7 ness. 2 before they of a kingdom. I have been pro- | home, and thou shalt have no delivervoked with my people: thou hast ance. defiled mine inheritance; I gave them into thine hand: but thou didst not 48. Hear these words, ye house of extend mercy to them; thou madest Jacob, who are called by the name of the yoke of the aged man very heavy. Israel, and have come forth out of And thou saidst, I shall be a princess Juda, who swear by the name of the for ever: thou didst not perceive these Lord God of Israel, making mention things in thine heart, nor didst thou of it, but not with truth, nor with remember the latter end. 8 But now righteousness; who maintain also the hear these words, thou luxurious one, name of the holy city, and stay themwho art the one that sits at ease, that selves upon the God of Israel: the is secure, that says in her heart, I am, Lord of hosts is his name. The former and there is not another; I shall not things I have already declared; 3and sit a widow, neither shall I know be- they have proceeded out of my mouth, reavement. 9 But now these two things and it became well known; I wrought shall come upon thee suddenly in one suddenly, and the events came to pass. day, the loss of children and widow- I know that thou art stubborn, and hood shall come suddenly upon thee, thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy for thy sorcery, for the great force of forehead brazen. And I told thee *of thine enchantments, 10 for thy trust-old what should be before + Alex. the Gr. the hope ing in wickedness: for thou it came upon thee; I made ancient things of thy wicked- saidst, I am, and there is it known to thee, lest thou came, &c. not another: know thou, the under-shouldest say, My idols have done it for standing of these things and thy har- me; and shouldest say, My graven and lotry shall be thy shame; for thou molten images have commanded me. saidst in thy heart, I am, and there is Ye have heard all this, but ye have not another. "And destruction shall not known: yet I have made known come upon thee, and thou shalt not be to thee the new things from Or, audible. aware; there shall be a pit, and thou henceforth, which are coming to pass, shalt fall into it: and misery shall come and thou saidst not, Now they come upon thee, and thou shalt not be able to pass, and not formerly: and thou to be clear; and destruction heardest not of them in former days: shall come suddenly upon thee, and say not thou, Yea, I know them. thou shalt not know. 12 Stand now 8 Thou hast neither known, nor underwith thine enchantments, and with the stood, neither from the beginning have abundance of thy sorcery, which thou I opened thine ears: for I knew that hast learned from thy youth; if thou thou wouldest surely deal treacherously, canst be profited. 13 Thou art wearied and shouldest be called a transgressor in thy counsels. Let now thine as- even from the womb. 9 For mine own trologers of the heavens stand and sake will I show thee my wrath, and deliver thee, let them that see the will bring before thee my glorious acts, stars tell thee what is about to come that I may not utterly destroy thee. upon thee. 14 Behold, they all shall be 10 Behold, I have sold thee, but not for burnt up as sticks in the fire; neither silver; but I have rescued thee from shall they at all deliver their life from the furnace of affliction. 11 For mine the flame. Because thou hast coals of own sake I will do this for thee, befire, sit thou upon them; these shall cause my name is profaned; and I will be thy help. Thou hast wearied thy- not give my glory to another. 12 Hear self with traffic from thy youth, but me, O Jacob, and Israel whom + Gr. am. every man has wandered to his own I call; I am the first, and I endure + Or, pure. 15 + 19 5 7 + Or, a perpetual cove Alex. omits. for ever. 13 My hand also has founded (hid me in his quiver; and said to me, the earth, and my right hand has fixed Thou art my servant, O Israel, and in the sky: I will call them, and they thee I will be glorified. Then I said, shall stand together. 14 And all shall I have laboured in vain, I have given be gathered, and shall hear: who has my strength for vanity and for nothing: told them these things? Out of love therefore is my judgment with the to thee I have fulfilled thy desire upon Lord, and my labour before my God. Babylon, to abolish the seed of the And now, thus says the Lord that Chaldeans. 15 I have spoken, I have formed me from the womb to be his called, I have brought him, and made own servant, to gather Jacob to him his way prosperous. 