VS{4}Of
whom
do
you
make sport?
against
whom
is
your
mouth
open
wide
and
your
tongue
put
out?
are
you
not uncontrolled
children,
a
false
seed,
\VS{5}You
who
are burning
with evil desire
among
the oaks,
under
every
green
tree; putting
children
to death
in
the
valleys,
under
the cracks
of
the
rocks?
\VS{6}Among
the smooth stones
of
the
valley
is
your heritage;
they,
even
they,
are
your
part:
even
to
them
have
you
made
a drink
offering
and
a
meal
offering.
Is
it possible
for
such
things
to
be overlooked
by
me?
\VS{7}You
have
put
your
bed
on
a
high
mountain:
there
you
went
up
to
make
your
offering.
\VS{8}And
on
the
back
of
the
doors
and
on
the pillars
you
have
put
your
sign:
for
you
have
been false
to
me
with another;
you
have
made
your
bed
wide,
and
made
an agreement
with
them;
you
had
a desire
for
their
bed where
you
saw
it
\VS{9}And
you went
to Melech
with
oil
and
much perfume,
and
you
sent
your representatives
far
off,
and went
as
low
as
the underworld.
\VS{10}You
were
tired
with
your
long journeys;
but
you
did
not
say,
There
is
no hope:
you got new
strength,
and
so
you
were
not feeble.
\VS{11}And
of
whom
were
you
in
fear,
so
that
you
were
false,
and
did
not
keep
me
in
mind,
or
give
thought
to
it?
Have
I
not
been quiet,
keeping
myself secret,
and
so
you
were
not
in
fear
of
me?
\VS{12}I
will
make clear
what
your
righteousness
is
like
and
your
works;
you
will
have
no
profit
in
them.
\VS{13}Your false gods
will
not
keep
you safe
in answer
to
your
cry;
but
the
wind
will
take
them,
they
will
be gone
like
a
breath:
but
he
who puts
his hope
in
me
will
take
the
land,
and
will
have
my
holy
mountain
as
his heritage.
\VS{14}And
I
will
say,
Make
it
high,
make
it
high, get
ready
the
way,
take
the stones out
of
the
way
of
my
people.
\VS{15}For
this
is
the
word
of
him
who
is
high
and
lifted
up,
whose resting-place
is
eternal,
whose
name
is
Holy:
my resting-place
is
in
the
high
and
holy place,
and
with
him
who
is
crushed
and poor
in
spirit,
to
give
life
to
the
spirit
of
the poor,
and
to
make strong
the
heart
of
the
crushed.
\VS{16}For
I
will
not give punishment
for
ever,
or
be
angry
without
end:
for
from
me
breath
goes
out;
and
I
it
was
who
made
the souls.
\VS{17}I
was quickly
angry
with
his
evil
ways,
and sent
punishment
on
him, veiling
my face
in
wrath:
and
he went
on,
turning
his
heart
from
me.
\VS{18}I
have
seen
his
ways,
and
I
will
make
him well:
I
will
give
him rest,
comforting
him
and
his
people
who
are sad.
\VS{19}I
will give
the fruit
of
the
lips:
Peace,
peace,
to
him
who
is
near
and
to
him
who
is
far
off,
says
the
Lord;
and
I
will
make
him
well.
\VS{20}But
the evil-doers
are
like
the troubled
sea,
for
which there
is
no
rest,
and
its
waters send
up earth
and waste.
\VS{21}There
is
no
peace,
says
my
God,
for
the evil-doers.

\par }\Chap{58}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Make
a
loud
cry,
do
not
be quiet,
let
your
voice
be sounding
like
a
horn,
and
make clear
to
my
people
their evil doings,
and
to
the
family
of
Jacob
their
sins.
\VS{2}Though
they
make prayer
to
me
every
day,
and take
pleasure
in
the
knowledge
of
my
ways:
like
a
nation
which
has
done
righteousness,
and
has
not given
up
the rules
of
their
God,
they
make requests
to
me
for
the
right orders,
it
is
their
delight
to come
near
to
God.
\VS{3}They say,
Why
have
we kept
ourselves
from food,
and
you
do
not
see
it?
why
have
we kept
ourselves
from
pleasure,
and
you
take
no
note
of
it?
If,
in
the
days
when
you
keep
from food,
you
take
the chance
to
do
your business,
and get
in
your debts;
\VS{4}If keeping
from food makes
you quickly angry, ready
for fighting
and giving
blows
with
evil hands;
your holy
days
are
not
such
as
to
make
your
voice come
to
my ears
on
high.
\VS{5}Have
I
given orders
for
such
a
day
as
this?
a
day
for keeping
yourselves
from
pleasure?
is
it only
a question
of
the bent
head,
of putting
on haircloth,
and
being seated
in
the
dust?
is
this
what seems
to
you
a holy
day, well-pleasing
to
the
Lord?
