LIBRARY OF PRiNCETON 1 JUN 3 2003 THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY OF HEBREW LITERATURE. TART III. Abraham ncv\ leir ab{' a cloud. 6 And in this mountain Bhall the Lord of hosts make unto ;ill people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, oi fa1 things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 39 7 And he will discover in this mountain the face of the cover- ing cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations. 8 Death will swallow them up for ever ; and the- Lord, God, Avill 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. 9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God ; we have waited for him, and he saved us : this is the Lord ; we have waited for him ; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation. 10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the Lord rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down in the dunghill. 1 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. 12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he hare brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust. CHAPTEE XXVI. IN that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah ; To a city which is strength to us, will God appoint salvation for walls and bulwarks. 2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. 3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee ; because he trusteth in thee. 4 Trust ye in the Lord for ever : for in the Lord, God, is everlasting strength : 5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high ; the lofty city, he layeth it low ; he layeth it low, even to the ground ; he bringeth it even to the dust. 6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy. 7 The way of the just is uprightness ; thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just. 40 THE BOOK OF ISAIAH 8 Yea, for the way of thy judgments, Lord, have we waited ; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the re- membrance of thee. 9 The meditation of my soul was, I desired thee in the night ; yea, the thought of my spirit within me was, I will seek thee : for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. 1 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness : in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord. 1 1 Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see : but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people ; yea, let the fire devour thine enemies. 1 2 Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us : for thou also hast wrought all our works for us. 13 Lord, our God, other lords beside thee have had do- minion over us : but by thee only will we make mention of thy name. 14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise : therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. 15 Thou hast continued to chastise thy nation, Lord, thou hast continued to chastise thy nation : thou hast been glorilied : thou hast removed it far unto all the ends of the earth : 16 Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. 17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs ; so have we been in thy sight, Lord. 18 We have conceived, we have been in pain with, as we have brought forth, wind ; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth ; neither have tve effected that the inhabitants of the world should not fall. 19 Thy dead men shall live, my dead people shall arise, as if they heard, Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust : for Thy dew is the dew" of light, and the earth shall east oul the dead. 20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hido thyself as it were for a Little moment, until the indignation be overpast. ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 41 21 For, behold, the Lord coraeth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity : the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. CHAPTER XXVII. IN that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the outstretched serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent ; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. 2 In that day sing ye unto her of the fruitful vineyard. 3 I the Lord do keep it ; I will water it every moment : lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. 4 Fury is not in me : who would turn me into a place of briers and thorns in battle ? I would go through them, I would burn them together. 5 Or let him uphold of my strength, that he may make peace with me ; then he shall make peace with me. 6 In future he shall cause Jacob to take root : Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. 7 Hath He smitten him, as He smote those that smote him ? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him ? 8 With her own measure, because she strove with her branches, He removed her with His rough wind in the day of the east wind. 9 But by this shall the punishment of Jacob be removed; and this shall be all the fruit to take away his chastisement ; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, and the groves and images do not stand. 1 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness : there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they are broken off : the women come, and set them on fire : for it is a people of no understanding : therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour. 12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall 42 THE BOOK OF ISAIAH beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, ye children of Israel. 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ivan- dering about in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem. CHAPTEE XXVIII. WOE to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which is on the head of the valley of oil, of them that are overcome with wine. 2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which is like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, like a flood of mighty waters overflowing, which he cast down to the earth with might. 3 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under feet : 4 And the fading flower, 1 the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the valley of oil, shall be as the hasty fruit before the summer ; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up. 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, 6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judg- ment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate. 7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way ; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they arc swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink ; they err iu the vision of the prophet, they stumble La judgment. 8 For all tables are full of vomit and hlthiness, so that there is no place clean. 9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine ? them thai arc weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? 10 For precept corned after* precept, precept after 9 precept ; line after* line, line after* line; here a little, and there a little: 1 Or, the flower of a fading plant. • Or, is joined to. ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 43 1 1 For with laughing lips and another tongue must he speak to this people, 12 To whom he said, This is the rest ; cause the weary to rest ; and this is the refreshing : yet they would not hear. 13 But the word of the Lord was unto them as ivhen precept cometh after 3 precept, precept after 3 precept ; line after 3 line, line after 3 line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. 14 "Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that speak in proverbs to this people which is in Jerusalem. 15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with the grave have we made a divine agreement; although 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 : 1 6 Therefore thus saith the Lord, God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation : he that believeth shall not make haste. 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet : and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place of lies. 4 1 8 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your divine covenant with the grave shall not stand ; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. 1 9 Prom 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. 20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it : and the covering too narrow for many to wrap themselves in it. 21 For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work ; and bring to pass his act, his strange act. 22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong : for I have heard it from the Lord, God of hosts, decided and determined upon the whole earth. 3 Or, lo. * Or, the hiding-place of water. 44 THE BOOK OF ISAIAH 23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice ; hearken, and hear my speech. 24 Doth the plowman all day plow to sow, open and break the clods of his ground ? 25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth ho not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in wheat with measure, and barley according to the mark, and rye in its place ? 26 For his God doth instruct him to do according to the custom, and doth teach him. 27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instru- ment, 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 thresh- ing it ; and when he turneth the wheel of his cart, his horsemen will not bruise it. 29 This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdoms. CHAPTEE XXIX. WOE to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt ! add ye year to year ; sacrifices shall cease. 1 2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow : and she shall be unto me as an alter. 3 And I will camp against thee sudd< nly, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee, 4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of a potter, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust. 5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like the dust of small things, and the multitude of the terrible cues shall he as chaff that passethaway: yea, it shall be at an Instant suddenly. 6 Thou shalt be visited of the Loud of hosts with thunder. ' Or, let tin in kill Bacrifii es. ACCORD ING TO IBN EZRA. 45 and with, earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire. 7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and all the men of her siege, 2 and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision. 8 It shall even he as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth ; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty : or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drink eth ; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul is thirsty : 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. 1 For the Lord hath covered over you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes : the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. 1 1 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee : and he saith, I cannot ; for it is sealed : 12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee : and he saith, I am not learned. 13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people vex themselves ith theirw mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is become an accustomed precept of men : 14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder : for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. 1 5 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us ? and who knoweth us ? 16 Surely this is your turning of things upside down ; since man is 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 ? Or, the towers of her siege. 46 TIIE BOOK OF ISAIAH 17 Is it not a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into Carmel, and Carmel shall be esteemed as a forest ? 18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. 19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. 20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the BCOrner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: 21 That make a man an offender for a word 3 , and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought. 22 Therefore thus saith the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale. 23 But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, he shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall cause people to fear 4 the God of Israel. 24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine. CHAPTER XXX. WOE to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me ; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin : 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 iu the shadow of Egypt your confusion. 4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes. 5 All blame them that go to a people that could not profit them, nor bo an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. 6 The burden of the beasts of the south : among than arc in the land of trouble and anguish, young and old lions, the viper and 3 Or, that cause others to sin by their word. * Or, shall fear. ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 47 fiery flying serpent. They carry their riches upon the shoul- ders of young- asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them. 7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose : therefore have I cried unto this, that strength will be to those who sit still. 8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever : 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord : 10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy words of deceit : 1 1 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. 