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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET 
 
 ISAIAH. 
 
 1 'T^HE vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, 
 J- which he saw concerning Judah and 
 Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, 
 and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 
 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth : 
 
 For the Lord hath spoken ; 
 
 I have nourished and brought up children, 
 
 And they have rebelled against me. 
 ^ The ox knoweth his owner. 
 
 And the ass his master's crib : 
 
 But Israel doth not know. 
 
 My people doth not consider. 
 ^ Ah sinful nation, a people '^ laden with in- 
 iquity, 
 
 A seed of evil doers, children that are cor- 
 rupters : 
 
 They have forsaken the Lord, 
 
 They have provoked the Holy One of Israel 
 unto anger, 
 
 They are * gone away backward. 
 
 a Ileb. of heaviness, b Heb. alienated, or, separated, Ps. 58. 3. 
 
 UOy -3 191 1 
 
 iCVutl Hi ■>t Jl' I 
 
ISAIAH, 1. 
 
 '-' Why should ye be stricken any more ? 
 Ye will <" revolt more and more : 
 The whole head is sick, and the whole heart 
 faint. 
 ^ From the sole of the foot even unto the head 
 tJiere is no soundness in it ; 
 But wounds, and bruises, and iDutrifjdug sores: 
 They have not been closed, neither bound up, 
 neither mollified with ^ ointment. 
 ' Your country is desolate. 
 Your cities m'e burned with fire : 
 Your land, strangers devour it in your pres- 
 ence, 
 And it is desolate, *as overthrown by strangers. 
 ^ And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage 
 in a vineyard. 
 As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers. 
 As a besieged city. 
 ^ Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a 
 very small remnant. 
 We should have been as Sodom, 
 And we should have been like unto Gomorrah. 
 
 ^^ Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of 
 Sodom ; 
 Give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of 
 Gomorrah. 
 
 c Heb. increase revolt, d Or, oil. e Heb. as the overthrow of strangers. 
 
ISAIAH, 1. 
 
 ^' To what purpose is the multitude of your sac- 
 rifices unto me ? saith the Lord : 
 I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and 
 
 the fat of fed beasts ; 
 And I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or 
 of lambs, or of /he goats. 
 ^'^ When ye come 9 to appear before me. 
 Who hath required this at your hand, to tread 
 my courts ? 
 ^^ Bring no more vain oblations ; incense is an 
 abomination unto me; 
 The new moons and sabbaths, the calling of 
 
 assemblies, I cannot away with ; 
 It is ^iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 
 ^•^ Your new moons and your appointed feasts 
 my soul hateth : 
 They are a trouble unto me ; 
 I am weary to bear tJiem. 
 '^ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will 
 hide mine eyes from you ; 
 Yea, when ye 'make many prayers, I will not 
 
 hear: 
 Your hands are full of ^ blood. 
 
 ^^ Wash ye, make you clean ; put away the evil 
 of your doings from before mine eyes ; 
 
 fReh. great he goaU. g THeh. to le seen, h Or, grief, i Yieh. multiply 
 prayer, k Heb. Hoods. 
 
ISAIAH, 1. 
 
 Cease to do evil ; ^"^ learn to do well ; 
 Seek judgment, 'relieve the oppressed, 
 Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 
 ^^ Come now, and let us reason together, saith 
 
 the Lord : 
 Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be 
 
 as white as snow ; 
 Though they be red like crimson, they shall 
 
 be as wool. 
 '^ If je be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the 
 
 good of the land : 
 -•^ But if ye refuse and rebel, 
 Ye shall be devoured with the sword : 
 For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken 
 
 it. 
 
 "^ How is the faithful city become a harlot ! 
 It was full of judgment ; righteousness lodged 
 
 in it ; 
 But now murderers. 
 ^' Thy silver is become dross. 
 
 Thy wine mixed with water : 
 2^ Thy princes a?'e rebellious, and companions of 
 thieves : 
 Every one loveth gifts, and followeth after 
 
 rewards : 
 They judge not the fatherless, 
 
 / Or, Tighten. 
 
ISAIAH, 1. 
 
 Neither doth the cause of the widow come 
 unto them. 
 
 -4 Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, 
 the Mighty One of Israel, 
 Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, 
 And avenge me of mine enemies. 
 -'" And I will turn my hand upon thee. 
 And "' purely purge away thy dross, 
 And take away all thy tin : 
 -^ And I will restore thy judges as at the first, 
 And thy counsellors as at the beginning : 
 Afterward thou shalt be called, The city of 
 righteousness, the faithful city. 
 ^^ Zion shall be redeemed with judgment. 
 And "her converts with righteousness. 
 23 And the "destruction of the transgressors and 
 of the sinners sJiall be together, 
 And they that forsake the Lord shall be con- 
 sumed. 
 -^ For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which 
 ye have desired. 
 And ye shall be confounded for the gardens 
 that 3^e have chosen. 
 30 YoT ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, 
 And as a garden that hath no water. 
 
 '" Heb. according to pureness. n Or, they that return of her. o Heb. 
 hreahing. 
 
ISAIAH. 2. 
 
 "^ And the strong shall be as tow, 
 ^And the maker of it as a spark, 
 And they shall both burn together, and none 
 shall quench them, 
 
 p 'T^HE word that Isaiah the son of Amoz 
 
 -L saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 
 2 And it shall come to pass in the last 
 days, 
 
 Tlmt the mountain of the Lord's house shall 
 be '^ established in the top of the mountains, 
 
 And shall be exalted above the hills ; and all 
 nations shall flow unto it. 
 2 And many people shall go and say, 
 
 Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of 
 the Lord, 
 
 To the house of the God of Jacob ; and he 
 will teach us of his ways. 
 
 And we will walk in his paths: for out of 
 Zion shall go forth the law, 
 
 And the word of the Lord from Jerusa- 
 lem. 
 * And he shall judge among the nations, 
 
 And shall rebuke many people : 
 
 And they shall beat their swords into plough- 
 shares. 
 
 And their spears into ^ pruninghooks : 
 
 ;' Or, and Ms work, a Or, prepared, b Or, scythes. 
 
ISAIAH, 2. 
 
 Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, 
 Neither shall they learn war any more. 
 
 5 O house of Jacob, come ye, 
 And let us walk in the light of the Lord, 
 
 ^ Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the 
 house of Jacob, 
 Because they be replenished " from the east, 
 And are soothsayers like the Philistines, 
 And they '^ please themselves in the children 
 of strangers. 
 
 ^ Their land also is full of silver and gold. 
 Neither is there any end of their treasures ; 
 Their land is also full of horses, 
 Neither is there any end of their chariots : 
 
 s Their land also is full of idols ; 
 They worship the work of their own hands. 
 That which their own fingers have made : 
 
 ^ And the mean man boweth down. 
 And the great man humbleth himself : 
 Therefore forgive them not. 
 
 '''Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the 
 
 dust. 
 For fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his 
 
 majesty. 
 '^ The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, 
 
 c Or, more than the east, d Or, abound ivith the children, <£c. 
 
10 ISAIAH, 2. 
 
 And the haughtiness of men shall be bowed 
 
 down ; 
 And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that 
 day. 
 ^- For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon 
 every one that is proud and lofty, 
 And upon every one that is lifted up ; and he 
 shall be brought low : 
 '^ And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are 
 high and lifted up, 
 And upon all the oaks of Bashan, 
 ^■* And upon all the high mountains. 
 
 And upon all the hills that are lifted up, 
 ^° And upon every high tower, 
 And upon every fenced wall, 
 '^ And upon all the ships of Tarshish, 
 
 And upon all ^ pleasant pictures. 
 '^ And the loftiness of man shall be bowed 
 down, 
 And the haughtiness of men shall be made 
 
 low ; 
 And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that 
 day. 
 '^ And / the idols he shall utterly abolish. 
 ^^ And they shall go into the holes of the rocks. 
 And into the caves of y the earth, 
 
 (? Heb. pictures of desire, /Or, the idols shall utterly pass away, 
 g Heb. the dust. 
 
ISAIAH, 3. 11 
 
 For fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his 
 
 majesty, 
 When he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 
 -^ In that day a man shall cast -^his idols of 
 
 silver, and his idols of gold, 
 'Which they made each one for himself to 
 
 worship, 
 To the moles and to the bats ; 
 "' To go into the clefts of the rocks, 
 And into the tops of the ragged rocks, for 
 
 fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his 
 
 majesty. 
 When he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 
 
 '-'- Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his 
 
 nostrils : for wherein is he to be accounted of ? 
 
 Q Xj^OR, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, 
 
 -T Doth take away from Jerusalem and 
 
 from Judah the stay and the staff. 
 The whole stay of bread, and the whole stay 
 of water, 
 2 The mighty man, and the man of war, 
 The judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, 
 and the ancient, 
 ^ The captain of fifty, and « the honourable 
 man, 
 
 h Heb. the idols of Ms silver, &c. i Or, which they made for him. 
 a Heb. a man eminent in countenance. 
 
12 ISAIAH, 3. 
 
 And the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, 
 and the * eloquent orator. 
 ** And I will give children to he their princes. 
 
 And babes shall rule over them. 
 ^ And the people shall be oppressed, every one 
 by another, and every one by his neighbour: 
 The child shall behave himself proudly against 
 
 the ancient, 
 And the base against the honourable. 
 ^ When a man shall take hold of his brother of 
 the house of his father, saying, 
 Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, 
 And let this ruin he under thy hand : 
 ■^ In that day shall he ' swear, saying, 
 I will not be a "^ healer ; 
 
 For in my house is neither bread nor cloth- 
 ing: 
 Make me not a ruler of the people. 
 ^ For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen : 
 Because their tongue and their doings are 
 
 against the Lord, 
 To provoke the eyes of his glory. 
 9 The shew of their countenance doth witness 
 against them; 
 And they declare their sin as Sodom, they 
 hide it not. 
 
 h Or, skilful of speech, c Heb. lift up the hand, Gen. 14. 22. d Heb. 
 hinder tip. 
 
ISAIAH, 3. 13 
 
 Woe unto their soul ! for they have rewarded 
 evil unto themselves. 
 ^0 Say ye to the righteous, that it slmll he well 
 with Mm : 
 For they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 
 '^ Woe unto the wicked ! it shall he ill with him: 
 For the reward of his hands shall be * given 
 him. 
 '- As for my people, children are their oppressors, 
 And women rule over them. O my people, 
 
 /they which lead thee cause thee to err, 
 And 9 destroy the way of thy paths. 
 
 ^^ The Lord standeth up to plead. 
 
 And standeth to judge the people. 
 '^ The Lord will enter into judgment with the 
 ancients of his people, and the princes 
 thereof : 
 For ye have '^ eaten up the vineyard; 
 The spoil of the poor is in your houses. 
 '^ What mean ye that ye beat my people to 
 pieces. 
 And grind the faces of the poor? 
 Saith the Lord God of hosts. 
 
 '^ Moreover the Lord saith, 
 
 e Heb. done to him. f Or, they which call thee Messed, g Heb. 
 srvallotv V2>. h Or, burnt. 
 
14 ISAIAH, 3. 
 
 Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, 
 And walk with stretched forth necks and 
 
 * wanton eyes, 
 Walking and ^mincing as they go, 
 And making a tinkling with their feet : 
 '^ Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab 
 the crown of the head of the daughters 
 of Zion, 
 And the Lord will ^ discover their secret 
 parts. 
 '8 In that day the Lord will take away the 
 bravery of tJieir tinkling ornaments abozit 
 their feet, 
 And their ™ cauls, and tJieir round tires like 
 the moon, 
 19 The »* chains, and the bracelets, and the ''muf- 
 flers, 
 2^ The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, 
 and the headbands. 
 And the /"tablets, and the earrings, 
 2^ The rings, and nose jewels, 
 '■^'^ The changeable suits of apparel, and the 
 mantles. 
 And the wimples, and the crisping pins, 
 23 The glasses, and the fine linen, 
 And the hoods, and the vails. 
 
 i Heb. deceiving with their eyes, k Or, tripping nicely. I Heb. make 
 naked, m Or, networks, n Or, sweet halls, o Or, spatigled ornaments. 
 p Heb. houses of the sold. 
 
ISAIAH, 4. 15 
 
 2-* And it shall come to pass, that instead of 
 sweet smell there shall be stink ; 
 And instead of a girdle a rent ; 
 And instead of well set hair baldness ; 
 And instead of a stomacher a girding of sack- 
 cloth ; 
 And burning instead of beauty. 
 25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, 
 
 And thy ? mighty in the war. 
 2^ And her gates shall lament and mourn ; 
 And she being 'desolate shall sit upon the 
 ground. 
 
 A AND in that day seven women shall take 
 -^^ hold of one man, saying. 
 We will eat our own bread, and wear our 
 
 own apparel ; 
 Only « let us be called by thy name, 
 *To take away our reproach. 
 - In that day shall the branch of the Lord be 
 '^ beautiful and glorious. 
 And the fruit of the earth shall be excellent 
 
 and comely 
 '^ For them that are escaped of Israel. 
 2 And it shall come to pass, that h<xthat is left 
 in Zion. 
 
 (f Heb. viiijht. r Or, emptied. Heb. cleansed, a Heb. let thy name he 
 I called upon us. b Or, take thou away, c Heb. heauty and glory. 
 I d Heb. /or the escaping of Israel, 
 
16 ISAIAH, 5. 
 
 And lie that remaineth in Jerusalem, 
 
 Shall be called holy, 
 
 Even every one that is written « among the 
 
 living in Jerusalem : 
 ■* When the Lord shall have washed awaj' the 
 
 filth of the daughters of Zion, 
 And shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem 
 
 from the midst thereof 
 By the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit 
 
 of burning. 
 5 And the Lord will create upon every dwell- 
 
 ingplace of mount Zion, 
 And upon her assemblies, 
 A cloud and smoke by day. 
 And the shining of a flaming fire by night : 
 For /upon all the glory shall be i'a de- 
 fence. 
 ^ And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow 
 
 in the daytime from the heat, 
 And for a place of refuge, and for a covert 
 
 from storm and from rain. 
 
 K ]yrOW will I sing to my well beloved a song 
 -1-^ of my beloved touching his vineyard. 
 My well beloved hath a vineyard in « a very 
 fruitful hill: 
 
 e Or, to life, f Or, above, g Heb. a covering, ch. 8. 14. a Heb. the 
 horn of the son of oil. 
 
ISAIAH. 5. 17 
 
 ' And lie '' fenced it, and gathered out the stones 
 thereof, 
 
 And planted it with the choicest vine, 
 
 And built a tower in the midst of it, 
 
 And also '^made a winepress therein : 
 
 And he looked that it should bring forth 
 grapes. 
 
 And it brought forth wild grapes. 
 2 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and 
 men of Judah, 
 
 Judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vine- 
 yard. 
 ^ What could have been done more to my vine- 
 yard, 
 
 That I have not done in it ? 
 
 "Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring 
 forth grapes. 
 
 Brought it forth wild grapes ? 
 ^ And now go to ; I will tell you what I will do 
 to my vineyard : 
 
 I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall 
 be eaten up ; 
 
 And break down the wall thereof, and it shall 
 be '^ trodden down : 
 ^ And I will lay it waste : 
 
 It shall not be pruned, nor digged ; 
 
 But there shall come up briers and thorns : 
 
 b Or, made a wall about it. c Heb. heived. d Heb. for a treading. 
 
18 ISAIAH, 5. 
 
 I will also command the clouds that they rain 
 no rain upon it. 
 ' For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the 
 house of Israel, 
 
 And the men of Judali " his pleasant plant : 
 
 And he looked for judgment, but behold /op- 
 pression ; 
 
 For righteousness, but behold a cry. 
 
 ^ Woe unto them that join house to house, 
 That lay field to field, till tliere be no place, 
 That ff they may be placed alone in the midst 
 of the earth ! 
 ^ ^ In mine ears said the Loud of hosts, 
 * Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, 
 Even great and fair, without inhabitant. 
 '•^ Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one 
 bath. 
 And the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah. 
 
 ^^ Woe unto them that rise up early in the morn- 
 ing, tJiat they may follow strong drink ; 
 That continue until night, till wine ^inflame 
 them ! 
 '- And the harp and the viol, the tabret and pipe, 
 And wine, are in their feasts : 
 
 f Heb. plant of Iiis pleasures, f Heb. a scab, g Heb. )lf. li Or, Tliis is 
 in vii7ie ears, saith tke Lord, «fec. t Heb. J/ not, <£c. k Or, pursue them. 
 
ISAIAH, 5. 19 
 
 But they regard not the work of the Lord, 
 Neither consider the operation of his hands. 
 '3 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, 
 because tliey have no knowledge : 
 And ^ their honourable men are famished, 
 And their multitude dried up with thirst. 
 '^ Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, 
 And opened her mouth without measure : 
 And their glory, and their multitude, and their 
 
 pomp. 
 And he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. 
 ^^ And the mean man shall be brought down, 
 And the mighty man shall be humbled, 
 And the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled : 
 '^ But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judg- 
 ment, 
 And '"■ God that is holy shall be sanctified in 
 righteousness. 
 ^^ Then shall the lambs feed after their man- 
 ner. 
 And the waste places of the fat ones shall 
 strangers eat. 
 
 '^ Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords 
 of vanity. 
 And sin as it were with a cart rope : 
 
 I Heb. their glory are men of famine, m Or, the holy God. Heb. the 
 God the holy. 
 
20 ISAIAH, 5. 
 
 ^^ That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his 
 
 work, 
 That we may see it: and let the counsel of the 
 
 Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come. 
 That we may know it! 
 
 -•^ Woe unto them "that call evil good, and good 
 evil; 
 
 That put darkness for light, and light for dark- 
 ness ; 
 
 That put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 
 
 ■'• "Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes. 
 
 And prudent " in their own sight ! 
 " Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine. 
 
 And men of strength to mingle strong drink : 
 -2 Which justify the wicked for reward, 
 
 And take away the righteousness of the right- 
 eous from him ! 
 
 2^ Therefore as ^the fire devoureth the stubble, 
 And the flame consumeth the chaff, so their 
 
 root shall be as rottenness, 
 And their blossom shall go up as dust : 
 Because they have cast away the law of the 
 
 Lord of hosts, 
 
 n Heb. that say concerning evil. It is good, <£c. o Heb. "before their 
 face, p Heb. the tongue of fire. 
 
ISAIAH, 5. 21 
 
 And despised the word of the Holy One of 
 
 Israel. 
 25 Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled 
 
 against his people, 
 And he hath stretched forth his hand against 
 
 them, and hath smitten them : 
 And the hills did tremble, and their carcasses 
 
 were i torn in the midst of the streets. 
 For all this his anger is not turned away, 
 But his hand is stretched out still. 
 
 '^^ And he will lift up an ensign to the nations 
 from far, 
 And will hiss unto them from the end of the 
 
 earth : 
 And, behold, they shall come with speed 
 swiftly : 
 '•^■^ None shall be weary nor stumble among them ; 
 None shall slumber nor sleep ; 
 Neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed. 
 Nor the latchet of their shoes be broken : 
 ■^* Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows 
 bent, 
 Their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, 
 And their wheels like a whirlwind : 
 •^^ Their roaring shall he like a lion. 
 They shall roar like young lions ; 
 
 q Or, as dung. 
 
22 ISAIAH, 6. 
 
 Yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, 
 
 And shall carry it away safe, and none shall 
 deliver it. 
 ^^ And in that day they shall roar against them 
 like the roaring of the sea : 
 
 And if one look unto the land, behold dark- 
 ness and '■ sorrow ; 
 
 «And the light is darkened in the heavens 
 thereof. 
 
 C^ TN the year that king Uzziah died I saw 
 -L also the Lord sitting upon a throne, 
 high and lifted up, and «his train filled the 
 temple. ^ Above it stood the seraphim : each 
 one had six wings ; with twain he covered his 
 face, and with twain he covered his feet, and 
 with twain he did fly. ^ And '' one cried unto 
 another, and said. 
 Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts : 
 " The whole earth is full of his glory. 
 ^ And the posts of the '^ door moved at the 
 voice of him that cried, and the house was filled 
 with smoke. ^ Then said I, Woe is me ! for I 
 am « undone; because I am a man of unclean 
 lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of 
 unclean lips : for mine eyes have seen the King, 
 
 r Or, distress, s Or, wheyi it is light, it shall be dark in the destrtictiotis 
 thereof, a Or, the skirts thereof, h Heb. this cried to this, c Heb. Jiis 
 glory is the fulness of the whole earth, d Heb. thresholds, e Heb. cut off. 
 
ISAIAH. 6. 23 
 
 the Lord of hosts. ^ Then Hew one of the ser- 
 aphim unto me, /having a live coal in his hand, 
 icldch he had taken with the tongs from off the 
 altar : "^ and he 9 laid it upon my mouth, and said, 
 Lo, this hath touched thy lips ; and thine iniquity 
 is taken away, and thy sin purged. ^ Also I 
 heard the voice of the Lord, saying. Whom shall 
 I send, and who will *go for us ? Then said I, 
 ^Here am I ; send me. ^ And he said, Go, and 
 tell this people, 
 
 Hear ye nudeed, but understand not; 
 
 And see ye * indeed, but perceive not. 
 '^ Make the heart of this people fat, 
 
 And make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; 
 
 Lest they see with their eyes, and hear with 
 their ears, 
 
 And understand with their heart, and con- 
 vert, and be healed. 
 " Then said I, Lord, how long ? And he an- 
 swered, 
 
 Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, 
 
 And the houses without man. 
 
 And the land be '■ utterly desolate, 
 ^- And the Lord have removed men far away, 
 
 And there he a great forsaking in the midst of 
 the land. 
 
 / Heb. and in his hand a live coal, g Heb. caused it to touch, h Heb. 
 Behold me. i Or, ivitkout ceasing, <£c. Heb. hear ye in hearing, &c. 
 k Heb. in seeing. I Heb. desolate with desolation. 
 
24 ISAIAH, 7. 
 
 ^2 But yet in it shall be a tenth, '"and it shall re- 
 turn, and shall be eaten : 
 
 As a teil tree, and as an oak, whose '^substance 
 is in them, when they cast their leaves: 
 
 So the holy seed shall he the substance thereof. 
 
 •7 AND it came to pass in the days of Ahaz 
 -^ the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, 
 king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, 
 and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, 
 went up toward Jerusalem to w^ar against it, 
 but could not prevail against it. ^ ^^d it was 
 told the house of David, saying, Syria <* is con- 
 federate with Ephraim. And his heart was 
 moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees 
 of the wood are moved with the wind. ^ Then 
 said the Lord unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet 
 Ahaz, thou, and ^Shear-jashub thy son, at the 
 end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the 
 ' highway of the fuller's field ; ^ and say unto 
 him. 
 Take heed, and be quiet ; 
 Fear not, '^ neither be fainthearted 
 For the two tails of these smoking firebrands, 
 For the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and 
 of the son of Remaliah. 
 
 Ill Or, when it is returned, and hath been brotvsed. n Or, stock, or, stem, 
 a Heb. resteth on Ephraim. b That is. The remnant shall 7-eturn : See 
 ch. 6. 13. & 10. 21. c Or, causeway, d Heb. let not thy heart be tender. 
 
ISAIAH, 7. 25 
 
 5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Rema- 
 liah, 
 Have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, 
 ^ Let us go up against Judah, and « vex it. 
 And let us make a breach therein for us. 
 And set a king in the midst of it, emn the son 
 of Tabeal : 
 ' Thus saith the Lord God, 
 
 It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass, 
 s For the head of Syria is Damascus, 
 And the head of Damascus is Rezin ; 
 And within threescore and five years shall 
 Ephraim be broken, /that it be not a people. 
 ^ And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the 
 head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. 
 9 If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be 
 established. 
 
