Isaiah 1
1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning
Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of
Judah. 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I
have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. 3
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not
know, my people doth not consider. 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with
iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken
the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone
away backward. 5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and
more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 6 From the sole of the
foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises,
and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither
mollified with ointment. 7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned
with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate,
as overthrown by strangers. 8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in
a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. 9 Except
the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as
Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. 10 Hear the word of the
LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of
Gomorrah. 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith
the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts;
and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12
When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread
my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me;
the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it
is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed
feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. 15
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when
ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash
you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes;
cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed,
judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason
together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as
white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If ye
be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: 20 But if ye refuse
and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath
spoken it. 21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of
judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. 22 Thy silver is
become dross, thy wine mixed with water: 23 Thy princes are rebellious, and
companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards:
they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto
them. 24 Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel,
Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies: 25 And I
will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all
thy tin: 26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors
as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness,
the faithful city. 27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with
righteousness. 28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners
shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed. 29 For
they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be
confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. 30 For ye shall be as an oak
whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. 31 And the strong shall
be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together,
and none shall quench them.
Isaiah 2
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah
and Jerusalem. 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain
of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall
be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3 And many
people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will
walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the
LORD from Jerusalem. 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke
many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears
into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war any more. 5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the
light of the LORD. 6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of
Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the
Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. 7 Their
land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their
treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their
chariots: 8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their
own hands, that which their own fingers have made: 9 And the mean man boweth
down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not. 10 Enter
into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory
of his majesty. 11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness
of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. 12
For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and
lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low: 13
And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all
the oaks of Bashan, 14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills
that are lifted up, 15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures. 17 And
the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be
made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. 18 And the idols he
shall utterly abolish. 19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and
into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his
majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 20 In that day a man
shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one
for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; 21 To go into the clefts
of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and
for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 22
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be
accounted of ?
Isaiah 3
1 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away
from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread,
and the whole stay of water. 2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge,
and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, 3 The captain of fifty, and
the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the
eloquent orator. 4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes
shall rule over them. 5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by
another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly
against the ancient, and the base against the honourable. 6 When a man shall
take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast
clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand: 7 In that day
shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither
bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people. 8 For Jerusalem is
ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against
the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory. 9 The shew of their countenance
doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it
not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. 10 Say
ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the
fruit of their doings. 11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for
the reward of his hands shall be given him. 12 As for my people, children are
their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee
cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. 13 The LORD standeth up to
plead, and standeth to judge the people. 14 The LORD will enter into judgment
with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up
the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses. 15 What mean ye that ye
beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD
of hosts. 16 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are
haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and
mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: 17 Therefore the
LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and
the LORD will discover their secret parts. 18 In that day the Lord will take
away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls,
and their round tires like the moon, 19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the
mufflers, 20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and
the tablets, and the earrings, 21 The rings, and nose jewels, 22 The changeable
suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, 23
The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails. 24 And it shall
come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of
a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a
stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty. 25 Thy men
shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. 26 And her gates shall
lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
Isaiah 4
1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man,
saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be
called by thy name, to take away our reproach. 2 In that day shall the branch
of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be
excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. 3 And it shall come
to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem,
shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in
Jerusalem: 4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of
Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by
the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. 5 And the LORD will
create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a
cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon
all the glory shall be a defence. 6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow
in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from
storm and from rain.
Isaiah 5
1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved
touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with
the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a
winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it
brought forth wild grapes. 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of
Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. 4 What could have been
done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked
that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? 5 And now go
to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge
thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it
shall be trodden down: 6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged;
but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that
they rain no rain upon it. 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house
of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment,
but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry. 8 Woe unto them
that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that
they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! 9 In mine ears said the
LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair,
without inhabitant. 10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the
seed of an homer shall yield an ephah. 11 Woe unto them that rise up early in
the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till
wine inflame them! 12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and
wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither
consider the operation of his hands. 13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity,
because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and
their multitude dried up with thirst. 14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself,
and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and
their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. 15 And the mean man
shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the
lofty shall be humbled: 16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment,
and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness. 17 Then shall the
lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall
strangers eat. 18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and
sin as it were with a cart rope: 19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten
his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel
draw nigh and come, that we may know it! 20 Woe unto them that call evil good,
and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put
bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe unto them that are wise in their
own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! 22 Woe unto them that are mighty to
drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: 23 Which justify the
wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the
chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as
dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised
the word of the Holy One of Israel. 25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD
kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them,
and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in
the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his
hand is stretched out still. 26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations
from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they
shall come with speed swiftly: 27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them;
none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be
loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: 28 Whose arrows are sharp,
and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and
their wheels like a whirlwind: 29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they
shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey,
and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it. 30 And in that day they
shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the
land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens
thereof.
Isaiah 6
1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD
sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 2
Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his
face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 3 And one
cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole
earth is full of his glory. 4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of
him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 Then said I, Woe is me!
for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst
of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of
hosts. 6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his
hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: 7 And he laid it
upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is
taken away, and thy sin purged. 8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying,
Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. 9
And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and
see ye indeed, but perceive not. 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make
their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear
with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted
without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly
desolate, 12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking
in the midst of the land. 13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall
return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is
in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance
thereof.
Isaiah 7
1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham,
the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the
son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it,
but could not prevail against it. 2 And it was told the house of David, saying,
Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of
his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind. 3 Then said the
LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at
the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted
for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with
Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. 5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of
Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, 6 Let us go up against
Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in
the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal: 7 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall
not stand, neither shall it come to pass. 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus,
and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall
Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. 9 And the head of Ephraim is
Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe,
surely ye shall not be established. 10 Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz,
saying, 11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or
in the height above. 12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the
LORD. 13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for
you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also? 14 Therefore the Lord himself
shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and
shall call his name Immanuel. 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may
know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. 16 For before the child shall
know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest
shall be forsaken of both her kings. 17 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and
upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the
day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria. 18 And it shall
come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the
uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of
Assyria. 19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate
valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all
bushes. 20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired,
namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the
hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard. 21 And it shall come to
pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep; 22 And
it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall
eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.
23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where
there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for
briers and thorns. 24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because
all the land shall become briers and thorns. 25 And on all hills that shall be
digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and
thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of
lesser cattle.
Isaiah 8
1 Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll,
and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz. 2 And I took
unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son
of Jeberechiah. 3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a
son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz. 4 For before
the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of
Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of
Assyria. 5 The LORD spake also unto me again, saying, 6 Forasmuch as this
people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and
Remaliah's son; 7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the
waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his
glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: 8
And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach
even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of
thy land, O Immanuel. 9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be
broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and
ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in
pieces. 10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word,
and it shall not stand: for God is with us. 11 For the LORD spake thus to me
with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this
people, saying, 12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people
shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. 13
Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be
your dread. 14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling
and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a
snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many among them shall stumble,
and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. 16 Bind up the testimony,
seal the law among my disciples. 17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth
his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. 18 Behold, I and the
children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from
the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. 19 And when they shall say
unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that
peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living
to the dead? 20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to
this word, it is because there is no light in them. 21 And they shall pass
through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when
they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and
their God, and look upward. 22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold
trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
Isaiah 9
1 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her
vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the
land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of
the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. 2 The people that walked in
darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of
death, upon them hath the light shined. 3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and
not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest,
and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. 4 For thou hast broken the yoke
of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in
the day of Midian. 5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise,
and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall
be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The
mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of
his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and
upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with
justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will
perform this. 8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon
Israel. 9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of
Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart, 10 The bricks are fallen
down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we
will change them into cedars. 11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the
adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together; 12 The Syrians
before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open
mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out
still. 13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do
they seek the LORD of hosts. 14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel
head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. 15 The ancient and honourable, he
is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. 16 For the
leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are
destroyed. 17 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither
shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite
and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not
turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 18 For wickedness burneth as
the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the
thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people
shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother. 20 And he
shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left
hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of
his own arm: 21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together
shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand
is stretched out still.
