THE BOOK OF
ISAIAH
CHAPTERS 34-50
1 ¶ Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye
people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things
that come forth of it.
2 For the
indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them
to the slaughter.
3 Their slain
also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases,
and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4 And all the
host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as
a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
5 For my sword
shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the
people of my curse, to judgment.
6 The sword of
the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood
of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of
Idumea.
7 And the
unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their
land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
8 For it is the
day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of
Zion.
9 ¶ And the streams thereof shall be
turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof
shall become burning pitch.
10 It shall not
be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from
generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for
ever and ever.
11
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the
raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of
confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
12 They shall
call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her
princes shall be nothing.
13
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the
fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for
owls.
14 The wild
beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and
the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and
find for herself a place of rest.
15
There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather
under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her
mate.
16 Seek ye out of
the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her
mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
17
And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto
them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation
shall they dwell therein.
1 ¶ The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad
for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the
rose.
2 It shall
blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon
shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the
glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
3 Strengthen ye
the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
4
Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold,
your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and
save you.
5 ¶ Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the
ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
6 Then shall the
lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the
desert.
7 And the parched
ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the
habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
8 And an highway
shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness;
the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring
men, though fools, shall not err therein.
9 No lion shall
be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found
there; but the redeemed shall walk there:
10 And the
ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and
gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
1 ¶ Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king
Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced
cities of Judah, and took them.
2
And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto
king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool
in the highway of the fuller's field.
3 Then came forth
unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the
scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.
4
And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the
great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
5 I say, sayest
thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on
whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
6 Lo, thou
trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of
Egypt to all that trust in him.
7 But if thou say
to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose
altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall
worship before this altar?
8
Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria,
and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set
riders upon them.
9 How then wilt
thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants,
and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
10 And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy
it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
11 ¶ Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto
Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we
understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the
people that are on the wall.
12
But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to
speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that
they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
13 Then Rabshakeh
stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the
words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
14
Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be
able to deliver you.
15 Neither let
Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us:
this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
16 Hearken not to
Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with
me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and
every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own
cistern;
17 Until I come
and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land
of bread and vineyards.
18 Beware lest
Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of
the king of Assyria?
19 Where are the
gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they
delivered Samaria out of my hand?
20 Who are they
among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my
hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
21
But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's
commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
22 Then came
Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the
scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their
clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
1 ¶ And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it,
that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the
house of the LORD.
2 And he sent
Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of
the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
3 And they said
unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and
of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength
to bring forth.
4 It may be the
LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria
his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words
which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant
that is left.
5 So the servants
of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 And Isaiah said
unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the LORD,
Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the
king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7 Behold, I will
send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land;
and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
8 ¶ So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria
warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed
from Lachish.
9 And he heard
say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with
thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
10 Thus shall ye
speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou
trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11 Behold, thou
hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them
utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?
12 Have the gods
of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and
Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
13
Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the
city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
14 And Hezekiah
received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah
went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
15 And Hezekiah
prayed unto the LORD, saying,
16
O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims,
thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast
made heaven and earth.
17 Incline thine
ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words
of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.
18
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations,
and their countries,
19 And have cast
their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands,
wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
20 Now therefore,
O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of
the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.
21 ¶ Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah,
saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me
against Sennacherib king of Assyria:
22 This is the
word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of
Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
23 Whom hast thou
reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and
lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
24 By thy
servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to
the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the
choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and
the forest of his Carmel.
25 I have digged,
and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of
the besieged places.
26
Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times,
that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to
lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
27 Therefore
their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they
were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
28 But I know thy
abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
29 Because thy
rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I
put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
30 And this shall
be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the
second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and
reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
31 And the
remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
32 For out of
Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the
zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
33 Therefore thus
saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this
city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.
34 By the way
that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city,
saith the LORD.
35 For I will
defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
36
Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the
Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early
in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
37 So Sennacherib
king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
38
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his
god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they
escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
1 ¶ In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And
Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said
unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die,
and not live.
2 Then Hezekiah
turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,
3 And said,
Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth
and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
4 Then came the
word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,
5 Go, and say to
Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer,
I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
6
And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of
Assyria: and I will defend this city.
