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text: Isaiah
  ישעיהו
  The Koren Jerusalem Bible
  
  
  Isaiah
  
  
  
  
  
  The vision of Yesha῾yahu the son of Amoż, which he saw concerning Yehuda and Yerushalayim in the days of ῾Uzziyyahu, Yotam, Aĥaz, Yeĥizqiyyahu, kings of Yehuda.
  Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord has spoken: I have reared and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
  The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Yisra᾽el does not know, my people does not consider.
  Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that deal corruptly: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Yisra᾽el to anger, they are gone away backward.
  Where could you still be smitten, that you revolt again: every head is sick, and every heart faint.
  From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been pressed, neither bound up, nor mollified with oil.
  Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: as for your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as though overthrown by strangers.
  And the daughter of Żiyyon is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, like a besieged city.
  If the Lord of hosts had not left us a very small remnant, we should have been like Sedom, and we should have been like ῾Amora.
  Hear the word of the Lord, rulers of Sedom; give ear to the Tora of our God, you people of ῾Amora.
  To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? says the Lord: I am sated with the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
  When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
  Bring no more vain offerings; incense of abomination they are to me; as for new moons and sabbaths and the calling of assemblies, I cannot bear iniquity along with solemn meeting.
  Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble to me; I am weary of enduring them.
  And when you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: even when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
  Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;
  learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
  Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins be like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be white as wool.
  If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land:
  but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.
  How is the faithful city become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
  Thy silver is become dross, thy wine is mixed with water:
  thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loves bribes, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless neither does the cause of the widow reach them.
  Therefore says the Master, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of Yisra᾽el, Ah, I will ease me of my adversaries, and avenge me of my enemies:
  and I will turn my hand against thee, and purge away thy dross as with lye, and take away all thy base alloy.
  And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterwards thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, a faithful city.
  Żiyyon shall be redeemed with judgment, and those that return to her with righteousness.
  And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
  For they shall be ashamed of the sacred oaks on which you set your desire, and you shall be confounded on account of the gardens of idolatry that you did choose.
  For you shall be like an oak whose leave are fading, and like a garden that has no water.
  And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
  
  
  
  The word that Yesha῾yahu the son of Amoż saw concerning Yehuda and Yerushalayim.
  And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all the nations shall flow unto it.
  And many people shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Ya῾aqov; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Żiyyon shall go forth Tora, and the word of the Lord from Yerushalayim.
  And he shall judge among the nations, and shall decide among many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
  O house of Ya῾aqov, come, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.
  For thou hast abandoned thy people, the house of Ya῾aqov; for they are replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Pelishtim, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
  Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:
  their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
  and the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is brought low; forgive them not.
  Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty.
  The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted on that day.
  For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up that he shall be brought low:
  and upon all the cedars of the Levanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of the Bashan,
  and upon all the high mountains, and upon all the lofty hills,
  and upon every high tower, and upon every fortified wall,
  and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all delightful craftsmanship.
  And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall be exalted on that day.
  And the idols shall utterly be abolished.
  And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth terribly.
  In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which had been made for him to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
  to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the crevices of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth terribly.
  Cease from man, though his breath be in his nostrils: for in what is he to be accounted of?
  
  
  
  For, behold, the Master, the Lord of hosts, takes away from Yerushalayim and from Yehuda the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
  the mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the elder,
  the captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
  And I will make youngsters their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
  And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the elder, and the base against the honourable.
  When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:
  in that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
  For Yerushalayim is ruined, and Yehuda is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
  The show of their countenance witnesses against them; and they declare their sin as Sedom, they cannot hide it. Woe to their soul! for they have requited evil to themselves.
  Say of the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
  Alas! it shall be ill with the wicked: for according to the deserving of his hands shall be done to him.
  As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they that lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
  The Lord stands up to plead, and stands to judge the people.
  The Lord will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and its princes, saying, It is you who have eaten up the vineyard; the robbery of the poor is in your houses.
  What mean you by crushing my people to pieces, and grinding the faces of the poor? says the Lord God of hosts.
  Moreover the Lord says, Because the daughters of Żiyyon are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and ogling eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
  therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Żiyyon, and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts.
  In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of the anklets, and the tiaras, and the necklaces,
  the eardrops, and the bracelets, and the scarves,
  the bonnets, and the armbands, and the belts, and the perfume boxes, and the amulets,
  the rings, and nose ornaments,
  the cloaks, and the mantles, and the gowns, and the handbags,
  the gauze, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the veils.
  And it shall come to pass, that instead of a sweet smell there shall be a stench; and instead of a girdle a rope; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a fine dress a girding of sackcloth; instead of beauty, a brand.
  Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war,
  and her gates shall both lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
  
  
  
  And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name; take away our reproach.
  In that day shall the plant of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Yisra᾽el.
  And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Żiyyon, and he that remains in Yerushalayim, shall be called holy, every one in Yerushalayim that is written to life:
  when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Żiyyon, and shall have purged the blood of Yerushalayim from its midst by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
  And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Żiyyon, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall there be a canopy.
  And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
  
  
  
  Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
  and he dug it, and cleared away its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a wine vat in it: and he looked that it should bring forth good grapes, but it brought forth bad grapes.
  And now, O inhabitant of Yerushalayim, and man of Yehuda, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.
  What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done it? why was it, when I looked that it should bring forth good grapes, that it brought forth bad grapes?
  And now; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; and break down its wall, and it shall be trodden down:
  and I will lay it waste: it shall be neither pruned, nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they drop no rain upon it.
  For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Yisra᾽el, and the men of Yehuda his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
  Woe to them that join house to house, that lay field to field till there is no room, that you may dwell alone in the midst of the earth!
  In my ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, great and fair, without inhabitant.
  For ten acres of vineyard shall yield the measure of a bat, and the seed of a ĥomer shall yield one efa.
  Woe to them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
  And the lyre, and the lute, the tambourine, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
  Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
  Therefore She᾽ol has enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that is joyful, shall go down into it.
  And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low.
  But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in the judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
  Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and fat ones and strangers shall feed in the ruins.
  Woe to them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
  that say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Yisra᾽el draw near and come, that we may know it!
  Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
  Woe to them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
  Woe to them that are mighty to drink wine, and warriors to mingle strong drink:
  who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
  Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and as the chaff is consumed on the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the Tora of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Yisra᾽el.
  Therefore the anger of the Lord burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them, and has smitten them; and the hills did tremble, and their dead bodies, were as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
  And he will lift up a banner to the nations from far, and will whistle to them from the ends of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
  none shall be weary or stumble among them; none shall slumber or sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
  whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like the whirlwind:
  their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall shout and roar like young lions: and shall lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
  And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look to the land, behold narrow darkness: the light also is darkened in its heavens.
  
  
  
  In the year that king ῾Uzziyyahu died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
  Serafim stood above him: each one had six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he did fly.
  And one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
  And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
  Then said I, Woe is me! for I am ruined; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
  Then one of the serafim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from off the altar:
  and he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this has touched thy lips; and thy iniquity is taken sway, and thy sin is purged.
  Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
  And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear indeed, but understand not; and see indeed, but perceive not.
  Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and smear over their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and return, and be healed.
  Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
  and the Lord has removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
  And if one tenth remain in it, then that shall again be consumed: but like a terebinth and like an oak, whose stump remains when they cast their leaves, so the holy seed is its immovable stump.
  
  
  
  And it came to pass in the days of Aĥaz the son of Yotam, the son of ῾Uzziyyahu, king of Yehuda, that Reżin the king of Aram, and Peqaĥ the son of Remalyahu, king of Yisra᾽el, went up to Yerushalayim to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
  And it was told the house of David, saying, Aram is confederate with Efrayim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest are moved with the wind.
  Then said the Lord to Yesha῾yahu, Go out now to meet Aĥaz, thou, and She᾽ar-yashuv thy son, at the end of the aqueduct of the upper pool in the highway of the washers’ field;
  and say to him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted on account of the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Reżin and Aram, and of the son of Remalyahu.
  Because Aram, Efrayim, and the son of Remalyahu, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
  Let us go up against Yehuda, and harass it, and let us make a breach in it for us, and set a king in the midst of it, namely the son of Tave᾽all:
  thus says the Lord God, It shall not stand; neither shall it come to pass.
  For the head of Aram is Dammeseq, and the head of Dammeseq is Reżin; and within sixty five years Efrayim shall be broken in pieces, and no more a people.
  And the head of Efrayim is Shomeron, and the head of Shomeron is the son of Remalyahu. If you have no faith you shall not be established.
  Moreover the Lord spoke again to Aĥaz, saying,
  Ask a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
  But Aĥaz said, I will not ask, neither will I try the Lord.
  And he said, Hear now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also?
  Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, the young woman is with child, and she will bear a son, and shall call his name ῾Immanu᾽el.
  Butter and honey shall he eat, when he shall know how to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
  For before the child shall know how to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou dreadest shall be deserted.
  The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not come since the day that Efrayim departed from Yehuda; namely the king of Ashshur.
  And it shall come to pass on that day, that the Lord shall whistle to the fly that is in the uttermost end of the canals of Miżrayim, and to the bee that is in the land of Ashshur.
  And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate wadis, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all branches.
  On the same day shall the Lord shave with a hired razor that is hired (namely with them beyond the river with the king of Ashshur) the head, and the hair of the legs: and it shall also sweep away the beard.
  And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
  and it shall come to pass, from the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.
  And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, it shall be for briers and thorns.
  With the arrows and with the bow shall men come there; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
  And on all hills that are hoed with the hoe, thou shalt not come there for fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.
  
  
  
  Moreover the Lord said to me, Take a great roll, and write on it with a common pen, The spoil speeds; the prey hastens.
  And I took to myself faithful witnesses namely Uriyya the priest, and Zekharyahu the son of Yeverekhyahu.
  And I came near to the prophetess; and she conceived and bore a son. And the Lord said to me, call his name Maher-shalal-ĥash-baz (the spoil speeds; the prey hastens).
  For before the child shall know how to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Dammeseq and the spoil of Shomeron shall be taken away before the king of Ashshur.
  And the Lord spoke to me again, saying,
  Since this people refuses the water of Shiloaĥ that go softly, and rejoices in Reżin and the son of Remalyahu.
  Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon them the waters of the river, strong and abundant, namely the king of Ashshur, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
  and he shall sweep through Yehuda; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck, and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O ῾Immanu᾽el.
  Be broken up you peoples, and be dismayed; and give ear, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces.
  Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
  For the Lord spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and warned me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
  Say not, it is a conspiracy, to all of which this people shall say, call a conspiracy; neither hear their fear, nor be afraid.
  Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
  And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Yisra᾽el, for a trap and for a snare to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim.
  And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
  Bind up the testimony, seal the Tora among my disciples.
  And I will wait upon the Lord, that hides his face from the house of Ya῾aqov, and I will hope for him.
  Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are for signs and for portents in Yisra᾽el from the Lord of hosts, who dwells in mount Żiyyon.
  And when they shall say to you, Consult the mediums, and the wizards that chirp, and that mutter: shall not a people seek their God? why seek the living among the dead,
  for Tora and for testimony? Surely they will speak according to this word which has no profit in it.
  And they shall pass through it, greatly distressed and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
  And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven into darkness.
  For there is no weariness to him that is set against her; at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zevulun, and the land of Naftali and afterwards he afflicted her more grievously by the way of the sea, beyond the Yarden in the Galil of the nations.
  