Isaiah 10
1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that
write grievousness which they have prescribed; 2 To turn aside the needy from
judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows
may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! 3 And what will ye do
in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to
whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? 4 Without me
they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain.
For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine
indignation. 6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the
people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the
prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7 Howbeit he meaneth
not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and
cut off nations not a few. 8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as
Damascus? 10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven
images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; 11 Shall I not, as I have
done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? 12 Wherefore
it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon
mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the
king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. 13 For he saith, By the
strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I
have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I
have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man: 14 And my hand hath found as
a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have
I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the
mouth, or peeped. 15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth
therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if
the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff
should lift up itself, as if it were no wood. 16 Therefore shall the Lord, the
Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall
kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. 17 And the light of Israel shall
be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his
thorns and his briers in one day; 18 And shall consume the glory of his forest,
and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a
standard-bearer fainteth. 19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be
few, that a child may write them. 20 And it shall come to pass in that day,
that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall
no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the
Holy One of Israel, in truth. 21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of
Jacob, unto the mighty God. 22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of
the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall
overflow with righteousness. 23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a
consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land. 24 Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid
of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff
against thee, after the manner of Egypt. 25 For yet a very little while, and
the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction. 26 And the
LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of
Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift
it up after the manner of Egypt. 27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that
his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy
neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. 28 He is come
to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages: 29
They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah
is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled. 30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim:
cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth. 31 Madmenah is removed; the
inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee. 32 As yet shall he remain at
Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of
Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. 33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop
the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the
haughty shall be humbled. 34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest
with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
Isaiah 11
1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,
and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: 2 And the spirit of the LORD shall
rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel
and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; 3 And shall
make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge
after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: 4
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the
meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and
with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. 5 And righteousness shall
be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. 6 The
wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the
kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little
child shall lead them. 7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones
shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 And the
sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put
his hand on the cockatrice' den. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my
holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the
waters cover the sea. 10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which
shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his
rest shall be glorious. 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord
shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people,
which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from
Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of
the sea. 12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble
the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the
four corners of the earth. 13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the
adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah
shall not vex Ephraim. 14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the
Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they
shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey
them. 15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and
with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it
in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod. 16 And there shall be an
highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like
as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
Isaiah 12
1 And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise
thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou
comfortedst me. 2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid:
for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my
salvation. 3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of
salvation. 4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name,
declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted. 5
Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the
earth. 6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One
of Israel in the midst of thee.
Isaiah 13
1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did
see. 2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them,
shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. 3 I have
commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger,
even them that rejoice in my highness. 4 The noise of a multitude in the
mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of
nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle. 5
They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the
weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. 6 Howl ye; for the day
of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. 7
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: 8 And
they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be
in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their
faces shall be as flames. 9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with
wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the
sinners thereof out of it. 10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations
thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going
forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. 11 And I will punish
the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause
the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the
terrible. 12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than
the golden wedge of Ophir. 13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth
shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the
day of his fierce anger. 14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep
that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee
every one into his own land. 15 Every one that is found shall be thrust
through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword. 16
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses
shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. 17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes
against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not
delight in it. 18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they
shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare
children. 19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees'
excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 20 It shall
never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation:
neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make
their fold there. 21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their
houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and
satyrs shall dance there. 22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in
their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is
near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
Isaiah 14
1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose
Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with
them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. 2 And the people shall take
them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them
in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them
captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from
thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made
to serve, 4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon,
and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! 5 The LORD hath
broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. 6 He who smote
the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in
anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. 7 The whole earth is at rest, and is
quiet: they break forth into singing. 8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and
the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up
against us. 9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming:
it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath
raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. 10 All they shall
speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like
unto us? 11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols:
the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. 12 How art thou fallen
from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the
ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I
will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will
sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I
will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 15
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. 16 They that
see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the
man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; 17 That made the
world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the
house of his prisoners? 18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie
in glory, every one in his own house. 19 But thou art cast out of thy grave
like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust
through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase
trodden under feet. 20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because
thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall
never be renowned. 21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of
their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face
of the world with cities. 22 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of
hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew,
saith the LORD. 23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools
of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of
hosts. 24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so
shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: 25 That I
will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot:
then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their
shoulders. 26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and
this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. 27 For the LORD of
hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out,
and who shall turn it back? 28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is
broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his
fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. 30 And the firstborn of the poor shall
feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with
famine, and he shall slay thy remnant. 31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou,
whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke,
and none shall be alone in his appointed times. 32 What shall one then answer
the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of
his people shall trust in it.
Isaiah 15
1 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is
laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid
waste, and brought to silence; 2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the
high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their
heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off. 3 In their streets they shall
gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their
streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly. 4 And Heshbon shall cry, and
Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed
soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him. 5 My heart
shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three
years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up;
for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction. 6 For the
waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass
faileth, there is no green thing. 7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten,
and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the
willows. 8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling
thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim. 9 For the waters of
Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him
that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.
Isaiah 16
1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the
wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. 2 For it shall be, that, as
a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the
fords of Arnon. 3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night
in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the
face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the
oppressors are consumed out of the land. 5 And in mercy shall the throne be
established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David,
judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness. 6 We have heard of
the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride,
and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so. 7 Therefore shall Moab howl for
Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn;
surely they are stricken. 8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of
Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof,
they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her
branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea. 9 Therefore I will
bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my
tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for
thy harvest is fallen. 10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the
plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall
there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I
have made their vintage shouting to cease. 11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound
like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh. 12 And it shall
come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he
shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail. 13 This is the
word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time. 14 But now the
LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and
the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the
remnant shall be very small and feeble.
