1:1 The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he saw about
 Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and
 Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
1:2 Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the
 Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they
 became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me.
1:3 Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the
 place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no
 knowledge, my people give no thought to me.
1:4 O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a
 generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have
 gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One
 of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.
1:5 Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in
 your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.
1:6 The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass
 of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of
 blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the
 wounds.
1:7 Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with
 fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made
 waste and overcome by men from strange lands.
1:8 And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a
 vine-garden, like a watchman's house in a field of fruit, like
 a town shut in by armies.
1:9 If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe,
 we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would
 have been ours.
1:10 Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let
 your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of
 Gomorrah.
1:11 What use to me is the number of the offerings which you
 give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the
 best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no
 pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
1:12 At whose request do you come before me, making my house
 unclean with your feet?
1:13 Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh
 is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and
 your holy meetings.
1:14 Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my
 soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them.
1:15 And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will
 be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers,
 I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.
1:16 Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your
 doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;
1:17 Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep
 down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no
 father, see to the cause of the widow.
1:18 Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the
 Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as
 snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?
1:19 If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things
 of the land will be yours;
1:20 But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send
 destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said.
1:21 The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when
 her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a
 resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take
 men's lives.
1:22 Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed
 with water.
1:23 Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become
 friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and
 going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the
 child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the
 widow come before them.
1:24 For this reason the Lord, the Lord of armies, the Strong
 One of Israel, has said, I will put an end to my haters, and
 send punishment on those who are against me;
1:25 And my hand will again be on you, washing away what is
 unclean as with soap, and taking away all your false metal;
1:26 And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise
 guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of
 Righteousness, the true town.
1:27 Upright acts will be the price of Zion's forgiveness, and
 by righteousness will men be living there.
1:28 But a common destruction will overtake sinners and
 evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord
 will be cut off.
1:29 For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your
 desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.
1:30 For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry,
 and like a garden without water.
1:31 And the strong will be as food for the fire, and his work
 as a flame; and they will be burned together, with no one to
 put out the fire.
2:1 The word which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw about Judah and
 Jerusalem.
2:2 And it will come about in the last days, that the mountain
 of the Lord will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be
 lifted up over the hills; and all nations will come to it.
2:3 And the peoples will say, Come, and let us go up to the
 mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob: and he
 will give us knowledge of his ways, and we will be guided by
 his word; for out of Zion the law will go out, and the word of
 the Lord from Jerusalem.
2:4 And he will be the judge between the nations, and the
 peoples will be ruled by his decisions: and their swords will
 be turned into plough-blades, and their spears into
 vine-knives: no longer will the nations be turning their swords
 against one another, and the knowledge of war will be gone for
 ever.
2:5 O family of Jacob, come, and let us go in the light of the
 Lord.
2:6 For you, O Lord, have given up your people, the family of
 Jacob, because they are full of the evil ways of the east, and
 make use of secret arts like the Philistines, and are friends
 with the children of strange countries.
2:7 And their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no
 end to their stores; their land is full of horses, and there is
 no end to their carriages.
2:8 Their land is full of images; they give worship to the work
 of their hands, even to that which their fingers have made.
2:9 And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down
 on his face: for this cause there will be no forgiveness for
 their sin.
2:10 Go into a hole in the rock, covering yourselves with dust,
 in fear of the Lord, before the glory of his power.
2:11 The high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride
 of men will be made low, and only the Lord will be lifted up in
 that day.
2:12 For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the
 pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;
2:13 And on all the high trees of Lebanon, and on all the strong
 trees of Bashan;
2:14 And on all the high mountains, and on all the hills which
 are lifted up;
2:15 And on every high tower, and on every strong wall;
2:16 And on all the ships of Tarshish, and on all the fair
 boats.
2:17 And the high looks of man will be put to shame, and the
 pride of men will be made low: and only the Lord will be lifted
 up in that day.
2:18 And the images will never be seen again.
2:19 And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of
 the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his
 power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with
 his strength.
2:20 In that day men will put their images of silver and of
 gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts
 of the dark places;
2:21 To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes
 of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his
 power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with
 his strength.
2:22 Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath,
 for he is of no value.
3:1 For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to take away from
 Jerusalem and from Judah all their support; their store of
 bread and of water;
3:2 The strong man and the man of war; the judge and the
 prophet; the man who has knowledge of secret arts, and the man
 who is wise because of his years;
3:3 The captain of fifty, and the man of high position, and the
 wise guide, and the wonder-worker, and he who makes use of
 secret powers.
3:4 And I will make children their chiefs, and foolish ones will
 have rule over them.
3:5 And the people will be crushed, every one by his neighbour;
 the young will be full of pride against the old, and those of
 low position will be lifted up against the noble.
3:6 When one man puts his hand on another in his father's house,
 and says, You have clothing, be our ruler and be responsible
 for us in our sad condition:
3:7 Then he will say with an oath, I will not be a helper, for
 in my house there is no bread or clothing: I will not let you
 make me a ruler of the people.
3:8 For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on
 Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord,
 moving the eyes of his glory to wrath.
3:9 Their respect for a man's position is a witness against
 them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of
 Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the
 measure of their sin is full.
3:10 Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit
 of his ways.
3:11 Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings
 will come on him.
3:12 As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and
 those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your
 guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps
 out of the right way.
3:13 The Lord is ready to take up his cause against his people,
 and is about to come forward as their judge.
3:14 The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and
 of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden,
 and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have
 taken by force.
3:15 By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a
 bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the
 Lord, the Lord of armies.
3:16 Again, the Lord has said, Because the daughters of Zion are
 full of pride, and go with outstretched necks and wandering
 eyes, with their foot-chains sounding when they go:
3:17 The Lord will send disease on the heads of the daughters of
 Zion, and the Lord will let their secret parts be seen.
3:18 In that day the Lord will take away the glory of their
 foot-rings, and their sun-jewels, and their moon-ornaments,
3:19 The ear-rings, and the chains, and the delicate clothing,
3:20 The head-bands, and the arm-chains, and the worked bands,
 and the perfume-boxes, and the jewels with secret powers,
3:21 The rings, and the nose-jewels,
3:22 The feast-day dresses, and the robes, and the wide skirts,
 and the handbags,
3:23 The looking-glasses, and the fair linen, and the high
 head-dresses, and the veils.
3:24 And in the place of sweet spices will be an evil smell, and
 for a fair band a thick cord; for a well-dressed head there
 will be the cutting-off of the hair, and for a beautiful robe
 there will be the clothing of sorrow; the mark of the prisoner
 in place of the ornaments of the free.
3:25 Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will
 come to destruction in the fight.
3:26 And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and
 weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and
 uncovered.
4:1 And in that day seven women will put their hands on one man,
 saying, There will be no need for you to give us food or
 clothing, only let us go under your name, so that our shame may
 be taken away.
4:2 In that day will the young growth of the Lord be beautiful
 in glory, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride of those
 who are still living in Israel.
4:3 And it will come about that the rest of the living in Zion,
 and of those who have been kept from destruction in Jerusalem,
 will be named holy, even everyone who has been recorded for
 life in Jerusalem:
4:4 When Zion has been washed from her sin by the Lord, and
 Jerusalem made clean from her blood by a judging and a burning
 wind.
4:5 And over every living-place on Mount Zion, all over all her
 meetings, the Lord will make a cloud and smoke by day, and the
 shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all, the glory of
 the Lord will be a cover and a tent;
4:6 And a shade in the daytime from the heat, and a safe cover
 from storm and from rain.
5:1 Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for
 his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile
 hill:
5:2 And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away
 its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a
 watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a
 place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would
 give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.
5:3 And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be
 the judges between me and my vine-garden.
5:4 Is there anything which might have been done for my
 vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping
 for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?
5:5 And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will
 take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned
 up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field
 will go through it;
5:6 And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched
 with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but
 blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give
 orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.
5:7 For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of
 Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and
 he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for
 righteousness, and there was a cry for help.
5:8 Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting
 field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but
 themselves in all the land!
5:9 The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers
 of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in
 them.
5:10 For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine,
 and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of
 grain.
5:11 Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give
 themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into
 the night till they are heated with wine!
5:12 And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in
 their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord,
 and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.
5:13 For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into
 strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are
 wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry
 for need of water.
5:14 For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat,
 opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise
 of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into
 it.
5:15 And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes
 down on his face, and the eyes of pride are put to shame:
5:16 But the Lord of armies is lifted up as judge, and the Holy
 God is seen to be holy in righteousness.
5:17 Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and
 the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.
5:18 Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the
 evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!
5:19 Who say, Let him do his work quickly, let him make it
 sudden, so that we may see it: let the design of the Holy One
 of Israel come near, so that it may be clear to us.
5:20 Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of
 evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who
 make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!
5:21 Cursed are those who seem wise to themselves, and who take
 pride in their knowledge!
5:22 Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in
 making mixed drinks!
5:23 Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner,
 and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.
5:24 For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by
 tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the
 flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and
 their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against
 the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the
 word of the Holy One of Israel.
5:25 For this reason the wrath of the Lord has been burning
 against his people, and his hand has been stretched out against
 them in punishment, and the hills were shaking, and their dead
 bodies were like waste in the open places of the town.
5:26 And he will let a flag be lifted up as a sign to a far-off
 nation, whistling to them from the ends of the earth: and they
 will come quickly and suddenly.
5:27 There is no weariness among them, and no man is
 feeble-footed: they come without resting or sleeping, and the
 cord of their shoes is not broken.
5:28 Their arrows are sharp, and every bow is bent: the feet of
 their horses are like rock, and their wheels are like a rushing
 storm.
5:29 The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion,
 and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud
 cries they will come down on their food and will take it away
 safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.
5:30 And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the
 sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the
 earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is
 made dark by thick clouds.
6:1 In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord seated in
 his place, high and lifted up, and the Temple was full of the
 wide skirts of his robe.
6:2 Over him were the winged ones: every one had six wings; two
 for covering his face, two for covering his feed, and two for
 flight.
6:3 And one said in a loud voice to another, Holy, holy, holy,
 is the Lord of armies: all the earth is full of his glory.
6:4 And the bases of the door-pillars were shaking at the sound
 of his cry, and the house was full of smoke.
6:5 Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction;
 for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of
 unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of
 armies.
6:6 Then a winged one came to me with a burning coal in his
 hand, which he had taken from off the altar with the
 fire-spoon.
6:7 And after touching my mouth with it, he said, See, your lips
 have been touched with this; and your evil is taken away, and
 you are made clean from sin.
6:8 And the voice of the Lord came to my ears, saying, Whom am I
 to send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I, send
 me.
6:9 And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on
 hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but
 without getting wiser.
6:10 Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be
 stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with
 their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may
 become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.
6:11 Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till
 the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men,
 and the land becomes completely waste,
6:12 And the Lord has taken men far away, and there are wide
 waste places in the land.
6:13 And even if there is still a tenth part in it, it will
 again be burned, like a tree of the woods whose broken end is
 still in the earth after the tree has been cut down (the holy
 seed is the broken end).
7:1 Now it came about in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham,
 the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin, the king of Aram,
 and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, came up to
 Jerusalem to make war against it, but were not able to overcome
 it.
7:2 And word came to the family of David that Aram had put up
 its tents in Ephraim. And the king's heart, and the hearts of
 his people, were moved, like the trees of the wood shaking in
 the wind.
7:3 Then the Lord said to Isaiah, Go out now, you and
 Shear-jashub, your son, and you will come across Ahaz at the
 end of the stream flowing from the higher pool, in the highway
 of the washerman's field;
7:4 And say to him, Take care and be quiet; have no fear, and do
 not let your heart be feeble, because of these two ends of
 smoking fire-wood, because of the bitter wrath of Rezin and
 Aram, and of the son of Remaliah.
7:5 Because Aram has made evil designs against you, saying,
7:6 Let us go up against Judah, troubling her, and forcing our
 way into her, and let us put up a king in her, even the son of
 Tabeel:
7:7 This is the word of the Lord God: This design will not come
 about or be effected.
7:8 For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus
 is Rezin (and in sixty-five years from now Ephraim will be
 broken, and will no longer be a people):
7:9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria
 is Remaliah's son. If you will not have faith, your kingdom
 will be broken.
7:10 And Isaiah said again to Ahaz,
7:11 Make a request to the Lord your God for a sign, a sign in
 the deep places of the underworld, or in the high heavens.
7:12 But Ahaz said, I will not put the Lord to the test by
 making such a request.
7:13 And he said, Give ear now, O family of David: is it not
 enough that you are driving men to disgust? will you do the
 same to my God?
7:14 For this cause the Lord himself will give you a sign; a
 young woman is now with child, and she will give birth to a
 son, and she will give him the name Immanuel.
7:15 Butter and honey will be his food, when he is old enough to
 make a decision between evil and good.
7:16 For before the child is old enough to make a decision
 between evil and good, the land whose two kings you are now
 fearing will have become waste.
7:17 The Lord is about to send on you, and on your people, and
 on your father's house, such a time of trouble as there has not
 been from the days of the separating of Ephraim from Judah;
 even the coming of the king of Assyria.
7:18 And it will be in that day that the Lord will make a piping
 sound for the fly which is in the end of the rivers of Egypt,
 and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria.
7:19 And they will come, covering all the waste valleys, and the
 holes of the rocks, and the thorns, and all the
 watering-places.
7:20 In that day will the Lord take away the hair of the head
 and of the feet, as well as the hair of the face, with a blade
 got for a price from the other side of the River; even with the
 king of Assyria.
7:21 And it will be in that day that a man will give food to a
 young cow and two sheep;
7:22 And they will give so much milk that he will be able to
 have butter for his food: for butter and honey will be the food
 of all who are still living in the land.
7:23 And it will be in that day that in every place where before
 there were a thousand vines valued at a thousand shekels of
 silver, there will be nothing but blackberries and thorns.
7:24 Men will come there with bows and arrows, because all the
 land will be full of blackberries and thorns.
7:25 And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the
 hills which before were worked with the spade, ... fear of
 blackberries and thorns.
8:1 And the Lord said to me, Take a great writing-board, and on
 it put down in common letters, Maher-shalal-hash-baz;
8:2 And take true witnesses to the writing, Uriah the priest,
 and Zechariah, the son of Jeberechiah.
8:3 And I went in to my wife, and she became with child, and
 gave birth to a son. Then the Lord said to me, Give him the
 name Maher-shalal-hash-baz,
8:4 For before the child is able to say, Father, or, Mother, the
 wealth of Damascus and the goods of Samaria will be taken away
 by the king of Assyria.
8:5 And the Lord said again to me,
8:6 Because this people will have nothing to do with the
 softly-flowing waters of Shiloah, and have fear of Rezin and
 Remaliah's son;
8:7 For this cause the Lord is sending on them the waters of the
 River, deep and strong, even the king of Assyria and all his
 glory: and it will come up through all its streams, overflowing
 all its edges:
8:8 And it will come on into Judah; rushing on and overflowing,
 till the waters are up to the neck; *** and his outstretched
 wings will be covering the land from side to side: for God is
 with us.
8:9 Have knowledge, O peoples, and be in fear; give ear, all you
 far-off parts of the earth:
8:10 Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing;
 give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is
 with us.
8:11 For the Lord, controlling me with a strong hand, gave me
 orders not to go in the way of this people, saying,
8:12 Do not say, It is holy, about everything of which this
 people says, It is holy; and do not be in fear of what they go
 in fear of.
8:13 But let the Lord of armies be holy to you, and go in fear
 of him, giving honour to him.
8:14 And he will be for a holy place: but for a stone of falling
 and a rock of trouble to the two houses of Israel, and to the
 men of Jerusalem, for a net in which they may be taken.
8:15 And numbers of them, falling on the stone, will be broken,
 and will be taken in the net.
8:16 Let my teaching be kept secret: and my words be given to my
 disciples only.
8:17 And I will be waiting for the Lord, whose face is veiled
 from the house of Jacob, and I will be looking for him.
8:18 See, I and the children whom the Lord has given me, are for
 signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of armies, whose
 resting-place is in Mount Zion.
8:19 And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who
 have control of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who
 make hollow bird-like sounds; is it not right for a people to
 make request to their gods, to make request for the living to
 the dead?
8:20 Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the
 witness. ... If they do not say such things. ... For him there
 is no dawn. ...
8:21 And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in
 need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become
 angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be
 turned to heaven on high;
8:22 And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be
 trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.
9:1 In earlier times he made the land of Zebulun and the land of
 Naphtali of small value, but after that he gave it glory, by
 the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the
 nations.
9:2 The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and
 for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the
 light is shining.
9:3 You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are
 glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the
 grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.
9:4 For by your hand the yoke on his neck and the rod on his
 back, even the rod of his cruel master, have been broken, as in
 the day of Midian.
9:5 For every boot of the man of war with his sounding step, and
 the clothing rolled in blood, will be for burning, food for the
 fire.
9:6 For to us a child has come, to us a son is given; and the
 government has been placed in his hands; and he has been named
 Wise Guide, Strong God, Father for ever, Prince of Peace.
9:7 Of the increase of his rule and of peace there will be no
 end, on the seat of David, and in his kingdom; to make it
 strong, supporting it with wise decision and righteousness, now
 and for ever. By the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this
 will be done.
9:8 The Lord has sent a word to Jacob, and it has come on
 Israel;
9:9 And all the people will have experience of it, even Ephraim
 and the men of Samaria, who say in the pride of their uplifted
 hearts,
9:10 The bricks have come down, but we will put up buildings of
 cut stone in their place: the sycamores are cut down, but they
 will be changed to cedars.
9:11 For this cause the Lord has made strong the haters of
 Israel, driving them on to make war against him;
9:12 Aram on the east, and the Philistines on the west, who have
 come against Israel with open mouths. For all this his wrath is
 not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
9:13 But the heart of the people was not turned to him who sent
 punishment on them, and they made no prayer to the Lord of
 armies.
9:14 For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and
 tail, high and low, in one day.
9:15 The man who is honoured and responsible is the head, and
 the prophet who gives false teaching is the tail.
9:16 For the guides of this people are the cause of their
 wandering from the right way, and those who are guided by them
 come to destruction.
9:17 For this cause the Lord will have no pleasure in their
 young men, and no pity on their widows and the children without
 fathers: for they are all haters of God and evil-doers, and
 foolish words come from every mouth. For all this his wrath is
 not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
9:18 For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and
 thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in
 dark clouds of smoke.
9:19 The land was dark with the wrath of the Lord of armies: the
 people were like those who take men's flesh for food.
