THE BOOK OF
ISAIAH
CHAPTERS 51-66
1 ¶ Hearken to me, ye that follow after
righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn,
and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
2 Look unto
Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and
blessed him, and increased him.
3 For the LORD
shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will
make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy
and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
4 ¶ Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O
my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest
for a light of the people.
5 My
righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall
they trust.
6 Lift up your
eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall
vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they
that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for
ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
7
Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart
is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their
revilings.
8 For the moth
shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my
righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to
generation.
9 ¶ Awake, awake, put on strength, O
arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art
thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
10 Art thou not
it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the
depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
11
Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing
unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain
gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
12 I, even I, am
he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man
that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;
13
And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the
heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually
every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy?
and where is the fury of the oppressor?
14 The captive
exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
15 But I am the
LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is
his name.
16 And I have put
my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that
I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
17 ¶ Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast
drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs
of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
18 There is none
to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither
is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought
up.
19 These two
things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and
destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
20 Thy sons have
fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy
God.
21 Therefore hear
now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
22 Thus saith thy
Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I
have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of
my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
23
But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said
to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the
ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
1 ¶ Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy
beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for
henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the
unclean.
2 Shake thyself
from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands
of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
3 For thus saith
the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed
without money.
4 For thus saith
the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and
the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
5 Now therefore,
what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they
that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name
continually every day is blasphemed.
6 Therefore my
people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he
that doth speak: behold, it is I.
7 ¶ How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him
that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings
of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy
God reigneth!
8 Thy watchmen
shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they
shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
9 Break forth
into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath
comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
10
The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and
all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
11 Depart ye,
depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the
midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
12 For ye shall
not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.
13 ¶ Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be
exalted and extolled, and be very high.
14 As many were
astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more
than the sons of men:
15
So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at
him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they
had not heard shall they consider.
1 ¶ Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm
of the LORD revealed?
2
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a
dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is
no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised
and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as
it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 ¶ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our
sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was
wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own
way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was
oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as
a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he
openeth not his mouth.
8
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his
generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the
transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his
grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no
violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 ¶ Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise
him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for
sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the
LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see
of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my
righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall
divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto
death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.
1 ¶ Sing, O barren, thou that didst not
bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with
child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the
married wife, saith the LORD.
2 Enlarge the
place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine
habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
3
For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy
seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
4 Fear not; for
thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be
put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not
remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
5
For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy
Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
6 ¶ For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and
grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
7 For a small
moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
8 In a little
wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will
I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
9 For this is as
the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should
no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
10 For the
mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart
from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD
that hath mercy on thee.
11 ¶ O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not
comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours,
and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
12 And I will
make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of
pleasant stones.
13 And all thy
children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy
children.
14
In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from
oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come
near thee.
15 Behold, they
shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together
against thee shall fall for thy sake.
16 Behold, I have
created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth
forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
17 No weapon that
is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against
thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of
the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
1 ¶ Ho, every one that thirsteth, come
ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come,
buy wine and milk without money and without price.
2 Wherefore do ye
spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which
satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
3 Incline your
ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an
everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
4 Behold, I have
given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.
5
Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that
knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy
One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.
6 ¶ Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon
him while he is near:
7 Let the wicked
forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him
return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he
will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts
are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
9 For as the
heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For as the
rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but
watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to
the sower, and bread to the eater:
11 So shall my
word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it
shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
12 For ye shall go
out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall
break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap
their hands.
13
Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the
brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name,
for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
1 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do
justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my
righteousness to be revealed.
2 Blessed is the
man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth
the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
3 ¶ Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined
himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his
people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
4 For thus saith
the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that
please me, and take hold of my covenant;
5 Even unto them
will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of
sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
6 Also the sons
of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love
the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath
from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
7 Even them will
I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of
prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine
altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
8 The Lord GOD
which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him,
beside those that are gathered unto him.
9 ¶ All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all
ye beasts in the forest.
10
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs,
they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
11 Yea, they are
greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot
understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his
quarter.
12
Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with
strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
1 ¶ The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to
heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is
taken away from the evil to come.
2
He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one
walking in his uprightness.
3 ¶ But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the
seed of the adulterer and the whore.