Isaiah 17
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away
from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 2 The cities of Aroer are
forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make
them afraid. 3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from
Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children
of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts. 4 And in that day it shall come to pass,
that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall
wax lean. 5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and
reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the
valley of Rephaim. 6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of
an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or
five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel. 7
At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to
the Holy One of Israel. 8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his
hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the
groves, or the images. 9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken
bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of
Israel: and there shall be desolation. 10 Because thou hast forgotten the God
of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength,
therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange
slips: 11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning
shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the
day of grief and of desperate sorrow. 12 Woe to the multitude of many people,
which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,
that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! 13 The nations shall
rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall
flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the
wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. 14 And behold at
eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of
them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Isaiah 18
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the
rivers of Ethiopia: 2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of
bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation
scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a
nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled! 3 All ye
inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up
an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. 4 For so
the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling
place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of
harvest. 5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape
is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks,
and take away and cut down the branches. 6 They shall be left together unto the
fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall
summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. 7 In
that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people
scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto;
a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled,
to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
Isaiah 19
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift
cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his
presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. 2 And I will
set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against
his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and
kingdom against kingdom. 3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst
thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the
idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the
wizards. 4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord;
and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts. 5
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried
up. 6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall
be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither. 7 The paper reeds by
the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks,
shall wither, be driven away, and be no more. 8 The fishers also shall mourn,
and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread
nets upon the waters shall languish. 9 Moreover they that work in fine flax,
and they that weave networks, shall be confounded. 10 And they shall be broken
in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish. 11 Surely
the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh
is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son
of ancient kings? 12 Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell
thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. 13
The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they
have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. 14
The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have
caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his
vomit. 15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail,
branch or rush, may do. 16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it
shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of
hosts, which he shaketh over it. 17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror
unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself,
because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against
it. 18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of
Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of
destruction. 19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of
the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD. 20 And it
shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of
Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall
send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them. 21 And the
LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that
day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the
LORD, and perform it. 22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and
heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of
them, and shall heal them. 23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt
to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into
Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. 24 In that day shall
Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst
of the land: 25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my
people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
Isaiah 20
1 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the
king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it; 2 At the
same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the
sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did
so, walking naked and barefoot. 3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah
hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and
upon Ethiopia; 4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians
prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even
with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. 5 And they shall be
afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. 6
And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our
expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria:
and how shall we escape?
Isaiah 21
1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the
south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. 2 A
grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth
treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all
the sighing thereof have I made to cease. 3 Therefore are my loins filled with
pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I
was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it. 4 My
heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he
turned into fear unto me. 5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat,
drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield. 6 For thus hath the LORD said
unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth. 7 And he saw a
chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels;
and he hearkened diligently with much heed: 8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I
stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward
whole nights: 9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of
horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the
graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground. 10 O my threshing,
and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God
of Israel, have I declared unto you. 11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me
out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? 12 The
watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire,
enquire ye: return, come. 13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia
shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim. 14 The inhabitants of the
land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their
bread him that fled. 15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword,
and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. 16 For thus hath the
LORD said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and
all the glory of Kedar shall fail: 17 And the residue of the number of archers,
the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God
of Israel hath spoken it.
Isaiah 22
1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now,
that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? 2 Thou that art full of stirs, a
tumultuous city, joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor
dead in battle. 3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the
archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.
4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to
comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. 5 For it is a
day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of
hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the
mountains. 6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and
Kir uncovered the shield. 7 And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest
valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in
array at the gate. 8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst
look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest. 9 Ye have seen also
the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together
the waters of the lower pool. 10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem,
and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall. 11 Ye made also a ditch
between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked
unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long
ago. 12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to
mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: 13 And behold joy and
gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let
us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die. 14 And it was revealed in mine
ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you
till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts. 15 Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts,
Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house,
and say, 16 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed
thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and
that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock? 17 Behold, the LORD will
carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee. 18 He will
surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there
shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy
lord's house. 19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state
shall he pull thee down. 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will
call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: 21 And I will clothe him with thy
robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into
his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the
house of Judah. 22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder;
so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a
glorious throne to his father's house. 24 And they shall hang upon him all the
glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small
quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons. 25 In
that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure
place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it
shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
Isaiah 23
1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is
laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim
it is revealed to them. 2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the
merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. 3 And by great
waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is
a mart of nations. 4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even
the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children,
neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins. 5 As at the report
concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre. 6 Pass
ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle. 7 Is this your joyous
city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off
to sojourn. 8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city,
whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to
bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth. 10 Pass through thy land
as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength. 11 He stretched
out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a
commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof. 12
And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of
Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest. 13
Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian
founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers
thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin. 14
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste. 15 And it shall
come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according
to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an
harlot. 16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been
forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will
visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with
all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. 18 And her
merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be
treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before
the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
Isaiah 24
1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it
waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant,
so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer,
so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker
of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. 3 The land shall be utterly
emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. 4 The earth
mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty
people of the earth do languish. 5 The earth also is defiled under the
inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the
ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore hath the curse devoured
the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants
of the earth are burned, and few men left. 7 The new wine mourneth, the vine
languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. 8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the
noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. 9 They shall
not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man
may come in. 11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened,
the mirth of the land is gone. 12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate
is smitten with destruction. 13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land
among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the
gleaning grapes when the vintage is done. 14 They shall lift up their voice,
they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of
Israel in the isles of the sea. 16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we
heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness,
woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the
treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. 17 Fear, and the pit, and
the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. 18 And it shall come to
pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit;
and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare:
for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do
shake. 19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the
earth is moved exceedingly. 20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard,
and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be
heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. 21 And it shall come to
pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are
on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. 22 And they shall be
gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up
in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited. 23 Then the moon
shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in
mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Isaiah 25
1 O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise
thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are
faithfulness and truth. 2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced
city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. 3
Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible
nations shall fear thee. 4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a
strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from
the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. 5
Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even
the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be
brought low. 6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all
people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full
of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. 7 And he will destroy in this mountain
the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over
all nations. 8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe
away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away
from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it. 9 And it shall be said in
that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us:
this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his
salvation. 10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab
shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the
dunghill. 11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he
that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their
pride together with the spoils of their hands. 12 And the fortress of the high
fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even
to the dust.
Isaiah 26
1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah;
We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. 2
Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter
in. 3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee:
because he trusteth in thee. 4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD
JEHOVAH is everlasting strength: 5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on
high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground;
he bringeth it even to the dust. 6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet
of the poor, and the steps of the needy. 7 The way of the just is uprightness:
thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just. 8 Yea, in the way of thy
judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy
name, and to the remembrance of thee. 9 With my soul have I desired thee in the
night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy
judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn
righteousness. 10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn
righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not
behold the majesty of the LORD. 11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will
not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea,
the fire of thine enemies shall devour them. 12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace
for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us. 13 O LORD our God,
other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make
mention of thy name. 14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased,
they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made
all their memory to perish. 15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou
hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto
all the ends of the earth. 16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they
poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. 17 Like as a woman with
child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out
in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD. 18 We have been with child,
we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not
wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world
fallen. 19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they
arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of
herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. 20 Come, my people, enter thou
into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a
little moment, until the indignation be overpast. 21 For, behold, the LORD
cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their
iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her
slain.
Isaiah 27
1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong
sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked
serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. 2 In that day sing ye
unto her, A vineyard of red wine. 3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it
every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. 4 Fury is not in
me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go
through them, I would burn them together. 5 Or let him take hold of my
strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me. 6 He
shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud,
and fill the face of the world with fruit. 7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote
those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that
are slain by him? 8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with
it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. 9 By this therefore
shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away
his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are
beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. 10 Yet the defenced
city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a
wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume
the branches thereof. 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be
broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no
understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he
that formed them will shew them no favour. 12 And it shall come to pass in that
day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream
of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel. 13 And
it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and
they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts
in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at
Jerusalem.