9:20 On the right a man was cutting off bits and was still in
 need; on the left a man took a meal but had not enough; no man
 had pity on his brother; every man was making a meal of the
 flesh of his neighbour.
9:21 Manasseh was making a meal of Ephraim, and Ephraim of
 Manasseh; and together they were attacking Judah. For all this
 his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out
 still.
10:1 Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers
 who make the records of their cruel acts:
10:2 Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the
 right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the
 property of widows, and get under their power those who have no
 father.
10:3 And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the
 destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for
 help, and what will become of your glory?
10:4 ... For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand
 is stretched out still.
10:5 Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my
 punishment!
10:6 I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against
 the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their
 wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.
10:7 But this is not what is in his mind, and this is not his
 design; but his purpose is destruction, and the cutting off of
 more and more nations.
10:8 For he says, Are not all my captains kings?
10:9 Will not the fate of Calno be like that of Carchemish? is
 not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
10:10 As my hand has come on the kingdoms of the images, whose
 pictured images were more in number than those of Jerusalem and
 Samaria;
10:11 So, as I have done to Samaria and her images, I will do to
 Jerusalem and her images.
10:12 For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the
 Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send
 punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria,
 and on the glory of his uplifted eyes.
10:13 For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done
 it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away
 the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their
 wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust,
 sending destruction on those living in them;
10:14 And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as
 on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may
 take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all
 the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth
 gave out a sound.
10:15 Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is
 using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is
 cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who
 is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not
 wood.
10:16 For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his
 fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be
 lighted like a burning flame.
10:17 And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy
 One for a flame: wasting and burning up his thorns in one day.
10:18 And he will put an end to the glory of his woods and of
 his planted fields, soul and body together; and it will be as
 when a man is wasted by disease.
10:19 And the rest of the trees of his wood will be small in
 number, so that a child may put them down in writing.
10:20 And it will be in that day that the rest of Israel, and
 those of Jacob who have come safely through these troubles,
 will no longer go for help to him whose rod was on their back,
 but their faith will be in the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
10:21 The rest, even the rest of Jacob, will come back to the
 Strong God.
10:22 For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the
 sea, only a small number will come back: for the destruction is
 fixed, overflowing in righteousness.
10:23 For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to make
 destruction complete in all the land.
10:24 For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, says, O my
 people living in Zion, have no fear of the Assyrian, even if
 his rod comes on your back, and his stick is lifted up as in
 Egypt.
10:25 For in a very short time my passion will be over, and my
 wrath will be turned to their destruction.
10:26 And the Lord of armies will be shaking a whip against him,
 as when he overcame Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod
 will be lifted up against them as it was against the Egyptians.
10:27 And in that day the weight which he put on your back will
 be taken away, and his yoke broken from off your neck.
10:28 He has gone up from Pene-Rimmon, he has come to Aiath; he
 has gone past Migron, at Michmash he puts his forces in order.
10:29 They have gone across the mountain; Geba will be our
 resting-place tonight, they say: Ramah is shaking with fear;
 Gibeah of Saul has gone in flight.
10:30 Give a loud cry, daughter of Gallim; let Laishah give ear;
 let Anathoth give answer to her.
10:31 Madmenah has gone; the men of Gebim are putting their
 goods in a safe place.
10:32 This very day he is stopping at Nob; he is shaking his
 hand against the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of
 Jerusalem.
10:33 See, the Lord, the Lord of armies, is cutting off his
 branches with a great noise, and his strong ones are falling
 and his high ones are coming down.
10:34 And he is cutting down the thick places of the wood with
 an axe, and Lebanon with its tall trees is coming down.
11:1 And there will come a rod out of the broken tree of Jesse,
 and a branch out of his roots will give fruit.
11:2 And the spirit of the Lord will be resting on him, the
 spirit of wisdom and good sense, the spirit of wise guiding and
 strength, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
11:3 And he will not be guided in his judging by what he sees,
 or give decisions by the hearing of his ears:
11:4 But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give
 wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the
 rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the
 breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.
11:5 And righteousness will be the cord of his robe, and good
 faith the band round his breast.
11:6 And the wolf will be living with the lamb, and the leopard
 will take his rest with the young goat; and the lion will take
 grass for food like the ox; and the young lion will go with the
 young ones of the herd; and a little child will be their guide.
11:7 And the cow and the bear will be friends while their young
 ones are sleeping together.
11:8 And the child at the breast will be playing by the hole of
 the snake, and the older child will put his hand on the bright
 eye of the poison-snake.
11:9 There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my
 holy mountain: for the earth will be full of the knowledge of
 the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters.
11:10 And in that day, the eyes of the nations will be turned to
 the root of Jesse which will be lifted up as the flag of the
 peoples; and his resting-place will be glory.
11:11 And in that day the hand of the Lord will be stretched out
 the second time to get back the rest of his people, from
 Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and
 from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the
 sea-lands.
11:12 And he will put up a flag as a sign to the nations, and he
 will get together those of Israel who had been sent away, and
 the wandering ones of Judah, from the four ends of the earth.
11:13 And the envy of Ephraim will be gone, and those who make
 trouble for Judah will come to an end: Ephraim will have no
 more envy of Judah, and there will be an end of Judah's hate
 for Ephraim.
11:14 And they will be united in attacking the Philistines on
 the west, and together they will take the goods of the children
 of the east: their hand will be on Edom and Moab; and the
 children of Ammon will be under their rule.
11:15 And the Lord will make the tongue of the Egyptian sea
 completely dry; and with his burning wind his hand will be
 stretched out over the River, and it will be parted into seven
 streams, so that men may go over it with dry feet.
11:16 And there will be a highway for the rest of his people
 from Assyria; as there was for Israel in the day when he came
 up out of the land of Egypt.
12:1 And in that day you will say I will give praise to you, O
 Lord; for though you were angry with me, your wrath is turned
 away, and I am comforted.
12:2 See, God is my salvation; I will have faith in the Lord,
 without fear: for the Lord Jah is my strength and song; and he
 has become my salvation.
12:3 So with joy will you get water out of the springs of
 salvation.
12:4 And in that day you will say, Give praise to the Lord, let
 his name be honoured, give word of his doings among the
 peoples, say that his name is lifted up.
12:5 Make a song to the Lord; for he has done noble things: give
 news of them through all the earth.
12:6 Let your voice be sounding in a cry of joy, O daughter of
 Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.
13:1 The word of the Lord about Babylon which Isaiah, the son of
 Amoz, saw.
13:2 Put up a flag on a clear mountain-top, make a loud outcry
 to them, give directions with the hand, so that they may go
 into the doors of the great ones.
13:3 I have given orders to my holy ones, I have sent out my men
 of war, those of mine who take pride in their power, to give
 effect to my wrath.
13:4 The noise of great numbers in the mountains, like the noise
 of a strong people! The noise of the kingdoms of the nations
 meeting together! The Lord of armies is numbering his forces
 for war.
13:5 They come from a far country, from the farthest part of
 heaven, even the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, with
 destruction for all the land.
13:6 Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near;
 it comes as destruction from the Most High.
13:7 For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of
 man be turned to water;
13:8 Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will
 overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth;
 they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like
 flames.
13:9 See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and
 burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners
 in it to destruction.
13:10 For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not
 give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey
 through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.
13:11 And I will send punishment on the world for its evil, and
 on the sinners for their wrongdoing; and I will put an end to
 all pride, and will make low the power of the cruel.
13:12 I will make men so small in number, that a man will be
 harder to get than gold, even the best gold of Ophir.
13:13 For this cause the heavens will be shaking, and the earth
 will be moved out of its place, in the wrath of the Lord of
 armies, and in the day of his burning passion.
13:14 And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like
 wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to
 his land.
13:15 Everyone who is overtaken will have a spear put through
 him, and everyone who goes in flight will be put to the sword.
13:16 Their young children will be broken up before their eyes;
 their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the
 property of others.
13:17 See, I am driving the Medes against them, who put no value
 on silver and have no pleasure in gold.
13:18 In their hands are bows and spears; they are cruel,
 violently putting the young men to death, and crushing the
 young women; they have no pity for children, and no mercy for
 the fruit of the body.
13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beautiful town
 which is the pride of the Chaldaeans, will be like God's
 destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
13:20 People will never be living in it again, and it will have
 no more men from generation to generation: the Arab will not
 put up his tent there; and those who keep sheep will not make
 it a resting-place for their flocks.
13:21 But the beasts of the waste land will have their holes
 there; and the houses will be full of crying jackals, and
 ostriches will have their place there, and evil spirits will be
 dancing there.
13:22 And wolves will be answering one another in their towers,
 and jackals in their houses of pleasure: her time is near, and
 her days of power will quickly be ended.
14:1 For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make
 Israel his special people, and will put them in their land; and
 the man from a strange country will take his place among them
 and be joined to the family of Jacob.
14:2 And the people will take them with them to their place: and
 the children of Israel will give them a heritage in the Lord's
 land as men-servants and women-servants, making them prisoners
 whose prisoners they were; and they will be rulers over their
 masters.
14:3 And it will be, in the day when the Lord gives you rest
 from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard yoke
 which they had put on you,
14:4 That you will take up this bitter song against the king of
 Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He
 who was lifted up in pride is cut off;
14:5 The stick of the evil-doers, the rod of the rulers, is
 broken by the Lord;
14:6 He whose rod was on the peoples with an unending wrath,
 ruling the nations in passion, with an uncontrolled rule.
14:7 All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting
 into song.
14:8 Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of
 Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has
 come up against us with an axe.
14:9 The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the
 dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth;
 all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.
14:10 They all make answer and say to you, Have you become
 feeble like us? have you been made even as we are?
14:11 Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the
 noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you,
 and your body is covered with them.
14:12 How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of
 the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the
 dead bodies!
14:13 For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will
 make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place
 on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost
 parts of the north.
14:14 I will go higher than the clouds; I will be like the Most
 High.
14:15 But you will come down to the underworld, even to its
 inmost parts.
14:16 Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they
 will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the
 earth, the shaker of kingdoms?
14:17 Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did
 not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.
14:18 All the kings of the earth are at rest in glory, every man
 in his house,
14:19 But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out
 with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of
 the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the
 lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under
 foot.
14:20 As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in
 their resting-place, because you have been the cause of
 destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed
 of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.
14:21 Make ready a place of death for his children, because of
 the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up
 and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the
 world with waste places.
14:22 For I will come up against them, says the Lord of armies,
 cutting off from Babylon name and offspring, son and son's son,
 says the Lord.
14:23 And I will make you a heritage for the hedgehog, and pools
 of water: and I will go through it with the brush of
 destruction, says the Lord of armies.
14:24 The Lord has taken an oath, saying, My design will
 certainly come about, and my purpose will be effected:
14:25 To let the Assyrian be broken in my land, and crushed
 under foot on my mountains: there will his yoke be taken away
 from them, and his rule over them come to an end.
14:26 This is the purpose for all the earth: and this is the
 hand stretched out over all nations.
14:27 For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will
 make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom
 may it be turned back?
14:28 In the year of the death of King Ahaz this word came to
 the prophet:
14:29 Be not glad, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod
 which was on you is broken: for out of the snake's root will
 come a poison-snake, and its fruit will be a winged
 poison-snake.
14:30 And the poorest of the land will have food, and those in
 need will be given a safe resting-place: but your seed will
 come to an end for need of food, and the rest of you will be
 put to the sword.
14:31 Send out a cry, O door! Make sounds of sorrow, O town! All
 your land has come to nothing, O Philistia; for there comes a
 smoke out of the north, and everyone keeps his place in the
 line.
14:32 What answer, then, will my people give to the
 representatives of the nation? That the Lord is the builder of
 Zion, and she will be a safe place for the poor of his people.
15:1 The word about Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab has become
 waste, and is seen no longer; for in a night Kir of Moab has
 become waste, and is seen no longer.
15:2 The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places,
 weeping: Moab is sounding her cry of sorrow over Nebo, and over
 Medeba: everywhere the hair of the head and of the face is cut
 off.
15:3 In their streets they are covering themselves with
 haircloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their public
 places, there is crying and bitter weeping.
15:4 Heshbon is crying out, and Elealeh; their voice is sounding
 even to Jahaz: for this cause the heart of Moab is shaking; his
 soul is shaking with fear.
15:5 My heart is crying out for Moab; her people go in flight to
 Zoar, and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for they go up with weeping by
 the slope of Luhith; on the way to Horonaim they send up a cry
 of destruction.
15:6 The waters of Nimrim will become dry: for the grass is
 burned up, the young grass is coming to an end, every green
 thing is dead.
15:7 For this cause they will take away their wealth, and the
 stores they have got together, over the stream of the
 water-plants.
15:8 For the cry has gone round the limits of Moab; as far as to
 Eglaim and Beer-elim.
15:9 For the waters of Dimon are full of blood: and I'm sending
 even more on Moab, a lion on those of Moab who go in flight,
 and on the rest of the land.
16:1 And they will send ... to the mountain of the daughter of
 Zion.
16:2 For the daughters of Moab will be like wandering birds,
 like a place from which the young birds have gone in flight, at
 the ways across the Arnon.
16:3 Give wise directions, make a decision; let your shade be as
 night in full day: keep safe those who are in flight; do not
 give up the wandering ones.
16:4 Let those who have been forced out of Moab have a
 resting-place with you; be a cover to them from him who is
 making waste their land: till the cruel ones are cut off, and
 wasting has come to an end, and those who take pleasure in
 crushing the poor are gone from the land.
16:5 Then a king's seat will be based on mercy, and one will be
 seated on it in the tent of David for ever; judging uprightly,
 and quick to do righteousness.
16:6 We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how
 he is lifted up in pride and passion: his high words about
 himself are false.
16:7 For this cause everyone in Moab will give cries of grief
 for Moab: crushed to the earth, they will be weeping for the
 men of Kir-hareseth.
16:8 For the fields of Heshbon are waste, the vine of Sibmah is
 dead; the lords of nations were overcome by the produce of her
 vines; her vine-plants went as far as Jazer, and came even to
 the waste land; her branches were stretched out to the sea.
16:9 For this cause my sorrow for the vine of Sibmah will be
 like the weeping for Jazer: my eyes are dropping water on you,
 O Heshbon and Elealeh! For they are sounding the war-cry over
 your summer fruits and the getting in of your grain;
16:10 And all joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the
 fertile field; and in the vine-gardens there are no songs or
 sounds of joy: the crushing of grapes has come to an end, and
 its glad cry has been stopped.
16:11 For this cause the cords of my heart are sounding for
 Moab, and I am full of sorrow for Kir-heres.
16:12 And when Moab goes up to the high place, and makes prayer
 in the house of his god, it will have no effect.
16:13 This is the word which the Lord said about Moab in the
 past.
16:14 But now the Lord has said, In three years, the years of a
 servant working for payment, the glory of Moab, all that great
 people, will be turned to shame, and the rest of Moab will be
 very small and without honour.
17:1 The word about Damascus. See, they have made Damascus a
 town no longer; it has become a waste place.
17:2 Her towns are unpeopled for ever; there the flocks take
 their rest in peace, without fear.
17:3 The strong tower has gone from Ephraim, and the kingdom
 from Damascus: the rest of Aram will come to destruction, and
 be made like the glory of the children of Israel, says the Lord
 of armies.
17:4 And it will be in that day that the glory of Jacob will be
 made small, and the strength of his body will become feeble.
17:5 And it will be like a man cutting the growth of his grain,
 pulling together the heads of the grain with his arm; even as
 when they get in the grain in the valley of Rephaim.
17:6 But it will be like a man shaking an olive-tree, something
 will still be there, two or three berries on the top of the
 highest branch, four or five on the outside branches of a
 fertile tree, says the Lord, the God of Israel.
17:7 In that day a man's heart will be turned to his Maker, and
 his eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
17:8 He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his
 hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his
 fingers have made.
17:9 In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the
 Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for
 a heritage, and they will come to destruction.
17:10 For you have not given honour to the God of your
 salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength;
 for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the
 vine-cuttings of a strange god;
17:11 In the day of your planting you were watching its growth,
 and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is
 wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.
17:12 Ah! the voice of peoples, like the loud sounding of the
 seas, and the thundering of great nations rushing on like the
 bursting out of waters!
17:13 But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight
 far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops
 of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust
 before the storm.
17:14 In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are
 gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the
 reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.
18:1 Ho! land of the sounding of wings, on the other side of the
 rivers of Ethiopia:
18:2 Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships
 of papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives,
 to a nation tall and smooth, to a people causing fear through
 all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters,
 whose land is cut through by rivers.
18:3 All you peoples of the world, and you who are living on the
 earth, when a flag is lifted up on the mountains, give
 attention; and when the horn is sounded, give ear.
18:4 For this is what the Lord has said to me: I will be quiet,
 watching from my place; like the clear heat when the sun is
 shining, like a mist of dew in the heat of summer.
18:5 For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the
 opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready
 for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives,
 cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.
18:6 They will be for the birds of the mountains, and for the
 beasts of the earth: the birds will come down on them in the
 summer, and the beasts of the earth in the winter.
18:7 In that time an offering will be made to the Lord of armies
 from a people tall and smooth, causing fear through all their
 history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land
 is cut through by rivers, an offering taken to the place of the
 name of the Lord of armies, even Mount Zion.
19:1 The word about Egypt. See, the Lord is seated on a
 quick-moving cloud, and is coming to Egypt: and the false gods
 of Egypt will be troubled at his coming, and the heart of Egypt
 will be turned to water.
19:2 And I will send the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and
 they will be fighting every one against his brother, and every
 one against his neighbour; town against town, and kingdom
 against kingdom.
19:3 And the spirit of Egypt will be troubled in her, and I will
 make her decisions without effect: and they will be turning to
 the false gods, and to those who make hollow sounds, and to
 those who have control of spirits, and to those who are wise in
 secret arts.
19:4 And I will give the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel
 lord; and a hard king will be their ruler, says the Lord, the
 Lord of armies.
19:5 And the waters of the sea will be cut off, and the river
 will become dry and waste:
19:6 And the rivers will have an evil smell; the stream of Egypt
 will become small and dry: all the water-plants will come to
 nothing.
19:7 The grass-lands by the Nile, and everything planted by the
 Nile, will become dry, or taken away by the wind, and will come
 to an end.
19:8 The fishermen will be sad, and all those who put
 fishing-lines into the Nile will be full of grief, and those
 whose nets are stretched out on the waters will have sorrow in
 their hearts.