4 Against whom do
ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw
out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
5 Enflaming
yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the
valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
6 Among the
smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to
them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering.
Should I receive comfort in these?
7 Upon a lofty
and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer
sacrifice.
8 Behind the
doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast
discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed
where thou sawest it.
9 And thou
wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst
send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.
10 Thou art
wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou
wast not grieved.
11 And of whom
hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered
me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou
fearest me not?
12 I will declare
thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
13 ¶ When thou criest, let thy
companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall
take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and
shall inherit my holy mountain;
14 And shall say,
Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the
way of my people.
15
For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose
name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a
contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive
the heart of the contrite ones.
16 For I will not
contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should
fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
17 ¶ For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth,
and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of
his heart.
18 I have seen
his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto
him and to his mourners.
19
I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and
to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.
20 But the wicked
are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and
dirt.
21 There is no
peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
1 ¶ Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a
trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their
sins.
2 Yet they seek
me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and
forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances
of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
3 ¶ Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest
not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold,
in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
4 Behold, ye fast
for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard
on high.
5 Is it such a fast
that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his
head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call
this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
6 Is not this the
fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye
break every yoke?
7 Is it not to
deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to
thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide
not thyself from thine own flesh?
8 ¶ Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and
thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy
righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
9 Then shalt thou
call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am.
If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the
finger, and speaking vanity;
10
And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted
soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the
noonday:
11 And the LORD
shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy
bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water,
whose waters fail not.
12
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou
shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called,
The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
13 ¶ If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from
doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of
the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine
own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
14 Then shalt
thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high
places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for
the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
1 ¶ Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot
save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
2 But your
iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his
face from you, that he will not hear.
3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
4 None calleth
for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies;
they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch
cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
6 Their webs
shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their
works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their
hands.
7 Their feet run
to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their
paths.
8 The way of
peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made
them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
9 ¶ Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth
justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness,
but we walk in darkness.
10
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes:
we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
11 We roar all
like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none;
for salvation, but it is far off from us.
12 For our
transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities,
we know them;
13 In
transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God,
speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of
falsehood.
14 And judgment
is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
15 Yea, truth
faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD
saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
16 ¶ And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that
there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his
righteousness, it sustained him.
17 For he put on
righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and
he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a
cloke.
18 According to
their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence
to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
19 So shall they
fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the
sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall
lift up a standard against him.
20 And the
Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression
in Jacob, saith the LORD.
21 As for me,
this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and
my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor
out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith
the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
1 ¶ Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of
the LORD is risen upon thee.
2 For, behold,
the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD
shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
3 And the
Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
4
Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves
together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters
shall be nursed at thy side.
5 Then thou shalt
see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the
abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of
the Gentiles shall come unto thee.
6 The multitude
of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from
Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth
the praises of the LORD.
7 All the flocks
of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on
mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
8 Who are these
that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
9 ¶ Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of
Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with
them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One
of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
10 And the sons
of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto
thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
11 Therefore thy
gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men
may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.
12 For the nation
and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly
wasted.
13 The glory of
Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box
together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of
my feet glorious.
14 The sons also
of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that
despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they
shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
15 ¶ Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that
no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal
excellency, a joy of many generations.
16 Thou shalt
also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and
thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One
of Jacob.
17 For brass I
will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and
thine exactors righteousness.
18 Violence shall
no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but
thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
19 The sun shall
be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an
everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
20 Thy sun shall
no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be
thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
21 Thy people
also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be
glorified.
22 A little one
shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will
hasten it in his time.
1 ¶ The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the
LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek;
he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the
captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
2 To proclaim the
acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort
all that mourn;
3
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for
ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of
heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of
the LORD, that he might be glorified.
4 ¶ And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise
up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste
cities, the desolations of many generations.
5 And strangers
shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your
plowmen and your vinedressers.
6 But ye shall be
named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye
shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
7 For your shame
ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion:
therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be
unto them.
8 For I the LORD
love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct
their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
9 And their seed
shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all
that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD
hath blessed.
10 ¶ I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be
joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of
salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom
decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her
jewels.
