feed of the adulterer, and the whore. 4 Against whom do ye fport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not, children of tranfgreffion, a feed of falfhood? 5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, flaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? 6 Among the fmooth ftones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them haft thou poured a drink-offering, thou haft offered a meat-offering. Should I receive comfort in these? 7 Upon a lofty and high mountain haft thou fet thy bed even thither wenteft thou up to offer facrifice. 8 Behind the doors alfo and the posts haft thou set up thy remembrance: for thou haft difcovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou faweft it. 9 And thou wenteft to the king with ointment, and didft increase thy perfumes, and didft fend thy meffengers far off, and didft debafe thyfelf even unto hell. 10 Thou art wearied in the greatnefs of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou haft found the life of thine hand; therefore thou waft not grieved. 11 And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou haft lied, and haft not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou feareft me not? 12 I will declare thy righteoufnefs, and thy works, for they fhall not profit thee. 13 When thou cryeft, let thy companies deliver thee: but the wind fhall carry them all away; vanity fhall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me, shall poffefs the land, and fhall inherit my holy mountain: 14 And fhall fay, Caft ye up, caft ye up, prepare the way, take up the ftumblingblock out of the way of my people. 15 For thus faith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whofe name is Holy, I dwell in the high and holy place; with him alfo that is of a contrite and humble fpirit, to revive the Gg 3 fpirit fpirit of the humble, and to | ways, as a nation that did revive the heart of the con- righteoufnefs, and forfook trite ones. 16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the fpirit fhould fail before me, and the fouls which I have made. 17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart. 18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and reftore comforts unto him, and to his mourners. 19 I create the fruit of the lips: peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, faith the Lord, and I will heal him. 20 But the wicked are like the troubled fea, when it cannot reft, whofe waters caft up mire and dirt. 21 There is no peace, faith my God, to the wicked. CHAP. LVIII. 6 Is not this the fast that I have chofen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to lift up thy voice like a let the oppreffed go free, and trumpet, and fhew my peo-that ye break every yoke? ple their tranfgreffion, and the houfe of Jacob their fins. 2 Yet they feek me daily, and delight to know my 7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are caft out, to thy houfe? when thou feeft the naked, that thou thou cover him, and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? 8 Then fhall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health fhall spring forth speedily and thy righteousness fhall go before thee, the glory of the Lord fhall be thy rere-ward. 9 Then fhalt thou call, and the Lord fhall anfwer; thou fhalt cry, and he fhall fay, Here I am: if thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity : 10 And if thou draw out foul to hungry, and fatisfy the afflicted only, then fhall thy light rife in obfcurity, and thy darkness be as the noon-day. II And the Lord fhall guide thee continually, and fatisfy thy foul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. 12 And they that fhall be of thee, fhall build the old wafte places: thou fhalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou fhalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. 13 If thou turn away thy foot from the fabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the fabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable, and fhalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor fpeaking thine own words: 14 Then fhalt thou delight thyself in the Lord, and I will caufe thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. CHAP. LIX. EHOLD the Lord's hand is not thortened, that it cannot fave: neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear. 2 But your iniquities have feparated between you and your God, and your fins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. 4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they truft in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mifchief, and bring forth iniquity. Gg 4 5 They 5 They hatch cockatriceeggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed, breaketh cut into a viper. 6 Their webs fhall not become garments, neither fhall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. there is none; for falvation, but it is far off from us. 12 For our tranfgreffions are multiplied before thee, and our fins teftify against us: for our tranfgreffions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them. 13 In tranfgreffing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, fpeaking oppreffion and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falfhood. 14 And judgment is turned away backward, and 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make hafte to fhed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, wafting and deftruc-juftice ftandeth afar off: for tion are in their paths. truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. 15 Yea, truth faileth, and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey; and the Lord faw it, and it difpleased him that there was no 8 The way of peace they know not, and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whofoever goeth therein, fhall not know peace. 9 Therefore is judg-judgment. ment far from us, neither 16 And he faw that there doth justice overtake us: we was no man, and wondered wait for light, but behold that there was no interceffor: obfcurity; for brightness, but therefore his arm brought we walk in darkness. falvation unto him; and his righteousness, it fuftained him. 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes we ftumble at noon-day as in the night; we are in defolate places as dead men. II We roar all like bears, and mourn fore like doves: we look for judgment, but श 17 For he put on righteoufnefs as a breaft-plate, and an helmet of falvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke, 18 According to their be feen upon thee. deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adverfaries, recompence to his enemies, to the islands he will repay recompence. 3 And the Gentiles fhall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rifing. 19. So fhall they fear the name of the Lord from the weft, and his glory from the rifing of the fun: when the enemy fhall come in like a flood, the fpirit of the Lord fhall lift up a standard against him. 4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and fee; all they gather themselves together, they come to thee, thy fons fhall come from far, and thy daughters fhall be nursed at thy fide. 5 Then thou fhalt fee and flow together, and thine heart fhall fear, and be enlarged, because the abundance of the 20 ¶ And the Redeemer fhall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from tranf-fea fhall be converted unto greffion in Jacob, faith the Lord. 21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, faith the Lord, My fpirit 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 feed, nor out of the mouth of thy feed's feed, faith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever. CHAP. LX. thee, the forces of the Gentiles fhall come unto thee. 6 The multitude of camels fhall cover thee: the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah: all they from Sheba fhall come: they fhall bring gold and incenfe, and they fhall fhew forth the praifes of the Lord. 7 All the flocks of Kedar fhall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth fhall minifter unto thee: they shall come up ARE; fine, for thy with acceptance on mine al light is come, and the glory of the Lord is rifen upon thee. 2 For behold, the darknefs fhall cover the earth, and grofs darkness the people: but the Lord fhall arife upon thee, and his glory shall 9 tar, and I will glorify the house of my glory. 8 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? 9 Surely the ifles fhall wait for me, and the fhips of Tarshish first, to bring thy fons 1 from |