  
  
  The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shone.
  Thou hast multiplied the nation, and increased their joy: they joy before Thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
  For Thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midyan.
  For every shoe of the stormy warrior and every garment rolled in blood shall be burnt as fuel of fire.
  For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name is called Pele-yo῾eż-el-gibbor-avi-῾ad-sar-shalom,
  for the increase of the realm and for peace without end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice: from henceforth for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts performs this.
  The Lord sent a word against Ya῾aqov, and it will descend upon Yisra᾽el.
  And all the people shall know, Efrayim and the inhabitant of Shomeron, that say in pride and arrogancy of heart,
  The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them for cedars.
  Therefore the Lord sets up the adversaries of Reżin against him, and goads his enemies;
  Aram before, and Pelishtim behind; and they devoured Yisra᾽el with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
  For the people turned not unto him that smote them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts.
  Therefore the Lord cut off from Yisra᾽el, head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
  The elder and the honourable man, he is the head; and the prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail.
  For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led by them are destroyed.
  Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for everyone is a flatterer and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
  For wickedness burns like the fire: it devours the briers and thorns, and kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they mount up in a billow of smoke.
  Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people are as the fuel of the fire: no man spares his brother.
  And he snatches on the right hand, and is hungry; and he eats on the left hand, and they are not satisfied: they eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
  Menashshe against Efrayim; and Efrayim against Menashshe: and they together are against Yehuda. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
  
  
  
  Woe them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that prescribe oppression.
  To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
  And what will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory?
  There is nothing to be done except to crouch among the prisoners, and fall among the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
  Woe to Ashshur the rod of my anger; for the staff in their hand is my indignation.
  I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
  Howbeit he means not so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
  For he says, Are not my princes all of them kings?
  Is not Kalno as Karkemish? is not Ĥamat as Arpad? is not Shomeron as Dammeseq?
  As my hand has reached the kingdoms of the idols, whose carved idols did exceed those of Yerushalayim and of Shomeron,
  shall I not, as I have done to Shomeron and her idols, so do to Yerushalayim and her idols?
  Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord has performed his whole work upon mount Żiyyon and on Yerushalayim, I will punish the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Ashshur, and the glory of his high looks.
  For he says, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the mighty number of their inhabitants.
  And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathers eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or chirped.
  Shall the ax boast itself against him that hews with it? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that wields it? as if the rod should shake them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up them that are no wood!
  Therefore shall the Master, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory shall be kindled a burning like the burning of a fire.
  And the light of Yisra᾽el shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
  and shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a sick person wastes away.
  And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them down.
  And it shall come to pass on that day, that the remnant of Yisra᾽el, and such as are escaped of the house of Ya῾aqov, shall no more again rely upon him that smote them; but shall rely upon the Lord, the Holy One of Yisra᾽el in truth.
  A remnant shall return, even the remnant of Ya῾aqov, to the mighty God.
  For though Thy people Yisra᾽el be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: total destruction is decreed but overflowing with righteousness.
  For it is determined and decreed; the Lord God of hosts shall do it.
  Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Żiyyon, be not afraid of Ashshur: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Miżrayim.
  But yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and my anger shall be turned to their destruction.
  And the Lord of hosts shall stir up a whip for him according to the slaughter of Midyan at the rock of ῾Orev: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Miżrayim.
  And it shall come to pass on that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the fatness.
  He is come to ῾Ayyat, he is passed to Migron; at Mikhmash he has left his baggage:
  they are gone over the pass: they have taken up their lodging at Geva; Rama is afraid; Giv῾at-Sha᾽ul is fled.
  Lift up thy voice, O Bat-gallim: hearken Laysha, O poor ῾Anatot.
  Madmena is removed; the inhabitants of Gevim flee for safety.
  This very day he will halt at Nov: he will shake his hands against the mountain of the daughter of Żiyyon, the hill of Yerushalayim.
  Behold, the Master, the Lord of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
  And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Levanon shall fall by a mighty one.
  
  
  
  And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Yishay, and a branch shall grow out of his roots:
  and the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
  and his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears:
  but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
  And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
  The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
  And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
  And the sucking child play on the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the viper’s nest.
  They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
  And in that day it shall be, that the root of Yishay, that stands for a banner of the peoples, to it shall the nations seek: and his resting place shall be glorious.
  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to re-cover the remnant of his people, that shall be left, from Ashshur, and from Miżrayim, from Patros, and from Kush, and from ῾Elam, and from Shin῾ar, and from Ĥamat, and from the islands of the sea.
  And he shall set up a banner for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Yisra᾽el, and gather together the dispersed of Yehuda from the four corners of the earth.
  The envy also of Efrayim shall depart, and the adversaries of Yehuda shall be cut off: Efrayim shall not envy Yehuda, and Yehuda shall not vex Efrayim.
  But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Pelishtim toward the sea; they shall spoil the children of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Mo᾽av; and the children of ῾Ammon shall obey them.
  And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the sea of Miżrayim; and with his scorching wind he shall shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
  And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Ashshur; as there was for Yisra᾽el in the day that he came up out of the land of Miżrayim.
  
  
  
  And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise Thee: though wast angry with me, Thy anger is turned away, and Thou dost comfort me.
  Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord God is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
  Therefore with joy shall you draw water out of the wells of salvation.
  And in that day shall you say, Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.
  Sing to the Lord; for he has done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.
  Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Żiyyon: for great is the Holy One of Yisra᾽el in the midst of thee.
  
  
  
  The burden of Bavel, which Yesha῾yahu the son of Amoż did see.
  Lift up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
  I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my warriors for my anger, my proudly exalting ones.
  The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts musters the host of the battle.
  They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
  Howl; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
  Therefore shall all hands be slack, and every man’s heart shall melt:
  and they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall be amazed at one another; their faces shall be as flames.
  Behold, the day of the Lord comes, a day of cruelty, wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy its sinners from out of it.
  For the stars of heaven and its constellations shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not shed her light.
  And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the tyrants.
  I will make men more rare than fine gold; and mankind, than the pure gold of Ofir.
  Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, by the wrath of the Lord of host, and on the day of his fierce anger.
  And it shall be like the outcast gazelle, and the sheep that no man takes up; they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.
  Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is caught shall fall by the sword.
  Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
  Behold, I will stir up the Maday against them, who shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
  Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
  And Bavel, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the pride of the Kasdim, shall be as when God overthrew Sedom and ῾Amora.
  It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the ῾Aravi pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their flock lie down there.
  But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of owls; and ostriches shall dwell there, and the scops owl shall hop about there.
  And jackals shall cry in their castles, and wild dogs in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near at hand, and her days shall not be prolonged.
  
  
  
  For the Lord will have mercy on Ya῾aqov, and will yet choose Yisra᾽el, and set them in their own land: and the stranger shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Ya῾aqov.
  And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Yisra᾽el shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
  And it shall come to pass on the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage in which thou wast made to serve,
  that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Bavel, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
  The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers,
  that smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.
  The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
  Yea, the cypresses rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Levanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
  She᾽ol from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirs up the shades for thee, all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
  They all shall speak and say to thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like us?
  Thy pomp is brought down to She᾽ol, and the noise of thy lutes: worms are spread under thee, and worms cover thee.
  How art thou fallen from heaven, O bright star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst rule over the nations!
  For thou hast said in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the farthest north:
  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
  Yet thou shalt be brought down to She᾽ol, to the depths of the pit.
  They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
  that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
  All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
  But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abhorred branch, dressed in the garment of the slain, thrust through with a sword; like them that go down to the stones of the pit as a carcass trodden under feet.
  Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: may the seed of evildoers nevermore be named.
  Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land; for the face of the world would be filled with enemies.
  For I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Bavel name, and remnant, and offspring and posterity, says the Lord.
  I will also make it a possession for wild birds, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of hosts.
  The Lord of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so has it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
  that I will break Ashshur in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
  This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
  For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who shall annul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
  In the year that king Aĥaz died was this burden.
  Rejoice not thou, O Peleshet entire, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a viper, and his fruit shall be a venomous flying serpent.
  And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
  Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, entire Peleshet, melt in fear: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and there shall be no straggler in his ranks.
  What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord has founded Żiyyon, and the poor of his people shall shelter in it.
  
  
  
  The burden of Mo᾽av. Because in the night ῾Ar of Mo᾽av is laid waste, and ruined; because in the night Qir of Mo᾽av is laid waste, and ruined;
  he is gone up to the shrine, and Divon to the high places, to weep: Mo᾽av shall howl over Nevo, and over Medeva: on all their heads is baldness, and every beard is cut off.
  In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one howls, weeping abundantly.
  And Ĥeshbon cries, and ᾽᾽El῾ale: their voice is heard as far as Yahaż: therefore the armed soldiers of Mo᾽av cry out; his soul trembles.
  My heart cries out for Mo᾽av; his fugitives shall flee to Żo῾ar, a heifer of three years old: for by the ascent of Luĥit, with weeping shall they ascend it; for in the way of Ĥoronayim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
  For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the nay is withered away, the grass fails, there is no green thing.
  Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall the enemy carry away past the wadi of the willows.
  For the cry is gone round about the borders of Mo᾽av; its howling as far as Eglayim, and its roaring to Be᾽er-elim.
  For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring yet more upon Dimon: a lion will I bring upon him that escapes of Mo᾽av, and upon the remnant of the land.
  
  
  
  Send the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Żiyyon.
  For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird, as a scattered nest, the daughters of Mo᾽av shall be at the fords of Arnon.
  Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not the wanderer.
  Let my outcasts, the outcasts of Mo᾽av, dwell with thee; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceases, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
  And in mercy a throne was established: and he sat upon it in truthfulness in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and quick to do righteousness.
  We have heard of the pride of Mo᾽av; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: false are his pratings.
  Therefore shall Mo᾽av howl for Mo᾽av, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Qir-ĥareset shall you mourn; surely they are stricken.
  For the fields of Ĥeshbon languish, and the vine of Sivma: have broken down its choice branches, they reached to Ya῾zer, they wandered into the wilderness: her offshoots were stretched out, they went over the sea.
  Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Ya῾zer the vine of Sivma: I will water thee with my tears, O Ĥeshbon, and ᾽El῾ale: for on thy summer fruits and on thy harvest the battle cry has fallen.
  And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made shouting at the vintage to cease.
  Wherefore my heart shall moan like a lyre for Mo᾽av, and my inward parts for Qir-ĥeres.
  And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Mo᾽av is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.
  This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning Mo᾽av long ago.
  But now the Lord has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, and the glory of Mo᾽av shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and powerless.
  