12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: 13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach of a falling tower, as a swelling ' in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. 14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potter's ves- sel that is broken in pieces ; he shall not spare : so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit. 1 5 For thus saith the Lord, God, the Holy One of Israel ; In calmness and rest shall ye be saved ; in quietness and in confi- dence shall be your strength : and ye would not. 1 6 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 7 The thousand men of one officer shall flee at the rebuke of one ; at the rebuke of five shall ye all flee : till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill. 18 And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you : for the Lord is a God of judgment : blessed are all they that wait for him. Or, as an increasing breach. 48 TIIE BOOK OF ISAIAH 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem : thou shalt weep no more : he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry ; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. 20 And though the Lord give you scanty bread, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, mid when ye turn to the left. 22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold : thou shalt keep them away as a menstruous tvoman ; thou shalt say unto them, Get ye hence. 23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal ; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large plains. 24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. 25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. 26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the bight of seven days, in the day that the Lord bindcth up the breach of his people, and healcth the stroke of their wound. 27 Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from far, burning with his anger, and with the burden of smoke : his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire : 28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to lead the nations with the bridle of vanity: and a bridle shall be in the jaws of the people, causing them to err. 29 Ye shall have a s(inu r , as in the night when a holy solem- nity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a. pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the mighty I >ne of Israel. 30 And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard. ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 49 and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indigna- tion of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones. 31 For through the voice of the Lord shaU the Assyrian be beaten down, as if he were smitten 2 with a rod. 32 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the Lord shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps : and in jubilant battles will he fight with it. 33 For Tophet is ordained of old ; yea, for the king it is pre- pared ; 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. CHAPTER XXXI. WOE to them that go down to Egypt for help, and stay on T » horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many • and m horsemen, because they are very strong ; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord ! 2 Yet he also is wise, and hath brought evil, and hath not called back his words : but will arise against the house of the evddoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity. 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God ; and their horses flesh and not spirit. When the Lord shall stretch out his hand both he that helpeth shall fell, and he that is helped shall feU down, and they all shall fall together. 4 Eor thus hath the Lord spoken unto me, Like as the lion or the young lion roareth on his prey, and when all shepherds are called forth against him, is not afraid of their voice, nor abaseth himself for the noise of them: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof 5 As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts protect Jerusalem • he will protect and deliver, save and preserve it. 6 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted. 7 Eor in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you tor a sin. Or, he shall smite him. E .30 the book or ISAIAH 8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the Bword, not of a mean man, Bhall devour him : and he shall tlee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited. 9 And he shall pass his stronghold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of every ensign, saith the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and whose furnace is in Jerusalem. CHAPTER XXXII. BEHOLD, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. 2 And every one of them shall be as 1 an hiding place from the wind, and 2 a covert from the tempest; as 3 rivers of water in a dry place, as 4 the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. 3 And the eyes of them that see shall not he dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken. 4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall he ready to speak plainly. 5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiM. 6 For the vile person speaketh villany, and his heart irorketh iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to let the soul of the hungry be empty, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. 7 The instruments also of the churl are evil : he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. 8 Bnt the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things doth he stand. 9 Eise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye oareless daughters ; give ear unto my speech. in Year after year shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. 11 Tremble, ye women thai are at ease ; be troubled, ye care- Less ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins. 1 Or, And every one Bhall be, as it were, in. a Or, and in. 3 Or, as by. 4 Or, aa in. ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 51 12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers ; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city : 14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken ; the multitude of the city shaU be left ; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks ; 1-5 Until the spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the plain be like Carmel, and Carmel be counted for a forest. 16 Then judgment shall dweU in the plain, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. 17 And the work of righteousness shaU be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. 18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places ; 19 And hail shall come down on the forest; but the city shall spread in the valley. 20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass. CHAPTER XXXHI. S\Hthou that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled ; and dealest {S treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee ! when thou shalt have finished spoiling, thou shalt be spoiled ; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee. 2 O Lord, be gracious unto us ; we have waited for thee : be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. 3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; through thy power the nations were scattered. 4 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar : as the collecting of locusts shall he collect it. 5 The Lord is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness. 6 And thy faith through all times shall be a store of salvation, of wisdom and knowledge : the fear of the Lord is its principal treasure. E 2 52 THE BOOK OF ISAIAII 7 Behold their messengers shall cry without : the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly. 8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth : he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he re- gardeth no man. 9 The earth mourneth and languisheth : he put Lebanon to shame ; it is hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits. 10 Now will I rise, saith the Lord ; now will I be exalted ; now will I lift up myself. 1 1 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble : your spirit is fire, which shall consume you. 12 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime : as thorns cut up whieh are burned in the fire. 13 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done ; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might. 1 4 The sinners in Zion are afraid ; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire ? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings ? 15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly ; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that' shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil ; 16 He shall dwell on high : his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: his bread shall be given him ; his waters shall be sure. 17 Thine eyes shall see the king in las beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off. 18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver ? where is he that counted the towers? 1'.) Thou shalt not see a strange people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; mocked for hi* tongue, that thou canst not understand. 20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities : thine eyes shal] see Jerusalem, a quiel habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down ; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. •jl Hut there the glorious Lokd will he unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with ,,ars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. ACCORDING TO LBN EZRA. 53 22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our scribe, the Lord is our king ; he will save us. 23 Thy taeklings are loosed; they cannot well strengthen their mast, they cannot spread the sail : then is the prey of a great spoil divided ; the lame take prey. 24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick : the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity. CHAPTEE XXXIV. COME near, ye nations, to hear ; and hearken, ye people : let the earth hear, and all that is therein ; the world, and all things that come forth of it. 2 Eor the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies : he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. 3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. 4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll : and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree. 5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven : behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse to judgment. 6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams : for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. 7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bul- locks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. 8 For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recomp'ences for the controversy of Zion. 9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. 54 THE BOOK OF ISAIAH 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever : from generation to generation it shall lie waste ; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. 1 1 But the cormorant and the hedgehog shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. 12 As to the nobles thereof none shall he there whom they might call to the kingdom, and all her princes shall be nothing. 13 And thorns shall come up over her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, a court 1 for owls. 14 Wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with kites, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow ; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. 15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and break the eggs, and gather under her shadow : there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate. 1 6 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 its spirit, it hath gathered them. 1 7 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein. CHAPTER XXXV. THE wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad ; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. 2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excel- lency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Loed, and the excellency of our God. 3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. 4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your Q-od will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you. ' Or, grass. ACCORDING TO IBX EZRA. 55 5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing : for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. 7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water : the plain which had been covered with habitations of dragons, shall be courts covered with reeds and rushes. 8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness ; the unclean shall not pass over it, though it be open for them : the wayfaring men and fools, shall not err therein. 9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there ; but the redeemed shall walk there : 10 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads : joy and gladness shall come to them, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. CHAPTEE XXXVI. NOW it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them. 2 And the king of Assyria sent Eabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field. 3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder. 4 And Eabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest ? 