Isaiah 28
1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim,
whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat
valleys of them that are overcome with wine! 2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty
and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood
of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand. 3 The
crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet: 4 And
the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading
flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh
upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up. 5 In that day shall
the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the
residue of his people, 6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in
judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate. 7 But they
also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the
priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up
of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they
stumble in judgment. 8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that
there is no place clean. 9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he
make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from
the breasts. 10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line
upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: 11 For with
stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. 12 To whom he
said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is
the refreshing: yet they would not hear. 13 But the word of the LORD was unto
them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon
line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward,
and be broken, and snared, and taken. 14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD,
ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. 15 Because ye
have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at
agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come
unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid
ourselves: 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a
foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation:
he that believeth shall not make haste. 17 Judgment also will I lay to the
line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the
refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. 18 And your
covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall
not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be
trodden down by it. 19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for
morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a
vexation only to understand the report. 20 For the bed is shorter than that a
man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap
himself in it. 21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be
wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work;
and bring to pass his act, his strange act. 22 Now therefore be ye not mockers,
lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a
consumption, even determined upon the whole earth. 23 Give ye ear, and hear my
voice; hearken, and hear my speech. 24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow?
doth he open and break the clods of his ground? 25 When he hath made plain the
face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and
cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their
place? 26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. 27
For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart
wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a
staff, and the cummin with a rod. 28 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not
ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with
his horsemen. 29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is
wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
Isaiah 29
1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye
year to year; let them kill sacrifices. 2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there
shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel. 3 And I will
camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount,
and I will raise forts against thee. 4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt
speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy
voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and
thy speech shall whisper out of the dust. 5 Moreover the multitude of thy
strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones
shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly. 6
Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake,
and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire. 7 And
the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight
against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a
night vision. 8 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold,
he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man
dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint,
and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that
fight against mount Zion. 9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry:
they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath
closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. 11
And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed,
which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and
he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: 12 And the book is delivered to him that
is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their
mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from
me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: 14 Therefore,
behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a
marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. 15 Woe unto them that
seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark,
and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? 16 Surely your turning of
things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work
say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him
that framed it, He had no understanding? 17 Is it not yet a very little while,
and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall
be esteemed as a forest? 18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of
the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of
darkness. 19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor
among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. 20 For the terrible one is
brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity
are cut off: 21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him
that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought. 22
Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of
Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale. 23
But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him,
they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear
the God of Israel. 24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to
understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
Isaiah 30
1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take
counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit,
that they may add sin to sin: 2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not
asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to
trust in the shadow of Egypt! 3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your
shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. 4 For his princes
were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes. 5 They were all ashamed of a
people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and
also a reproach. 6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of
trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and
fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young
asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall
not profit them. 7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose:
therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still. 8 Now
go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for
the time to come for ever and ever: 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying
children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: 10 Which say to the
seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak
unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside
out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. 12
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and
trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: 13 Therefore this
iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high
wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. 14 And he shall break it as
the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not
spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take
fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit. 15 For thus saith
the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved;
in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not. 16 But
ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We
will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. 17 One
thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee:
till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an
hill. 18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you,
and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD
is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. 19 For the people
shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very
gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will
answer thee. 20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the
water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any
more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 21 And thine ears shall hear a
word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the
right hand, and when ye turn to the left. 22 Ye shall defile also the covering
of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold:
thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get
thee hence. 23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the
ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and
plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures. 24 The oxen
likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender,
which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. 25 And there shall
be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of
waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. 26 Moreover the
light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun
shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD
bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. 27
Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the
burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a
devouring fire: 28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the
midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there
shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err. 29 Ye shall
have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of
heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to
the mighty One of Israel. 30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard,
and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger,
and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and
hailstones. 31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten
down, which smote with a rod. 32 And in every place where the grounded staff
shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and
harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it. 33 For Tophet is
ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and
large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a
stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Isaiah 31
1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on
horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because
they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither
seek the LORD! 2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call
back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against
the help of them that work iniquity. 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God;
and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his
hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down,
and they all shall fail together. 4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like
as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of
shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice,
nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down
to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof. 5 As birds flying, so will
the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and
passing over he will preserve it. 6 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of
Israel have deeply revolted. 7 For in that day every man shall cast away his
idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you
for a sin. 8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man;
and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the
sword, and his young men shall be discomfited. 9 And he shall pass over to his
strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the
LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 32
1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes
shall rule in judgment. 2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind,
and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow
of a great rock in a weary land. 3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be
dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken. 4 The heart also of the rash
shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to
speak plainly. 5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl
said to be bountiful. 6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart
will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD,
to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the
thirsty to fail. 7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth
wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy
speaketh right. 8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal
things shall he stand. 9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye
careless daughters; give ear unto my speech. 10 Many days and years shall ye be
troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not
come. 11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones:
strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins. 12 They shall
lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. 13 Upon
the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses
of joy in the joyous city: 14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the
multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for
ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; 15 Until the spirit be poured
upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful
field be counted for a forest. 16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness,
and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. 17 And the work of
righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and
assurance for ever. 18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and
in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places; 19 When it shall hail, coming
down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place. 20 Blessed are ye
that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the
ass.
Isaiah 33
1 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and
dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou
shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to
deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee. 2 O LORD, be
gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our
salvation also in the time of trouble. 3 At the noise of the tumult the people
fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered. 4 And your spoil
shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and
fro of locusts shall he run upon them. 5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth
on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness. 6 And wisdom and
knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the
fear of the LORD is his treasure. 7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry
without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly. 8 The highways lie
waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised
the cities, he regardeth no man. 9 The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon
is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel
shake off their fruits. 10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be
exalted; now will I lift up myself. 11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring
forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you. 12 And the people shall
be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
13 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near,
acknowledge my might. 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath
surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who
among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? 15 He that walketh righteously,
and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh
his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood,
and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; 16 He shall dwell on high: his place of
defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters
shall be sure. 17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall
behold the land that is very far off. 18 Thine heart shall meditate terror.
Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the
towers? 19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than
thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand. 20
Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a
quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the
stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be
broken. 21 But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers
and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship
pass thereby. 22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD
is our king; he will save us. 23 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well
strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great
spoil divided; the lame take the prey. 24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I
am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
Isaiah 34
1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people:
let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that
come forth of it. 2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and
his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath
delivered them to the slaughter. 3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and
their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be
melted with their blood. 4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and
the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall
down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig
tree. 5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon
Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. 6 The sword of the LORD
is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs
and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice
in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. 7 And the unicorns
shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land
shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. 8 For it is
the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the
controversy of Zion. 9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and
the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning
pitch. 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up
forever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass
through it for ever and ever. 11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall
possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch
out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. 12 They shall
call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her
princes shall be nothing. 13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles
and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of
dragons, and a court for owls. 14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet
with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the
screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. 15
There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under
her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail,
none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it
hath gathered them. 17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath
divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation
to generation shall they dwell therein.Isaiah 351 The wilderness and the
solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom
as the rose. 2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and
singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel
and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our
God. 3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. 4 Say to
them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will
come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you. 5
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be
unstopped. 6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the
dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the
desert. 7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs
of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with
reeds and rushes. 8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be
called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be
for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. 9 No lion
shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be
found there; but the redeemed shall walk there: 10 And the ransomed of the LORD
shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads:
they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Isaiah 36
1 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king
Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced
cities of Judah, and took them. 2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from
Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the
conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field. 3 Then came
forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the
scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder. 4 And Rabshakeh said unto them,
Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What
confidence is this wherein thou trustest? 5 I say, sayest thou, (but they are
but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou
trust, that thou rebellest against me? 6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this
broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and
pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him. 7 But if thou
say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and
whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye
shall worship before this altar? 8 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to
my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if
thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. 9 How then wilt thou turn
away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy
trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? 10 And am I now come up without
the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against
this land, and destroy it. 11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto
Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we
understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the
people that are on the wall. 12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy
master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that
sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss
with you? 13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews'
language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able
to deliver you. 15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The
LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of
the king of Assyria. 16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of
Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye
every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one
the waters of his own cistern; 17 Until I come and take you away to a land like
your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 18
Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, the LORD will deliver us. Hath any
of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of
Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of
Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? 20 Who are they
among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my
hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? 21 But they held
their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was,
saying, Answer him not. 22 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over
the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder,
to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.ا
Isaiah 37
1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he
rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house
of the LORD. 2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the
scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the
prophet the son of Amoz. 3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This
day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are
come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. 4 It may be the
LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his
master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which
the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that
is left. 5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6 And Isaiah said unto
them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of
the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria
have blasphemed me. 7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a
rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword
in his own land. 8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring
against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. 9 And he
heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war
with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10
Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom
thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand
of the king of Assyria. 11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria
have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?
12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed,
as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in
Telassar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king
of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? 14 And Hezekiah received the letter
from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the
house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. 15 And Hezekiah prayed unto
the LORD, saying, 16 O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the
cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth:
thou hast made heaven and earth. 17 Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open
thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath
sent to reproach the living God. 18 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have
laid waste all the nations, and their countries, 19 And have cast their gods
into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and
stone: therefore they have destroyed them. 20 Now therefore, O LORD our God,
save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou
art the LORD, even thou only. 21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto
Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed
to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria: 22 This is the word which the LORD
hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised
thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head
at thee. 23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast
thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy
One of Israel. 24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said,
By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to
the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the
choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and
the forest of his Carmel. 25 I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole
of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places. 26 Hast thou
not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have
formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste
defenced cities into ruinous heaps. 27 Therefore their inhabitants were of
small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the
field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn
blasted before it be grown up. 28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and
thy coming in, and thy rage against me. 29 Because thy rage against me, and thy
tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose,
and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou
camest. 30 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as
groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in
the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit
thereof. 31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again
take root downward, and bear fruit upward: 32 For out of Jerusalem shall go
forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD
of hosts shall do this. 33 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of
Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come
before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it. 34 By the way that he came,
by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
35 For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant
David's sake. 36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp
of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose
early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. 37 So Sennacherib
king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. 38 And
it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that
Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped
into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
Isaiah 38
1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the
prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD,
Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live. 2 Then Hezekiah
turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, 3 And said, Remember
now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a
perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept
sore. 4 Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying, 5 Go, and say to
Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy
prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria:
and I will defend this city. 7 And this shall be a sign unto thee from the
LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken; 8 Behold, I will bring
again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz,
ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was
gone down. 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and
was recovered of his sickness: 10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall
go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. 11 I
said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I
shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. 12 Mine age is
departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a
weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night
wilt thou make an end of me. 13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so
will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine
eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. 15
What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I
shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul. 16 O LORD, by these
things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou
recover me, and make me to live. 17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness:
but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for
thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. 18 For the grave cannot praise
thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope
for thy truth. 19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this
day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth. 20 The LORD was
ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments
all the days of our life in the house of the LORD. 21 For Isaiah had said, Let
them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall
recover. 22 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the
house of the LORD?
Isaiah 39
1 At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of
Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had
been sick, and was recovered. 2 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them
the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and
the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found
in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that
Hezekiah shewed them not. 3 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah,
and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee?
And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon.
4 Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All
that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that
I have not shewed them. 5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the
LORD of hosts: 6 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and
that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried
to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD. 7 And of thy sons that shall
issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall
be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. 8 Then said Hezekiah to
Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. He said moreover,
For there shall be peace and truth in my days.
Isaiah 40
1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 2 Speak
ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is
accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the
LORD's hand double for all her sins. 3 The voice of him that crieth in the
wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a
highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and
hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough
places plain: 5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh
shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. 6 The voice
said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the
goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: 7 The grass withereth, the
flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the
people is grass. 8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our
God shall stand for ever. 9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up
into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy
voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah,
Behold your God! 10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his
arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before
him. 11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with
his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with
young. 12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out
heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and
weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? 13 Who hath
directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him? 14
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path
of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of
understanding? 15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are
counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a
very little thing. 16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts
thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. 17 All nations before him are as
nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. 18 To whom
then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? 19 The
workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold,
and casteth silver chains. 20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no
oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning
workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved. 21 Have ye not
known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye
not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 It is he that sitteth upon
the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that
stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to
dwell in: 23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the
earth as vanity. 24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be
sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow
upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall saith the Holy One.
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that
bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the
greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth. 27 Why
sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and
my judgment is passed over from my God? 28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not
heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the
earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his
understanding. 29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might
he increaseth strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the
young men shall utterly fall: 31 take them away as stubble. 25 To whom then
will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? But they that wait upon the LORD shall
renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run,
and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Isaiah 41
1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people
renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near
together to judgment. 2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called
him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he
gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow. 3 He
pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his
feet. 4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the
beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he. 5 The isles saw
it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came. 6 They
helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good
courage. 7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth
with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering:
and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved. 8 But thou, Israel,
art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. 9 Thou
whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief
men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and
not cast thee away. 10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for
I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold
thee with the right hand of my righteousness. 11 Behold, all they that were
incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as
nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish. 12 Thou shalt seek them,
and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war
against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought. 13 For I the LORD
thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the
LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. 15 Behold, I will make thee a
new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains,
and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. 16 Thou shalt fan them,
and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and
thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. 17
When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth
for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake
them. 18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the
valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs
of water. 19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and
the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the
pine, and the box tree together: 20 That they may see, and know, and consider,
and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy
One of Israel hath created it. 21 Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring
forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. 22 Let them bring them
forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they
be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us
things for to come. 23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may
know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and
behold it together. 24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an
abomination is he that chooseth you. 25 I have raised up one from the north,
and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and
he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay. 26
Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we
may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none
that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words. 27 The first shall
say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that
bringeth good tidings. 28 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them,
and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images
are wind and confusion.