  
  
  The burden of Dammeseq. Behold, Dammeseq is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a heap of ruins.
  The cities of ῾Aro῾er are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
  The fortress also shall cease from Efrayim, and the kingdom from Dammeseq, and the remnant of Aram shall be as the glory of the children of Yisra᾽el, says the Lord of hosts.
  And on that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Ya῾aqov shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall become lean.
  And it shall be as when the harvester gathers the standing corn, and reaps the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathers ears in the valley of Refa᾽im.
  And gleanings shall be left of him, as in the beating of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in its fruitful branches, says the Lord God of Yisra᾽el.
  At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have regard to the Holy One of Yisra᾽el.
  And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall he regard that which his fingers have made, either the asherim or the sun images.
  On that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken portion of the thicket and the uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Yisra᾽el: and there shall be desolation.
  Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore though thou plant pleasant plants, and set it with slips of a strange god:
  though in the day of thy planting thou make it grow, and in the morning thou make thy seed to flourish: yet the harvest shall disappear in the day of grief and of desperate pain.
  Woe to the multitude of many people, who make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
  The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like whirling dust before the storm.
  And behold at evening, trouble; and before the morning they are no more. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
  
  
  
  O land of buzzing wings, which fly beyond the rivers of Kush:
  that sendest ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters: Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers have divided!
  All you inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see, when he lifts up a banner on the mountains; and when he blows a shofar, hear!
  For so the Lord said to me, I will take my rest, and I will look on in my dwelling place, like the clear heat in sunlight; and like the cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
  For before the harvest, when the blossom is past, and the bud is ripening into young grapes, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
  They shall be left together to the predatory birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the birds shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
  In that time shall a present be brought to the Lord of hosts, by a people tall and smooth, even by a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers have divided, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Żiyyon.
  
  
  
  The burden of Miżrayim. Behold, the Lord rides upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Miżrayim: and the idols of Miżrayim shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Miżrayim shall melt in the midst of it.
  And I will set Miżrayim against Miżrayim: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
  And the spirit of Miżrayim shall be emptied in his midst; and I will destroy his counsel: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the necromancers, and to the mediums, and to the wizards.
  And I will give over Miżrayim to the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, says the Master, the Lord of hosts.
  And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
  And the rivers shall become foul; and the canals of Mażor shall be diminished and dried up: the reeds and rushes shall wither.
  The meadows by the River, by the mouth of the River, and every thing sown by the River, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
  The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the River shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall be wretched.
  Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave white cotton, shall be confounded.
  And its foundations shall be broken; all that make dams shall be sad in their soul.
  Surely the princes of Żo῾an are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Par῾o is become brutish: how can you say to Par῾o, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
  Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the Lord of hosts has purposed concerning Miżrayim.
  The princes of Żo῾an are become fools, the princes of Nof are deceived; they have also made Miżrayim go astray, those that are the stay of its tribes.
  The Lord has mingled a spirit of confusion in the midst of her: and they have caused Miżrayim to err in all its work, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
  Neither shall there be any work for Miżrayim which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
  In that day shall Miżrayim be like women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he shakes over it.
  And the land of Yehuda shall be a trembling to Miżrayim, every one to whom one makes mention of that shall be afraid, because of the counsel of the Lord of hosts, which he has determined against it.
  In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Miżrayim, speaking the language of Kena῾an and swearing by the Lord of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.
  In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Miżrayim, and a pillar at its border to the Lord.
  And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Miżrayim: for they shall cry to the Lord because of the oppressors, and he shall send them one that shall save them and plead for them, and he shall deliver them.
  And the Lord shall be known to Miżrayim, and Miżrayim shall know the Lord on that day, and shall do sacrifice and meal offering; and they shall vow a vow to the Lord, and perform it.
  And the Lord shall smite Miżrayim: he shall smite and heal: and they shall return to the Lord, and he shall be entreated of them, and shall heal them.
  In that day there shall be a highway out of Miżrayim to Ashshur, and Ashshur shall come into Miżrayim, and Miżrayim to Ashshur, and Miżrayim shall worship with Ashshur.
  In that day shall Yisra᾽el be the third with Miżrayim and with Ashshur, a blessing in the midst of the land:
  whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Miżrayim my people, and Ashshur the work of my hands, and Yisra᾽el my inheritance.
  
  
  
  In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Ashshur sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
  at the same time the Lord spoke by Yesha῾yahu the son of Amoż saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
  And the Lord said, Just as my servant Yesha῾yahu has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a portent upon Miżrayim and upon Kush;
  so shall the king of Ashshur lead away the prisoners of Miżrayim and the exiles of Kush, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Miżrayim.
  And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Kush their expectation, and of Miżrayim their glory.
  And the inhabitant of this coast land shall say on that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Ashshur: and how shall we escape?
  
  
  
  The burden of the desert of the sea. As storms in the south sweep on; so it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.
  A grievous vision is declared to me; He who desires to be treacherous may be treacherous, and he who desires to spoil may spoil, Go up, O ῾Elam: besiege, O Maday; all its sighing have I made to cease.
  Therefore are my loins filled with anguish: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I was bowed down so that I could not hear; I was dismayed so that I could not see.
  My heart reeled, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure has he turned for me into terror.
  Prepare the table, spread the carpet, eat, drink: arise, princes, and anoint the shield.
  For thus has the Lord said to me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he sees.
  And if he should see riders, pairs of horsemen, riders on asses, riders on camels; he should hearken diligently with much heed:
  and he cried like a lion: My Lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I stand on guard whole nights:
  and, behold, here come men riding, pairs of horsemen. And he answered and said, Bavel is fallen, is fallen; and all the carved images of her gods he has broken to the ground.
  O my trodden one, and child of my threshing floor; that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Yisra᾽el, have I declared to you.
  The burden of Duma. One calls to me out of Se῾ir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
  The watchman said, The morning comes, and also the night: if you will inquire, inquire: return, come.
  The burden upon ῾Arav. In the forest, in ῾Arav shall you lodge, O travelling companies of Dedanim.
  O inhabitants of the land of Tema, bring water to him that is thirsty, meet the fugitive with bread.
  For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
  For thus the Lord said to me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Qedar shall fail:
  And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Qedar, shall be diminished: for the Lord God of Yisra᾽el has spoken it.
  
  
  
  The burden of Ge-ĥizzayon (the Valley of Vision.) What ails thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
  Thou that art full of uproar, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
  All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the bowmen: all that are found in thee are bound together; they have fled from far.
  Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
  For it is a day of trouble, and of trampling, and of confusion by the Lord God of hosts in Ge-ĥizzayon (the Valley of Vision), a breaking down of walls and a shouting to the mountains.
  And ῾Elam bore the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Qir uncovered the shield.
  And it came to pass, when thy choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate,
  and he stripped the covering of Yehuda, that thou didst look on that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
  You saw also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
  And you numbered the houses of Yerushalayim, and the houses you broke down to fortify the wall.
  You made also a pond between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but you did not look to him who made it, nor did you see him that fashioned it long ago.
  And on that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
  and behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating meat, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
  And it was revealed in my ears, by the Lord of hosts: Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till you die, says the Lord God of hosts.
  Thus says the Lord God of hosts, Go, get thee to this steward, to Shevna who is over the house.
  Say to him, What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewn thee out a tomb here, hewing out a tomb on high, carving a habitation for himself in a rock?
  Behold, the Lord will thrust thee about with a mighty throw, and will seize thee firmly.
  He will violently roll and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory, O shame of thy master’s house.
  And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.
  And it shall come to pass on that day, that I will call my servant Elyaqim the son of Ĥilqiyyahu.
  And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim and to the house of Yehuda.
  And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut: and he shall shut, and none shall open.
  And I will fasten him as a tent peg in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house.
  And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
  On that day, says the Lord of hosts, shall the tent peg that is fastened in the sure place he removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the Lord has spoken it.
  
  
  
  The burden of Żor. Howl, O ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.
  Be still, O inhabitants of the coastland; thou whom the merchants of Żidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
  And by great waters the seed of Shiĥor, the harvest of the River, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
  Be thou ashamed, O Żidon: for the sea has spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth children, nor did I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.
  When the report comes to Miżrayim, they shall tremble at the report of Żor.
  Pass over to Tarshish; howl, inhabitants of the coastland.
  Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
  Who has taken this counsel against Żor, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable men of the earth?
  The Lord of hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
  Overflow thy land like the River, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no wharf any more.
  He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the Lord has given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy its strongholds.
  And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Żidon: arise, pass over to Kittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.
  (Behold the land of Kasdim; this people was not till Ashshur founded it for desert dwellers; they set up its towers, they destroyed its palaces; they have brought it to ruin.)
  Howl, O ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
  And it shall come to pass on that day, that Żor shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years, it shall fare with Żor as in the song of the harlot.
  Take a lyre, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayst be remembered.
  And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will visit Żor, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world up­­on the face of the earth.
  And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the Lord: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her gain shall be for them that dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for stately clothing.
  
  
  
  Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad its inhabitants.
  And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower, as with the creditor, so with the debtor.
  The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord has spoken this word.
  The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the lofty people of the earth languish.
  The earth also is defiled under its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the Torot, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
  Therefore has a curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are parched, and few men left.
  The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merryhearted do sigh.
  The mirth of tambourines ceases, the noise of them that rejoice ends, the joy of the lyre is stilled.
  They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
  The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
  There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
  In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
  For thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, even as the beating of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
  They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing; for the majesty of the Lord shall they shout more than at the sea.
  Wherefore glorify the Lord in the regions of light, even the name of the Lord God of Yisra᾽el in the isles of the sea.
  From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe to me! traitors have dealt treacherously; traitors have dealt very treacherously.
  Fear, and the pit, and the trap, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the land.
  And it shall come to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the trap: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
  The earth is utterly broken down, the earth crumbles away, the earth is violently shaken.
  The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a frail hut; and its transgression is heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
  And it shall come to pass on that day, that the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
  And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be punished.
  Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Żiyyon, and in Yerushalayim, and before his elders will be his glory.
  
  
  
  O Lord, Thou art my God; I will exalt Thee, I will praise Thy name; for Thou hast done wonderful things – counsels of old in faithfulness and truth.
  For thou hast made of a city a heap; of a fortified city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
  Therefore shall the strong people glorify Thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear Thee.
  For Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of tyrants was like a storm against the wall.
  Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; as the heat is removed by the shadow of a cloud, so the song of tyrants shall be brought low.
  And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make to all the peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
  And he will destroy in this mountain the covering that is cast over all the people, and the veil that is spread over all the nations.
  He will destroy death for ever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the insult of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord has spoken it.
  And it shall be said on that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he should save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
  For in this mountain shall the hand of the Lord rest, and Mo᾽av shall be trodden down in his own place, even as straw is trodden down in the dunghill.
  And he shall spread out his hands in the midst of it, as he that swims spreads out his hands to swim: and he shall bring down his pride together with the spoils of his hands.
  And the lofty fortress of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
  
  
  
  On that day shall this song be sung in the land of Yehuda; We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks.
  Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faithfulness may enter in:
  Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because he trusts in Thee.
  Trust in the Lord for ever: for the Lord God is an eternal Rock.
  For he brings down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he lays it low; he lays it low, even to the ground; he brings it to the dust.
  The foot shall trample it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
  The way of the just is uprightness: Thou, most upright, dost make level the path of the just.
  Indeed, in the way of Thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for Thee; the desire of our soul is to Thy name, and to the remembrance of Thee.
  With my soul have I desired Thee in the night; with my spirit within me I seek Thee: for when Thy judgments are on the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
  Let favour be shown 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.
  Lord, when Thy hand is lifted up, they will not see; but they shall see with shame Thy zeal for the people, the fire which shall devour Thy enemies.
  Lord, Thou wilt ordain peace for us: for Thou also hast performed all our works for us.
  O Lord our God, other masters besides Thee have had dominion over us: but by Thee only will we make mention of Thy name.
  They are dead, they shall not live; the shades of the dead shall not rise: therefore hast Thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
  Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, Thou hast increased the nation: Thou art glorified: Thou hast enlarged all the borders of the land.
  Lord, in trouble have they besought Thee, they poured out a silent prayer when Thy chastening was upon them.
  Like a woman with child, that draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in Thy sight, O Lord.
  We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.
  The dead men of Thy people shall live, my dead body shall arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for Thy dew is as the dew on herbs, and the earth shall cast out the shades of the dead.
  Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
  For, behold, the Lord comes 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.
  