5 I say but vain words are thy counsel and strength for war : now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me ? 6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt ; 56 THE BOOK OF ISAIAH whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it : so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him. 7 But if you say to me, We trust in the Lord, our God : is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ye shall worship before this altar? 8 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. 9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen ? 10 And am I now come up without the Lord against this land to destroy it ? the Lord said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. 1 1 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Eabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language ; for we understand it : and speak not to us in the Jews' lan- guage, in the ears of the people that are on the wall. 12 But Eabshakeh 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 Eabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria. 14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you. 1 5 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us : this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. 16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of A -syria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me : and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern ; 17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards. L8 Beware Lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying The Lord ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 57 will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations deli- vered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria. 1 9 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad ? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? 20 Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand ? 21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word : for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not. 22 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Kabshakeh. CHAPTEE XXXVII. AND it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord. 2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. 3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. 4 It may be the Lord, thy God, will hear the words of Eab- shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to re- proach the living God, and will reprove the words which the Lord, thy God, hath heard : wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left. 5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land ; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land. 58 THE BOOK OF ISAIAH 8 So Rabshakch returned, and found the king of Assyria ■warring against Libnak : for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. 9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 1 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee. Baying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 1 1 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly ; and shalt thou be delivered ? 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Bezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar ? 13 "Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah ? 14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it. And Hezekiah went up unto the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord. 15 And Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord, saying, 16 Lord of Hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubim, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the king- doms of the earth : thou hast made heaven and earth. 17 Incline thine ear, Lord, and hear; open thine eyes, Lord, and see : and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God. 18 Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries, 19 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them. 20 Now therefore, Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art tho Lord, even thou only. 21 Then Isaiah the son of Amnz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saitli the Lobd, G<>d of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me igainsl Sennacherib king of Assyria : ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 59 22 This is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him ; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn ; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. 23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high ? even against the Holy One of Israel. 24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon ; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel. 25 1 have digged, and drunk water ; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places. 26 Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it ; and of ancient times, that I have formed it ? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps. 27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded : they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up. 28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. 29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest. 30 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same : and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof. 31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward : 32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion : the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this. 33 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of 60 THE BOOK OF ISAIAH Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor. cast a bank against it. 34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lokd. 35 For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake. 36 Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. 37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. 38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword ; and they escaped into the land of A rarat ; and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead. CHAPTEE XXXVIII. I N those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the J- prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live. 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the Loud, 3 And said, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how T have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. 4 Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying, 5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have hoard thy prayer, I havo seen thy Dais : behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. 6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city. 7 And this shall be a sign unto thee from the Lord, that the LOAD will do this thing that lie hath spoken ; 8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 61 which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees back- ward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness : 10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave : I am deprived of the residue of my years. Ill said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living : I shall behold man no more with the in- habitants of the world. 12 My dwelling is departed, and is removed from me as a 1 shepherd's tent : I have rolled together like a weaver my life : he will cut me off with this pining sickness : from day even to night it maketh peace with me. 13 1 made myself till morning like unto 2 a lion, so he hreaketh all my bones : from day even to night it maketh peace with me. 1 4 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter : I did mourn as a dove : mine eyes look upward : Lord, I am oppressed ; undertake for me. 1 5 What shall I say ? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself will do z it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitter- ness of my soul. 16 Lord, by thy words men live, and in all times the life of my spirit is renewed by them ; so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live. 17 Behold when I hoped for peace, I had great bitterness : but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of cor- ruption : for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. 18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee : they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. 19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day : the father shall make known to the children thy truth. 20 The Lord hath promised 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. 1 Or, my. 9 Or, I compared this illness, till morning, unto. , Or, hath done. 62 THE BOOK OF ISAIAH 21 And Isaiah said, Let tliem take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover. 22 And Hezekiah said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord ? CHAPTER XXXIX. AT that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah : for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered. 2 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures : there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not. 3 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, "What said these men ? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon. 4 Then said he, What have they seen in thine house ? and Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house have they seen ; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them. 5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord of hosts : 6 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon : nothing shall be left, saith the Lord. 7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou slialt beget, shall they take away ; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. 8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken. Ho said moreover, For there shall bo peaco and truth in my days. ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 63 CHAPTEE XL. COMFOET ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her that her time is accomplished, that her punishment is at an end : for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins. 8 A voice crieth, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low : and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain : 5 And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together : for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. 6 The voice said, Cry. And he said ivhat I should cry, All flesh is like grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field : 7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth : because the wind sent by the Lord bloweth upon it : surely all people are like grass. 8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth : but the word of our Grod shall stand for ever. 9 thou that bringest good tidings to Zion, get thee up into the high mountain ; thou that bringest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength ; lift it up, be not afraid ; say unto the cities of Juclah, Behold your God ! 10 Behold, the Lord, God, will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him : behold, his reward is with him, and his wages are before him. 1 1 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd : he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. 12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and computed the dust of the earth by the measure, and weighed mountains in a balance, and hills in scales ? 1 3 Who hath directed the spirit of the Lord ? who is the man of his counsel, to whom God made known his plan ? 64 THE BOOK OF ISAIAH 14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding ? 15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he throw eth the isles as a very little thing. 16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. 1 7 All nations before him are as nothing ; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. 1 8 To whom then will ye liken these things ? or what likeness will ye compare unto him ? 19 A workman maketh the (/raven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. 20 The treasurer of the oblation 1 chooseth a tree that will not rot ; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved. 21 Have ye not known ? have ye not heard ? hath it not been told you from the beginning ? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth ? 22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in : 23 That bringeth the princes to nothing ; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. 24 Yea, they shall not be planted ; yea, they shall not be sown : yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth : and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. 25 To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal to him f saith the Holy One. 26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these tilings, that bringeth out their host bj number : he ealleth them all bynames; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one faileth. 27 "Why say est thou, Jacob, and speakest, Israel, My 1 Or, For that which is stored up to In an oblation he. ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 65 way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God ? 28 Hast thou not known ? hast thou not heard, that the ever- lasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. 29 He giveth power to the faint ; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fail : 31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength ; they shall mount up with wings as eagles ; they shall run, and not be weary ; and they shall walk, and not faint. CHAPTEE XLI. TT^EEP silence and listen unto me, islands ; and let the people ±\_ renew their strength : let them come near ; then let them speak : let us come near together to judgment. 