\VS{6}Is
not
this
the holy day
for
which
I
have given orders:
to
let
loose
those
who
have wrongly
been
made prisoners,
to undo
the
bands
of
the
yoke,
and
to
let
the
crushed
go
free,
and
every
yoke
be
broken?
\VS{7}Is
it
not
to
give
your
bread
to
those
in need,
and
to
let
the
poor
who
have
no resting-place
come
into
your
house?
to
put
a robe
on
the unclothed
one
when
you
see
him,
and
not
to
keep
your eyes
shut
for fear
of
seeing
his
flesh?
\VS{8}Then
will
light
be
shining
on
you
like
the
morning,
and
your wounds
will
quickly
be well:
and
your
righteousness
will
go
before
you,
and
the
glory
of
the
Lord
will
come
after
you.
\VS{9}Then
at
the sound
of
your voice,
the
Lord
will
give
an
answer;
at
your
cry
he
will
say,
Here
am
I.
If
you
take
away
from
among
you
the
yoke,
the
putting
out
of
the
finger
of shame,
and
the
evil
word;
\VS{10}And if
you
give
your bread
to
those
in need
of
it, so
that
the troubled one
may
have
his
desire; then
you
will
have
light
in
the
dark,
and
your night
will
be
as
the
full
light
of
the
sun:
\VS{11}And
the
Lord
will
be
your
guide
at
all
times;
in dry
places
he
will
give
you
water
in
full measure,
and
will make strong
your
bones;
and
you
will
be
like
a
watered
garden,
and
like
an ever-flowing
spring.
\VS{12}And
your sons
will
be
building
again
the
old
waste
places:
you
will
make strong
the bases
of
old
generations:
and
you
will
be
named,
He
who puts
up
the broken walls,
and,
He
who
makes ready
the ways
for use.
\VS{13}If
you
keep
the
Sabbath
with
care,
not
doing
your
business
on
my
holy
day;
and
if
the
Sabbath seems
to
you
a
delight,
and
the new moon
of
the
Lord
a
thing
to
be honoured;
and
if
you
give respect
to
him
by
not
doing
your
business,
or
going
after
your
pleasure,
or
saying unholy
words;
\VS{14}Then
the
Lord
will
be
your
delight;
and
I
will
put
you
on
the
high
places
of
the
earth;
and
I
will
give
you
the
heritage
of
Jacob
your
father:
for
the
mouth
of
the
Lord
has
said
it.

\par }\Chap{59}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Truly,
the Lord's
hand
has
not become short,
so
that
he
is unable
to
give
salvation;
and
his
ear
is
not shut
from
hearing:
\VS{2}But
your
sins
have
come
between
you
and
your
God,
and
by
your
evil doings
his
face
has
been veiled
from
you,
so
that
he
will
give
you
no answer.
\VS{3}For
your
hands
are
unclean
with
blood,
and
your
fingers
with
sin;
your
lips
have
said
false things,
and
your
tongue gives
out
deceit.
\VS{4}No
one puts forward
an upright
cause,
or
gives
a true decision:
their hope
is
in
deceit,
and
their words
are
false;
they
are
with
child
with
sin,
and
give
birth
to
evil.
\VS{5}They
give birth
to snake's
eggs,
and
make spider's threads:
whoever takes
their
eggs
for
food comes
to
his
death,
and
the egg which
is crushed becomes
a poison-snake.
\VS{6}Their twisted threads
will
not make
clothing,
and
their
works
will
give
them
nothing
for
covering
themselves:
their
works
are
works
of
sin,
and
violent acts
are
in
their
hands.
\VS{7}Their
feet go
quickly
to
evil,
and
they take delight
in
the
death
of
the
upright;
their
thoughts
are
thoughts
of
sin; wasting
and
destruction
are
in
their
ways.
\VS{8}They
have
no
knowledge
of
the
way
of
peace,
and
there
is
no sense
of
what
is
right
in
their behaviour:
they
have
made
for
themselves
ways which
are
not straight;
whoever goes
in
them
has
no
knowledge
of
peace.
\VS{9}For
this
cause
our
right
is
far
from
us,
and
righteousness
does
not
overtake
us:
we
are
looking
for
light,
but
there
is only
the
dark;
for
the
shining
of
the
sun,
but
our
way
is
in
the night.
\VS{10}We go
on
our way,
like
blind
men feeling
for
the
wall, even
like
those
who
have
no
eyes:
we
are running
against things
in daylight as if
it
was
evening;
our place
is
in
the
dark
like
dead
men.
\VS{11}We
make noises
of grief,
like
bears,
and sad sounds
like
doves:
we
are
looking
for
our
right,
but
it
is
not
there;
for
salvation,
but
it
is
far
from
us.