Isaiah 42
1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my
soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment
to the Gentiles. 2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be
heard in the street. 3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax
shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. 4 He shall not
fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles
shall wait for his law. 5 Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens,
and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh
out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them
that walk therein: 6 I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will
hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the
people, for a light of the Gentiles; 7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the
prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison
house. 8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to
another, neither my praise to graven images. 9 Behold, the former things are
come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you
of them. 10 Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the
earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the
inhabitants thereof. 11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their
voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock
sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. 12 Let them give glory unto
the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands. 13 The LORD shall go forth as
a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea,
roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. 14 I have long time holden my
peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a
travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. 15 I will make waste
mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers
islands, and I will dry up the pools. 16 And I will bring the blind by a way
that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will
make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will
I do unto them, and not forsake them. 17 They shall be turned back, they shall
be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images,
Ye are our gods. 18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. 19 Who
is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as
he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD's servant? 20 Seeing many things, but
thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not. 21 The LORD is well
pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it
honourable. 22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them
snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and
none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore. 23 Who among you will
give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come? 24 Who gave
Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom
we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient
unto his law. 25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and
the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew
not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
Isaiah 43
1 But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob,
and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have
called thee by thy name; thou art mine. 2 When thou passest through the waters,
I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when
thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the
flame kindle upon thee. 3 For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel,
thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. 4 Since
thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved
thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. 5 Fear not:
for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from
the west; 6 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back:
bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; 7 Even
every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I
have formed him; yea, I have made him. 8 Bring forth the blind people that have
eyes, and the deaf that have ears. 9 Let all the nations be gathered together,
and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us
former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be
justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth. 10 Ye are my witnesses,
saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe
me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither
shall there be after me. 11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no
saviour. 12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was
no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I
am God. 13 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver
out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it? 14 Thus saith the LORD, your
redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and
have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the
ships. 15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King. 16
Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty
waters; 17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power;
they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are
quenched as tow. 18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the
things of old. 19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth;
shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in
the desert. 20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the
owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to
give drink to my people, my chosen. 21 This people have I formed for myself;
they shall shew forth my praise. 22 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob;
but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel. 23 Thou hast not brought me the small
cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy
sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee
with incense. 24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast
thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve
with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. 25 I, even I, am he
that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember
thy sins. 26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that
thou mayest be justified. 27 Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers
have transgressed against me. 28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the
sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
Isaiah 44
1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have
chosen: 2 Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb,
which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I
have chosen. 3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon
the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine
offspring: 4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the
water courses. 5 One shall say, I am the LORD's; and another shall call himself
by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD,
and surname himself by the name of Israel. 6 Thus saith the LORD the King of
Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last;
and beside me there is no God. 7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare
it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the
things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them. 8 Fear ye not,
neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it?
ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I
know not any. 9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their
delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see
not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. 10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a
graven image that is profitable for nothing? 11 Behold, all his fellows shall
be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered
together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed
together. 12 The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth
it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is
hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint. 13 The
carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it
with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the
figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the
house. 14 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which
he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash,
and the rain doth nourish it. 15 Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he
will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread;
yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and
falleth down thereto. 16 He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof
he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself,
and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire: 17 And the residue thereof he
maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth
it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god. 18 They
have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot
see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand. 19 And none considereth in
his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned
part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I
have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an
abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? 20 He feedeth on ashes: a
deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say,
Is there not a lie in my right hand? 21 Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for
thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou
shalt not be forgotten of me. 22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy
transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed
thee. 23 Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts
of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree
therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel. 24
Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am
the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that
spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; 25 That frustrateth the tokens of the
liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh
their knowledge foolish; 26 That confirmeth the word of his servant, and
performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt
be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise
up the decayed places thereof: 27 That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will
dry up thy rivers: 28 That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform
all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the
temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Isaiah 45
1 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right
hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of
kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be
shut; 2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will
break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: 3 And I
will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places,
that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God
of Israel. 4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even
called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me. 5
I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded
thee, though thou hast not known me: 6 That they may know from the rising of
the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and
there is none else. 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and
create evil: I the LORD do all these things. 8 Drop down, ye heavens, from
above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let
them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the
LORD have created it. 9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the
potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that
fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? 10 Woe unto him
that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast
thou brought forth? 11 Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his
Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of
my hands command ye me. 12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I,
even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I
commanded. 13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his
ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price
nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts. 14 Thus saith the LORD, The labour of
Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall
come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in
chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall
make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none
else, there is no God. 15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of
Israel, the Saviour. 16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of
them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols. 17 But
Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not
be ashamed nor confounded world without end. 18 For thus saith the LORD that
created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath
established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am
the LORD; and there is none else. 19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark
place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I
the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right. 20 Assemble
yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations:
they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray
unto a god that cannot save. 21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them
take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told
it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a
just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. 22 Look unto me, and be ye
saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. 23 I
have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and
shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
24 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even
to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
Isaiah 46
1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the
beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a
burden to the weary beast. 2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not
deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. 3 Hearken unto me,
O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne
by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: 4 And even to your old
age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will
bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you. 5 To whom will ye liken me, and
make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like? 6 They lavish gold out of
the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh
it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship. 7 They bear him upon the shoulder,
they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall
he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him
out of his trouble. 8 Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to
mind, O ye transgressors. 9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God,
and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, 10 Declaring the
end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet
done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: 11 Calling
a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far
country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed
it, I will also do it. 12 Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from
righteousness: 13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and
my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my
glory.
Isaiah 47
1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of
Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans:
for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. 2 Take the millstones,
and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass
over the rivers. 3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be
seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man. 4 As for our
redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. 5 Sit thou
silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt
no more be called, The lady of kingdoms. 6 I was wroth with my people, I have
polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them
no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. 7 And thou
saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to
thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. 8 Therefore hear now
this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest
in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow,
neither shall I know the loss of children: 9 But these two things shall come to
thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall
come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for
the great abundance of thine enchantments. 10 For thou hast trusted in thy
wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it
hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else
beside me. 11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from
whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to
put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not
know. 12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy
sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be
able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. 13 Thou art wearied in the
multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly
prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon
thee. 14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall
not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal
to warm at, nor fire to sit before it. 15 Thus shall they be unto thee with
whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander
every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.
Isaiah 48
1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the
name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by
the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth,
nor in righteousness. 2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay
themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name. 3 I have
declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my
mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass. 4 Because
I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow
brass; 5 I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to
pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and
my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them. 6 Thou hast heard,
see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from
this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them. 7 They are created
now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them
not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them. 8 Yea, thou heardest not;
yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I
knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor
from the womb. 9 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise
will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. 10 Behold, I have refined
thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. 11
For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name
be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another. 12 Hearken unto me, O
Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. 13
Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath
spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together. 14 All ye,
assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The
LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be
on the Chaldeans. 15 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have
brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous. 16 Come ye near unto me,
hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time
that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me. 17
Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy
God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou
shouldest go. 18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy
peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: 19 Thy
seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel
thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me. 20
Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing
declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD
hath redeemed his servant Jacob. 21 And they thirsted not when he led them
through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he
clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out. 22 There is no peace, saith the
LORD, unto the wicked.