 10 AjyiQi-eover the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, 
 
 saying, 
 ^^ Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God ; 
 'Ask it either in the depth, or in the height 
 above. 
 '^ But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I 
 tempt the Lord. ^^ And he said, 
 Hear ye now, O house of David ; 
 
 e Or, waken, f Heb. from, a people, g Or, Do ye not believe ? it is because 
 ye are not stable, h Heb. And the Lord added to speak, i Or, make thy 
 petition deep. 
 
26 ISAIAH. 7. 
 
 Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but 
 will ye weary my God also ? 
 ^^ Therefore the Lord himself shall give jou. a 
 sign; 
 Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, 
 And '^' shall call his name Immanuel. 
 '^ Butter and honey shall he eat, 
 That he may know to refuse the evil, and 
 choose the good. 
 ^^ For before the child shall know to refuse the 
 evil, and choose the good, 
 The land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken 
 of both her kings. 
 
 ^^ The Lord shall bring upon thee. 
 And upon thy people, and upon thy father's 
 
 house. 
 Days that have not come. 
 From the day that Ephraim departed from 
 
 Judah ; 
 Even the king of Assyria. 
 ^s And it shall come to pass in that day. 
 
 That the Lord shall hiss for the ^y that is in 
 
 the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, 
 And for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 
 '^ And thej'- shall come, and shall rest all of them 
 
 k Or, Own, O virgin, shalt call: See Gen. i. 1, 25. & 16. 11. & 39. 32. & 
 30. 6, 8. 1 Sam. i. 21. 
 
ISAIAH, 7. 27 
 
 lu the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the 
 
 rocks, 
 And upon all thorns, and upon all ^ bushes. 
 -^ In the same day shall the Lord shave with a 
 
 razor that is hired. 
 Namely, by them beyond the river, by the king 
 
 of Assyria, 
 The head, and the hair of the feet : 
 And it shall also consume the beard. 
 
 -1 And it shall come to pass in that day, 
 
 That a man shall nourish a young cow and 
 
 two sheep ; 
 
 -'- And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of 
 
 milk that they shall give, he shall eat butter: 
 
 For butter and honey shall every one eat that 
 
 is left '" in the land. 
 
 -2 And it shall come to pass in that day, 
 That every place shall be, 
 AVhere there were a thousand vines at a thou- 
 sand silverlings, 
 It shall even be for briers and thorns. 
 -^ With arrows and with bows shall men come 
 thither ; 
 Because all the land shall become briers and 
 thorns. 
 
 / Or, commendable trees, m Heb. in the midst of the land. 
 
28 ISAIAH, 8. 
 
 " And on all hills that shall be digged with the 
 
 mattock, 
 There shall not come thither the fear of briers 
 
 and thorns : 
 But it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, 
 And for the treading of lesser cattle. 
 
 8 IVT^^'^^^'^'^ ^^^ l^om) said unto me, 
 -ltX Take thee a great roll, and write in it 
 with a man's pen concerning <^ Maher-shalal- 
 hash-baz. ^ ^q^ \ took unto me faithful wit- 
 nesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah 
 the son of Jeberechiah. ^ And I * went unto 
 the prophetess ; and she conceived, and bare a 
 son. Then said the Lord to me, Call his name 
 Maher-shalal-hash-baz. ^ For before the child 
 shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and 
 my mother, <^the riches of Damascus and the 
 spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the 
 king of Assyria. 
 
 5 The Lord spake also unto me again, saying, 
 ^ Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters 
 of Shiloah that go softly, 
 And rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son ; 
 ■^ Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up 
 upon them 
 
 a Heb. In inaking speed to the spoil he hasteneth the prey, or, Make 
 speed, (tc. b Heb. approached unto, c Or, he that is hefore the king of 
 Assyria shall take aivay the riches, tic. 
 
ISAIAH, 8. 29 
 
 The waters of the river, strong and many, 
 Even the king of Assyria, and all his glory : 
 
 and he shall come up over all his channels, 
 And go over all his banks : 
 ^ And he shall pass through Judah ; 
 He shall overflov^ and go over, he shall reach 
 
 even to the neck ; 
 And '^ the stretching out of his wings shall fill 
 
 the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel. 
 
 ^ Associate yourselves, O ye people, ^ and ye 
 
 shall be broken in pieces ; 
 And give ear, all ye of far countries: 
 Gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in 
 
 pieces ; 
 Gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in 
 
 pieces. 
 '° Take counsel together, and it shall come to 
 
 nought ; 
 Speak the word, and it shall not stand : 
 For God is with us. 
 
 " For the Lokd spake thus to me /with a strong 
 hand, 
 And instructed me that I should not walk in 
 the way of this people, saying, 
 
 d Heb. the fulness of the breadth of thy land shall he the stretching out 
 of his wings, e Or, yet. /Heb. in strength of hand. 
 
30 ISAIAH, 8. 
 
 ''^ Say ye not, A confederacy, 
 To all them to whom this people shall say, A 
 
 confederacy ; 
 Neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. 
 ^3 Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself ; 
 And let him he your fear, and let him he your 
 dread. 
 ^•* And he shall be for a sanctuary ; 
 But for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of 
 
 offence to both the houses of Israel, 
 For a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of 
 Jerusalem. 
 '^ And many among them shall stumble, and 
 fall, and be broken, 
 And be snared, and be taken. 
 
 "^ Bind up the testimony, seal the law among 
 
 my disciples. 
 ^^ And I will wait upon the Lord, 
 That hideth his face from the house of Jacob, 
 And I will look for him. 
 's Behold, I and the children whom the Lord 
 hath given me 
 Are for signs and for wonders in Israel 
 From the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in 
 mount Zion. 
 
 ^9 And when they shall say unto you. 
 
ISAIAH, 9. 31 
 
 Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, 
 And unto wizards that peep and that mut- 
 ter : 
 Should not a people seek unto their God ? 
 For the living to the dead ? 
 "•^ To the law and to the testimony : 
 If they speak not according to this word, 
 It is because thei'e is ff no light in them. 
 -^ And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead 
 and hungry : 
 And it shall come to pass, that when they shall 
 
 be hungry, they shall fret themselves, 
 And curse their king and their God, and look 
 upward. 
 -■^ And they shall look unto the earth ; 
 And behold trouble and darkness, dimness of 
 
 anguish ; 
 And thet/ shall be driven to darkness. 
 "VrEVERTHELESS the dimness sJiall not be 
 -^ such as was in her vexation, 
 When at the first he lightly afflicted the land 
 
 of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, 
 And afterward did more grievously afflict Iier 
 
 by the way of the sea. 
 Beyond Jordan, in Galilee " of the nations. 
 - The people that walked in darkness have seen 
 a great light : 
 
 Q Heb. no morning, a Or, populous. 
 
32 ISAIAH, 9. 
 
 They that dwell in the land of the shadow of 
 death, upon them hath the light shined. 
 2 Thou hast multiplied the nation, a7id ^ not in- 
 creased the joy: 
 
 They joy before thee according to the joy in 
 harvest, 
 
 And as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. 
 ^ <= For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, 
 and the staff of his shoulder. 
 
 The rod of his oppressor, as in the day of 
 Midian. 
 ^ '^ For every battle of the warrior is with con- 
 fused noise, 
 
 And garments rolled in blood ; ' but this shall 
 be with burning and f fuel of fire. 
 ® For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is 
 given : 
 
 And the government shall be upon his 
 shoulder : 
 
 And his name shall be called Wonderful, 
 Counsellor, The mighty God, 
 
 The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 
 ' Of the increase of Ids government and peace 
 tliere shall he no end. 
 
 Upon the throne of David, and upon his 
 kingdom, 
 
 b Or, to him. c Or, When thou hrakest. d Or, When the whole battle 
 of the warrior was, <£c. e Or, and it was, <fcc. /' Heb. meat. 
 
ISAIAH, 9. 33 
 
 To order it, and to establish it with judgment 
 
 and with justice 
 From henceforth even for ever. The zeal of 
 
 the Lord of hosts will perform this. 
 
 ^ The Lord sent a word into Jacob, 
 
 And it hath lighted upon Israel. 
 9 And all the people shall know, 
 Even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, 
 That say in the pride and stoutness of heart, 
 ^0 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build 
 with hewn stones : 
 The sycamores are cut down, but we will 
 change the7n into cedars. 
 •* Therefore the Loud shall set up the adver- 
 saries of Rezin against him, 
 And ^join his enemies together; 
 '2 The Syrians before, and the Philistines be- 
 hind ; 
 And they shall devour Israel ^with open 
 
 mouth. 
 For all this his anger is not turned away. 
 But his hand is stretched out still. 
 
 '^ For the people turneth not unto him that 
 smiteth them, 
 Neither do they seek the Lord of hosts. 
 
 g Heb. mingle, h Heb. with whole mouth. 
 
34 ISAIAH, 9. 
 
 ^^ Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel 
 head and tail, 
 Branch and rush, in one day. 
 '^ The ancient and honourable, he is the head ; 
 
 And the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. 
 
 '^ For Hhe leaders of this people cause them to 
 
 err; 
 
 And ^tJiey that are led of them are destroyed. 
 
 ^^ Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their 
 
 young men, 
 
 Neither shall have mercy on their fatherless 
 
 and widows : 
 For every one is a hypocrite and an evil doer, 
 And every mouth speaketh "' folly. 
 For all this his anger is not turned away, 
 But his hand is stretched out still. 
 
 '* For wickedness burnetii as the fire : 
 It shall devour the briers and thorns, 
 And shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, 
 And they shall mount up like the lifting up of 
 smoke. 
 '3 Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is 
 the land darkened, 
 And the people shall be as the '^ fuel of the fire : 
 No man shall spare his brother. 
 
 t Or, they that call them blessed, k Or, thei/ that are called blessed of 
 them. I Heb. swallowed up. m Or, villany. n Heb. meat. 
 
ISAIAH, 10. 35 
 
 2^ And. he shall " snatch on the right hand, and 
 
 be hungry ; 
 And he shall eat on the left hand, and they 
 
 shall not be satisfied : 
 They shall eat every man the flesh of his own 
 
 arm : 
 21 Manasseh, Ephraim ; and Ephraim, Manasseh : 
 ATid they together shall be against Judah. 
 For all this his anger is not turned away, 
 But his hand is stretched out still. 
 
 10 W^^^ ^^^^ them that decree unright- 
 ^^ eous decrees, 
 And "" that write grievousness which they have 
 prescribed ; 
 2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, 
 And to take away the right from the poor of 
 
 my people, 
 That widows may be their prey. 
 And that they may rob the fatherless ! 
 ^ And what will ye do in the day of visitation, 
 And in the desolation which shall come from 
 
 far? 
 To whom will ye flee for help ? 
 And where will ye leave your glory ? 
 ■^ Without me they shall bow down under the 
 prisoners, 
 
 Heb. cut. a Or, to the writers that write grievousness. 
 
36 ISAIAH, 10. 
 
 And they shall fall under the slain. 
 
 For all this his anger is not turned away, 
 
 But his hand is stretched out still. 
 
 ^ * O '^ Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, 
 '^And the staff in their hand is mine indigna- 
 tion. 
 ^ I will send him against a hypocritical nation. 
 And against the people of my wrath will I 
 
 give him a charge. 
 To take the spoil, and to take the prey, 
 And « to tread them down like the mire of the 
 streets. 
 ■^ Howbeit he meaneth not so, 
 Neither doth his heart think so ; 
 But it is in his heart to destroy 
 And cut off nations not a few. 
 8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether 
 
 kings ? 
 ^ Is not Calno as Carchemish ? 
 Is not Hamath as Arpad ? 
 Is not Samaria as Damascus ? 
 '" As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the 
 idols. 
 And whose graven images did excel them of 
 Jerusalem and of Samaria ; 
 
 6 Or, Woe to the Assyria7i. c Heb. Asshur. d Or, though, e Heb. to 
 lay them a treading. 
 
ISAIAH. 10. 37 
 
 ^^ Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and 
 
 her idols, 
 So do to Jerusalem and her idols ? 
 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that, when 
 
 the Lord hath performed his whole work 
 Upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, 
 I will / punish the fruit 9 of the stout heart of 
 
 the king of Assyria, 
 And the glory of his high looks. 
 12 For he saith. By the strength of my hand I 
 
 have done it, 
 And by my wisdom ; for I am prudent : 
 And I have removed the bounds of the 
 
 people. 
 And have robbed their treasures, 
 And I have put down the inhabitants ^like a 
 
 valiant man : 
 1^ And my hand hath found as a nest the riches 
 
 of the people : 
 And as one gathereth eggs that are left. 
 Have I gathered all the earth ; 
 And there was none that moved the wing, 
 Or opened the mouth, or peeped. 
 
 '^ Shall the axe boast itself against him that 
 heweth therewith ? 
 
 / Heb. visit upon, g Heb. of the greatness of the heart, h Or, like 
 many people. 
 
38 ISAIAH, 10. 
 
 Or shall the saw magnify itself against him 
 
 that shaketh it ? 
 ^As if the rod should shake itself against them 
 
 that lift it up, 
 Or as if the staff should lift up ^itself, as if it 
 
 were no wood. 
 ^s Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, 
 Send among his fat ones leanness ; 
 And under his glory he shall kindle a burn- 
 ing 
 Like the burning of a fire. 
 ^' And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, 
 And his Holy One for a flame : 
 And it shall burn and devour his thorns and 
 
 his briers in one day ; 
 '^ And shall consume the glory of his forest, and 
 
 of his fruitful field, 
 ' Both soul and body : 
 And they shall be as when a standardbearer 
 
 fainteth. 
 ^9 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be 
 
 »^few, 
 That a child may write them. 
 
 '^0 And it shall come to pass in that day, 
 That the remnant of Israel, 
 
 i Or, as if a rod should shake them that lift it tip. k Or, that which is 
 7iot wood. I Heb. /ram the soul, and even to the flesh, m Heb. mimber. 
 
ISAIAH, 10. 39 
 
 And such as are escaped of the house of 
 Jacob, 
 
 Shall no more again stay upon him that smote 
 them ; 
 
 But shall stay upon the Lord, 
 
 The Holy One of Israel, in truth. 
 -^ The remnant shall return, even the remnant of 
 Jacob, 
 
 Unto the mighty God. 
 " For though thy people Israel be as the sand of 
 the sea, 
 
 Tet a remnant ♦^ of them shall return : 
 
 The consumption decreed shall overflow " with 
 righteousness. 
 2" For the Lord God of hosts shall make a con- 
 sumption, even determined. 
 
 In the midst of all the land. 
 
 24 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, 
 O my people that dwellest in Zion, 
 
 Be not afraid of the Assyrian : 
 He shall smite thee with a rod, 
 /*And shall lift up his staff against thee, after 
 the m-anner of Egypt. 
 
 25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation 
 
 shall cease, 
 And mine anger in their destruction. 
 
 n Heb. in, or, among, o Or, in, p Or, hut he shall lift up his staff 
 for thee. 
 
40 ISAIAH, 10. 
 
 2*^ And the Lord of liosts shall stir up a scourge 
 
 for him 
 According to the slaughter of Midian at the 
 
 rock of Oreb : 
 And as his rod was upon the sea, 
 So shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt. 
 ■•^^ And it shall come to pass in that day, 
 
 That his burden ? shall be taken away from off 
 
 thy shoulder, 
 And his yoke from off thy neck, 
 And the yoke shall be destroyed because of the 
 
 anointing. 
 
 '^* He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron ; 
 
 At Michmash he hath laid up his carriages : 
 -9 They are gone over the passage : 
 They have taken up their lodging at Geba ; 
 Ramah is afraid ; Gibeah of Saul is fled. 
 ^^ '"Lift U13 thy voice, O daughter of Gallim : 
 Cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Ana- 
 thoth. 
 ^^ Madmenah is removed ; 
 The inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves 
 to flee. 
 ^■^ As yet shall he remain at Nob that day : 
 He shall shake his hand against the mount of 
 the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. 
 
 q Heb. shall remove, r Heb. Cry shrill with thy voice. 
 
ISAIAH, 11. 41 
 
 3^ Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, 
 Shall lop the bough with terror : 
 And the high ones of stature shall he hewn 
 
 down, 
 And the haughty shall be humbled. 
 ^ And he shall cut down the thickets of the 
 forest with iron. 
 And Lebanon shall fall «by a mighty one. 
 
 1 1 AND there shall come forth a rod out of 
 -^ the stem of Jesse, 
 And a Branch shall grow out of his roots : 
 
 2 And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon 
 
 him, 
 The spirit of wisdom and understanding, 
 The spirit of counsel and might, 
 The spirit of knowledge and of the fear of 
 
 the Lord ; 
 
 3 And shall make him of " quick understanding 
 
 in the fear of the Lord : 
 And he shall not judge after the sight of his 
 
 eyes, 
 Neither reprove after the hearing of his ears : 
 ^ But with righteousness shall he judge the 
 
 poor, 
 And * reprove with equity for the meek of the 
 
 earth : 
 
 s Or, mightily, a Heb. scent, or, smell, b Or, argxie. 
 
42 ISAIAH, 11. 
 
 And he shall smite the earth with the rod of 
 
 his mouth, 
 And with the breath of his lips shall he slay 
 
 the wicked. 
 
 5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his 
 
 loins, 
 And faithfulness the girdle of his reins, 
 
 6 The wolf also shall dw^ell w^ith the lamb. 
 And the leopard shall lie down with the kid ; 
 And the calf and the young lion and the fat- 
 ling together ; 
 
 And a little child shall lead them. 
 "^ And the cow and the bear shall feed ; 
 Their young ones shall lie down together : 
 And the lion shall eat straw like the ox, 
 ^ And the sucking child shall play on the hole 
 of the asp. 
 And the weaned child shall put his hand on 
 the '^cockatrice' den. 
 5 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy 
 mountain : 
 For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of 
 
 the Lord, 
 As the waters cover the sea. 
 '° And in that day there shall be a root of 
 Jesse, 
 Which shall stand for an ensign of the people; 
 
 c Or, adder'' i 
 
ISAIAH, 11. 43 
 
 To it shall the Gentiles seek : 
 And his rest shall be '^ glorious. 
 ^* And it shall come to pass in that day, 
 
 That the Lord shall set his hand again the 
 
 second time 
 To recover the remnant of his people, which 
 
 shall be left, from Assyria, 
 And from Egypt, and from Pathros, 
 And from Cush, and from Elam, and from 
 
 Shinar, 
 And from Hamath, and from the islands of 
 
 the sea. 
 1- And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, 
 And shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, 
 And gather together the dispersed of Judah 
 From the four « corners of the earth. 
 '2 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, 
 And the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: 
 Ephraim shall not envy Judah, 
 And Judah shall not vex Ephraim. 
 ^^ But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the 
 
 Philistines toward the west ; 
 They shall spoil / them of the east together : 
 ^'They shall lay their hand upon Edom and 
 
 Moab ; 
 ^And the children of Ammon shall obey them. 
 
 d Heb. glory, e Heb. wings, f Heb. the children of the east, g Heb. 
 Edom and Moab shall be the laying on of their hand, h Heb. the children 
 of Ammon their obedience. 
 
44 ISAIAH, 12. 
 
 ^^ And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue 
 
 of the Egyptian sea ; 
 And with his mighty wind shall he shake his 
 
 hand over the river, 
 And shall smite it in the seven streams, 
 And make men go over Mryshod. 
 ^^ And there shall be a highway for the remnant 
 
 of his people, 
 Which shall be left, from Assyria ; 
 Like as it was to Israel 
 In the day that he came up out of the land of 
 
 Egypt. 
 
 1 2 A"^^ '^^ ^^^^ ^^^ i^ou shalt say, 
 
 ■^^ O Lord, I will praise thee : though 
 thou wast angry with me, 
 Thine anger is turned away, and thou com- 
 fortedst me. 
 2 Behold, God is my salvation ; 
 I will trust, and not be afraid : 
 For the Lord JEHOVAH is my strength and 
 
 my song ; 
 He also is become my salvation. 
 ^ Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of 
 
 the wells of salvation. 
 ^ And in that day shall ye say, 
 Praise the Lord, '^ call upon his name, 
 
 i Heb. in shoes, a Or, proclaim Ms name. 
 
ISAIAH, 13. 45 
 
 Declare his doings among the people, 
 Make mention that his name is exalted. 
 
 5 Sing unto the Lord ; for he hath done excel- 
 
 lent things : 
 This is known in all the earth. 
 
 6 Cry out and shout, thou * inhabitant of Zion : 
 For great is the Holy One of Israel in the 
 
 midst of thee. 
 
 1 O npHE burden of Babylon, which Isaiah 
 
 J- the son of Amoz did see. 
 - Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, 
 Exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, 
 That they may go into the gates of the 
 nobles. 
 " 1 have commanded my sanctified ones, 
 I have also called my mighty ones for mine 
 
 anger, 
 Even them that rejoice in my highness. 
 '^ The noise of a multitude in the mountains, 
 « like as of a great people ; 
 A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of na- 
 tions gathered together : 
 The Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the 
 battle. 
 ^ They come from a far country, from the end 
 of heaven, 
 
 b Heb. inhabitress. a Heb. the likeness of. 
 
46 ISAIAH, 13. 
 
 Even the Lord, and the weapons of his indig- 
 nation, 
 To destroy the whole land. 
 
 ^ Howl ye ; for the day of the Lord is at 
 hand ; 
 It shall come as a destruction from the Al- 
 mighty. 
 ■^ Therefore shall all hands *be faint, 
 And every man's heart shall melt: 
 
 8 And they shall be afraid : pangs and sorrows 
 
 shall take hold of them; 
 They shall be in pain as a woman that trav- 
 
 aileth : 
 They shall " be amazed '^ one at another ; 
 Their faces shall be as ^ flames. 
 
 9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, 
 Cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, 
 
 To lay the land desolate : and he shall destroy 
 
 the sinners thereof out of it. 
 ^*^ For the stars of heaven and the constellations 
 
 thereof shall not give their light : 
 The sun shall be darkened in his going forth, 
 And the moon shall not cause her light to 
 
 shine. 
 
 h Or, fall doivn. c Heb. wonder, d Heb. every man at Ms neighbour, 
 e Heb. /aces of the flames. 
 
ISAIAH, 13. 47 
 
 ^^ And I will punish the world for their evil, 
 And the wicked for their iniquity ; 
 And I will cause the arrogancy of the proud 
 
 to cease, 
 And will lay low the haughtiness of the ter- 
 rible. 
 ^2 1 will make a man more precious than fine 
 gold ; 
 Even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir, 
 ^3 Therefore I will shake the heavens, 
 And the earth shall remove out of her place, 
 In the wrath of the Lord of hosts, 
 And in the day of his fierce anger. 
 ^* And it shall be as the chased roe, 
 And as a sheep that no man taketh up : 
 They shall every man turn to his own people, 
 And flee every one into his own land. 
 '^ Every one that is found shall be thrust 
 through ; 
 And every one that is joined unto them shall fall 
 by the sword. 
 ^^ Their children also shall be dashed to jDieces be- 
 fore their eyes ; 
 Their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives 
 ravished. 
 ^^ Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, 
 Which shall not regard silver ; 
 And as for gold, they shall not delight in it. 
 