2 Who raised up him that came from the east, whom righteous- ness was to meet 1 wherever he put his foot, who was to subdue na- tions before him, and to appoint rulers over kings, to make like unto the dust their swords and as driven stubble their hows. 3 To pursue them, and to pass without weariness ; as if he had not gone that way with his feet ? 4 Who hath wrought and prepared it ? The Lord that calleth the generations from the beginning. I the Lord, am the first, and am also with the last. 5 The isles saw it, and feared ; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came. 6 They helped every one his neighbour ; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage. 7 So the carpenter encouraged the smith, who smootheth with the hammer the iron lying upon the anvil, 2 saying of the sodering, It is good: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved. 8 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham who loved me. 1 Or, who was to meet righteousness. 2 Or, with the hammer the anvil. F 66 THE BOOK OF ISAIAH 9 Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called from the chief men thereof, and to whom I said. Thou art my servant ; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. 10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: turn thou not array ; for I am thy God : I will strengthen thee ; yea, I will help thee ; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. 11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing ; and they that strive with thee shall perish. 12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee : they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought. 1 3 For I, the Lord, thy God, will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not ; I will help thee. 14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel ; I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy Eedeemer, the Holy One of Israel. 15 Behold, I will make thee the appointed new threshing in- strument having teeth : thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. 16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them : and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. 17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I, the Lord, will hear them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. 18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of u at el- and the dry land springs of water. 19 1 will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree ; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together : 20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and under- stand together, that the hand of the Loud hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath prepared it. 21 Produce your cause, saith the Lord ; bring forth your disputes^ saith the King of Jacob. 1 Or, your strong reasons. ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 67 22 Let them bring forth their idols, that they shew us what shall happen: shew the first things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them ; or declare us things for to come. 23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods : yea, that ye do good and evil ; that we may relate it, and behold it together. 24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought : an abomination is he that chooseth you. 25 I have raised up one from the north, and he came : from the rising of the sun was he to call upon my name : and he was to come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter who tread- eth clay. 26 Who hath declared this from the beginning ? tell vs that we may know— and beforetime ? — that we may say, He is right. Yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words. 27 The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them : and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings. 28 For I behold, and there is no man, and among them there is no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, they could answer a word. 29 Behold, they are all vanity ; their works are nothing : the libations brought unto them are wind and confusion. CHAPTEE XLII. BEHOLD my servant, whom I uphold ; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth ; I have put my spirit upon him : he shall bring forth judgment to all nations. 2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause, his voice to be heard in the street. 3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench : he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. 4 He shall not fail nor be broken, till he have set judgment in the earth, and the isles shall wait for his law. 5 Thus saith Grod, the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out ; he that spread forth the earth, and that r2 f>8 THE BOOK OF ISAIAH which cometh out of it ; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein : 6 I, the Lord, have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of all nations ; 7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. 8 I am the Lord : that is my name : and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. 9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare : before they spring forth I tell you of them. 10 Sing unto the Lord a new song, his praise from the end of the earth : ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein ; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. 1 1 The plain and the cities thereof shall lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit : the inhabitants of the rock shall sing, shout from the top of the mountains. 12 They shall give glory unto the Lord, and declare his praise in the islands. 13 The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall show himself mighty over his enemies. 14 1 have long time holden my peace ; I have been still, and refrained myself ; I have cried like a travailing woman ; I havt been desolate and have sighed at once. 15 But I make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs ; and I make the rivers islands, and I dry up the pools. 16 And I bring the blind by a way that they knew not ; I lead them in paths that they have not known : I make dark- ness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things have I done, and / have not forsaken them. 1 7 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. is 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 snit ? who is blind as he that is righteous, and blind as the Lord's servant ? ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 69 20 You see many things, but observe not ; the ears are open, but none heareth. 21 The Lord desireth for his righteousness' sake to magnify the law, and to make it honourable. 22 But' this is a people robbed and spoiled ; they are all of them breathing 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 tell this ? who will hearken and hear for the time to come ? 24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers ? did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned ? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law. 25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle : and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not ; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart. CHAPTEE XLIII. T)UT now thus saith the Lord that created thee, Jacob, and -LJ he that formed thee, Israel, Fear not : for I have re- deemed thee, I have called thee by thy name ; thou art mine. 2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee : when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned ; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. 3 For I am the Lord, thy God, the Holy One of Israel, who saveth thee : I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. 4 Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee : therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. 5 Fear not : for I am with thee : I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; 6 I will say to the north, Give up ; and to the south, Keep 1 Or, Therefore, 70 THE BOOK OF ISAIAH not back : bring ruy sons from far and my daughters from the ends of the earth ; 7 Even every one that is called by my name : for I have appointed him for my glory, I have formed him ; yea, I have made him, 8 To bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that havo ears. 9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled : who among them can declare this, and shew us former things ? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified : and let them hear, and say, It is truth. 10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen : that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he : before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. Ill, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is none that (■(in save. 12 1 have declared, and have saved, and have caused you to hear, when there was no stranger among you : therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am (rod. 13 Yea, before the day was, I was God ; and there is none thai can deliver out of my hand : I will work, and who shall undo it? 14 Thus saith the Lord, your Eedeemer, the Holy One of Israel ; For your sake I have hastened to Babylon, and I shall bring down all their bars, and the Chaldeans, whoso pride is in the ships. 1 5 I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King. 16 Thus saith the Lord, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters ; 1 7 Which bringeth forth tho chariot and horse, the army and the power ; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise : they arc extinct, they are quenched as tow. 18 Remember ye not the former tilings, neither consider tho things of old. 19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth ; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilder- ness, and rivers in the desert. 20 The beasl of the field shall honour me, the dragons and ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 71 the owls : because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen. 21 This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. 22 But thou hast not called upon me, Jacob, that thou shouldst be weary of me, Israel. 23 Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings ; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense. 24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices : but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. 25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. 26 Put me in remembrance : let us plead together : declare thou, that thou mayest be justified. 27 Thy first father hath sinned, and thine interpreters have transgressed against me. 28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches. CHAPTER XLIV. YET now hear, Jacob my servant ; and Israel, whom I have chosen : 2 Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee ; Fear not, Jacob, my ser- vant ; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen. 3 For I will pour water upon the thirsty land, and floods upon the dry ground : I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring : 4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses. 5 One shall say, I am the Lord's ; and another shall call him- self by the name of Jacob ; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord, and surname liimself by the name of Israel. 6 Thus saith the Lord, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, 72 THE BOOK OF ISAIAH the Lord of hosts ; I am the first, and I am the last ; and beside me there is no God. 7 And who is like unto me f Let him call, and declare it, and set it in order for me, all that happened since I appointed the ancient people. And the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew for their own sake. 8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid : have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a (rod beside me ? yea, there is no God, whom I know not. 9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity ; and their delectable things shall not profit ; and they are their witnesses ; they see not, nor know ; that they may be ashamed. 1 Who hath formed a god, or molten an image ? it is profit- able for nothing. 11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed : and the work- men, they are of men : let them all be gathered together, let them stand up ; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together. 12 The smith cutteth it -with the axe, and worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with borers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms : yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth : he drink eth no water, and is faint. 1 3 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule ; he marketh it out with chalk; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man ; that it may remain in the house. 14 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest : he planteth an ash, 1 and the rain doth nourish it. 2 15 Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will lake thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread ; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it ; he maketh it a graven image, and faileth down thereto. 1(> lie burnetii part thereof in the lire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied : yea, ho warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire : ' Ur, the root. 3 Or, and he causeth the slum to grow. ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 73 1 7 And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image : he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver rne ; for thou art nry god. 1 8 They have not known nor understood : for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see ; and their hearts, that they cannot understand. 