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.