48 ISAIAH, 13. 
 
 ^'^ Their bows also shall dash the young men to 
 
 pieces ; 
 And they shall have no pity on the fruit of the 
 
 womb ; 
 Their eye shall not spare children, 
 '9 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms. 
 The beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, 
 Shall be /as when God overthrew Sodom and 
 
 Gomorrah. 
 20 It shall never be inhabited, 
 Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to 
 
 generation : 
 Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; 
 Neither shall the shepherds make their fold 
 
 there, 
 -' But 9 wild beasts of the desert shall lie 
 
 there ; 
 And their houses shall be full of ^doleful 
 
 creatures ; 
 And »owls shall dwell there. 
 And satyrs shall dance there, 
 22 And ^ the wild beasts of the islands shall cry 
 
 in their 'desolate houses. 
 And dragons in their pleasant palaces : and 
 
 her time is near to come. 
 And her days shall not be prolonged, 
 
 f Heb, as the overthrowing, g Heb. Ziim. h Heb. OcMm. i Or, 
 ostriches. Heb. daughto-s of the owl. k Heb. lim. I Or, palaces. 
 
ISAIAH. 14. 49 
 
 1 A tpOI^ the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, 
 -T And will yet choose Israel, 
 And set them in their own land : 
 And the strangers shall be joined with them, 
 And they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. 
 - And the people shall take them, and bring 
 them to their place : 
 And the house of Israel shall possess them in 
 
 the land of the Lord 
 For servants and handmaids : 
 And they shall take them captives, ^ whose 
 
 captives they were ; 
 And they shall rule over their oppressors. 
 
 ^ And it shall come to pass in the day that 
 
 the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, 
 
 and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage 
 
 wherein thou wast made to serve, * that thou 
 
 shalt take up this * proverb against the king of 
 
 Babylon, and say, 
 
 How hath the oppressor ceased ! the " golden 
 
 city ceased ! 
 
 ^ The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, 
 
 and the sceptre of the rulers. 
 ^ He who smote the people in wrath with '^ a 
 continual stroke, 
 
 a Heb. that had taken them captives, b Or, taunting speech, c Or, ex- 
 actress of gold, d Heb. a stroke without removing. 
 
50 ISAIAH, 14. 
 
 He that ruled the nations in anger, is perse- 
 cuted, and none hindereth. 
 "^ The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they 
 
 break forth into singing. 
 ^ Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the 
 cedars of Lebanon, saying, 
 Since thou art laid down, no feller is come 
 up against us. 
 ^ «Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet 
 thee at thy coming : 
 It stirreth up the dead for thee, e^en all the 
 
 / chief ones of the earth ; 
 It hath raised up from their thrones all the 
 kings of the nations. 
 '0 All they shall speak and say unto thee, 
 Art thou also become weak as we ? art thou 
 become like unto us ? 
 '^ Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and 
 the noise of thy viols : 
 The worm is spread under thee, and the worms 
 cover thee. 
 
 How art thou fallen from heaven, o O Lucifer, 
 
 son of the morning ! 
 HoiD art thou cut down to the ground, which 
 
 didst weaken the nations ! 
 
 c Or, The grave, f Heb. leaders. Or, great goats, g Or, O day- 
 star. 
 
ISAIAH, 14. 51 
 
 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend 
 
 into heaven, 
 
 I will exalt my throne above the stars of 
 God: 
 
 I will sit also upon the mount of the congre- 
 gation, in the sides of the north : 
 
 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds ; 
 
 I will be like the Most High. 
 1° Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to 
 the sides of the pit. 
 
 I'' They that see thee shall narrowly look upon 
 thee, and consider thee, saying, 
 Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, 
 that did shake kingdoms ; 
 1'' That made the world as a wilderness, and 
 destroyed the cities thereof; 
 That ^ opened not the house of his prisoners ? 
 1^ All the kings of the nations, even all of them, 
 
 Lie in glory, every one in his own house. 
 13 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an 
 abominable branch. 
 And as the raiment of those that are slain, 
 
 thrust through with a sword. 
 That go down to the stones of the pit ; as a 
 carcass trodden under feet. 
 2'^ Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, 
 
 /( Or, did not let his prisoners loose homeward. 
 
52 ISAIAH, 14. 
 
 Because thou hast destroyed thy land, and 
 slain thy people : 
 
 The seed of evil doers shall never be re- 
 nowned. 
 -' Prepare slaughter for his children for the in- 
 iquity of their fathers ; 
 
 That they do not rise, nor possess the land, 
 
 Nor fill the face of the world with cities. 
 '- For I will rise up against them, saith the 
 Lord of hosts, 
 
 And cut off from Babylon the name, and 
 remnant. 
 
 And son, and nephew, saith the Lord. 
 23 I will also make it a possession for the bit- 
 tern, and pools of water: 
 
 And I will sweep it with the besom of de- 
 struction, saith the Lord of hosts. 
 
 2-* The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying. 
 Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to 
 
 pass ; 
 And as I have purposed, so shall it stand: 
 -^ That I will break the Assyrian in my land, 
 And upon my mountains tread him under 
 
 foot: 
 Then shall his yoke depart from off them. 
 And his burden depart from off their shoul- 
 ders. 
 
ISAIAH, 14. 53 
 
 2s This is the purpose that is purposed upon the 
 whole earth : 
 And this is the hand that is stretched out 
 upon all the nations. 
 '-^'' For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and 
 who shall disannul it? 
 And his hand is stretched out, and who shall 
 turn it back? 
 
 28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this 
 
 burden. 
 
 29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, 
 Because the rod of him that smote thee is 
 
 broken : 
 For out of the serpent's root shall come forth 
 
 a *' cockatrice, 
 And his fruit sTiall he a fiery flying ser- 
 pent. 
 ^^ And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, 
 And the needy shall lie down in safety : 
 And I will kill thy root with famine, 
 And he shall slay thy remnant. 
 21 Howl, O gate ; cry, O city ; 
 Thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved : 
 For there shall come from the north a smoke, 
 And ^"none shall he alone in his ^appointed 
 times. 
 
 i Or, adder, k Or, he shall not be alone. I Or, assemblies. 
 
54 ISAIAH, 15. 
 
 3- What shall one then answer the messengers of 
 the nation ? 
 That the Lord hath founded Zion, 
 And the poor of his people shall "* trust in it. 
 
 15 T^^^ burden of Moab. 
 
 -L Because in the night Ar of Moab is 
 laid waste, and '^ brought to silence ; 
 Because in the night Kir of Moab is laid 
 waste, and brought to silence : 
 ' He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the 
 high places, to weep : 
 Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Med- 
 
 eba : 
 On all their heads sliall he baldness, and every 
 beard cut off. 
 ^ In their streets they shall gird themselves with 
 sackcloth : 
 On the tops of their houses, and in their 
 
 streets. 
 Every one shall howl, * weeping abundantly. 
 ■^ And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh ; 
 Their voice shall be heard ewn unto Jahaz : 
 Therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry 
 
 out ; 
 His life shall be grievous unto him. 
 
 m Or, ietake themselves unto it. a Or, exit off. I Heb. descending into 
 weeping, or, coming down with weeping. 
 
ISAIAH, 16. 55 
 
 My heart shall cry out for Moab ; 
 '^His fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, 
 A heifer of three years old : 
 For by the mounting up of Luhith with weep- 
 ing shall they go it up ; 
 For in the way of Horonaim they shall raise 
 
 up a cry of '' destruction. 
 For the waters of Nimrim shall be * desolate : 
 For the hay is withered away, the grass fail- 
 
 eth, there is no green thing. 
 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, 
 
 and that which they have laid up, 
 Shall they carry away to the / brook of the 
 
 willows. 
 For the cry is gone round about the borders 
 
 of Moab ; 
 The howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the 
 
 howling thereof unto Beer-elim. 
 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of 
 
 blood : 
 For I will bring 9 more upon Dimon, 
 Lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, 
 And upon the remnant of the land. 
 
 16 S 
 
 END ye the lamb to the ruler of the 
 land 
 
 c Or, to the borders thereof, even to Zoar, as a heifer, d Heb. breaking, 
 e Heb. desolations, f Or, valley of the Arabians, g Heb. additions. 
 
56 ISAIAH, 16. 
 
 From « Sela* to the wilderness, 
 
 Unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. 
 '^ For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird * cast 
 out of the nest, 
 
 So the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords 
 of Arnon. 
 3 ''Take counsel, execute judgment; 
 
 Make thy shadow as the night in the midst of 
 the noonday ; 
 
 Hide the outcasts ; bewray not him that wan- 
 dereth. 
 "* Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; 
 
 Be thou a covert to them from the face of the 
 spoiler : 
 
 For the '^ extortioner is at an end, the spoiler 
 ceaseth, 
 
 *The oppressors are consumed out of the 
 land. 
 5 And in mercy shall the throne be /estab- 
 lished : 
 
 And he shall sit upon it in truth in the taber- 
 nacle of David, 
 
 Judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting 
 righteousness. 
 ^ We have heard of the pride of Moab ; lie is 
 very proud : 
 
 a Or, Petra. Heb. A rocA:. b Or, a nest forsaken, c "Rah. Bring. i^Heb. 
 wringer, e Heh. the treaders down, f Or, prepared. 
 
ISAIAH, 16. 57 
 
 Even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and 
 
 his wrath : 
 But his lies shall not he so. 
 ' Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every 
 
 one shall howl : 
 For the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye 
 
 s mourn ; surely they are stricken. 
 ^ For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the 
 
 vine of Sibmah : 
 The lords of the heathen have broken down 
 
 the principal plants thereof. 
 They are come even unto Jazer, they wan- 
 dered through the wilderness : 
 Her branches are ^stretched out, they are 
 
 gone over the sea. 
 ^ Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of 
 
 Jazer the vine of Sibmah : 
 I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, 
 
 and Elealeh: 
 For ^ the shouting for thy summer fruits and 
 
 for thy harvest is fallen. 
 '° And gladness is taken away, and joy out of 
 
 the plentiful field ; 
 And in the vineyards there shall be no sing- 
 ing, neither shall there be shouting : 
 The treaders shall tread out no wine in their 
 
 presses ; 
 
 </ Or, mutter, h Or, plucked up. i Or, the alarm is fallen upon, &c. 
 
58 ISAIAH, 17. 
 
 I have made their mntage shouting to 
 cease. 
 " Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp 
 for Moab, 
 And mine inward parts for Kir-haresh. 
 '- And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that 
 Moab is weary on the high place, 
 That he shall come to his sanctuary to pray ; 
 but he shall not prevail. 
 
 '3 This is the word that the Lord hath spoken 
 
 concerning Moab since that time. ^'^ But now 
 
 the Lord hath spoken, saying, 
 
 Within three years, as the years of a hireling. 
 
 And the glory of Moab shall be contemned, 
 
 with all that great multitude ; 
 And the remnant shall be very small and 
 ^•feeble. 
 
 1 n rpHE burden of Damascus. 
 
 J- Behold, Damascus is taken away from 
 being a city. 
 And it shall be a ruinous heap. 
 
 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken : 
 They shall be for flocks, 
 
 Which shall lie down, and none shall make 
 them afraid. 
 
 k Or, not many. 
 
ISAIAH. 17. 59 
 
 2 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, 
 And the kingdom from Damascus, and the 
 
 remnant of Syria : 
 They shall be as the glory of the children of 
 Israel, saith the Lord of hosts. 
 ** And in that day it shall come to pass, 
 That the glory of Jacob shall be made 
 
 thin, 
 And the fatness of his flesh shall wax 
 lean. 
 ^ And it shall be as when the harvestman gath- 
 ereth the corn, 
 And reapeth the ears with his arm ; 
 And it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the 
 valley of Rephaim. 
 ^ Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the 
 shaking of an olive tree, 
 Two or three berries in the top of the upper- 
 most bough, 
 Four or five in the outmost fruitful branches 
 
 thereof, 
 Saith the Lord God of Israel. 
 ■^ At that day shall a man look to his 
 Maker, 
 And his eyes shall have respect to the Holy 
 One of Israel. 
 s And he shall not look to the altars, the work 
 of his hands. 
 
60 ISAIAH, 17. 
 
 Neither shall respect that which his lingers 
 
 have made, 
 Either the groves, or the "images. 
 ^ In that day shall his strong cities be 
 As a forsaken bough, and an uppermost 
 
 branch, 
 Which they left because of the children of 
 
 Israel : 
 And there shall be desolation. 
 "^ Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy 
 
 salvation. 
 And hast not been mindful of the Rock of 
 
 thy strength, 
 Therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, 
 And shalt set it with strange slips: 
 ' ' In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow. 
 And in the morning shalt thou make thy seed 
 
 to flourish : 
 But the harvest shall he * a heap in the day of 
 
 grief and of desperate sorrow. 
 
 '' Woe to the " multitude of many people, 
 Which make a noise like the noise of the seas ; 
 And to the rushing of nations. 
 That make a rushing like the rushing of 
 '^ mighty waters ! 
 
 a Or, sxin images. 6 Or, removed in the day of inheritance, a?id there 
 shall be deadly sorrow, c Or, 7ioise. d Or, many. 
 
ISAIAH, 18. 61 
 
 '^ The nations shall rush like the rushing of 
 many waters : 
 
 But Ood shall rebuke them, and they shall 
 flee far off. 
 
 And shall be chased as the chaff of the mount- 
 ains before the wind, 
 
 And like ^ a rolling thing before the whirlwind. 
 ^^ And behold at eveningtide trouble ; 
 
 And before the morning he is not. 
 
 This is the portion of them that spoil us, 
 
 And the lot of them that rob us. 
 
 1 O "\'\7'0E to the land shadowing with wings, 
 
 ▼ ▼ Which is beyond the rivers of Ethio- 
 pia : 
 - That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, 
 Even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, 
 
 saying, 
 Go, ye swift messengers. 
 To a nation « scattered and peeled, 
 To a people terrible from their beginning hith- 
 erto ; 
 *A nation meted out and trodden down, 
 " Whose land the rivers have spoiled ! 
 
 2 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers 
 
 on the earth, 
 
 € Or, thistle down, a Or, outspread and polinhed. b Or, a nation that 
 metelh out, and treadeth dotvn. Heb. a nation of line, line, and tread- 
 ing underfoot, c Or, whose land the rivers despise. 
 
62 ISAIAH, 18. 
 
 See ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the 
 
 mountains ; 
 And when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. 
 •^ For so the Lord said unto me, 
 I will take my rest, and I will '^ consider in my 
 
 dwellingplace 
 Like a clear heat ^ upon herbs. 
 And like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. 
 ^ For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, 
 And the sour grape is ripening in the flower, 
 He shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning- 
 
 hooks, 
 And take away and cut down the branches. 
 6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of 
 
 the mountains, 
 And to the beasts of the earth : 
 And the fowls shall summer upon them. 
 And all the beasts of the earth shall winter 
 
 upon them. 
 ' In that time shall the present be brought unto 
 
 the Lord of hosts 
 Of a people f scattered and peeled. 
 And from a people terrible from their begin- 
 ning hitherto ; 
 A nation meted out and trodden under foot. 
 Whose land the rivers have spoiled, 
 
 rf Or, regard my set dwelling, e Or, after rain. /Or, outspread and 
 polished : See ver. 2. 
 
ISAIAH, 19. 63 
 
 To the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, 
 the mount Zion. 
 
 1 Q 'T^HE burden of Egypt. 
 
 J- Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift 
 cloud, and shall come into Egypt : 
 
 And the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his 
 presence, 
 
 And the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst 
 of it. 
 
 2 And I will "" set the Egyptians against the 
 
 Egyptians : 
 
 And they shall fight every one against his 
 brother, and every one against his neigh- 
 bour ; 
 
 City against city, and kingdom against king- 
 dom. 
 2 And the spirit of Egypt ^ shall fail in the 
 midst thereof; 
 
 And I will '^destroy the counsel thereof: 
 
 And they shall seek to the idols, and to the 
 charmers, 
 
 And to them that have familiar spirits, and 
 to the wizards. 
 ^ And the Egyptians will I ^ give over into the 
 hand of a cruel lord ; 
 
 a Heb. mingle, b Heb. shall he emptied, c Heb. Btvallow up. d Or, 
 shiU up. 
 
64 ISAIAH, 19. 
 
 And a fierce king shall rule over them, 
 Saitli the Lord, the Lord of hosts. 
 ^ And the waters shall fail from the sea. 
 
 And the river shall be wasted and dried up. 
 ^ And they shall turn the rivers far away ; 
 A7id the brooks of defence shall be emptied 
 
 and dried up : 
 The reeds and flags shall wither. 
 ' The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth 
 of the brooks. 
 And every thing sown by the brooks, 
 Shall wither, be driven away, ^and be no 
 more. 
 
 8 The fishers also shall mourn, 
 
 And all they that cast angle into the brooks 
 
 shall lament. 
 And they that spread nets upon the waters 
 
 shall languish. 
 
 9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, 
 
 And they that weave /networks, shall be con- 
 founded. 
 ^0 And they shall be broken in the i' purposes 
 thereof. 
 
 All that make sluices a?id ponds ^for fish. 
 
 ^^ Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, 
 
 e Heb. and shall not he. f Or, wTiite works, g Heb. foundations, 
 h Heb. of living things. 
 
ISAIAH, 19. 65 
 
 The counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh 
 
 is become brutish : 
 How say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the 
 
 wise, 
 The son of ancient kings ? 
 ^- Where are they ? where are thy wise men? 
 And let them tell thee now. 
 And let them know what the Lord of hosts 
 hath purposed upon Egypt. 
 ^' The princes of Zoau are become fools, 
 The princes of Noph are deceived ; 
 They have also seduced Egypt, emn '■they that 
 are the stay of the tribes thereof. 
 '■* The Lord hath mingled '^a perverse spirit in 
 the midst thereof : 
 And they have caused Egypt to err in every 
 
 w^ork thereof, 
 As a drunken man staggereth in his vomit. 
 '5 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, 
 Which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do. 
 '^ In that day shall Egypt be like unto women : 
 And it shall be afraid and fear 
 Because of the shaking of the hand of the 
 
 Lord of hosts, 
 Which he shaketh over it. 
 ' ' And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto 
 Egypt, 
 
 i Or, governors. Heb. corners, k Heb. a spirit of perverseness. 
 
66 ISAIAH, 19. 
 
 Every one that niaketh mention thereof shall 
 
 be afraid in himself, 
 Because of the counsel of the Lord of hosts, 
 Which he hath determined against it. 
 
 ^8 In that day shall five cities in the land of 
 
 Egypt 
 Speak 'the language of Canaan, 
 And sw^ear to the Lord of hosts ; 
 One shall be called, The city "'of destruc- 
 tion. 
 ^^ In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord 
 
 in the midst of the land of Egypt, 
 And a pillar at the border thereof to the 
 
 Lord. 
 ^° And it shall be for a sign and for a witness 
 
 unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt: 
 For they shall cry unto the Lord because of 
 
 the oppressors, 
 And he shall send them a saviour, and a great 
 
 one, and he shall deliver them. 
 *' And the Lord shall be known to Egypt, 
 And the Egyptians shall know the Lord in 
 
 that da)"", 
 And shall do sacrifice and oblation ; 
 Yea, they shall vow a vow unto the Lord, 
 
 and perform it. 
 
 I Heb. the lip. m Or, of Heres, or, of the sun. 
 
ISAIAH, 20. 
 
 " And the Lord shall smite Egypt : he shall 
 smite and heal it: 
 And they shall return emn to the Lord, and 
 he shall be entreated of them, and shall heal 
 them. 
 "■' In that day shall there be a highway out of 
 Egypt to Assyria, 
 And the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, 
 
 and the Egyptian into Assyria, 
 And the Egyptians shall serve with the As- 
 syrians. 
 ^^ In that day shall Israel be the third with 
 Egypt and with Assyria, 
 Even a blessing in the midst of the land : 
 ^^ Whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, 
 Blessed he Egypt my people, 
 And Assyria the work of my hands. 
 And Israel mine inheritance. 
 
 20 T"^ ^'^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ Tartan came unto Ash- 
 J- dod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria 
 sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took 
 it ; 2 at the same time spake the Lord "by Isaiah 
 the son of Amoz, saying. 
 Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy 
 
 loins, 
 And put off thy shoe from thy foot. 
 
 a Heb. hy the hand of Isaiah. 
 
68 ISAIAH, 21. 
 
 And he did so, walking naked and bare- 
 foot. ^ And the Lord said, 
 
 Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked 
 and barefoot 
 
 Three years /<?r a sign and wonder 
 
 Upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia ; 
 •• So shall the king of Assyria lead away * the 
 Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians 
 captives, 
 
 Young and old, naked and barefoot. 
 
 Even with their buttocks uncovered, 
 
 To the " shame of Egypt. 
 '" And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethi- 
 opia their expectation, 
 
 And of Egypt their glory. 
 ^ And the inhabitant of this '^isle shall say in that 
 day, 
 
 Behold, such is our expectation, 
 
 Whither we flee for help 
 
 To be delivered from the king of Assyria : 
 
 And how shall we escape ? 
 
 p"] npHE burden of the desert of the sea. 
 
 -L As whirlwinds in the south pass through; 
 So\t cometli from the desert,from a terrible land. 
 - A <" grievous vision is declared unto me ; 
 
 6Heb. t%t captivity of Egypt. cHeb. nakedneee. rfOr. country, Jer. 
 47. 4. a Heb. hard. 
 
ISAIAH, 21. 
 
 The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, 
 
 and the spoiler spoileth. 
 Go up, O Elam : besiege, O Media : 
 All the sighing thereof have I made to cease. 
 2 Therefore are my loins filled with pain : 
 Pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs 
 
 of a woman that travaileth : 
 I was bowed down at the hearing ofit; 
 I was dismayed at the seeing ofit. 
 ^ * My heart panted, f earf ulness affrighted me : 
 The night of my pleasure hath he 'turned into 
 fear unto me. 
 ^ Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, 
 eat, drink : 
 Arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield. 
 ^ For thus hath the Lord said unto me, 
 Go, set a watchman. 
 Let him declare what he seeth. 
 ' And he saw a chariot with a couple of horse- 
 men, 
 A chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels ; 
 And he hearkened diligently with much heed: 
 ® And '^ he cried, A lion : 
 My lord, I stand continually upon the watch- 
 tower in the daytime. 
 And I am set in my ward " whole nights : 
 
 h Or, ily mind wandered, c Heb. put. d Or, cried as a lion, t Or, 
 every night. 
 
ISAIAH, 21. 
 
 ^ And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, 
 with a couple of horsemen. 
 And he answered and said, 
 Babylon is fallen, is fallen ; 
 And all the graven images of her gods he hath 
 broken unto the ground. 
 ^^ O my threshing, and the f corn of my floor : 
 That which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, 
 
 the God of Israel, 
 Have I declared unto you. 
 
 '^ The burden of Dumah. 
 
 He calleth to me out of Seir, 
 
 Watchman, what of the night ? 
 
 Watchman, what of the night ? 
 '- The watchman said, 
 
 The morning cometh, and also the night : 
 
 If ye will inquire, inquire ye : 
 
 Return, come. 
 
 ^^ The burden upon Arabia. 
 In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, 
 O ye travelling companies of Dedanim. 
 '^ The inhabitants of the land of Tema i' brought 
 water to him that was thirsty, 
 They prevented with their bread him that 
 fled. 
 
 / Heb. son. g Or, hring ye. 
 