1 9 And none considereth in their heart, neither is there know- ledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire ; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof ; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it : and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination ? shall I fall down to an image of wood ? 20 He feedeth on ashes : & foolish heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand ? 21 Remember these, Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant : I have formed thee ; thou art my servant : Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me. 22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins : return unto me ; for I have redeemed thee. 23 Sing, ye heavens ; for the Lord hath done it : shout, ye lower parts of the earth : break forth into singing, ye moun- tains, forest, and every tree therein : for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel. 24 Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things ; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone ; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself ; 25 That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh astrologers mad ; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish ; 26 That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers ; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited ; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof: 27 That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers : 28 That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall per- form all my pleasure : even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built ; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid. 71 THE BOOK OF ISAIATI CHAPTER XLV. rpHUS saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose J- right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him ; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the doors ; and the gates shall not be shut ; 2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight : I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron. 3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. 4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name : I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me. 5 I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me : I shall strengthen thee, though thou hast not known me : 6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else. 7 I form the light and decree darkness : I make peace, and decree evil : I, the Lord, do all these things. 8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the sides 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 for him. 9 Oh, thou that strivcst with thy Maker! who art like a pot- sherd, with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, AVhat makest thou ? or thy work, He hath no hands ? 10 Oh, thou that sayest unto thy father, What begettest thou ? or to the woman, What bringest thou forth ? 11 Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask mo of things to come; but mil ye command me con- cerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands? 12 I have made the earth and created man upon it : I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have 1 commanded. 13 I have raided him up in righteousness, and 1 will direct ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 75 all his ways : lie shall build my city and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the Lord of hosts. 14 Thus saith the Lord, The labour of Egypt, and merchan- dise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, tall men, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine : they shall come after thee ; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee ; and there is no God besides. 15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself; but also the God of Israel that savest. 16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go with confusion together that are makers of idols. 17 But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation : ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end. 1 8 For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens ; God himself that formed the earth and made it ; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited : I am the Lord ; and there is none else. 19 1 have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth : I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain : I, the Lord, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right. 20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations : they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save. 21 Tell ye, and bring them near ; yea, let them take counsel together : who hath declared this from ancient time ? who hath told it from that time ? have not I, the Lord, and no God else beside me ? a just and helping God ; there is none be- side me. 22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth : for I am God, and there is none else. 23 I have sworn by myself, the righteous word is gone out of my mouth, and it shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. 24 Surely, shall one say, in the Lord have I righteousness and strength : even to him shall men come ; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. "6 THE BOOK OF ISAIAH 2.5 In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory. CHAPTEE XLVI. T)EL boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the -L* beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden ; they are a burden to the weary beast. 2 They stoop, they bow down together : they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. 3 Hearken unto me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb : 4 And even to your old age I am he ; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you : I have made, and I will bear ; even I will carry, and will deliver you. 5 To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and com- pare me, that we may be like ? 6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith ; and he maketh it a god : they fall down, yea, they worship. 7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth ; from his place shall he not remove : yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble. 8 Bemember this, and be firmly established : • bring it again to mind, ye transgressors. 9 Eemember the former things of old : for I am God, and there is none else ; I am Grod, and there is none like me. 10 Declaring the end .from the beginning, and from ancienl tunes the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure : 11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country : yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass ; I have formed it, I will also do it. L2 Eearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that arc far from righteousness : ' 0i . I i hum d . or, be inflamed. ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 77 13 1 bring near my righteousness ; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry : and I will place salvation in Zion, and my glory in Israel. CHAPTER XLVII. COME down, and sit in the dust, virgin 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. 2 Take the millstones, and grind meal : uncover thy hair, shoiv thy locks, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. 3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen : I will take vengeance, and I will not accept the intercession of a man. 4 As for our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. 5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans : for thou shalt no' more be called, The lady of kingdoms. 6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inherit- ance, and given them into thine hand : thou didst shew them no mercy ; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. 7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever : so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. 8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else ; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children : 9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood : they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments. 10 Eor 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. 1 1 Therefore shall the day of evil come upon thee ; thou shalt 78 THE BOOK OF ISAIAH not know the light of it ; and mischief shall fall upon thee ; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou slialt not know. 12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multi- tude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth ; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou may est prevail. 13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. 1 4 Behold, they shall be as stubble ; the fire shall burn them ; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame : there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it. 1 5 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast la- boured, even thy merchants, from tlry youth : they shall wander every one to his quarter ; none shall save thee. CHAPTER XLVIII. HEAR ye this, house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness. 2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay them- selves upon the God of Israel ; the Lord of hosts is his name. 3 I have declared the former things from the beginning ; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them ; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass. 4 I know that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass ; 5 I have even from the beginning declared it to thee ; before it came to pass I shewed it thee : lest thou shouldest say. Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them. 6 Thou hast heard, see all this ; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee now things from this time, even hidden things, ami thou didst noi know them. ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 79 7 They are decreed now, and not from the beginning ; even before this day thou heardest them not ; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them. 8 Yea, thou heardest not ; yea, thou knewest not ; yea, for a long time thine ear did not open itself: for I knew that thou would- est deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb. 9 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I defer my wrath for thee, that I cut thee not off. 10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not in the silver refinery ; I have chosen for thee to refine thee in the furnace of affliction. 1 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. 1 2 Hearken unto me, Jacob and Israel, called by me ; I am he ; I am the first, I also am the last. 1 3 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens : when I call unto them, they stand up together. 1 4 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear ; which among them hath declared these things ? The Lord hath loved him : he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans. 15 1, even I, have spoken ; yea, I have called him ; I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous. 1 6 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this ; I have not spoken iu secret from the beginning ; from the time that it was, there was I : and now the Lord, God, even his spirit, hath sent me. 17 Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel ; I am the Lord, thy God, which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. 18 that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments ! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea : 19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels Hke the lowels thereof ; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me. 20 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end 80 TIIE BOOK OF ISAIAH of the earth ; say ye, The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob. 21 And they will not thirst when he leadeth them through the deserts : he caused the Maters to flow out of the rock for them : he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out. 22 There is no peace, saith the Loud, unto the wicked. CHAPTER XLIX. LISTEN, isles, unto me ; and hearken, ye people, from far ; The Lord hath called me from the womb ; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. 2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword, but in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me ; and made me a polished shaft, but in his quiver hath he hid me ; 3 And said unto me, Thou art my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified. 4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain : yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my wages are with my God. 5 And now saith the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, that Israel be gathered unto him ; and I yet shall 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 ruins of Israel : I will also give thee for a light to all nations, that salvation may be unto the end of the earth. 7 Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him who is despised, to him who causeth the nation to abhor him, 1 to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see thee and arise, princes shall see thee and bow themselves, because of the Loud that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee. 8 Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable lime 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; 1 Or, who aMiunvtli all idolatrous people. ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 81 9 That thou niayest say to the prisoners, Go forth ; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall he in all high places. 10 They shall not hunger nor thirst ; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them : for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them. 1 1 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my high- ways shall be exalted. 12 Behold, these shall come from far : and, lo, these from the north and from the west ; and these from the land of Sinim. 13 Sing, heavens ; and be joyful, earth ; and break forth into singing, mountains : for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted. 14 But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. 15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb ? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. 1 6 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands ; thy walls are continually before me. 17 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee. 18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as the girdle of a bride. 19 For instead of being filled with thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shalt thou even now 1 be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. 20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me : give place to me that I may dwell. 21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro ? and who hath brought up Or, For thy places were waste and desolate, and thy land was destroyed but now thou shalt. G 82 THE BOOK OF ISAIAH these ? Behold, I was left alone ; these, where had they been ? 22 Thus saith the Lord, God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to all nations, and set up my standard to all people : and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. 23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers : they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord : for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. 24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the righteous captive delivered? 25 But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be de- livered : for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. 26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh ; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine : and all flesh shall know that I, the Lord, save thee, and the mighty One of Jacob redeemeth thee. CHAPTER L. THUS saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your moth or V divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. 2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man ? when I called, was there none to answer. Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem ? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuko I dry up the sea, I uiake the rivers a wilderness : their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst. 3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and 1 make sackcloth their covering. 4 The Lord, God, hath given me a tongue able to »p< at to pupils } that 1 should know how to speak a word in season to him that ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 83 is weary : he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear like unto pupils. 5 The Lord, God, hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebel- lious, neither turned away back. 6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair : I hid not my face from shame and spitting. 7 For the Lord, God, will help me ; therefore shall I not be confounded : therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. 8 Near is the time when I shall be justified ; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. 9 Behold, the Lord, God, will help me ; who is he that shall condemn me ? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment ; the moth shall eat them up. 1 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. 1 1 Behold, all ye kindle a fire, 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. CHAPTEE LI. HEAEKEN to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord : look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. 2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you : for I called him when he was alone, and promised to bless him, and to increase him. 3 For the Lord shall comfort Zion : he will comfort all her waste places ; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert. like the garden of the Lord ; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of melody. 4 Hearken unto me, my people ; and give ear unto me, my g 2 ^4 TIIE BOOK OF ISAIAH nation: for a law shall proceed from mo, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people. 5 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people ; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust. 6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath : for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. 7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law ; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilingB. 8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool : but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation. 9 Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut the tyrant, and terrified the dragon? 10 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep ; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over ? 11 Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion ; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away. 12 I, even I, am he that comforteth you : who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall bo made as grass ; 13 And forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth ; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is (lie fury of the oppressor ? 14 He who is bound hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that lie should not die in the pit, nor thai his bread should fail. 15 But I am the Lord, thy God, thai divided the sea, whose waves roared : The Lord of hosts is his name. 16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 8.5 covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people. 17 Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out. 18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth ; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up. 19 These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee ? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword : by whom shall I comfort thee ? 20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a bird caught in a net : they are full of the fury of the Lord,' the rebuke of thy God. 21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine : 22 Thus saith thy Lord, the Lord, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury ; thou shalt no more drink it again : 23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee ; , which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over : and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over. CHAPTEB LII. I WAKE, awake ; put on thy strength, Zion ; put on thy I\. beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city : for hence- forth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. 2 Shake thyself from the dust ; arise, and sit down, Jeru- salem : loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, captive daughter of Zion. 3 For thus saith the Lord, Ye have been sold for nought ; and ye shall be redeemed without money. 4 For thus saith the Lord, God, My people went down afore- 86 THE BOOK OF ISAIAH time 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 1 make them to howl, saith the Lord ; and my name continually every day is blasphemed. 6 Therefore my people shall know my name : therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak : behold, it is I. 7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace ; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation ; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth ! 8 The voice of thy watchmen shall be heard; they shall lift up the voice ; together shall they sing : for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord returneth to Zion. 9 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem : for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. 10 The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations ; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. 1 1 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence ; it is unclean, touch not ; go ye out of the midst of her ; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord. 12 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight : for the Lord will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward. 13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. 14 As many were astonied at thee, saying, His visage is so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men : 15 So shall he sprinkle the blood of many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him : for that which had not been told them have they seen; and that which they had not heard have they considered. 1 Or, their i>ui-ls. ACCORDING TO IBX EZRA. 87 CHAPTEE LIII. WHO would have believed our report ? and to whom was the arm of the Lord thus revealed ? 2 For he groweth up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground : though he had no form nor comeliness; and when we saw him, there was no beauty and we desired him not. 3 He was despised and rejected of men ; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief : and we hid as it were our faces from him ; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne the griefs, and suffered the sorrows caused by us: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded by our transgressions, he was bruised by our iniquities : a chastisement which caused our peace was upon him ; and with his stripes we were healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray ; we have turned every one to his own way ; and the Lord hath laid on him the punish- ment we all deserved. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth : as a lamb tohich is brought to the slaughter, and as a sheep which is dumb before her shearers, and openeth not her mouth. 8 He is now taken away from prison and from judgment ; but who would hare declared this to his generation '? for he had been cut off out of the land of the living. By the transgression of my people was he stricken. 9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich his tomb ; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief : saying, If his soul shall set his guilt before him, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 1 1 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and be satisfied : by his knowledge shall my righteous servant cause many to be righteous ;■ for he shall feel their sufferings. 12 Therefore will 1 divide him a portion with the great, and ho shall divide the spoil with the strong ; because he hath 88 THE BOOK OF 1SAJA1L poured out his soul unto death : and he was numbered with transgressors ; and he bare the punishment of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. CHAPTER LIT. * SING, barren, thou that didst not bear ; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child : for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord. 2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations, prevent them not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes ; 3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left ; and thy seed shall inherit many nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. 4 Feir 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 re- proach of thy widowhood any more. 5 For thy Maker is thine husband ; the Lord of hosts is his name ; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel ; The God of the whole earth shall he be called. 6 For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when sin is refused, saith thy God. 7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee ; but with great mercies will I gather thee. 8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment ; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord, thy Redeemer. 9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me : for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wrath with thee, nor rebuke thee. 10 For thi! mountains .shall depart, and the hills be removed ; luit my kindness shall not dopart from thee, neither shall the ACCORDING TO IBN EZliA. 89 covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee. 110 thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, ' and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. 1 2 And I will make thy windows of agates, and the windows of thy gates of carbuncles, and the stones of all thy borders will I make to valuable stones. 1 3 And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord ; and great shall be the peace of thy children. 14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression ; for thou shalt not fear : and from terror ; for it shall not come near thee. 15 Behold, can any one dwell in my land except it be with my will? whosoever shall dwell with thee shall surrender to thee. 16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth a vessel for his work ; and I have created the waster to destroy. 1 7 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 the reward of their righteousness given them by me, saith the Lord. CHAPTER LV. HO, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money ; come ye, buy, and eat ; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread ? and your labour for that which satisfieth not ? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. 8 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. 