the fat of thy sacrifices; but thou hast made man, according to the beauty of a man; that me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied it may remain in the house. me with thine iniquities. 14 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh 25 1, even 1, am he that blotteth out thy the cypress and the oak, which he strengthtransgressions for mine own sake, and will eneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it. not remember thy sins. 15 Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it: he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto. 16 He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied; yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire: 26 Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified. 27 Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me. 28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches. CHAP. XLIV. YET VET now hear, O Jacob my servant; and 2 Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen. ; 17 And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god. 18 They have not known nor understood: 3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: Ifor he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my see; and their hearts, that they cannot unblessing upon thine offspring: derstand. 4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water-courses. 19 And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals there 5 One shall say, I am the LORD's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand un-of; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it; and shall to the LORD, and surname himself by the I make the residue thereof an abomination? name of Israel. shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? 6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, 20 He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart and his Redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am hath turned him aside, that he cannot deli. the first, and I am the last; and besides me ver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my there is no God. right hand? 21 ¶ Remember these, O Jacob and IsIrael; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me. 22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy turn unto me; for I have redeemed thee. 8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid : have not transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: reI told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? yea, there is no God; I know not any. 23 Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it; shout, ye lower parts of the earth; break forth into singing, ye mountains, 9 They that make a graven image are forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD all of them vanity; and their delectable hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself things shall not profit; and they are their in Israel. own witnesses: they see not, nor know; 24 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, that they may be ashamed. and he that formed thee from the womb, 10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a I am the LORD that maketh all things; that graven image that is profitable for no- stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that thing? spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; 11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed; 25 That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and the workmen, they are of men: let them and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise all be gathered together, let them stand up; men backward, and maketh their knowledge yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed foolish; together. 26 That confirmeth the word of his ser12 The smith with the tongs both worketh vant, and performeth the counsel of his mes in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, sengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt and worketh it with the strength of his arms: be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth : shall be built; and I will raise up the decayed he drinketh no water, and is faint. places thereof: 13 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule, he marketh it out with a line, he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the 28 That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, compass, and maketh it after the figure of aland shall perforin all my pleasure; even s 27 That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers; 7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them. THU ing to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and founded, all of them: they shall go to confuto the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid. sion together that are makers of idols. CHAP. XLV. 17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD HUS saith the LORD to his anointed, to with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, ashamed nor confounded world without end. 18 For thus saith the LORD that created the to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him heavens; God himself that formed the earth, the two-leaved gates; and the gates shall not and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited; be shut: 21 will go before thee, and make the I am the LORD, and there is none else. 19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder place of the earth: I said not unto the seed the bars of iron: of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD 3 And I will give thee the treasures of dark-speak righteousness, I declare things that are ness, and hidden riches of secret places, that right. thou mayest know that I the LORD, which 20 ¶ Assemble yourselves and come; draw call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. near together, ye that are escaped of the na4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel tions: they have no knowledge that set up mine elect, I have even called thee by thy the wood of their graven image, and pray name: I have surnamed thee, though thou unto a god that cannot save. hast not known me. 5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God besides me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me; 6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me: I am the LORD, and there is none else. 7 I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I the LORD do! all these things. 8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness; let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together: I the LORD have created it. 21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who bath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else besides me; a just God, and a Saviour: there is none besides me. 22Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else. 23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. 24 Surely, shall one say, In the LORD have righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed 9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Ma-against him shall be ashamed. ker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to be justified, and shall glory. him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands: 25 in the LORD shall all the seed of Israel CHAP. XLVI. EL boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their ᏴᎬᏞ 10 Woe unto him that saith unto his fa- idols were upon the beasts, and upon the ther, What begettest thou? or to the woman, cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; What hast thou brought forth? they are a burden to the weary beast. 11 Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of They stoop; they bow down together; Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to they could not deliver the burden, but them come concerning my sons; and concerning selves are gone into captivity. the work of my hands command ye me. 12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have commanded. ¶ Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: + And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you. 13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts. 5 To whom will ye liken me, and make me 14 Thus saith the LORD, The labour of equal, and compare me, that we may be like? Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia, and of 6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldunto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall smith; and he maketh it a god: they fall come after thee; in chains they shall come down; yea, they worship. over, and they shall fall down unto thee;| 7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they shall make supplication unto thee, say-carry him, and set him in his place, and he ing, Surely God is in thee, and there is none standeth; from his place shall be not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not self, O God of Israel, the Saviour. 15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thy-answer, nor save him out of his trouble. & Remember this, and shew yourselves men⚫ else; there is no God. 16 They shall be ashamed, and also con- bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors. ey 9 Remember the former things of old: for if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be I am God, and there is none else; I am God, thou mayest prevail. and there is none like me; 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: 11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far Country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it. 12 Hearken unto me, ye stout-hearted, that are far from righteousness; 15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom 13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from not be far off, and my salvation shall not thy youth; they shall wander every one to tarry and I will place salvation in Zion for his quarter; none shall save thee. Israel my glory. CHAP. XLVIII. CHAP XLVII. COME down, and sit in the dust, O virgin HEAR ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name Israel, and daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground: are come forth out of the waters of Judah; there is no throne, O daughter of the Chal-which swear by the name of the LORD, and deans; for thou shalt no more be called ten-make mention of the God of Israel, but not der and delicate. in truth, nor in righteousness. 