\VS{12}For
our
evil doings
are
increased
before
you,
and
our
sins
give witness
against
us:
for
our
evil doings
are
with
us,
and
we
have
knowledge
of
our
sins:
\VS{13}We
have gone
against
the
Lord,
and
been
false
to
him, turning
away
from
our
God,
our
words
have
been uncontrolled,
and
in
our
hearts
are
thoughts
of
deceit.
\VS{14}And
the
right
is turned
back,
and
righteousness
is
far
away:
for good
faith
is
not
to
be seen
in
the public places,
and
upright behaviour
may
not
come
into
the
town.
\VS{15}Yes,
faith
is
gone;
and
he whose heart
is
turned
from
evil
comes
into
the power
of
the cruel:
and
the
Lord
saw
it,
and
he
was angry
that
there
was
no
one
to
take
up
their
cause.
\VS{16}And
he
saw
that
there
was
no
man,
and
was surprised
that
there
was
no
one
to
take
up
their cause:
so
his
arm
gave
salvation,
and
he
made
righteousness
his
support.
\VS{17}Yes,
he
put
on
righteousness as
a
breastplate,
and
salvation as
a head-dress;
and
he
put
on punishment as
clothing,
and
wrath as
a
robe.
\VS{18}He
will give
them
the right
reward
of
their doings,
wrath
to
his attackers, punishment
to
his haters,
and
even
on
the sea-lands
he
will send punishment.
\VS{19}So
they
will
see
the
name
of
the
Lord
from
the
west,
and
his
glory
from
the
east:
for
he
will
come
like
a rushing
stream, forced
on
by
a
wind
of
the
Lord.
\VS{20}And
as
a saviour
he
will
come
to
Zion,
turning
away sin
from
Jacob,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{21}And
as
for
me,
this
is
my
agreement
with
them,
says
the
Lord:
my
spirit
which
is
on
you,
and
my
words
which
I
have
put
in
your
mouth,
will
not go
away
from
your
mouth,
or
from
the
mouth
of
your
seed,
or
from
the
mouth
of
your seed's
seed,
says
the
Lord,
from
now
and
for
ever.

\par }\Chap{60}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Up! let
your face
be
bright,
for
your
light
has
come,
and
the
glory
of
the
Lord
is
shining
on
you.
\VS{2}For
truly,
the
earth
will
be
dark,
and
the
peoples veiled
in blackest night;
but
the
Lord
will
be shining
on
you,
and
his
glory
will
be
seen
among
you.
\VS{3}And
nations
will
come
to
your
light,
and
kings
to
your
bright
dawn.
\VS{4}Let
your
eyes
be
lifted
up,
and
see:
they
are
all
coming
together
to
you:
your
sons
will
come
from
far,
and
your
daughters
taken
with loving
care.
\VS{5}Then
you
will
see,
and
be bright
with
joy,
and
your
heart
will
be shaking
with increase
of delight:
for
the produce
of
the
sea
will
be
turned
to
you,
the
wealth
of
the
nations
will
come
to
you.
\VS{6}You
will
be
full
of camel-trains, even
the young
camels
of
Midian
and
Ephah;
all
from
Sheba
will
come,
with
gold
and spices, giving word
of
the great acts
of
the
Lord.
\VS{7}All
the
flocks
of
Kedar
will
come
together
to
you,
the
sheep
of
Nebaioth
will
be ready
for
your need;
they
will
be pleasing
offerings
on
my
altar,
and
my
house
of prayer
will
be
beautiful.
\VS{8}Who
are
these coming
like
a
cloud,
like
a flight
of
doves
to
their
windows?
\VS{9}Vessels
of
the sea-lands
are waiting
for
me,
and
the
ships
of
Tarshish
first,
so
that
your
sons
may
come
from
far,
and
their
silver
and
gold
with
them,
to
the
place
of
the
name
of
the
Lord
your
God,
and
to
the
Holy
One
of
Israel,
because
he
has made
you beautiful.
\VS{10}And
men
from
strange countries
will
be
building
up
your
walls,
and
their
kings
will
be
your
servants:
for
in
my
wrath
I sent punishment
on
you,
but
in
my grace
I
have
had
mercy
on
you.
\VS{11}Your doors
will
be
open
at
all
times;
they
will
not
be
shut
day
or
night;
so
that men
may
come
into
you
with
the
wealth
of
the
nations,
with
their
kings
at
their head.
\VS{12}For
the
nation
or
kingdom
which
will
not
be
your
servant
will come
to
destruction;
such
nations
will
be completely waste.
\VS{13}The
glory
of
Lebanon
will
come
to
you,
the
cypress,
the plane,
and
the sherbin-tree
together,
to
make
my
holy
place beautiful;
and
the resting-place
of
my
feet
will
be full
of
glory.