1 Or, tempestuous. HO THE BOOK 01' ISAIAH 4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. 5 Behold, thon shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the Lord, thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel ; for he hath glorified thee. 6 Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near : 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts : and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him ; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater : 1 1 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth : it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. 12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace : the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. 13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree : and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. CHAPTER LVI. rnHUS saith the Lord, Keep ye judgment, and do justice : for -L my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to he revealed. '2 Blessed is th aa1 doeth this, and the son of man ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 91 that layeth hold on it ; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. 3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined him- self to the Lord, speak, saying, The Lord will utterly separate me from his people : neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. 4 For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant ; 5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters : I will give them an everlasting name, that shall be not cut off. 6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant ; 7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer : their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be cabled an house of prayer for all people. 8 The Lord, GrOD, which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him. 9 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest. 10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark ; dogs that lie down, love to slumber. 1 1 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand : they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. 12 Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill our- selves with strong drink ; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant. CHAPTER LVII. THE righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart : and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. 92 THE BOOS OF ISAIAH 2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds. that walk before him. 3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. I Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood, 5 Conceived in the worship of idols under every green tree, strangling the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks ? 6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion ; they, they are thy lot : even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I regret the punishment decreed for these things ? 7 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed : even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. 8 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou put thy scent: for thou hast/reed thyself of me ; and art gone up, and thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with those whose beds thou lovedst wherever thou sawest them. 9 And thou madest presents to the king with oil. and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off; and didst debase thyself even unto the grave. 10 Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope : thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved. II 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 always silenced the lines t and thou fearest me not? 12 I will declare thy righteousness in icon/.*, but also thy works, which shall not profit thee. 13 When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away ; vanity shall take them : but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the laud, and shall inherit my holy mountain : 14 And it will be said, Clear, clear, make free the way, take up the stumbling-block oul of the way of my people. 15 For thus saith the high and lofty One thai resteth for erer, ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 93 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. 1 6 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth : for the spirit should be humble before me, and the souls which I have made. 17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him : I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart. 18 1 have seen his ways, and will heal him : I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. 19 The creator of the fruit of the lips proclaims, l Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the Lord ; and I will heal him. 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. 21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. CHAPTEE LVIII. P|EY aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and yj shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. 2 Yet they seek me daily, and wish to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God : they ask of me the ordinances of justice ; they take delight in approaching to God. 3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not ? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no know- ledge ? Behold, in the day of your fast ye go after your business, and press all your debtors. 4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with a weapon of wickedness : ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. 5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen ? a day for a man to afflict his soul ? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord ? 1 Or, I decree the following words of the lips. 94 Tin: book of isaiaii. 6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen ? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the bonds of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? 7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house ? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him ; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh ? 8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily : and thy righteousness shall go before thee ; the glory of the Lord shall be thy reward. 9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer ; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take Away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity ; 10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul ; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day : 1 1 And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and keep thy bones : and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. 12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places : thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations ; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. 1 3 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy business 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 going after thine own business, nor speaking a word of it. 14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord ; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father : for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. CHAPTER LIX. BEHOLD, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his car heavy thai it cannot hear : ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 95 2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity ; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. 4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth : they trust in vanity, and speak lies ; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web : he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. 6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works : their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed inno- cent blood : their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, of wasting and destruction in their paths. 8 The way of peace they know not ; and there is no judg- ment in their goings : they have made them their paths crooked : whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. 9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us : we wait for light, but behold obscurity ; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes : we stumble at noon day as in the night ; we are in desolate places ' as dead men. 1 1 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. 1 2 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us : for our transgressions are with us ; and as for our iniquities, we know them ; 13 In transgressing and lying against the Loud, and depart- ing away from our Grod, speaking oppression and revolt, con- ceiving it and uttering it from the heart ; we speak words of false- hood. 1 Or, at noon ; or, among the living. 96 TTIK BOOK OF 18AIAH. 14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice slandeth afar off : for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. 15 Yea, truth failoth ; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey- : and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment. 16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor : therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. 17 And he put on righteousness as a breast-plate, and an helmet of salvation on his head ; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke. 18 He will repay, like a man zealous for rewards, like a man zealous for repaying, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies ; to the islands he will repay recompence. 19 So shall they fear 3 the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When distress shall come in like a flood, the spirit of tiro Lord shall act wonderfully in it. 20 And the redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord. 21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord ; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have ptit in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever. CHAPTER LX. ARISE, shine ; though thy light hath set ; for the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. 2 Eor, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. 3 And nations shall come to thy light, and kings to the bright- ness of thy rising. 4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee ; thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shal] be nursed at thy side. - 0i . inud. 3 Or, • ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 97 5 Then thou shalt fear, and run to and fro, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged ; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of all nations shall come unto thee. 6 The multitude of camels shall cover thee with the drome- daries of Midian and Ephah ; they shall all come from Sheba : they shall bring gold and incense ; and they shall shew forth the praises of the Lord. 7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee : they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory. 8 "Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows ? 9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord, thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee. 10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee : for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee. 1 1 And thy gates shall be opened continually ; they shall not be shut day nor night ; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the nations, and that their kings may be brought as bondsmen. 12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish ; yea, those nations shall be utterly slain. 1 3 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary ; and I will make the place of my feet glorious. 14 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee ; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet ; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, Zion, the city 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 many nations, and shalt suck the breast of kings : and thou shalt know that I, the Lord, save thee, and the mighty One of Jacob redccmeth thee. H 98 THE BOOK OF ISAIAH 17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron : I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. 18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders ; and thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. 1 9 The sun shall be no more thy light by day ; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee : but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. 20 Thy sun shall no more go down ; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. 2 1 Thy people also shall be all righteous : they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. 22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation : I, the Lord, will hasten it in its time. CHAPTEE LXI. THE spirit of the Lord, God, is upon me ; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek ; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound ; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God ; to comfort all that mourn ; 3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, as follows : to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the depressed spirit ; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified. 4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the desolations of former g< m rations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations. 5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. 6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord : men shall ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 99 call you the Ministers of our God : ye shall eat the riches of all nations, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. 