  
  
  On that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish Livyatan the flying serpent, and Livyatan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the crocodile that is in the sea.
  On that day sing to her, A vineyard of foaming wine.
  I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
  Fury is not in me: who would set the thorns and weeds against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
  Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
  In days to come Ya῾aqov shall take root: Yisra᾽el shall blossom and bud, and the face of the world shall be filled with fruit.
  Has 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?
  By measure, by exile, thou didst contend with them; he removed her by his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
  By this therefore shall the iniquity of Ya῾aqov be atoned; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the asherim and sun images shall not remain standing.
  Yet the fortified city shall be solitary, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume its branches.
  When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: the women shall 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 show them no favour.
  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall beat out his harvest from the strongly flowing river as far as the wadi of Miżrayim, and you shall be gathered up one by one, O children of Yisra᾽el.
  And it shall come to pass on that day, that a great shofar shall be blown, and they shall come who were lost in the land of Ashshur, and the outcasts in the land of Miżrayim, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mountain at Yerushalayim.
  
  
  
  Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards Efrayim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty which is at the head of the rich valley of those who are overcome with wine!
  Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong, as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing; he will cast down to the earth with might.
  The crown of pride of the drunkards of Efrayim shall be trodden under feet:
  and the fading flower of the glorious beauty, which is at the head of the rich valley, shall be as the first ripe fig before the summer; which when one sees, while it is yet in his hand he swallows it up.
  In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, to the residue of his people,
  and for a spirit of judgment to him that sits in judgment, and for strength to them that turn back the battle to the gate.
  But they also reel through wine, and stagger through strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel through strong drink, they are confused by wine, they stagger through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
  For all tables are full of vomit and filth, so that there is no place clean.
  Whom shall one teach knowledge? and whom shall one make to understand doctrine? those that are weaned from the milk, and removed from the breasts?
  For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
  for with stammering lips and another tongue shall one speak to this people.
  When he said to them, This is the rest; cause the weary to rest and this is the refreshing: they would not hear.
  Therefore the word of the Lord was to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
  Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, scornful men, that rule this people which is in Yerushalayim.
  Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with She᾽ol are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come to us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
  therefore thus says the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Żiyyon for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste.
  Judgment also will I lay by a line, and righteousness by a plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters shall overflow the hiding place.
  And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with She᾽ol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.
  As often as it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and the mere understanding of the report shall bring terror.
  For the bed is too short for a man to stretch himself; and the covering too narrow for him to wrap himself up.
  For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perażim, he shall be full of anger as in the valley of Giv῾on, that he may do his work, though strange be his work; and bring to pass his act, though strange be his act.
  Now therefore be not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts that destruction is decreed upon the whole land.
  Give ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
  Does the plowman all day plow to sow? open and harrow his ground?
  When he has prepared a smooth surface, does he not then scatter the black seeds, and cast the cummin, and throw in wheat by rows, and barley in the marked spot, and spelt along its border.
  And he strictly raises it according to the method prescribed; his God instructs him.
  For the black seeds are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the black crop is beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
  Is the bread corn crushed? No, he will not ever be threshing it; and when he drives the wheel of his cart and his horses over it, he does not crush it.
  This also came from the Lord of hosts. He is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
  
  
  
  Ho Ari᾽el, Ari᾽el, the city where David encamped! add year to year; let the feasts come round.
  Yet I will distress Ari᾽el, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: yet it shall be to me as an Ari᾽el (altar hearth).
  And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mound, and I will raise siege works against thee.
  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 medium, out of the ground, and thy speech shall chirp out of the dust.
  Yet the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be like chaff that passes away: and it shall be in an instant suddenly.
  Thou shalt be visited by the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
  And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ari᾽el, even all that fight against her and her stronghold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
  It shall even be as when a hungry man dreams, and, behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams, and, behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul longs for water: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Żiyyon.
  Amaze yourselves and be amazed; blind yourselves and be blind; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not with strong drink.
  For the Lord has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets, and has covered your heads, the seers.
  And the vision of all this is become to 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 says, I cannot; for it is sealed:
  and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he says, I am not learned.
  And the Lord said, Since this people draw near, and with their mouth and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear towards me is as a commandment of men learned by rote;
  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.
  Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?
  O your perverseness! shall the potter be esteemed as the clay? for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
  Is it not yet a very little while, and Levanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?
  And on that day shall the deaf hear the words of a book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
  The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poorest among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Yisra᾽el.
  For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
  that make a man an offender for a word, and ensnare the mentor in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
  Therefore thus says the Lord, who redeemed Avraham, concerning the house of Ya῾aqov, Ya῾aqov shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now grow pale;
  when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, sanctifying my name; for they shall sanctify the Holy One of Ya῾aqov, and shall reverence the God of Yisra᾽el.
  They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
  
  
  
  Woe to the rebellious children, says the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that prepare a plan but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
  that walk to go down into Miż­rayim, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Par῾o, and to trust in the shadow of Miżrayim!
  Therefore shall the strength of Par῾o be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Miżrayim your confusion.
  For his princes were at Żo῾an, and his ambassadors came to Ĥanes.
  They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
  The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and the venomous flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasurers upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
  For Miżrayim shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called this people, Boasters in sitting still.
  Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
  that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the Tora of the Lord:
  who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy delusions:
  get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Yisra᾽el to cease from before us.
  Wherefore thus says the Holy One of Yisra᾽el, Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and depend on that:
  therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, bulging out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
  And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a shred sufficient for taking fire from the hearth, or for taking water out of the cistern.
  For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Yisra᾽el; In ease and rest shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and you did not wish it.
  But you said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall you flee; and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
  One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall you flee: till you be left like a flagstaff upon the top of a mountain, and as a banner on a hill.
  And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious to you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: happy are all they that wait for him.
  For a people that dwell in Żiyyon, even in Yerushalayim: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious to thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
  And the Lord shall give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction; yet thy teacher shall not withdraw himself any more, but thy eyes shall see thy teacher:
  and thy ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk in it, when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.
  You shall defile also the silver plating of thy carved idols, and the gold binding of thy molten images: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous thing; thou shalt say to it, Get thee hence.
  Then shall he give the rain for thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground with that; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
  The oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat clean provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
  And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
  Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, on the day that the Lord binds up the breach of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.
  Behold the name of the Lord comes from far; burning with his anger and in a thick column of smoke: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
  and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reaches to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and to put a bridle on the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
  You shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Yisra᾽el.
  And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall show the descending blow of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with cloudburst, and tempest, and hailstones.
  For through the voice of the Lord shall Ashshur be beaten down; with a rod will he smite him.
  And in every place where the appointed staff shall pass, which the Lord shall lay upon him, it shall be with tambourines and lyres: and in battle of shaking will he fight with them.
  For its hearth is ordained of old; yes, for the king it is prepared: he has made it deep and large: its bonfire is of much fire and wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, kindles it.
  
  
  
  Woe to them that go down to Miżrayim for help; and depend on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not to the Holy One of Yisra᾽el, neither seek the Lord!
  Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
  Now Miżrayim is man, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the Lord shall stretch out his hand, the helper shall stumble, and the one who is helped shall fall down, and they shall all perish together.
  For thus has the Lord spoken to me, Like the lion and the young lion roaring on their prey, though a multitude of shepherds is called out against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for mount Żiyyon, and for the hill thereof.
  As birds hovering, so will the Lord of hosts defend Yerushalayim; he will defend it and deliver it; he will pass over it and spare it.
  Turn to him from whom you have deeply revolted, O children of Yisra᾽el.
  For on that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made to you for a sin.
  Then shall Ashshur fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become bondslaves.
  And his rock shall pass away in terror, and his princes desert the banner in fear, says the Lord, whose hearth is in Żiyyon, and whose furnace is in Yerushalayim.
  
  
  
  Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and as for princes, they shall rule in judgment.
  And a man shall be as hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
  And the eyes of them that see shall not be blind, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
  The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
  The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to bebountiful.
  For the vile person speaks villainy, and his heart works iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
  The instruments also of the churl are evil: he devises wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, and the needy when he speaks right.
  But the liberal devises liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
  Rise up, you women that are at ease, hear my voice; you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.
  In a year and some days, you shall be troubled, you complacent women; for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
  Tremble, you women that are at ease; be troubled, you complacent ones: strip, and make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
  Striking the breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
  Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
  because the palaces shall be forsaken; the city with its stir shall be deserted; the fort and tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
  until a spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
  Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
  And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for ever.
  And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
  and it shall hail in the downfall of the forest, and the city shall descend into the valley.
  Blessed are you that sow beside all waters, that let the feet of the ox and the ass range freely.
  
  
  
  Woe to the spoiler, and thou wast not spoiled; and the traitor, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end of betraying, they shall betray thee.
  O Lord, be gracious to us; we have waited for Thee: be Thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
  At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of Thyself the nations were scattered.
  And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar: as the running of locusts shall he rove about upon it.
  The Lord is exalted; for he dwells on high: he has filled Żiyyon with judgment and righteousness.
  And he shall be the stability of thy times, a store of salvation, wisdom and know­ledge: the fear of the Lord is his treasure.
  Behold, the mighty ones shall cry outside: ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
  The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases: he has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, he regards no man.
  The earth mourns and languishes: Levanon is ashamed and withers: the Sharon is like the ῾Arava; and Bashan and Karmel shake off their leaves.
  Now will I rise, says the Lord; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
  You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you.
  And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut down that are burned in the fire.
  Hear, you that are far off, what I have done; and, you that are near, acknowledge my might.
  The sinners in Żiyyon are afraid; fearfulness has surprised the flatterers. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
  He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of oppressions, that shakes his hands from holding of bribes, that stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;
  he shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the fortresses of rocks: bread shall be given him; his water shall be sure.
  Thy eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
  Thy heart shall muse on terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
  Thou shalt not see the fierce people, the people of a deeper speech than thou canst understand; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not apprehend.
  Look upon Żiyyon, the city of our solemnities: thy eyes shall see Yerushalayim a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be taken down; its pegs shall not be removed for ever, nor shall any of its cords be broken.
  But there the Lord in majesty will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein no galley with oars can go, neither shall gallant ship be able to pass by it.
  For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.
  Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not strengthen the socket of their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
  And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
  
  
  
  Come near, O nations, to hear; and hearken, O people: let the earth hear, and all that is in it; the world, and all things that come out of it.
  For the Lord has indignation against all the nations, and fury against all their armies: he has utterly destroyed them, he has delivered them to the slaughter.
  Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stench shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
  And all the host of heaven shall rot away, and the heavens shall be rolled together like a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falls off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
  For my sword is sated in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
  The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness: with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bożra, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
  And wild oxen shall come down with them, and bullocks with bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
  For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the cause of Żiyyon.
  And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch.
  It shall not be quenched night or day; its smoke shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
  But wild birds of night 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 plummet of emptiness.
  They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
  And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in her fortresses: and it shall be a habitation of wild dogs, and a court for owls.
  The wild creatures of the desert also meet with the jackals, the scops owl shall cry to his fellow; the tawny owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
  There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and brood under her shadow: there shall the kites also be gathered, every one with her mate.
  Seek out of the book of the Lord, and read: none of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my speech has commanded, and his spirit has gathered them.
  And he has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
  