19:9 And all the workers in linen thread, and those who make
 cotton cloth, will be put to shame.
19:10 And the makers of twisted thread will be crushed, and
 those who ... will be sad in heart.
19:11 The chiefs of Zoan are completely foolish; the wisest
 guides of Pharaoh have become like beasts: how do you say to
 Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the offspring of early
 kings?
19:12 Where, then, are your wise men? let them make clear to
 you, let them give you knowledge of the purpose of the Lord of
 armies for Egypt.
19:13 The chiefs of Zoan have become foolish, the chiefs of Noph
 are tricked, the heads of her tribes are the cause of Egypt's
 wandering out of the way.
19:14 The Lord has sent among them a spirit of error: and by
 them Egypt is turned out of the right way in all her doings, as
 a man overcome by wine is uncertain in his steps.
19:15 And in Egypt there will be no work for any man, head or
 tail, high or low, to do.
19:16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women: and the land
 will be shaking with fear because of the waving of the Lord's
 hand stretched out over it.
19:17 And the land of Judah will become a cause of great fear to
 Egypt; whenever its name comes to mind, Egypt will be in fear
 before the Lord of armies because of his purpose against it.
19:18 In that day there will be five towns in the land of Egypt
 using the language of Canaan, and making oaths to the Lord of
 armies; and one of them will be named, The Town of the Sun.
19:19 In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the
 middle of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord at the
 edge of the land.
19:20 And it will be a sign and a witness to the Lord of armies
 in the land of Egypt: when they are crying out to the Lord
 because of their cruel masters, then he will send them a
 saviour and a strong one to make them free.
19:21 And the Lord will give the knowledge of himself to Egypt,
 and the Egyptians will give honour to the Lord in that day;
 they will give him worship with offerings and meal offerings,
 and will take an oath to the Lord and give effect to it.
19:22 And the Lord will send punishment on Egypt, and will make
 them well again; and when they come back to the Lord he will
 give ear to their prayer and take away their disease.
19:23 In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to
 Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt will come
 into Assyria; and the Egyptians will give worship to the Lord
 together with the Assyrians.
19:24 In that day Israel will be the third together with Egypt
 and Assyria, a blessing in the earth:
19:25 Because of the blessing of the Lord of armies which he has
 given them, saying, A blessing on Egypt my people, and on
 Assyria the work of my hands, and on Israel my heritage.
20:1 In the year when the Tartan came to Ashdod, sent by Sargon,
 king of Assyria, and made war against it and took it;
20:2 At that time the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, the son
 of Amoz, saying, Go, and take off your robe, and your shoes
 from your feet; and he did so, walking unclothed and without
 shoes on his feet.
20:3 And the Lord said, As my servant Isaiah has gone unclothed
 and without shoes for three years as a sign and a wonder to
 Egypt and Ethiopia,
20:4 So will the king of Assyria take away the prisoners of
 Egypt and those forced out of Ethiopia, young and old,
 unclothed and without shoes, and with backs uncovered, to the
 shame of Egypt.
20:5 And they will be full of fear, and will no longer have
 faith in Ethiopia which was their hope, or in Egypt which was
 their glory.
20:6 And those living by the sea will say in that day, See the
 fate of our hope to whom we went for help and salvation from
 the king of Assyria: what hope have we then of salvation?
21:1 The word about the waste land. As storm-winds in the South
 go rushing through, it comes from the waste land, from the land
 greatly to be feared.
21:2 A vision of fear comes before my eyes; the worker of deceit
 goes on in his false way, and the waster goes on making waste.
 Up! Elam; to the attack! Media; I have put an end to her
 sorrow.
21:3 For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the
 pains of a woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down
 with sorrow at what comes to my ears; I am shocked by what I
 see.
21:4 My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of
 my desire has been turned into shaking for me.
21:5 They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they
 take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your
 breastplates.
21:6 For so has the Lord said to me, Go, let a watchman be
 placed; let him give word of what he sees:
21:7 And when he sees war-carriages, horsemen by twos,
 war-carriages with asses, war-carriages with camels, let him
 give special attention.
21:8 And the watchman gave a loud cry, O my lord, I am on the
 watchtower all day, and am placed in my watch every night:
21:9 See, here come war-carriages with men, horsemen by twos:
 and in answer he said, Babylon is made low, is made low, and
 all her images are broken on the earth.
21:10 O my crushed ones, the grain of my floor! I have given you
 the word which came to me from the Lord of armies, the God of
 Israel.
21:11 The word about Edom. A voice comes to me from Seir,
 Watchman, how far gone is the night? how far gone is the night?
21:12 The watchman says, The morning has come, but night is
 still to come: if you have questions to put, put them, and come
 back again.
21:13 The word about Arabia. In the thick woods of Arabia will
 be your night's resting-place, O travelling bands of Dedanites!
21:14 Give water to him who is in need of water; give bread, O
 men of the land of Tema, to those in flight.
21:15 For they are in flight from the sharp sword, and the bent
 bow, and from the trouble of war.
21:16 For so has the Lord said to me, In a year, by the years of
 a servant working for payment, all the glory of Kedar will come
 to an end:
21:17 And the rest of the bowmen, the men of war of the children
 of Kedar, will be small in number: for the Lord, the God of
 Israel, has said it.
22:1 The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your
 people gone up to the house-tops?
22:2 You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given
 up to joy; your dead men have not been put to the sword, or
 come to their death in war.
22:3 All your rulers ... have gone in flight; all your strong
 ones have gone far away.
22:4 For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away
 from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the
 wasting of the daughter of my people.
22:5 For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of
 destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the valley of
 vision; ...
22:6 And Elam was armed with arrows, and Aram came on horseback;
 and the breastplate of Kir was uncovered.
22:7 And your most fertile valleys were full of war-carriages,
 and the horsemen took up their positions in front of the town.
22:8 He took away the cover of Judah; and in that day you were
 looking with care at the store of arms in the house of the
 woods.
22:9 And you saw all the broken places in the wall of the town
 of David: and you got together the waters of the lower pool.
22:10 And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down
 the houses to make the wall stronger.
22:11 And you made a place between the two walls for storing the
 waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had
 done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been
 purposed long before.
22:12 And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking
 for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and
 putting on the clothing of grief:
22:13 But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and
 sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and
 drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for
 tomorrow death comes.
22:14 And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this
 sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord,
 the Lord of armies.
22:15 The Lord, the Lord of armies, says, Go to this person in
 authority, this Shebna, who is over the house; who has made
 himself a resting-place on high, cutting out a place for
 himself in the rock, and say,
22:16 Who are you, and by what right have you made for yourself
 a resting-place here?
22:17 See, O strong man, the Lord will send you violently away,
 gripping you with force,
22:18 Twisting you round and round like a ball he will send you
 out into a wide country: there you will come to your end, and
 there will be the carriages of your pride, O shame of your
 lord's house!
22:19 And I will have you forced out of your place of authority,
 and pulled down from your position.
22:20 And in that day I will send for my servant, Eliakim, the
 son of Hilkiah:
22:21 And I will put your robe on him, and put your band about
 him, and I will give your authority into his hand: and he will
 be a father to the men of Jerusalem, and to the family of
 Judah.
22:22 And I will give the key of the family of David into his
 care; and what he keeps open will be shut by no one, and what
 he keeps shut no one will make open.
22:23 And I will put him like a nail in a safe place; and he
 will be for a seat of glory to his father's family.
22:24 And all the glory of his father's family will be hanging
 on him, all their offspring, every small vessel, even the cups
 and the basins.
22:25 In that day, says the Lord of armies, will the nail fixed
 in a safe place give way; and it will be cut down, and in its
 fall the weight hanging on it will be cut off, for the Lord has
 said it.
23:1 The word about Tyre. Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of
 Tarshish, because your strong place is made waste; on the way
 back from the land of Kittim the news is given to them.
23:2 Send out a cry of grief, you men of the sea-land, traders
 of Zidon, who go over the sea, whose representatives are on
 great waters;
23:3 Who get in the seed of Shihor, whose wealth is the trade of
 the nations.
23:4 Be shamed, O Zidon: for the sea, the strong place of the
 sea has said, I have not been with child, or given birth; I
 have not taken care of young men, or kept watch over the growth
 of virgins.
23:5 When the news comes to Egypt they will be bitterly pained
 at the fate of Tyre.
23:6 Go over to Tarshish; give cries of sorrow, O men of the
 sea-land.
23:7 Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes
 back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off
 countries?
23:8 By whom was this purposed against Tyre, the crowning town,
 whose traders are chiefs, whose business men are honoured in
 the land?
23:9 It was the purpose of the Lord of armies to put pride to
 shame, to make sport of the glory of those who are honoured in
 the earth.
23:10 Let your land be worked with the plough, O daughter of
 Tarshish; there is no longer any harbour.
23:11 His hand is stretched out over the sea, the kingdoms are
 shaking: the Lord has given orders about Canaan, to make waste
 its strong places.
23:12 And he said, There is no more joy for you, O crushed
 virgin daughter of Zidon: up! go over to Kittim; even there you
 will have no rest.
23:13 ...
23:14 Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish: because
 your strong place is made waste.
23:15 And it will be in that day that Tyre will go out of mind
 for seventy years, that is, the days of one king: after the end
 of seventy years it will be for Tyre as in the song of the
 loose woman.
23:16 Take an instrument of music, go about the town, O loose
 woman who has gone out from the memory of man; make sweet
 melody with songs, so that you may come back to men's minds.
23:17 And it will be after the end of seventy years, that the
 Lord will have mercy on Tyre, and she will go back to her
 trade, acting as a loose woman with all the kingdoms of the
 world on the face of the earth.
23:18 And her goods and her trade will be holy to the Lord: they
 will not be kept back or stored up; for her produce will be for
 those living in the Lord's land, to give them food for their
 needs, and fair clothing.
24:1 See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he
 is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all
 directions.
24:2 And it will be the same for the people as for the priest;
 for the servant as for his master; and for the woman-servant as
 for her owner; the same for the one offering goods for a price
 as for him who takes them; the same for him who gives money at
 interest and for him who takes it; the same for him who lets
 others have the use of his property as for those who make use
 of it.
24:3 The earth will be completely waste and without men; for
 this is the word of the Lord.
24:4 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full
 of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to
 nothing.
24:5 The earth has been made unclean by those living in it;
 because the laws have not been kept by them, the orders have
 been changed, and the eternal agreement has been broken.
24:6 For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and
 those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living
 on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number.
24:7 The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the
 glad-hearted make sounds of grief.
24:8 The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to
 an end, and the voices of those who are glad.
24:9 There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink
 will be bitter to those who take it.
24:10 The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up,
 so that no man may come in.
24:11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine;
 there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone.
24:12 In the town all is waste, and in the public place is
 destruction.
24:13 For it will be in the heart of the earth among the
 peoples, like the shaking of an olive-tree, as the last of the
 grapes after the getting-in is done.
24:14 But those will be making sounds of joy; they will be
 crying loudly from the sea for the glory of the Lord.
24:15 Give praise to the Lord in the east, to the name of the
 Lord, the God of Israel, in the sea-lands.
24:16 From the farthest part of the earth comes the sound of
 songs, glory to the upright. But I said, I am wasting away,
 wasting away, the curse is on me! The false ones go on in their
 false way, yes, they go on acting falsely.
24:17 Fear, and death, and the net, are come on you, O people of
 the earth.
24:18 And it will be that he who goes in flight from the sound
 of fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from
 death will be taken in the net: for the windows on high are
 open, and the bases of the earth are shaking.
24:19 The earth is completely broken, it is parted in two, it is
 violently moved.
24:20 The earth will be moving uncertainly, like a man overcome
 by drink; it will be shaking like a tent; and the weight of its
 sin will be on it, crushing it down so that it will not get up
 again.
24:21 And in that day the Lord will send punishment on the army
 of the high ones on high, and on the kings of the earth on the
 earth.
24:22 And they will be got together, like prisoners in the
 prison-house; and after a long time they will have their
 punishment.
24:23 Then the moon will be veiled, and the sun put to shame;
 for the Lord of armies will be ruling in Mount Zion and in
 Jerusalem, and before his judges he will let his glory be seen.
25:1 O Lord, you are my God; I will give praise to you, I will
 give honour to your name; for you have done great acts of
 power; your purposes in the past have been made true and
 certain in effect.
25:2 For you have made a town a waste place: a strong town a
 mass of broken walls; the tower of the men of pride has come to
 an end; it will never be put up again.
25:3 For this cause will the strong people give glory to you,
 the town of the cruel ones will be in fear of you.
25:4 For you have been a strong place for the poor and the
 crushed in their trouble, a safe place from the storm, a shade
 from the heat, when the wrath of the cruel ones is like a
 winter storm.
25:5 As heat by the shade of a cloud, the noise of the men of
 pride has been made quiet by you; as heat by the shade of a
 cloud, the song of the cruel ones has been stopped.
25:6 And in this mountain will the Lord of armies make for all
 peoples a feast of good things, a feast of wines long stored,
 of good things sweet to the taste, of wines long kept and
 tested.
25:7 And in this mountain he will put an end to the shade
 covering the face of all peoples, and the veil which is
 stretched over all nations.
25:8 He has put an end to death for ever; and the Lord God will
 take away all weeping; and he will put an end to the shame of
 his people in all the earth: for the Lord has said it.
25:9 And in that day it will be said, See, this is our God; we
 have been waiting for him, and he will be our saviour: this is
 the Lord in whom is our hope; we will be glad and have delight
 in his salvation.
25:10 For in this mountain will the hand of the Lord come to
 rest, and Moab will be crushed down in his place, even as the
 dry stems of the grain are crushed under foot in the waste
 place.
25:11 And if he puts out his hands, like a man stretching out
 his hands in swimming, the Lord will make low his pride,
 however expert his designs.
25:12 And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him,
 made low, and crushed even to the dust.
26:1 In that day will this song be made in the land of Judah: We
 have a strong town; he will make salvation our walls and
 towers.
26:2 Let the doors be open, so that the upright nation which
 keeps faith may come in.
26:3 The man whose heart is unmoved you will keep in peace,
 because his hope is in you.
26:4 Let your hope be in the Lord for ever: for the Lord Jah is
 an unchanging Rock.
26:5 For he has made low those who are lifted up, all the people
 of the town of pride: he makes it low, crushing it down to the
 earth; he makes it low in the dust.
26:6 It will be crushed under the feet of the poor and the steps
 of those who are in need.
26:7 The way of the good man is straight; the road of the
 upright is made smooth by you.
26:8 We have been waiting for you, O Lord; the desire of our
 soul is for the memory of your name.
26:9 In the night the desire of my soul has been for you; early
 will my spirit be searching for you; for when your punishments
 come on the earth, the people of the world will get the
 knowledge of righteousness.
26:10 Even if you are kind to the evil-doer, he will not go
 after righteousness; even in the land of the upright he will
 still go on in his wrongdoing, and will not see the glory of
 the Lord.
26:11 Lord, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see: let
 them see ... yes, your haters will be burned up in the fire.
26:12 Lord, you will give us peace: for all our works are the
 outcome of your purpose.
26:13 O Lord, our God, other lords than you have had rule over
 us; but in you only is our salvation, and no other name will we
 take on our lips.
26:14 The dead will not come back to life: their spirits will
 not come back to earth; for this cause you have sent
 destruction on them, so that the memory of them is dead.
26:15 You have made the nation great, O Lord, you have made it
 great; glory is yours: you have made wide the limits of the
 land.
26:16 Lord, in trouble our eyes have been turned to you, we sent
 up a prayer when your punishment was on us.
26:17 As a woman with child, whose time is near, is troubled,
 crying out in her pain; so have we been before you, O Lord.
26:18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have
 given birth to wind; no salvation has come to the earth through
 us, and no children have come into the world.
26:19 Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to
 life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will
 send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth
 will give birth to the shades.
26:20 Come, my people, into your secret places, and let your
 doors be shut: keep yourself safe for a short time, till his
 wrath is over.
26:21 For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment
 on the people of the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will
 let the blood drained out on her be seen, and will keep her
 dead covered no longer.
27:1 In that day the Lord, with his great and strong and cruel
 sword, will send punishment on Leviathan, the quick-moving
 snake, and on Leviathan, the twisted snake; and he will put to
 death the dragon which is in the sea.
27:2 In that day it will be said, A vine-garden of delight, make
 a song about it.
27:3 I, the Lord, am watching it; I will give it water at all
 times: I will keep it night and day, for fear that any damage
 comes to it.
27:4 My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me,
 I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up
 together.
27:5 Or let him put himself under my power, and make peace with
 me.
27:6 In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out
 buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of
 fruit.
27:7 Is his punishment like the punishment of those who overcame
 him? or are his dead as great in number as those he put to the
 sword?
27:8 Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her
 away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of
 his east wind.
27:9 So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is
 all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the
 stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood
 pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.
27:10 For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled
 living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young
 ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.
27:11 When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the
 women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish
 people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on
 them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.
27:12 And it will be in that day that the Lord will get together
 his grain, from the River to the stream of Egypt, and you will
 be got together with care, O children of Israel.
27:13 And it will be in that day that a great horn will be
 sounded; and those who were wandering in the land of Assyria,
 and those who had been sent away into the land of Egypt, will
 come; and they will give worship to the Lord in the holy
 mountain at Jerusalem.
28:1 Ho! crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in
 Ephraim, and the dead flower of his glory which is on the head
 of those who are overcome by strong drink!
28:2 See, the Lord has a strong and cruel one; like a rain of
 ice, a storm of destruction, like the overflowing of a strong
 river, he will violently overcome them.
28:3 The crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in
 Ephraim will be crushed under foot;
28:4 And the dead flower of his glory, which is on the head of
 the fertile valley, will be like the first early fruit before
 the summer; which a man takes and puts in his mouth the minute
 he sees it.
28:5 In that day will the Lord of armies be a crown of glory,
 and a fair ornament, to the rest of his people;
28:6 And a spirit of wisdom to the judge, and strength to those
 who keep back the attackers at the door of the town.
28:7 And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have
 gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and
 the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are
 overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong
 drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.
28:8 For all the tables are covered with coughed-up food, so
 that there is not a clean place.
28:9 To whom will he give knowledge? and to whom will he make
 clear the word? Will it be to those who have newly given up
 milk, and who have only now been taken from the breast?
28:10 For it is one rule after another; one line after another;
 here a little, there a little.