ISAIAH, 22. 71 
 
 ^^ For they fled ^from the swords, from the draw3 
 sword, and from the bent bow, 
 And from the grievousness of war. 
 ^'^ For thus hath the Lord said unto me, 
 Within a year, according to the years of a hire- 
 ling, 
 And all the glory of Kedar shall fail : 
 ^^ And the residue of the number of 'arch- 
 ers, 
 The mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall 
 
 be diminished : 
 For the Lord God of Israel hath spoken it. 
 
 pp nnHE burden of the valley of vision. 
 
 -L What aileth thee now, that thou art 
 wholly gone up to the housetops ? 
 "■* Thou that art full of stirs, 
 A tumultuous city, a joyous city : 
 Thy slain men are not slain with the sword. 
 Nor dead in battle. 
 ^ All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound 
 '^ b}^ the archers : 
 All that are found in thee are bound together, 
 which have fled from far. 
 "* Therefore said I, Look away from me ; *I will 
 weep bitterly, 
 
 A Or, for fear. Heb. from the face, i Heb. hows, a Heb. of the how. 
 b Heb. / will he hitter in weeping. 
 
72 ISAIAH, 22. 
 
 Labour not to comfort me, because of the spoil- 
 ing of the daughter of my people. 
 * For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, 
 and of perplexity 
 By the Lord God of hosts in the valley of vision, 
 Breaking down the walls, and of crying to the 
 mountains. 
 ^ And Elam bare the quiver 
 With chariots of men a?id horsemen. 
 And Kir <" uncovered the shield. 
 '' And it shall come to pass, tJiat ^ thy choicest 
 valleys shall be full of chariots. 
 And the horsemen shall set themselves in array 
 ' at the gate. 
 ^ And he discovered the covering of Judah, 
 And thou didst look in that day to the armour 
 of the house of the forest. 
 ^ Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of 
 David, that they are many : 
 And ye gathered together the waters of the 
 lower pool. 
 ^^ And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusa- 
 lem, 
 And the houses have ye broken down to for- 
 tify the wall. 
 " Ye made also a ditch between the two w^alls 
 for the water of the old pool : 
 
 c Heb. made naked, d Heb. the choice of thy valleys, e Or, toward. 
 
ISAIAH, 22. 73 
 
 But ye have not looked unto the maker 
 
 thereof, 
 Neither had respect unto him that fashioned it 
 
 long ago. 
 12 And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call 
 
 to weeping, and to mourning, 
 And to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth : 
 '^ And behold joy and gladness, 
 Slaying oxen, and killing sheep. 
 Eating flesh, and drinking wine : 
 Let us eat and drink ; for to morrow we shall 
 
 die, 
 '•* And it was revealed in mine ears by the Lord 
 
 of hosts, 
 Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from 
 
 you till ye die, 
 Saith the Lord God of hosts. 
 
 '^ Thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Go, get thee 
 unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is 
 over the house, and say, 
 
 1^ What hast thou here, and whom hast thou 
 here, 
 That thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre 
 
 here, 
 fAs he that heweth him out a sepulchre on 
 high, ^__^ 
 
 /Or, O/ie. 
 
74 ISAIAH, 22. 
 
 Aiid that graveth a liabitation for himself in a 
 rock ? 
 ^^ Behold, J' the Lord will carry thee away with 
 * a mighty captivity, 
 And will surely cover thee. 
 '^ He will surely violently turn and toss thee like 
 a ball 
 Into a ^arge country : there shalt thou die. 
 And there the chariots of thy glory 
 Shall be the shame of thy lord's house. 
 '^ And I will drive thee from thy station, 
 
 And from thy state shall he pull thee down. 
 ■-" And it shall come to pass in that day. 
 
 That I will call my servant Eliakim the son of 
 Hilkiah : 
 -' And I will clothe him with thy robe. 
 And strengthen him with thy girdle. 
 And I will commit thy government into his 
 
 hand : 
 And he shall be a father to the inhabitants of 
 
 Jerusalem, 
 And to the house of Judah. 
 ■-- And the key of the house of David will I lay 
 upon his shoulder ; 
 So he shall open, and none shall shut ; 
 And he shall shut, and none shall open. 
 
 (f Or, the Lord vjJw covered thee with an excellent covering, and clothed 
 thee gorgeously, shnll surely, <£c. ver. 18. h Heb. the captivity of a man. 
 i Heb. large of spaces. 
 
ISAIAH, 23. 75 
 
 ^^ And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure 
 place ; 
 
 And he shall be for a glorious throne to his 
 father's house. 
 - ' And they shall hang upon him all the glory of 
 his father's house, 
 
 The offspring and the issue, 
 
 All vessels of small quantity. 
 
 From the vessels of cups, even to all the * ves- 
 sels of flagons. 
 -^ In that day, saith the Lord of hosts. 
 
 Shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place 
 be removed. 
 
 And be cut down, and fall ; 
 
 And the burden that was upon it shall be cut 
 off: 
 
 For the Lord hath spoken it. 
 
 OQ 'T^HE burden of Tyre. 
 
 J- Howl, ye ships of Tarshish ; 
 For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, 
 
 no entering in : 
 From the land of Chittim it is revealed to 
 them. 
 - Be " still, ye inhabitants of the isle ; 
 Thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass 
 over the sea, have replenished. 
 
 k Or, instruments of viols, a Heb. silent. 
 
76 ISAIAH, 23. 
 
 ^ And by great waters the seed of Sihor, 
 The harvest of the river, is her reve- 
 nue ; 
 And she is a mart of nations. 
 •* Be thou ashamed, O Zidon : for the sea hath 
 spoken, 
 Even the strength of tlie sea, saying, 
 I travail not, nor bring forth children. 
 Neither do I nourish up young men, no?' bring 
 up virgins. 
 ^ As at the report concerning Egypt, 
 So shall they be sorely pained at the report of 
 Tyre. 
 ^ Pass ye over to Tarshish ; howl, ye inhabit- 
 ants of the isle. 
 ■^ Is this your joyous city, whose antiquit}'- is of 
 ancient days ? 
 Her own feet shall carry her ^afar off to so- 
 journ. 
 ^ Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, 
 the crowning citi/, 
 Whose merchants are princes, whose traffick- 
 ers are the honourable of the earth ? 
 ^ The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, 
 '^ To stain the pride of all glory, 
 And to bring into contempt all the honour- 
 able of the earth. 
 
 h Heb. from afar ojf. c Heb. to pollute. 
 
ISAIAH, 23. 
 
 '0 Pass through thy laud as a river, O daughter 
 of Tarshish : 
 
 TJiere is no more '^ strength. 
 1' He stretched out his hand over the sea, he 
 shook the kingdoms : 
 
 The Lord hath given a commandment " against 
 / the merchant city, to destroy the o strong- 
 holds thereof. 
 '■- And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, 
 
 O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zi- 
 don : 
 
 Arise, pass over to Chittim ; 
 
 There also shalt thou have no rest. 
 13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans ; 
 
 This people was not. 
 
 Till the Assyrian founded it for them that 
 dwell in the wilderness : 
 
 They set up the towers thereof, 
 
 They raised up the palaces thereof ; 
 
 And he brought it to ruin. 
 
 '■* Howl, ye ships of Tarshish : for your strength 
 is laid waste. 
 
 '^ And it shall come to pass in that day. 
 That Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, 
 According to the days of one king : . 
 
 rf Heb. girdle, e Or, concerning a merchantman. /Heb. Canaan. 
 g Or, strengths. 
 
ISAIAH, 24. 
 
 After the end of seventy years * shall Tyre 
 
 sing as a harlot. 
 ^^ Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot 
 
 that hast been forgotten ; 
 Make sweet melody, sing many songs, that 
 
 thou mayest be remembered. 
 '' And it shall come to pass after the end of 
 
 seventy years, 
 That the Lord will visit Tyre, 
 And she shall turn to her hire, 
 And shall commit fornication with all the 
 
 kingdoms of the w^orld 
 Upon the face of the earth. 
 '^ And her merchandise and her hire shall be 
 
 holiness to the Lord : 
 It shall not be treasured nor laid up ; 
 For her merchandise shall be for them that 
 
 dwell before the Lord, 
 To eat sufficiently, and for 'durable clothing. 
 
 OA "OEHOLD, the Lord maketh the earth 
 -L' empty, and maketh it waste, 
 And « turneth it upside down, and scattereth 
 abroad the inhabitants thereof. 
 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with 
 the * priest ; 
 
 h Heb. it shall he un to Tjire as the song of a harlot, i Heb. old. a Heb. 
 perverteth the face thereof, b Or, prince. 
 
ISAIAH, 24. 
 
 As with the servant, so with his master ; 
 As with the maid,- so with her mistress ; 
 As with the buyer, so with the seller ; 
 As with the lender, so with the borrower ; 
 As with the taker of usury, so with the giver 
 
 of usury to him. 
 The land shall be utterly eniptied, and utterly 
 
 spoiled : 
 For the Lord hath spoken this word. 
 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, 
 The world languisheth and fadeth away, 
 " The haughty people of the earth do languish. 
 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants 
 
 thereof ; 
 Because they have transgressed the laws, 
 
 changed the ordinance. 
 Broken the everlasting covenant. 
 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, 
 And they that dwell therein are desolate : 
 Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are 
 
 burned. 
 And few men left. 
 
 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth. 
 All the merry hearted do sigh. 
 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them 
 
 that rejoice endeth, 
 The joy of the harp ceaseth. 
 
 Heb. the height of the people. 
 
80 ISAIAH. 24. 
 
 ^ They shall not drink wine with a song ; 
 Strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink 
 it. 
 '^ The city of confusion is broken down : 
 Every house is shut up, that no man may 
 come in. 
 ^' There is a crying for wine in the streets ; 
 All joy is darkened, 
 The mirth of the land is gone. 
 ^^ In the city is left desolation, 
 
 And the gate is smitten with destruction. 
 ^^ When thus it shall be in the midst of the land 
 among the people, 
 There shall be as the shaking of an olive tree. 
 And as the gleaning grapes when the vintage 
 is done. 
 ^^ They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing 
 For the majesty of the Lord, they shall cry 
 aiioud from the sea. 
 '5 Wherefore glorify ye the IjORD in the "^ fires, 
 Even the name of the Lord God of Israel in 
 the isles of the sea. 
 
 '*^ From the « uttermost part of the earth have 
 we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. 
 But I said, -^My leanness, my leanness, woe 
 unto me ! 
 
 d Or, valleys, e Heb. wing, f Heb. Leanness to me, or, My secret to me. 
 
ISAIAH, 24. 81 
 
 The treacherous dealers have dealt treacher- 
 ously ; 
 Yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very 
 
 treacherously. 
 ^'' Fear, and the pit, and the snare. 
 
 Are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. 
 '^ And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth 
 
 from, the noise of the fear shall fall into the 
 
 pit ; 
 And he that cometh up out of the midst of the 
 
 pit shall be taken in the snare : 
 For the windows from on high are open, 
 And the foundations of the earth do shake. 
 '' The earth is utterly broken down. 
 The earth is clean dissolved. 
 The earth is moved exceedingly, 
 ^° The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, 
 And shall be removed like a cottage ; 
 And the transgression thereof shall be heavy 
 
 upon it ; 
 And it shall fall, and not rise again. 
 •^^ And it shall come to pass in that day, 
 
 T?iat the Lord shall ff punish the host of the 
 
 high ones tJiat are on high. 
 And the kings of the earth upon the earth. 
 
 oners are gathered in the *pit, 
 
 g Heb. visit upon, h Heb. with the gathering of prisoners, i Or, dungeon. 
 
82 ISAIAH, 25. 
 
 And shall be shut up in the prison, 
 And after many days shall they be ^'visited. 
 ^^ Then the moon shall be confounded, and the 
 sun ashamed, 
 When the Lord of hosts shall reign 
 In mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, 
 And ^before his ancients gloriously. 
 
 V-/ I will exalt thee, I will praise thy 
 name ; 
 For thou hast done wonderful things ; 
 Thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. 
 ^ For thou hast made of a city a heap ; 
 Of a def enced city a ruin : 
 A palace of strangers to be no city ; 
 It shall never be built. 
 ^ Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee. 
 The city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. 
 ^ For thou hast been a strength to the poor, 
 A strength to the needy in his distress, 
 A refuge from the storm, a shadow from the 
 
 heat, 
 When the blast of the terrible ones is as a 
 storm against tlie wall. 
 ^ Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, 
 As the heat in a dry place ; 
 
 k Or, found wanting. I Or, there shall be glory before his ancients. 
 
ISAIAH, 25. 83 
 
 Even the heat with the shadow of a cloud : 
 The branch of the terrible ones shall be brought 
 
 low. 
 ^ And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts 
 
 make unto all people 
 A feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the 
 
 lees, 
 Of fat things full of marrow. 
 Of wines on the lees well refined. 
 ' And he will "- destroy in this mountain 
 The face of the covering *cast over all peo- 
 ple. 
 And the vail that is spread over all nations. 
 ^ He will swallow up death in victory ; 
 And the Lord God will wipe away tears from 
 
 off all faces ; 
 And the rebuke of his people shall he take 
 
 away from off all the earth : 
 For the Lord hath spoken it. 
 ^ And it shall be said in that day, 
 Lo, this is our God ; 
 We have waited for him, and he will save 
 
 us: 
 This is the Lord ; we have waited for him, 
 We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. 
 ^° For in this mountain shall the hand of the 
 
 Lord rest, 
 
 a Heb. sivallow up. b Heb. covered. 
 
84 ISAIAH, 26. 
 
 And Moab shall be " trodden down under him, 
 Even as straw is '^trodden down for the dung- 
 hill. 
 ^1 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst 
 of them, 
 As he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands 
 
 to swim : 
 And he shall bring down their pride * 
 Together with the spoils of their hands. 
 ^"- And the fortress of the high fort of th}^ walls 
 shall he bring down. 
 Lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the 
 dust. 
 
 9R T-^ *^^^* ^^y ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^*^^» ^^ ^^"» ^"^ ^'^^^ 
 ^^ 1. landof Judah; 
 
 We have a strong city ; 
 
 Salvation will Ood appoint for walls and bul- 
 warks. 
 - Open ye the gates, 
 
 That the righteous nation which keepeth the 
 *» truth may enter in. 
 ^ Thou wilt keep him in * perfect peace, 
 
 Whose " mind is stayed on thee : 
 
 Because he trusteth in thee. 
 * Trust ye in the Lokd for ever : 
 
 /•Or, threshed, d Or, threshed in Madmen ah. a Heb. truths, li Keh. 
 peace, peace, ch. 57. 19. c Or, thought, or, imagination. 
 
ISAIAH, 26. 85 
 
 For in the Lord JEHOVAH is '^everlasting 
 strength. 
 ^ For he bringeth down them that dwell on 
 high ; 
 The lofty city, he layetli it low ; 
 He layeth it low, even to the ground ; 
 He bringeth it even to the dust. 
 ® The foot shall tread it down, 
 Even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the 
 needy. 
 "' The way of the just is uprightness : 
 Thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of 
 the just. 
 * Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, 
 have we waited for thee ; 
 The desire of our soul is to thy name, and to 
 the remembrance of thee. 
 ^ With my soul have I desired thee in the night; 
 Yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee 
 
 early : 
 For when thy judgments ai^e in the earth, 
 The inhabitants of the world will learn right- 
 eousness. 
 ^•^ Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will 
 he not learn righteousness : 
 In the land of uprightness will he deal un- 
 justly, 
 
 d Heb. the rock of ages, Deut. 32. 4. 
 
ISAIAH, 26. 
 
 And will not behold the majesty of the 
 
 Lord. 
 " Lord, wJien thy hand is lifted up, they will not 
 
 see : 
 But they shall see, and be ashamed for their 
 
 envy « at the people ; 
 Yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour 
 
 them. 
 '■- Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us : 
 
 For thou also hast wrought all our works / in us, 
 '•' O Lord our God, 
 
 Other lords besides thee have had dominion 
 
 over us ; 
 But by thee only will we make mention of 
 
 thy name. 
 '■* They are dead, they shall not live ; 
 They are deceased, they shall not rise : 
 Therefore hast thou visited and destroyed 
 
 them. 
 And made all their memory to perish. 
 '^ Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, 
 Thou hast increased the nation ; thou art glo- 
 rified : 
 Thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends 
 
 of the earth. 
 
 ^^ Lord, in trouble have they visited thee ; 
 
 Or, toward thy people, f Or, for us. 
 
ISAIAH, 26. 87 
 
 They poured out a 9 praj'-er when thy chasten- 
 ing was upon them. 
 ' ' Like as a woman with child, that draweth near 
 the time of her delivery, 
 
 Is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs ; 
 
 So have we been in thy sight, O Lord. 
 '** We have been with child, we have been in 
 pain. 
 
 We have as it were brought forth wind ; 
 
 We have not wrought any deliverance in the 
 earth ; 
 
 Neither have the inhabitants of the world 
 fallen. 
 
 ^^ Thy dead 7nen shall live. 
 
 Together with my dead body shall they arise. 
 Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust : 
 For thy dew is as the dew of herbs, 
 And the earth shall cast out the dead. 
 
 ■^ Come, my people, enter thou into thy cham- 
 bers, 
 And shut thy doors about thee : 
 Hide thyself as it were for a little moment, 
 Until the indignation be overpast. 
 
 -' For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place 
 To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their 
 iniquity : 
 
 g Heb. secret speech. 
 
ISAIAH, 27. 
 
 The earth also shall disclose her ^ blood, 
 And shall no more cover her slain. 
 
 97 T"^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ Lord with his sore and 
 A great and strong sword 
 Shall punish leviathan the '' piercing serpent, 
 Even leviathan that crooked serpent ; 
 And he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. 
 
 In that day sing ye unto her, 
 
 A vineyard of red wine. 
 
 I the Lord do keep it ; 
 
 I will water it every moment : 
 
 Lest ani/ hurt it, I will keep it night and 
 
 day. 
 Fury is not in me : 
 Who would set the briers and thorns against 
 
 me in battle ? 
 I would ^go through them, I would burn them 
 
 together. 
 Or let him take hold of my strength. 
 That he may make peace with me ; 
 A7id he shall make peace with me. 
 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take 
 
 root : 
 Israel shall blossom and bud. 
 And fill the face of the world with fruit. 
 
 Heb. Hoods, a Or, crossing like a bar, b Or, march againsr. 
 
ISAIAH, 27. 89 
 
 " Hath he smitten him, ' as he smote those that 
 
 smote him ? 
 Or is he slain according to the slaughter of 
 
 them that are slain by him ? 
 ^ In measure, '^ when it shooteth forth, thou wilt 
 
 debate with it : 
 «He stayeth his rough wind in the day of tlie 
 
 east wind. 
 ® By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob 
 
 be purged ; 
 And this is all the fruit to take away his sin ; 
 When he maketli all the stones of the altar as 
 
 chalkstones that are beaten in sunder. 
 The groves and / images shall not stand up. 
 '0 Yet the def enced city shall he desolate, 
 And the habitation forsaken, and left like a 
 
 wilderness : 
 There shall the calf feed, and there shall lie 
 
 lie down, 
 And consume the branches thereof. 
 '' When the boughs thereof are withered, they 
 
 shall be broken off : 
 The women come, and set them on fire ; 
 For it is a people of no understanding : 
 Therefore he that made them will not have 
 
 mercy on them, 
 
 c Heb. according to the stroke of those, d Or, when thou scndest it 
 forth, e Or, when he removeth it. J Or, sun images. 
 
90 ISAIAH, 28. 
 
 And he that formed them will shew them no 
 
 favour. 
 ^' And it shall come to pass in that day, 
 
 That the Lord shall beat off from the channel 
 
 of the river unto the stream of Egypt, 
 And ye shall be gathered one by one, 
 O ye children of Israel. 
 '3 And it shall come to pass in that day, 
 That the great trumpet shall be blown, 
 And they shall come which w^ere ready to 
 
 perish in the land of Assyria, 
 And the outcasts in the land of Egypt, 
 And shall worship the Lord in the holy mount 
 
 at Jerusalem. 
 
 po TT70E to the crown of pride, to the 
 » ' drunkards of Ephraim, 
 Whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, 
 Which are on the head of the fat valleys of 
 them that are « overcome with wine ! 
 - Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, 
 Which as a tempest of hail and a destroying 
 
 storm, 
 As a flood of mighty waters overflowing. 
 Shall cast down to the earth with the hand. 
 2 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, 
 Shall be trodden '' under feet : 
 
 a Heb. broken, b Heb. with feet. 
 
ISAIAH, 28. 91 
 
 ^ And the glorious beauty, which is on the head 
 of the fat valley, shall be a fading flov/er, 
 And as the hasty fruit before the summer ; 
 Which tc?ien he that looketh upon it seeth, 
 While it is yet in his hand he " eateth it up. 
 
 5 In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a 
 crown of glory. 
 And for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue 
 of his people, 
 •^ And for a spirit of judgment to him that sit- 
 teth in judgment. 
 And for strength to them that turn the battle 
 to the gate. 
 ' But they also have erred t^irough wine, and 
 through strong drink are out of the way ; 
 The priest and the prophet have erred through 
 
 strong drink. 
 They are swallowed up of wine, they are out 
 
 of the way through strong drink ; 
 They err in vision, they stumble i7i judgment. 
 8 For all tables are full of vomit and tilthiness, 
 So that there is no place clean. 
 
 '^ Whom shall he teach knowledge ? 
 And whom shall he make to understand '^ doc- 
 trine ? 
 
 c Heb. swalloweth. d Heb. the hearing. 
 
92 ISAIAH, 28. 
 
 Them that are weaned from the milk, 
 
 And drawn from the breasts. 
 '0 For precept * must be upon precept, precept 
 upon precept ; 
 
 Line upon line, line upon line ; 
 
 Here a little, and there a little : 
 ^^ For with /stammering lips and another tongue 
 
 s Will he speak to this people. 
 1^ To whom he said, 
 
 This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the 
 weary to rest ; 
 
 And this is the refreshing : yet they would not 
 hear. 
 ^^ But the word of the Lord was unto them 
 
 Precept upon precept, precept upon precept ; 
 
 Line upon line, line upon line ; 
 
 Here a little, and there a little ; 
 
 That they might go, and fall backward, and 
 be broken, 
 
 And snared, and taken. 
 
 '^ Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye 
 scornful men, 
 That rule this people which is in Jerusalem. 
 ^^ Because ye have said, We have made a cove- 
 nant with death. 
 And with hell are we at agreement ; 
 
 f Or, hath been. / Heb. stammerings of lips, g Or, he. hath spoken. 
 
ISAIAH, 28. 93 
 
 When the overflowing scourge shall pass 
 through, it shall not come unto us : 
 
 For we have made lies our refuge. 
 
 And under falsehood have we hid ourselves : 
 "^ Therefore thus saitli the Lord God, 
 
 Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, 
 
 A tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure 
 foundation : 
 
 He that believeth. shall not make haste. 
 '^ Judgment also will I lay to the line, 
 
 And righteousness to the plummet : 
 
 And the hail shall sweep away the refuge of 
 lies. 
 
 And the waters shall overflow the hiding place. 
 '^ And 3^our covenant with death shall be dis- 
 annulled, 
 
 And your agreement with hell shall not stand; 
 
 When the overflowing scourge shall pass 
 through. 
 
 Then ye shall be ^trodden down by it. 
 ^^ From the time that it goeth. forth it shall take 
 you: 
 
 For morning by morning shall it pass over, 
 by day and by night : 
 
 And it shall be a vexation only "-to understand 
 the report. 
 