7 And this shall
be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he
hath spoken;
8 Behold, I will
bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun
dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which
degrees it was gone down.
9 ¶ The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had
been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
10 I said in the
cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
11 I said, I
shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall
behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
12 Mine age is
departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a
weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
13 I reckoned
till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to
night wilt thou make an end of me.
14 Like a crane
or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with
looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
15
What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it:
I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
16 O Lord, by
these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so
wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
17 Behold, for
peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered
it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
18 For the grave
cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the
pit cannot hope for thy truth.
19 The living,
the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
20 The LORD was ready
to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the
days of our life in the house of the LORD.
21 For Isaiah had
said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil,
and he shall recover.
22
Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house
of the LORD?
1 ¶ At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan,
king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that
he had been sick, and was recovered.
2 And Hezekiah
was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver,
and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of
his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his
house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
3
Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What
said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They
are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon.
4 Then said he,
What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine
house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have
not shewed them.
5 ¶ Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the
LORD of hosts:
6 Behold, the
days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have
laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be
left, saith the LORD.
7
And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget,
shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of
Babylon.
8 Then said Hezekiah
to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. He said
moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.
1 ¶ Comfort ye, comfort ye my people,
saith your God.
2 Speak ye
comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished,
that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double
for all her sins.
3 ¶ The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a
highway for our God.
4 Every valley
shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the
crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
5 And the glory
of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the
mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
6
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass,
and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
7 The grass
withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it:
surely the people is grass.
8 The grass
withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
9 ¶ O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into
the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice
with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold
your God!
10 Behold, the
Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him:
behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
11 He shall feed
his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry
them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
12 ¶ Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his
hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the
earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and
the hills in a balance?
13 Who hath
directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
14 With whom took
he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and
taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
15 Behold, the
nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the
balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
16 And Lebanon is
not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
17
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less
than nothing, and vanity.
18 ¶ To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness
will ye compare unto him?
19 The workman melteth
a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth
silver chains.
20
He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that
will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image,
that shall not be moved.
21 Have ye not
known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye
not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants
thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and
spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
23 That bringeth
the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
24
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their
stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and
they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
25 To whom then
will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
26 Lift up your
eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth
out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his
might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
27 ¶ Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My
way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
28 Hast thou not
known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the
Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no
searching of his understanding.
29 He giveth
power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
30 Even the
youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31
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.
1 ¶ Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people
renew their strength: let them come near; then let them
speak: let us come near together to judgment.
2 Who raised up
the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations
before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his
sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
3 He pursued
them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.
4 Who hath
wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD,
the first, and with the last; I am he.
5 The isles saw
it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.
6
They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother,
Be of good courage.
7 So the
carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him
that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it
with nails, that it should not be moved.
8
But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of
Abraham my friend.
9 Thou whom I
have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men
thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not
cast thee away.
10 ¶ Fear thou not; for I am with thee:
be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help
thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
11 Behold, all
they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they
shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.
12
Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended
with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of
nought.
13 For I the LORD
thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
14 Fear not, thou
worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD,
and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
15 Behold, I will
make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the
mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
16 Thou shalt fan
them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them:
and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One
of Israel.
17 When the poor
and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I
the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
18 I will open
rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make
the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
19
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the
myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine,
and the box tree together:
20 That they may
see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD
hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
21 ¶ Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your
strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
22 Let them bring
them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things,
what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or
declare us things for to come.
23 Shew the
things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it
together.
24 Behold, ye are
of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
25 I have raised
up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he
call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
26 Who hath
declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say,
He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that
declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.
27 The first shall
say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
28 For I beheld,
and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when
I asked of them, could answer a word.
29 Behold, they
are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and
confusion.
1 ¶ Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom
my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth
judgment to the Gentiles.
2 He shall not
cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
3 A bruised reed
shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall
bring forth judgment unto truth.
4 He shall not
fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles
shall wait for his law.
5 ¶ Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens,
and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh
out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and
spirit to them that walk therein:
6 I the LORD have
called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and
give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
7 To open the
blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in
darkness out of the prison house.
8
I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another,
neither my praise to graven images.
9 Behold, the
former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring
forth I tell you of them.