Isaiah 49
1 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from
far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath
he made mention of my name. 2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in
the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his
quiver hath he hid me; 3 And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in
whom I will be glorified. 4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent
my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD,
and my work with my God. 5 And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb
to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered,
yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my
strength. 6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant
to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will
also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation
unto the end of the earth. 7 Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and
his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a
servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship,
because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall
choose thee. 8 Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee,
and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and
give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to
inherit the desolate heritages; 9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go
forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the
ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places. 10 They shall not hunger
nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy
on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them. 11
And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted. 12
Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the
west; and these from the land of Sinim. 13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O
earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted
his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted. 14 But Zion said, The LORD
hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. 15 Can a woman forget her
sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea,
they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. 16 Behold, I have graven thee upon
the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me. 17 Thy children
shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth
of thee. 18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather
themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt
surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee,
as a bride doeth. 19 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy
destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and
they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. 20 The children which thou shalt
have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place
is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell. 21 Then shalt thou say
in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and
am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these?
Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been? 22 Thus saith the Lord
GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard
to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters
shall be carried upon their shoulders. 23 And kings shall be thy nursing
fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with
their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt
know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. 24
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? 25
But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away,
and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him
that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. 26 And I will feed
them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with
their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD
am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Isaiah 50
1 Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's
divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I
have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for
your transgressions is your mother put away. 2 Wherefore, when I came, was
there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at
all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke
I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because
there is no water, and dieth for thirst. 3 I clothe the heavens with blackness,
and I make sackcloth their covering. 4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of
the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is
weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the
learned. 5 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither
turned away back. 6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that
plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. 7 For the Lord
GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my
face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. 8 He is near that
justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine
adversary? let him come near to me. 9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is
he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth
shall eat them up. 10 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the
voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him
trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God. 11 Behold, all ye that
kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of
your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine
hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
Isaiah 51
1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that
seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the
pit whence ye are digged. 2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that
bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him. 3 For the
LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make
her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and
gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. 4
Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall
proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
5 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall
judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they
trust. 6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for
the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a
garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation
shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. 7 Hearken unto
me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye
not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. 8 For the
moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool:
but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to
generation. 9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in
the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut
Rahab, and wounded the dragon? 10 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the
waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the
ransomed to pass over? 11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and
come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they
shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away. 12 I,
even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid
of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; 13
And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and
laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day
because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where
is the fury of the oppressor? 14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be
loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
15 But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The
LORD of hosts is his name. 16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have
covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay
the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people. 17 Awake,
awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup
of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung
them out. 18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath
brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons
that she hath brought up. 19 These two things are come unto thee; who shall be
sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by
whom shall I comfort thee? 20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of
all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the
LORD, the rebuke of thy God. 21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and
drunken, but not with wine: 22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that
pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the
cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more
drink it again: 23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee;
which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid
thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
Isaiah 52
1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy
beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no
more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. 2 Shake thyself from the
dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy
neck, O captive daughter of Zion. 3 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold
yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. 4 For thus saith
the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and
the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. 5 Now therefore, what have I here,
saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over
them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is
blasphemed. 6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know
in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I. 7 How beautiful upon
the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth
peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that
saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! 8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with
the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the
LORD shall bring again Zion. 9 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste
places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed
Jerusalem. 10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the
nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. 11
Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out
of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD. 12 For ye
shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you;
and the God of Israel will be your reward. 13 Behold, my servant shall deal
prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. 14 As many were
astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more
than the sons of men: 15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall
shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see;
and that which they had not heard shall they consider.
Isaiah 53
1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of
the LORD revealed? 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as
a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall
see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is despised and
rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it
were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he
hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken,
smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he
was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and
with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have
turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of
us all. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth:
he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is
dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from
judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the
land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. 9 And
he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he
had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it pleased
the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul
an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the
pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 11 He shall see of the travail
of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous
servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore will I
divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the
strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered
with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for
the transgressors.
Isaiah 54
1 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into
singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are
the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the
LORD. 2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains
of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed
shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. 4
Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou
shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and
shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. 5 For thy Maker is
thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of
Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called. 6 For the LORD hath
called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth,
when thou wast refused, saith thy God. 7 For a small moment have I forsaken
thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. 8 In a little wrath I hid my
face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on
thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer. 9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me:
for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth;
so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. 10 For
the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not
depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the
LORD that hath mercy on thee. 11 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not
comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy
foundations with sapphires. 12 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy
gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. 13 And all thy
children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy
children. 14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from
oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come
near thee. 15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me:
whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake. 16
Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that
bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to
destroy. 17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every
tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the
heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith
the LORD.
Isaiah 55
1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and
he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price. 2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which
is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently
unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in
fatness. 3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live;
and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of
David. 4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and
commander to the people. 5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest
not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy
God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee. 6 Seek ye the
LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: 7 Let the wicked
forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto
the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly
pardon. 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,
saith the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways
higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10 For as the rain
cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth
the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the
sower, and bread to the eater: 11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of
my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which
I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. 12 For ye shall
go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall
break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap
their hands. 13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of
the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a
name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Isaiah 56
1 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for
my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed. 2 Blessed is
the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that
keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any
evil. 3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the
LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people:
neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. 4 For thus saith the LORD
unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me,
and take hold of my covenant; 5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and
within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will
give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. 6 Also the sons of
the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the
name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from
polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; 7 Even them will I bring to my
holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt
offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine
house shall be called an house of prayer for all people. 8 The Lord GOD, which
gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside
those that are gathered unto him. 9 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour,
yea, all ye beasts in the forest. 10 His watchmen are blind: they are all
ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down,
loving to slumber. 11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough,
and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way,
every one for his gain, from his quarter. 12 Come ye, say they, I will fetch
wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as
this day, and much more abundant.
Isaiah 57
1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart:
and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken
away from the evil to come. 2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in
their beds, each one walking in his uprightness. 3 But draw near hither, ye
sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. 4 Against whom
do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the
tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood. 5 Enflaming
yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the
valleys under the clifts of the rocks? 6 Among the smooth stones of the stream
is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink
offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?
7 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest
thou up to offer sacrifice. 8 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set
up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and
art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them;
thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it. 9 And thou wentest to the king
with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers
far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell. 10 Thou art wearied in the greatness
of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of
thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved. 11 And of whom hast thou been
afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it
to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not? 12
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit
thee. 13 When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall
carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in
me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain; 14 And shall
say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of
the way of my people. 15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth
eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also
that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble,
and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. 16 For I will not contend for ever,
neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the
souls which I have made. 17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth,
and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of
his heart. 18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also,
and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. 19 I create the fruit of the
lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the
LORD; and I will heal him. 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it
cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. 21 There is no peace, saith my
God, to the wicked.