 A Heb. a treading doivn to it. i Or, when lie shall make you to under- 
 stand doctrine. 
 
94 ISAIAH, 28. 
 
 ^° For the bed is shorter than that a man can 
 stretch himself on it : 
 And the covering narrower than that he can 
 wrap himself in it. 
 2' For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Per- 
 azim, 
 He shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, 
 That he may do his work, his strange work ; 
 And bring to pass his act, his strange act. 
 "'^ Now therefore be ye not mockers, 
 Lest your bands be made strong : 
 For I have heard from the Lord God of hosts 
 A consumption, even determined 
 Upon the whole earth. 
 
 "3 Give ye ear, and hear my voice ; 
 
 Hearken, and hear my speech. 
 ^■^ Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow ? 
 
 Doth he open and break the clods of his 
 ground ? 
 25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, 
 
 Doth he not cast abroad the fitches, 
 
 And scatter the cummin. 
 
 And cast in ^ the principal wheat 
 
 And the appointed barley and the 'rye in their 
 '" place ? 
 
 k Or, the wheat in the principal place, a7id harley in the appointed 
 place. I Or, spelt, m Heb. harder ? 
 
ISAIAH, 29. 95 
 
 26 n For his God doth instruct him to discretion, 
 
 and doth teach him. 
 " For the fitches are not threshed with a thresh- 
 ing instrument, 
 Neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the 
 
 cummin ; 
 But the fitches are beaten out with a staff, 
 And the cummin with a rod. 
 28 Bread corn is bruised ; 
 
 Because he will not ever be threshing it, 
 Xor break it with the wheel of his cart, 
 Nor bruise it loith his horsemen. 
 -^ This also cometh forth from the Lord of 
 hosts, 
 Which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent 
 in working. 
 
 on « ^^70^ to Ariel, to Ariel, ^ the citjiohere 
 ^^ VY David dwelt! 
 
 Add ye year to year ; let them " kill sacrifices. 
 - Yet I will distress Ariel, 
 
 And there shall be heaviness and sorrow : 
 
 And it shall be unto me as Ariel. 
 ^ And I will camp against thee round about, 
 
 And will lay siege against thee with a mount, 
 
 And I will raise forts against thee. 
 
 n Or, And he hindeth it in such sm-t as his God doth teach him. a Or, O 
 Ariel, that is, the lion of God. h Or, of the city, c Heb. cut off the heads. 
 
96 ISAIAH, 29. 
 
 ^ And tliou slialt be brought down, and shalt 
 speak out of the ground, 
 
 And thy speech shall be low out of the dust, 
 
 And thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a 
 familiar spirit, out of the ground, 
 
 And thy speech shall '^whisper out of the 
 dust. 
 ^ Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall 
 be like small dust, 
 
 And the multitude of the terrible ones shall be 
 as chaff that passeth away : 
 
 Yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly. 
 ^ Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts 
 
 With thunder, and with earthquake, and great 
 noise, 
 
 With storm and tempest, and the flame of de- 
 vouring fire. 
 '' And the multitude of all the nations that fight 
 against Ariel, 
 
 Even all that fight against her and her muni- 
 tion, and that distress her. 
 
 Shall be as a dream of a night vision. 
 ^ It shall even be as when a hungry man dream- 
 eth, and, behold, he eateth ; 
 
 But he awaketh, and his soul is empty : 
 
 Or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, be- 
 hold, he drinketh ; 
 
 d Heb. peep, or, chirp. 
 
ISAIAH, 29. 97 
 
 But he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and 
 
 his soul hath appetite : 
 So shall the multitude of all the nations be, 
 That fight against mount Zion. 
 
 9 Stay yourselves, and wonder ; 
 ^ Cry ye out, and cry : 
 They are drunken, but not with wine ; 
 They stagger, but not with strong drink, 
 '*> For the Lord hath poured out upon you the 
 spirit of deep sleep. 
 And hath closed your eyes : 
 The prophets and your /rulers, the seers hath 
 he covered. 
 '' And the vision of all is become unto you as 
 the words of a j^ book that is sealed. 
 Which men deliver to one that is learned, 
 Saying, Read this, I pray thee : 
 And he saith, I cannot ; for it is sealed : 
 '- And the book is delivered to him that is not 
 learned, 
 Saying, Read this, I pray thee : 
 And he saith, I am not learned. 
 '2 Wherefore the Lord said. 
 Forasmuch as this people draw near me with 
 their mouth, 
 
 e Or, take your pleasure, and riot. /Heb. heads: See ch. 3. 2. Jer. 
 36. 8. g Or, letter. 
 
ISAIAH, 29. 
 
 And with their lips do honour me, 
 
 But have removed their heart far from me. 
 
 And their fear toward me is taught by the 
 
 precept of men : 
 '"* Therefore, behold, ^ I will proceed to do a 
 
 marvellous work among this people, 
 Even a marvellous work and a wonder : 
 For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish. 
 And the understanding of their prudent 'inen, 
 
 shall be liid. 
 
 15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their 
 
 counsel from the Lord, 
 And their works are in the dark, 
 And they say. Who seeth us ? and who know- 
 
 eth us? 
 '^ Surely your turning of things upside down 
 
 shall be esteemed as the potter's clay : 
 For shall the work say of him that made it. 
 
 He made me not ? 
 Or shall the thing framed say of him that 
 
 framed it. He had no understanding ? 
 ^"^ Is it not yet a very little while, 
 And Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful 
 
 field. 
 And the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a 
 
 forest ? 
 
 hneh.Itvilladd. 
 
ISAIAH, 29. 99 ' 
 
 '* And in that day shall the deaf hear the words 
 of the book, 
 And the eyes of the blind shall see out of ob- 
 scurity, and out of darkness. 
 '^ The meek also * shall increase tlieir joy in the 
 Lord, 
 And the poor among men shall rejoice in the 
 Holy One of Israel. 
 '-'^ For the terrible one is brought to nought, and 
 the scorner is consumed, 
 And all that watch for iniquity are cut off : 
 '-' That make a man an offender for a word, 
 And lay a snare for him that reproveth in the 
 
 gate. 
 And turn aside the just for a thing of nought. 
 "'- Therefore thus saith the Lord, who redeemed 
 Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, 
 Jacob shall not now be ashamed, 
 Neither shall his face now wax pale. 
 -" But when he seeth his children, the work of 
 mine hands, in the midst of him, 
 They shall sanctify my name. 
 And sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, 
 And shall fear the God of Israel. 
 '^^ They also that erred in spirit ^ shall come to 
 understanding, 
 And they that murmured shall learn doctrine. 
 
 i Heb. shall add. k Heb. shall knoio understanding. 
 
100 ISAIAH, 
 
 QA TT70E to the rebellious children, saith 
 ^^ VV the Lord, 
 
 That take counsel, but not of me ; 
 
 And that cover with a covering, but not of 
 my Spirit, 
 
 That they may add sin to sin : 
 
 2 That walk to go down into Egypt, 
 And have not asked at my mouth ; 
 
 To strengthen themselves in the strength of 
 
 Pharaoh, 
 And to trust in the shadow of Egypt ! 
 
 3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be 
 
 your shame, 
 And the trust in the shadow of Egypt your 
 confusion. 
 ^ For his princes were at Zoan, 
 
 And his ambassadors came to Hanes. 
 5 They were all ashamed of a people tlmt could 
 not profit them, 
 Nor be a help nor profit, 
 But a shame, and also a reproach. 
 
 ^ The burden of the beasts of the south : 
 Into the land of trouble and anguish. 
 From whence come the young and old lion, 
 The viper and fiery flying serpent. 
 They will carry their riches upon the shoulders 
 of young asses. 
 
ISAIAH, 30. 101 
 
 And their treasures upon the bunches of 
 
 camels, 
 To a people that shall not profit them. 
 '' For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to 
 
 no purpose : 
 Therefore have I cried "concerning this. Their 
 
 strength is to sit still. 
 
 * Now go, write it before them in a table, 
 
 And note it in a book, 
 
 That it may be for * the time to come 
 
 For ever and ever : 
 ^ That this is a rebellious people, lying children, 
 
 Children that will not hear the law of the Lord: 
 '*^ Which say to the seers, See not ; 
 
 And to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us 
 right things. 
 
 Speak unto us smooth things, 
 
 Prophesy deceits : 
 " Get you out of the way. 
 
 Turn aside out of the path, 
 
 Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from 
 before us. 
 ^- Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, 
 
 Because ye despise this word, 
 
 And trust in '^ oppression and perverseness, 
 
 And stay thereon : 
 
 a Or, toiler. bHeh. the latter day. c Or, fraud. 
 
102 ISAIAH, 30. 
 
 '^ Therefore this iniquity shall be to j^ou as a 
 breach ready to fall, 
 Swelling out in a high wall, 
 Whose breaking cometh suddenly at an in- 
 stant. 
 ^^ And he shall break it as the breaking of '^ the 
 potters' vessel 
 That is broken in pieces ; he shall not spare : 
 So that there shall not be found in the burst- 
 
 iDg of it a sherd 
 To take fire from the hearth, 
 Or to take water withal out of the pit. 
 '5 For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of 
 Israel ; 
 In returning and rest shall ye be saved ; 
 In quietness and in confidence shall be your 
 
 strength : 
 And ye would not. 
 ^s But ye said, No ; for we will flee upon 
 horses ; 
 Therefore shall ye flee : 
 And, We will ride upon the swift ; 
 Therefore shall they that pursue you be 
 swift. 
 1^ One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of 
 one; 
 At the rebuke of five shall ye flee : 
 
 d Heb. the bottle of potters. 
 
ISAIAH, 30. 103 
 
 Till ye be left as ' a beacon upon the top of a 
 
 mountain, 
 And as an ensign on a hill, 
 
 '8 And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may 
 
 be gracious unto you, 
 And therefore will he be exalted, that he may 
 
 have mercy upon you : 
 For the Lord is a God of judgment : 
 Blessed are all they that wait for him. 
 '^ For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusa- 
 lem : 
 Thou shalt weep no more : 
 He will be very gracious unto thee at the 
 
 voice of thy cry ; 
 When he shall hear it, he will answer 
 
 thee. 
 2" And though the Lord give you the bread of 
 
 adversity, and the water of /affliction, 
 Yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a 
 
 corner any more. 
 But thine eyes shall see thy teachers : 
 ^^ And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, 
 
 saying. 
 This is the way, walk ye in it. 
 When ye turn to the right hand, and when ye 
 
 turn to the left. 
 
 e Or, a tree hereft ofhrancUes, or, houghs: or, a mast. /Or, oppression. 
 
104 ISAIAH, 30. 
 
 "^^ Ye shall defile also the covering of i' thy graven 
 
 images of silver, 
 And the ornament of thy molten images of 
 
 gold: 
 Thou shalt ^ cast them away as a menstruous 
 
 cloth ; 
 Thou shalt say unto it. Get thee hence. 
 ^^ Then shall he give the rain of thy seed. 
 That thou shalt sow the ground withal ; 
 And bread of the increase of the earth, 
 And it shall be fat and plenteous : 
 In that day shall thy cattle feed in large past- 
 ures, 
 *■* The oxen likewise and the young asses that 
 
 ear the ground shall eat *' clean provender, 
 Which hath been winnowed with the shovel 
 
 and with the fan. 
 2^ And there shall be upon every high mountain, 
 And upon every ^high hill. 
 Rivers a?id streams of waters in the day of the 
 
 great slaughter. 
 When the towers fall. 
 "6 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the 
 
 light of the sun, 
 And the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as 
 
 the light of seven days, 
 
 g Heb. tJie graven images of thy silver, h Heb. scatter, i Or, savoury. 
 Heb. leavened, k Heb. lifted up. 
 
ISAIAH, 30. 105 
 
 In the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach 
 
 of his people, 
 And healeth the stroke of their wound. 
 
 " Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from far, 
 Burning loith his anger, ' and the burden thereof 
 
 is "* heavy : 
 His lips are full of indignation, 
 And his tongue as a devouring fire : 
 2^ And his breath, as an overflowing stream, 
 Shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift 
 
 the nations with the sieve of vanity : 
 And there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the 
 
 people, causing the7n to err, 
 ^^ Ye shall have a song, as in the night wJien a 
 
 holy solemnity is kept ; 
 And gladness of heart, as when one goeth with 
 
 a pipe 
 To come into the mountain of the Lord, to the 
 
 "Mighty One of Israel. 
 3^ And the Lord shall cause " his glorious voice 
 
 to be heard. 
 And shall shew the lighting down of his arm, 
 With the indignation of his auger, 
 And with the flame of a devouring fire. 
 With scattering, and tempest, and hailstones. 
 
 ^ Or, and the grievousness of flame. »i Heb. heaviness. 71 Heb. Rock, 
 Deut. 32. i. o Heb. the glory of his voice. 
 
106 ISAIAH, 31. 
 
 ^' For through the voice of the Lord shall the 
 Assyrian be beaten down, 
 Which smote with a rod. 
 ■*- And Pill every place where the grounded staff 
 shall pass, 
 Which the Lord shall ?lay upon him, 
 It shall be with tabrets and harps : 
 And in battles of shaking will he fight 'with it. 
 33 Yor Tophet is ordained «of old ; 
 Yea, for the king it is prepared ; 
 He hath made it deep and large : 
 The pile thereof is fire and much wood ; 
 The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brim- 
 stone, doth kindle it. 
 
 0"| TT70E to them that go down to Egypt 
 '-'■^ ▼▼ for help: 
 
 And stay on horses, 
 
 And trust in chariots, because they are many ; 
 
 And in horsemen, because they are very strong; 
 
 But they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, 
 
 Neither seek the Lord ! 
 - Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil. 
 
 And will not «■ call back his words : 
 
 But will arise against the house of the evil 
 doers, 
 
 p Heb. every passing of the rod founded, q Heb. caiise to rest upon him. 
 r Or, against them, a Heh.froyn yesterday, a Heb. remove. 
 
ISAIAH, 31. 107 
 
 And against the help of them that work in- 
 iquity. 
 
 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God ; 
 
 And their horses flesh, and not spirit. 
 
 When the Lord shall stretch out his hand, 
 
 Both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is 
 holpen shall fall down, 
 
 And they all shall fail together. 
 
 For thus hath the Lord spoken unto me. 
 
 Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on 
 his prey, 
 
 When a multitude of shepherds is called forth 
 against him, 
 
 He will not be afraid of their voice. 
 
 Nor abase himself for the ''noise of them : 
 
 So shall the Lord of hosts come down 
 
 To tight for mount Zion, and for the hill 
 thereof. 
 
 As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts de- 
 fend Jerusalem ; 
 
 Defending also he will deliver it ; 
 
 And passing over he will preserve it. 
 
 ^ Turn ye unto Mm from whom the children of 
 
 Israel have deeply revolted. 
 ' For in that day every man shall cast away 
 His idols of silver, and ''his idols of gold, 
 
 b Or, multitude, c Heb. the idols of his gold. 
 
108 ISAIAH, 33. 
 
 Which your own hands have made unto j^ou 
 for a sin. 
 ^ Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, 
 not of a mighty man ; 
 
 And the sword, not of a mean man, shall de- 
 vour him : 
 
 But he shall flee ^ from the sword. 
 
 And his young men shall be * discomfited. 
 3 And / he shall pass over to 9 his strong hold 
 for fear. 
 
 And his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, 
 
 Saith the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, 
 
 And his furnace in Jerusalem. 
 
 op "OEHOLD, a King shall reign in right- 
 -L* eousness. 
 And princes shall rule in judgment. 
 ^ And a man shall be as a hiding place from the 
 wind. 
 And a covert from the tempest ; 
 As rivers of water in a dry place. 
 As the shadow of a " great rock in a weary 
 land. 
 ^ And the eyes of them that see shall not be 
 dim, 
 And the ears of them that hear shall hearken. 
 
 d Or, for fear of the sword, e Or, tributary. Heb. for melting, or, 
 tribute. /Heb. ?iis rock shall pass away for fear, g Or, his strength, 
 a Heb. heavy. 
 
ISAIAH, 32. 109 
 
 *■ The heart also of the *rash shall understand 
 knowledge, 
 And the tongue of the stammerers shall be 
 ready to speak "^ plainly, 
 ^ The vile person shall be no more called liberal, 
 
 Nor the churl said to be bountiful. 
 ^ For the vile person will speak villany, 
 And his heart will work iniquity, 
 To practise hypocrisy, and to utter error 
 
 against the Lord, 
 To make empty the soul of the hungry ; 
 And he will cause the drink of the thirsty to 
 fail. 
 ■' The instruments also of the churl are evil : 
 He deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor 
 
 with lying words. 
 Even '^ when the needy speaketh right. 
 ^ But the liberal deviseth liberal things ; 
 And by liberal things shall he * stand. 
 
 ^ Rise up, ye women that are at ease ; hear my 
 voice, 
 Ye careless daughters ; give ear unto my 
 speech. 
 ^^ /Many days and years shall ye be troubled, 
 ye careless women : 
 
 f> Heb. hasty, e Or, elegantly, d Or, when he epeaketh against th« 
 poor in judgment, e Or, be established, f Heb. Days above a year. 
 
110 ISAIAH, 32. 
 
 For the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall 
 not come. 
 " Tremble, ye women that are at ease ; 
 Be troubled, ye careless ones : 
 Strip you, and make you bare, and gird sack- 
 cloth upon your loins. 
 ^- They shall lament for the teats, 
 
 For s the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. 
 ^^ Upon the land of my people shall come up 
 thorns and briers ; 
 '' Yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous 
 city: 
 ^^ Because the palaces shall be forsaken ; 
 The multitude of the city shall be left ; 
 The *'forts and towers shall be for dens for 
 
 ever, 
 A joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks ; 
 '^ Until the Spirit be poured upon us from on 
 high. 
 And the wilderness be a fruitful field, 
 And the fruitful field be counted for a forest. 
 "^ Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, 
 And righteousness remain in the fruitful field. 
 " And the work of righteousness shall be peace; 
 And the effect of righteousness, quietness and 
 assurance for ever. 
 
 g Heb. the fieJds of desire, h Or, htirning upon, <ic. i Or, cliffs and 
 ivatchtowcrs. 
 
ISAIAH, 33. Ill 
 
 '* And my people shall dwell in a peaceable hab- 
 itation, 
 And in sure dwellings, 
 And in quiet resting places ; 
 ^^ When it shall hail, coming down on the 
 forest ; 
 ^And the city shall be low in a low place. 
 
 -•^ Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters. 
 That send forth thither the feet of the ox and 
 the ass. 
 
 OO "V/\70E to thee that spoilest, and thou toast 
 ▼ ▼ not spoiled ; 
 And dealest treacherously, and they dealt not 
 
 treacherously with thee ! 
 When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be 
 
 spoiled ; 
 And when thou shalt make an end to deal 
 treacherously, they shall deal treacherously 
 with thee. 
 
 ^ O Lord, be gracious unto us ; we have waited 
 for thee : 
 Be thou their arm every morning. 
 Our salvation also in the time of trouble. 
 
 ^ At the noise of the tumult the people fled : 
 
 k Or, and the city shall be utterly abased. 
 
112 ISAIAH. 33. 
 
 At the lifting up of thyself the nations were 
 scattered. 
 ■* And your spoil shall be gathered like the gath- 
 ering of the caterpillar : 
 As the running to and fro of locusts shall he 
 run upon tliem. 
 ^ The Lord is exalted ; for he dwelleth on 
 high : 
 He hath filled Zion with judgment and right- 
 eousness. 
 ^ And wisdom and knowledge shall be 
 The stability of thy times, and strength of 
 
 « salvation : 
 The fear of the Lokd is his treasure. 
 ' Behold, their * valiant ones shall cry without : 
 The ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly. 
 ^ The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man 
 ceaseth : 
 He hath broken the covenant, 
 He hath despised the cities, he regardeth no 
 man. 
 ^ The earth mourneth and languisheth : 
 Lebanon is ashamed and <= hewn down : 
 Sharon is like a wilderness ; 
 And Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits. 
 
 '** Now will I rise, saith the Lord ; 
 
 a Heb. salvations, b Or, mesaengers. c Or, withered away. 
 
ISAIAH, 33. 113 
 
 Now will I be exalted ; 
 Now will I lift up myself. 
 " Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth 
 stubble : 
 Your breath, as fire, shall devour you. 
 ^2 And the people shall be as the burnings of 
 lime: 
 As thorns cut up shall they be burned in the 
 fire. 
 ^^ Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done ; 
 
 And, ye that are near, acknowledge my might. 
 ^^ The sinners in Zion are afraid ; 
 Fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. 
 Who among us shall dwell with the devour- 
 ing fire ? 
 "Who among us shall dwell with everlasting 
 burnings ? 
 ^5 He that walketh '^ righteously, and speaketh 
 * uprightly ; 
 He that despiseth the gain of /oppressions, 
 That shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, 
 That stoppeth his ears from hearing of ? blood, 
 And shutteth his eyes from seeing evil ; 
 ^^ He shall dwell on ^high ; 
 His place of defence shall he the munitions of 
 rocks : 
 
 d'H.eY). in righteousnesses, e Heh. vprightnesses. /Or, deceits. gB.eb. 
 bloods, h Heb. heights, or, high places. 
 
114 ISAIAH, 33. 
 
 Bread shall be given him ; his waters shall he 
 
 sure. 
 '" Thine eyes shall see the King in his 
 
 beauty : 
 They shall behold 'the land that is very far 
 
 off. 
 ''' Thine heart shall meditate terror. 
 Where is the scribe ? where is the * receiver ? 
 Where is he that counted the towers ? 
 '^ Thou shalt not see a fierce people, 
 A people of a deeper speech than thou canst 
 
 perceive ; 
 Of a 'stammering tongue, that thou canst not 
 
 understand. 
 ^° Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities : 
 Thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habita- 
 tion, 
 A tabernacle that shall not be taken down ; 
 Not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be 
 
 removed. 
 Neither shall any of the cords thereof be 
 
 broken. 
 '^' But there the glorious Lord idUI be unto us 
 A iDlace '" of broad rivers and streams ; 
 Wherein shall go no galley with oars, 
 Neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. 
 
 t Heb. tlie land of far distances. A Heb. weigher. I Or, ridiculous. 
 m Heb. hroad of spaces, or, hands. 
 
ISAIAH, 34. 115 
 
 2'^ For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our 
 "lawgiver, 
 The Lord is our King ; he will save us. 
 23 o^tiy tacklings are loosed ; 
 
 They could not well strengthen their mast ; 
 
 they could not spread the sail : 
 Then is the prey of a great spoil divided ; 
 The lame take the prey. 
 -•* And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick : 
 The people that dwell therein sJiall be forgiven 
 tJieii' iniquity, 
 
 O^ /^OME near, ye nations, to hear; 
 v^ 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 Ms fury upon all their armies : 
 He hath utterly destroyed them, he hath deliv- 
 ered them to the slaughter. 
 2 Their slain also shall be cast out, 
 And their stink shall come up out of their car- 
 casses, 
 And the mountains shall be melted with their 
 blood. 
 
 n Heb. tttatutemaker. o Or, They have forsaken thy tacklings. a Heb. 
 the fulness thereof. 
 
116 ISAIAH, 34. 
 
 * 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 faWmgfg from the fig tree. 
 
 ^ For my SAVord shall be bathed in heaven : 
 Behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, 
 And upon the people of my curse, to judg- 
 ment. 
 
 ^ 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. 
 
 ■^ 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. 
 