28:11 No, but with broken talk, and with a strange tongue, he
 will give his word to this people:
28:12 To whom he said, This is the rest, give rest to him who is
 tired; and by this you may get new strength; but they would not
 give ear.
28:13 For this cause the word of the Lord will be to them rule
 after rule, line after line, here a little, there a little; so
 that they may go on their way, and falling back may be broken,
 and taken in the net.
28:14 Give ear then to the word of the Lord, you men of pride,
 the rulers of this people in Jerusalem:
28:15 Because you have said, We have made death our friend, and
 with the underworld we have made an agreement; when the
 overflowing waters come through they will not come near us; for
 we are looking to false words for help, taking cover in what is
 untrue:
28:16 For this cause says the Lord God, See, I am placing in
 Zion as a base, a stone, a tested stone, an angle-stone which
 is certain and of great value: and he who has faith will not
 give way.
28:17 And I will make right decision the measuring-line, and
 righteousness the weight: and the ice-storm will take away the
 safe place of false words, and the secret place will be covered
 by the flowing waters.
28:18 And the help you were looking for from death will come to
 nothing, and your agreement with the underworld will be broken;
 when the overflowing waters come through, then you will be
 overcome by them.
28:19 Whenever they come through they will overtake you; for
 they will come through morning after morning, by day and by
 night: and the news will be nothing but fear.
28:20 For the bed is not long enough for a man to be stretched
 out on: and the cover is not wide enough for him to be covered
 with.
28:21 For the Lord will come up as on Mount Perazim, he will be
 moved to wrath as in the valley of Gibeon; so that he may do
 his work--strange is his work; and give effect to his
 act--unnatural is his act.
28:22 And now, take care that you do not make sport of him, or
 your bands will be made strong; for I have had word from the
 Lord, the Lord of armies, of an end, of a complete end, which
 is to come on all the land.
28:23 Let your ears be open to my voice; give attention to what
 I say.
28:24 Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the
 earth ready and broken up for the seed?
28:25 When the face of the earth has been levelled, does he not
 put in the different sorts of seed, and the grain in lines, and
 the barley in its place, and the spelt at the edge?
28:26 For his God is his teacher, giving him the knowledge of
 these things.
28:27 For the fitches are not crushed with a sharp instrument,
 and a cart-wheel is not rolled over the cummin; but the grain
 of the fitches is hammered out with a stick, and of the cummin
 with a rod.
28:28 Is the grain for bread crushed? He does not go on crushing
 it for ever, but he lets his cart-wheels and his horses go over
 it without crushing it.
28:29 This comes from the Lord of armies, purposing wonders, and
 wise in all his acts.
29:1 Ho! Ariel, Ariel, the town against which David made war;
 put year to year, let the feasts come round:
29:2 And I will send trouble on Ariel, and there will be weeping
 and cries of grief; and she will be to me as Ariel.
29:3 And I will make war on you like David, and you will be shut
 in by earthworks, and I will make towers round you.
29:4 And you will be made low, and your voice will come out of
 the earth, and your words will be low out of the dust; and your
 voice will come out of the earth like that of a spirit, making
 bird-like noises out of the dust.
29:5 And the army of your attackers will be like small dust, and
 all the cruel ones like dry stems gone before the wind;
 suddenly it will come about.
29:6 The Lord of armies will come in with thunder and
 earth-shaking and great noise, with rushing wind and storm, and
 the flame of burning fire.
29:7 And all the nations making war on Ariel, and all those who
 are fighting against her and shutting her in with their towers,
 will be like a dream, like a vision of the night.
29:8 And it will be like a man desiring food, and dreaming that
 he is feasting; but when he is awake there is nothing in his
 mouth: or like a man in need of water, dreaming that he is
 drinking; but when he is awake he is feeble and his soul is
 full of desire: so will all the nations be which make war on
 Mount Zion.
29:9 Be surprised and full of wonder; let your eyes be covered
 and be blind: be overcome, but not with wine; go with uncertain
 steps, but not because of strong drink.
29:10 For the Lord has sent on you a spirit of deep sleep; and
 by him your eyes, the prophets, are shut, and your heads, the
 seers, are covered.
29:11 And the vision of all this has become to you like the
 words of a book which is shut, which men give to one who has
 knowledge of writing, saying, Make clear to us what is in the
 book: and he says, I am not able to, for the book is shut:
29:12 And they give it to one without learning, saying, Make
 clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I have no
 knowledge of writing.
29:13 And the Lord said, because this people come near to me
 with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but
 their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a
 rule given them by the teaching of men;
29:14 For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this
 people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise
 men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no
 longer be seen.
29:15 Cursed are those who go deep to keep their designs secret
 from the Lord, and whose works are in the dark, and who say,
 Who sees us? and who has knowledge of our acts?
29:16 You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the
 same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made
 say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say
 of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?
29:17 In a very short time Lebanon will become a fertile field,
 and the fertile field will seem like a wood.
29:18 And in that day those whose ears are stopped will be
 hearing the words of the book; and the eyes of the blind will
 see through the mist and the dark.
29:19 And the poor will have their joy in the Lord increased,
 and those in need will be glad in the Holy One of Israel.
29:20 For the cruel one has come to nothing; and those who make
 sport of the Lord are gone; and those who are watching to do
 evil are cut off:
29:21 Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net
 for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place,
 taking away a man's right without cause.
29:22 For this reason the Lord, the saviour of Abraham, says
 about the family of Jacob, Jacob will not now be put to shame,
 or his face be clouded with fear.
29:23 But when they, the children of Jacob, see the work of my
 hands among them, they will give honour to my name; yes, they
 will give honour to the Holy One of Jacob, and go in fear of
 the God of Israel.
29:24 Those whose hearts were turned away from him will get
 knowledge, and those who made an outcry against him will give
 attention to his teaching.
30:1 Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect
 to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but
 not by my spirit, increasing their sin:
30:2 Who make a move to go down into Egypt, without authority
 from me; who are looking to the strength of Pharaoh for help,
 and whose hope is in the shade of Egypt.
30:3 And the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and your
 hope in the shade of Egypt will come to nothing.
30:4 For his chiefs are at Zoan, and his representatives have
 come to Hanes.
30:5 For they have all come with offerings to a people of no use
 to them, in whom is no help or profit, but only shame and a bad
 name.
30:6 The word about the Beasts of the South. Through the land of
 trouble and grief, the land of the she-lion and the voice of
 the lion, of the snake and the burning winged snake, they take
 their wealth on the backs of young asses, and their stores on
 camels, to a people in whom is no profit.
30:7 For there is no use or purpose in the help of Egypt: so I
 have said about her, She is Rahab, who has come to an end.
30:8 Now go, put it in writing before them on a board, and make
 a record of it in a book, so that it may be for the future, a
 witness for all time to come.
30:9 For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who
 will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord:
30:10 Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not
 give us word of what is true, but say false things to give us
 pleasure:
30:11 Get out of the good way, turning from the right road; do
 not keep the Holy One of Israel before our minds.
30:12 For this cause the Holy One of Israel says, Because you
 will not give ear to this word, and are looking for help in
 ways of deceit and evil, and are putting your hope in them:
30:13 This sin will be to you like a crack in a high wall,
 causing its fall suddenly and in a minute.
30:14 And he will let it be broken as a potter's vessel is
 broken: it will be smashed to bits without mercy; so that there
 will not be a bit in which one may take fire from the
 fireplace, or water from the spring.
30:15 For the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, said, In quiet and
 rest is your salvation: peace and hope are your strength: but
 you would not have it so.
30:16 Saying, No, for we will go in flight on horses; so you
 will certainly go in flight: and, We will go on the backs of
 quick-running beasts; so those who go after you will be
 quick-footed.
30:17 A thousand will go in fear before one; even before five
 you will go in flight: till you are like a pillar by itself on
 the top of a mountain, and like a flag on a hill.
30:18 For this cause the Lord will be waiting, so that he may be
 kind to you; and he will be lifted up, so that he may have
 mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of righteousness: there is
 a blessing on all whose hope is in him.
30:19 O people, living in Zion, at Jerusalem, your weeping will
 be ended; he will certainly have mercy on you at the sound of
 your cry; when it comes to his ear, he will give you an answer.
30:20 And though the Lord will give you the bread of trouble and
 the water of grief, you will no longer put your teacher on one
 side, but you will see your teacher:
30:21 And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand
 or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying,
 This is the way in which you are to go.
30:22 And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured
 images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you
 will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!
30:23 And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put
 it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of
 the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that
 day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.
30:24 And the oxen and the young asses which are used for
 ploughing, will have salted grain which has been made free from
 the waste with fork and basket.
30:25 And there will be rivers and streams of water on every
 tall mountain and on every high hill, in the day when great
 numbers are put to the sword, when the towers come down.
30:26 And the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun,
 and the light of the sun will be seven times greater, as the
 light of seven days, in the day when the Lord puts oil on the
 wounds of his people, and makes them well from the blows they
 have undergone.
30:27 See, the name of the Lord is coming from far, burning with
 his wrath, with thick smoke going up: his lips are full of
 passion, and his tongue is like a burning fire:
30:28 And his breath is as an overflowing stream, coming up even
 to the neck, shaking the nations for their destruction, like
 the shaking of grain in a basket: and he will put a cord in the
 mouths of the people, turning them out of their way.
30:29 You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is
 kept; and you will be glad in heart, as when they go with music
 of the pipe to the mountain of the Lord, the Rock of Israel.
30:30 And the Lord will send out the sound of his great voice,
 and they will see his arm stretched out, with the heat of his
 wrath, and the flame of a burning fire; with a cloud-burst, and
 storm, and a rain of ice.
30:31 For through the voice of the Lord the Assyrian will be
 broken, and the Lord's rod will be lifted up against him.
30:32 And every blow of the rod of his punishment, which the
 Lord will send on him, will be with the sound of music: and
 with the waving of his sword the Lord will make war against
 him.
30:33 For a place of fire has long been ready; yes, it has been
 made ready for the king; he has made it deep and wide: it is
 massed with fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a
 stream of fire, puts a light to it.
31:1 Cursed are those who go down to Egypt for help, and who put
 their faith in horses; looking to war-carriages for salvation,
 because of their numbers; and to horsemen, because they are
 very strong; but they are not looking to the Holy One of
 Israel, or turning their hearts to the Lord;
31:2 Though he is wise, and able to send evil, and his purpose
 will not be changed; but he will go against the house of the
 evil-doers, and against those to whom they are looking for
 help.
31:3 For the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses
 are flesh, and not spirit: and when the Lord's hand is
 stretched out, the helper and he who is helped will come down
 together.
31:4 For the Lord has said to me, As a lion, or a young lion,
 makes an angry noise over his food, and if a band of herdsmen
 come out against him, he will not be in fear of their voices,
 or give up his food for their noise: so the Lord of armies will
 come down to make war against Mount Zion and its hill.
31:5 Like birds with outstretched wings, so will the Lord of
 armies be a cover to Jerusalem; he will be a cover and
 salvation for it, going over it he will keep it from danger.
31:6 Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by
 the children of Israel.
31:7 For in that day they will all give up their images of
 silver and of gold, the sin which they made for themselves.
31:8 Then the Assyrian will come down by the sword, but not of
 man; the sword, not of men, will be the cause of his
 destruction: and he will go in flight from the sword, and his
 young men will be put to forced work.
31:9 And his rock will come to nothing because of fear, and his
 chiefs will go in flight from the flag, says the Lord, whose
 fire is in Zion, and his altar in Jerusalem.
32:1 See, a king will be ruling in righteousness, and chiefs
 will give right decisions.
32:2 And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a
 cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the
 shade of a great rock in a waste land.
32:3 And the eyes of those who see will not be shut, and those
 who have hearing will give ear to the word.
32:4 The man of sudden impulses will become wise in heart, and
 he whose tongue is slow will get the power of talking clearly.
32:5 The foolish man will no longer be named noble, and they
 will not say of the false man that he is a man of honour.
32:6 For the foolish man will say foolish things, having evil
 thoughts in his heart, working what is unclean, and talking
 falsely about the Lord, to keep food from him who is in need of
 it, and water from him whose soul is desiring it.
32:7 The designs of the false are evil, purposing the
 destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in
 the right.
32:8 But the noble-hearted man has noble purposes, and by these
 he will be guided.
32:9 Give ear to my voice, you women who are living in comfort;
 give attention to my words, you daughters who have no fear of
 danger.
32:10 In not much more than a year, you, who are not looking for
 evil, will be troubled: for the produce of the vine-gardens
 will be cut off, and there will be no getting in of the grapes.
32:11 Be shaking with fear, you women who are living in comfort;
 be troubled, you who have no fear of danger: take off your
 robes and put on clothing of grief.
32:12 Have sorrow for the fields, the pleasing fields, the
 fertile vine;
32:13 And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up;
 even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.
32:14 For the fair houses will have no man living in them; the
 town which was full of noise will become a waste; the hill and
 the watchtower will be unpeopled for ever, a joy for the asses
 of the woods, a place of food for the flocks;
32:15 Till the spirit comes on us from on high, and the waste
 land becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field is changed
 into a wood.
32:16 Then in the waste land there will be an upright rule, and
 righteousness will have its place in the fertile field.
32:17 And the work of righteousness will be peace; and the
 effect of an upright rule will be to take away fear for ever.
32:18 And my people will be living in peace, in houses where
 there is no fear, and in quiet resting-places.
32:19 But the tall trees will come down with a great fall, and
 the town will be low in a low place.
32:20 Happy are you who are planting seed by all the waters, and
 sending out the ox and the ass.
33:1 Ho! you who make waste those who did not make you waste;
 acting falsely to those who were not false to you. When you
 have come to an end of wasting, you will be made waste, and
 after your false acts, they will do the same to you.
33:2 O Lord, have mercy on us; for we have been waiting for your
 help: be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of
 trouble.
33:3 At the loud noise the peoples have gone in flight; at your
 coming up the nations have gone in all directions.
33:4 And the goods taken in war will be got together like the
 massing of young locusts; men will be rushing on them like the
 rushing of locusts.
33:5 The Lord is lifted up; his place is on high: he has made
 Zion full of righteousness and true religion.
33:6 And she will have no more fear of change, being full of
 salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of the Lord is her
 wealth.
33:7 See, the men of war are sorrowing outside the town: those
 who came looking for peace are weeping bitterly.
33:8 The highways are waste, no man is journeying there: the
 agreement is broken, he has made sport of the towns, he has no
 thought for man.
33:9 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away; Lebanon is put to
 shame and has become waste; Sharon is like the Arabah; and in
 Bashan and Carmel the leaves are falling.
33:10 Now will I come forward, says the Lord; now will I be
 lifted up; now will my power be seen.
33:11 Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will
 be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.
33:12 And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as
 thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.
33:13 Give ear, you who are far off, to what I have done: see my
 power, you who are near.
33:14 The sinners in Zion are full of fear; the haters of God
 are shaking with wonder. Who among us may keep his place before
 the burning fire? who among us may see the eternal burnings?
33:15 He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he
 who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands
 have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to
 death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;
33:16 He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by
 the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will
 be certain.
33:17 Your eyes will see the king in his glory: they will be
 looking on a far-stretching land.
33:18 Your heart will give thought to the cause of your fear:
 where is the scribe, where is he who made a record of the
 payments, where is he by whom the towers were numbered?
33:19 Never again will you see the cruel people, a people whose
 tongue has no sense for you; whose language is strange to you.
33:20 Let your eyes be resting on Zion, the town of our holy
 feasts: you will see Jerusalem, a quiet resting-place, a tent
 which will not be moved, whose tent-pins will never be pulled
 up, and whose cords will never be broken.
33:21 But there the Lord will be with us in his glory, ... wide
 rivers and streams; where no boat will go with blades, and no
 fair ship will be sailing.
33:22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our law-giver, the
 Lord is our king; he will be our saviour.
33:23 Your cords have become loose; they were not able to make
 strong the support of their sails, the sail was not stretched
 out: then the blind will take much property, the feeble-footed
 will make division of the goods of war.
33:24 And the men of Zion will not say, I am ill: for its people
 will have forgiveness for their sin.
34:1 Come near, you nations, and give ear; take note, you
 peoples: let the earth and everything in it give ear; the world
 and all those living in it.
34:2 For the Lord is angry with all the nations, and his wrath
 is burning against all their armies: he has put them to the
 curse, he has given them to destruction.
34:3 Their dead bodies will be thick on the face of the earth,
 and their smell will come up, and the mountains will be flowing
 with their blood, and all the hills will come to nothing.
34:4 And the heavens will be rolled together like the roll of a
 book: and all their army will be gone, like a dead leaf from
 the vine, or a dry fruit from the fig-tree.
34:5 For my sword in heaven is full of wrath: see, it is coming
 down on Edom, in punishment on the people of my curse.
34:6 The sword of the Lord is full of blood, it is fat with the
 best of the meat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the
 best parts of the sheep: for the Lord has a feast in Bozrah,
 and much cattle will be put to death in the land of Edom.
34:7 And the strong oxen will go down to death together with the
 smaller cattle.
34:8 For it is the day of the Lord's punishment, when he gives
 payment for the wrongs done to Zion.
34:9 And its streams will be turned into boiling oil, and its
 dust into burning stone, and all the land will be on fire.
34:10 It will not be put out day or night; its smoke will go up
 for ever: it will be waste from generation to generation; no
 one will go through it for ever.
34:11 But the birds of the waste land will have their place
 there; it will be a heritage for the bittern and the raven: and
 it will be measured out with line and weight as a waste land.
34:12 The jackals will be there, and her great ones will be
 gone; they will say, There is no longer a kingdom there, and
 all her chiefs will have come to an end.
34:13 And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste
 plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes
 there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches.
34:14 And the beasts of the waste places will come together with
 the jackals, and the evil spirits will be crying to one
 another, even the night-spirit will come and make her
 resting-place there.
34:15 The arrowsnake will make her hole and put her eggs there,
 and get her young together under her shade: there the hawks
 will come together by twos.
34:16 See what is recorded in the book of the Lord: all these
 will be there, not one without the other: the mouth of the Lord
 has given the order, and his spirit has made them come
 together.
34:17 And he has given them their heritage, and by his hand it
 has been measured out to them: it will be theirs for ever,
 their resting-place from generation to generation.
35:1 The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland
 will have joy and be full of flowers.
35:2 It will be flowering like the rose; it will be full of
 delight and songs; the glory of Lebanon will be given to it;
 the pride of Carmel and Sharon: they will see the glory of the
 Lord, the power of our God.