  
  
  The wilderness and the arid land shall be glad; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom like the tulip.
  It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of the Levanon shall be given to it, the excellency of the Karmel and the Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God.
  Strengthen the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
  Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even with a divine recompense; he will come and save you.
  Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
  Then shall the lame man leap as a hart and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
  And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: the habitation of jackals shall become a pasture for cattle, an enclosure of reeds and rushes.
  And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness: the unclean shall not pass over it; and he shall be to them a guide, and fools shall not err in it.
  No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up on it, they shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:
  and the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Żiyyon with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
  
  
  
  Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Ĥizqiyyahu, that Sanĥeriv king of Ashshur came up against all the fortified cities of Yehuda, and took them.
  And the king of Ashshur sent Ravshaqe from Lakhish to Yerushalayim to king Ĥizqiyyahu with a great army. And he stood by the aqueduct of the upper pool in the highway of the washer’s field.
  Then Elyaqim, Ĥilqiyyahu’s son, who was over the house, came out to him, and Shevna the scribe, and Yo᾽aĥ Asaf’s son, the recorder.
  And Ravshaqe said to them, Say now to Ĥizqiyyahu, Thus says the great king, the king of Ashshur, What confidence is this in which thou trustest?
  I said, A mere word with the lips is thy counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
  Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, in Miżrayim; on which if a man lean, it will go into his arm, and pierce it: so is Par῾o king of Miżrayim to all that trust in him.
  But if thou say to me, We trust in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Ĥizqiyyahu has taken away, and said to Yehuda and to Yerushalayim, You shall worship before this altar?
  Now therefore make a wager, I pray thee, with my master the king of Ashshur, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
  How then wilt thou turn away the face of one officer of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust in Miżrayim for chariots and for horsemen?
  And am I now come up without the Lord against this land to destroy it? it is the Lord who said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
  Then said Elyaqim and Shevna and Yo᾽aĥ to Ravshaqe, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the tongue of Aram: for we understand it: and speak not to us in the language of Yehuda, in the hearing of the people that are on the wall.
  But Ravshaqe said, Has my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? has he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own urine with you?
  Then Ravshaqe stood, and cried with a loud voice in the language of Yehuda, and said, Hear the words of the great king, the king of Ashshur.
  Thus says the king, Let not Ĥizqiyyahu deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.
  Neither let Ĥizqiyyahu 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 Ashshur.
  Hearken not to Ĥizqiyyahu: for thus says the king of Ashshur, Make an agreement with me, and come out to me: and then you may eat every one of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink every one the waters of his own cistern;
  until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
  Beware lest Ĥizqiyyahu persuade you, saying, The Lord will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Ashshur?
  Where are the gods of Ĥamat and Arpad? where are the gods of Sefarvayim? and have they delivered Shomeron out of my hand?
  Which of the gods of these lands, have delivered their land out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Yerushalayim out of my hand?
  But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
  Then Elyaqim, the son of Ĥilqiyyahu, that was over the household, and Shevna the scribe, and Yo᾽aĥ, the son of Asaf, the recorder, came to Ĥizqiyyahu with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Ravshaqe.
  
  
  
  And it came to pass, when king Ĥizqiyyahu heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
  And he sent Elyaqim, who was over the household, and Shevna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, to Yesha῾yahu the prophet the son of Amoż.
  And they said to him, Thus says Ĥizqiyyahu, This day is a day of trouble, and of reviling, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
  It may be the Lord thy God will hear the words of Ravshaqe, whom the king of Ashshur his master has sent to taunt the living God, and to revile with words as the Lord thy God has heard: wherefore send up a prayer for the remnant that is left.
  So the servants of king Ĥizqiyyahu came to Yesha῾yahu.
  And Yesha῾yahu said to them, Thus shall you say to your master, Thus says the Lord, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Ashshur have blasphemed me.
  Behold, I will send another spirit in him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
  So Ravshaqe returned, and found the king of Ashshur warring against Livna: for he had heard that he was departed from Lakhish.
  And he heard say concerning Tirhaqa king of Kush, He is come out to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Ĥizqiyyahu, saying,
  Thus shall you speak to Ĥizqiyyahu king of Yehuda, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Yerushalayim shall not be given into the hand of the king of Ashshur.
  Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Ashshur have done to all the lands by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
  Have their gods delivered those nations which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Ĥaran, and Reżef, and the children of ῾Eden who were in Telassar?
  Where is the king of Ĥamat, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sefarvayim, Hena, and ῾Ivva?
  And Ĥizqiyyahu took the letters from the hands of the messengers, and read them: and Ĥizqiyyahu went up to the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.
  And Ĥizqiyyahu prayed to the Lord, saying,
  O Lord of hosts, God of Yisra᾽el that sittest upon the keruvim, Thou art the God, Thou alone, of all the king­doms of the earth: Thou hast made heaven and earth.
  Bend Thy ear, O Lord, and hear: open Thy eyes, O Lord, and see: and hear all the words of Sanĥeriv, which he has sent to taunt the living God.
  Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Ashshur have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,
  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.
  Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that Thou art the Lord, even Thou only.
  Then Yesha῾yahu the son of Amoż sent to Ĥizqiyyahu, saying, Thus says the Lord God of Yisra᾽el, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sanĥeriv king of Ashshur.
  This is the word which the Lord has spoken concerning him: The virgin, the daughter of Żiyyon, despises thee, and laughs thee to scorn; the daughter of Yerushalayim tosses her head at thee.
  Whom hast thou taunted and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high? against the Holy One of Yisra᾽el.
  By thy servants hast thou taunted 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 Levanon; and I have cut down its tall cedars, its choice cypresses: and I will enter into its farthest height, its deepest forest.
  I have dug, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet I have dried up all the canals of Mażor.
  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 fortified cities should be laid waste into ruinous heaps.
  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.
  But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
  Because thy rage against me, and thy confidence is come up to my 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 didst come.
  And this shall be a sign to thee, you shall eat this year such as grows of itself; and the second year that which springs of the same: and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruits.
  And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Yehuda shall again take root downwards, and bear fruit upwards:
  for out of Yerushalayim shall a remnant go out, and they that escape out of mount Żiyyon: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.
  Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Ashshur, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor throw a mound against it.
  By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come into this city, says the Lord.
  For I will defend this city to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
  Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of Ashshur a hundred and eighty five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
  So Sanĥeriv king of Ashshur departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineve.
  And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisrokh his god, that Adrammelekh and Shar᾽eżer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat: and Esar-ĥaddon his son reigned in his stead.
  
  
  
  In those days Ĥizqiyyahu fell mortally sick. And Yesha῾yahu the prophet, the son of Amoż came to him, and said to him, Thus says the Lord, Set thy house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.
  Then Ĥizqiyyahu turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the Lord,
  and said, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech Thee, how I have walked before Thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in Thy sight. And Ĥizqiyyahu wept sore.
  Then came the word of the Lord to Yesha῾yahu, saying,
  Go, and say to Ĥizqiyyahu, Thus says the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years.
  And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Ashshur: and I will defend this city.
  And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he has spoken:
  behold, I will turn the shadow of the dial, which is gone down in the sun dial of Aĥaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which it had gone down on the dial.
  The writing of Ĥizqiyyahu king of Yehuda when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
  I said in the noontide of my days, I shall go to the gates of She᾽ol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
  I said, I shall not see the Lord, the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
  My dwelling is plucked up and is removed from me like a shepherd’s tent: I have rolled up my life like a weaver: he will cut me off from the loom: from day to night Thou dost make an end of me.
  I wait for morning; as a lion, even so he breaks all my bones: from day to night dost thou make an end of me.
  Like a swift or a crane, even so do I chirp: I moan like a dove: my eyes fail with looking upwards: O Lord, I am oppressed, be Thou my security.
  What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done it: I shall walk softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.
  O Lord, with these things men live! and in all these is the life of my spirit: wherefore restore me and make me live.
  Behold, for in peace I had great bitterness: but Thou hast in love to my soul delivered it, from the pit of destruction: for Thou hast cast all my sins behind Thy back.
  For She᾽ol cannot praise Thee, death cannot celebrate Thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for Thy truth.
  The living, the living, he shall praise Thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known Thy truth.
  The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.
  For Yesha῾yahu had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the festering place, and he shall recover.
  Ĥizqiyyahu also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?
  
  
  
  At that time Merodakh-bal᾽adan, the son of Bal᾽adan, king of Bavel, sent letters and a present to Ĥizqiyyahu: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.
  And Ĥizqiyyahu was glad of them, and showed them the house of his treasures, 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 Ĥizqiyyahu did not show them.
  Then Yesha῾yahu the prophet came to king Ĥizqiyyahu, and said to him, What said these men? and from where did they come to thee? And Ĥizqiyyahu said, They are come from a far country to me, from Bavel.
  Then said he, What have they seen in thy house? And Ĥizqiyyahu answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.
  Then said Yesha῾yahu to Ĥizqiyyahu, Hear the word of the Lord of hosts:
  Behold, days are coming that all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Bavel: nothing shall be left, says the Lord.
  And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Bavel.
  Then Ĥizqiyyahu said to Yesha῾yahu, Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, But there shall be peace and truth in my days.
  
  
  
  Comfort my people, comfort them, says your God.
  Speak comfortably to Yerushalayim, and cry to her, that her war service is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she has received of the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.
  A voice cries, Prepare in the wilderness the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
  Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
  and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.
  A voice says, Cry, and he said what should I cry? All flesh is grass, and all its grace is as the flower of the field:
  the grass withers, the flower fades: when the breath of the Lord blows upon it: surely the people is like grass.
  The grass withers, the flower fades: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
  Thou that bringest good tidings to Żiyyon, get thee up into the high mountain; Thou that bringest good tidings to Yerushalayim, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say to the cities of Yehuda, Behold your God!
  Behold, the Lord God will come with might, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his hire before him,
  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.
  Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
  Who has directed the spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor has taught him?
  With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?
  Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he takes up the isles like fine dust.
  And Levanon is not sufficient for fuel; nor are its beasts sufficient for a burnt offering.
  All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
  To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare to him?
  As for the image, a craftsman casts it, and a refiner plates it with gold, he forges silver chains.
  He that is too impoverished for such a gift, chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks to him a cunning workman to prepare a carved idol, that shall not be moved.
  Do you not know? do you not hear? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
  It is he that sits upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are as grasshoppers; that stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in:
  that brings princes to nothing; he makes the judges of the earth as vanity.
  Scarcely are they planted; scarcely are they sown; scarcely has their stock taken root in the earth: he merely blows upon them and they wither; and the storm wind takes them away as stubble.
  To whom then will you liken me, that I should be his equal, says the Holy One.
  Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these things, that brings out their host by number: he calls them all by names; because of the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is missing.
  Why sayst thou, O Ya῾aqov, and speakest, O Yisra᾽el, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
  Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, nor is he weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
  He gives power to the faint; and to the power­less he increases strength.
  Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
  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; they shall walk, and not faint.
  