10 Sing unto the
LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that
go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants
thereof.
11 Let the
wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar
doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top
of the mountains.
12 Let them give
glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.
13 ¶ The LORD shall go forth as a
mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea,
roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.
14 I have long
time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry
like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
15 I will make
waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
16 And I will
bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that
they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things
straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
17 They shall be
turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images,
that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
18 ¶ Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
19 Who is blind,
but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that
is perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant?
20 Seeing many
things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
21 The LORD is well
pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it
honourable.
22 But this is a
people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are
hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
23 Who among you
will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
24 Who gave Jacob
for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we
have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they
obedient unto his law.
25 Therefore he
hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it
hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he
laid it not to heart.
1 ¶ But now thus saith the LORD that
created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have
redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
2 When thou
passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they
shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
3 For I am the
LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom,
Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
4 Since thou wast
precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee:
therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.
5
Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and
gather thee from the west;
6 I will say to
the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far,
and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
7 Even every one
that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
8 ¶ Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the
deaf that have ears.
9 Let all the
nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them
can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their
witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
10
Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen:
that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there
was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
11 I, even I, am
the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
12 I have
declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD,
that I am God.
13 Yea, before
the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will
work, and who shall let it?
14 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of
Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their
nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.
15 I am the LORD,
your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
16 Thus saith the
LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
17 Which bringeth
forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie
down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.
18 Remember ye
not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
19 Behold, I will
do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even
make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
20 The beast of
the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give
drink to my people, my chosen.
21 This people
have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.
22 ¶ But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou
hast been weary of me, O Israel.
23
Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings;
neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to
serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.
24 Thou hast
bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of
thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
25 I, even I, am
he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not
remember thy sins.
26 Put me in
remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be
justified.
27
Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against
me.
28 Therefore I
have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse,
and Israel to reproaches.
1 ¶ Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I
have chosen:
2
Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which
will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have
chosen.
3 For I will pour
water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my
spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:
4 And they shall
spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
5
One shall say, I am the LORD'S; and another shall call himself by the
name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and
surname himself by the name of Israel.
6 Thus saith the
LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first,
and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
7
And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for
me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and
shall come, let them shew unto them.
8 Fear ye not,
neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it?
ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
9 ¶ They that make a graven image are all of them vanity;
and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses;
they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
10 Who hath formed
a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
11
Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of
men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear,
and they shall be ashamed together.
12 The smith with
the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and
worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.
13 The carpenter
stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with
planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure
of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
14 He heweth him
down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth
for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain
doth nourish it.
15 Then shall it
be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he
kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he
maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.
16
He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh;
he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I
am warm, I have seen the fire:
17 And the
residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto
it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou
art my god.
18 They have not
known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and
their hearts, that they cannot understand.
19 And none
considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say,
I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I
make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a
tree?
20 He feedeth on
ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul,
nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
21 ¶ Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my
servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel,
thou shalt not be forgotten of me.
22 I have blotted
out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return
unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
23 Sing, O ye
heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break
forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
24 Thus saith the
LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that
maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth
abroad the earth by myself;
25 That frustrateth
the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise
men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
26 That
confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his
messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities
of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:
27 That saith to
the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
28
That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my
pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy
foundation shall be laid.
1 ¶ Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose
right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I
will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the
gates shall not be shut;
2 I will go before
thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of
brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
3 And I will give
thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy
name, am the God of Israel.
4 For Jacob my
servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I
have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
5 ¶ I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God
beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
6 That they may
know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside
me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
7 I form the
light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all
these things.
8
Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down
righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let
righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
9 Woe unto him
that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the
earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?
or thy work, He hath no hands?
10 Woe unto him
that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast
thou brought forth?
11 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his
Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of
my hands command ye me.
12
I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have
stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
13 I have raised
him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my
city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD
of hosts.
14
Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia
and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall
be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall
fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God
is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.
15
Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
16 They shall be
ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together
that are makers of idols.
17 But Israel
shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be
ashamed nor confounded world without end.
18
For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that
formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in
vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
19 I have not
spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of
Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things
that are right.
20 ¶ Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye
that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of
their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
21 Tell ye, and
bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared
this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD?
and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none
beside me.
