GetPassageurn:cts:pbc:bible.parallel.eng.kingjames:23urn:cts:pbc:bible.parallel.eng.kingjames:23The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz , which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah , Jotham , Ahaz , and Hezekiah , kings of Judah . Hear , O heavens , and give ear , O earth : for the LORD hath spoken , I have nourished and brought up children , and they have rebelled against me . The ox knoweth his owner , and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know , my people doth not consider . Ah sinful nation , a people laden with iniquity , a seed of evildoers , children that are corrupters : they have forsaken the LORD , they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger , they are gone away backward . Why should ye be stricken any more ? ye will revolt more and more : the whole head is sick , and the whole heart faint . From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it ; but wounds , and bruises , and putrifying sores : they have not been closed , neither bound up , neither mollified with ointment . Your country is desolate , your cities are burned with fire : your land , strangers devour it in your presence , and it is desolate , as overthrown by strangers . And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard , as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers , as a besieged city . Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant , we should have been as Sodom , and we should have been like unto Gomorrah . Hear the word of the LORD , ye rulers of Sodom ; give ear unto the law of our God , ye people of Gomorrah . To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the LORD : I am full of 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 ye come to appear before me , who hath required this at your hand , to tread my courts ? Bring no more vain oblations ; incense is an abomination unto me ; the new moons and sabbaths , the calling of assemblies , I cannot away with ; it is iniquity , even the solemn meeting . Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth : they are a trouble unto me ; I am weary to bear them . And when ye spread forth your hands , I will hide mine eyes from you : yea , when ye 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 mine 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 , saith the LORD : though your sins be as scarlet , they shall be as white as snow ; though they be red like crimson , they shall be as wool . If ye be willing and obedient , ye shall eat the good of the land : But if ye refuse and rebel , ye shall be devoured with the sword : for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it . How is the faithful city become an harlot ! it was full of judgment ; righteousness lodged in it ; but now murderers . Thy silver is become dross , thy wine mixed with water : Thy princes are rebellious , and companions of thieves : every one loveth gifts , and followeth after rewards : they judge not the fatherless , neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them . Therefore saith the Lord , the LORD of hosts , the mighty One of Israel , Ah , I will ease me of mine adversaries , and avenge me of mine enemies : And I will turn my hand upon thee , and purely purge away thy dross , and take away all thy tin : And I will restore thy judges as at the first , and thy counsellers as at the beginning : afterward thou shalt be called , The city of righteousness , the faithful city . Zion shall be redeemed with judgment , and her converts 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 oaks which ye have desired , and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen . For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth , and as a garden that hath 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 Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem . And it shall come to pass in the last days , that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains , and shall be exalted above the hills ; and all nations shall flow unto it . And many people shall go and say , Come ye , and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD , to the house of the God of Jacob ; and he will teach us of his ways , and we will walk in his paths : for out of Zion shall go forth the law , and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem . And he shall judge among the nations , and shall rebuke many people : and they shall beat their swords into plowshares , and their spears into pruninghooks : nation shall not lift up sword against nation , neither shall they learn war any more . O house of Jacob , come ye , and let us walk in the light of the LORD . Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob , because they be replenished from the east , and are soothsayers like the Philistines , 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 boweth down , and the great man humbleth himself : therefore forgive them not . Enter into the rock , and hide thee 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 in 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 ; and he shall be brought low : And upon all the cedars of Lebanon , that are high and lifted up , and upon all the oaks of Bashan , And upon all the high mountains , and upon all the hills that are lifted up , And upon every high tower , and upon every fenced wall , And upon all the ships of Tarshish , and upon all pleasant pictures . 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 in that day . And the idols he shall utterly abolish . 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 ariseth to shake terribly the earth . In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver , and his idols of gold , which they made each one for himself to worship , to the moles and to the bats ; To go into the clefts of the rocks , and into the tops of the ragged rocks , for fear of the LORD , and for the glory of his majesty , when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth . Cease ye from man , whose breath is in his nostrils : for wherein is he to be accounted of ? For , behold , the Lord , the LORD of hosts , doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah 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 prudent , and the ancient , The captain of fifty , and the honourable man , and the counseller , and the cunning artificer , and the eloquent orator . And I will give children to be 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 ancient , 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 an healer ; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing : make me not a ruler of the people . For Jerusalem is ruined , and Judah is fallen : because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD , to provoke the eyes of his glory . The shew of their countenance doth witness against them ; and they declare their sin as Sodom , they hide it not . Woe unto their soul ! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves . Say ye to the righteous , that it shall be well with him : for they shall eat the fruit of their doings . Woe unto the wicked ! it shall be ill with him : for the reward of his hands shall be given him . As for my people , children are their oppressors , and women rule over them . O my people , they which lead thee cause thee to err , and destroy the way of thy paths . The LORD standeth up to plead , and standeth to judge the people . The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people , and the princes thereof : for ye have eaten up the vineyard ; the spoil of the poor is in your houses . What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces , and grind the faces of the poor ? saith the LORD GOD of hosts . Moreover the LORD saith , Because the daughters of Zion are haughty , and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton 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 Zion , and the LORD will discover their secret parts . In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet , and their cauls , and their round tires like the moon , The chains , and the bracelets , and the mufflers , The bonnets , and the ornaments of the legs , and the headbands , and the tablets , and the earrings , The rings , and nose jewels , The changeable suits of apparel , and the mantles , and the wimples , and the crisping pins , The glasses , and the fine linen , and the hoods , and the vails . And it shall come to pass , that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink ; and instead of a girdle a rent ; and instead of well set hair baldness ; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth ; and burning instead of beauty . Thy men shall fall by the sword , and thy mighty in the war . And her gates shall 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 , to take away our reproach . In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious , and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel . And it shall come to pass , that he that is left in Zion , and he that remaineth in Jerusalem , shall be called holy , even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem : When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion , and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment , and by the spirit of burning . And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion , 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 be a defence . 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 touching his vineyard . My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill : And he fenced it , and gathered out the stones thereof , and planted it with the choicest vine , and built a tower in the midst of it , and also made a winepress therein : and he looked that it should bring forth grapes , and it brought forth wild grapes . And now , O inhabitants of Jerusalem , and men of Judah , judge , I pray you , betwixt me and my vineyard . What could have been done more to my vineyard , that I have not done in it ? wherefore , when I looked that it should bring forth grapes , brought it forth wild grapes ? And now go to ; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard : I will take away the hedge thereof , and it shall be eaten up ; and break down the wall thereof , and it shall be trodden down : And I will lay it waste : it shall not be pruned , nor digged ; but there shall come up briers and thorns : I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it . For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel , and the men of Judah his pleasant plant : and he looked for judgment , but behold oppression ; for righteousness , but behold a cry . Woe unto them that join house to house , that lay field to field , till there be no place , that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth ! In mine ears said the LORD of hosts , Of a truth many houses shall be desolate , even great and fair , without inhabitant . Yea , ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath , and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah . Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning , that they may follow strong drink ; that continue until night , till wine inflame them ! And the harp , and the viol , the tabret , 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 hell hath enlarged herself , and opened her mouth without measure : and their glory , and their multitude , and their pomp , and he that rejoiceth , shall descend 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 humbled : But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment , and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness . Then shall the lambs feed after their manner , and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat . Woe unto 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 Israel draw nigh and come , that we may know it ! Woe unto 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 unto them that are wise in their own eyes , and prudent in their own sight ! Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine , and men of strength to mingle strong drink : Which justify the wicked for reward , and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him ! Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble , and the flame consumeth the chaff , so their root shall be as rottenness , and their blossom shall go up as dust : because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts , and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel . Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people , and he hath stretched forth his hand against them , and hath smitten them : and the hills did tremble , and their carcases were torn 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 an ensign to the nations from far , and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth : and , behold , they shall come with speed swiftly : None shall be weary nor stumble among them ; none shall slumber nor 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 a whirlwind : Their roaring shall be like a lion , they shall roar like young lions : yea , they shall roar , and lay hold of the prey , and shall 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 unto the land , behold darkness and sorrow , and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof . In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne , high and lifted up , and his train filled the temple . Above it stood the seraphims : each one had six wings ; with twain he covered his face , and with twain he covered his feet , and with twain he did fly . And one cried unto 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 undone ; because I am a man of unclean lips , and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips : for mine eyes have seen the King , the LORD of hosts . Then flew one of the seraphims unto me , having a live coal in his hand , which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar : And he laid it upon my mouth , and said , Lo , this hath touched thy lips ; and thine iniquity is taken away , and thy sin 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 ye indeed , but understand not ; and see ye indeed , but perceive not . Make the heart of this people fat , and make their ears heavy , and shut their eyes ; lest they see with their eyes , and hear with their ears , and understand with their heart , and convert , 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 have removed men far away , and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land . But yet in it shall be a tenth , and it shall return , and shall be eaten : as a teil tree , and as an oak , whose substance is in them , when they cast their leaves : so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof . And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham , the son of Uzziah , king of Judah , that Rezin the king of Syria , and Pekah the son of Remaliah , king of Israel , went up toward Jerusalem to war against it , but could not prevail against it . And it was told the house of David , saying , Syria is confederate with Ephraim . And his heart was moved , and the heart of his people , as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind . Then said the LORD unto Isaiah , Go forth now to meet Ahaz , thou , and Shear-jashub thy son , at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field ; And say unto him , Take heed , and be quiet ; fear not , neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands , for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria , and of the son of Remaliah . Because Syria , Ephraim , and the son of Remaliah , have taken evil counsel against thee , saying , Let us go up against Judah , and vex it , and let us make a breach therein for us , and set a king in the midst of it , even the son of Tabeal : Thus saith the Lord GOD , It shall not stand , neither shall it come to pass . For the head of Syria is Damascus , and the head of Damascus is Rezin ; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken , that it be not a people . And the head of Ephraim is Samaria , and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son . If ye will not believe , surely ye shall not be established . Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz , saying , Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God ; ask it either in the depth , or in the height above . But Ahaz said , I will not ask , neither will I tempt the LORD . And he said , Hear ye now , O house of David ; Is it a small thing for you to weary men , but will ye weary my God also ? Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign ; Behold , a virgin shall conceive , and bear a son , and shall call his name Immanuel . Butter and honey shall he eat , that he may know to refuse the evil , and choose the good . For before the child shall know to refuse the evil , and choose the good , the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings . The LORD shall bring upon thee , and upon thy people , and upon thy father's house , days that have not come , from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah ; even the king of Assyria . And it shall come to pass in that day , that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt , and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria . And they shall come , and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys , and in the holes of the rocks , and upon all thorns , and upon all bushes . In the same day shall the Lord shave with a rasor that is hired , namely , by them beyond the river , by the king of Assyria , the head , and the hair of the feet : and it shall also consume 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 , for 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 at a thousand silverlings , it shall even be for briers and thorns . With arrows and with bows shall men come thither ; because all the land shall become briers and thorns . And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock , there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns : but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen , and for the treading of lesser cattle . Moreover the LORD said unto me , Take thee a great roll , and write in it with a man's pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz . And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record , Uriah the priest , and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah . And I went unto the prophetess ; and she conceived , and bare a son . Then said the LORD to me , Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz . For before the child shall have knowledge to cry , My father , and my mother , the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria . The LORD spake also unto me again , saying , Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly , and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son ; Now therefore , behold , the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river , strong and many , even the king of Assyria , and all his glory : and he shall come up over all his channels , and go over all his banks : And he shall pass through Judah ; 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 Immanuel . Associate yourselves , O ye people , and ye shall be broken in pieces ; and give ear , all ye of far countries : gird yourselves , and ye shall be broken in pieces ; gird yourselves , and ye shall be broken in pieces . Take counsel together , and it shall come to nought ; speak the word , and it shall not stand : for God is with us . For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand , and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people , saying , Say ye not , A confederacy , to all them to whom this people shall say , A confederacy ; neither fear ye 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 Israel , for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem . And many among them shall stumble , and fall , and be broken , and be snared , and be taken . Bind up the testimony , seal the law among my disciples . And I will wait upon the LORD , that hideth his face from the house of Jacob , and I will look for him . Behold , I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts , which dwelleth in mount Zion . And when they shall say unto you , Seek unto them that have familiar spirits , and unto wizards that peep , and that mutter : should not a people seek unto their God ? for the living to the dead ? To the law and to the testimony : if they speak not according to this word , it is because there is no light in them . And they shall pass through it , hardly bestead 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 unto the earth ; and behold trouble and darkness , dimness of anguish ; and they shall be driven to darkness . Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation , when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali , and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea , beyond Jordan , in Galilee of the nations . The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light : they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death , upon them hath the light shined . Thou hast multiplied the nation , and not increased the 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 Midian . For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise , and garments rolled in blood ; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire . For unto us a child is born , unto us a son is given : and the government shall be upon his shoulder : and his name shall be called Wonderful , Counseller , The mighty God , The everlasting Father , The Prince of Peace . Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end , upon the throne of David , and upon his kingdom , to order it , and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever . The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this . The Lord sent a word into Jacob , and it hath lighted upon Israel . And all the people shall know , even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria , that say in the pride and stoutness of heart , The bricks are fallen down , but we will build with hewn stones : the sycomores are cut down , but we will change them into cedars . Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him , and join his enemies together ; The Syrians before , and the Philistines behind ; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth . For all this his anger is not turned away , but his hand is stretched out still . For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them , neither do they seek the LORD of hosts . Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail , branch and rush , in one day . The ancient and honourable , he is the head ; and the prophet that teacheth lies , he is the tail . For the leaders of this people cause them to err ; and they that are led of them are destroyed . Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men , neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows : for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer , and every mouth speaketh folly . For all this his anger is not turned away , but his hand is stretched out still . For wickedness burneth as the fire : it shall devour the briers and thorns , and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest , and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke . Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened , and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire : no man shall spare his brother . And he shall snatch on the right hand , and be hungry ; and he shall eat on the left hand , and they shall not be satisfied : they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm : Manasseh , Ephraim ; and Ephraim , Manasseh : and they together shall be against Judah . For all this his anger is not turned away , but his hand is stretched out still . Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees , and that write grievousness which they have prescribed ; 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 ye do in the day of visitation , and in the desolation which shall come from far ? to whom will ye flee for help ? and where will ye leave your glory ? Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners , and they shall fall under the slain . For all this his anger is not turned away , but his hand is stretched out still . O Assyrian , the rod of mine anger , and the staff in their hand is mine indignation . I will send him against an 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 meaneth not so , neither doth his heart think so ; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few . For he saith , Are not my princes altogether kings ? Is not Calno as Carchemish ? is not Hamath as Arpad ? is not Samaria as Damascus ? As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols , and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria ; Shall I not , as I have done unto Samaria and her idols , so do to Jerusalem and her idols ? Wherefore it shall come to pass , that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem , I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria , and the glory of his high looks . For he saith , 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 inhabitants like a valiant man : And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people : and as one gathereth eggs that are left , have I gathered all the earth ; and there was none that moved the wing , or opened the mouth , or peeped . Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith ? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it ? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up , or as if the staff should lift up itself , as if it were no wood . Therefore shall the Lord , the Lord of hosts , send among his fat ones leanness ; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire . And the light of Israel 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 standardbearer fainteth . And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few , that a child may write them . And it shall come to pass in that day , that the remnant of Israel , and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob , shall no more again stay upon him that smote them ; but shall stay upon the LORD , the Holy One of Israel , in truth . The remnant shall return , even the remnant of Jacob , unto the mighty God . For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea , yet a remnant of them shall return : the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness . For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption , even determined , in the midst of all the land . Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts , O my people that dwellest in Zion , be not afraid of the Assyrian : he shall smite thee with a rod , and shall lift up his staff against thee , after the manner of Egypt . For yet a very little while , and the indignation shall cease , and mine anger in their destruction . And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb : and as his rod was upon the sea , so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt . And it shall come to pass in 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 anointing . He is come to Aiath , he is passed to Migron ; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages : They are gone over the passage : they have taken up their lodging at Geba ; Ramah is afraid ; Gibeah of Saul is fled . Lift up thy voice , O daughter of Gallim : cause it to be heard unto Laish , O poor Anathoth . Madmenah is removed ; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee . As yet shall he remain at Nob that day : he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion , the hill of Jerusalem . Behold , the Lord , 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 Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one . And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse , 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 shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD : and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes , neither reprove after the hearing of his ears : But with righteousness shall he judge the poor , and reprove 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 shall play on the hole of the asp , and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den . 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 there shall be a root of Jesse , which shall stand for an ensign of the people ; to it shall the Gentiles seek : and his rest shall be glorious . And it shall come to pass in that day , that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people , which shall be left , from Assyria , and from Egypt , and from Pathros , and from Cush , and from Elam , and from Shinar , and from Hamath , and from the islands of the sea . And he shall set up an ensign for the nations , and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel , and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth . The envy also of Ephraim shall depart , and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off : Ephraim shall not envy Judah , and Judah shall not vex Ephraim . But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west ; they shall spoil them of the east together : they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab ; and the children of Ammon shall obey them . And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea ; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river , and shall smite it in the seven streams , and make men go over dryshod . And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people , which shall be left , from Assyria ; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt . And in that day thou shalt say , O LORD , I will praise thee : though thou wast angry with me , thine anger is turned away , and thou comfortedst me . Behold , God is my salvation ; I will trust , and not be afraid : for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song ; he also is become my salvation . Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation . And in that day shall ye say , Praise the LORD , call upon his name , declare his doings among the people , make mention that his name is exalted . Sing unto the LORD ; for he hath done excellent things : this is known in all the earth . Cry out and shout , thou inhabitant of Zion : for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee . The burden of Babylon , which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see . Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain , exalt the voice unto them , shake the hand , that they may go into the gates of the nobles . I have commanded my sanctified ones , I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger , even them that rejoice in my highness . 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 mustereth the host of the battle . They come from a far country , from the end of heaven , even the LORD , and the weapons of his indignation , to destroy the whole land . Howl ye ; for the day of the LORD is at hand ; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty . Therefore shall all hands be faint , 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 that travaileth : they shall be amazed one at another ; their faces shall be as flames . Behold , the day of the LORD cometh , cruel both with wrath and fierce anger , to lay the land desolate : and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it . For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light : the sun shall be darkened in his going forth , and the moon shall not cause her light to shine . 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 terrible . I will make a man more precious than fine gold ; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir . Therefore I will shake the heavens , and the earth shall remove out of her place , in the wrath of the LORD of hosts , and in the day of his fierce anger . And it shall be as the chased roe , and as a sheep that no man taketh 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 joined unto them 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 Medes against them , which 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 Babylon , the glory of kingdoms , the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency , shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah . It shall never be inhabited , neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there . But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; and owls shall dwell there , and satyrs shall dance there . And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses , and dragons in their pleasant palaces : and her time is near to come , and her days shall not be prolonged . For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob , and will yet choose Israel , and set them in their own land : and the strangers shall be joined with them , and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob . And the people shall take them , and bring them to their place : and the house of Israel 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 in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow , and from thy fear , and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve , That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon , and say , How hath the oppressor ceased ! the golden city ceased ! The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked , and the sceptre of the rulers . He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke , he that ruled the nations in anger , is persecuted , and none hindereth . The whole earth is at rest , and is quiet : they break forth into singing . Yea , the fir trees rejoice at thee , and the cedars of Lebanon , saying , Since thou art laid down , no feller is come up against us . Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming : it stirreth up the dead for thee , even all the chief ones of the earth ; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations . All they shall speak and say unto thee , Art thou also become weak as we ? art thou become like unto us ? Thy pomp is brought down to the grave , and the noise of thy viols : the worm is spread under thee , and the worms cover thee . How art thou fallen from heaven , O Lucifer , son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground , which didst weaken the nations ! For thou hast said in thine 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 sides of the north : I will ascend above the heights of the clouds ; I will be like the most High . Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell , to the sides 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 the cities thereof ; 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 abominable branch , and as the raiment of those that are slain , thrust through with a sword , that go down to the stones of the pit ; as a carcase trodden under feet . Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial , because thou hast destroyed thy land , and slain thy people : the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned . Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers ; that they do not rise , nor possess the land , nor fill the face of the world with cities . For I will rise up against them , saith the LORD of hosts , and cut off from Babylon the name , and remnant , and son , and nephew , saith the LORD . I will also make it a possession for the bittern , and pools of water : and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction , saith the LORD of hosts . The LORD of hosts hath sworn , saying , Surely as I have thought , so shall it come to pass ; and as I have purposed , so shall it stand : That I will break the Assyrian 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 hath purposed , and who shall disannul it ? and his hand is stretched out , and who shall turn it back ? In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden . Rejoice not thou , whole Palestina , because the rod of him that smote thee is broken : for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice , and his fruit shall be a fiery 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 , whole Palestina , art dissolved : for there shall come from the north a smoke , and none shall be alone in his appointed times . What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation ? That the LORD hath founded Zion , and the poor of his people shall trust in it . The burden of Moab . Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste , and brought to silence ; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste , and brought to silence ; He is gone up to Bajith , and to Dibon , the high places , to weep : Moab shall howl over Nebo , and over Medeba : on all their heads shall be baldness , and every beard cut off . In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth : on the tops of their houses , and in their streets , every one shall howl , weeping abundantly . And Heshbon shall cry , and Elealeh : their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz : therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out ; his life shall be grievous unto him . My heart shall cry out for Moab ; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar , an heifer of three years old : for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up ; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction . For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate : for the hay is withered away , the grass faileth , there is no green thing . Therefore the abundance they have gotten , and that which they have laid up , shall they carry away to the brook of the willows . For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab ; the howling thereof unto Eglaim , and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim . For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood : for I will bring more upon Dimon , lions upon him that escapeth of Moab , and upon the remnant of the land . Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness , unto the mount of the daughter of Zion . For it shall be , that , as a wandering bird cast out of the nest , so the daughters of Moab 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 ; bewray not him that wandereth . Let mine outcasts dwell with thee , Moab ; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler : for the extortioner is at an end , the spoiler ceaseth , the oppressors are consumed out of the land . And in mercy shall the throne be established : and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David , judging , and seeking judgment , and hasting righteousness . We have heard of the pride of Moab ; he is very proud : even of his haughtiness , and his pride , and his wrath : but his lies shall not be so . Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab , every one shall howl : for the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn ; surely they are stricken . For the fields of Heshbon languish , and the vine of Sibmah : the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof , they are come even unto Jazer , they wandered through the wilderness : her branches are stretched out , they are gone over the sea . Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah : I will water thee with my tears , O Heshbon , and Elealeh : for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is 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 their vintage shouting to cease . Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab , and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh . And it shall come to pass , when it is seen that Moab 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 hath spoken concerning Moab since that time . But now the LORD hath spoken , saying , Within three years , as the years of an hireling , and the glory of Moab shall be contemned , with all that great multitude ; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble . The burden of Damascus . Behold , Damascus is taken away from being a city , and it shall be a ruinous heap . The cities of Aroer are forsaken : they shall be for flocks , which shall lie down , and none shall make them afraid . The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim , and the kingdom from Damascus , and the remnant of Syria : they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel , saith the LORD of hosts . And in that day it shall come to pass , that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin , and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean . And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn , and reapeth the ears with his arm ; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim . Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it , as the shaking of an olive tree , two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough , four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof , saith the LORD God of Israel . At that day shall a man look to his Maker , and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel . And he shall not look to the altars , the work of his hands , neither shall respect that which his fingers have made , either the groves , or the images . In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough , and an uppermost branch , which they left because of the children of Israel : 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 shalt thou plant pleasant plants , and shalt set it with strange slips : In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow , and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish : but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow . Woe to the multitude of many people , which 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 God shall rebuke them , and they shall flee far off , and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind , and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind . And behold at eveningtide trouble ; and before the morning he is not . This is the portion of them that spoil us , and the lot of them that rob us . Woe to the land shadowing with wings , which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia : That sendeth ambassadors by the sea , even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters , saying , Go , ye swift messengers , to a nation scattered and peeled , to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto ; a nation meted out and trodden down , whose land the rivers have spoiled ! All ye inhabitants of the world , and dwellers on the earth , see ye , when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains ; and when he bloweth a trumpet , hear ye . For so the LORD said unto me , I will take my rest , and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs , and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest . For afore the harvest , when the bud is perfect , and the sour grape is ripening in the flower , he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks , and take away and cut down the branches . They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains , and to the beasts of the earth : and the fowls shall summer upon them , and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them . In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled , and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto ; a nation meted out and trodden under foot , whose land the rivers have spoiled , to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts , the mount Zion . The burden of Egypt . Behold , the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud , and shall come into Egypt : and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence , and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it . And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians : 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 Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof ; and I will destroy the counsel thereof : and they shall seek to the idols , and to the charmers , and to them that have familiar spirits , and to the wizards . And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord ; and a fierce king shall rule over them , saith the Lord , the LORD of hosts . And the waters shall fail from the sea , and the river shall be wasted and dried up . And they shall turn the rivers far away ; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up : the reeds and flags shall wither . The paper reeds by the brooks , by the mouth of the brooks , and every thing sown by the brooks , shall wither , be driven away , and be no more . The fishers also shall mourn , and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament , and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish . Moreover they that work in fine flax , and they that weave networks , shall be confounded . And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof , all that make sluices and ponds for fish . Surely the princes of Zoan are fools , the counsel of the wise counsellers of Pharaoh is become brutish : how say ye unto Pharaoh , 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 hath purposed upon Egypt . The princes of Zoan are become fools , the princes of Noph are deceived ; they have also seduced Egypt , even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof . The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof : and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof , as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit . Neither shall there be any work for Egypt , which the head or tail , branch or rush , may do . In that day shall Egypt be like unto women : and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts , which he shaketh over it . And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt , every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself , because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts , which he hath determined against it . In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan , and swear to 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 Egypt , and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD . And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt : for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors , and he shall send them a saviour , and a great one , and he shall deliver them . And the LORD shall be known to Egypt , and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day , and shall do sacrifice and oblation ; yea , they shall vow a vow unto the LORD , and perform it . And the LORD shall smite Egypt : he shall smite and heal it : and they shall return even to the LORD , and he shall be intreated of them , and shall heal them . In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria , and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt , and the Egyptian into Assyria , and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians . In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria , even a blessing in the midst of the land : Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless , saying , Blessed be Egypt my people , and Assyria the work of my hands , and Israel mine inheritance . In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod , ( when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him , ) and fought against Ashdod , and took it ; At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz , 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 , Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia ; So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners , and the Ethiopians captives , young and old , naked and barefoot , even with their buttocks uncovered , to the shame of Egypt . And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation , and of Egypt their glory . And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day , Behold , such is our expectation , whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria : and how shall we escape ? The burden of the desert of the sea . As whirlwinds in the south pass through ; so it cometh from the desert , from a terrible land . A grievous vision is declared unto me ; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously , and the spoiler spoileth . Go up , O Elam : besiege , O Media ; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease . Therefore are my loins filled with pain : pangs have taken hold upon me , as the pangs of a woman that travaileth : I was bowed down at the hearing of it ; I was dismayed at the seeing of it . My heart panted , fearfulness affrighted me : the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me . Prepare the table , watch in the watchtower , eat , drink : arise , ye princes , and anoint the shield . For thus hath the Lord said unto me , Go , set a watchman , let him declare what he seeth . And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen , a chariot of asses , and a chariot of camels ; and he hearkened diligently with much heed : And he cried , A lion : My lord , I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime , and I am set in my ward whole nights : And , behold , here cometh a chariot of men , with a couple of horsemen . And he answered and said , Babylon is fallen , is fallen ; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground . O my threshing , and the corn of my floor : that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts , the God of Israel , have I declared unto you . The burden of Dumah . He calleth to me out of Seir , Watchman , what of the night ? Watchman , what of the night ? The watchman said , The morning cometh , and also the night : if ye will inquire , inquire ye : return , come . The burden upon Arabia . In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge , O ye travelling companies of Dedanim . The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty , they prevented with their bread him that fled . For they fled from the swords , from the drawn sword , and from the bent bow , and from the grievousness of war . For thus hath the Lord said unto me , Within a year , according to the years of an hireling , and all the glory of Kedar shall fail : And the residue of the number of archers , the mighty men of the children of Kedar , shall be diminished : for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it . The burden of the valley of vision . What aileth thee now , that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops ? Thou that art full of stirs , 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 archers : all that are found in thee are bound together , which 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 treading down , and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision , breaking down the walls , and of crying to the mountains . And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen , and Kir uncovered the shield . And it shall come to pass , that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots , and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate . And he discovered the covering of Judah , and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest . Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David , that they are many : and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool . And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem , and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall . Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool : but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof , neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago . And in 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 flesh , and drinking wine : let us eat and drink ; for to morrow we shall die . And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts , Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die , saith the Lord GOD of hosts . Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts , Go , get thee unto this treasurer , even unto Shebna , which is over the house , and say , What hast thou here ? and whom hast thou here , that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here , as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high , and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock ? Behold , the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity , and will surely cover thee . He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country : there shalt thou die , and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord'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 in that day , that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah : 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 Jerusalem , and to the house of Judah . 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 nail 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 . In that day , saith the LORD of hosts , shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed , and be cut down , and fall ; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off : for the LORD hath spoken it . The burden of Tyre . Howl , ye ships of Tarshish ; for it is laid waste , so that there is no house , no entering in : from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them . Be still , ye inhabitants of the isle ; thou whom the merchants of Zidon , that pass over the sea , have replenished . And by great waters the seed of Sihor , the harvest of the river , is her revenue ; and she is a mart of nations . Be thou ashamed , O Zidon : for the sea hath spoken , even the strength of the sea , saying , I travail not , nor bring forth children , neither do I nourish up young men , nor bring up virgins . As at the report concerning Egypt , so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre . Pass ye over to Tarshish ; howl , ye inhabitants of the isle . Is this your joyous city , whose antiquity is of ancient days ? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn . Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre , the crowning city , whose merchants are princes , whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth ? The LORD of hosts hath purposed it , to stain the pride of all glory , and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth . Pass through thy land as a river , O daughter of Tarshish : there is no more strength . He stretched out his hand over the sea , he shook the kingdoms : the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city , to destroy the strong holds thereof . And he said , Thou shalt no more rejoice , O thou oppressed virgin , daughter of Zidon : arise , pass over to Chittim ; there also shalt thou have no rest . Behold the land of the Chaldeans ; this people was not , till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness : they set up the towers thereof , they raised up the palaces thereof ; and he brought it to ruin . Howl , ye ships of Tarshish : for your strength is laid waste . And it shall come to pass in that day , that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years , according to the days of one king : after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot . Take an harp , go about the city , thou harlot that hast been forgotten ; make sweet melody , sing many songs , that thou mayest be remembered . And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years , that the LORD will visit Tyre , and she shall turn to her hire , and shall commit fornication 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 merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD , to eat sufficiently , and for durable clothing . Behold , the LORD maketh the earth empty , and maketh it waste , and turneth it upside down , and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof . 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 taker of usury , so with the giver of usury to him . The land shall be utterly emptied , and utterly spoiled : for the LORD hath spoken this word . The earth mourneth and fadeth away , the world languisheth and fadeth away , the haughty people of the earth do languish . The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof ; because they have transgressed the laws , changed the ordinance , broken the everlasting covenant . Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth , and they that dwell therein are desolate : therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned , and few men left . The new wine mourneth , the vine languisheth , all the merryhearted do sigh . The mirth of tabrets ceaseth , the noise of them that rejoice endeth , the joy of the harp ceaseth . 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 . When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people , there shall be as the shaking 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 , they shall cry aloud from the sea . Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires , even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea . From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs , even glory to the righteous . But I said , My leanness , my leanness , woe unto me ! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously ; yea , the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously . Fear , and the pit , and the snare , are upon thee , O inhabitant of the earth . And it shall come to pass , that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit ; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare : for the windows from on high are open , and the foundations of the earth do shake . The earth is utterly broken down , the earth is clean dissolved , the earth is moved exceedingly . The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard , and shall be removed like a cottage ; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it ; and it shall fall , and not rise again . And it shall come to pass in that day , that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are 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 visited . Then the moon shall be confounded , and the sun ashamed , when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion , and in Jerusalem , and before his ancients gloriously . O LORD , thou art my God ; I will exalt thee , I will praise thy name ; for thou hast done wonderful things ; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth . For thou hast made of a city an heap ; of a defenced 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 the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall . Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers , as the heat in a dry place ; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud : the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low . And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people 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 face of the covering cast over all people , and the vail that is spread over all nations . He will swallow up death in victory ; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces ; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth : for the LORD hath spoken it . And it shall be said in that day , Lo , this is our God ; we have waited for him , and he will 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 Moab shall be trodden down under him , even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill . And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them , as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim : and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands . And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down , lay low , and bring to the ground , even to the dust . In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah ; We have a strong city ; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks . Open ye the gates , that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in . Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace , whose mind is stayed on thee : because he trusteth in thee . Trust ye in the LORD for ever : for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength : For he bringeth down them that dwell on high ; the lofty city , he layeth it low ; he layeth it low , even to the ground ; he bringeth it even to the dust . The foot shall tread 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 weigh the path of the just . Yea , 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 ; yea , with my spirit within me will I seek thee early : for when thy judgments are in the earth , the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness . Let favour be shewed to the wicked , yet will he not learn righteousness : in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly , and will not behold the majesty of the LORD . LORD , when thy hand is lifted up , they will not see : but they shall see , and be ashamed for their envy at the people ; yea , the fire of thine enemies shall devour them . LORD , thou wilt ordain peace for us : for thou also hast wrought all our works in us . O LORD our God , other lords beside thee have had dominion over us : but by thee only will we make mention of thy name . They are dead , they shall not live ; they are deceased , they shall not rise : therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them , and made all their memory to perish . Thou hast increased the nation , O LORD , thou hast increased the nation : thou art glorified : thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth . LORD , in trouble have they visited thee , they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them . Like as a woman with child , that draweth near the time of her delivery , is in pain , and crieth out in her pangs ; so have we been in thy sight , 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 ; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen . Thy dead men shall live , together with my dead body shall they arise . Awake and sing , ye that dwell in dust : for thy dew is as the dew of herbs , and the earth shall cast out the dead . Come , my people , enter thou into thy chambers , and shut thy doors about thee : hide thyself as it were for a little moment , until the indignation be overpast . For , behold , the LORD cometh 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 . In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent , even leviathan that crooked serpent ; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea . In that day sing ye unto her , A vineyard of red 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 briers and thorns 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 . He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root : Israel shall blossom and bud , and fill the face of the world with fruit . Hath he smitten him , as he smote those that smote him ? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him ? In measure , when it shooteth forth , thou wilt debate with it : he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind . By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged ; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin ; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder , the groves and images shall not stand up . Yet the defenced city shall be desolate , and the habitation forsaken , and left like a wilderness : there shall the calf feed , and there shall he lie down , and consume the branches thereof . When the boughs thereof are withered , they shall be broken off : the women come , and set them on fire : for it is a people of no understanding : therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them , and he that formed them will shew them no favour . And it shall come to pass in that day , that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt , and ye shall be gathered one by one , O ye children of Israel . And it shall come to pass in that day , that the great trumpet shall be blown , and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria , and the outcasts in the land of Egypt , and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem . Woe to the crown of pride , to the drunkards of Ephraim , whose glorious beauty is a fading flower , which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine ! Behold , the Lord hath a mighty and strong one , which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm , as a flood of mighty waters overflowing , shall cast down to the earth with the hand . The crown of pride , the drunkards of Ephraim , shall be trodden under feet : And the glorious beauty , which is on the head of the fat valley , shall be a fading flower , and as the hasty fruit before the summer ; which when he that looketh upon it seeth , while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up . In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory , and for a diadem of beauty , unto the residue of his people , And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment , and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate . But they also have erred through wine , and through strong drink are out of the way ; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink , they are swallowed up of wine , they are out of the way through strong drink ; they err in vision , they stumble in judgment . For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness , so that there is no place clean . Whom shall he teach knowledge ? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine ? them that are weaned from the milk , and drawn from the breasts . For precept must be 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 will he speak to this people . To whom he said , This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest ; and this is the refreshing : yet they would not hear . But the word of the LORD was unto 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 , ye scornful men , that rule this people which is in Jerusalem . Because ye have said , We have made a covenant with death , and with hell are we at agreement ; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through , it shall not come unto us : for we have made lies our refuge , and under falsehood have we hid ourselves : Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD , Behold , I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone , a tried stone , a precious corner stone , a sure foundation : he that believeth shall not make haste . Judgment also will I lay to the line , and righteousness to the plummet : and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies , and the waters shall overflow the hiding place . And your covenant with death shall be disannulled , and your agreement with hell shall not stand ; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through , then ye shall be trodden down by it . From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you : for morning by morning shall it pass over , by day and by night : and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report . For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it : and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it . For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim , he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon , that he may do his work , his strange work ; and bring to pass his act , his strange act . Now therefore be ye not mockers , lest your bands be made strong : for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption , even determined upon the whole earth . Give ye ear , and hear my voice ; hearken , and hear my speech . Doth the plowman plow all day to sow ? doth he open and break the clods of his ground ? When he hath made plain the face thereof , doth he not cast abroad the fitches , and scatter the cummin , and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and rie in their place ? For his God doth instruct him to discretion , and doth teach him . For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument , neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin ; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff , and the cummin with a rod . Bread corn is bruised ; because he will not ever be threshing it , nor break it with the wheel of his cart , nor bruise it with his horsemen . This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts , which is wonderful in counsel , and excellent in working . Woe to Ariel , to Ariel , the city where David dwelt ! add ye year to year ; let them kill sacrifices . Yet I will distress Ariel , and there shall be heaviness and sorrow : and it shall be unto me as Ariel . And I will camp against thee round about , and will lay siege against thee with a mount , and I will raise forts 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 one that hath a familiar spirit , out of the ground , and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust . Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust , and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away : yea , it shall be at an instant suddenly . Thou shalt be visited of 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 Ariel , even all that fight against her and her munition , and that distress her , shall be as a dream of a night vision . It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth , and , behold , he eateth ; but he awaketh , and his soul is empty : or as when a thirsty man dreameth , and , behold , he drinketh ; but he awaketh , and , behold , he is faint , and his soul hath appetite : so shall the multitude of all the nations be , that fight against mount Zion . Stay yourselves , and wonder ; cry ye out , and cry : they are drunken , but not with wine ; they stagger , but not with strong drink . For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep , and hath closed your eyes : the prophets and your rulers , the seers hath he covered . And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed , which men deliver to one that is learned , saying , Read this , I pray thee : and he saith , I cannot ; for it is sealed : And the book is delivered to him that is not learned , saying , Read this , I pray thee : and he saith , I am not learned . Wherefore the Lord said , Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth , and with their lips do honour me , but have removed their heart far from me , and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men : 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 unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD , and their works are in the dark , and they say , Who seeth us ? and who knoweth us ? Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay : for shall the work say of him that made it , He made me not ? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it , He had no understanding ? Is it not yet a very little while , and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field , and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest ? And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book , and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity , and out of darkness . The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD , and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel . 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 lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate , and turn aside the just for a thing of nought . Therefore thus saith the LORD , who redeemed Abraham , concerning the house of Jacob , Jacob shall not now be ashamed , neither shall his face now wax pale . But when he seeth his children , the work of mine hands , in the midst of him , they shall sanctify my name , and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob , and shall fear the God of Israel . They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding , and they that murmured shall learn doctrine . Woe to the rebellious children , saith the LORD , that take counsel , but not of me ; and that cover with a covering , but not of my spirit , that they may add sin to sin : That walk to go down into Egypt , and have not asked at my mouth ; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh , and to trust in the shadow of Egypt ! Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame , and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion . For his princes were at Zoan , and his ambassadors came to Hanes . They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them , nor be an 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 fiery flying serpent , they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses , and their treasures upon the bunches of camels , to a people that shall not profit them . For the Egyptians shall help in vain , and to no purpose : therefore have I cried concerning this , Their strength is to sit still . Now go , write it before them in a table , and note it in a book , that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever : That this is a rebellious people , lying children , children that will not hear the law of the LORD : Which say to the seers , See not ; and to the prophets , Prophesy not unto us right things , speak unto us smooth things , prophesy deceits : Get you out of the way , turn aside out of the path , cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us . Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel , Because ye despise this word , and trust in oppression and perverseness , and stay thereon : Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall , swelling out in a high wall , whose breaking cometh suddenly at 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 sherd to take fire from the hearth , or to take water withal out of the pit . For thus saith the Lord GOD , the Holy One of Israel ; In returning and rest shall ye be saved ; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength : and ye would not . But ye said , No ; for we will flee upon horses ; therefore shall ye flee : and , We will ride upon the swift ; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift . One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one ; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee : till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain , and as an ensign on an hill . And therefore will the LORD wait , that he may be gracious unto you , and therefore will he be exalted , that he may have mercy upon you : for the LORD is a God of judgment : blessed are all they that wait for him . For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem : thou shalt weep no more : he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry ; when he shall hear it , he will answer thee . And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity , and the water of affliction , yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more , but thine eyes shall see thy teachers : And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee , saying , This is the way , walk ye in it , when ye turn to the right hand , and when ye turn to the left . Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver , and the ornament of thy molten images of gold : thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth ; thou shalt say unto it , Get thee hence . Then shall he give the rain of thy seed , that thou shalt sow the ground withal ; and bread of the increase of the earth , and it shall be fat and plenteous : in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures . The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender , which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan . And there shall be upon every high mountain , and upon every high hill , rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter , when the towers fall . 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 , in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people , and healeth the stroke of their wound . Behold , the name of the LORD cometh from far , burning with his anger , and the burden thereof is heavy : his lips are full of indignation , and his tongue as a devouring fire : And his breath , as an overflowing stream , shall reach to the midst of the neck , to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity : and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people , causing them to err . Ye shall have a song , as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept ; and gladness of heart , as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD , to the mighty One of Israel . And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard , and shall shew the lighting down of his arm , with the indignation of his anger , and with the flame of a devouring fire , with scattering , and tempest , and hailstones . For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down , which smote with a rod . And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass , which the LORD shall lay upon him , it shall be with tabrets and harps : and in battles of shaking will he fight with it . For Tophet is ordained of old ; yea , for the king it is prepared ; he hath made it deep and large : the pile thereof is fire and much wood ; the breath of the LORD , like a stream of brimstone , doth kindle it . Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help ; and stay on horses , and trust in chariots , because they are many ; and in horsemen , because they are very strong ; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel , 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 the Egyptians are men , and not God ; and their horses flesh , and not spirit . When the LORD shall stretch out his hand , both he that helpeth shall fall , and he that is holpen shall fall down , and they all shall fail together . For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me , Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey , when a multitude of shepherds is called forth 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 Zion , and for the hill thereof . As birds flying , so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem ; defending also he will deliver it ; and passing over he will preserve it . Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted . For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver , and his idols of gold , which your own hands have made unto you for a sin . Then shall the Assyrian 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 be discomfited . And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear , and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign , saith the LORD , whose fire is in Zion , and his furnace in Jerusalem . Behold , a king shall reign in righteousness , and princes shall rule in judgment . And a man shall be as an 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 dim , 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 be bountiful . For the vile person will speak villany , and his heart will work 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 deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words , even when the needy speaketh right . But the liberal deviseth liberal things ; and by liberal things shall he stand . Rise up , ye women that are at ease ; hear my voice , ye careless daughters ; give ear unto my speech . Many days and years shall ye be troubled , ye careless women : for the vintage shall fail , the gathering shall not come . Tremble , ye women that are at ease ; be troubled , ye careless ones : strip you , and make you bare , and gird sackcloth upon your loins . They shall lament for the teats , for the pleasant fields , for the fruitful vine . Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers ; yea , upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city : Because the palaces shall be forsaken ; the multitude of the city shall be left ; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever , a joy of wild asses , a pasture of flocks ; Until the 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 sure dwellings , and in quiet resting places ; When it shall hail , coming down on the forest ; and the city shall be low in a low place . Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters , that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass . Woe to thee that spoilest , and thou wast not spoiled ; and dealest treacherously , and they dealt not treacherously with thee ! when thou shalt cease to spoil , thou shalt be spoiled ; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously , they shall deal treacherously with thee . O LORD , be gracious unto us ; we have waited for thee : be thou their arm every morning , our salvation also in the time of trouble . 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 caterpiller : as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them . The LORD is exalted ; for he dwelleth on high : he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness . And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times , and strength of salvation : the fear of the LORD is his treasure . Behold , their valiant ones shall cry without : the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly . The highways lie waste , the wayfaring man ceaseth : he hath broken the covenant , he hath despised the cities , he regardeth no man . The earth mourneth and languisheth : Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down : Sharon is like a wilderness ; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits . Now will I rise , saith the LORD ; now will I be exalted ; now will I lift up myself . Ye shall conceive chaff , ye shall bring forth stubble : your breath , as fire , shall devour you . And the people shall be as the burnings of lime : as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire . Hear , ye that are far off , what I have done ; and , ye that are near , acknowledge my might . The sinners in Zion are afraid ; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites . Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire ? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings ? He that walketh righteously , and speaketh uprightly ; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions , that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes , that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood , and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil ; He shall dwell on high : his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks : bread shall be given him ; his waters shall be sure . Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty : they shall behold the land that is very far off . Thine heart shall meditate terror . Where is the scribe ? where is the receiver ? where is he that counted the towers ? Thou shalt not see a fierce people , a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive ; of a stammering tongue , that thou canst not understand . Look upon Zion , the city of our solemnities : thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation , a tabernacle that shall not be taken down ; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed , neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken . But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams ; wherein shall go no galley with oars , neither shall gallant ship pass thereby . 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 well strengthen 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 , ye nations , to hear ; and hearken , ye people : let the earth hear , and all that is therein ; the world , and all things that come forth of it . For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations , and his fury upon all their armies : he hath utterly destroyed them , he hath delivered them to the slaughter . Their slain also shall be cast out , and their stink shall come up out of their carcases , and the mountains shall be melted with their blood . And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved , and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll : and all their host shall fall down , as the leaf falleth off from the vine , and as a falling fig from the fig tree . For my sword shall be bathed in heaven : behold , it shall come down upon Idumea , and upon the people of my curse , to judgment . The sword of the LORD is filled with blood , it is made fat with fatness , and with the blood of lambs and goats , with the fat of the kidneys of rams : for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah , and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea . And the unicorns shall come down with them , and the bullocks with the 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 recompences for the controversy of Zion . And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch , and the dust thereof into brimstone , and the land thereof shall become burning pitch . It shall not be quenched night nor day ; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever : from generation to generation it shall lie waste ; none shall pass through it for ever and ever . But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it : and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion , and the stones of emptiness . They shall call the nobles thereof 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 the fortresses thereof : and it shall be an habitation of dragons , and a court for owls . The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island , and the satyr shall cry to his fellow ; the screech 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 gather under her shadow : there shall the vultures also be gathered , every one with her mate . Seek ye out of the book of the LORD , and read : no one of these shall fail , none shall want her mate : for my mouth it hath commanded , and his spirit it hath gathered them . And he hath cast the lot for them , and his hand hath divided it unto them by line : they shall possess it for ever , from generation to generation shall they dwell therein . The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them ; and the desert shall rejoice , and blossom as the rose . It shall blossom abundantly , and rejoice even with joy and singing : the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it , the excellency of Carmel and Sharon , they shall see the glory of the LORD , and the excellency of our God . Strengthen ye 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 God with a recompence ; 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 an 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 : in the habitation of dragons , where each lay , shall be grass with reeds and rushes . And an highway shall be there , and a way , and it shall be called The way of holiness ; the unclean shall not pass over it ; but it shall be for those : the wayfaring men , though fools , shall not err therein . No lion shall be there , nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon , it shall not be found there ; but the redeemed shall walk there : And the ransomed of the LORD shall return , and come to Zion 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 Hezekiah , that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah , and took them . And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army . And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field . Then came forth unto him Eliakim , Hilkiah's son , which was over the house , and Shebna the scribe , and Joah , Asaph's son , the recorder . And Rabshakeh said unto them , Say ye now to Hezekiah , Thus saith the great king , the king of Assyria , What confidence is this wherein thou trustest ? I say , sayest thou , ( but they are but vain words ) I have 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 , on Egypt ; whereon if a man lean , it will go into his hand , and pierce it : so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him . But if thou say to me , We trust in the LORD our God : is it not he , whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away , and said to Judah and to Jerusalem , Ye shall worship before this altar ? Now therefore give pledges , I pray thee , to my master the king of Assyria , and I will give thee two thousand horses , if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them . How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants , and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen ? And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it ? the LORD said unto me , Go up against this land , and destroy it . Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh , Speak , I pray thee , unto thy servants in the Syrian language ; for we understand it : and speak not to us in the Jews' language , in the ears of the people that are on the wall . But Rabshakeh said , Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words ? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall , that they may eat their own dung , and drink their own piss with you ? Then Rabshakeh stood , and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language , and said , Hear ye the words of the great king , the king of Assyria . Thus saith the king , Let not Hezekiah deceive you : for he shall not be able to deliver you . Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD , saying , The LORD will surely deliver us : this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria . Hearken not to Hezekiah : for thus saith the king of Assyria , Make an agreement with me by a present , and come out to me : and eat ye every one of his vine , and every one of his fig tree , and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern ; 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 Hezekiah persuade you , saying , The LORD will deliver us . Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria ? Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad ? where are the gods of Sepharvaim ? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand ? Who are they among all the gods of these lands , that have delivered their land out of my hand , that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand ? But they held their peace , and answered him not a word : for the king's commandment was , saying , Answer him not . Then came Eliakim , the son of Hilkiah , that was over the household , and Shebna the scribe , and Joah , the son of Asaph , the recorder , to Hezekiah with their clothes rent , and told him the words of Rabshakeh . And it came to pass , when king Hezekiah heard it , that he rent his clothes , and covered himself with sackcloth , and went into the house of the LORD . And he sent Eliakim , who was over the household , and Shebna the scribe , and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth , unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz . And they said unto him , Thus saith Hezekiah , This day is a day of trouble , and of rebuke , and of blasphemy : for the children are come to the birth , and there is not strength to bring forth . It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh , whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God , and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard : wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left . So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah . And Isaiah said unto them , Thus shall ye say unto your master , Thus saith the LORD , Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard , wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me . Behold , I will send a blast upon him , and he shall hear a rumour , and return to his own land ; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land . So Rabshakeh returned , and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah : for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish . And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia , He is come forth to make war with thee . And when he heard it , he sent messengers to Hezekiah , saying , Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah , saying , Let not thy God , in whom thou trustest , deceive thee , saying , Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria . Behold , thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly ; and shalt thou be delivered ? Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed , as Gozan , and Haran , and Rezeph , and the children of Eden which were in Telassar ? Where is the king of Hamath , and the king of Arphad , and the king of the city of Sepharvaim , Hena , and Ivah ? And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers , and read it : and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD , and spread it before the LORD . And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD , saying , O LORD of hosts , God of Israel , that dwellest between the cherubims , thou art the God , even thou alone , of all the kingdoms of the earth : thou hast made heaven and earth . Incline thine ear , O LORD , and hear ; open thine eyes , O LORD , and see : and hear all the words of Sennacherib , which hath sent to reproach the living God . Of a truth , LORD , the kings of Assyria 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 Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah , saying , Thus saith the LORD God of Israel , Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria : This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him ; The virgin , the daughter of Zion , hath despised thee , and laughed thee to scorn ; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee . Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed ? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice , and lifted up thine eyes on high ? even against the Holy One of Israel . By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord , and hast said , By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains , to the sides of Lebanon ; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof , and the choice fir trees thereof : and I will enter into the height of his border , and the forest of his Carmel . I have digged , and drunk water ; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places . Hast thou not heard long ago , how I have done it ; and of ancient times , that I have formed it ? now have I brought it to pass , that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps . 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 tumult , is come up into mine ears , therefore will I put my hook in thy nose , and my bridle in thy lips , and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest . And this shall be a sign unto thee , Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself ; and the second year that which springeth of the same : and in the third year sow ye , and reap , and plant vineyards , and eat the fruit thereof . And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward , and bear fruit upward : For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant , and they that escape out of mount Zion : the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this . Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria , He shall not come into this city , nor shoot an arrow there nor come before it with shields , nor cast a bank against it . By the way that he came , by the same shall he return , and shall not come into this city , saith the LORD . For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake , and for my servant David's sake . Then the angel of the LORD went forth , and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning , behold , they were all dead corpses . So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed , and went and returned , and dwelt at Nineveh . And it came to pass , as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god , that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword ; and they escaped into the land of Armenia : and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead . In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death . And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him , and said unto him , Thus saith the LORD , Set thine house in order : for thou shalt die , and not live . Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall , and prayed unto 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 Hezekiah wept sore . Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah , saying , Go , and say to Hezekiah , Thus saith the LORD , the God of David thy father , I have heard thy prayer , I have seen thy tears : behold , I will add unto thy days fifteen years . And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria : and I will defend this city . And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD , that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken ; Behold , I will bring again the shadow of the degrees , which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz , ten degrees backward . So the sun returned ten degrees , by which degrees it was gone down . The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah , when he had been sick , and was recovered of his sickness : I said in the cutting off of my days , I shall go to the gates of the grave : I am deprived of the residue of my years . I said , I shall not see the LORD , even the LORD , in the land of the living : I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world . Mine age is departed , and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent : I have cut off like a weaver my life : he will cut me off with pining sickness : from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me . I reckoned till morning , that , as a lion , so will he break all my bones : from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me . Like a crane or a swallow , so did I chatter : I did mourn as a dove : mine eyes fail with looking upward : O LORD , I am oppressed ; undertake for me . What shall I say ? he hath both spoken unto me , and himself hath done it : I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul . O Lord , by these things men live , and in all these things is the life of my spirit : so wilt thou recover me , and make me to live . Behold , for peace I had great bitterness : but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption : for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back . For the grave cannot praise thee , death can not 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 Isaiah had said , Let them take a lump of figs , and lay it for a plaister upon the boil , and he shall recover . Hezekiah also had said , What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD ? At that time Merodach-baladan , the son of Baladan , king of Babylon , sent letters and a present to Hezekiah : for he had heard that he had been sick , and was recovered . And Hezekiah was glad of them , and shewed them the house of his precious things , the silver , and the gold , and the spices , and the precious ointment , and all the house of his armour , and all that was found in his treasures : there was nothing in his house , nor in all his dominion , that Hezekiah shewed them not . Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah , and said unto him , What said these men ? and from whence came they unto thee ? And Hezekiah said , They are come from a far country unto me , even from Babylon . Then said he , What have they seen in thine house ? And Hezekiah answered , All that is in mine house have they seen : there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them . Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah , Hear the word of the LORD of hosts : Behold , the days come , that all that is in thine house , and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day , shall be carried to Babylon : nothing shall be left , saith the LORD . 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 Babylon . Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah , Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken . He said moreover , For there shall be peace and truth in my days . Comfort ye , comfort ye my people , saith your God . Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem , and cry unto her , that her warfare is accomplished , that her iniquity is pardoned : for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins . The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness , Prepare ye 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 hath spoken it . The voice said , Cry . And he said , What shall I cry ? All flesh is grass , and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field : The grass withereth , the flower fadeth : because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it : surely the people is grass . The grass withereth , the flower fadeth : but the word of our God shall stand for ever . O Zion , that bringest good tidings , get thee up into the high mountain ; O Jerusalem , that bringest good tidings , lift up thy voice with strength ; lift it up , be not afraid ; say unto the cities of Judah , Behold your God ! Behold , the Lord GOD will come with strong hand , and his arm shall rule for him : behold , his reward is with him , and his work 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 hath 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 hath directed the Spirit of the LORD , or being his counseller hath taught him ? With whom took he counsel , and who instructed him , and taught him in the path of judgment , and taught him knowledge , and shewed to him the way of understanding ? Behold , the nations are as a drop of a bucket , and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold , he taketh up the isles as a very little thing . And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn , nor the beasts thereof 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 ye liken God ? or what likeness will ye compare unto him ? The workman melteth a graven image , and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold , and casteth silver chains . He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot ; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image , that shall not be moved . Have ye not known ? have ye not heard ? hath it not been told you from the beginning ? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth ? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth , and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain , and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in : That bringeth the princes to nothing ; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity . Yea , they shall not be planted ; yea , they shall not be sown : yea , their stock shall not take root in the earth : and he shall also blow upon them , and they shall wither , and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble . To whom then will ye liken me , or shall I be equal ? saith the Holy One . Lift up your eyes on high , and behold who hath created these things , that bringeth out their host by number : he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might , for that he is strong in power ; not one faileth . Why sayest thou , O Jacob , and speakest , O Israel , 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 , fainteth not , neither is weary ? there is no searching of his understanding . He giveth power to the faint ; and to them that have no might he increaseth 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 ; and 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 the righteous man from the east , called him to his foot , gave the nations before him , and made him rule over kings ? he gave them as the dust to his sword , and as driven stubble to his bow . He pursued them , and passed safely ; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet . Who hath wrought and done it , calling 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 were afraid , 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 smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil , saying , It is ready for the sodering : and he fastened it with nails , that it should not be moved . But thou , Israel , art my servant , Jacob whom I have chosen , the seed of Abraham my friend . Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth , and called thee from the chief men thereof , and said unto thee , Thou art my servant ; I have chosen thee , and not cast thee away . Fear thou not ; for I am with thee : be not dismayed ; for I am thy God : I will strengthen thee ; yea , I will help thee ; yea , I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness . 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 , even them that contended 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 unto thee , Fear not ; I will help thee . Fear not , thou worm Jacob , and ye men of Israel ; I will help thee , saith the LORD , and thy redeemer , the Holy One of Israel . Behold , I will make 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 whirlwind shall scatter them : and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD , and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel . When the poor and needy seek water , and there is none , and their tongue faileth for thirst , I the LORD will hear them , I the God of Israel will not forsake them . I will open rivers in 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 shittah tree , and the myrtle , and the oil tree ; I will set in the desert the fir tree , and the pine , and the box tree together : That they may see , and know , and consider , and understand together , that the hand of the LORD hath done this , and the Holy One of Israel hath created it . Produce your cause , saith the LORD ; bring forth your strong reasons , saith the King of Jacob . Let them bring them forth , and shew us what shall happen : let them shew the former things , what they be , that we may consider them , and know the latter end of them ; or declare us things for to come . Shew the things that are to come hereafter , that we may know that ye are gods : yea , do good , or do evil , that we may be dismayed , and behold it together . Behold , ye are of nothing , and your work of nought : an abomination is he that chooseth you . I have raised up one from the north , and he shall come : from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name : and he shall come upon princes as upon morter , and as the potter treadeth clay . Who hath declared from the beginning , that we may know ? and beforetime , that we may say , He is righteous ? yea , there is none that sheweth , yea , there is none that declareth , yea , there is none that heareth your words . The first shall say to Zion , Behold , behold them : and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings . For I beheld , and there was no man ; even among them , and there was no counseller , that , when I asked of them , could answer a word . Behold , they are all vanity ; their works are nothing : their molten images are wind and confusion . Behold my servant , whom I uphold ; mine elect , in whom my soul delighteth ; I have put my spirit upon him : he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles . He shall not cry , nor lift up , nor cause his voice to be heard in the street . A bruised reed shall he not break , and the smoking 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 law . Thus saith God the LORD , he that created the heavens , and stretched them out ; he that spread forth the earth , and that which cometh out of it ; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it , and spirit to them that walk therein : I the LORD have called thee in righteousness , and will hold thine hand , and will keep thee , and give thee for a covenant of the people , for a light of the Gentiles ; 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 graven images . Behold , the former things are come to pass , and new things do I declare : before they spring forth I tell you of them . Sing unto the LORD a new song , and his praise from the end of the earth , ye that go down to the sea , and all that is therein ; the isles , and the inhabitants thereof . Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice , the villages that Kedar doth inhabit : let the inhabitants of the rock sing , let them shout from the top of the mountains . Let them give glory unto the LORD , and declare his praise in the islands . The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man , he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war : he shall cry , yea , roar ; he shall prevail against his enemies . I have long time holden my peace ; I have been still , and refrained myself : now will I cry like a travailing woman ; I will destroy and devour at once . 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 things will I do unto them , and not forsake them . They shall be turned back , they shall be greatly ashamed , that trust in graven images , that say to the molten images , Ye are our gods . Hear , ye deaf ; and look , ye blind , that ye 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 heareth not . The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake ; he will magnify the law , and make it honourable . But 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 delivereth ; for a spoil , and none saith , Restore . Who among you will give ear to this ? who will hearken and hear for the time to come ? Who gave Jacob for a spoil , and Israel to the robbers ? did not the LORD , he against whom we have sinned ? for they would not walk in his ways , neither were they obedient unto his law . Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger , and the strength of battle : and it hath set him on fire round about , yet he knew not ; and it burned him , yet he laid it not to heart . But now thus saith the LORD that created thee , O Jacob , and he that formed thee , O Israel , 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 Israel , thy Saviour : I gave Egypt for thy ransom , Ethiopia and Seba for thee . Since thou wast precious in my sight , thou hast been honourable , and I have loved thee : therefore will I give men for thee , and people for thy life . 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 ; Even 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 people be assembled : who among them can declare this , and shew us former things ? let them bring forth their witnesses , that they may be justified : or let them hear , and say , It is truth . Ye are my witnesses , saith the LORD , and my servant whom I have chosen : that ye may know and believe me , and understand that I am he : before me there was no God formed , neither shall there be after me . I , even I , am the LORD ; and beside me there is no saviour . I have declared , and have saved , and I have shewed , when there was no strange god among you : therefore ye are my witnesses , saith the LORD , that I am God . Yea , before the day was I am he ; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand : I will work , and who shall let it ? Thus saith the LORD , your redeemer , the Holy One of Israel ; For your sake I have sent to Babylon , and have brought down all their nobles , and the Chaldeans , whose cry is in the ships . I am the LORD , your Holy One , the creator of Israel , your King . Thus saith the LORD , which maketh a way in the sea , and a path in the mighty waters ; Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse , the army and the power ; they shall lie down together , they shall not rise : they are extinct , they are quenched as tow . Remember ye not the former things , neither consider the things of old . Behold , I will do a new thing ; now it shall spring forth ; shall ye not know it ? I will even make a way in the wilderness , and rivers in the desert . The beast of the field shall honour me , the dragons 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 shew forth my praise . But thou hast not called upon me , O Jacob ; but thou hast been weary of me , O Israel . Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings ; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices . I have not caused thee to serve with an offering , nor wearied thee with incense . Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money , neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices : but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins , thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities . I , even I , am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake , and will not remember thy sins . Put me in remembrance : let us plead together : declare thou , that thou mayest be justified . Thy first father hath sinned , and thy teachers have transgressed against me . Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary , and have given Jacob to the curse , and Israel to reproaches . Yet now hear , O Jacob my servant ; and Israel , whom I have chosen : Thus saith the LORD that made thee , and formed thee from the womb , which will help thee ; Fear not , O Jacob , my servant ; and thou , Jesurun , whom I have chosen . For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty , and floods upon the dry ground : I will pour my spirit upon thy seed , and my blessing upon thine 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 Jacob ; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD , and surname himself by the name of Israel . Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel , 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 , as I , shall call , and shall declare it , and set it in order for me , since I appointed the ancient people ? and the things that are coming , and shall come , let them shew unto them . Fear ye not , neither be afraid : have not I told thee from that time , and have declared it ? ye are even my witnesses . Is there a God beside me ? yea , there is no God ; I know not any . They that make a graven image are all of them vanity ; and their delectable things shall not profit ; and they are their own witnesses ; they see not , nor know ; that they may be ashamed . Who hath formed a god , or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing ? Behold , all his fellows shall be ashamed : and the workmen , they are of men : let them all be gathered together , let them stand up ; yet they shall fear , and they shall be ashamed together . The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals , and fashioneth it with hammers , and worketh it with the strength of his arms : yea , he is hungry , and his strength faileth : he drinketh no water , and is faint . The carpenter stretcheth out his rule ; he marketh it out with a line ; he fitteth it with planes , and he marketh it out with the compass , and maketh it after the figure of a man , according to the beauty of a man ; that it may remain in the house . He heweth him down cedars , and taketh the cypress and the oak , which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest : he planteth an ash , and the rain doth nourish it . Then shall it be for a man to burn : for he will take thereof , and warm himself ; yea , he kindleth it , and baketh bread ; yea , he maketh a god , and worshippeth it ; he maketh it a graven image , and falleth down thereto . He burneth part thereof in the fire ; with part thereof he eateth flesh ; he roasteth roast , and is satisfied : yea , he warmeth himself , and saith , Aha , I am warm , I have seen the fire : And the residue thereof he maketh a god , even his graven image : he falleth down unto it , and worshippeth it , and prayeth unto it , and saith , Deliver me ; for thou art my god . They have not known nor understood : for he hath shut their eyes , that they cannot see ; and their hearts , that they cannot understand . And none considereth in his heart , neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say , I have burned part of it in the fire ; yea , also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof ; I have roasted flesh , and eaten it : and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination ? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree ? He feedeth on ashes : a deceived heart hath turned him aside , that he cannot deliver his soul , nor say , Is there not a lie in my right hand ? Remember these , O Jacob and Israel ; for thou art my servant : I have formed thee ; thou art my servant : O Israel , thou shalt not be forgotten of me . I have blotted out , as a thick cloud , thy transgressions , and , as a cloud , thy sins : return unto me ; for I have redeemed thee . Sing , O ye heavens ; for the LORD hath done it : shout , ye lower parts of the earth : break forth into singing , ye mountains , O forest , and every tree therein : for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob , and glorified himself in Israel . Thus saith the LORD , thy redeemer , and he that formed thee from the womb , I am the LORD that maketh all things ; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone ; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself ; That frustrateth the tokens of the liars , and maketh diviners mad ; that turneth wise men backward , and maketh their knowledge foolish ; That confirmeth the word of his servant , and performeth the counsel of his messengers ; that saith to Jerusalem , Thou shalt be inhabited ; and to the cities of Judah , Ye shall be built , and I will raise up the decayed places thereof : That saith to the deep , Be dry , and I will dry up thy rivers : That saith of Cyrus , He is my shepherd , and shall perform all my pleasure : even saying to Jerusalem , Thou shalt be built ; and to the temple , Thy foundation shall be laid . Thus saith the LORD to his anointed , to Cyrus , whose right hand I have holden , to subdue nations before him ; and I will loose the loins of kings , to open before him the two leaved gates ; and the gates shall not be shut ; I will go before thee , and make the crooked places straight : 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 mayest know that I , the LORD , which call thee by thy name , am the God of Israel . For Jacob my servant's sake , and Israel mine elect , I have even called thee by thy name : I have surnamed thee , though thou hast not known me . 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 . Drop down , ye heavens , from above , and let the skies pour down righteousness : let the earth open , and let them bring forth salvation , and let righteousness spring up together ; I the LORD have created it . Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker ! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth . Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it , What makest thou ? or thy work , He hath no hands ? Woe unto him that saith unto his father , What begettest thou ? or to the woman , What hast thou brought forth ? Thus saith the LORD , the Holy One of Israel , and his Maker , Ask me of things to come concerning my sons , and concerning the work of my hands command ye 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 direct all his ways : he shall build my city , and he shall let go my captives , not for price nor reward , saith the LORD of hosts . Thus saith the LORD , The labour of Egypt , and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans , men of stature , shall come over unto thee , and they shall be thine : they shall come after thee ; in chains they shall come over , and they shall fall down unto thee , they shall make supplication unto thee , saying , Surely God is in thee ; and there is none else , there is no God . Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself , O God of Israel , the Saviour . They shall be ashamed , and also confounded , all of them : they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols . But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation : ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end . For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens ; God himself that formed the earth and made it ; he hath established it , he created it not in vain , he formed it to be inhabited : I am the LORD ; and there is none else . I have not spoken in secret , in a dark place of the earth : I said not unto the seed of Jacob , Seek ye me in vain : I the LORD speak righteousness , I declare things that are right . Assemble yourselves and come ; draw near together , ye that are escaped of the nations : they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image , and pray unto a god that cannot save . Tell ye , and bring them near ; yea , let them take counsel together : who hath declared this from ancient time ? who hath told it from that time ? have not I the LORD ? and there is no God else beside me ; a just God and a Saviour ; there is none beside me . Look unto me , and be ye saved , all the ends of the earth : for I am God , and there is none else . I have sworn by myself , the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness , and shall not return , That unto me every knee shall bow , every tongue shall swear . Surely , shall one say , in the LORD have I righteousness and strength : even to him shall men come ; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed . In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified , and shall glory . Bel boweth down , Nebo stoopeth , their idols were upon the beasts , and upon the cattle : your carriages were heavy loaden ; they are a burden to the weary beast . They stoop , they bow down together ; they could not deliver the burden , but themselves are gone into captivity . Hearken unto me , O house of Jacob , and all the remnant of the house of Israel , which are borne by me from the belly , which are carried from the womb : And even to your old age I am he ; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you : I have made , and I will bear ; even I will carry , and will deliver you . To whom will ye liken me , and make me equal , and compare me , that we may be like ? They lavish gold out of the bag , and weigh silver in the balance , and hire a goldsmith ; and he maketh it a god : they fall down , yea , they worship . They bear him upon the shoulder , they carry him , and set him in his place , and he standeth ; from his place shall he not remove : yea , one shall cry unto him , yet can he not answer , nor save him out of his trouble . Remember this , and shew yourselves men : bring it again to mind , O ye 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 a ravenous bird from the east , the man that executeth my counsel from a far country : yea , I have spoken it , I will also bring it to pass ; I have purposed it , I will also do it . Hearken unto me , ye stouthearted , 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 Zion for Israel my glory . Come down , and sit in the dust , O virgin daughter of Babylon , sit on the ground : there is no throne , O daughter of the Chaldeans : for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate . Take the millstones , and grind meal : uncover thy locks , make bare the leg , uncover the thigh , pass over the rivers . Thy nakedness shall be uncovered , yea , thy shame shall be seen : I will take vengeance , and I will not meet thee as a man . As for our redeemer , the LORD of hosts is his name , the Holy One of Israel . Sit thou silent , and get thee into darkness , O daughter of the Chaldeans : for thou shalt no more be called , The lady of kingdoms . I was wroth with my people , I have polluted mine inheritance , and given them into thine hand : thou didst shew them no mercy ; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke . And thou saidst , I shall be a lady for ever : so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart , neither didst remember the latter end of it . Therefore hear now this , thou that art given to pleasures , that dwellest carelessly , that sayest in thine 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 children , and widowhood : they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries , and for the great abundance of thine enchantments . For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness : thou hast said , None seeth me . Thy wisdom and thy knowledge , it hath perverted thee ; and thou hast said in thine heart , I am , and none else beside me . Therefore shall evil come upon thee ; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth : and mischief shall fall upon thee ; thou shalt not be able to put it off : and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly , which thou shalt not know . Stand now with thine enchantments , and with the multitude of thy sorceries , wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth ; if so be thou shalt be able to profit , if so be thou mayest prevail . 