16 Draw nigh to and Israel. I shall be gathered and me, and hear ye these words; I have glorified before the Lord, and my God not spoken in secret from the begin- shall be my strength. And he said ning: when it took place, there was I, to me, It is a great thing for thee to be and now the Lord, even the Lord, and called my servant, to establish the his Spirit, has sent me. 17 Thus says tribes of Jacob, and to recover the the Lord that delivered thee, the Holy dispersion of Israel: behold, *I have One of Israel; I am thy God, I have given thee for the cove- + Acts 13. 47. shown thee how thou shouldest find nant of a race, for a light the way wherein thou shouldest walk. of the Gentiles, that thou nant. Heb. and 18 And if thou hadst hearkened to my shouldest be for salvation to commandments, then would thy peace the end of the earth. Thus says the have been like a river, and thy right- Lord that delivered thee, the God of eousness as a wave of the sea. Thy Israel, Sanctify him that despises his seed also would have been as the sand, life, him that is abhorred by the naand the offspring of thy belly as the tions that are the servants of princes: dust of the ground: neither now shalt kings shall behold him, and princes thou by any means be utterly destroyed, shall arise, and shall worship him, for neither shall thy name perish before the Lord's sake: for the Holy One of me. 20 Go forth of Babylon, thou that Israel is faithful, and I have chosen fleest from the Chaldeans: utter aloud thee. Thus says the Lord, *In an a voice of joy, and let this be made acceptable time have I heard +2 Cor. 6. 2. known, proclaim it to the end of the thee, and in a day of salvation have I earth; say ye, The Lord has delivered succoured thee: and I have formed his servant Jacob. 21 And if they shall thee, and given thee for a covenant of thirst, he shall lead them through the the nations, to establish the earth, and desert; he shall bring forth water to to cause to inherit the desert heritages: them out of the rock: the rock shall saying to them that are in bonds, Go be cloven, and the water shall flow forth; and bidding them that are in forth, and my people shall drink. darkness show themselves. They shall 22 There is no joy, says the Lord, to be fed in all the ways, and in all the the ungodly. paths shall be their pasture. 10 They shall not hunger, neither Rev. 7. 16. shall they thirst; neither shall the heat nor the sun smite them; but he that has mercy on them shall comfort them, and by fountains of waters shall he lead them. "And I will make every mountain a way, and every path a pasture to them. 12 Behold, these shall come from far: and these from the 49. Hearken to me, ye islands; and attend, ye Gentiles; after a long time it shall come to pass, says the Lord: from my mother's womb he has called my name: 2and he has made my mouth as a sharp sword, and he has hid me under the shadow of his hand; he has made me as a choice shaft, and he has north and the west, and others from that wait on me shall not be ashamed. 24 Will any one take spoils from a giant? and if one should take a man captive unjustly, shall he be delivered? 25 For thus says the Lord, If one should take a giant captive, he shall take spoils, and he who takes them from a mighty man shall be delivered: for I will plead thy cause, and I will deliver thy children. 26 And they that afflicted thee shall eat their own flesh; and they shall drink their own blood as new wine, and shall be drunken: and all flesh shall perceive that I am the Lord that delivers thee, and that upholds the strength of Jacob. the land of the Persians. 13 Rejoice ye heavens; and let the earth be glad: let the mountains break forth with joy; for the Lord has had mercy on his people, and has comforted the lowly ones of his people. 14 But Sion said, The Lord has forsaken me, and, the Lord has forgotten me. 15 Will a woman forget her child, so as not to have compassion upon the offspring of her womb? but if a woman should even forget these, yet I will not forget thee, says the Lord. 16 Behold, I have painted thy walls on my hands, and thou art continually before me. 17 And thou shalt soon be built by those by whom thou wert destroyed, and they that made thee desolate shall go forth of thee. 18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and look on them all; behold, they are gathered together, and are come to thee. As I live, says the Lord, thou shalt clothe thyself with them all as with an ornament, and put them on as a bride her attire. 19 For thy desert and marred and ruined places shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that devoured thee shall be removed far from thee. 20 For thy sons whom thou hast lost shall say in thine ears, The place is too narrow for me: make room for me that I may dwell. 