  
  
  Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
  Who raised up one from the east whom righteousness met wherever he set his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over his kings; his sword makes them as dust, his bow as driven stubble.
  That he pursued them, and passed on safely; even by a path that his feet have not trodden.
  Who has wrought and done it? He who calls the generations from the beginning; I the Lord, the first; and with the last, I am he.
  The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth trembled; they drew near, and came.
  They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.
  So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smoothes with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
  But thou, Yisra᾽el, art my servant, Ya῾aqov whom I have chosen, the seed of Avraham my friend.
  Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from its farthest corners, and said to thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
  Fear not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; indeed, I will help thee; moreover, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
  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.
  Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, those that contend with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
  For I, the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying to thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
  Fear not, thou worm Ya῾aqov, O men of Yisra᾽el; I will help thee, says the Lord, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Yisra᾽el.
  Behold, I will make of thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
  Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the storm wind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Yisra᾽el.
  The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched for thirst; I the Lord will answer them, I the God of Yisra᾽el will not forsake them.
  I will open rivers on high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
  I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shitta tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the ῾Arava cypress, maple, and box tree together:
  that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord has done this, and the Holy One of Yisra᾽el has created it.
  Produce your cause, says the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons, says the King of Ya῾aqov.
  Let them bring them forth, and tell us what shall happen: let them relate the former things, what they were, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things to come.
  Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods: indeed, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
  Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooses you.
  I have raised up one from the north, and he is come: from the rising of the sun, and he shall call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon mortar, and as the potter treads clay.
  Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is right? there is none that told, none that declared, not one even that heard your words.
  A harbinger to Żiyyon will I give: Behold, behold them; and to Yerushalayim a messenger of good tidings.
  For I behold, and there is no man; among them, and there is no counsellor, that, when I ask of them, could answer a word.
  Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten idols are wind and confusion.
  
  
  
  Behold my servant, whom I uphold: my elect, in whom my soul delights: I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the nations.
  He shall not cry, nor lift up his voice, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
  A bruised reed shall he not break, and the dimly burning flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
  He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his Tora.
  Thus says God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which comes out of it; he that gives breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
  I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thy hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the nations;
  to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
  I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to carved idols.
  Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
  Sing to the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and their inhabitants.
  Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice, the villages that Qedar inhabits: let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
  Let them give glory to the Lord, and declare his praise in the islands.
  The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up ardour like a man of war: he shall cry, indeed, roar; he shall show himself mighty against his foes.
  I have a long time held my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a woman in travail; I will gasp and pant together.
  I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
  And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These are the things which I have done, and I have not forsaken them.
  They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in carved idols, that say to the molten images, You are our gods.
  Hear, O deaf; and look, O blind, that you may see.
  Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord’s servant?
  Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he hears not.
  The Lord was well pleased for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify Tora, and to make it glorious.
  Therefore this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivers; for a spoil, and none says, Restore.
  Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
  Who gave Ya῾aqov for a spoil, and Yisra᾽el to the robbers? did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, and unto whose Tora they were not obedient?
  Therefore he has poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it has set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
  
  
  
  But now thus says the Lord that created thee, O Ya῾aqov, and he that formed thee, O Yisra᾽el, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
  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.
  For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Yisra᾽el, thy deliverer: I gave Miżrayim for thy ransom, Kush and Seva instead of thee.
  Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou wast honoured, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.
  Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;
  I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
  every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory; I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
  Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
  Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled: who among them can declare this, and announce to us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
  You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
  I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no deliverer.
  I have declared, and have saved, and I have announced, and there was no strange god among you: therefore you are my witnesses, says the Lord, and I am God.
  Yea, from the first I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall reverse it?
  Thus says the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Yisra᾽el; For your sake I have sent to Bavel, and will bring down all of them as fugitives, the Kasdim, in the ships of their song.
  I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Creator of Yisra᾽el, your King.
  Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
  who brings out chariot and horse, army and power; they lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick.
  Remember not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
  Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
  The beast of the field shall honour me, the jackals and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
  This people have I formed for myself; they shall relate my praise.
  But thou hast not called upon me, O Ya῾aqov; but thou hast been weary of me, O Yisra᾽el.
  Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings: nor hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not burdened thee with a meal offering, nor wearied thee with incense.
  Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, nor hast thou sated me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast burdened me with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thy iniquities.
  I, even I, am he that blots out thy transgressions for my own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
  Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayst be justified.
  Thy first father has sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
  Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Ya῾aqov to destruction, and Yisra᾽el to reviling.
  
  
  
  Yet now hear, O Ya῾aqov my servant; and Yisra᾽el whom I have chosen:
  thus says the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, who will help thee; Fear not, O Ya῾aqov, my servant; and thou, Yeshurun, whom I have chosen.
  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 thy offspring:
  and they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
  One shall say, I am the Lord’s; and another shall call himself by the name of Ya῾aqov; and another shall subscribe with his hand to the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Yisra᾽el.
  Thus says the Lord the King of Yisra᾽el, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
  And who is like me? let him proclaim it, let him declare it, and set it in order for me, from when I appointed the eternal people; let them relate for themselves the things that will come, and are to be.
  Fear not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? for you are my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? indeed there is no Rock; I know not any.
  They that make a carved idol are all of them vanity; and the things they delight in, do not profit; and their witnesses see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
  Who has fashioned a god, or cast an idol? it is profitable for nothing.
  Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are but men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; they shall fear, they shall be ashamed together.
  The ironsmith makes an axe, and works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, works it with the strength of his arms: if he is hungry, his strength fails: if he drinks no water, he is faint.
  The carpenter stretches out his rule; he marks it out with a pencil; he fits it with chisels, and he marks it out with the compass, and makes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
  He hews him down cedars, and takes the pine and the oak, which he strengthens for himself among the trees of the forest: he plants a forest tree and the rain nourishes it.
  Then shall it be for a man for fuel: for he will take of it to warm himself; indeed, he kindles it, and bakes bread! or else he makes a god, and prostrates himself to it; he makes of it a carved idol, and bows himself down before it.
  Half of it he burns in the fire; with this half of it he eats meat; he roasts the roast, and is satisfied: indeed, he warms himself, and says, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:
  and of the rest of it he makes a god, his carved idol: he falls down to it, and worships it, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me; for thou art my god.
  They have not known nor understood: for he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
  And none considers in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned half of it in the fire; I have even baked bread upon its embers; I have roasted meat, and eaten it: and shall I make the rest of it an abomination? shall I fall down to worship the stock of a tree?
  He feeds on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
  Remember these, O Ya῾aqov and Yisra᾽el; thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my own servant: O Yisra᾽el thou shalt not be forgotten by me.
  I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return to me; for I have redeemed thee.
  Sing, O heavens; for the Lord has done it: shout, you lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, you mountains, O forest, and every tree in it: for the Lord has redeemed Ya῾aqov, and glorified himself in Yisra᾽el.
  Thus says the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that makes all things; that stretches the heavens, alone; that spreads abroad the earth by myself;
  that frustrates the omens of imposters, and makes diviners mad; that turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
  that confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; that says to Yerushalayim, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Yehuda, They shall be rebuilt, and their ruins I shall raise up.
  That says to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
  that says of Koresh, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: and saying to Yerushalayim, Thou shalt be rebuilt; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
  
  
  
  Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Koresh, whose right hand I have held, that I may subdue nations before him, and loose the loins of kings; that I may open before him doors and gates which shall not be shut;
  I will go before thee, and make the mountainous places level: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
  and I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayst know that I, the Lord, who call thee by thy name, am the God of Yisra᾽el.
  For Ya῾aqov my servant’s sake, and Yisra᾽el my elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
  I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
  that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else,
  I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I, the Lord, do all these things.
  Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up also; I, the Lord, have created it.
  Woe to him that strives with his maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What makest thou? as for thy work, it has no hands?
  Woe to him that says to his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, With what art thou in travail?
  Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Yisra᾽el, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come; concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command me.
  I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
  I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, says the Lord of hosts.
  Thus says the Lord, The labour of Miżrayim, and the merchandise of Kush and of the Seva᾽im, men of stature, shall come over to thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down to thee, they shall make supplication to thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no other God.
  Verily Thou art a God who hidest Thyself, Thou are the God of Yisra᾽el who savest them.
  They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.
  But Yisra᾽el shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: you shall not be ashamed nor confounded to all eternity.
  For thus says the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he has established it, he did not create it a waste land, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.
  I have not spoken in secret, in a place of a land of darkness: I said not to the seed of Ya῾aqov, Seek me in an empty waste: I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
  Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge, those that carry about their wooden carved idol, and pray to a god that cannot save.
  Declare and bring them near; let them take counsel together: who declared this from ancient time? who told it from that time? did not I the Lord? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a deliverer; there is none beside me.
  Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
  I have sworn by myself, a word of righteousness is gone out of my mouth, a word that shall not be reversed, That to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
  Surely, he said to me, in the Lord there is righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
  In the Lord shall all the seed of Yisra᾽el be justified, and shall glory.
  
  
  
  Bel bows down, Nevo stoops, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle; the things you carry are laden as a burden on the weary beast.
  They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
  Hearken to me, O house of Ya῾aqov, and all the remnant of the house of Yisra᾽el, who are borne by me from birth, who are carried from the womb:
  and even to your old age I am the same; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; and I will carry, and will deliver you.
  To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
  They that scatter gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god; they fall down, indeed, they prostrate themselves.
  They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he stands; from his place he cannot move: even if one shall cry out to him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
  Remember this, and show yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O transgressors.
  Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
  declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
  calling an eagle from the east, the man that executes my counsel from a far country: I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it. I will also do it.
  Hearken to me, you stout-hearted, that are far from righteous­ness:
  I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Żiyyon for Yisra᾽el my glory.
  
  
  
  Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Bavel, sit on the ground: without a throne, O daughter of Kasdim: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
  Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, tuck up the train, uncover the leg, pass over the rivers.
  Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will spare no man.
  As for our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Yisra᾽el.
  Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of Kasdim: for thou shalt no more be called, The mistress of kingdoms.
  I was angry with my people, I have profaned my inheritance, and given them into thy hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the aged hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
  And thou didst say I shall be mistress for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.
  Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest securely, that sayst in thy heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children.
  But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of I children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their full measure for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thy enchantments.
  For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None sees me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it has perverted thee; and thou hast said in thy heart, I am, and none else beside me.
  Therefore shall evil come upon thee: thou shalt not know how to charm it away: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and ruin shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
  Stand now with thy enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; perhaps thou shalt be able to profit, perhaps thou shalt inspire terror.
  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.
  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.
  Thus shall those be to thee with whom thou hast laboured, with whom thou hast traded, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his own quarter, none shall save thee.
  