 ^ For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, 
 And the year of recompenses for the contro- 
 versy of Zion. 
 
 ^ And the streams thereof shall be turned into 
 pitch, 
 And the dust thereof into brimstone, 
 
 Or, rhinoceroses, c Or, drunken. 
 
ISAIAH, 34 117 
 
 And the land thereof shall become burning 
 pitch. 
 ^° 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. 
 " But the '^ cormorant and the bittern shall pos- 
 sess 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. 
 '^ They shall call the nobles thereof to the king- 
 dom, but none sImU be there, 
 And all her princes shall be nothing. 
 '^ And thorns shall come up in her palaces. 
 Nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: 
 And it shall be a habitation of dragons, 
 A7id a court for * owls. 
 '^ /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. 
 '= There shall the great owl make her nest, and 
 lay, 
 
 d Or, pelican, e Or, ostriches. Heb. daitghters of the owl. f Heb. Ziim. 
 g Heb. Ijim. h Or, night monnter. 
 
118 ISAIAH, 35. 
 
 And hatch, and gather under her shadow : 
 There shall the vultures also be gathered. 
 Every one with her mate. 
 '^ 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, 
 '^ And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand 
 hath divided it unto thera by line : 
 They shall possess it for ever, 
 From generation to generation shall they dwell 
 therein. 
 
 OR 'T^HE wilderness and the soHtary place 
 J- shall be glad for them ; 
 
 And the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as 
 the rose. 
 - 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. 
 
 ^ Strengthen ye the weak hands, 
 And confirm the feeble knees. 
 
ISAIAH. 35. 119 
 
 ^ Say to them that are of a '^ fearful heart, 
 
 Be strong, fear not : 
 
 Behold, your God will come with vengeance. 
 
 Even God with a recompense ; 
 
 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. 
 ^ Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, 
 
 And the tongue of the dumb sing : 
 
 For in the wilderness shall waters break out. 
 
 And streams in the desert, 
 ■' And the parched ground shall become a pool. 
 
 And the thirsty land springs of water : 
 
 In the habitation of dragons, where each lay. 
 
 Shall he * grass with reeds and rushes. 
 ^ And a highway shall be there, and a way, 
 
 And it shall be called The w^ay of holiness ; 
 
 The unclean shall not pass over it ; " but it 
 shall be for those : 
 
 The wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err 
 therein. 
 '•' No lion shall be there, 
 
 l^or any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, 
 
 It shall not be found there ; 
 
 But the redeemed shall walk there: 
 '" And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, 
 
 a Heb. hasty. 6 Or, a court for reeds, &c. c Or, for he shall be with 
 them. 
 
120 ISAIAH, 36. 
 
 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, 
 
 OCi "IVrOW it came to pass in the fourteenth 
 -L^ year of king Hezekiah, that Sennach- 
 erib king of Assyria came up against all the 
 defenced cities of Judah, and took them. ^ ^j^j 
 the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from La- 
 chish 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. 
 2 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. 
 * 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 ? ^ I say, sayest thou, (but they are hut 
 ^vain words) "I ham counsel and strength for 
 war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou 
 rebellest against me ? ^ 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 
 
 a Or, secretary, h Heb. a word of lips, c Or, but couTisel and strength 
 axe for the war. 
 
ISAIAH, 36. 121 
 
 in him. '' But if tliou 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 ? ^ 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. ^ How then wilt thou turn away 
 the face of one captain of the least of my mas- 
 ter's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for 
 cliariots and for horsemen ? ^^ 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. 
 
 " Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah 
 unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy 
 servants in the Syrian language ; for we un- 
 derstand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' 
 language, in the ears of the people that are on 
 the wall. ^2 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 
 
 d Or, hostages. 
 
133 ISAIAH, 36. 
 
 said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the 
 king of Assyria. ^^ Tims saith the king. Let 
 not Hezekiah deceive you : for he shall not be 
 able to deliver you. ^» Neither let Hezekiah 
 make you trust in the Lord, sajang, The Lord 
 v/ill surely deliver us : this city shall' not be de- 
 livered into the hand of the king of Assyria. 
 ''^ 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 ; ^^ 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. ^^ 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 ? '^ Where are the gods of Ha- 
 math and Arphad ? where are the gods of Seph- 
 arvaim ? and have they delivered Samaria out of 
 my hand ? '-^o Who are they among all the gods 
 of these lands, that have delivered their land out 
 of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jeru- 
 salem out of my hand ? -' But they held their 
 peace, and answered him not a word : for the 
 king's commandment was, saying. Answer him 
 
 « Or, Seek my favour hy a present. Heb. Malcc with me a blessing. 
 
ISAIAH, 37. 123 
 
 not. '^'- Then came Eliakim, the sou of Hilkiah, 
 that was over the household, aud Shebna the 
 scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, 
 to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, aud told him 
 the words of Rabshakeh. 
 
 on A -^^ ^^ came to pass, when king Hezekiah 
 -lJL heard it, that he rent his clothes, and 
 covered himself with sackcloth, and went into 
 the house of the Lord. ^ 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. ^ 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, ^ 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 liv- 
 ing God, and will reprove the words which the 
 Lord thy God hath heard : wherefore lift up thy 
 prayer for the remnant that is * left. ^ So the 
 servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. « 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 
 
 a Or, provocation, b M^h. found. 
 
124 ISAIAH, 37. 
 
 me. '' 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. 
 
 ^ So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king 
 of Assyria warring against Libnah : for he had 
 heard that he was departed from Lachish, ^ And 
 he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethi- 
 opia, He is come forth to make war with thee. 
 And when he heard it, he sent messengers to 
 Hezekiah, saying, ^^ Thus shall ye speak to Hez- 
 ekiali 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. ^^ Behold, thou hast heard 
 what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands 
 by destroying them utterly ; and slialt thou be 
 delivered ? ^^ Have the gods of the nations de- 
 livered them which my fathers have destroyed, 
 as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the chil- 
 dren of Eden which ^pere in Telassar ? ^^ Where 
 is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, 
 and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, 
 and Ivah ? 
 
 ^^ And Hezekiah received the letter from the 
 hand of the messengers, and read it : and Heze- 
 kiah went up unto the house of the Lord, and 
 
 Or, put a spirit into him. 
 
ISAIAH, 37. 125 
 
 spread it before the Lord. ^^ And Hezekiah 
 prayed unto the Lord, saying, ^^ O Lord of 
 hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the 
 cherubim, thou art the God, even thou alone, of 
 all the kingdoms of the earth : thou hast made 
 heaven and earth. ^^ 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. ^^ Of a truth, 
 Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all 
 the '^nations, and their countries, ^^and have "cast 
 their gods into the fire : for they icere no gods, 
 but the work of men's hands, wood and stone : 
 therefore they have destroyed them. ^^ 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. 
 
 ^^ 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. 
 
 d Heb. lands, e Heb. given. 
 
126 ISAIAH, 37. 
 
 "^ Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? 
 And against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, 
 And lifted up thine eyes on high ? 
 Ecen against the Holy One of Israel. 
 ^^ /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 ^ihe forest of his Carmel. 
 ^5 I have digged, and drunk water ; 
 
 And with the sole of vl\j feet have I dried up 
 all the rivers of the * besieged places. 
 ^^ ^ 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 should- 
 
 est be to lay waste 
 Defenced cities into ruinous heaps, 
 2' Therefore their inhabitants were ^of small 
 power, 
 
 / Heb. By the hand of thy servants, g Heb. the tallness of the cedarx 
 thereof, and the choice of the fir trees thereof, h Or, the forest and his 
 fruitful field, i Or, fenced and closed, h Or, Hast thou not heard how / 
 have made it long ago, and fanned it of ancient times ? should I noio 
 bring it to be laid waste, and defenced cities to be ruinous heaps ? as 
 2 Kings 19. 25. / Heb. short of hand. 
 
ISAIAH, 37. 12'; 
 
 They were dismayed and confounded : 
 
 They were as the grass of the field, and m the 
 
 green herb, 
 As the grass on the housetops, arid as corn 
 
 blasted before it be grown up. 
 ^^ But I know thy '" abode, and thy going out, 
 
 and thy coming in, 
 And thy rage against me. 
 ^^ 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 Avhich 
 
 thou earnest, 
 3^ And this sJiall 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. 
 "^ And *» the remnant that is escaped of the house 
 
 of Judah 
 Shall again take root downward, and bear fruit 
 
 upward : 
 22 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, 
 
 m Or, sitting, n Heb. the escaping of the house of Judah that 
 eth. 
 
128 ISAIAH, 87. 
 
 And °they that escape out of mount Zion : 
 
 The zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do 
 this. 
 3^ Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the 
 king of Assyria, 
 
 He shall not come into this city, 
 
 Nor shoot an arrow there, 
 
 Kor come before it with p shields, 
 
 Nor cast a bank against it. 
 3^ By the way that he came, by the same shall he 
 return, 
 
 And shall not come into this city, saith the 
 Lord. 
 25 For I will defend this city to save it 
 
 For mine own sake, and for ray servant Da- 
 vid's sake. 
 
 3« 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. ^^ So Sennacherib king of Assyria 
 departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at 
 Nineveh. ^^ And it came to pass, as he was wor- 
 shipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that 
 Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him 
 with the sword ; and they escaped into the land 
 
 Heb. the escaping, p Heb. shield. 
 
ISAIAH. 38. 129 
 
 of ^Armenia : and Esar-haddon his son reigned 
 in his stead. 
 
 00 TN those days was Hezekiah sick unto 
 JL death. And Isaiah the prophet the son 
 
 of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, 
 Tims saith the Lord, « Set thine house in order : 
 for thou shalt die, and not live. - Then Heze- 
 kiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed 
 unto the Lord, ^ and said. Remember now, O 
 Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked be- 
 fore thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and 
 have done that which is good in thy sight. And 
 Hezekiah wept * sore. "* Then came the word 
 of the Lord to Isaiah, saying, ^ Go, and say to 
 Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of Da- 
 vid thy father, I h-ave heard thy prayer, I have 
 seen thy tears : behold, I will add unto thy days 
 fifteen years. ^ And I will deliver thee and this 
 city out of the hand of the king of Assyria : and 
 
 1 will defend this city. '^ And this shall he a sign 
 unto thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do 
 this thing that he hath spoken ; ^ 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. 
 
 q Heb. Ararat, a Heb. Give charge concerning thy house, b Heb. with 
 great tveeping. c Heb, degrees hy, or, with the sun. 
 
130 ISAIAH, 
 
 ^ The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, 
 when he had been sick, and was recovered of 
 his sickness : 
 
 ^•^ 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. 
 ^' 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 inhabit- 
 ants of the world. 
 ^- 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. 
 '3 1 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. 
 '■* 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. 
 ^^ What shall I say ? he hath both spoken unto 
 me, and himself hath done it : j 
 
 d Or, from the thrum, e Or, ease me. I 
 
ISAIAH, 38. 131 
 
 I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness 
 of my soul. 
 '^ O Lord, by these tilings men live, 
 And in all these things is the life of my 
 
 spirit : 
 So wilt thou recover me, and make me to 
 live. 
 ' ' Behold, / for peace I had great bitterness ; 
 But 9 thou hast in love to my soul delivered it 
 
 from the pit of corruption : 
 For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. 
 '* For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot 
 celebrate thee : 
 They that go down into the pit cannot hope 
 for thy truth. 
 ^9 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as 
 I do this day : 
 The father to the children shall make known 
 thy truth. 
 -" The Lord teas 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. 
 '^ For Isaiah had said. Let them take a lump 
 of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, 
 
 /Or, on my peace came great hitterness. p Heb. thou hast loved my 
 soul from the pit. 
 
132 ISAIAH, 39. 
 
 and he shall recover. 22 Hezekiah also had said, 
 What is the sign that I shall go up to the house 
 of the Lord ? 
 
 39 A'^ ^^■'^^ ^^'"^ Merodach-baladan, the son 
 -lX. of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent let- 
 ters and a present to Hezekiah : for he had heard 
 that he had been sick, and was recovered. - And 
 Hezekiah v^'^as glad of them, and shewed them 
 the house of his <" precious things, the silver, and 
 the gold, and the spices, and the precious oint- 
 ment, and all the house of his * armour, and all 
 that was found in his treasures : there was noth- 
 ing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that 
 Hezekiah shewed them not. ^ 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, eve7i from 
 Babylon. * 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. ^ Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, 
 Hear the word of the Lord of hosts: ^ 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: 
 
 a Or, spicery. h Or, jewels. Heb. vessels, or, instruments. 
 
ISAIAH, 40. 133 
 
 nothing shall be left, saith the Lord. ' 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. ^ 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. 
 
 40 r^O^IFORT ye, comfort ye my people, 
 
 V_y saith your God. 
 ^ 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. 
 ■* 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 : 
 
 .- Fulfilled, Dan. 1. 2, 3, 7. a Heb. to the heart, h Or, appointtd time. 
 c Or, a straight place, d Or, a plain place. 
 
134 ISAIAH, 40. 
 
 ^ 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. 
 ^ 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 : 
 ' The grass withereth, the flower fadeth ; 
 
 Because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon 
 it: 
 
 Surely the people is grass. 
 ^ The grass withereth, the flower fadeth : 
 
 But the word of our God shall stand for ever. 
 
 ^ ' 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! 
 ^0 Behold, the Lord God will come a with strong 
 
 liand, 
 And his arm shall rule for him : 
 Behold, his reward is with him, 
 And '' his work before him. 
 
 e Or, O thou that tellest good tidi7i(/s to Zion, ch. 41. 27. & 52. 7. fOr, 
 O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, g Or, against the strong, 
 h Or, recompense for his work, ch. 49. 4. 
 
ISAIAH, 40. 135 
 
 '^ He shall feed bis 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. 
 
 ^2 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 ? 
 ^3 Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, 
 
 Or being Hiis counsellor hath taught him ? 
 ^^ With whom took he counsel, and loJw »» in- 
 structed him, 
 
 And taught him in the path of judgment. 
 
 And taught him knowledge. 
 
 And shewed to him the way of " understand- 
 ing ? 
 J^ 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. 
 
 i Or, that give suc!i. k Heb. a tierce. / Heb. man of Ms counsel. 
 in Heb. made him understand, n Heb. understandings? 
 
136 ISAIAH, 40. 
 
 "* Aud Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, 
 Nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt 
 offering, 
 '■^ All nations before him are as nothing ; 
 And they are counted to him less than noth- 
 ing, and vanity. 
 
 To whom then will ye liken God ? 
 
 Or what likeness will ye compare unto him ? 
 
 The workman melteth a graven image, 
 
 And the goldsmith spreadeth it over with 
 
 gold, 
 And casteth silver chains. 
 He that "is so impoverished that he hath no 
 
 oblation chooseth a tree tJmt will not rot ; 
 He seeketh unto him a cunning workman 
 To prepare a graven image, that shall not be 
 
 moved. 
 
 Have 3^e 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 ? 
 
 Pit is he that sitteth upon the circle of the 
 earth. 
 
 And the inhabitants thereof are as grass- 
 hoppers ; 
 
 J Ileb. is poor of oblation, p Or, Him that sitteth, <tc. 
 
ISAIAH, 40. 137 
 
 That stretchetb out the heavens as a curtain, 
 And spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell 
 
 in: 
 That bringeth the princes to nothing ; 
 He maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. 
 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. 
 
 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be 
 
 equal ? saith the Holy One. 
 Lift up your eyes on high, 
 And behold who hath created these tilings, 
 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. 
 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? 
 
138 ISAIAH, 41. 
 
 -^ 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 ? 
 
 TJiere is no searching of his understand- 
 ing. 
 -9 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 : 
 •'=' But they that wait upon the Lord shall 
 ? renew thew strength ; 
 
 They shall mount up with wings as eagles ; 
 
 They shall run, and not be weary ; 
 
 And they shall walk, and not faint. 
 
 4-1 T^ EEP silence before me, O islands ; 
 
 -JP^ 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 ? 
 
 <] Heb. change, a Heb. righti 
 
ISAIAH, 41. 139 
 
 He gave them as the dust to his sword, 
 
 And as driven stubble to his bow. 
 ^ He pursued them, and passed * safely ; 
 
 Even by the way that he had not gone with his 
 feet. 
 ^ Who hath wrought and done it. 
 
 Calling the generations from the beginning ? 
 
 I the Lord, the first, 
 
 And with the last ; I am he. 
 ^ The isles saw it, and feared ; 
 
 The ends of the earth were afraid. 
 
 Drew near, and came. 
 ^ They helped every one his neighbour ; 
 
 And exery one said to his brother, '= Be of good 
 courage. 
 ■> So the carpenter encouraged the ^goldsmith, 
 
 And he that smootheth with the hammer ' him 
 that smote the anvil, 
 
 f Saying, It is ready for the soldering : 
 
 And he fastened it with nails, that it should 
 not be moved. 
 * But thou, Israel, art my servant, 
 
 Jacob whom I have chosen, 
 
 The seed of Abraham my friend. 
 ^ Thou whom I have taken from the ends of 
 the earth, 
 
 h Heb. in peace. <• Heb. Be strong, d Or, founder, e Or, the smiting. 
 
 Or aniiinn nf tht> <ifihlp.v Tt. ic nnntl 
 
 f Or, saying of the solder, It is 
 
140 ISAIAH, 41. 
 
 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. 
 '° 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. 
 ^^ Behold, all they that w^ere incensed against 
 thee shall be ashamed and confounded : 
 They shall be as nothing ; and 9 they that 
 strive with thee shall perish. 
 ^2 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, 
 even '' them that contended with thee : 
 *They that war against thee shall be as noth- 
 ing, and as a thing of nought. 
 '" For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right 
 hand. 
 Saying unto thee, Fear not ; I will help thee. 
 '-• Fear not, thou worm Jacob, a7id ye ^men of 
 Israel ; 
 I will help thee, saith the Lord, 
 And thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, 
 ^^ Behold, I will make thee a new sharp thresh- 
 ing instrument havinor ^ teeth : 
 
 (; Heb. the men of thy strife, h Heb. the men of thy contention, 
 the men of thy war. k Or, few men. I Heb. mouths. 
 
ISAIAH, 41. 141 
 
 Thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat 
 
 tliem small, 
 And shalt make the hills as chaff. 
 * 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. 
 ^ When the poor and needy seek Avater, and tliere 
 is none, 
 And their tongue faileth for thirst, 
 I the Lord will hear them, 
 /the God of Israel will not forsake them. 
 ^ 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. 
 ^ 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 : 
 ° 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. 
 ' '" Produce your cause, saith the Lord ; 
 
 m Heb. Cause to come near. 
 
142 ISAIAH, 41. 
 
 Bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King 
 of Jacob. 
 '^■- Let them bring them forth, and shew us what 
 shall happen : 
 
 Let them shew the former things, what they 
 he. 
 
 That we may " consider them, and know the 
 latter end of them ; 
 
 Or declare us things for to come. 
 ^•"^ 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 to- 
 gether. 
 ^•* 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. iipoji 
 
 mortar. 
 And as the potter treadeth clay, 
 
 26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that 
 
 we may know ? 
 
 « Heb. set our heart upon them, o Or, worse than nothing, p Or, 
 worse than of a viper. 
 
ISAIAH, 42. 143 
 
 And beforetime, that we may say, He is right- 
 eous ? 
 
 Yea, tJiei'e is none that sheweth, yea, there is 
 none that declareth, 
 
 Yea, there is none that heareth your words. 
 ^'' The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold 
 them : 
 
 And I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth 
 good tidings. 
 ■^^ 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. 
 2^ Behold, they are all vanity ; their works are 
 nothing : 
 
 Their molten images are wind and confusion. 
 
 AO "OEHOLD my servant, whom I uphold ; 
 -L> Mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; 
 
 I have put my Spirit upon him : 
 
 He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. 
 ^ He shall not cry, nor lift up, 
 
 Nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. 
 ^ A bruised reed shall he not break, 
 
 And the '^ smoking flax shall he not ^quench : 
 
 He shall bring forth judgment unto truth, 
 •* He shall not fail nor be " discouraged, 
 
 q Heb. return, a Or, dimlii hurning. b Ileb. quench it. c Heb broken. 
 
144 ISAIAH, 42. 
 
 Till he have set judgment iu 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 : 
 ^ I the Lord have called thee in righteousness. 
 And will held thine hand, and will keep 
 
 thee, 
 And give thee for a covenant of the people, 
 for a light of the Gentiles ; 
 ^ To open the blind eyes, 
 To bring out the prisoners from the prison, 
 A7id them that sit in darkness out of the prison 
 house. 
 ^ I am the Lord ; that is my name : 
 And my glory will I not give to another. 
 Neither my praise to graven images. 
 ^ Behold, the former things are come to pass, 
 And new things do I declare : 
 Before they spring forth I tell you of them. 
 
 ^0 Sing unto the Lord a new song. 
 And his praise from the end of the earth, 
 
ISAIAH, 42. 145 
 
 Ye that go down to the sea, and ''all that is 
 therein ; 
 
 The isles, and the inhabitants thereof, 
 " 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. 
 '- Let them give glory unto the Lord, 
 
 And declare his praise in the islands. 
 ^3 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. 
 '^ 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. 
 •5 1 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. 
 ^^ And I will bring the blind by a way that they 
 knew not ; 
 
 I will lead them in paths that they have not 
 known : 
 
 d Heb. the fulness thereof, e Or, behave himself mightily, f Heb. 
 swallow, or, sup up. 
 
 lO 
 
146 ISAIAH, 42. 
 
 I will make darkness light before them, 
 And crooked things 9 straight. 
 These things will I do unto them, and not for- 
 sake them. 
 ^'' 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, 
 ^^ 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 ? 
 2*^ Seeing many things, but thou observest not ; 
 
 Opening the ears, but he heareth not. 
 '1 The Lord is well pleased for his righteous- 
 ness' sake ; 
 He will magnify the law, and make ^it hon- 
 ourable. 
 
 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 ? 
 
 p Heb. into straightness. h Or, him. i Or, in snaring all the young 
 men of them, k Heb. a treading. 
 
ISAIAH, 43. 147 
 
 Who will hearken and hear 'for the time to 
 
 come ? 
 2'* Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the 
 
 robbers ? 
 Did not the Lord, he against whom w^e have 
 
 sinned ? 
 For they wonld 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. 
 
 ^O T)UT now thus saith the Lord that cre- 
 ^^ J^ ated 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. 
 - When thou passest through the waters, I icill 
 he with thee ; 
 And through the rivers, they shall not over- 
 flow thee : 
 When thou walkest through the fire, thou 
 
 shalt not be burned ; 
 Neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. 
 
 / Heb. for the after time ? 
 
148 ISAIAH, 48. 
 
 2 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. 
 ■* 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 : 
 ^ 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 ; 
 ' 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. 
 
 ® Bring forth the blind people that have 
 eyes. 
 And the deaf that have ears. 
 
 ® Let all the nations be gathered together, 
 And let the people be assembled : 
 Who among them can declare this, 
 
 a Or, person. 
 
ISAIAH, 43. 149 
 
 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. 
 ^^ 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. 
 '1 I, even I, am the Lord ; 
 
 And beside me there is no saviour. 
 '■^ 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. 
 ^^ 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 ? 
 
 ^^ 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. 
 
 b Or, nothing formed of Qod. c Heb. turn it lack? d Heb. hars. 
 