2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: 2 For they call themselves of the holy city, uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, un-and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; cover the thigh, pass over the rivers. The LORD of hosts is his name. 3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man. 4 As for our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. 5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called,The lady of kingdoms. 6 I was wroth with my people; I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. 7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. 8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly; that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: 13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators stand up and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. 14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it. 9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments. 10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else besides me. 12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; 3 1 have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass. 4 Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; 5 I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass, I shewed it thee; lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hatlı done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them. 6 Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them. 7 They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them. 8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knew. est not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb. 9 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. 10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. 11 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name he polluted? and I will not give my glory 11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; unto another. thou shalt not know from whence it riseth 12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt my called; I am he: I am the first, I also am not be able to put it off: and desolation shall the last. come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt 13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundanot know, tion of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together. 14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and bear 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. 16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the begin-yourselves: they shall feed in the ways, and ning; from the time that it was, there am I their pastures shall be in all high places. and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me. 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 be guide them. 11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted. 12 Behold, these shall come from far; and lo, these from the north and from the west and these from the land of Sinim. 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 Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: 19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me. 20 1 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob. 21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out. 22 There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked. CHAP. XLIX. people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. 2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand bath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me; 3 And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. 8 Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages: 4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain; yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God. 9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew 13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, Ő mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted. 14 But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. 15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. 16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me." 17 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers, and they that made thee waste, shall go forth of thee. 18 ¶ Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these themselves and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth. 19 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. 20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me give place to me that I may dwell. 21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my 5 And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring children, and am desolate, a captive, and re Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not ga-moving to and fro? and who hath brought thered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, the LORD, and my God shall be my strength. where had they been? 6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel; I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth. 22 Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. 23 And kings shall be thy nursing-fathers, and their queens thy nursing-mothers; they shall bow down to thee with their face toward 7 Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhor- the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; reth, to a servant of rulers, kings shall see and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for and arise, princes also shall worship, because they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy Que of Israel, and he shall choose thee. 24 1 Shall the prey be taken from the Imighty, or the lawful captive delivered? 25 But thus saith the LORD, Even the cap-| 3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will tives of the mighty shall be taken away, and comfort all her waste places; and he will the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for make her wilderness like Eden, and her deI will contend with him that contendeth with sert like the garden of the LORD; joy and thee, and I will save thy children. gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. 26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be 4 Hearken unto me, my people: and drunken with their own blood, as with sweet give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law wine and all flesh shall know that I the shall proceed from me, and I will make my LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the judgment to rest for a light of the people. mighty One of Jacob. 5 My righteousness is near; my salvation gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people: the isles shall wait upon me, and on arm shall they trust. CHAP. L. is THUS saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. 2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst. 31 clothe the heavens with blackness, and 1 make sackcloth their covering. 41 The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning; he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. 9¶ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? 5 ¶ The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned] away back. 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? 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. 61 gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: 1 hid not my face from shame and spitting. 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 ¶ 1, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; 13 And forgettest the LORD thy Maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast 10 Who is among you that feareth the feared continually every day, because of the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? destroy? and where is the fury of the oppres let him trust in the name of the LORD, and sor? stay upon his God. 14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may 11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that be loosed, and that he should not die in the compass yourselves about with sparks; walk pit, nor that his bread should fail. 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. CHAP. LI. 15 But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name. EARKEN to me, ye that follow after 8 He is near that justifieth me ; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. 9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me: who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. 6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the hea vens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. 71 Hearken unto me, ye that know righ teousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid their revilings. 8 For the moth shall eat them up like a gar ment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to gener ation. look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. 2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him. 16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and have covered thee in the shadow of mine very the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people. 17 ¶ Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury: thou hast drunken |