\VS{14}And
the
sons
of
those
who
were cruel
to
you
will
come
before
you
with bent heads;
and
those
who
made sport
of
you
will
go
down
on
their faces
at
your
feet;
and
you
will
be
named,
The
Town
of
the
Lord,
The
Zion
of
the
Holy
One
of
Israel.
\VS{15}And
though
you
were
turned
away
from,
and
hated,
and
had
no helper,
I
will
make
you
a
pride
for
ever,
a
joy
from
generation
to
generation.
\VS{16}And
you
will
take
the
milk
of
the
nations, flowing
from
the
breast
of
kings;
and
you
will
see
that
I,
the
Lord,
am
your saviour,
and
he
who takes
up
your cause,
the Strong
One
of
Jacob.
\VS{17}In
place
of
brass,
I
will
give
gold,
and
for
iron
silver,
and
for
wood
brass,
and
for
stones
iron:
and
I
will
make
Peace
your judge,
and
Righteousness
your overseer.
\VS{18}Violent acts
will
no
longer
be seen
in
your
land, wasting
or
destruction
in
your limits;
but
your
walls
will
be
named,
Salvation,
and
your doors
Praise.
\VS{19}The
sun
will
not
be
your
light
by
day,
and
the
moon
will
no
longer
be
bright
for
you
by night:
but
the
Lord
will
be
to
you
an
eternal
light,
and
your
God
your
glory.
\VS{20}Your
sun
will
never
again
go
down,
or
your moon
keep
back
her
light:
for
the
Lord
will
be
your
eternal
light,
and
the
days
of
your sorrow
will
be ended.
\VS{21}Your
people
will
all
be upright,
the
land
will
be
their heritage
for
ever;
the
branch
of
my
planting,
the
work
of
my
hands,
to
be
for
my
glory.
\VS{22}The smallest
of
their
families
will
become
a
thousand,
and
a
small
one
a
strong
nation:
I,
the
Lord,
will make
it
come
quickly
in
its
time.

\par }\Chap{61}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
spirit
of
the
Lord
is
on
me,
because
I
am marked
out
by
him
to give
good
news
to
the
poor;
he
has
sent
me
to
make
the broken-hearted
well,
to say
that
the
prisoners
will
be
made
free,
and
that
those
in chains
will see
the light
again;
\VS{2}To
give knowledge
that
the
year
of
the Lord's
good
pleasure
has come,
and
the
day
of punishment
from
our
God;
to
give
comfort
to
all
who
are sad;
\VS{3}To
give
them
a fair head-dress
in
place
of
dust,
the
oil
of
joy
in
place
of
the clothing
of grief,
praise
in
place
of sorrow;
so
that
they
may
be
named trees
of
righteousness,
the
planting
of
the
Lord,
and
so
that
he
may
have
glory.
\VS{4}And they
will
be
building
again
the
old broken walls,
and
will
make new
the
old
waste
places,
and
will put
up
again
the
towns which
have
been
waste
for
long
generations.
\VS{5}And
men
from
strange countries
will
be
your herdsmen,
and
those
who
are
not Israelites
will
be
your ploughmen
and vine-keepers.
\VS{6}But
you
will
be
named
the
priests
of
the
Lord,
the
servants
of
our
God:
you
will
have
the
wealth
of
the
nations
for
your
food,
and
you
will
be clothed
with
their
glory.
\VS{7}As
they
had
twice
as
much grief,
and marks
of
shame
were
their heritage,
so
in
their
land
they
will
be rewarded
twice
over,
and
will
have
eternal
joy.
\VS{8}For
I,
the
Lord,
take pleasure
in upright judging;
I
will
not
put
up
with
the violent taking away
of
right;
and
I
will
certainly
give
them
their
reward,
and
I
will
make
an
eternal
agreement
with
them.
\VS{9}And
their
seed
will
be noted
among
the
nations,
and
their
offspring
among
the
peoples:
it
will
be
clear
to
all
who
see
them
that
they
are
the
seed
to
which
the
Lord
has given
his
blessing.
\VS{10}I
will
be full
of joy
in
the
Lord,
my
soul
will
be
glad
in
my
God;
for
he
has
put
on
me
the
clothing
of
salvation, covering
me
with
the
robe
of
righteousness,
as
the husband puts
on
a fair head-dress,
and
the
bride
makes
herself beautiful
with
jewels.
\VS{11}For
as
the
earth puts
out buds,
and
as
the
garden gives
growth
to
the seeds
which
are planted
in
it,
so
the
Lord
will
make
righteousness
and
praise
to
be flowering
before
all
the
nations.

\par }\Chap{62}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Because
of
Zion
I
will
not
keep
quiet,
and
because
of
Jerusalem
I
will
take
no
rest,
till
her
righteousness
goes
out
like
the shining
of
the sun,
and
her
salvation
like
a
burning
light.