  
  
  Hear this, O house of Ya῾aqov, who are called by the name of Yisra᾽el, and are come forth out of the waters of Yehuda, who swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Yisra᾽el, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
  For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Yisra᾽el, The Lord of hosts is his name.
  I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went out of my mouth, and I reported them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.
  Because I know that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy forehead brass;
  I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I showed it thee: lest thou shouldst say, My idol has done them, and my carved idol, and my molten image has commanded them.
  Thou hast heard, now see all this; and will you not declare it? I have shown thee new things from this time, hidden things, which thou didst not know.
  They are created now, and not from the beginning; and before this day thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldst say, Behold, I knew them.
  Thou didst neither hear nor know; nor from old was thy ear opened: for I knew that thou wouldst deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from birth.
  For my name’s sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
  Behold, I have refined thee, but not into silver; I have tried thee in the furnace of affliction.
  For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be profaned? and I will not give my glory to another.
  Hearken to me, O Ya῾aqov and Yisra᾽el whom I called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
  My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spanned the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.
  All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them has declared these things? He whom the Lord loves, he will do his pleasure on Bavel, and his arm shall be on the Kasdim.
  I, even I, have spoken; indeed, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall succeed in his way.
  Come near to me, hear this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there have I been: and now the Lord God, and his spirit, has sent me.
  Thus says the Lord, thy redeemer, the Holy One of Yisra᾽el; I am the Lord thy God who teaches thee for thy profit, who leads thee by the way that thou shouldst go.
  O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
  thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like its pebbles; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
  Go forth out of Bavel, flee from the Kasdim, with a voice of singing declare, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say, The Lord has redeemed his servant Ya῾aqov.
  And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused water to flow out of the rock for them: he split the rock, and the water gushed out.
  There is no peace, says the Lord, for the wicked.
  
  
  
  Listen, O isles, to me; and hearken, O people, from far; The Lord has called me from birth; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name.
  And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand has he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he hid me;
  and said to me, Thou art my servant, Yisra᾽el, in whom I will be glorified.
  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 reward with my God.
  And now, says the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his servant to bring Ya῾aqov back to him, that Yisra᾽el should be gathered to him, and I was honoured in the eyes of the Lord, and my God was my strength.
  And he said, It is too slight a thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up the tribes of Ya῾aqov, and to restore the preserved of Yisra᾽el: I will also give thee for a light to the nations, that my salvation may be to the end of the earth.
  Thus says the Lord, the redeemer of Yisra᾽el, his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall prostrate themselves, because of the Lord who is faithful, and the Holy One of Yisra᾽el, who has chosen thee.
  Thus says the Lord, In an acceptable time have I answered 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 restore the land, and to assign desolate inheritances to their owners.
  That thou mayst say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be on all high places.
  They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that has mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
  And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be raised up.
  Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
  Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O moun-tains: for the Lord has comforted his people, and has mercy upon his afflicted.
  But Żiyyon said, The Lord has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me.
  Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? even these may forget, yet I will not forget thee.
  Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
  Thy children make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste go away from thee.
  Lift up thy eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, says the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on, like a bride.
  For thy waste and thy desolate places, and thy devastated land, shall now be too narrow for the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
  The children that were taken away from thee shall say again in thy ears, The place is too narrow for me: make room for me that I may dwell.
  Then shalt thou say in thy heart, Who has begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, a solitary, an exile, and a wanderer to and fro? and who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where have they been?
  Thus says the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my standard to the peoples: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
  And kings shall be thy foster fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face towards 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.
  Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the captive of the victorious delivered?
  But thus says the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contends with thee, and I will save thy children.
  And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunk with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I, the Lord am thy deliverer and the mighty One of Ya῾aqov is thy redeemer.
  
  
  
  Thus says the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have you sold yourselves, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.
  Why, 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 rots, because there is no water, and dies for thirst.
  I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
  The Lord God has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to sustain him that is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as the learned.
  The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, nor did I turn away.
  I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
  For the Lord God has helped me; therefore have I not been confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I knew that I should not be ashamed.
  He is near that justifies me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is my adversary? let him come near to me.
  Behold, the Lord God will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall grow old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
  Who is there among you that fears the Lord, that obeys the voice of his servant, that walks in darkness, and has no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and rely upon his God.
  Behold all you that kindle a fire, and that girdle yourselves around with sparks; walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that you have kindled. This came to you from my hand; you shall lie down in grief.
  
  
  
  Hearken to me, you that follow after righteousness, you that seek the Lord: look to the rock whence you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you were dug out.
  Look to Avraham your father, and to Sara that bore you: for he was but one when I called him, and I blessed him, and increased him.
  For the Lord shall comfort Żiyyon: 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 in it, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
  Hearken to me, my people; and give ear to me, O my nation: for Tora shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment suddenly for a light of the peoples.
  My righteousness is near; my salvation has gone forth, and my arms shall judge the peoples; isles shall wait upon me, and on my arm shall they trust.
  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 grow old like a garment, and they that dwell in it shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be overthrown.
  Hearken to me, you that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my Tora; fear not the taunts of men, neither be dismayed by their revilings.
  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 for all generations.
  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 has cut Raĥav in pieces, and wounded the crocodile?
  Art thou not it which dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
  Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing to Żiyyon; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
  I, even I, am he that comforts you: who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of a mortal man, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass;
  and hast forgotten the Lord thy maker, that 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 he makes ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
  The crouching one hastens that he may be loosed, and he shall not die in the pit, nor shall his bread fail.
  And I am the Lord thy God, who stirs up the sea, that its waves roared: The Lord of hosts is his name.
  And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Żiyyon, Thou art my people.
  Awake, awake, stand up, O Yerushalayim, who hast drunk at the hand of the Lord) the cup of his fury; thou hast drunk to the dregs, the deep bowl of staggering.
  There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought forth; nor is there any that takes her by the hand among all the sons that she has brought up.
  These two things have befallen thee; who shall console thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
  Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, like a bison in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.
  Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
  Thus says thy Lord the Lord, and thy God that pleads the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of staggering, the deep bowl of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
  but I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; who have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body like the ground, and like the street, to them that go over.
  
  
  
  Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Żiyyon; put on thy beautiful garments, O Yerushalayim, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
  Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Yerushalayim: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Żiyyon.
  For thus says the Lord, You were sold for nought; and you shall be redeemed without money.
  For thus says the Lord God, My people went down aforetime to Miżrayim to sojourn there; and Ashshur oppressed them without cause.
  Now therefore, what have I here, says the Lord, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them yell, says the Lord; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
  Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that speaks: Behold, here I am.
  How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings, that announces peace; that brings good tidings of good, that announces salvation; that says to Żiyyon, Thy God reigns!
  The voice of thy watchmen is heard: they lift up the voice; together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, the Lord returning to Żiyyon.
  Break forth into joy, sing together, O waste places of Yerushalayim: for the Lord has comforted his people, he has redeemed Yerushalayim:
  the Lord has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
  Depart, depart, go out from there, touch no unclean thing: go out of the midst of her; be clean, you that bear the vessels of the Lord.
  For you shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the Lord will go before you; and the God of Yisra᾽el will be your rearguard.
  Behold, my servant shall prosper, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
  Just as many were astonished at thee; saying, Surely his visage is too marred to be that of a man, and his form, to be that of the sons of men:
  so shall he startle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they perceive.
  
  
  
  Who would have believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
  For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he had no form nor comeliness, that we should look at him, and no countenance, that we should desire him.
  He was despised and rejected of men; a man of pains, and acquainted with sickness: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
  But in truth he has borne our sicknesses and endured our pains; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
  But he was wounded because of our transgressions, bruised because of our iniquities: his sufferings were that we might have peace, and by his injury we are healed.
  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall upon him.
  He was oppressed, but he humbled himself and opened not his mouth: as a lamb which is brought to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he did not open his mouth.
  By oppression and false judgement was he taken away; and of his generation who considered? For he was cut off out of the land of the living, for the transgression of the people to whom the stroke was due.
  For they made his grave among the wicked, and his tomb among the rich; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
  But it pleased the Lord to crush him by disease: if his soul shall consider it a recompense for guilt, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the purpose of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
  He shall see the travail of his soul, he shall be sated with seeing: by his knowledge did my servant justify the righteous One to the many, and did bear their iniquities.
  Surely I will give him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he has poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with transgressors; but he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
  
  
  
  Sing, O barren one, 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, says the Lord.
  Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitations: spare not: lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
  for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall possess nations, and make desolate cities to be inhabited.
  Fear not; for thou shall not be ashamed: neither be confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: but thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
  For thy Maker is thy husband: the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy redeemer is the Holy One of Yisra᾽el; The God of the whole earth is he called.
  For the Lord has called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit; but a wife of youth, can she be cast off? says thy God.
  For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
  In the overflowing of wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting faithful love will I have mercy on thee, says thy redeemer, the Lord.
  For this is as the waters of Noaĥ to me: as I have sworn that the waters of Noaĥ should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be furious with thee, nor rebuke thee.
  For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my faithful love shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, says the Lord that has mercy on thee.
  O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
  And I will make thy windows of rubies, and thy gates of beryl, and all thy borders of choicest stones.
  And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
  In righteousness shalt thou be established: keep away from oppression; then thou shalt not fear: and from terror; then it shall not come near thee.
  Behold, they may well gather together, but not by me: whoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.
  Behold, I have created the smith that blows upon the fire of the coals, and that brings forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
  No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and the recompense of their righteousness appointed by me, says the Lord.
  
  
  
  Ho, every one that thirsts, come to the water, and he that has no money; come, buy, and eat; come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
  Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfies not? hearken diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
  Incline your ear, and come to me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure loving promises of David.
  Behold, I have made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander of nations.
  Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowst not, and nations that knew not thee shall run to thee, because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Yisra᾽el; for he has glorified thee.
  Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near:
  let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
  For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the Lord.
  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
  For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and returns not there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
  so shall my word be that goes out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in that for which I sent it.
  For you 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.
  Instead of the thorn shall the cypress come up, and instead of the nettle shall the myrtle tree come up: and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
  
  
  
  Thus says the Lord, Keep judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
  Happy is the man that does this, and the son of man that lays hold on it; that keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.
  Neither let the son of the stranger, that has joined himself to the Lord, speak, saying, The Lord shall surely separate me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
  For thus says the Lord to the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
  And to them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial better than sons and daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
  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 keeps the sabbath and does not profane it, and all that hold fast to my covenant.
  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 on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.
  The Lord God who gathers the outcasts of Yisra᾽el says, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those of him that are already gathered.
  All you beasts of the field, come into the forest, to devour all the beasts thereof.
  His watchmen are all blind: they are ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
  Yea, the dogs are greedy, they 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.
  Come, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
  
  
  
  The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
  He that walks in his uprightness, shall enter in peace to them that rest in their graves.
  But draw near, O sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.
  Against whom do you make sport? against whom do you open wide your mouth, and draw out the tongue? are you not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
  inflaming yourselves among the terebinths, under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?
  Among the smooth stones of the wadi is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meal offering. Shall I be appeased for these things?
  Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: also thou wentest up to offer sacrifice.
  Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy (unclean) symbol: for thou hast uncovered thyself to others than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made a covenant with some of them; thou didst love their lying with thee, thou didst select a place.
  And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and sent down even to She᾽ol.
  Thou art wearied with the length of the way; yet thou didst not say, It is hopeless: thou hast found a renewal of thy strength; therefore thou wast not sick.
  And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou wast false, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? is it not that I held my peace even of old? therefore thou fearest me not?
  I will declare thy righteousness; and as for thy works, they shall not profit thee.
  When thou criest, let thy collection of idols deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; a breath shall bear them off: but he that puts his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.
  And one shall say, Bank up, build up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
  For thus says the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell on high and in a holy place, yet with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
  For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always angry: but the spirit and the soul which I have made, should faint before me.
  For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wrathful, and smote him; I hid me, and was angry: but he went on perversely in the way of his heart.
  I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and bestow comforts on him and on his mourners.
  I will create a new expression of the lips: Peace, peace, both for far and near, says the Lord. And I will heal him.
  But the wicked are like the troubled sea, which cannot be still, and whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
  There will be no peace, says my God, for the wicked.
  
