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