\VS{2}And
the
nations
will
see
your
righteousness,
and
all
kings
your
glory:
and
you
will
have
a
new
name,
given
by
the
mouth
of
the
Lord.
\VS{3}And
you
will
be
a fair
crown
in
the
hand
of
the
Lord,
and
a king's head-dress
in
the
hand
of
your
God.
\VS{4}You
will
not
now
be
named,
She
who
is
given up;
and
your
land
will
no
longer
be
named,
The
waste
land:
but
you
will
have
the
name,
My
pleasure
is
in
her,
and
your
land
will
be
named,
Married:
for
the
Lord
has
pleasure
in
you,
and
your
land
will
be
married.
\VS{5}For
as
a
young
man takes
a
virgin
for
his
wife,
so
will
your maker
be
married
to
you:
and
as
a
husband
has
joy
in
his
bride,
so
will
the Lord
your
God
be
glad
over
you.
\VS{6}I
have
put
watchmen
on
your
walls,
O
Jerusalem;
they
will
not
keep
quiet
day
or
night:
you
who
are
the Lord's recorders,
take
no
rest,
\VS{7}And
give
him
no
rest,
till
he
puts
Jerusalem
in
her
place
to
be praised
in
the
earth.
\VS{8}The
Lord
has
taken
an
oath
by
his
right
hand,
and
by
the
arm
of
his
strength,
Truly,
I
will
no
longer
give
your
grain
to
be
food
for
your haters;
and
men
of
strange countries
will
not
take
the
wine
for
which
your
work
has
been done:
\VS{9}But
those
who
have got
in
the grain
will
have
it
for
their
food,
and
will
give
praise
to
the
Lord;
and
those
who
have got
in
the grapes
will
take
the wine
of
them
in
the open places
of
my
holy house.
\VS{10}Go
through,
go
through
the doors;
make
ready
the
way
of
the
people; let
the
highway
be
lifted
up; let
the
stones
be
taken
away; let
a flag
be
lifted
up
over
the
peoples.
\VS{11}The
Lord
has
sent
out
word
to
the
end
of
the
earth,
Say
to
the
daughter
of
Zion,
See,
your saviour
comes; those whom
he
has
made free
are
with
him,
and those
to whom
he
has
given
salvation
go
before
him.
\VS{12}And
they
will
be
named,
The
holy
people,
Those whose
cause
has
been taken up
by
the
Lord:
and
you
will
be
named, Desired,
A
town
not
given up.

\par }\Chap{63}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Who
is
this
who
comes
from
Edom,
with blood-red
robes
from
Bozrah?
he
whose
clothing
is fair, stepping
with pride
in
his
great
strength?
I
whose glory
is
in
the
right,
strong
for
salvation.
\VS{2}Why
is your
clothing
red, and
why
are your
robes like those
of one
who
is crushing
the grapes?
\VS{3}I
have
been crushing
the grapes
by
myself,
and
of
the
peoples
there
was
no
man
with
me:
in
my
wrath
and
in
my passion,
they
were crushed
under
my feet;
and
my
robes
are marked
with
their life-blood,
and
all
my
clothing
is red.
\VS{4}For
the
day
of punishment
is
in
my
heart,
and
the
year
for
the payment
of
the price
for
my
people
has
come.
\VS{5}And
I saw
that
there
was
no
helper,
and
I
was wondering
that
no
one
gave
them
support:
so
my
arm did
the work
of
salvation,
and
my
wrath
was
my
support.
\VS{6}And
in
my passion
the
peoples
were crushed under
my feet,
and broken
in
my
wrath,
and
I
put
down
their strength
to
the
earth.
\VS{7}I
will give news
of
the
mercies
of
the
Lord,
and
his
great
acts,
even
all
the
things
the
Lord
has
done
for
us,
in
his
great grace
to
the
house
of
Israel;
even
all
he
has
done
for
us
in
his unnumbered
mercies.
\VS{8}For
he
said,
Truly
they
are
my
people,
children
who
will
not
be false:
so
he
was
their saviour out
of all
their
trouble.
\VS{9}It
was
no sent
one
or
angel,
but
he
himself
who
was
their saviour:
in
his
love
and
in
his pity
he
took
up
their cause,
and
he
took
them
in
his arms, caring
for
them
all
through
the
years.
\VS{10}But
they went
against
him, causing grief
to
his
holy
spirit:
so
he
was
turned
against
them,
and made war
on
them.
\VS{11}Then
the early
days
came
to
their minds,
the
days
of
Moses
his servant:
and
they said,
Where
is
he who
made
the keeper
of
his
flock
come
up
from
the
sea?
where
is
he who
put
his
holy
spirit
among
them,
\VS{12}He
who
made
the
arm
of
his
glory go
at
the
right
hand
of
Moses,
by whom
the
waters
were parted
before
them,
to
make
himself
an
eternal
name;
\VS{13}He
who made them go through
the
deep waters,
like
a
horse
in
the waste land?