35:3 Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking
 knees.
35:4 Say to those who are full of fear, Be strong and take
 heart: see, your God will give punishment; the reward of God
 will come; he himself will come to be your saviour.
35:5 Then the eyes of the blind will see, and the ears which are
 stopped will be open.
35:6 Then will the feeble-footed be jumping like a roe, and the
 voice which was stopped will be loud in song: for in the waste
 land streams will be bursting out, and waters in the dry
 places.
35:7 And the burning sand will become a pool, and the dry earth
 springs of waters: the fields where the sheep take their food
 will become wet land, and water-plants will take the place of
 grass.
35:8 And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy
 Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those
 who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish.
35:9 No lion will be there, or any cruel beast; they will not be
 seen there; but those for whom the Lord has given a price,
35:10 Even those whom he has made free, will come back again;
 they will come with songs to Zion; on their heads will be
 eternal joy; delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and
 sounds of grief will be gone for ever.
36:1 And it came about in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah
 that Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the
 walled towns of Judah and took them.
36:2 And the king of Assyria sent the Rab-shakeh from Lachish to
 Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a strong force, and he took up
 his position by the stream of the higher pool, by the highway
 of the washerman's
36:3 And there came out to him Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who
 was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of
 Asaph, the recorder.
36:4 And the Rab-shakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, These
 are the words of the great king, the king of Assyria: In what
 are you placing your hope?
36:5 You say you have a design and strength for war, but these
 are only words: now to whom are you looking for support, that
 you have gone against my authority?
36:6 See, you are basing your hope on that broken rod of Egypt,
 which will go into a man's hand if he makes use of it for a
 support; for so is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who put their
 faith in him.
36:7 And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God; is
 it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away,
 saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given
 before this altar?
36:8 And now, take a chance with my master, the king of Assyria,
 and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put
 horsemen on them.
36:9 How then may you put to shame the least of my master's
 servants? and you have put your hope in Egypt for war-carriages
 and horsemen:
36:10 And have I now come to send destruction on this land
 without the Lord's authority? It was the Lord himself who said
 to me, Go up against this land and make it waste.
36:11 Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to the Rab-shakeh,
 Please make use of the Aramaean language in talking to your
 servants, for we are used to it, and do not make use of the
 Jews' language in the hearing of the people on the wall.
36:12 But the Rab-shakeh said, Is it to your master or to you
 that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent
 me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who
 will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.
36:13 Then the Rab-shakeh got up and said with a loud voice in
 the Jews' language, Give ear to the words of the great king,
 the king of Assyria:
36:14 This is what the king says: Do not be tricked by Hezekiah,
 for there is no salvation for you in him.
36:15 And do not let Hezekiah make you put your faith in the
 Lord, saying, The Lord will certainly keep us safe, and this
 town will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.
36:16 Do not give ear to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of
 Assyria says, Make peace with me, and come out to me; and
 everyone will be free to take the fruit of his vine and of his
 fig-tree, and the water of his spring;
36:17 Till I come and take you away to a land like yours, a land
 of grain and wine, a land of bread and vine-gardens.
36:18 Give no attention to Hezekiah when he says to you, The
 Lord will keep us safe. Has any one of the gods of the nations
 kept his land from falling into the hands of the king of
 Assyria?
36:19 Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? where are the
 gods of Sepharvaim? where are the gods of Samaria? and have
 they kept Samaria out of my hand?
36:20 Who among all the gods of these countries have kept their
 country from falling into my hand, to give cause for the
 thought that the Lord will keep Jerusalem from falling into my
 hand?
36:21 But they kept quiet and gave him no answer: for the king's
 order was, Give him no answer.
36:22 Then Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house,
 and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the
 recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothing parted as a sign
 of grief, and gave him an account of what the Rab-shakeh had
 said.
37:1 And on hearing it Hezekiah took off his robe and put on
 haircloth and went into the house of the Lord.
37:2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the
 scribe, and the chief priests, dressed in haircloth, to Isaiah
 the prophet, the son of Amoz.
37:3 And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of
 trouble and punishment and shame: for the children are ready to
 come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.
37:4 It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words
 of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has
 sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make
 his words come to nothing: so make your prayer for the rest of
 the people.
37:5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
37:6 And Isaiah said to them, This is what you are to say to
 your master: The Lord says, Be not troubled by the words which
 the servants of the king of Assyria have said against me in
 your hearing.
37:7 See, I will put a spirit into him, and bad news will come
 to his ears, and he will go back to his land; and there I will
 have him put to death.
37:8 So the Rab-shakeh went back, and when he got there the king
 of Assyria was making war against Libnah: for it had come to
 his ears that the king of Assyria had gone away from Lachish.
37:9 And when news came to him that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia,
 had made an attack on him, ... And he sent representatives to
 Hezekiah, king of Judah, saying,
37:10 This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah:
 Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope,
 saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king
 of Assyria.
37:11 No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings
 of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse:
 and will you be kept safe from their fate?
37:12 Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my
 fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the
 children of Eden who were in Telassar?
37:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and
 the king of the town of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivva?
37:14 And Hezekiah took the letter from the hands of those who
 had come with it; and after reading it, Hezekiah went up to the
 house of the Lord, opening the letter there before the Lord,
37:15 And he made prayer to the Lord, saying,
37:16 O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, seated between the
 winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the
 earth; you have made heaven and earth.
37:17 Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord; let your eyes be
 open, O Lord, and see: take note of all the words of
 Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living
 God.
37:18 Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste all
 the nations and their lands,
37:19 And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no
 gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have
 given them to destruction.
37:20 But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hand,
 so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that
 you, and you only, are the Lord.
37:21 Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying,
 The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer you have made to
 me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has come to my ears.
37:22 This is the word which the Lord has said about him: In the
 eyes of the virgin daughter of Zion you are shamed and laughed
 at; the daughter of Jerusalem has made sport of you.
37:23 Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and
 against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up?
 even against the Holy One of Israel.
37:24 You have sent your servants with evil words against the
 Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up
 to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon;
 and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its
 woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick
 woods.
37:25 I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with
 my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.
37:26 Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before,
 purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my
 design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses
 of broken walls.
37:27 This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken
 and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a
 green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold
 wind makes waste.
37:28 But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting,
 of your going out and your coming in.
37:29 Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to
 my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your
 lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.
37:30 And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food
 this year from what comes up of itself, and in the second year
 from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will
 put in your seed, and get in the grain, and make vine-gardens,
 and take of their fruit.
37:31 And those of Judah who are still living will again take
 root in the earth, and give fruit.
37:32 For from Jerusalem those who have been kept safe will go
 out, and those who are still living will go out of Mount Zion:
 by the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.
37:33 For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He
 will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he
 will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork
 against it.
37:34 By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get
 into this town.
37:35 For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the
 honour of my servant David.
37:36 And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the
 army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men:
 and when the people got up early in the morning, there was
 nothing to be seen but dead bodies.
37:37 Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at
 Nineveh.
37:38 And it came about, when he was worshipping in the house of
 Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him
 to death with the sword, and they went in flight into the land
 of Ararat. And Esar-haddon, his son, became king in his place.
38:1 In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah
 the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The
 Lord says, Put your house in order; for your death is near.
38:2 And Hezekiah, turning his face to the wall, made his prayer
 to the Lord, saying,
38:3 O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all
 my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah
 gave way to bitter weeping.
38:4 Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying,
38:5 Go to Hezekiah, and say, The Lord, the God of David, your
 father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen
 your weeping: see, I will give you fifteen more years of life.
38:6 And I will keep you and this town safe from the hands of
 the king of Assyria: and I will keep watch over this town.
38:7 And Isaiah said, This is the sign the Lord will give you,
 that he will do what he has said:
38:8 See, I will make the shade which has gone down on the steps
 of Ahaz with the sun, go back ten steps. So the shade went back
 the ten steps by which it had gone down.
38:9 The writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, after he had been
 ill, and had got better from his disease.
38:10 I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the
 underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.
38:11 I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land
 of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the
 world.
38:12 My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like
 a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's
 thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even
 to night you give me up to pain.
38:13 I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a
 lion was crushing all my bones.
38:14 I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like
 a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am
 crushed, take up my cause.
38:15 What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it:
 all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without
 rest.
38:16 O Lord, for this cause I am waiting for you, give rest to
 my spirit: make me well again, and let me come back to life.
38:17 See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you
 have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put
 all my sins out of your memory.
38:18 For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death
 gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld
 there is no hope in your mercy.
38:19 The living, the living man, he will give you praise, as I
 do this day: the father will give the story of your mercy to
 his children.
38:20 O Lord, quickly be my saviour; so we will make my songs to
 corded instruments all the days of our lives in the house of
 the Lord.
38:21 And Isaiah said, Let them take a cake of figs, and put it
 on the diseased place, and he will get well.
38:22 And Hezekiah said, What is the sign that I will go up to
 the house of the Lord?
39:1 At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of
 Babylon, sent letters with an offering to Hezekiah, because he
 had news that Hezekiah had been ill, and was well again.
39:2 And Hezekiah was glad at their coming, and let them see all
 his store of wealth, the silver and the gold and the spices and
 the oil, and all the house of his arms, and everything there
 was in his stores: there was nothing in all his house or his
 kingdom which he did not let them see.
39:3 Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to
 him, What did these men say, and where did they come from? And
 Hezekiah said, They came from a far country, even from Babylon.
39:4 And he said, What have they seen in your house? And
 Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there
 is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see.
39:5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Give ear to the word of the
 Lord of armies:
39:6 Truly, the days are coming when everything in your house,
 and whatever your fathers have put in store till this day, will
 be taken away to Babylon: all will be gone.
39:7 And your sons, even your offspring, will they take away to
 be unsexed servants in the house of the king of Babylon.
39:8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord
 which you have said. And he said in his heart, There will be
 peace and quiet in my days.
40:1 Give comfort, give comfort, to my people, says your God.
40:2 Say kind words to the heart of Jerusalem, crying out to her
 that her time of trouble is ended, that her punishment is
 complete; that she has been rewarded by the Lord's hand twice
 over for all her sins.
40:3 A voice of one crying, Make ready in the waste land the way
 of the Lord, make level in the lowland a highway for our God.
40:4 Let every valley be lifted up, and every mountain and hill
 be made low, and let the rough places become level, and the
 hilltops become a valley,
40:5 And the glory of the Lord will be made clear, and all flesh
 will see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has said it.
40:6 A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my
 cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the
 flower of the field.
40:7 The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the
 breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.
40:8 The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our
 God is eternal.
40:9 You who give good news to Zion, get up into the high
 mountain; you who give good news to Jerusalem, let your voice
 be strong; let it be sounding without fear; say to the towns of
 Judah, See, your God!
40:10 See, the Lord God will come as a strong one, ruling in
 power: see, those made free by him are with him, and those whom
 he has made safe go before him.
40:11 He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep;
 with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the
 lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young.
40:12 In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured?
 and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out
 fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a
 measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the
 hills into the scales?
40:13 By whom has the spirit of the Lord been guided, or who has
 been his teacher?
40:14 Who gave him suggestions, and made clear to him the right
 way? who gave him knowledge, guiding him in the way of wisdom?
40:15 See, the nations are to him like a drop hanging from a
 bucket, and like the small dust in the scales: he takes up the
 islands like small dust.
40:16 And Lebanon is not enough to make a fire with, or all its
 cattle enough for a burned offering.
40:17 All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than
 nothing, a thing of no value.
40:18 Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you
 put forward as a comparison with him?
40:19 The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold
 plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.
40:20 The wise workman makes selection of the mulberry-tree of
 the offering, a wood which will not become soft; so that the
 image may be fixed to it and not be moved.
40:21 Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears?
 has not news of it been given to you from the first? has it not
 been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on
 its base?
40:22 It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the
 people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are
 stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a
 living-place.
40:23 He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth
 are of no value.
40:24 They have only now been planted, and their seed put into
 the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out
 his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind
 takes them away like dry grass.
40:25 Who then seems to you to be my equal? says the Holy One.
40:26 Let your eyes be lifted up on high, and see: who has made
 these? He who sends out their numbered army: who has knowledge
 of all their names: by whose great strength, because he is
 strong in power, all of them are in their places.
40:27 Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel,
 The Lord's eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no
 attention to my cause?
40:28 Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears?
 The eternal God, the Lord, the Maker of the ends of the earth,
 is never feeble or tired; there is no searching out of his
 wisdom.
40:29 He gives power to the feeble, increasing the strength of
 him who has no force.
40:30 Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the
 best of them will come to the end of his strength;
40:31 But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new
 strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will
 not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.
41:1 Come quietly before me, O sea-lands, and let the peoples
 get together their strength: let them come near; then let them
 say what they have to say: let us put forward our cause against
 one another.
41:2 Who sent out from the east one who is right wherever he
 goes? he gives the nations into his hands, and makes him ruler
 over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as dry
 stems before the wind to his bow.
41:3 He goes after them safely, not touching the road with his
 feet.
41:4 Whose purpose and work was it? His who sent out the
 generations from the start. I the Lord, the first, and with the
 last, I am he.
41:5 The sea-lands saw it, and were in fear; the ends of the
 earth were shaking: they came near.
41:6 They gave help everyone to his neighbour; and everyone said
 to his brother, Take heart!
41:7 So the metal-worker put heart into the gold-worker, and he
 who was hammering the metal smooth said kind words to the
 iron-worker, saying of the plate, It is ready: and he put it
 together with nails, so that there might be no slipping.
41:8 But as for you, Israel, my servant, and you, Jacob, whom I
 have taken for myself, the seed of Abraham my friend:
41:9 You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and sent
 for from its farthest parts, saying to you, You are my servant,
 whom I have taken for myself, and whom I have not given up:
41:10 Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about
 in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I
 will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your
 support.
41:11 Truly, all those who are angry with you will be made low
 and put to shame: those desiring to do you wrong will come to
 nothing and never again be seen.
41:12 You will make search for your haters but they will not be
 there; those who make war against you will be as nothing and
 will come to destruction.
41:13 For I, the Lord your God, have taken your right hand in
 mine, saying to you, Have no fear; I will be your helper.
41:14 Have no fear, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I
 will be your helper, says the Lord, even he who takes up your
 cause, the Holy One of Israel.
41:15 See, I will make you like a new grain-crushing instrument
 with teeth, crushing the mountains small, and making the hills
 like dry stems.
41:16 You will send the wind over them, and it will take them
 away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you
 will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of
 Israel.
41:17 The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water
 is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will
 give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give
 them up.
41:18 I will make rivers on the dry mountain-tops, and fountains
 in the valleys: I will make the waste land a pool of water, and
 the dry land springs of water.
41:19 I will put in the waste land the cedar, the acacia, the
 myrtle, and the olive-tree; and in the lowland will be planted
 the fir-tree, the plane, and the cypress together:
41:20 So that they may see and be wise and give their mind to
 it, and that it may be clear to them all that the hand of the
 Lord has done this, and that the Holy One of Israel has made
 it.
41:21 Put forward your cause, says the Lord; let your strong
 argument come out, says the King of Jacob.
41:22 Let the future be made clear to us: give us news of the
 past things, so that we may give thought to them; or of the
 things to come, so that we may see if they are true.
41:23 Give us word of what will be after this, so that we may be
 certain that you are gods: yes, do good or do evil, so that we
 may all see it and be surprised.
41:24 But you are nothing, and your work is of no value: foolish
 is he who takes you for his gods.
41:25 I have sent for one from the north, and from the dawn he
 has come; in my name he will get rulers together and go against
 them; they will be like dust, even as the wet earth is stamped
 on by the feet of the potter.
41:26 Who has given knowledge of it from the first, so that we
 may be certain of it? and from the start, so that we may say,
 His word is true? There is no one who gives news, or says
 anything, or who gives ear to your words.
41:27 I was the first to give word of it to Zion, and I gave the
 good news to Jerusalem.
41:28 And I saw that there was no man, even no wise man among
 them, who might give an answer to my questions.
41:29 Truly they are all nothing, their works are nothing and of
 no value: their metal images are of no more use than wind.
42:1 See my servant, whom I am supporting, my loved one, in whom
 I take delight: I have put my spirit on him; he will give the
 knowledge of the true God to the nations.
42:2 He will make no cry, his voice will not be loud: his words
 will not come to men's ears in the streets.
42:3 He will not let a crushed stem be quite broken, and he will
 not let a feebly burning light be put out: he will go on
 sending out the true word to the peoples.
42:4 His light will not be put out, and he will not be crushed,
 till he has given the knowledge of the true God to the earth,
 and the sea-lands will be waiting for his teaching.
42:5 God the Lord, even he who made the heavens, measuring them
 out on high; stretching out the earth, and giving its produce;
 he who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who
 go about on it, says:
42:6 I the Lord have made you the vessel of my purpose, I have
 taken you by the hand, and kept you safe, and I have given you
 to be an agreement to the people, and a light to the nations:
42:7 To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from
 the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.
42:8 I am the Lord; that is my name: I will not give my glory to
 another, or my praise to pictured images.
42:9 See, the things said before have come about, and now I give
 word of new things: before they come I give you news of them.
42:10 Make a new song to the Lord, and let his praise be sounded
 from the end of the earth; you who go down to the sea, and
 everything in it, the sea-lands and their people.
42:11 Let the waste land and its flocks be glad, the
 tent-circles of Kedar; let the people of the rock give a glad
 cry, from the top of the mountains let them make a sound of
 joy.
42:12 Let them give glory to the Lord, sounding his praise in
 the sea-lands.
42:13 The Lord will go out as a man of war, he will be moved to
 wrath like a fighting-man: his voice will be strong, he will
 give a loud cry; he will go against his attackers like a man of
 war.
42:14 I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done
 nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in
 childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.
42:15 I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their
 plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.
42:16 And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no
 knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make
 the dark places light before them, and the rough places level.
 These things will I do and will not give them up.
42:17 They will be turned back and be greatly shamed who put
 their hope in pictured images, who say to metal images, You are
 our gods.
42:18 Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be
 open, you blind, so that you may see.
42:19 Who is blind, but my servant? who has his ears stopped,
 but he whom I send? who is blind as my true one, or who has his
 ears shut like the Lord's servant?
42:20 Seeing much, but keeping nothing in mind; his ears are
 open, but there is no hearing.
42:21 It was the Lord's pleasure, because of his righteousness,
 to make the teaching great and give it honour.
42:22 But this is a people whose property has been taken away
 from them by force; they are all taken in holes, and shut up in
 prisons: they are made prisoners, and no one makes them free;
 they are taken by force and no one says, Give them back.