22 Look unto me,
and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none
else.
23
I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in
righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every
tongue shall swear.
24 Surely, shall
one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men
come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
25 In the LORD
shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
1 ¶ Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon
the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a
burden to the weary beast.
2 They stoop,
they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone
into captivity.
3
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of
Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
4 And even to
your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and
I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
5 ¶ To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and
compare me, that we may be like?
6 They lavish
gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and
he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
7 They bear him
upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth;
from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
8 Remember this,
and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.
9 Remember the
former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there
is none like me,
10
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things
that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my
pleasure:
11 Calling a
ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far
country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed
it, I will also do it.
12
Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
13 I bring near
my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry:
and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
1 ¶ Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of
Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of
the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
2 Take the
millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the
thigh, pass over the rivers.
3 Thy nakedness
shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance,
and I will not meet thee as a man.
4 As for our
redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
5 Sit thou
silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt
no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
6 I was wroth
with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into
thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very
heavily laid thy yoke.
7 ¶ And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that
thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter
end of it.
8 Therefore hear
now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I
shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
9 But these two
things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and
widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of
thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
10
For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me.
Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine
heart, I am, and none else beside me.
11 Therefore
shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and
mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and
desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt
not know.
12 Stand now with
thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast
laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou
mayest prevail.
13 Thou art
wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee
from these things that shall come upon thee.
14 Behold, they
shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver
themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at,
nor fire to sit before it.
15
Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy
merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none
shall save thee.
1 ¶ Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the
name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by
the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel,
but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
2 For they call
themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The
LORD of hosts is his name.
3 I have declared
the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and
I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.
4
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew,
and thy brow brass;
5 I have even
from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it
thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image,
and my molten image, hath commanded them.
6
Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed
thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know
them.
7 They are
created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest
them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
8 Yea, thou
heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very
treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
9 ¶ For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for
my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
10 Behold, I have
refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
11 For mine own
sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted?
and I will not give my glory unto another.
12 Hearken unto
me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
13
Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand
hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
14 All ye,
assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The
LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on
the Chaldeans.
15
I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and
he shall make his way prosperous.
16 ¶ Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not
spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and
now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
17
Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD
thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou
shouldest go.
18 O that thou hadst
hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy
righteousness as the waves of the sea:
19
Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like
the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from
before me.
20 Go ye forth of
Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell
this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his
servant Jacob.
21
And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused
the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the
waters gushed out.
22 There is no
peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.
1 ¶ Listen, O isles, unto me; and
hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the
bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
2 And he hath
made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and
made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;
3
And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be
glorified.
4 Then I said, I
have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet
surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
5 And now, saith
the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to
him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the
eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.
6 And he said, It
is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of
Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a
light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the
earth.
7 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his
Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation
abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also
shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of
Israel, and he shall choose thee.
8 Thus saith the
LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I
helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the
desolate heritages;
9 That thou
mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew
yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all
high places.
10 They shall not
hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs
of water shall he guide them.
11 And I will
make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
12 Behold, these
shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these
from the land of Sinim.
13 ¶ Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O
earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted
his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
14 But Zion said,
The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
15 Can a woman
forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the
son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
16 Behold, I have
graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
17 Thy children shall
make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of
thee.
18 ¶ Lift up thine eyes round about,
and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live,
saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an
ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.
19 For thy waste
and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too
narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
20 The children
which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine
ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
21 Then shalt
thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my
children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where
had they been?
22 Thus saith the
Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my
standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy
daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
23 And kings
shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth,
and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for
they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
24 ¶ Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the
lawful captive delivered?
25 But thus saith
the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and
the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that
contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.
26 And I will
feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with
their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD
am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
1 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your
mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to
whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and
for your transgressions is your mother put away.
2
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none
to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no
power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a
wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for
thirst.
3 I clothe the
heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
4 ¶ The Lord GOD hath given me the
tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him
that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as
the learned.
5 The Lord GOD
hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
6
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off
the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
7 For the Lord
GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my
face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
8 He is near that
justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who
is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
9 Behold, the
Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax
old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
10 ¶ Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth
the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him
trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
11 Behold, all ye
that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the
light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have
of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.