\VS{14}Like
the
cattle
which
go
down
into
the
valley,
they
went without falling,
the
spirit
of
the
Lord guiding
them:
so
you
went
before
your
people,
to
make yourself
a great
name.
\VS{15}Let
your eyes
be
looking
down
from
heaven,
from
your
holy
and
beautiful house:
where
is
your deep feeling,
the working
of
your
power? do not
keep
back
the moving
of
your pity
and
your
mercies:
\VS{16}For
you
are
our
father,
though
Abraham
has
no
knowledge
of
us,
and
Israel gives
no
thought
to
us:
you,
O
Lord,
are
our
father;
from
the earliest
days
you
have taken up
our cause.
\VS{17}O
Lord,
why
do
you send
us
wandering
from
your
ways, making
our
hearts hard,
so
that
we
have no
fear
of
you?
Come
back,
because
of
your
servants,
the
tribes
of
your
heritage.
\VS{18}Why have evil
men gone
over
your
holy
place, so
that
it has been crushed under
the
feet
of
our haters?
\VS{19}We
have
become
as
those
who
were
never
ruled
by
you,
on
whom
your
name
was
not
named.

\par }\Chap{64}{\PP \VerseOne{1}O let
the heavens
be broken
open
and
come
down,
so
that
the mountains
may
be shaking
before
you,
\VS{2}As
when fire puts
the brushwood
in flames,
or
as
when water
is boiling
from
the heat
of
the fire:
to
make
your name
feared
by
your haters,
so
that
the nations
may
be shaking
before
you;
\VS{3}While
you
do
acts
of power
for
which
we
are
not
looking,
and
which
have
not come
to
the ears
of
men
in
the
past.
\VS{4}The ear
has
not
had news
of,
or
the eye seen, ... any God
but
you, working
for
the man
who
is waiting
for
him.
\VS{5}Will
you
not
have mercy
on
him
who
takes pleasure
in doing
righteousness, even
on
those
who keep
in
mind
your ways? Truly
you
were angry,
and
we
went
on doing
evil,
and sinning
against
you
in
the past.
\VS{6}For
we
have
all
become
like
an unclean
person,
and
all
our good acts
are
like
a dirty robe:
and
we
have
all
become
old
like
a dead leaf,
and
our
sins,
like
the wind,
take
us
away.
\VS{7}And
there
is
no
one
who
makes prayer
to
your name,
or
who
is moved
to keep
true
to
you:
for
your face
is veiled
from
us,
and
you
have
given
us
into
the
power
of
our sins.
\VS{8}But
now,
O
Lord,
you
are
our father;
we
are
the earth,
and
you
are
our maker;
and
we
are
all
the work
of
your hand.
\VS{9}Be
not very angry, O Lord,
and do
not keep
our sins
in mind
for ever:
give ear
to
our prayer,
for we
are all
your people.
\VS{10}Your
holy towns
have
become
a
waste, Zion
has
become
a
waste, Jerusalem
is
a mass
of broken walls.
\VS{11}Our holy
and beautiful house,
where
our fathers gave praise
to
you,
is burned
with fire;
and
all
the
things
of
our desire
have come
to destruction.
\VS{12}In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment?

\par }\Chap{65}{\PP \VerseOne{1}I
have
been ready
to give
an
answer
to those
who
did
not
make prayer
to
me;
I
have
been offering myself
to those
who
were
not
searching
for
me;
I
said,
Here
am
I,
here
am
I,
to
a
nation
which
gave
no respect
to
my
name.
\VS{2}All
day
my
hands
have
been
stretched
out
to an uncontrolled
people,
who
go
in an evil
way,
after
the
purposes
of
their hearts;
\VS{3}A
people who
make
me
angry every day, making offerings
in
gardens,
and
burning perfumes
on
bricks.
\VS{4}Who
are
seated
in
the resting-places
of
the dead,
and
by night
are
in
the
secret
places;
who
take pig's
flesh
for
food,
and
have
the liquid
of disgusting
things
in
their
vessels.
\VS{5}Who
say,
Keep
away,
do
not
come
near
me,
for fear
that
I
make
you
holy:
these
are
a
smoke
in
my
nose,
a
fire
burning
all
day.
\VS{6}See,
it
is
recorded
before
me, says
the Lord:
I
will
not
keep
back
my hand, till
I
have sent punishment,
\VS{7}For
their
sins
and
the
sins
of
their
fathers,
who
were
burning perfumes
on
the
mountains,
and
saying
evil
things
against
me
on
the
hills:
so
I
will take
the
measure
of
their
sins,
and
will send
the
punishment
for
them
into
their breast.