42:23 Who is there among you who will give ear to this? who will
 give attention to it for the time to come?
42:24 Who gave up Jacob to those who took away his goods, and
 Israel to his attackers? Did not the Lord? he against whom they
 did wrong, and in whose ways they would not go, turning away
 from his teaching.
42:25 For this reason he let loose on him the heat of his wrath,
 and his strength was like a flame; and it put fire round about
 him, but he did not see it; he was burned, but did not take it
 to heart.
43:1 But now, says the Lord your Maker, O Jacob, and your
 life-giver, O Israel: have no fear, for I have taken up your
 cause; naming you by your name, I have made you mine.
43:2 When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and
 through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go
 through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will
 have no power over you.
43:3 For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your
 saviour; I have given Egypt as a price for you, Ethiopia and
 Seba for you.
43:4 Because of your value in my eyes, you have been honoured,
 and loved by me; so I will give men for you, and peoples for
 your life.
43:5 Have no fear, for I am with you: I will take your seed from
 the east, and get you together from the west;
43:6 I will say to the north, Give them up; and to the south, Do
 not keep them back; send back my sons from far, and my
 daughters from the end of the earth;
43:7 Every one who is named by my name, and whom I have made for
 my glory, who has been formed and designed by me.
43:8 Send out the blind people who have eyes, and those who have
 ears, but they are shut.
43:9 Let all the nations come together, and let the peoples be
 present: who among them is able to make this clear, and give us
 word of earlier things? let their witnesses come forward, so
 that they may be seen to be true, and that they may give ear,
 and say, It is true.
43:10 You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and my servant whom I
 have taken for myself: so that you may see and have faith in
 me, and that it may be clear to you that I am he; before me
 there was no God formed, and there will not be after me.
43:11 I, even I, am the Lord; and there is no saviour but me.
43:12 I gave the word, and made it clear, and there was no
 strange god among you: for this reason you are my witnesses,
 says the Lord.
43:13 From time long past I am God, and from this day I am he:
 there is no one who is able to take you out of my hand: when I
 undertake a thing, by whom will my purpose be changed?
43:14 The Lord, who has taken up your cause, the Holy One of
 Israel, says, Because of you I have sent to Babylon, and made
 all their seers come south, and the Chaldaeans whose cry is in
 the ships.
43:15 I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Maker of Israel, your
 King.
43:16 This is the word of the Lord, who makes a way in the sea,
 and a road through the deep waters;
43:17 Who sends out the war-carriages and the horses, the army
 with all its force; they have come down, they will not get up
 again; like a feebly burning light they are put out.
43:18 Give no thought to the things which are past; let the
 early times go out of your minds.
43:19 See, I am doing a new thing; now it is starting; will you
 not take note of it? I will even make a way in the waste land,
 and rivers in the dry country.
43:20 The beasts of the field will give me honour, the jackals
 and the ostriches: because I send out waters in the waste land,
 and rivers in the dry country, to give drink to the people whom
 I have taken for myself:
43:21 Even the people whom I made to be the witnesses of my
 praise.
43:22 But you have made no prayer to me, O Jacob: and you have
 given no thought to me, O Israel.
43:23 You have not made me burned offerings of sheep, or given
 me honour with your offerings of beasts; I did not make you
 servants to give me an offering, and I did not make you tired
 with requests for perfumes.
43:24 You have not got me sweet-smelling plants with your money,
 or given me pleasure with the fat of your offerings: but you
 have made me a servant to your sins, and you have made me tired
 with your evil doings.
43:25 I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no
 longer keep your evil doings in mind.
43:26 Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between
 us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in
 the right.
43:27 Your first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone
 against my word.
43:28 Your chiefs have made my holy place unclean, so I have
 made Jacob a curse, and Israel a thing of shame.
44:1 And now, give ear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I
 have taken for myself:
44:2 The Lord who made you, forming you in your mother's body,
 the Lord, your helper, says, Have no fear, O Jacob my servant,
 and you, Jeshurun, whom I have taken for myself.
44:3 For I will send water on the land needing it, and streams
 on the dry earth: I will let my spirit come down on your seed,
 and my blessing on your offspring.
44:4 And they will come up like grass in a well-watered field,
 like water-plants by the streams.
44:5 One will say, I am the Lord's; and another will give
 himself the name, Jacob; another will put a mark on his hand, I
 am the Lord's, and another will take the name of Israel for
 himself.
44:6 The Lord, the King of Israel, even the Lord of armies who
 has taken up his cause, says, I am the first and the last, and
 there is no God but me.
44:7 If there is one like me, let him come forward and say it,
 let him make it clear and put it in order before me: who has
 made clear in the past the things to come? let him make clear
 the future to me.
44:8 Have no fear, be strong in heart; have I not made it clear
 to you in the past, and let you see it? and you are my
 witnesses. Is there any God but me, or a Rock of whom I have no
 knowledge?
44:9 Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing,
 and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them:
 and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will
 be put to shame.
44:10 Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in
 which there is no profit.
44:11 Truly, all those who make use of secret arts will be put
 to shame, and their words of power are only words of men: let
 them all come forward together; they will all be in fear and be
 put to shame.
44:12 The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving
 it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong
 arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need
 of water he becomes feeble.
44:13 The woodworker is measuring out the wood with his line,
 marking it out with his pencil: after smoothing it with his
 plane, and making circles on it with his instrument, he gives
 it the form and glory of a man, so that it may be placed in the
 house.
44:14 He has cedars cut down for himself, he takes an oak and
 lets it get strong among the trees of the wood; he has an
 ash-tree planted, and the rain gives it growth.
44:15 Then it will be used to make a fire, so that a man may get
 warm; he has the oven heated with it and makes bread: he makes
 a god with it, to which he gives worship: he makes a pictured
 image out of it, and goes down on his face before it.
44:16 With part of it he makes a fire, and on the fire he gets
 meat cooked and takes a full meal: he makes himself warm, and
 says, Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire:
44:17 And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his pictured
 image: he goes down on his face before it, giving worship to
 it, and making prayer to it, saying, Be my saviour; for you are
 my god.
44:18 They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil
 over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts,
 so that they may not give attention.
44:19 And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or
 wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made
 bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and
 am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go
 down on my face before a bit of wood?
44:20 As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has
 been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is
 unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my
 hand is false.
44:21 Keep these things in mind, O Jacob; and you Israel, for
 you are my servant: I have made you; you are my servant; O
 Israel, I will not let you go out of my memory.
44:22 I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick
 cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have
 taken up your cause.
44:23 Make a song, O heavens, for the Lord has done it: give a
 loud cry, you deep parts of the earth: let your voices be loud
 in song, you mountains, and you woods with all your trees: for
 the Lord has taken up the cause of Jacob, and will let his
 glory be seen in Israel.
44:24 The Lord, who has taken up your cause, and who gave you
 life in your mother's body, says, I am the Lord who makes all
 things; stretching out the heavens by myself, and giving the
 earth its limits; who was with me?
44:25 Who makes the signs of those who give word of the future
 come to nothing, so that those who have knowledge of secret
 arts go off their heads; turning the wise men back, and making
 their knowledge foolish:
44:26 Who makes the word of his servants certain, and gives
 effect to the purposes of his representatives; who says of
 Jerusalem, Her people will come back to her; and of the towns
 of Judah, I will give orders for their building, and will make
 her waste places fertile again:
44:27 Who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will make your rivers
 dry:
44:28 Who says of Cyrus, He will take care of my sheep, and will
 do all my pleasure: who says of Jerusalem, I will give the word
 for your building; and of the Temple, Your bases will be put in
 place.
45:1 The Lord says to the man of his selection, to Cyrus, whom I
 have taken by the right hand, putting down nations before him,
 and taking away the arms of kings; making the doors open before
 him, so that the ways into the towns may not be shut;
45:2 I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the
 doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:
45:3 And I will give you the stores of the dark, and the wealth
 of secret places, so that you may be certain that I am the
 Lord, who gave you your name, even the God of Israel.
45:4 Because of Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken
 for myself, I have sent for you by name, giving you a name of
 honour, though you had no knowledge of me.
45:5 I am the Lord, and there is no other; there is no God but
 me: I will make you ready for war, though you had no knowledge
 of me:
45:6 So that they may see from the east and from the west that
 there is no God but me: I am the Lord, and there is no other.
45:7 I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing
 blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all
 these things.
45:8 Let righteousness come down, O heavens, from on high, and
 let the sky send it down like rain: let the earth be open to
 give the fruit of salvation, causing righteousness to come up
 with it; I the Lord have made it come about.
45:9 Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot
 which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say
 to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your
 work has nothing by which it may be gripped?
45:10 Cursed is he who says to a father, To what are you giving
 life? or to a woman, What are you in birth-pains with?
45:11 The Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, says,
 Will you put a question to me about the things which are to
 come, or will you give me orders about my sons, and the work of
 my hands?
45:12 I have made the earth, forming man on it: by my hands the
 heavens have been stretched out, and all the stars put in their
 ordered places.
45:13 I have sent him out to overcome the nations, and I will
 make all his ways straight: I will give him the work of
 building my town, and he will let my prisoners go free, without
 price or reward, says the Lord of armies.
45:14 The Lord says, The workmen of Egypt, and the traders of
 Ethiopia, and the tall Sabaeans, will come over the sea to you,
 and they will be yours; they will go after you; in chains they
 will come over: and they will go down on their faces before
 you, and will make prayer to you, saying, Truly, God is among
 you; and there is no other God.
45:15 Truly, you have a secret God, the God of Israel is a
 Saviour!
45:16 All those who have gone against him will be put to shame;
 the makers of images will be made low.
45:17 But the Lord will make Israel free with an eternal
 salvation: you will not be put to shame or made low for ever
 and ever.
45:18 For this is the word of the Lord who made the heavens; he
 is God; the maker and designer of the earth; who made it not to
 be a waste, but as a living-place for man: I am the Lord, and
 there is no other.
45:19 I have not given my word in secret, in a place in the
 underworld; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Go into a waste
 land to make request of me: I the Lord say what is true, my
 word is righteousness.
45:20 Come together, even come near, you nations who are still
 living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood,
 and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation.
45:21 Give the word, put forward your cause, let us have a
 discussion together: who has given news of this in the past?
 who made it clear in early times? did not I, the Lord? and
 there is no God but me; a true God and a saviour; there is no
 other.
45:22 Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have
 salvation, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there
 is no other.
45:23 By myself have I taken an oath, a true word has gone from
 my mouth, and will not be changed, that to me every knee will
 be bent, and every tongue will give honour.
45:24 Only in the Lord will Jacob overcome and be strong:
 together all those who were angry with him will be put to shame
 and come to destruction.
45:25 In the Lord will all the seed of Israel get their rights,
 and they will give glory to him.
46:1 Bel is bent down, Nebo is falling; their images are on the
 beasts and on the cattle: the things which you took about have
 become a weight to the tired beast.
46:2 They are bent down, they are falling together: they were
 not able to keep their images safe, but they themselves have
 been taken prisoner.
46:3 Give ear to me, O family of Jacob, and all the rest of the
 people of Israel, who have been supported by me from their
 birth, and have been my care from their earliest days:
46:4 Even when you are old I will be the same, and when you are
 grey-haired I will take care of you: I will still be
 responsible for what I made; yes, I will take you and keep you
 safe.
46:5 Who in your eyes is my equal? or what comparison will you
 make with me?
46:6 As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in
 the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into
 a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.
46:7 They put him on their backs, and take him up, and put him
 in his fixed place, from which he may not be moved; if a man
 gives a cry for help to him, he is unable to give an answer, or
 get him out of his trouble.
46:8 Keep this in mind and be shamed; let it come back to your
 memory, you sinners.
46:9 Let the things which are past come to your memory: for I am
 God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like
 me;
46:10 Making clear from the first what is to come, and from past
 times the things which have not so far come about; saying, My
 purpose is fixed, and I will do all my pleasure;
46:11 Sending for a bird of strong flight from the east, the man
 of my purpose from a far country; I have said it, and I will
 give effect to it; the thing designed by me will certainly be
 done.
46:12 Give ear to me, you feeble-hearted, who have no faith in
 my righteousness:
46:13 My righteousness is near, it is not far off; salvation
 will come quickly; and I will make Zion free, and give Israel
 my glory.
47:1 Come and take your seat in the dust, O virgin daughter of
 Babylon; come down from your seat of power, and take your place
 on the earth, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will never
 again seem soft and delicate.
47:2 Take the crushing-stones and get the meal crushed: take off
 your veil, put away your robe, let your legs be uncovered, go
 through the rivers.
47:3 The shame of your unclothed condition will be seen by all:
 I will give punishment without mercy,
47:4 Says the Lord who takes up our cause; the Lord of armies is
 his name, the Holy One of Israel.
47:5 Be seated in the dark without a word, O daughter of the
 Chaldaeans: for you will no longer be named, The Queen of
 Kingdoms.
47:6 I was angry with my people, I put shame on my heritage, and
 gave them into your hands: you had no mercy on them; you put a
 cruel yoke on those who were old;
47:7 And you said, I will be a queen for ever: you did not give
 attention to these things, and did not keep in mind what would
 come after.
47:8 So now take note of this, you who are given up to pleasure,
 living without fear of evil, saying in your heart, I am, and
 there is no one like me; I will never be a widow, or have my
 children taken from me.
47:9 But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day,
 the loss of children and of husband: in full measure they will
 come on you, for all your secret arts, and all your wonders.
47:10 For you had faith in your evil-doing; you said, No one
 sees me; by your wisdom and knowledge you have been turned out
 of the way: and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is
 no other.
47:11 Because of this evil will come on you, which may not be
 turned away for any price: and trouble will overtake you, from
 which no money will give salvation: destruction will come on
 you suddenly, without your knowledge.
47:12 Go on now with your secret arts, and all your
 wonder-working, to which you have given yourself up from your
 earliest days; it may be that they will be of profit to you, or
 by them you may put fear into your attackers.
47:13 But your mind is troubled by the number of your guides:
 let them now come forward for your salvation: the measurers of
 the heavens, the watchers of the stars, and those who are able
 to say from month to month what things are coming on you.
47:14 Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been
 burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe
 from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them,
 or a fire by which a man may be seated.
47:15 Small profit have you had from those who, from your
 earliest days, got great profit out of you; they have gone in
 flight, every one straight before him, and you have no saviour.
48:1 Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by
 the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who
 take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of
 the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.
48:2 For they say that they are of the holy town, and put their
 faith in the God of Israel: the Lord of armies is his name.
48:3 I gave word in the past of the things which came about;
 they came from my mouth, and I made them clear: suddenly I did
 them, and they came about.
48:4 Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck
 was an iron cord, and your brow brass;
48:5 For this reason I made it clear to you in the past, before
 it came I gave you word of it: for fear that you might say, My
 god did these things, and my pictured and metal images made
 them come about.
48:6 All this has come to your ears and you have seen it; will
 you not give witness to it? I am now making clear new things,
 even secret things, of which you had no knowledge.
48:7 They have only now been effected, and not in the past: and
 before this day they had not come to your ears; for fear that
 you might say, I had knowledge of them.
48:8 Truly you had no word of them, no knowledge of them; no
 news of them in the past had come to your ears; because I saw
 how false was your behaviour, and that your heart was turned
 against me from your earliest days.
48:9 Because of my name I will put away my wrath, and for my
 praise I will keep myself from cutting you off.
48:10 See, I have been testing you for myself like silver; I
 have put you through the fire of trouble.
48:11 For myself, even because of my name, I will do it; for I
 will not let my name be shamed; and my glory I will not give to
 another.
48:12 Give ear to me, Jacob, and Israel, my loved one; I am he,
 I am the first and I am the last.
48:13 Yes, by my hand was the earth placed on its base, and by
 my right hand the heavens were stretched out; at my word they
 take up their places.
48:14 Come together, all of you, and give ear; who among you has
 given news of these things? the Lord's loved one will do his
 pleasure with Babylon, and with the seed of the Chaldaeans.
48:15 I, even I, have given the word; I have sent for him: I
 have made him come, and have given effect to his undertakings.
48:16 Come near to me, and give ear to this; from the start I
 did not keep it secret; from the time of its coming into
 existence I was there: and now the Lord God has sent me, and
 given me his spirit.
48:17 The Lord who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel,
 says, I am the Lord your God, who is teaching you for your
 profit, guiding you by the way in which you are to go.
48:18 If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace
 would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the
 waves of the sea:
48:19 Your seed would have been like the sand, and your
 offspring like the dust: your name would not be cut off or come
 to an end before me.
48:20 Go out of Babylon, go in flight from the Chaldaeans; with
 the sound of song make it clear, give the news, let the word go
 out even to the end of the earth: say, The Lord has taken up
 the cause of his servant Jacob.
48:21 They had no need of water when he was guiding them through
 the waste lands: he made water come out of the rock for them:
 the rock was parted and the waters came flowing out.
48:22 There is no peace, says the Lord, for the evil-doers.
49:1 Give ear, O sea-lands, to me; and take note, you peoples
 from far: I have been marked out by the Lord from the first;
 when I was still in my mother's body, he had my name in mind:
49:2 And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shade
 of his hand he has kept me; and he has made me like a polished
 arrow, keeping me in his secret place;
49:3 And he said to me, You are my servant, Israel, in whom my
 glory will be seen;
49:4 And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have
 given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord
 will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward.
49:5 And now, says the Lord, who made me his servant when I was
 still in my mother's body, so that I might make Jacob come back
 to him, and so that Israel might come together to him: and I
 was honoured in the eyes of the Lord, and my God became my
 strength.
49:6 It is not enough for one who is my servant to put the
 tribes of Jacob again in their place, and to get back those of
 Israel who have been sent away: my purpose is to give you as a
 light to the nations, so that you may be my salvation to the
 end of the earth.
49:7 The Lord who takes up Israel's cause, even his Holy One,
 says to him whom men make sport of, who is hated by the
 nations, a servant of rulers: Kings will see and get up from
 their places, and chiefs will give worship: because of the Lord
 who keeps faith; even the Holy One of Israel who has taken you
 for himself.
49:8 This is the word of the Lord: I have given ear to you at a
 good time, and I have been your helper in a day of salvation:
 and I will keep you safe, and will make you a glory for the
 people, putting the land in order, and giving them the
 heritages which now are waste;
49:9 Saying to those who are in chains, Go free; to those who
 are in the dark, Come out into the light. They will get food by
 the way wherever they go, and have grass-lands on all the dry
 mountain-tops.