150 ISAIAH, 43. 
 
 ^^ I am the Lord, your Holy One, 
 
 The Creator of Israel, your King. 
 1^ Thus salth the Lord, which maketh a way in 
 the sea, 
 
 And a path in the mighty waters ; 
 ^'' 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, 
 '^ Remember ye not the former things, 
 
 Neither consider the things of old. 
 '^ 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. 
 -1 This people have I formed for myself ; 
 
 They shall shew forth my praise. 
 
 2- But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob ; 
 But thou hast been weary of me, O Israel, 
 
 ' Or, ostriches. Heb. daughters of the owl. 
 
ISAIAH, 43. 151 
 
 23 Thou hast not brought me the /small cattle of 
 thy burnt offerings ; 
 Neither hast thou honoured me with thy sac- 
 rifices. 
 I have not caused thee to serve with an offer- 
 ing. 
 Nor wearied thee with incense. 
 2* Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with 
 money, 
 Neither hast thou 9 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. 
 -'" I, emn I, am he that blotteth out thy trans- 
 gressions for mine own sake, 
 And will not remember thy sins. 
 -^ Put me in remembrance : let us plead together: 
 
 Declare thou, that thou may est be justified. 
 2^ Thy first father hath sinned, 
 
 And thy ^ teachers have transgressed against 
 me. 
 2^ Therefore I have profaned the *' princes of the 
 sanctuary, 
 And have given Jacob to the curse, 
 And Israel to reproaches. 
 
 / Heb. lambs, or, kids, q Heb. made me drwrik, or, abundantly moist- 
 ened, h Heb. interpreters, Mai. 2. 7, 8. t Or, holy princes. 
 
152 ISAIAH, 44. 
 
 A A "ILTET now hear, O Jacob my servant ; 
 J- 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, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. 
 " 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 : 
 ■* And they shall spring up as among the grass, 
 
 As willows by the watercourses. 
 * 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 Jiimselfhy the name of Israel. 
 
 ^ 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 besides me thej^e is no God. 
 ■^ And who, as I, shall call, 
 
 And shall declare it, and set it in order for 
 me. 
 
 Since I appointed the ancient people ? 
 
ISAIAH, 44. 153 
 
 And the things that are coming, and shall 
 come, let them shew unto them. 
 ^ Fear ye not, neither be afraid : 
 
 Have not I told thee from that time, 
 
 And have declared it? ye are even my wit- 
 nesses. 
 
 Is there a God besides me ? 
 
 Yea, there is no « God ; I know not any. 
 ^ 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. 
 ^^ Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven 
 image 
 
 Tlmt is profitable for nothing ? 
 '' 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. 
 '■^ The smith ' with the tongs both worketh in 
 the coals. 
 
 And fashioneth it with hammers, 
 
 And worketh it with the strength of his arms: 
 
 a Heb. rock, Deut. 32. 4. b Heb. desirable, c Or, with an nxe. 
 
154 ISAIAH, 44. 
 
 Yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth : 
 
 He drinketh no water, and is faint. 
 ^2 The carpenter stretcheth out Ids 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, ac- 
 cording to the beauty of a man ; 
 
 That it may remain in the house. 
 ^* 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. 
 ^'^ Then shall it be for a man to burn : 
 
 For he will take thereof, and warm him- 
 self ; 
 
 Yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread ; 
 
 Yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; 
 
 He maketh it a graven image, and faileth 
 down thereto. 
 1^ He burneth part thereof in the fire ; 
 
 With part thereof he eateth flesh ; 
 
 He roasteth roast, and is satisfied : 
 
 Yea, he warmeth liimself, and saith, Aha, 
 
 I am warm, I have seen the fire : 
 
 d Or, taketh courage. 
 
ISAIAH, 44. 155 
 
 ^^ And the residue thereof he maketh a god, emn 
 
 his graven image : 
 He falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, 
 
 and prayeth unto it, 
 And saith, Deliver me ; for thou art my 
 
 god. 
 ^^ They have not known nor understood : 
 For he hath « shut their eyes, that they cannot 
 
 see ; 
 And their hearts, that they cannot understand. 
 ^^ 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 abom- 
 ination ? 
 Shall I fall down to ^ the stock of a tree ? 
 "•^ 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 ? 
 -' Remember these, O Jacob 
 And Israel ; for thou art my servant : 
 
 e Heb. daubed, f Heb. setteth to Ms heart, g Heb. that which comes of 
 a tree ? 
 
156 ISAIAH, 44. 
 
 I have formed thee ; thou art my servant : 
 
 O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of 
 me. 
 22 1 have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy trans- 
 gressions, 
 
 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, 
 
 forest, and every tree therein : 
 For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, 
 And glorified himself in Israel. 
 
 2^ Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, 
 And he that formed thee from the womb, 
 
 1 am the Lord that maketli 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 ; 
 2^ That confirmeth the word of his servant. 
 
 And performeth the counsel of his messengers; 
 
 That saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be in- 
 habited ; 
 
ISAIAH, 45. 
 
 And to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, 
 And I will raise up the ^decayed places thereof: 
 - ' That saith to the deep, Be dry, 
 
 And I will dry up thy rivers : 
 -s 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. 
 A^ 'T^HUS saith the Lord to his anointed, to 
 ^^ JL 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 twoleaved gates ; 
 And the gates shall not be shut ; 
 - 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 : 
 ^ 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. 
 ^ For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine 
 elect, 
 
 /» Heb. xoastes. a Or, strengthened. 
 
158 ISAIAH, 45. 
 
 I have even called thee by thy name : 
 I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not 
 known me. 
 ^ I am the Lord, and there is none else, 
 There is no God besides me : 
 I girded thee, though thou hast not known 
 me ; 
 ^ That they may know from the rising of the sun, 
 and from the west. 
 That there is none besides me. 
 I am the Lord, and there is none else. 
 "' I form the light, and create darkness : 
 I make peace, and create evil : 
 I the Lord do all these things. 
 ^ 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. 
 ^ 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 ? 
 ^•^ Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What 
 begettest thou ? 
 
ISAIAH, 45. 159 
 
 Or to the woman, What hast thou brought 
 
 forth ? 
 '^ 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 com- 
 mand ye me. 
 '- 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. 
 ^^ 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. 
 ^^ 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. 
 
 6 Or, make straight. 
 
160 ISAIAH, 45. 
 
 They shall make supplication unto thee, saying. 
 Surely God is in thee ; 
 And there is none else, there is no God. 
 ^5 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, 
 
 God of Israel, the Saviour. 
 
 ^^ They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, 
 all of them : 
 They shall go to confusion together that are 
 makers of idols. 
 *^ But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an 
 everlasting salvation : 
 Ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded 
 world without end. 
 
 '^ 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 : 
 
 1 am the Lord, and there is none else, 
 
 1^ 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. 
 -° Assemble yourselves and come ; 
 
ISAIAH, 45. 161 
 
 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. 
 ^^ Tell ye, and bring them near ; 
 Yea, let them take counsel together : 
 Wlio hath declared this from ancient time ? 
 
 iDho 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 ; tliere is none beside 
 
 me. 
 -- Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of 
 
 the earth : 
 For I am God, and there is none else. 
 ^^ I have sworn by myself. 
 The word is gone out of my mouth in right- 
 eousness, and shall not return, 
 That unto me every knee shall bow, 
 Every tongue shall swear. 
 ■•^•* " 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. 
 
 c Or, Surely, he shall say of me. In the Lord is all rightemisneaa and 
 rength. d Heb. righteousnesses. 
 
 strength 
 
162 ISAIAH, 46. 
 
 " In the Loud shall all the seed of Israel be jus- 
 tified, and shall glory. 
 
 ACt "DEL boweth down, Nebo stoopeth ; 
 
 -tJ Their idols were upon the beasts, and 
 upon the cattle : 
 Your carriages were heavy laden ; 
 They are a burden to the weary beast. 
 ^ They stoop, they bow down together ; 
 They could not deliver the burden, 
 But <* themselves are gone into captivity. 
 
 ^ Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, 
 
 And all the remnant of the house of Israel, 
 
 Which are borne bi/ me from the belly, 
 
 Which are carried from the womb : 
 '^ And even to your old age I am he ; 
 
 And even to hoar hairs will I carry yoti: 
 
 I have made, and I will bear ; 
 
 Even I will carrj'-, and will deliver you. 
 5 To whom will ye liken me, and make 7ne equal, 
 
 And compare me, that we may be like ? 
 ^ They lavish gold out of the bag, 
 
 And weigh silver in the balance, 
 
 And hire a goldsmith; and he maketli it a 
 god: 
 
 They fall down, yea, they worship. 
 
 a Heb. their soul. 
 
ISAIAH, 46. 163 
 
 ■> 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. 
 ^ Remember this, and shew yourselves men : 
 Bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors. 
 ^ Remember the former things of old : 
 For I am God, and tJiere is none else ; 
 I am God, and tliere is none like me, 
 '° 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 : ■ 
 ^1 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. 
 ^'' Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, 
 
 That are far from righteousness : 
 ^^ I bring near my righteousness ; it shall not be 
 far off. 
 
 Heb. the man of my counsel. 
 
164 ISAIAH, 47. 
 
 And my salvation shall not tarry : 
 And I will place salvation in Zion for Israel 
 my glory. 
 
 47 /^OME down, and sit in the dust, O virgin 
 vJ daughter of Babylon, 
 Sit on the ground : there is no throne, 
 
 daughter of the Chaldeans : 
 
 For thou shalt no more be called tender and 
 delicate. 
 ^ Take the millstones, and grind meal : 
 Uncover thy locks, make bare the leg. 
 Uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. 
 2 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy 
 shame shall be seen : 
 
 1 will take vengeance, and I will not meet 
 thee as a man. 
 
 ■* As for our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his 
 name, 
 The Holy One of Israel. 
 ^ Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O 
 daughter of the Chaldeans : 
 For thou shalt no more be called. The lady of 
 kingdoms. 
 ^ I was wroth with my people, I have polluted 
 mine inheritance, 
 And given them into thine hand : 
 Thou didst shew them no mercy ; 
 
ISAIAH, 47. 165 
 
 Upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid 
 thy yoke. 
 ■^ 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. 
 ^ Therefore hear now this, thou that art given 
 to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, 
 
 That sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else 
 besides me ; 
 
 I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know 
 the loss of children : 
 ^ 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 perfec- 
 tion 
 
 For the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the 
 great abundance of thine enchantments. 
 ^^ For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness : thou 
 hast said, None seeth me. 
 
 Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath "■ per- 
 verted thee ; 
 
 And thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and 
 none else besides me. 
 " Therefore shall evil come upon thee ; thou 
 shalt not know * from whence it riseth : 
 
 a Or, caused thee to turn away, b Heb. the morning thereof. 
 
166 ISAIAH, 4^ 
 
 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. 
 ^' 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. 
 ^3 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy 
 
 counsels. 
 Let now the '^ astrologers, the stargazers, ^ the 
 
 monthly prognosticators, 
 Stand up, and save thee from iJiese things that 
 
 shall come upon thee. 
 ^■* 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, noi' fire to 
 
 sit before it. 
 ^^ 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. 
 
 Heb. expiate, d Heb. viewers of the heavens, e Heb. that giv 
 nvledge concerning the months. /Heb. their sonls. 
 
ISAIAH, 48. 167 
 
 ^O TTEAR ye this, O house of Jacob, 
 ^ -LJL 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. 
 ^ 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. 
 ■* Because I knew that thou art <^ obstinate, 
 And thy neck is an iron sinew. 
 And thy brow brass ; 
 ^ 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. 
 ^ Thou hast heard, see all this ; 
 And will not ye declare it? 
 I have shewed thee new things from this time, 
 
 a Heb. hard. 
 
168 ISAIAH, 48. 
 
 Even hidden things, and thou didst not know 
 them. 
 ' 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. 
 ^ 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. 
 '0 Behold, I have refined thee, but not * with 
 silver ; 
 I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. 
 1^ 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. 
 
 '■^ Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my 
 called ; 
 
 6 Or, /or silver: See Ez. 22. 20, 21, 22. 
 
ISAIAH, 48. 169 
 
 I am he ; I am the first, I also am the 
 last. 
 ^2 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the 
 earth, 
 And ''my right hand hath spanned the heavens: 
 WJien I call unto them, they stand up together. 
 ^■* All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear ; 
 Which among them hath declared these tilings? 
 The Lord hath loved him : 
 He will do his pleasure on Babylon, 
 And his arm shall he on the Chaldeans. 
 ^5 1, even I, have spoken ; yea, I have called 
 him: 
 I have brought him, and he shall make his way 
 prosperous. 
 
 '^ 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. 
 ^■^ 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. 
 
 c Or, the palm of my right hand hath spread out. 
 
170 ISAIAH, 
 
 ^^ O that thou hadst hearkened to my command- 
 ments ! 
 Then had thj^ peace been as a river, 
 And thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: 
 '9 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 
 destro)'"ed from before me. 
 
 ^^ 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 Lokd hath redeemed his servant 
 Jacob. 
 21 And they thirsted not ichefi 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. 
 -"- TJiej'e is no peace, saith the Lokd, unto the 
 wicked. 
 
 AQ T ISTEN, O isles, unto me ; 
 ^ JLj And hearken, ye people, from far ; 
 The Lord hath called me from the womb ; 
 
ISAIAH, 49. 171 
 
 From the bowels of my mother hath he made 
 mention of my name. 
 - 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 ; 
 2 And said unto me, Thou art my servant, 
 
 Israel, in whom I will be glorified. 
 ■* Then I said, I have laboured in vain, 
 
 1 have spent my strength for nought, and in 
 vain : 
 
 Tet surely my judgment is with the Lord, 
 And <» my work with my God. 
 ^ And now, saith the Lord that formed me from 
 the womb to he 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 Gen- 
 tiles, 
 
 a Or, my reward, ch. 40. 10. & 62. 11. b Or, That Israel may he gathered 
 to him, and I may, &c. c Or, Art thou lighter than that thou shouldest, &c. 
 d Or, desolations. 
 
172 ISAIAH, 49. 
 
 That thou may est be my salvation unto the 
 
 end of the earth. 
 Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, 
 
 and his Holy One, 
 * To him whom man despisetli, to him M^hom 
 
 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. 
 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 ; 
 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go 
 
 forth ; 
 To them that are in darkness. Shew your- 
 selves. 
 They shall feed in the ways, 
 And their pastures shall be in all high places. 
 They shall not hunger nor thirst ; 
 Neither shall the heat nor sun smite them : 
 
 e Or, to him that is despised in soul, f Or, raise up. 
 
ISAIAH, 49. 
 
 For he that hath mercy on them shall lead 
 
 them, 
 Evea by the springs of water shall he guide 
 
 them. 
 ^^ And I will make all my mountains a way, 
 
 And my highways shall be exalted. 
 ^- Behold, these shall come from far : 
 And, lo, these from the north and from the 
 
 west; 
 And these from the land of Sinim. 
 
 ^^ 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. 
 '^ But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken 
 me, 
 
 And my Lord hath forgotten me. 
 *5 Can a woman forget her sucking child, 
 
 ff That she should not have compassion on the 
 son of her womb ? 
 
 Yea, they may forget. 
 
 Yet will I not forget thee. 
 *^ Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of 
 my hands ; 
 
 Thy walls m^e continually before me. 
 '^ Thy children shall make haste ; 
 
 g Heb. from having compassion. 
 
174 ISAIAH, 49. 
 
 Thy destroyers and they that made thee waste 
 shall go forth of thee. 
 
 ^^ Lift up thine eyes round about, and be- 
 hold : 
 
 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 orna- 
 ment, 
 
 And bind them on thee, as a bride doeth. 
 '^ 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. 
 '^^ 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 des- 
 olate, 
 
 A captive, and removing to and fro ? 
 
 And who hath brought up these ? 
 
ISAIAH, 49. 175 
 
 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 Gen- 
 tiles, 
 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 Lokd : 
 For they shall not be ashamed that wait for 
 
 me. 
 
 24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty. 
 Or ^ the lawful captive delivered ? 
 
 2^ 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. 
 
 h Heb. hosom. i Heb. nourishers. I- Heb. princesses, I Heb. the cap- 
 tivity of the just, m Heb. captivity. 
 
176 ISAIAH, 50. 
 
 -" 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 Lokd am 
 
 thy Saviour 
 And thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. 
 
 gQ npHUS saith the Lord, 
 
 -L 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 your- 
 selves, 
 And for your transgressions is your mother 
 
 put away. 
 ^ "Wherefore, when I came, loas 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. 
 
 n Or, new wine. 
 
ISAIAH, 50. 177 
 
 2 1 clothe the heavens with blackness, 
 And I make sackcloth their coverinsr. 
 
 the learned, 
 That I should know how to speak a w^ord in 
 
 season to Mm that is weary : 
 He wakeneth morning by morning, 
 He wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. 
 ^ The Lord God hath opened mine ear. 
 And I was not rebellious, 
 Neither turned away back. 
 ^ 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. 
 '' 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. 
 ^ He is near that justifieth me ; 
 Who will contend with me ? let us stand to- 
 gether : 
 Who is " mine adversary ? let him come near 
 to me. 
 ^ Behold, the Lord God will help me ; 
 Who is he that shall condemn me ? 
 
 a Heb. the master of my cause. 
 
 12 
 
178 ISAIAH, 51. 
 
 Lo, they all sliall wax old as a garment ; the 
 moth shall eat them up. 
 
 '•^ 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. 
 '' 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. 
 
 51 TT^ARKEN to me, ye that follow after 
 -tJ- righteousness, ye that seek the Lord : 
 
 Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, 
 
 And to the hole of the pit whence jq are 
 digged. 
 2 Look unto Abraham j^our father, 
 
 And unto Sarah that bare you : 
 
 For I called him alone. 
 
 And blessed him, and increased him. 
 2 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 ; 
 
ISAIAH, 51. 179 
 
 Joy and gladness shall be found therein, 
 
 Thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. 
 ^ 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, 
 ^ My righteousness is near ; my salvation is gone 
 forth, 
 
 And mine arms shall j udge 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. 
 ' 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. 
 s For the moth shall eat them up like a gar- 
 ment. 
 
 And the worm shall eat them like wool : 
 
 But my righteousness shall be for ever, 
 
180 ISAIAH, 51. 
 
 And my salvation from generation to genera- 
 tion. 
 
 ^ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the 
 
 Lord; 
 Awake, as in the ancient days, in the genera- 
 tions of old. 
 Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and 
 
 wounded the dragon ? 
 "^ Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the 
 
 waters of the great deep ; 
 That hath made the depths of the sea a wa}' 
 
 for the ransomed to pass over ? 
 '^ Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall 
 
 return, 
 And come with singing unto Zion ; 
 And everlasting joy sJiall be upon their 
 
 head : 
 They shall obtain gladness and joy ; 
 And sorrow and mourning shall flee away. 
 •■- I, even I, am he that comforteth you : 
 Who a7't thou, that thou shouldest be afraid 
 
 of a man tliat shall die, 
 And of the son of man loMch 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 ; 
 
ISAIAH, 51. 181 
 
 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 ? 
 '^ The captive exile hasteneth that he may be 
 
 loosed. 
 And that he should not die in the pit, 
 Nor that his bread should fail. 
 '^ But I am the Lord thy God, 
 That divided the sea, whose waves roared : 
 The Lord of hosts is his name. 
 '^ 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. 
 
 ^■^ 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. 
 ^s There is none to guide her among all the sons 
 ichom she hath brought forth ; 
 Neither is there any that taketh her by the hand 
 of all the sons that she hath brought up. 
 
 a Or, made himself ready. 
 
182 ISAIAH, 52. 
 
 ^^ These two things *are come unto thee; Avho 
 shall be sorry for thee ? 
 Desolation, and "^ destruction, and the famine, 
 
 and the sword : 
 By whom shall I comfort thee ? 
 "^^ 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 Lokd, the 
 rebuke of thy God. 
 ^* Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, 
 
 And drunken, but not with wine : 
 -2 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 : 
 -^ 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 tliat went over. 
 
 52 A^ 
 
 WAKE, awake, put on thy strength, O 
 Zion ; 
 
 b Heb. happened, c Heb. breaking. 
 
ISAIAH, 52. 183 
 
 Put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, 
 
 the holy city : 
 For henceforth there shall no more come into 
 
 thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. 
 - Shake thyself from the dust ; arise, and sit 
 
 down, O Jerusalem : 
 Loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O 
 
 captive daughter of Zion. 
 2 For thus saith the Lord, 
 Ye have sold yourselves for nought ; 
 And ye shall be redeemed without money. 
 ^ 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 blas- 
 phemed. 
 ^ 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. 
 
 ■' How beautiful upon the mountains are the 
 
184 ISAIAH, 52. 
 
 feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that 
 
 publisheth peace ; 
 That bringeth good tidings of good, that pub- 
 lisheth salvation ; 
 That saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth ! 
 ^ 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. 
 ^ Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste 
 
 places of Jerusalem : 
 For the Lord hath comforted his people, he 
 
 hath redeemed Jerusalem. 
 ^^ 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. 
 '' 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. 
 '- 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 rearward. 
 
 '3 Behold, my servant shall *deal prudently, 
 
 a Heb, gather you ^t.p. b Or, prosper, ch. 53. 10. Jer. 23. 5. 
 
ISAIAH, 53. 185 
 
 He shall be exalted and extolled, and be very 
 high. 
 ^■* As many were astonied at thee ; 
 His visage was so marred more than any man, 
 And his form more than the sons of men : 
 '^ So shall he sprinkle many nations ; 
 The kings shall shut their mouths at him : 
 For tJiat which had not been told them shall 
 
 they see ; 
 And that which they had not heard shall they 
 consider. 
 K O \\7 HO hath believed our « report ? 
 
 ▼ » And to whom is the arm of the Lord 
 revealed ? 
 ^ 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. 
 ^ 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. 
 ^ Surely he hath borne our griefs. 
 And carried our sorrows : 
 
 a Or, doctrine. Heb. hearing, b Or, lie hid as it were his face from ««. 
 Heb. as a hiding of faces from him, or, from us. 
 
186 ISAIAH, 53. 
 
 Yet we did esteem him stricken, 
 
 Smitten of God, and afflicted. 
 ^ 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. 
 ^ 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. 
 ^ 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. 
 ^ /He was taken from prison and from judg- 
 ment: 
 
 And who shall declare his generation ? 
 
 For he was cut off out of the land of the 
 living : 
 
 For the transgression of my people s was he 
 stricken. 
 ^ And he made his grave with the wicked, 
 
 And with the rich in his * death ; 
 
 Because he had done no violence, 
 
 Neither icas any deceit in his mouth. 
 
 c Or, tormetited. d Heb. hniise. e Heb. hath made the iniquity of vs 
 all to meet on him. /Or, He was taken away by distress and judgment: 
 but, <£c. g Heb. was the stroke up07i him. h Heb. deaths. 
 
ISAIAH, 54. 187 
 
 "J Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath 
 
 put Mm to grief : 
 »When thou shalt make his soul an offering 
 
 for sin, 
 He shall see Ms seed, he shall prolong Ms days, 
 And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper 
 
 in his hand. 
 " 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. 
 ^- 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. 
 
 ^A ^ING, O barren, thou that didst not bear ; 
 O Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, 
 thou that didst not travail with child : 
 For more are the children of tlie desolate than 
 the children of the married wife, saith the 
 Lord. 
 
 ! Or, when Ms sottl shall make an offering. 
 