\VS{8}This
is
the
word
of
the
Lord:
As
the
new
wine
is seen
in
the
grapes,
and
they
say,
Do
not send
destruction
on
it,
for
a
blessing
is
in
it:
so
will
I
do
for
my
servants,
in
order
that
I
may
not put
an end
to
them
all.
\VS{9}And
I
will
take
a
seed
out
of
Jacob,
and
out
of
Judah
one
who
will
have
my
mountains
for
a heritage:
and
the people
I
have
taken
to
be mine
will
have
it
for themselves,
and
my
servants
will
have
their resting-place
there.
\VS{10}And
Sharon
will
be
a grass-land
for
the
flocks,
and
the
valley
of
Achor
a resting-place
for
the
herds:
for
my
people
whose hearts
have
been
turned back
to
me.
\VS{11}But
as
for
you
who
have
given
up
the
Lord,
who
have no care
for
my
holy
mountain,
who get ready
a
table
for Chance,
and make
offerings
of
mixed
wine
to Fate;
\VS{12}Your fate
will
be
the
sword,
and
you
will
all go
down
to death:
because
when
my voice came
to
you,
you
made
no
answer;
you
did
not
give ear
to
my
word;
but
you
did
what
was
evil
in
my
eyes, desiring
what
was
not pleasing
to
me.
\VS{13}For
this cause
says
the
Lord
God,
My
servants
will
have
food,
but
you
will
be
in
need
of
food:
my
servants
will
have
drink,
but
you
will
be
dry:
my
servants
will
have
joy,
but
you
will
be
shamed:
\VS{14}My
servants
will make songs
in
the
joy
of
their
hearts,
but
you
will
be
crying
for
sorrow,
and making sounds
of grief
from
a
broken
spirit.
\VS{15}And
your
name
will
become
a
curse
to
my
people,
and
the
Lord
God
will
put
you
to
death,
and give
his
servants
another
name:
\VS{16}So
that
he
who
is requesting
a
blessing
will
make use
of
the name
of
the true
God,
and
he
who
takes
an
oath
will
do
so
by
the true
God;
because
the
past troubles
are gone
out
of mind,
and
because
they
are covered
from
my
eyes.
\VS{17}For
see,
I
am making
a
new
heaven
and
a
new
earth:
and
the
past
things
will
be
gone completely
out
of
mind.
\VS{18}But
men
will
be
glad
and
have
joy
for
ever
in
what
I
am making;
for
I
am making
Jerusalem
a
delight,
and
her
people
a
joy.
\VS{19}And
I
will
be
glad over
Jerusalem,
and
have joy
in
my
people:
and
the
voice
of
weeping
will
no
longer
be sounding
in
her,
or
the
voice
of grief.
\VS{20}No
longer
will
there
be
there
a
child
whose
days
are cut short,
or
an
old
man
whose
days
have
not
come
to
their
full measure:
for
the
young
man
at
his
death
will
be
a
hundred
years
old,
and
he
whose
life
is shorter
than
a
hundred
years
will seem
as
one
cursed.
\VS{21}And
they
will
be
building
houses
and
living
in
them; planting vine-gardens
and getting
the
fruit
of
them.
\VS{22}They
will
no
longer
be
building
for
the
use
of
others,
or planting
for
others
to
have
the
fruit:
for
the
days
of
my
people
will
be
like
the
days
of
a
tree,
and
my loved
ones
will
have joy
in
full measure
in
the
work
of
their
hands.
\VS{23}Their
work
will
not
be
for
nothing,
and
they
will
not
give
birth
to
children
for destruction;
for
they
are
a
seed
to whom
the
Lord
has
given
his
blessing,
and
their
offspring
will
be
with
them.
\VS{24}And
before
they
make
their request
I
will
give
an
answer,
and
while
they
are
still making prayer
to
me,
I
will
give ear.
\VS{25}The
wolf
and
the
lamb
will take
their
food
together,
and
the
lion
will make
a
meal
of grass
like
the
ox:
but
dust
will
be
the snake's
food.
There
will
be
no cause
of pain
or
destruction
in
all
my
holy
mountain,
says
the
Lord.

\par }\Chap{66}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
Lord
says,
Heaven
is
the
seat
of
my power,
and
earth
is
the resting-place
for
my
feet:
what sort
of
house
will
you
make
for
me,
and
what
place
will
be
my resting-place?
\VS{2}For
all
these
things
my
hand
has
made,
and
they
are mine,
says
the
Lord;
but
to
this
man
only
will
I
give
attention,
to
him
who
is
poor
and broken
in
spirit, fearing
my
word.