21 And thou shalt say in thine heart, Who has begotten me these? whereas I was childless, and a widow; but who has brought up these for me? and I was left alone; but whence came these to me? 22 Thus says the Lord, even the Lord, Behold, I lift up mine hand to the nations, and I will lift up my signal to the islands: and they shall bring thy sons in their bosom, and shall bear thy daughters on their shoulders. 23 And kings shall be thy nursing-fathers, and their princesses thy nurses, they shall bow down to thee on the face of the earth, and shall lick the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord, and they 3 50. Thus says the Lord, Of what kind is your mother's bill of divorcement, by which I put her away? or to which debtor have I sold you? Behold, ye are sold for your sins, and for your iniquities have I put your mother away. Why did I come, and there was no man? why did I call, and there was none to hearken? Is not my hand strong to redeem? or can I not deliver? behold, by my rebuke I will dry up the sea, and make rivers a wilderness; and their fish shall be dried up because there is no water, and shall die for thirst. I will clothe the sky with darkness, and will make its covering as sackcloth. 4The Lord even God gives me the tongue of in- Gr.the Lord struction, to know when it on 3 Ki. 8. 53. is fit to speak a word: he has appointed for me early, he has given me an ear to hear: and the instruction of the Lord, even the Lord, opens mine ears, and I do not disobey, nor dispute. "I gave my back to scourges, and my cheeks to blows; and I turned not away my face from the shame of spitting: but the Lord God became my helper; therefore I was not ashamed: but I set my face as a solid rock, and I know that I shall never be ashamed: for he that has justified me draws near; who is he that pleads with me? let him stand up against me at the same time: the Lord. See sorrow. day. of yea, who is he that pleads with me? the people in whose heart is my law: let him draw nigh to me. 9 Behold, fear not the reproach of men, and be the Lord, the Lord, will help me; who not overcome by their contempt. For will hurt me? behold, all ye shall wax as a garment will be devoured by time, old as a garment, and a moth shall de- and as wool will be devoured by a vour you. 10 Who is among you that moth, so shall they be consumed, but fears the Lord? let him hearken to the my righteousness shall be for ever, voice of his servant: ye that walk in and my salvation for all generations. darkness, and have no light, trust in 'Awake, awake, O Jerusalem, and put the name of the Lord, and stay upon on the strength of thine arm; awake God. 11 Behold, all ye kindle a fire, as in the early time, as the Gr. the beand feed a flame: walk in the light of ancient generation. 10 Art ginning your fire, and in the flame which ye thou not it that dried the sea, the have kindled. This has happened to water, even the abundance of the deep; you for shall lie down in that made the depths of the sea a way my sake; ye of passage for the delivered and redeemed? for by the help of the Lord 51. Hearken to me, ye that follow they shall return, and come to Sion after righteousness, and seek the Lord: with joy and everlasting exultation, look to the solid rock, which ye have for praise and joy shall come upon hewn, and to the hole of the pit which their head: pain, and grief, and groanye have dug. 2 Look to Abraam your ing have fled away. 121, even I, am father, and to Sarrha that bore you: he that comforts thee: consider who for he was alone when I called him, thou art, that thou wast afraid of and blessed him, and loved him, and mortal man, and of the son of man, multiplied him. And now I will who are withered as grass. 13 And comfort thee, O Sion: and I have thou hast forgotten God who made comforted all her desert places; and I thee, who made the sky and founded will make her desert places as a gar- the earth; and thou wert continually + Heb. T den, and her * western places afraid because of the wrath of him that ambiguous. as the garden of the Lord; afflicted thee: for whereas he counthey shall find in her gladness and ex- selled to take thee away, yet now ultation, thanksgiving, and the voice where is the wrath of him that afflicted. of praise. Hear me, hear me, my thee? 14 For in thy deliverance he people; and ye kings, hearken to me: shall not halt, nor tarry; 15 for I am for a law shall proceed from me, and thy God, that troubles the sea, and my judgment shall be for a light of causes the waves thereof to roar: the + Or, the Gen- *nations. My righteous- Lord of hosts is my name. 16 I will ness speedily