49:10 They will not be in need of food or drink, or be troubled
 by the heat or the sun: for he who has mercy on them will be
 their guide, taking them by the springs of water.
49:11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways
 will be lifted up.
49:12 See, these are coming from far; and these from the north
 and the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
49:13 Let your voice be loud in song, O heavens; and be glad, O
 earth; make sounds of joy, O mountains, for the Lord has given
 comfort to his people, and will have mercy on his crushed ones.
49:14 But Zion said, The Lord has given me up, I have gone from
 his memory.
49:15 Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be
 without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I
 will not let you go out of my memory.
49:16 See, your name is marked on my hands; your walls are ever
 before me.
49:17 Your builders are coming quickly; your haters and those
 who made you waste will go out of you.
49:18 Let your eyes be lifted up round about, and see: they are
 all coming together to you. By my life, says the Lord, truly
 you will put them all on you as an ornament, and be clothed
 with them like a bride.
49:19 For though the waste places of your land have been given
 to destruction, now you will not be wide enough for your
 people, and those who made you waste will be far away.
49:20 The children to whom you gave birth in other lands will
 say in your ears, The place is not wide enough for me: make
 room for me to have a resting-place.
49:21 Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all
 these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I
 was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when
 I was by myself, where then were these?
49:22 This is the word of the Lord God: See, I will make a sign
 with my hand to the nations, and put up my flag for the
 peoples; and they will take up your sons on their beasts, and
 your daughters on their backs.
49:23 And kings will take care of you, and queens will give you
 their milk: they will go down on their faces before you,
 kissing the dust of your feet; and you will be certain that I
 am the Lord, and that those who put their hope in me will not
 be shamed.
49:24 Will the goods of war be taken from the strong man, or the
 prisoners of the cruel one be let go?
49:25 But the Lord says, Even the prisoners of the strong will
 be taken from him, and the cruel made to let go his goods: for
 I will take up your cause against your haters, and I will keep
 your children safe.
49:26 And the flesh of your attackers will be taken by
 themselves for food; and they will take their blood for drink,
 as if it was sweet wine: and all men will see that I the Lord
 am your saviour, even he who takes up your cause, the Strong
 One of Jacob.
50:1 This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which
 I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my
 creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that
 you were given into the hands of others, and for your
 evil-doing was your mother put away.
50:2 Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to
 give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it
 is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you
 free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a
 waste land: their fish are dead for need of water, and make an
 evil smell.
50:3 By me the heavens are clothed with black, and I make
 haircloth their robe.
50:4 The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are
 experienced, so that I may be able to give the word a special
 sense for the feeble: every morning my ear is open to his
 teaching, like those who are experienced:
50:5 And I have not put myself against him, or let my heart be
 turned back from him.
50:6 I was offering my back to those who gave me blows, and my
 face to those who were pulling out my hair: I did not keep my
 face covered from marks of shame.
50:7 For the Lord God is my helper; I will not be put to shame:
 so I have made my face like a rock, and I am certain that he
 will give me my right.
50:8 He who takes up my cause is near; who will go to law with
 me? let us come together before the judge: who is against me?
 let him come near to me.
50:9 See, the Lord God is my helper; who will give a decision
 against me? truly, all of them will become old like a robe;
 they will be food for the worm.
50:10 Who among you has the fear of the Lord, giving ear to the
 voice of his servant who has been walking in the dark and has
 no light? Let him put his faith in the name of the Lord,
 looking to his God for support.
50:11 See, all you who make a fire, arming yourselves with
 burning branches: go in the flame of your fire, and among the
 branches you have put a light to. This will you have from my
 hand, you will make your bed in sorrow.
51:1 Give ear to me, you who are searching for righteousness,
 who are looking for the Lord: see the rock from which you were
 cut out, and the hole out of which you were taken.
51:2 Let your thoughts be turned to Abraham, your father, and to
 Sarah, who gave you birth: for when he was but one, my voice
 came to him, and I gave him my blessing, and made him a great
 people.
51:3 For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad
 all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and
 changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and
 delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.
51:4 Give attention to me, O my people; and give ear to me, O my
 nation; for teaching will go out from me, and the knowledge of
 the true God will be a light to the peoples.
51:5 Suddenly will my righteousness come near, and my salvation
 will be shining out like the light; the sea-lands will be
 waiting for me, and they will put their hope in my strong arm.
51:6 Let your eyes be lifted up to the heavens, and turned to
 the earth which is under them: for the heavens will go in
 flight like smoke, and the earth will become old like a coat,
 and its people will come to destruction like insects: but my
 salvation will be for ever, and my righteousness will not come
 to an end.
51:7 Give ear to me, you who have knowledge of righteousness, in
 whose heart is my law; have no fear of the evil words of men,
 and give no thought to their curses.
51:8 For like a coat they will be food for the insect, the worm
 will make a meal of them like wool: but my righteousness will
 be for ever, and my salvation to all generations.
51:9 Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as
 in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by
 you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded?
51:10 Did you not make the sea dry, the waters of the great
 deep? did you not make the deep waters of the sea a way for the
 Lord's people to go through?
51:11 Those whom the Lord has made free will come back with
 songs to Zion; and on their heads will be eternal joy: delight
 and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be
 gone for ever.
51:12 I, even I, am your comforter: are you so poor in heart as
 to be in fear of man who will come to an end, and of the son of
 man who will be like grass?
51:13 And you have given no thought to the Lord your Maker, by
 whom the heavens were stretched out, and the earth placed on
 its base; and you went all day in fear of the wrath of the
 cruel one, when he was making ready for your destruction. And
 where is the wrath of the cruel one?
51:14 The prisoner, bent under his chain, will quickly be made
 free, and will not go down into the underworld, and his bread
 will not come to an end.
51:15 For I am the Lord your God, who makes the sea calm when
 its waves are thundering: the Lord of armies is his name.
51:16 And I have put my words in your mouth, covering you with
 the shade of my hand, stretching out the heavens, and placing
 the earth on its base, and saying to Zion, You are my people.
51:17 Awake! awake! up! O Jerusalem, you who have taken from the
 Lord's hand the cup of his wrath; tasting in full measure the
 wine which overcomes.
51:18 She has no one among all her children to be her guide; not
 one of the sons she has taken care of takes her by the hand.
51:19 These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for
 you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from
 the sword; how may you be comforted?
51:20 Your sons are overcome, like a roe in a net; they are full
 of the wrath of the Lord, the punishment of your God.
51:21 So now give ear to this, you who are troubled and
 overcome, but not with wine:
51:22 This is the word of the Lord your master, even your God
 who takes up the cause of his people: See, I have taken out of
 your hand the cup which overcomes, even the cup of my wrath; it
 will not again be given to you:
51:23 And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and
 of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your
 soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you
 have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for
 them to go over.
52:1 Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your
 beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there
 will never again come into you the unclean and those without
 circumcision.
52:2 Make yourself clean from the dust; up! and take the seat of
 your power, O Jerusalem: the bands of your neck are loose, O
 prisoned daughter of Zion.
52:3 For the Lord says, You were given for nothing, and you will
 be made free without price.
52:4 For the Lord God says, My people went down at first into
 Egypt, to get a place for themselves there: and the Assyrian
 put a cruel yoke on them without cause.
52:5 Now then, what have I here? says the Lord, for my people
 are taken away without cause; they are made waste and give
 cries of sorrow, says the Lord, and all the day the nations put
 shame on my name.
52:6 For this cause I will make my name clear to my people; in
 that day they will be certain that it is my word which comes to
 them; see, here am I.
52:7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who
 comes with good news, who gives word of peace, saying that
 salvation is near; who says to Zion, Your God is ruling!
52:8 The voice of your watchmen! their voices are loud in song
 together; for they will see him, eye to eye, when the Lord
 comes back to Zion.
52:9 Give sounds of joy, make melody together, waste places of
 Jerusalem: for the Lord has given comfort to his people, he has
 taken up the cause of Jerusalem.
52:10 The Lord has let his holy arm be seen by the eyes of all
 nations; and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation
 of our God.
52:11 Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing;
 go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of
 the Lord.
52:12 For you will not go out suddenly, and you will not go in
 flight: for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel
 will come after you to keep you.
52:13 See, my servant will do well in his undertakings, he will
 be honoured, and lifted up, and be very high.
52:14 As peoples were surprised at him, And his face was not
 beautiful, so as to be desired: his face was so changed by
 disease as to be unlike that of a man, and his form was no
 longer that of the sons of men.
52:15 So will nations give him honour; kings will keep quiet
 because of him: for what had not been made clear to them they
 will see; and they will give their minds to what had not come
 to their ears.
53:1 Who would have had faith in the word which has come to our
 ears, and to whom had the arm of the Lord been unveiled?
53:2 For his growth was like that of a delicate plant before
 him, and like a root out of a dry place: he had no grace of
 form, to give us pleasure;
53:3 Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man
 of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's
 faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no
 value on him.
53:4 But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on
 him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's
 punishment had come.
53:5 But it was for our sins he was wounded, and for our evil
 doings he was crushed: he took the punishment by which we have
 peace, and by his wounds we are made well.
53:6 We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us
 after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us
 all.
53:7 Men were cruel to him, but he was gentle and quiet; as a
 lamb taken to its death, and as a sheep before those who take
 her wool makes no sound, so he said not a word.
53:8 They took away from him help and right, and who gave a
 thought to his fate? for he was cut off from the land of the
 living: he came to his death for the sin of my people.
53:9 And they put his body into the earth with sinners, and his
 last resting-place was with the evil-doers, though he had done
 no wrong, and no deceit was in his mouth.
53:10 And the Lord was pleased ... see a seed, long life, ...
 will do well in his hand. ...
53:11 ... made clear his righteousness before men ... had taken
 their sins on himself.
53:12 For this cause he will have a heritage with the great, and
 he will have a part in the goods of war with the strong,
 because he gave up his life, and was numbered with the
 evil-doers; taking on himself the sins of the people, and
 making prayer for the wrongdoers.
54:1 Let your voice be loud in song, O woman without children;
 make melody and sounds of joy, you who did not give birth: for
 the children of her who had no husband are more than those of
 the married wife, says the Lord.
54:2 Make wide the place of your tent, and let the curtains of
 your house be stretched out without limit: make your cords
 long, and your tent-pins strong.
54:3 For I will make wide your limits on the right hand and on
 the left; and your seed will take the nations for a heritage,
 and make the waste towns full of people.
54:4 Have no fear; for you will not be shamed or without hope:
 you will not be put to shame, for the shame of your earlier
 days will go out of your memory, and you will no longer keep in
 mind the sorrows of your widowed years.
54:5 For your Maker is your husband; the Lord of armies is his
 name: and the Holy One of Israel is he who takes up your cause;
 he will be named the God of all the earth.
54:6 For the Lord has made you come back to him, like a wife who
 has been sent away in grief of spirit; for one may not give up
 the wife of one's early days.
54:7 For a short time I gave you up; but with great mercies I
 will take you back again.
54:8 In overflowing wrath my face was veiled from you for a
 minute, but I will have pity on you for ever, says the Lord who
 takes up your cause.
54:9 For this is like the days of Noah to me: for as I took an
 oath that the waters of Noah would never again go over the
 earth, so have I taken an oath that I will not again be angry
 with you, or say bitter words to you.
54:10 For the mountains may be taken away, and the hills be
 moved out of their places, but my love will not be taken from
 you, or my agreement of peace broken, says the Lord, who has
 had mercy on you.
54:11 O troubled one, storm-crushed, uncomforted! see, your
 stones will be framed in fair colours, and your bases will be
 sapphires.
54:12 I will make your towers of rubies, and your doors of
 carbuncles, and the wall round you will be of all sorts of
 beautiful stones.
54:13 And all your builders will be made wise by the Lord; and
 great will be the peace of your children.
54:14 All your rights will be made certain to you: have no fear
 of evil, and destruction will not come near you.
54:15 See, they may be moved to war, but not by my authority:
 all those who come together to make an attack on you, will be
 broken against you.
54:16 See, I have made the iron-worker, blowing on the burning
 coals, and making the instrument of war by his work; and I have
 made the waster for destruction.
54:17 No instrument of war which is formed against you will be
 of any use; and every tongue which says evil against you will
 be judged false. This is the heritage of the servants of the
 Lord, and their righteousness comes from me, says the Lord.
55:1 Ho! everyone in need, come to the waters, and he who has no
 strength, let him get food: come, get bread without money; wine
 and milk without price.
55:2 Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the
 fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give
 ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the
 best in full measure.
55:3 Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your
 souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with
 you, even the certain mercies of David.
55:4 See, I have given him as a witness to the peoples, a ruler
 and a guide to the nations.
55:5 See, you will send for a nation of which you had no
 knowledge, and those who had no knowledge of you will come
 running to you, because of the Lord your God, and because of
 the Holy One of Israel, for he has given you glory.
55:6 Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to
 him while he is near:
55:7 Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his
 purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have
 mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness
 with him.
55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my
 ways, says the Lord.
55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my
 ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
55:10 For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and
 does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes
 it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food;
55:11 So will my word be which goes out of my mouth: it will not
 come back to me with nothing done, but it will give effect to
 my purpose, and do that for which I have sent it.
55:12 For you will go out with joy, and be guided in peace: the
 mountains and the hills will make melody before you, and all
 the trees of the fields will make sounds of joy.
55:13 In place of the thorn will come up the fir-tree, and in
 place of the blackberry the myrtle: and it will be to the Lord
 for a name, for an eternal sign which will not be cut off.
56:1 The Lord says, Let your way of life be upright, and let
 your behaviour be rightly ordered: for my salvation is near,
 and my righteousness will quickly be seen.
56:2 Happy is the man who does this, and the son of man whose
 behaviour is so ordered; who keeps the Sabbath holy, and his
 hand from doing any evil.
56:3 And let not the man from a strange country, who has been
 joined to the Lord, say, The Lord will certainly put a division
 between me and his people: and let not the unsexed man say,
 See, I am a dry tree.
56:4 For the Lord says, As for the unsexed who keep my Sabbaths,
 and give their hearts to pleasing me, and keep their agreement
 with me:
56:5 I will give to them in my house, and inside my walls, a
 place and a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will
 give them an eternal name which will not be cut off.
56:6 And as for those from a strange country, who are joined to
 the Lord, to give worship to him and honour to his name, to be
 his servants, even everyone who keeps the Sabbath holy, and
 keeps his agreement with me:
56:7 I will make them come to my holy mountain, and will give
 them joy in my house of prayer; I will take pleasure in the
 burned offerings which they make on my altar: for my house will
 be named a house of prayer for all peoples.
56:8 The Lord God, who gets together the wandering ones of
 Israel, says, I will get together others in addition to those
 of Israel who have come back.
56:9 All you beasts of the field, come together for your meat,
 even all you beasts of the wood.
56:10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge;
 they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound;
 stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.
56:11 Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these,
 the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all
 gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they
 are all the same.
56:12 Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong
 drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of
 pleasure.
57:1 The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a
 thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one
 is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of
 evil-doing, and goes into peace.
57:2 They are at rest in their last resting-places, every one
 going straight before him.
57:3 But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts,
 the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose
 woman.
57:4 Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open
 wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled
 children, a false seed,
57:5 You who are burning with evil desire among the oaks, under
 every green tree; putting children to death in the valleys,
 under the cracks of the rocks?
57:6 Among the smooth stones of the valley is your heritage;
 they, even they, are your part: even to them have you made a
 drink offering and a meal offering. Is it possible for such
 things to be overlooked by me?
57:7 You have put your bed on a high mountain: there you went up
 to make your offering.
57:8 And on the back of the doors and on the pillars you have
 put your sign: for you have been false to me with another; you
 have made your bed wide, and made an agreement with them; you
 had a desire for their bed where you saw it
57:9 And you went to Melech with oil and much perfume, and you
 sent your representatives far off, and went as low as the
 underworld.
57:10 You were tired with your long journeys; but you did not
 say, There is no hope: you got new strength, and so you were
 not feeble.
57:11 And of whom were you in fear, so that you were false, and
 did not keep me in mind, or give thought to it? Have I not been
 quiet, keeping myself secret, and so you were not in fear of
 me?
57:12 I will make clear what your righteousness is like and your
 works; you will have no profit in them.
57:13 Your false gods will not keep you safe in answer to your
 cry; but the wind will take them, they will be gone like a
 breath: but he who puts his hope in me will take the land, and
 will have my holy mountain as his heritage.
57:14 And I will say, Make it high, make it high, get ready the
 way, take the stones out of the way of my people.
57:15 For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up,
 whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my
 resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who
 is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of
 the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
57:16 For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry
 without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made
 the souls.
57:17 I was quickly angry with his evil ways, and sent
 punishment on him, veiling my face in wrath: and he went on,
 turning his heart from me.
57:18 I have seen his ways, and I will make him well: I will
 give him rest, comforting him and his people who are sad.
57:19 I will give the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him
 who is near and to him who is far off, says the Lord; and I
 will make him well.
57:20 But the evil-doers are like the troubled sea, for which
 there is no rest, and its waters send up earth and waste.
57:21 There is no peace, says my God, for the evil-doers.
58:1 Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be
 sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil
 doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.
58:2 Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure
 in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done
 righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God,
 they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their
 delight to come near to God.
58:3 They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do
 not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you
 take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food,
 you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;
58:4 If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for
 fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are
 not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.
58:5 Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for
 keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the
 bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the
 dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to
 the Lord?
58:6 Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to
 let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo
 the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and
 every yoke be broken?
58:7 Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let
 the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put
 a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep
 your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?
58:8 Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and
 your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will
 go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you.
58:9 Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an
 answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away
 from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of
 shame, and the evil word;
58:10 And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that
 the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light
 in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the
 sun:
58:11 And the Lord will be your guide at all times; in dry
 places he will give you water in full measure, and will make
 strong your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and
 like an ever-flowing spring.
58:12 And your sons will be building again the old waste places:
 you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will
 be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes
 ready the ways for use.
58:13 If you keep the Sabbath with care, not doing your business
 on my holy day; and if the Sabbath seems to you a delight, and
 the new moon of the Lord a thing to be honoured; and if you
 give respect to him by not doing your business, or going after
 your pleasure, or saying unholy words;
58:14 Then the Lord will be your delight; and I will put you on
 the high places of the earth; and I will give you the heritage
 of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the Lord has said it.