\VS{3}He
who puts
an
ox
to
death puts
a
man
to
death;
he
who makes
an
offering
of
a
lamb puts
a
dog
to
death;
he
who makes
a
meal
offering makes
an
offering
of pig's
blood;
he
who makes
an
offering
of perfumes
for
a sign gives worship
to
an image:
as
they
have
gone
after
their desires,
and
their
soul
takes
pleasure
in
their disgusting
things;
\VS{4}So
I
will
go
after
trouble
for
them,
and
will send
on
them
what
they
are fearing:
because
no
one
made
answer
to
my voice,
or
gave ear
to
my
word;
but
they
did
what
was
evil
in
my
eyes,
going
after
that
in
which
I
took
no
pleasure.
\VS{5}Give ear
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
you
who
are
in fear
at
his
word:
your
countrymen,
hating
you,
and driving
you
out
because
of
my
name,
have
said, Let
the Lord's
glory
be
made clear,
so
that
we
may
see
your
joy;
but
they
will
be
put
to
shame.
\VS{6}There
is
a
noise
of war
from
the
town,
a
sound
from
the
Temple,
the
voice
of
the
Lord giving punishment
to
his haters.
\VS{7}Before
her
pains
came,
she
gave
birth;
before
her
pains,
she
gave
birth
to
a man-child.
\VS{8}When
has
such
a
story come
to men's ears?
who
has
seen
such
things?
will
a
land come
to
birth
in
one
day?
will
a
nation
be
given
birth
in
a minute?
For
when Zion's pains came
on
her,
she
gave
birth
to
her
children straight away.
\VS{9}Will
I
by whom
the
birth
was started,
not make
it complete?
says
the
Lord.
Will
I
who make
children come
to
birth,
let
them
be
kept
back?
says
your
God.
\VS{10}Have
joy
with
Jerusalem,
and
be
glad
with
her,
all
you
her
lovers:
take
part
in
her
joy,
all
you
who are sorrowing
for
her:
\VS{11}So
that you
may
take
of
the comfort flowing from
her
breasts,
and
be
delighted
with
the
full measure
of
her
glory.
\VS{12}For
the
Lord
says,
See,
I
will
make
her
peace
like
a
river,
and
the
glory
of
the
nations
like
an
overflowing
stream,
and
she
will
take
her children
in
her
arms, gently caring
for
them
on
her
knees.
\VS{13}As
to
one
who
is
comforted
by
his
mother,
so
will
I
give
you
comfort:
and
you
will
be
comforted
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{14}And
you
will
see
it
and
your
heart
will
be
glad,
and
your
bones
will get
new
strength,
like young
grass:
and
the
hand
of
the
Lord
will
be
seen
at work
for
his
servants,
and
his wrath
against
his haters.
\VS{15}For
the
Lord
is
coming
with
fire,
and
his war-carriages
will
be
like
the storm-wind;
to
give punishment
in
the
heat
of
his
wrath,
and
his passion
is
like
flames
of
fire.
\VS{16}For
with
fire
and
sword
will
the
Lord come,
judging
all
the earth,
and
his
sword
will
be
on
all
flesh:
and
great numbers
will
be put
to death
by
him.
\VS{17}As
for
those
who
keep
themselves separate,
and make
themselves
clean
in
the
gardens, going
after
one
in
the
middle, taking pig's
flesh
for
food,
and
other disgusting
things, such
as
the
mouse:
their works
and
their thoughts
will
come
to
an
end
together,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{18}And
I
am
coming
to
get
together
all
nations
and
tongues:
and
they
will
come
and
will
see
my
glory.
\VS{19}And
I
will
put
a
sign
among
them,
and
I
will
send
those
who
are
still living
to
the
nations,
to
Tarshish,
Put,
and
Lud, Meshech
and Rosh,
Tubal
and
Javan,
to
the sea-lands
far
away,
who
have
not
had
word
of
me,
or
seen
my
glory;
and
they
will
give
the knowledge
of
my
glory
to
the
nations.
\VS{20}And
they
will
take
your
countrymen
out
of
all
the
nations
for
an
offering
to
the
Lord,
on
horses,
and
in carriages,
and
in carts,
and
on asses,
and
on
camels,
to
my
holy
mountain
Jerusalem,
says
the
Lord,
as
the
children
of
Israel
take
their
offering
in
a
clean
vessel
into
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{21}And
some
of
them
will
I
take
for
priests
and
Levites,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{22}For
as
the
new
heaven
and
the
new
earth
which
I
will
make
will
be
for ever
before
me,
says
the
Lord,
so
will
your
seed
and
your
name
be
for ever.
\VS{23}And
it
will
be,
that
from
new
moon
to
new
moon,
and
from
Sabbath
to
Sabbath,
all
flesh
will
come
to
give
worship
before
me,
says
the
Lord.
\VS{24}And
they
will
go
out
to
see
the
dead
bodies
of
the
men
who
have
done evil
against
me:
for
their worm
will
ever
be
living,
and
their
fire
will
never
be
put
out,
and
they
will
be
a
thing
of fear
to
all
flesh.
\par }