11 For as the
earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are
sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
1 ¶ For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for
Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as
brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
2
And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory:
and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
3 Thou shalt also
be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of
thy God.
4 Thou shalt no
more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed
Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD
delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
5 For as a young
man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom
rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
6 ¶ I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem,
which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that
make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
7 And give him no
rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
8 The LORD hath
sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more
give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:
9 But they that
have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought
it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.
10 ¶ Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way
of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a
standard for the people.
11
Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to
the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with
him, and his work before him.
12 And they shall
call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called,
Sought out, A city not forsaken.
1 ¶ Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments
from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness
of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
2 Wherefore art
thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
3 I have trodden
the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread
them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be
sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
4 For the day of
vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
5
And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was
none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury,
it upheld me.
6 And I will
tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will
bring down their strength to the earth.
7 ¶ I will mention the lovingkindnesses
of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath
bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he
hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude
of his lovingkindnesses.
8 For he said,
Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
9 In all their
affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his
love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all
the days of old.
10 But they
rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
11 Then he
remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that
brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that
put his holy Spirit within him?
12 That led them
by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water
before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
13 That led them
through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
14 As a beast
goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst
thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
15 ¶ Look down from heaven, and behold
from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy
strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they
restrained?
16 Doubtless thou
art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us
not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
17 O LORD, why
hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear?
Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
18 The people of
thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden
down thy sanctuary.
19
We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by
thy name.
1 ¶ Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou
wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
2
As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil,
to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at
thy presence!
3 When thou didst
terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed
down at thy presence.
4 For since the
beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear,
neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him
that waiteth for him.
5 Thou meetest
him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy
ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and
we shall be saved.
6 ¶ But we are all as an unclean thing,
and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf;
and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
7 And there is
none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee:
for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our
iniquities.
8
But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter;
and we all are the work of thy hand.
9 Be not wroth
very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech
thee, we are all thy people.
10 Thy holy
cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee,
is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
12 Wilt thou
refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict
us very sore?
1 ¶ I am sought of them that asked not
for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me,
unto a nation that was not called by my name.
2 I have spread
out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that
was not good, after their own thoughts;
3 A people that
provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
4 Which remain
among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and
broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
5 Which say,
Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a
smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
6
Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will
recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
7 Your
iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which
have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills:
therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
8 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, As the new
wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is
in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
9 And I will
bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains:
and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
10
And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place
for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
11 ¶ But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget
my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the
drink offering unto that number.
12 Therefore will
I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter:
because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did
evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.
13 Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry:
behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants
shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:
14
Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for
sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
15 And ye shall
leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee,
and call his servants by another name:
16 That he who
blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of
truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from
mine eyes.
17 ¶ For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth:
and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
18 But be ye glad
and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
19 And I will
rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be
no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
20 There shall be
no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days:
for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
21 And they shall
build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the
fruit of them.
22 They shall not
build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the
days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
23 They shall not
labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the
blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
24 And it shall
come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet
speaking, I will hear.
25
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw
like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor
destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
1 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the
earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto
me? and where is the place of my rest?
2 For all those
things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but
to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and
trembleth at my word.
3 He that killeth
an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered
swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they
have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
4 I also will
choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I
called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
5 ¶ Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his
word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said,
Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be
ashamed.
6 A voice of
noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
7 Before she
travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man
child.
8 Who hath heard
such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth
in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion
travailed, she brought forth her children.
9 Shall I bring
to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to
bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.
10 Rejoice ye
with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy
with her, all ye that mourn for her:
11
That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations;
that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
12 For thus saith
the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the
Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her
sides, and be dandled upon her knees.
13
As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall
be comforted in Jerusalem.
14 And when ye
see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb:
and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his
indignation toward his enemies.
15 ¶ For, behold, the LORD will come
with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with
fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire
and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD
shall be many.
17 They that
sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination,
and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know
their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations
and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
19 And I will set
a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to
Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither
have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
20 And they shall
bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon
horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the
children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the
LORD.
21 And I will
also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the LORD.
22 For as the new
heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the
LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.
23
And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from
one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the
LORD.
24 And they shall
go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against
me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and
they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.