188 ISAIAH, 54. 
 
 - Enlarge the place of thy tent, 
 And let them stretch forth the curt-ains of 
 
 thine habitations : 
 Spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen 
 thy stakes ; 
 ^ 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. 
 ^ 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. 
 ^ 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. 
 "' For a small moment have I forsaken thee : 
 But with great mercies will I gather thee. 
 ^ In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a 
 moment ; 
 
 : 
 
ISAIAH, 54. 189 
 
 But with everlasting kindness will I have 
 
 merc}^ on thee, 
 Saith the Lord thy Redeemer. 
 ^ 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. 
 ^^ 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. 
 " O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not 
 comforted, 
 Behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, 
 And lay thy foundations with sapphires. 
 '- And I will make thy windows of agates. 
 And thy gates of carbuncles. 
 And all thy borders of pleasant stones. 
 '2 And all thy children shall he taught of the 
 liORD ; 
 And great shall be the peace of thy children, 
 '* In righteousness shalt thou be established : 
 Thou shalt be far from oppression ; for thou 
 shalt not fear : 
 
190 ISAIAH, 55. 
 
 And from terror ; for it shall not come near 
 
 thee. 
 ^5 Behold, they shall surely gather together, hut 
 
 not by me : 
 "Whosoever shall gather together against thee 
 
 shall fall for thy sake, 
 '^ 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. 
 ^'' 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, 
 
 RK TTO. every one that thirsteth, come ye to 
 J- J- 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 ? 
 
 a Ileb. weigh. 
 
ISAIAH, 55. 191 
 
 And your labour for that idMcIi 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. 
 •* Behold, I have given him/ar a witness to the 
 
 people, 
 A leader and commander to the people. 
 ^ 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. 
 
 *^ Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, 
 Call ye upon him while he is near : 
 
 ■^ 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 ; 
 
 h Heb. the man of iniquity. 
 
192 ISAIAH, 55. 
 
 And to our God, for ''he will abundantly 
 
 pardon. 
 ^ For my thoughts are not your thoughts, 
 Neither are your ways my ways, saith the 
 
 Lord. 
 ^ For as the heavens are higher than the earth, 
 So are my ways higher than your ways, 
 And my thoughts than your thoughts. 
 ^^ 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 : 
 ^^ 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. 
 '- 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 tlieir 
 
 hands. 
 
 c Heb. he will multiply to pardon. 
 
ISAIAH, 56. 193 
 
 ^" 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. 
 
 gg 'T^HUS saith the Lord, 
 
 JL Keep ye « judgment, and do justice : 
 For my salvation is near to come. 
 And my righteousness to be revealed. 
 ^ 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. 
 " 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. 
 ^ 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 Or, equity. 
 
 — 
 
194 ISAIAH, 56. 
 
 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. 
 ^ Also the sons of the stranger, that join them- 
 selves 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 pol- 
 luting it, 
 
 And taketh hold of my covenant ; 
 ' Even them will I bring to my holy mount- 
 ain, 
 
 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 a house of 
 prayer for all people. 
 8 The Lord God which gathereth the outcasts 
 of Israel saith, 
 
 Yet will I gather others to him, * besides those 
 that are gathered unto him. 
 
 5 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, 
 Yea, all ye beasts in the forest. 
 
 Heb. to his gathered. 
 
ISAIAH, 57. 195 
 
 JO His watchmen are blind : they are all ignorant, 
 They are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark ; 
 •" Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. 
 'J Yea, fhey are '^greedy dogs ichicli *can never 
 have enough, 
 And they are shepherds that cannot under- 
 stand : 
 They all look to their own way, 
 Every one for his gain, from his quarter. 
 J- Come ye, say tJiey, I will fetch wine. 
 And we will fill ourselves with strong drink ; 
 And to morrow shall be as this day, and much 
 more abundant. 
 
 Cf? npHE righteous perisheth, and no man 
 -L layeth it to heart : 
 And "■ merciful men are taken away, none con- 
 sidering 
 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. 
 
 ^ But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, 
 The seed of the adulterer and the whore. 
 
 <• Or, dreaming, or, talking in their sleep, d Heb. strong of appetite. 
 e Heb. know not to be satisfied, a Heb. men of kindness, or, godliness, b Or, 
 from that tvhich is evil, c Or, go iti peace, Luke 2. 29. d Or, be/ore him. 
 
196 ISAIAH, 57. 
 
 ^ 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, 
 ^ Inflaming yourselves ' with idols under every 
 
 green tree, 
 Slaying the children in the valleys under the 
 
 clefts of the rocks ? 
 ^ Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy 
 
 portion ; 
 They, they are thy lot : 
 
 Even to them hast thou poured a drink offer- 
 ing, 
 Thou hast offered a meat offering. 
 Should I receive comfort in these ? 
 ' Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set 
 
 thy bed : 
 Even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. 
 ^ 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. 
 
 e Or, among the oaks, ch. 1. 29. /Or, hewed it for thyself larger than 
 tlieirs. g Or, thou providedst room. 
 
ISAIAH, 57. 197 
 
 ^ 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 helh 
 ^^ 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. 
 " 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 ? 
 ^'^ I will declare thy righteousness. 
 
 And thy works ; for they shall not profit thee. 
 '^ When thou criest, let thy companies deliver 
 thee; 
 But the wind shall carry them all away ; van- 
 ity shall take them : 
 But he that putteth his trust in me shall pos- 
 sess the land, 
 And shall inherit my holy mountain ; 
 '^ And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare 
 the way, 
 Take up the stumblingblock out of the way 
 of my people. 
 
 h Or, thou respectedst the kiiig. i Or, living. 
 
198 ISAIAH, 57. 
 
 ^^ 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. 
 ^^ For I will not contend for ever, 
 
 Neither will I be always wroth : 
 
 For the spirit should fail before me, 
 
 And the souls wliicli I have made. 
 '^ 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. 
 ^^ I have seen his ways, and will heal him : 
 
 I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto 
 him and to his mourners. 
 '^ I create the fruit of the lips ; 
 
 Peace, peace to Mm that is far off, and to him 
 that is near, saith the Lord ; 
 
 And I will heal him. 
 -0 But the wicked are like the troubled sea. 
 
 When it cannot rest, 
 
 Whose waters cast up mire and dirt. 
 -^ There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. 
 
 k Heb. turning away. 
 
ISAIAH, 58. 199 
 
 CO /^RY « aloud, spare not, 
 
 yj Lift up thy voice like a trumpet. 
 And shew my people their transgression, 
 And the house of Jacob their sins. 
 
 - 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. 
 
 ^ 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. 
 
 ^ 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. 
 
 ^ 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 ? 
 
 a Heb. witli the throat, b Or, things wherewith ye grieve others. Fleb. 
 griefs, c Or, ye fast not as this day. d Or, to afflict his soul for a day. 
 
200 ISAIAH, 58. 
 
 ^ 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 ? 
 ■^ 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? 
 ^ Then shall thy light break forth as the morn- 
 ing, 
 
 And thine health shall spring forth speedily : 
 
 And thy righteousness shall go before thee ; 
 
 The glory of the Lord ^ shall be thy rearward. 
 ^ Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall an- 
 swer ; 
 
 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 ; 
 ^^ And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, 
 
 And satisfy the afflicted soul ; 
 
 e Heb. the hundles of the yoke, f Heb. broken, g Or, afflicted, h Heb. 
 Bkall gather thee up. 
 
ISAIAH, 58. 201 
 
 Then shall thy light rise in obscurity, 
 And thy darkness he as the noonday : 
 ^1 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. 
 ^^ And tliey that shall he 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. 
 ^3 If thou turn away thy foot from the sab- 
 bath. 
 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 : 
 ^^ Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord ; 
 And I will cause thee to ride upon the high 
 
 places of the earth. 
 
 Heb. droughts, k Heb. lie, or, deceive. 
 
202 ISAIAH, 59. 
 
 And feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy 
 
 father : 
 For the mouth of tlie Lord hath spoken it. 
 
 KQ TOEHOLD, the Lord's hand is not short- 
 J-J ened, 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. 
 2 For your hands are defiled with blood. 
 And your fingers with iniquity ; 
 Your lips have spoken lies. 
 Your tongue hath muttered perverseness. 
 ^ None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for 
 truth : 
 They trust in vanity, and speak lies ; 
 They conceive mischief, and bring forth in- 
 iquity. 
 ^ 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. 
 ^ Their webs shall not become garments, 
 
 a Or, have made him hide, h Or, adder's, c Or, that which is sprinkled 
 is as if there brake out a viper. 
 
ISAIAH, 59. 203 
 
 Neither shall they cover themselves with their 
 
 works : 
 Their works are works of iniquity, 
 And the act of violence is in their hands. 
 
 ^ 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. 
 
 ^ 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. 
 
 ^ Therefore is judgment far from us, 
 
 Neither doth justice overtake us : 
 
 We wait for light, but beliold obscurity ; 
 
 For brightness, lut we walk in darkness. 
 10 ^Ye grope for the wall like the blind, 
 
 And we grope as if ice had no eyes : 
 
 We stumble at noonday as in the night ; 
 
 We are in desolate places as dead r)ien. 
 " 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. 
 ^'- For our transgressions are multiplied before 
 thee, 
 
 d Heb. breaking, e Or, right. 
 
204 ISAIAH, 59. 
 
 And our sins testify against us : 
 
 For our transgressions are with us ; 
 
 And as for our iniquities, we know them ; 
 '2 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. 
 '^ And judgment is turned away backward, 
 
 And justice standeth afar off : 
 
 For truth is fallen in the street. 
 
 And equity cannot enter. 
 ^ Yea, truth faileth ; 
 
 And he that departeth from evil /maketh him- 
 self a prey : 
 
 And the Lord saw it, and ^it displeased 
 him 
 
 That there was no judgment, 
 ^ And he saw that there icas no man. 
 
 And wondered that there was no intercessor : 
 
 Therefore his arm brought salvation unto 
 him; 
 
 And his righteousness, it sustained him. 
 '' For he put on righteousness as a breast- 
 plate, 
 
 And a helmet of salvation upon his head ; 
 
 f Or, is accounted mad. g Heb. it was evil in Jiis eyes. 
 
ISAIAH, 59. 205 
 
 And he put on the garments of vengeance/*??' 
 
 clothing, 
 And was clad with zeal as a cloak. 
 1^ According to their ^ deeds, accordingly he will 
 
 repay, 
 Fury to his adversaries, recompense to his 
 
 enemies ; 
 To the islands he will repay recompense. 
 '^ 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 stand- 
 ard against him. 
 -0 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, 
 And unto them that turn from transgression 
 
 in Jacob, saith the Lord. 
 ■' 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, 
 Sliall 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. 
 
 h Heb. recompenses, i Or, put him to flight. 
 
206 ISAIAH, 60. 
 
 fid A^IS^' " shine ; for thy liglit is come, 
 ■^^ And the glory of the Lord is risen 
 upon thee. 
 ^ 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. 
 ^ And the Gentiles shall come to thy light. 
 And kings to the brightness of thy rising. 
 ^ 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 t7iy side. 
 ^ 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. 
 ^ 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. 
 
 a Or, ie enlightened ; for thy light cometh. h Or, noise of the sea shall be 
 turned toivard thee, c Or, wealth, ver. 11. ch. 61. 6. 
 
ISAIAH, 60. 207 
 
 "' 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. 
 ^ Who are these iJiat fly as a cloud. 
 
 And as the doves to their windows ? 
 ^ 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. 
 '•^ 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. 
 " Therefore thy gates shall be open contin- 
 ually ; 
 They shall not be shut day nor night ; 
 That 'tywti may bring unto thee the ^ forces of 
 
 the Gentiles, 
 And that their kings may be brought. 
 
 d Or, wealth, ver. 5. 
 
308 ISAIAH, 60. 
 
 •'- For the nation and kingdom that will not serve 
 thee shall perish ; 
 Yea,, those nations shall be utterly wasted. 
 '^ 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. 
 ^^ The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall 
 come bending unto thee ; 
 And all they that despised thee shall bow them- 
 selves 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. 
 1^ 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. 
 
ISAIAH, 61. 209 
 
 '** 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. 
 
 '3 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. 
 
 -*' 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. 
 
 -^ 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. 
 
 " A little one shall become a thousand, 
 And a small one a strong nation : 
 I the Lord will hasten it in his time. 
 
 f^T npHE 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 broken-hearted, 
 
 To proclaim liberty to the captives, 
 __ 
 
210 ISAIAH, 61. 
 
 And the opening of the prison to tliem that are 
 bound ; 
 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Loud, 
 And the day of vengeance of our God ; 
 To comfort all that mourn ; 
 ^ 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 heavi- 
 ness ; 
 That they might be called Trees of righteous- 
 ness, 
 The planting of the Lord, that he might be 
 glorified. 
 '^ 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. 
 ^ And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks. 
 And the sons of the alien shall be your plough- 
 men and your vinedressers. 
 ^ 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. 
 ■^ For your shame ye shall have double ; 
 And for confusion they shall rejoice in their 
 portion : 
 
ISAIAH. 61. 211 
 
 Therefore in their land they shall possess the 
 
 double : 
 Everlasting joy shall be unto them. 
 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. 
 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 icMch the Lord hath 
 
 blessed. 
 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 riglit- 
 
 eousness. 
 As a bridegroom " decketh himself with orna- 
 ments. 
 And as a bride adorneth herself with her 
 
 jewels. 
 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud. 
 And as the garden causeth the things that are 
 
 sown in it to spring forth ; 
 
 a Heb. decketh as a priest. 
 
212 ISAIAH, 62. 
 
 So the Lord God will cause righteousness and 
 
 praise to spring forth 
 Before all the nations. 
 
 fi2 TT^"^ Zion's sake will I not hold my 
 -T 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. 
 ^ And the Gentiles shall see thy righteous- 
 ness, 
 And all kings thy glory : 
 And thou shalt be called by a new name. 
 Which the mouth of the Lord shall name. 
 ^ Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the 
 hand of the Lord, 
 And a royal diadem in the hand of thy 
 God. 
 ^ 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. 
 
 a That is, My delight is in her. b That is, Married. 
 
ISAIAH, 63. 213 
 
 ^ For as a young man marrieth a virgin, 
 So shall thy sons marry thee : 
 And "as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the 
 
 bride, 
 80 shall thy God rejoice over thee. 
 ♦^ I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jeru- 
 salem, 
 Which shall never hold their peace day nor 
 
 night : 
 '^ Ye that make mention of the Lord, 
 ' Keep not silence, and give him no * rest, 
 Till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem 
 a praise in the earth. 
 ^ 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 : 
 ^ 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. 
 
 '^ Go through, go through the gates ; prepare ye 
 the way of the people ; 
 
 c Heb. with the joy cf the bridegroom, d Or, y. that are the LoBL'S 
 remejiibrancers. e Heb. silence. /Heb. 1/ 1 give, <fcc. 
 
214 ISAIAH, 63. 
 
 Cast up, cast up the highway ; gather out the 
 
 stones ; 
 Lift up a standard for the people. 
 " 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 9 work before him. 
 ^'- And they shall call them, The holy people, The 
 
 redeemed of the Lord : 
 And thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city 
 
 not forsaken. 
 
 C^O XX7H0 is this that cometh from Edom, 
 ^^ T T 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. 
 - Wherefore art tliou 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 ; 
 
 g Or, recompense, a Heb. decked. 
 
ISAIAH, 63. 215 
 
 And their blood shall be sprinkled upon my 
 garments, 
 
 And I will stain all my raiment. 
 "* For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, 
 
 And the year of my redeemed is come. 
 ^ And I looked, and there was none to help ; 
 
 And I wondered that there was none to up- 
 hold : 
 
 Therefore mine own arm brought salvation 
 unto me ; 
 
 And my fury, it upheld me. 
 ^ 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. 
 
 ^ 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 loving- 
 kindnesses. 
 ^ For he said, Surely they are my people. 
 
216 ISAIAH, 63. 
 
 Children that will not lie : 
 So he was their Saviour. 
 ^ 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. 
 '^ But they rebelled, and vexed his Holy 
 Spirit : 
 Therefore he was turned to be their enemy, 
 and he fought against them. 
 " 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? 
 ''•^ That led them by the right hand of Moses with 
 his glorious arm. 
 Dividing the water before them, to make him- 
 self an everlasting name ? 
 ^2 That led them through the deep, 
 As a horse in the wilderness, that they should 
 not stumble ? 
 ^^ As a beast goeth down into the valley. 
 The Spirit of the Lord caused him to rest ; 
 
 1 Or, shepherds, as Pe. 77. 20. 
 
ISAIAH, 63. 217 
 
 So didst thou lead thy people, 
 To make thyself a glorious name. 
 
 '^ 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 ? 
 '^ 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. 
 ^' 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. 
 ^^ The people of thy holiness have possessed it 
 but a little while : 
 Our adversaries have trodden down thy 
 sanctuary. 
 '^ We are tliine : thou never barest rule over 
 them ; 
 ' They were not called by thy name. 
 
 c Or, the multitude, d Or, our Redeemer from everlasting is thy name, 
 e Or, thy name was not called upon them, ch. 63. 1. 
 
218 ISAIAH, 64. 
 
 CiA /^^H that thou wouldest rend the heavens, 
 V>^ that thou wouldest come down, 
 That the mountains might flow down at thy 
 presence, 
 - x\s wJien " 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 ! 
 ^ When thou didst terrible things wJiich we 
 looked not for. 
 Thou earnest down, the mountains flowed 
 down at thy presence. 
 ^ For since the beginning of the world men have 
 not heard, nor perceived by the ear, 
 Neither hath the eye *seen, O God, besides 
 
 thee. 
 What he hath prepared for him that waiteth 
 for him. 
 ^ 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. 
 ^ But we are all as an unclean t7iing. 
 And all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; 
 And we all do fade as a leaf ; 
 
 a Heb. the fire of meltings, b Or, seen a God besides thee, which doeth so 
 /or him, <£c. 
 
ISAIAH, 65. 319 
 
 And our iniquities, like the wind, have taken 
 
 us away. 
 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. 
 But now, O Lord, thou art our Father ; 
 We are the clay, and thou our potter ; 
 And w^e all are the work of thy hand. 
 Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, 
 Neither remember iniquity for ever : 
 Behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy 
 
 people. 
 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, 
 Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 
 Our holy and our beautiful house, 
 Where our fathers praised thee. 
 Is burned up with fire : 
 And all our pleasant things are laid waste. 
 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these tilings, O 
 
 Lord? 
 Wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very 
 
 sore ? 
 
 651 
 
 AM sought of them that asked not/<?r me ; 
 I am found of them that sought me not : 
 
 Heb. melted, d Heb. hy the hand : as Job 8. 4. 
 
220 ISAIAH, 65. 
 
 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 ; 
 2 A people that provoketh me to anger continu- 
 ally to my face ; 
 That sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth in- 
 cense "^ upon altars of brick ; 
 ^ 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. 
 ^ Behold, it is written before me : 
 I will not keep silence, but will recompense, 
 Even recompense into their bosom, 
 "' Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your 
 fathers together, saith the Lord, 
 Which have burned incense upon the mount- 
 ains. 
 And blasphemed me upon the hills : 
 
 a Heb. upon hriclcs. b Or, pieces, c Or, anger. 
 
ISAIAH, 65. 221 
 
 Therefore will I measure their former work 
 into their bosom. 
 
 ^ 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' sake. 
 
 That I may not destroy them all. 
 ^ And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, 
 
 And out of Judah an inheritor of my mount- 
 ains : 
 
 And mine elect shall inherit it, 
 
 And my servants shall dwell there. 
 "^ 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. 
 
 " 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. 
 
 ^- 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 ; 
 
 d Qt, Gad. e Or, Meni. 
 
ISAIAH, 65. 
 
 When I spake, ye did not hear ; 
 But did evil before mine eyes, 
 And did choose that wherein I delighted not. 
 '3 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 : 
 '•* Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of 
 
 heart. 
 But ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, 
 And shall howl for / vexation of spirit. 
 '5 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 : 
 ^^ 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. 
 
 '' For, behold, I create new heavens and a new 
 earth : 
 
 / Heb. hreaking. 
 
ISAIAH, 65. 223 
 
 And the former shall not be remembered, nor 
 9 come into mind. 
 ^s 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. 
 '9 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 a hundred years old ; 
 But the sinner being a hundred years old shall 
 be accursed. 
 -' And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; 
 And they shall plant vineyards, and eat the 
 fruit of them. 
 2'^ 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. 
 2'^ They shall not labour in vain, 
 
 <7 Heb. come ripon the heart, h Heb. shall maUe them continue long, or, 
 aliall wear out. 
 
224 ISAIAH. 66. 
 
 Nor bring forth for trouble ; 
 
 For they are the seed of the blessed of the 
 
 Lord, 
 And their offspring with them, 
 "^ And it shall come to pass, that before they 
 
 call, I will answer ; 
 And while they are yet speaking, I will 
 
 hear. 
 -^ 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.' 
 
 gg ^HUS saith the Lord, 
 
 -L 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 ? 
 - For all those things hath mine hand made, 
 And all those things have been, saith the 
 
 Lord: 
 But to this 7nan will I look. 
 Even to him that is poor and of a contrite 
 
 spirit. 
 And trembleth at my word. 
 ^ He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a 
 man ; 
 
i 
 
 ISAIAH, 66. 225 
 
 He that sacrificetli a '^ iamb, 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 abomina- 
 tions. 
 * I also will choose their " delusions, 
 
 Aud 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. 
 
 ^ 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. 
 ^ A voice of noise from the citj^ a voice from the 
 
 temple, 
 A voice of the Lord that rendereth recompense 
 
 to his enemies. 
 
 a Or, kid. b Heb. maketh a memorial of, Lev. 2. 2. c Or, devices. 
 
 15 
 
226^ ISAIAH, 66. 
 
 ■^ Before she travailed, she brought forth ; 
 Before her pain came, she was delivered of a 
 man child. 
 ^ 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. 
 ^ Shall I bring to the birth, and not ^ cause to 
 bring forth ? saith the Lord : 
 Shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the icomh? 
 saith thy God. 
 ^° 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 : 
 ^^ 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. 
 1'^ 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 : 
 
 d Or, heget. e Or, brightness. 
 
ISAIAH, 66. 227 
 
 Then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her 
 
 sides, 
 And be dandled upon Tier knees. 
 '^ As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I 
 comfort you ; 
 And ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. 
 '^ And wiien ye see this, your heart shall re- 
 joice, 
 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. 
 '^ 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. 
 '^ For by fire and by his sword will the Lord 
 plead with all flesh : 
 And the slain of the Lord shall be many. 
 " 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. 
 ^s For I knmo their works and their thoughts : 
 
 / Or, one after another. 
 
228 ISAIAH, 66. 
 
 It shall come, that I will gather all nations 
 
 and tongues ; 
 And they shall come, and see my glory. 
 '^ 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. 
 '^^ And they shall bring all your brethren /or an 
 
 offering unto the Lord out of all nations 
 Upon horses, and in chariots, and in 9 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. 
 -' And I will also take of them for priests and 
 
 for Levites, saith the Lord. 
 *"^ 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. 
 
 .9 Or, coaches. 
 
ISAIAH, 66. 229 
 
 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. 
 -■* And they shall go forth, and look 
 
 Upon the carcasses of the men that have trans- 
 gressed against me : 
 
 For their worm shall not die, 
 
 Neither shall their fire be quenched ; 
 
 And they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh, 
 
 h Heb, from new moon to his new moon, and from sahlath to his sahhath. 
 
BS185.2.1897 ^ ^ . ^ 
 
 The book of the prophet Isaiah 
 
 Princeton Theological Seminary-Speer Library 
 
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