7 For your shame they shall have double ; and for your con- fusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double : everlasting joy shall be unto them. 8 For I, the Lord, love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offerings ; and I will give them their wages in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. 9 And their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the people : all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed. 10 1 will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God ; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salva- tion, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. 1 1 For as the earth which bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden which causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth ; so the Lord, God, will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations. CHAPTER LXIL FOE Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusa- lem's sake will I not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. 2 And all nations shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory : and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name. 3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. 4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken ; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate : but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah : for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. 5 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons 100 THE BOOK OF ISAIAH marry thee : and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. 6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night : ye that pray to the Lord, keep not silence, 7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. 8 The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies ; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboiu-ed : 9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord ; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness. 10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people ; clear, clear the highway ; gather out the stones ; lift up a standard for the people. 1 1 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 wages before him. 12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord : and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken. . CHAPTER LXIII. . WHO is this that cometh from Edom, with stained garments from Bozrah? who is this that was so glorious in his ap- parel, and presseth people in the greatness of his strength ? I that speak in righteousness, that am mighty to save. 2 Wherefore is red thine apparel, and wherefore are thy gar- ments like the garments of him that treadeth in the winefat ? 3 I havo trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me : for I trod them in mine anger, and trampled them in my fury ; and their blood was sprinkled upon my garments, and I stained all my raiment. 4 For the day of vengeance is in mino heart, and the year of my redeomod is corno. 5 And I looked, and there was none to help ; and I wondored ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 101 that there was none to uphold : therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me ; and my fury, it upheld me. 6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will pour down their blood to the earth. 7 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us, and that he is great in goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. 8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie : so he was to them a Saviour. 9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them : in his love and in his pity he redeemed them ; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. 10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy spirit : therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them. 11 Then he remembered the days of old, of Moses and' 1 his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock ? where is he that put his holy spirit within him ? 12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name ? 1 3 That led them through the deep, as an horse in the plain that they should not stumble ? 14 As a beast goeth softly down into the valley, 50 the spirit of the Lord led him. So didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name. 15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory : where is thy zeal and thy strength ? the multitude of thy kindnesses and of thy mercies toward me are now restrained. 16 Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be igno- rant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not : thou, Lord, art our father, our redeemer ; thy name is from everlasting. 1 Or, of the deliverer of, 102 THE BOOK OF ISAIAH 17 Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and removed our heart from thy fear ? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. 1 8 The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while : our adversaries have trodden down the sanctuary. 1 We are like people over whom thou never barest rule, that were not called by thy name. I CHAPTER LXIV. F thou wouldest rend the heavens, and come down, the moun- tains would then flow down at thy presence ; as when the melting fire burnetii, and like the waters which the fire causeth to boil, thus, when thou woiddst make thy name known to thine adver- saries, the nations would tremble at thy presence ! 2 AVhen thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, when thou earnest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. 3 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, God. beside thee, what he will prepare for him that waiteth for him. 4 Thou didst meet those that rejoiced and worked righteousness, when they remembered thee in thy ways ; behold, thou hast been wroth ; for we have sinned: because of them thy wrath disappeared, and we were saved. 5 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteous- nesses are as filthy rags ; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. 6 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. 7 But now, Lord, thou art our father ; we are the clay, and thou our potter ; and we all are the work of thy hand. 8 Be not wroth very sore, Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever : behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. 9 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 10 Our holy and our beautiful houso, where our fathers praised thee, 18 l>urnedup with tire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 103 1 1 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, Lord ? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore ? CHAPTEE LXV. ~JT WAS sought of them that asked not for me ; I was found of them that sought me not : I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name. 2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in the way that is not good, after their own thoughts ; 3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face ; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick ; 4 Which sit among the graves, and lodge in the ruins, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels ; 5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me ; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day. 6 Behold, it is written before me : I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom, 7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills : therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom. 8 Thus saith the Lord, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not ; for a blessing is in it : so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all. 9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains : and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there. 10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me. 1 1 But . ye are they that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for the host of the heavens, and that furnish the drink offering unto Meni. 104 THE BOOK OF ISAIAH 12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter : because when I called, ye did not answer ; when I spake, ye did not hear ; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not. 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord, God, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry : behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty : behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed: 14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit. 1 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: 16 That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth ; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth ; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes. 1 7 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth : and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. 18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I make Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy- 19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people : and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. 20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days ; for the youth shall die an hundred years old ; mid the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed. 21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them ; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. 22 They shall not build, and another inhabit ; they shall not plant, and another eat : for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and 7iiine elect shall outlive the work of their. hands. 23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble ; for they are tlxe seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them. ACCORDIXG TO IBN EZRA. 105 24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer ; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. 25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock : and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord . CHAPTER LXVI. THUS saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool : where is the house that ye build unto me ? and where is the place of my rest ? 2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord : but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. 3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew 1 a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck ; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he praised iniquity. Yea, your forefathers, they chose their own ways, and their soul delighted in their abomi- nations. 4 I also will choose their charges,"- and will bring their fears upon them ; because when I called, none did answer ; when I spake, they did not hear : but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not. 5 Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word ; Your brethren that hate you, that cast you out for my name's sake, say, that they wish that the Lord be glorified and appear to your joy, and they be ashamed. 6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord that rendereth recompence to his enemies. 7 Before she travailed, she brought forth ; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. 8 Who hath heard such a thing ? who hath seen such things ? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day ? or shall a 1 Or, struck. 2 Or, delusions. 106 THE BOOK OF ISAIAH nation be born at once ? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. 9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth ? saith the Lord : shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb ? saith thy God. 10 Eejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her : rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her : 1 1 That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolation ; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory. 12 For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring peace to her like a river, and the wealth of all nations like a flowing stream : then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and play upon her knees. 13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you ; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. 14 And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb : and the hand of the Lord shall be known toward his servants, and he will be indignant toward his enemies. 15 For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. 16 For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh : and the slain of the Lord shall be many. 1 7 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord. 18 For I am the object of their works and their thoughts: and the time is come, that I will gather all nations and tongues ; and they shall come, and see my glory. 1 9 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 all nations. 20 And they shall bring all your brothron fur an offering ACCORDING TO IBN EZRA. 107 unto the Lord out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in waggons, and upon mules, and upon swift dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord. 21 And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the Lord. 22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. 23 And it shall come to pass, that on every new moon, and on every sabbath, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord. 24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me : for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched ; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh. 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