draws nigh, put my words into thy mouth, and I and my salvation shall go forth as will shelter thee under the shadow of + Not in Heb. light, and on mine arm mine hand, with which I fixed the shall the Gentiles trust: the sky, and founded the earth: and the isles shall wait for me, and on mine Lord shall say to Sion, Thou art my arm shall they trust. Lift up your people. eyes to the sky, and look on the earth 17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerubeneath for the sky was darkened salem, that hast drunk at the hand of like smoke, and the earth shall wax the Lord the cup of his fury: for thou old like a garment, and the inhabitants hast drunk out and drained the cup of shall die in like manner: but my right-calamity, the cup of wrath: 18 and there eousness shall not fail. was none to comfort thee of all the tiles. or Alex. 3 5 7 Hear me, ye that know judgment, children whom thou borest; and there διδ. 8 peace, as one was none to take hold of thine hand, | mountains, as the feet of one preachnot even of all the children whom ing glad tidings of Alex. 8vo not thou hast reared. 19+ Where- preaching good news: for I will pubfore these things are against lish thy salvation, saying, O Sion, thy thee; who shall sympathise with thee God shall reign. For the voice of in thy grief? downfall, and destruction, them that guard thee is exalted, and famine, and sword: who shall comfort with the voice together they shall rethee? 20 Thy sons are the perplexed joice: for eyes shall look to eyes, when ones, that sleep at the top of every the Lord shall have mercy upon Sion. street as a half-boiled beet; they that Let the waste places of Jerusalem are full of the anger of the Lord, break forth in joy together, because caused to faint by the Lord God. the Lord has had mercy upon her, and 21 Therefore hear, thou afflicted one, has delivered Jerusalem. 10 And the and drunken, but not with wine: 22 thus Lord shall reveal his holy arm in the says the Lord God that judges his peo- sight of all the nations; and all the ple, Behold, I have taken out of thine ends of the earth shall see the salvation hand the cup of calamity, the cup of that comes from our God. 11+ Depart my wrath; and thou shalt not drink ye, depart, go out from +2 Cor. 6. 17, it any more. 23 And I will give it into thence, and touch not the 18. the hands of them that injured thee, and unclean thing; go ye out from the them that afflicted thee; who said to thy midst of her; separate yourselves, ye soul, Bow down, that we may pass over: that bear the vessels of the Lord. 12 For and thou didst level thy body with the ye shall not go forth with tumult, ground to them passing by without. neither go by flight: for + Gr. gathers the Lord shall go first before you. you; and the God of Israel shall be he that 'brings up your rear. 52. Awake, awake, Sion; put on thy strength, O Sion; and do thou put on thy glory, Jerusalem the holy city: there shall no more pass through thee the uncircumcised and unclean. 2 Shake off the dust and arise; sit down, Jerusalem: put off the band of thy neck, captive daughter of Sion. For thus says the Lord, Ye have been sold for nought; and ye shall not be ransomed with silver. Thus says the Lord, My people went down before to Egypt to sojourn there; and were carried away forcibly to the Assyrians. 5 And now why are ye here? Thus says the Lord, Because my people + Rom. 2. 24. + Rom. 10. 15. ing is 'How lit. Why have says 4 13 Behold, my servant shall understand, and be exalted, and glorified exceedingly. 14 As many shall be amazed at thee, so shall thy face be inglorious among men and thy glory shall not be honoured among the sons of men. 15 Thus shall many nations wonder at him; and kings shall keep their mouths shut: 'for they + Rom. 15.21. to whom no report was brought concerning him, shall see; and they who have not heard, shall consider. 53. O Lord, who has believed our was taken for nothing, report? and to whom has + John 12. 38; Another read- wonder ye and howl. Thus the arm of the Lord been Rom. 10. 16. beautiful are the Lord, On account revealed? We brought a report as the feet,' &c. of you my name is con- of a child before him; he is as a root the feet been tinually blasphemed among in a thirsty land: he has no form nor made beauti- the Gentiles. 6 Therefore comeliness; and we saw him, but he had no form nor beauty. 3 But his form was ignoble, and inferior to that of the children of men; he was a man in suffering, and acquainted with the ful? See also morning Joel 2. 2. the shall my people know my [spread] upon name in that day, for I am he that speaks, I am present, fas a season of beauty upon the the moun tains.' |