59:1 Truly, the Lord's hand has not become short, so that he is
 unable to give salvation; and his ear is not shut from hearing:
59:2 But your sins have come between you and your God, and by
 your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he
 will give you no answer.
59:3 For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers
 with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue
 gives out deceit.
59:4 No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true
 decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false;
 they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.
59:5 They give birth to snake's eggs, and make spider's threads:
 whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the
 egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake.
59:6 Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their
 works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their
 works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.
59:7 Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the
 death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin;
 wasting and destruction are in their ways.
59:8 They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no
 sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for
 themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them
 has no knowledge of peace.
59:9 For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness
 does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is
 only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in
 the night.
59:10 We go on our way, like blind men feeling for the wall,
 even like those who have no eyes: we are running against things
 in daylight as if it was evening; our place is in the dark like
 dead men.
59:11 We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like
 doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for
 salvation, but it is far from us.
59:12 For our evil doings are increased before you, and our sins
 give witness against us: for our evil doings are with us, and
 we have knowledge of our sins:
59:13 We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him,
 turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled,
 and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit.
59:14 And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far
 away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places,
 and upright behaviour may not come into the town.
59:15 Yes, faith is gone; and he whose heart is turned from evil
 comes into the power of the cruel: and the Lord saw it, and he
 was angry that there was no one to take up their cause.
59:16 And he saw that there was no man, and was surprised that
 there was no one to take up their cause: so his arm gave
 salvation, and he made righteousness his support.
59:17 Yes, he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and
 salvation as a head-dress; and he put on punishment as
 clothing, and wrath as a robe.
59:18 He will give them the right reward of their doings, wrath
 to his attackers, punishment to his haters, and even on the
 sea-lands he will send punishment.
59:19 So they will see the name of the Lord from the west, and
 his glory from the east: for he will come like a rushing
 stream, forced on by a wind of the Lord.
59:20 And as a saviour he will come to Zion, turning away sin
 from Jacob, says the Lord.
59:21 And as for me, this is my agreement with them, says the
 Lord: my spirit which is on you, and my words which I have put
 in your mouth, will not go away from your mouth, or from the
 mouth of your seed, or from the mouth of your seed's seed, says
 the Lord, from now and for ever.
60:1 Up! let your face be bright, for your light has come, and
 the glory of the Lord is shining on you.
60:2 For truly, the earth will be dark, and the peoples veiled
 in blackest night; but the Lord will be shining on you, and his
 glory will be seen among you.
60:3 And nations will come to your light, and kings to your
 bright dawn.
60:4 Let your eyes be lifted up, and see: they are all coming
 together to you: your sons will come from far, and your
 daughters taken with loving care.
60:5 Then you will see, and be bright with joy, and your heart
 will be shaking with increase of delight: for the produce of
 the sea will be turned to you, the wealth of the nations will
 come to you.
60:6 You will be full of camel-trains, even the young camels of
 Midian and Ephah; all from Sheba will come, with gold and
 spices, giving word of the great acts of the Lord.
60:7 All the flocks of Kedar will come together to you, the
 sheep of Nebaioth will be ready for your need; they will be
 pleasing offerings on my altar, and my house of prayer will be
 beautiful.
60:8 Who are these coming like a cloud, like a flight of doves
 to their windows?
60:9 Vessels of the sea-lands are waiting for me, and the ships
 of Tarshish first, so that your sons may come from far, and
 their silver and gold with them, to the place of the name of
 the Lord your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he
 has made you beautiful.
60:10 And men from strange countries will be building up your
 walls, and their kings will be your servants: for in my wrath I
 sent punishment on you, but in my grace I have had mercy on
 you.
60:11 Your doors will be open at all times; they will not be
 shut day or night; so that men may come into you with the
 wealth of the nations, with their kings at their head.
60:12 For the nation or kingdom which will not be your servant
 will come to destruction; such nations will be completely
 waste.
60:13 The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the cypress, the
 plane, and the sherbin-tree together, to make my holy place
 beautiful; and the resting-place of my feet will be full of
 glory.
60:14 And the sons of those who were cruel to you will come
 before you with bent heads; and those who made sport of you
 will go down on their faces at your feet; and you will be
 named, The Town of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of
 Israel.
60:15 And though you were turned away from, and hated, and had
 no helper, I will make you a pride for ever, a joy from
 generation to generation.
60:16 And you will take the milk of the nations, flowing from
 the breast of kings; and you will see that I, the Lord, am your
 saviour, and he who takes up your cause, the Strong One of
 Jacob.
60:17 In place of brass, I will give gold, and for iron silver,
 and for wood brass, and for stones iron: and I will make Peace
 your judge, and Righteousness your overseer.
60:18 Violent acts will no longer be seen in your land, wasting
 or destruction in your limits; but your walls will be named,
 Salvation, and your doors Praise.
60:19 The sun will not be your light by day, and the moon will
 no longer be bright for you by night: but the Lord will be to
 you an eternal light, and your God your glory.
60:20 Your sun will never again go down, or your moon keep back
 her light: for the Lord will be your eternal light, and the
 days of your sorrow will be ended.
60:21 Your people will all be upright, the land will be their
 heritage for ever; the branch of my planting, the work of my
 hands, to be for my glory.
60:22 The smallest of their families will become a thousand, and
 a small one a strong nation: I, the Lord, will make it come
 quickly in its time.
61:1 The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by
 him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the
 broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made
 free, and that those in chains will see the light again;
61:2 To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure
 has come, and the day of punishment from our God; to give
 comfort to all who are sad;
61:3 To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of
 joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of
 sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the
 planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.
61:4 And they will be building again the old broken walls, and
 will make new the old waste places, and will put up again the
 towns which have been waste for long generations.
61:5 And men from strange countries will be your herdsmen, and
 those who are not Israelites will be your ploughmen and
 vine-keepers.
61:6 But you will be named the priests of the Lord, the servants
 of our God: you will have the wealth of the nations for your
 food, and you will be clothed with their glory.
61:7 As they had twice as much grief, and marks of shame were
 their heritage, so in their land they will be rewarded twice
 over, and will have eternal joy.
61:8 For I, the Lord, take pleasure in upright judging; I will
 not put up with the violent taking away of right; and I will
 certainly give them their reward, and I will make an eternal
 agreement with them.
61:9 And their seed will be noted among the nations, and their
 offspring among the peoples: it will be clear to all who see
 them that they are the seed to which the Lord has given his
 blessing.
61:10 I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in
 my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation,
 covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts
 on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful
 with jewels.
61:11 For as the earth puts out buds, and as the garden gives
 growth to the seeds which are planted in it, so the Lord will
 make righteousness and praise to be flowering before all the
 nations.
62:1 Because of Zion I will not keep quiet, and because of
 Jerusalem I will take no rest, till her righteousness goes out
 like the shining of the sun, and her salvation like a burning
 light.
62:2 And the nations will see your righteousness, and all kings
 your glory: and you will have a new name, given by the mouth of
 the Lord.
62:3 And you will be a fair crown in the hand of the Lord, and a
 king's head-dress in the hand of your God.
62:4 You will not now be named, She who is given up; and your
 land will no longer be named, The waste land: but you will have
 the name, My pleasure is in her, and your land will be named,
 Married: for the Lord has pleasure in you, and your land will
 be married.
62:5 For as a young man takes a virgin for his wife, so will
 your maker be married to you: and as a husband has joy in his
 bride, so will the Lord your God be glad over you.
62:6 I have put watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will
 not keep quiet day or night: you who are the Lord's recorders,
 take no rest,
62:7 And give him no rest, till he puts Jerusalem in her place
 to be praised in the earth.
62:8 The Lord has taken an oath by his right hand, and by the
 arm of his strength, Truly, I will no longer give your grain to
 be food for your haters; and men of strange countries will not
 take the wine for which your work has been done:
62:9 But those who have got in the grain will have it for their
 food, and will give praise to the Lord; and those who have got
 in the grapes will take the wine of them in the open places of
 my holy house.
62:10 Go through, go through the doors; make ready the way of
 the people; let the highway be lifted up; let the stones be
 taken away; let a flag be lifted up over the peoples.
62:11 The Lord has sent out word to the end of the earth, Say to
 the daughter of Zion, See, your saviour comes; those whom he
 has made free are with him, and those to whom he has given
 salvation go before him.
62:12 And they will be named, The holy people, Those whose cause
 has been taken up by the Lord: and you will be named, Desired,
 A town not given up.
63:1 Who is this who comes from Edom, with blood-red robes from
 Bozrah? he whose clothing is fair, stepping with pride in his
 great strength? I whose glory is in the right, strong for
 salvation.
63:2 Why is your clothing red, and why are your robes like those
 of one who is crushing the grapes?
63:3 I have been crushing the grapes by myself, and of the
 peoples there was no man with me: in my wrath and in my
 passion, they were crushed under my feet; and my robes are
 marked with their life-blood, and all my clothing is red.
63:4 For the day of punishment is in my heart, and the year for
 the payment of the price for my people has come.
63:5 And I saw that there was no helper, and I was wondering
 that no one gave them support: so my arm did the work of
 salvation, and my wrath was my support.
63:6 And in my passion the peoples were crushed under my feet,
 and broken in my wrath, and I put down their strength to the
 earth.
63:7 I will give news of the mercies of the Lord, and his great
 acts, even all the things the Lord has done for us, in his
 great grace to the house of Israel; even all he has done for us
 in his unnumbered mercies.
63:8 For he said, Truly they are my people, children who will
 not be false: so he was their saviour out of all their trouble.
63:9 It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their
 saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause,
 and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the
 years.
63:10 But they went against him, causing grief to his holy
 spirit: so he was turned against them, and made war on them.
63:11 Then the early days came to their minds, the days of Moses
 his servant: and they said, Where is he who made the keeper of
 his flock come up from the sea? where is he who put his holy
 spirit among them,
63:12 He who made the arm of his glory go at the right hand of
 Moses, by whom the waters were parted before them, to make
 himself an eternal name;
63:13 He who made them go through the deep waters, like a horse
 in the waste land?
63:14 Like the cattle which go down into the valley, they went
 without falling, the spirit of the Lord guiding them: so you
 went before your people, to make yourself a great name.
63:15 Let your eyes be looking down from heaven, from your holy
 and beautiful house: where is your deep feeling, the working of
 your power? do not keep back the moving of your pity and your
 mercies:
63:16 For you are our father, though Abraham has no knowledge of
 us, and Israel gives no thought to us: you, O Lord, are our
 father; from the earliest days you have taken up our cause.
63:17 O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways,
 making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come
 back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.
63:18 Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it
 has been crushed under the feet of our haters?
63:19 We have become as those who were never ruled by you, on
 whom your name was not named.
64:1 O let the heavens be broken open and come down, so that the
 mountains may be shaking before you,
64:2 As when fire puts the brushwood in flames, or as when water
 is boiling from the heat of the fire: to make your name feared
 by your haters, so that the nations may be shaking before you;
64:3 While you do acts of power for which we are not looking,
 and which have not come to the ears of men in the past.
64:4 The ear has not had news of, or the eye seen, ... any God
 but you, working for the man who is waiting for him.
64:5 Will you not have mercy on him who takes pleasure in doing
 righteousness, even on those who keep in mind your ways? Truly
 you were angry, and we went on doing evil, and sinning against
 you in the past.
64:6 For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our
 good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old
 like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.
64:7 And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who
 is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us,
 and you have given us into the power of our sins.
64:8 But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and
 you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.
64:9 Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind
 for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people.
64:10 Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a
 waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls.
64:11 Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers gave
 praise to you, is burned with fire; and all the things of our
 desire have come to destruction.
64:12 In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord?
 will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment?
65:1 I have been ready to give an answer to those who did not
 make prayer to me; I have been offering myself to those who
 were not searching for me; I said, Here am I, here am I, to a
 nation which gave no respect to my name.
65:2 All day my hands have been stretched out to an uncontrolled
 people, who go in an evil way, after the purposes of their
 hearts;
65:3 A people who make me angry every day, making offerings in
 gardens, and burning perfumes on bricks.
65:4 Who are seated in the resting-places of the dead, and by
 night are in the secret places; who take pig's flesh for food,
 and have the liquid of disgusting things in their vessels.
65:5 Who say, Keep away, do not come near me, for fear that I
 make you holy: these are a smoke in my nose, a fire burning all
 day.
65:6 See, it is recorded before me, says the Lord: I will not
 keep back my hand, till I have sent punishment,
65:7 For their sins and the sins of their fathers, who were
 burning perfumes on the mountains, and saying evil things
 against me on the hills: so I will take the measure of their
 sins, and will send the punishment for them into their breast.
65:8 This is the word of the Lord: As the new wine is seen in
 the grapes, and they say, Do not send destruction on it, for a
 blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants, in order that
 I may not put an end to them all.
65:9 And I will take a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah one
 who will have my mountains for a heritage: and the people I
 have taken to be mine will have it for themselves, and my
 servants will have their resting-place there.
65:10 And Sharon will be a grass-land for the flocks, and the
 valley of Achor a resting-place for the herds: for my people
 whose hearts have been turned back to me.
65:11 But as for you who have given up the Lord, who have no
 care for my holy mountain, who get ready a table for Chance,
 and make offerings of mixed wine to Fate;
65:12 Your fate will be the sword, and you will all go down to
 death: because when my voice came to you, you made no answer;
 you did not give ear to my word; but you did what was evil in
 my eyes, desiring what was not pleasing to me.
65:13 For this cause says the Lord God, My servants will have
 food, but you will be in need of food: my servants will have
 drink, but you will be dry: my servants will have joy, but you
 will be shamed:
65:14 My servants will make songs in the joy of their hearts,
 but you will be crying for sorrow, and making sounds of grief
 from a broken spirit.
65:15 And your name will become a curse to my people, and the
 Lord God will put you to death, and give his servants another
 name:
65:16 So that he who is requesting a blessing will make use of
 the name of the true God, and he who takes an oath will do so
 by the true God; because the past troubles are gone out of
 mind, and because they are covered from my eyes.
65:17 For see, I am making a new heaven and a new earth: and the
 past things will be gone completely out of mind.
65:18 But men will be glad and have joy for ever in what I am
 making; for I am making Jerusalem a delight, and her people a
 joy.
65:19 And I will be glad over Jerusalem, and have joy in my
 people: and the voice of weeping will no longer be sounding in
 her, or the voice of grief.
65:20 No longer will there be there a child whose days are cut
 short, or an old man whose days have not come to their full
 measure: for the young man at his death will be a hundred years
 old, and he whose life is shorter than a hundred years will
 seem as one cursed.
65:21 And they will be building houses and living in them;
 planting vine-gardens and getting the fruit of them.
65:22 They will no longer be building for the use of others, or
 planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my
 people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will
 have joy in full measure in the work of their hands.
65:23 Their work will not be for nothing, and they will not give
 birth to children for destruction; for they are a seed to whom
 the Lord has given his blessing, and their offspring will be
 with them.
65:24 And before they make their request I will give an answer,
 and while they are still making prayer to me, I will give ear.
65:25 The wolf and the lamb will take their food together, and
 the lion will make a meal of grass like the ox: but dust will
 be the snake's food. There will be no cause of pain or
 destruction in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.
66:1 The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is
 the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make
 for me, and what place will be my resting-place?
66:2 For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine,
 says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to
 him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.
66:3 He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who
 makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a
 meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an
 offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as
 they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes
 pleasure in their disgusting things;
66:4 So I will go after trouble for them, and will send on them
 what they are fearing: because no one made answer to my voice,
 or gave ear to my word; but they did what was evil in my eyes,
 going after that in which I took no pleasure.
66:5 Give ear to the word of the Lord, you who are in fear at
 his word: your countrymen, hating you, and driving you out
 because of my name, have said, Let the Lord's glory be made
 clear, so that we may see your joy; but they will be put to
 shame.
66:6 There is a noise of war from the town, a sound from the
 Temple, the voice of the Lord giving punishment to his haters.
66:7 Before her pains came, she gave birth; before her pains,
 she gave birth to a man-child.
66:8 When has such a story come to men's ears? who has seen such
 things? will a land come to birth in one day? will a nation be
 given birth in a minute? For when Zion's pains came on her, she
 gave birth to her children straight away.
66:9 Will I by whom the birth was started, not make it complete?
 says the Lord. Will I who make children come to birth, let them
 be kept back? says your God.
66:10 Have joy with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you her
 lovers: take part in her joy, all you who are sorrowing for
 her:
66:11 So that you may take of the comfort flowing from her
 breasts, and be delighted with the full measure of her glory.
66:12 For the Lord says, See, I will make her peace like a
 river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream,
 and she will take her children in her arms, gently caring for
 them on her knees.
66:13 As to one who is comforted by his mother, so will I give
 you comfort: and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.
66:14 And you will see it and your heart will be glad, and your
 bones will get new strength, like young grass: and the hand of
 the Lord will be seen at work for his servants, and his wrath
 against his haters.
66:15 For the Lord is coming with fire, and his war-carriages
 will be like the storm-wind; to give punishment in the heat of
 his wrath, and his passion is like flames of fire.
66:16 For with fire and sword will the Lord come, judging all
 the earth, and his sword will be on all flesh: and great
 numbers will be put to death by him.
66:17 As for those who keep themselves separate, and make
 themselves clean in the gardens, going after one in the middle,
 taking pig's flesh for food, and other disgusting things, such
 as the mouse: their works and their thoughts will come to an
 end together, says the Lord.
66:18 And I am coming to get together all nations and tongues:
 and they will come and will see my glory.
66:19 And I will put a sign among them, and I will send those
 who are still living to the nations, to Tarshish, Put, and Lud,
 Meshech and Rosh, Tubal and Javan, to the sea-lands far away,
 who have not had word of me, or seen my glory; and they will
 give the knowledge of my glory to the nations.
66:20 And they will take your countrymen out of all the nations
 for an offering to the Lord, on horses, and in carriages, and
 in carts, and on asses, and on camels, to my holy mountain
 Jerusalem, says the Lord, as the children of Israel take their
 offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord.
66:21 And some of them will I take for priests and Levites, says
 the Lord.
66:22 For as the new heaven and the new earth which I will make
 will be for ever before me, says the Lord, so will your seed
 and your name be for ever.
66:23 And it will be, that from new moon to new moon, and from
 Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh will come to give worship before
 me, says the Lord.
66:24 And they will go out to see the dead bodies of the men who
 have done evil against me: for their worm will ever be living,
 and their fire will never be put out, and they will be a thing
 of fear to all flesh.