  
  
  Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like the shofar, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Ya῾aqov their sins.
  Yet they seek me daily, and desire to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God, they ask of me judgments of justice; they desire that God should be near.
  Why have we fasted, say they, and Thou seest not? why have we afflicted our soul, and Thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you pursue your business, and exact all your payments.
  Behold, you fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: you fast not this day to make your voice to be heard on high.
  Is such the fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
  Is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? to loose the chains of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?
  Is it not to share thy bread with 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 thy own flesh?
  Then shall thy light break forth like the morning, and thy health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rearguard.
  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 pointing of the finger, and speaking iniquity;
  and if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in darkness, and thy gloom be as the noonday:
  and the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make strong thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
  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.
  If thou restrain thy foot because of the sabbath, from pursuing thy business on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy day of the Lord honourable; and shalt honour it, not doing thy own ways, nor pursuing thy own business, nor speaking of vain matters,
  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 Ya῾aqov thy father: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.
  
  
  
  Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
  but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
  For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.
  None calls in uprightness, nor any pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
  They hatch vipers’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eats of their eggs dies, and from that which is crushed, a viper breaks out.
  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.
  Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
  The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whoever walks in them knows no peace.
  Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we wait for light, but behold darkness: for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
  We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; among the strong we are as dead men.
  We roar all like bears, we moan and moan like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
  For our transgressions are multiplied before Thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
  in transgressing and denying the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
  And judgment is turned away backwards, and justice stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street and upright dealing cannot enter.
  And truth is absent; and he that departs from evil makes himself ridiculous: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him for there was no judgment.
  And he saw that there was no man, and was astonished that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation to him; and his righ­teousness, it sustained him.
  For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
  According to their deeds, so will he repay, fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.
  So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun: when affliction comes like a flood which the wind of the Lord drives forth.
  But to Żiyyon a redeemer shall come, and to them that turn from transgression in Ya῾aqov, says the Lord.
  As for me, this is my covenant with them, says the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, says the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
  
  
  
  Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
  For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
  And nations shall walk at thy light, and kings at the brightness of thy rising.
  Lift up thy eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
  Then thou wilt see, and be filled with light, and thy heart shall fear and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to thee, the riches of the nations shall come to thee.
  The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midyan and ῾Efa; all they from Sheva shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall proclaim the praises of the Lord.
  All the flocks of Qedar shall be gathered together to thee, the rams of Nevayot shall minister to thee: they shall come up with acceptance on my altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
  Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
  Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Yisra᾽el, because he has glorified thee.
  And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister to thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
  Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day or night; that men may bring to thee the riches of the nations, and their kings with their train.
  For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
  The glory of Levanon shall come to thee, the cypress, the maple, and the box tree, together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
  The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending to thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Żiyyon of the Holy One of Yisra᾽el.
  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.
  Thou shalt also suck the milk of the nations, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the Lord shall save thee, and the mighty One of Ya῾aqov shall redeem thee.
  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 thy taskmasters, righteousness.
  Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
  The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light to thee: but the Lord shall be to thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
  Thy sun shall no more go down; nor shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thy everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
  Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever; they shall be the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
  The least one shall become a thousand, and the smallest one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in its time.
  
  
  
  The spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord has anointed me to announce good tidings to the meek; he has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
  to proclaim an acceptable year of the Lord, and a day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
  to appoint to those who mourn in Żiyyon, to give to them a garland instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of the spirit of heav­iness, that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
  And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall renew the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
  And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your ploughmen and your vine­dressers.
  But you shall be named, Priests of the Lord: men shall say of you, Ministers of our God. You shall eat the riches of the nations, and you shall gain grandeur by their wealth.
  Instead of your shame, you shall have a double portion; and instead of dishonour they shall rejoice in their lot: therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion; everlasting joy shall be theirs.
  For I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery with burnt offerings; and I will give them their reward in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
  And their seed shall be known among the nations, and their off­spring among the peoples: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord has blessed.
  I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteous­ness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns her­self with her jewels.
  For as the earth brings forth her growth, and as the garden causes 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.
  
  
  
  For the sake of Żiyyon I will not hold my peace, and for the sake of Yeru­shalayim, I will not be still, until her righteousness goes forth like radiance, and her salvation like a burning torch.
  And the 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 express.
  Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
  Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Ĥefżi-va (My Delight is in Her,) and thy land Be῾ula (Espoused:) for the Lord delights in thee, and thy land shall be espoused.
  For as a young man takes to himself a virgin, so shall thy sons take thee to themselves, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
  I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Yerushalayim, who shall never hold their peace day or night: you that make mention of the Lord, take no rest,
  and give him no rest till he establishes, and till he makes Yerushalayim a praise in the earth.
  The Lord has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be food for thy enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine for which thou hast laboured:
  but they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.
  Go through, go through the gates; prepare the way of the people; bank up, build up the highway; clear the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
  Behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the world, Say to the daughter of Żiyyon, Behold, thy salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his wages before him.
  And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Derusha (Sought out,) a city not forsaken.
  
  
  
  Who is this that comes from Edom, with crimsoned garments from Bożra? this one that is glorious in his apparel, striding in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
  Why is thy apparel red, and thy garments like his that treads in the winepress?
  I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was none with me: for I have trodden them in my anger, and trampled them in my fury; and their blood was sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my raiment.
  For the day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
  And I looked and there was none to help; and I gazed astonished but there was none to uphold: therefore has my own arm brought salvation to me; and my fury, it has upheld me.
  And I trod down peoples in my anger, and made them drunk with my fury, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth:
  I will mention the acts of the Lord’s faithful love, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Yisra᾽el which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the abundance of his faithful love.
  For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their deliverer.
  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 bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
  But they rebelled, and vexed his holy spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
  Then he remembered the days of old, Moshe, and his people saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? where is he that put his holy spirit within him?
  That caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moshe, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
  That led them through the deep, like a horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
  Like cattle going down into the valley, the spirit of the Lord gave them rest. So Thou didst lead Thy people, to make Thyself a glorious name.
  Look down from heaven and see; from the habitation of Thy holiness and of Thy glory: where is Thy zeal and Thy mighty acts? Thy compassion and Thy mercies are withheld from me.
  Thou art our father, though Avraham be ignorant of us, and Yisra᾽el acknowledge us not: Thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; Thy name is from everlasting.
  O Lord, why hast Thou made us to stray from Thy ways, and hardened our heart from Thy fear? Return for Thy servants’ sake, the tribes of Thy inheritance.
  The people of Thy holiness possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down Thy sanctuary.
  We have become like those over whom Thou never didst rule, who were not called by Thy name. Oh, that Thou wouldst rend the heavens, that Thou wouldst come down, that the mountains would melt away at Thy presence.
  
  
  
  As when fire kindles brushwood, as when fire causes the water to bubble up; to make Thy name known to Thy enemies, that the nations might tremble at Thy presence.
  When Thou didst terrible things which we looked not for; when Thou didst come down, the mountains flowed down at Thy presence.
  For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen, that a god, beside Thee, should do such a thing for him that waits for him.
  Thou didst strike down him that rejoiced and worked righteousness: who remembered Thee in Thy ways: behold, Thou hast been angry, and we have sinned. In those ways we remain always: how then shall we be saved?
  And we are all as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
  And there is none that calls upon Thy name, that stirs himself up to take hold of Thee: for Thou hast hid Thy face from us, and hast consumed us, through the force of our iniquities.
  But now, O Lord, Thou art our father; we are the clay, and Thou our potter; and we all are the work of Thy hand.
  Be not so very indignant, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech Thee, we are all Thy people.
  Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Żiyyon is a wilderness, Yerushalayim a desolation.
  Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised Thee, is burnt with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
  Wilt Thou restrain Thyself at these things, O Lord? wilt Thou hold Thy peace, and afflict us so very greatly?
  
  
  
  I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me. I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, Here I am, here I am, to a nation that was not called by my name.
  I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, which walks in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
  a people that provoke me to anger continually to my face; that sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense upon altars of brick;
  that sit on the graves, and spend the night in vaults, that eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
  that 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 burns all the day.
  Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay,
  indeed I will pay home into their bosoms your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, says the Lord, who burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills: therefore will I repay their former work in full measure into their bosom.
  Thus says the Lord, As the wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’ sakes that I may not destroy them all.
  And I will bring forth a seed out of Ya῾aqov, and out of Yehuda an inheritor of my mountains: and my chosen ones shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
  And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of ῾Akhor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
  But you that forsake the Lord that forget my holy mountain, that set out a table for Gad (Fortune,) and fill the cup of liquor for Meni (Destiny,)
  you will I destine for the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear; but did evil before my eyes, and did choose that in which I delighted not.
  Therefore thus says the Lord God, Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed:
  behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
  And you shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen ones: for the Lord God shall slay thee and call his servants by another name:
  so that he who blesses himself on the earth, shall bless himself by the God of truth; and he that swears on the earth, shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.
  For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come to mind.
  But be glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Yerushalayim a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
  And I will rejoice in Yerushalayim, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
  There shall be no more there an infant who lives a few days, nor an old man that has not filled his days: for the youngest shall die a hundred years old; and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be deemed accursed.
  And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
  They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen ones shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
  They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for confusion, for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.
  And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
  The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox: and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.
  
  
  
  Thus says the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that you would build for me? and where is the place of my rest?
  For all those things has my hand made, and so all those things came to be, says the Lord: but to this man will I look, to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at my word.
  He that kills an ox is like one who slays a man; that sacrifices a lamb, is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; that offers a meal offering, like one who offers pig’s blood; that burns incense, like one who blesses an idol: for they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.
  I also will choose torments for them, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did evil before my eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
  Hear the word of the Lord, you that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, Let the Lord be glorified: that we may see your joy; but they shall be ashamed.
  A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, the voice of the Lord rendering recompense to his enemies.
  Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
  Who has heard of such a thing? who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born in one moment? for as soon as Żiyyon travailed, she brought forth her children.
  Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? says the Lord: or shall I who cause to bring forth, thereupon shut the womb? says thy God.
  Rejoice with Yerushalayim, and be glad with her, all you that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all you that did mourn for her:
  that you may suck, and be satisfied with the breast of her consolations; that you may drink deeply, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
  For thus says the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like a flowing stream: then shall you suck, you shall be carried upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.
  As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you shall be comforted in Yerushalayim.
  And when you see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like grass: and the hand of the Lord shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
  For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a storm, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
  For by fire will the Lord execute judgment, and with his sword, upon all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many.
  They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and the detestable thing, and the mouse, shall perish together, says the Lord.
  For I know their works and their thoughts: the time shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
  And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tuval, and Yavan, to the distant islands, that have not heard my fame, and have not seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.
  And they shall bring all your brethren out of all the nations for an offering to the Lord upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon fleet camels, to my holy mountain Yerushalayim, says the Lord, as the children of Yisra᾽el bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord.
  And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, says the Lord.
  For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.
  And it shall come to pass, that every new moon, and every sabbath, shall all flesh come to bow down to the ground before me, says the Lord.
  And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses of the men that have rebelled against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.