Isaiah 58
1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet,
and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. 2
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did
righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the
ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. 3 Wherefore
have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our
soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find
pleasure, and exact all your labours. 4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate,
and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day,
to make your voice to be heard on high. 5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen?
a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an
acceptable day to the LORD? 6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose
the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go
free, and that ye break every yoke? 7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the
hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou
seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine
own flesh? 8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health
shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the
glory of the LORD shall be thy reward. 9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD
shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away
from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking
vanity; 10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the
afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as
the noon day: 11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy
soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered
garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. 12 And they that
shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations
of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The
restorer of paths to dwell in. 13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath,
from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the
holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways,
nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: 14 Then shalt
thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high
places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for
the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Isaiah 59
1 Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot
save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: 2 But your iniquities have
separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you,
that he will not hear. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your
fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered
perverseness. 4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they
trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth
iniquity. 5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that
eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a
viper. 6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover
themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of
violence is in their hands. 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to
shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and
destruction are in their paths. 8 The way of peace they know not; and there is
no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth
therein shall not know peace. 9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth
justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness,
but we walk in darkness. 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope
as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in
desolate places as dead men. 11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like
doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far
off from us. 12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins
testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our
iniquities, we know them; 13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and
departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and
uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 And judgment is turned away
backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and
equity cannot enter. 15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil
maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there
was no judgment. 16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there
was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his
righteousness, it sustained him. 17 For he put on righteousness as a
breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the
garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak. 18
According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries,
recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence. 19 So shall
they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of
the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD
shall lift up a standard against him. 20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion,
and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD. 21 As for
me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee,
and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth,
nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed,
saith the LORD, from henceforth and for
ever.
Isaiah 60
1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the
LORD is risen upon thee. 2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and
gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory
shall be seen upon thee. 3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings
to the brightness of thy rising. 4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all
they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from
far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side. 5 Then thou shalt see, and
flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the
abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles
shall come unto thee. 6 The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the
dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall
bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD. 7
All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of
Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine
altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory. 8 Who are these that fly as a
cloud, and as the doves to their windows? 9 Surely the isles shall wait for me,
and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and
their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of
Israel, because he hath glorified thee. 10 And the sons of strangers shall
build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I
smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee. 11 Therefore thy gates
shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may
bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be
brought. 12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish;
yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted. 13 The glory of Lebanon shall come
unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the
place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious. 14 The
sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all
they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and
they shall call thee; The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
15 Whereas thou has been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee,
I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. 16 Thou
shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings:
and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty
One of Jacob. 17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver,
and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace,
and thine exactors righteousness. 18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy
land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls
Salvation, and thy gates Praise. 19 The sun shall be no more thy light by day;
neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall
be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. 20 Thy sun shall no
more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be
thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. 21 Thy
people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the
branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. 22 A
little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD
will hasten it in his time.
Isaiah 61
1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD
hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind
up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of
the prison to them that are bound; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the
LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; 3 To
appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the
oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD,
that he might be glorified. 4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall
raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the
desolations of many generations. 5 And strangers shall stand and feed your
flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the
Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their
glory shall ye boast yourselves. 7 For your shame ye shall have double; and for
confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they
shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them. 8 For I the LORD
love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work
in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. 9 And their seed
shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all
that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD
hath blessed. 10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in
my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered
me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with
ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. 11 For as the earth
bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in
it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to
spring forth before all the nations.
Isaiah 62
1 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for
Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as
brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. 2 And the
Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt
be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name. 3 Thou shalt
also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the
hand of thy God. 4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy
land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy
land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. 5
For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the
bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. 6 I
have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their
peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence, 7 And
give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the
earth. 8 The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength,
Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons
of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured: 9
But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that
have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness. 10 Go
through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast
up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people. 11
Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the
daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him,
and his work before him. 12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The
redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not
forsaken.
Isaiah 63
1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from
Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of
his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. 2 Wherefore art
thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the
winefat? 3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none
with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and
their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my
raiment. 4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my
redeemed is come. 5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered
that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto
me; and my fury, it upheld me. 6 And I will tread down the people in mine
anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to
the earth. 7 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises
of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great
goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according
to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. 8 For
he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their
Saviour. 9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his
presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare
them, and carried them all the days of old. 10 But they rebelled, and vexed his
holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against
them. 11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying,
Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock?
where is he that put his holy Spirit within him? 12 That led them by the right
hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make
himself an everlasting name? 13 That led them through the deep, as an horse in
the wilderness, that they should not stumble? 14 As a beast goeth down into the
valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy
people, to make thyself a glorious name. 15 Look down from heaven, and behold
from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy
strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they
restrained? 16 Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us,
and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy
name is from everlasting. 17 O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy
ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the
tribes of thine inheritance. 18 The people of thy holiness have possessed it
but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. 19 We are
thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.
Isaiah 64
1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest
come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, 2 As when the
melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name
known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! 3
When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the
mountains flowed down at thy presence. 4 For since the beginning of the world
men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God,
beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. 5 Thou meetest
him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy
ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and
we shall be saved. 6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses
are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the
wind, have taken us away. 7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that
stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us,
and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. 8 But now, O LORD, thou art
our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of
thy hand. 9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever:
behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. 10 Thy holy cities are a
wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and our
beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and
all our pleasant things are laid waste. 12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these
things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
Isaiah 65
1 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of
them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was
not called by my name. 2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a
rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own
thoughts; 3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that
sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick; 4 Which
remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh,
and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; 5 Which say, Stand by
thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my
nose, a fire that burneth all the day. 6 Behold, it is written before me: I
will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom, 7
Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD,
which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills:
therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom. 8 Thus saith the
LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not;
for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not
destroy them all. 9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of
Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my
servants shall dwell there. 10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the
valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have
sought me. 11 But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy
mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink
offering unto that number. 12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye
shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer;
when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose
that wherein I delighted not. 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my
servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink,
but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be
ashamed: 14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry
for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit. 15 And ye shall
leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee,
and call his servants by another name: 16 That he who blesseth himself in the
earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the
earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are
forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes. 17 For, behold, I create
new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come
into mind. 18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for,
behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. 19 And I will
rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be
no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. 20 There shall be no more thence
an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child
shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall
be accursed. 21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall
plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. 22 They shall not build, and
another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a
tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of
their hands. 23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for
they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them. 24
And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they
are yet speaking, I will hear. 25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together,
and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's
meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
Isaiah 66
1 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the
earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is
the place of my rest? 2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those
things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that
is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. 3 He that killeth
an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a
dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he
that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own
ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. 4 I also will choose
their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called,
none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine
eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not. 5 Hear the word of the LORD, ye
that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for
my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your
joy, and they shall be ashamed. 6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from
the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies. 7
Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was
delivered of a man child. 8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such
things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be
born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. 9
Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall
I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God. 10 Rejoice ye with
Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with
her, all ye that mourn for her: 11 That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the
breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the
abundance of her glory. 12 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace
to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then
shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.
13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be
comforted in Jerusalem. 14 And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and
your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known
toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies. 15 For, behold,
the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render
his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. 16 For by fire and by
his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall
be many. 17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens
behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and
the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD. 18 For I know their
works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and
tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory. 19 And I will set a sign among
them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish,
Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off,
that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare
my glory among the Gentiles. 20 And they shall bring all your brethren for an
offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in
litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem,
saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel
into the house of the LORD. 21 And I will also take of them for priests and for
Levites, saith the LORD. 22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I
will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your
name remain. 23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another,
and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me,
saith the LORD. 24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the
men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither
shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
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