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 they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured , even thy merchants , from thy youth : they shall wander every one to his quarter ; none shall save thee . Hear ye this , O house of Jacob , which are called by the name of Israel , and are come forth out of the waters of Judah , which swear by the name of the LORD , and make mention of the God of Israel , but not in truth , nor in righteousness . For they call themselves of the holy city , and stay themselves upon the God of Israel ; The LORD of hosts is his name . I have declared the former things from the beginning ; and they went forth out of my mouth , and I shewed them ; I did them suddenly , and they came to pass . Because I knew that thou art obstinate , and thy neck is an iron sinew , and thy brow brass ; I have even from the beginning declared it to thee ; before it came to pass I shewed it thee : lest thou shouldest say , Mine idol hath done them , and my graven image , and my molten image , hath commanded them . Thou hast heard , see all this ; and will not ye declare it ? I have shewed thee new things from this time , even hidden things , and thou didst not know them . They are created now , and not from the beginning ; even before the day when thou heardest them not ; lest thou shouldest say , Behold , I knew them . Yea , thou heardest not ; yea , thou knewest not ; yea , from that time that thine ear was not opened : for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously , and wast called a transgressor from the womb . For my name's sake will I defer mine anger , and for my praise will I refrain for thee , that I cut thee not off . Behold , I have refined thee , but not with silver ; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction . For mine own sake , even for mine own sake , will I do it : for how should my name be polluted ? and I will not give my glory unto another . Hearken unto me , O Jacob and Israel , my called ; I am he ; I am the first , I also am the last . Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth , and my right hand hath spanned the heavens : when I call unto them , they stand up together . All ye , assemble yourselves , and hear ; which among them hath declared these things ? The LORD hath loved him : he will do his pleasure on Babylon , and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans . I , even I , have spoken ; yea , I have called him : I have brought him , and he shall make his way prosperous . Come ye near unto me , hear ye this ; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning ; from the time that it was , there am I : and now the Lord GOD , and his Spirit , hath sent me . Thus saith the LORD , thy Redeemer , the Holy One of Israel ; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit , which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go . 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 the gravel thereof ; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me . Go ye forth of Babylon , flee ye from the Chaldeans , with a voice of singing declare ye , tell this , utter it even to the end of the earth ; say ye , The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob . And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts : he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them : he clave the rock also , and the waters gushed out . There is no peace , saith the LORD , unto the wicked . Listen , O isles , unto me ; and hearken , ye people , from far ; The LORD hath called me from the womb ; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name . And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword ; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me , and made me a polished shaft ; in his quiver hath he hid me ; And said unto me , Thou art my servant , O Israel , 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 work with my God . And now , saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant , to bring Jacob again to him , Though Israel be not gathered , yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD , and my God shall be my strength . And he said , It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob , and to restore the preserved of Israel : I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles , that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth . Thus saith the LORD , the Redeemer of Israel , and his Holy One , to him whom man despiseth , to him whom the nation abhorreth , to a servant of rulers , Kings shall see and arise , princes also shall worship , because of the LORD that is faithful , and the Holy One of Israel , and he shall choose thee . Thus saith the LORD , In an acceptable time have I heard thee , and in a day of salvation have I helped thee : and I will preserve thee , and give thee for a covenant of the people , to establish the earth , to cause to inherit the desolate heritages ; That thou mayest say to the prisoners , Go forth ; to them that are in darkness , Shew yourselves . They shall feed in the ways , and their pastures shall be in all high places . They shall not hunger nor thirst ; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them : for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them , even by the springs of water shall he guide them . And I will make all my mountains a way , and my highways shall be exalted . 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 mountains : for the LORD hath comforted his people , and will have mercy upon his afflicted . But Zion said , The LORD hath forsaken me , and my Lord hath forgotten me . Can a woman forget her sucking child , that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb ? yea , they may forget , yet will I not forget thee . Behold , I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands ; thy walls are continually before me . Thy children shall make haste ; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee . Lift up thine eyes round about , and behold : all these gather themselves together , and come to thee . As I live , saith the LORD , thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all , as with an ornament , and bind them on thee , as a bride doeth . For thy waste and thy desolate places , and the land of thy destruction , shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants , and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away . The children which thou shalt have , after thou hast lost the other , shall say again in thine ears , The place is too strait for me : give place to me that I may dwell . Then shalt thou say in thine heart , Who hath begotten me these , seeing I have lost my children , and am desolate , a captive , and removing to and fro ? and who hath brought up these ? Behold , I was left alone ; these , where had they been ? Thus saith the Lord GOD , Behold , I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles , and set up my standard to the people : and they shall bring thy sons in their arms , and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders . And kings shall be thy nursing fathers , and their queens thy nursing mothers : they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth , and lick up the dust of thy feet ; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD : for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me . Shall the prey be taken from the mighty , or the lawful captive delivered ? But thus saith 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 contendeth with thee , and I will save thy children . And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh ; and they shall be drunken with their own blood , as with sweet wine : and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer , the mighty One of Jacob . Thus saith the LORD , Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement , whom I have put away ? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you ? Behold , for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves , and for your transgressions is your mother put away . Wherfore , when I came , was there no man ? when I called , was there none to answer ? Is my hand shortened at all , that it cannot redeem ? or have I no power to deliver ? behold , at my rebuke I dry up the sea , I make the rivers a wilderness : their fish stinketh , because there is no water , and dieth for thirst . I clothe the heavens with blackness , and I make sackcloth their covering . The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned , that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary : he wakeneth morning by morning , he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned . The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear , and I was not rebellious , neither turned away back . 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 will help me ; therefore shall I not be confounded : therefore have I set my face like a flint , and I know that I shall not be ashamed . He is near that justifieth me ; who will contend with me ? let us stand together : who is mine adversary ? let him come near to me . Behold , the Lord GOD will help me ; who is he that shall condemn me ? lo , they all shall wax old as a garment ; the moth shall eat them up . Who is among you that feareth the LORD , that obeyeth the voice of his servant , that walketh in darkness , and hath no light ? let him trust in the name of the LORD , and stay upon his God . Behold , all ye that kindle a fire , that compass yourselves about with sparks : walk in the light of your fire , and in the sparks that ye have kindled . This shall ye have of mine hand ; ye shall lie down in sorrow . Hearken to me , ye that follow after righteousness , ye that seek the LORD : look unto the rock whence ye are hewn , and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged . Look unto Abraham your father , and unto Sarah that bare you : for I called him alone , and blessed him , and increased him . For the LORD shall comfort Zion : he will comfort all her waste places ; and he will make her wilderness like Eden , and her desert like the garden of the LORD ; joy and gladness shall be found therein , thanksgiving , and the voice of melody . Hearken unto me , my people ; and give ear unto me , O my nation : for a law shall proceed from me , and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people . My righteousness is near ; my salvation is gone forth , and mine arms shall judge the people ; the isles shall wait upon me , and on mine arm shall they trust . Lift up your eyes to the heavens , and look upon the earth beneath : for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke , and the earth shall wax old like a garment , and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner : but my salvation shall be for ever , and my righteousness shall not be abolished . Hearken unto me , ye that know righteousness , the people in whose heart is my law ; fear ye not the reproach of men , neither be ye afraid of their 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 from generation to generation . Awake , awake , put on strength , O arm of the LORD ; awake , as in the ancient days , in the generations of old . Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab , and wounded the dragon ? Art thou not it which hath dried the sea , the waters of the great deep ; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over ? Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return , and come with singing unto Zion ; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head : they shall obtain gladness and joy ; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away . I , even I , am he that comforteth you : who art thou , that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die , and of the son of man which shall be made as grass ; And forgettest the LORD thy maker , that hath stretched forth the heavens , and laid the foundations of the earth ; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor , as if he were ready to destroy ? and where is the fury of the oppressor ? The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed , and that he should not die in the pit , nor that his bread should fail . But I am the LORD thy God , that divided the sea , whose 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 mine hand , that I may plant the heavens , and lay the foundations of the earth , and say unto Zion , Thou art my people . Awake , awake , stand up , O Jerusalem , which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury ; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling , and wrung them out . There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth ; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up . These two things are come unto thee ; who shall be sorry for thee ? desolation , and destruction , and the famine , and the sword : by whom shall I comfort thee ? Thy sons have fainted , they lie at the head of all the streets , as a wild bull 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 saith thy Lord the LORD , and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people , Behold , I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling , even the dregs of the cup of my fury ; thou shalt no more drink it again : But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee ; which have said to thy soul , Bow down , that we may go over : and thou hast laid thy body as the ground , and as the street , to them that went over . Awake , awake ; put on thy strength , O Zion ; put on thy beautiful garments , O Jerusalem , 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 Jerusalem : loose thyself from the bands of thy neck , O captive daughter of Zion . For thus saith the LORD , Ye have sold yourselves for nought ; and ye shall be redeemed without money . For thus saith the Lord GOD , My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there ; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause . Now therefore , what have I here , saith the LORD , that my people is taken away for nought ? they that rule over them make them to howl , saith 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 doth speak : behold , it is I . How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings , that publisheth peace ; that bringeth good tidings of good , that publisheth salvation ; that saith unto Zion , Thy God reigneth ! Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice ; with the voice together shall they sing : for they shall see eye to eye , when the LORD shall bring again Zion . Break forth into joy , sing together , ye waste places of Jerusalem : for the LORD hath comforted his people , he hath redeemed Jerusalem . The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations ; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God . Depart ye , depart ye , go ye out from thence , touch no unclean thing ; go ye out of the midst of her ; be ye clean , that bear the vessels of the LORD . For ye shall not go out with haste , nor go by flight : for the LORD will go before you ; and the God of Israel will be your rereward . Behold , my servant shall deal prudently , he shall be exalted and extolled , and be very high . As many were astonied at thee ; his visage was so marred more than any man , and his form more than the sons of men : So shall he sprinkle many nations ; the kings shall shut their mouths at him : for that which had not been told them shall they see ; and that which they had not heard shall they consider . Who hath believed our report ? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed ? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant , and as a root out of a dry ground : he hath no form nor comeliness ; and when we shall see him , there is no beauty that we should desire him . He is despised and rejected of men ; a man of sorrows , and acquainted with grief : and we hid as it were our faces from him ; he was despised , and we esteemed him not . Surely he hath borne our griefs , and carried our sorrows : yet we did esteem him stricken , smitten of God , and afflicted . But he was wounded for our transgressions , he was bruised for our iniquities : the chastisement of our peace was upon him ; and with his stripes we are healed . All we like sheep have gone astray ; we have turned every one to his own way ; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all . He was oppressed , and he was afflicted , yet he opened not his mouth : he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter , and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb , so he openeth not his mouth . He was taken from prison and from judgment : and who shall declare his generation ? for he was cut off out of the land of the living : for the transgression of my people was he stricken . And he made his grave with the wicked , and with the rich in his death ; because he had done no violence , neither was any deceit in his mouth . Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him ; he hath put him to grief : when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin , he shall see his seed , he shall prolong his days , and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand . He shall see of the travail of his soul , and shall be satisfied : by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many ; for he shall bear their iniquities . Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great , and he shall divide the spoil with the strong ; because he hath poured out his soul unto death : and he was numbered with the transgressors ; and he bare the sin of many , and made intercession for the transgressors . Sing , O barren , thou that didst not bear ; break forth into singing , and cry aloud , thou that didst not travail with child : for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife , saith the LORD . Enlarge the place of thy tent , and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine 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 inherit the Gentiles , and make the desolate cities to be inhabited . Fear not ; for thou shalt not be ashamed : neither be thou confounded ; for thou shalt not be put to shame : for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth , and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more . For thy Maker is thine husband ; the LORD of hosts is his name ; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel ; The God of the whole earth shall he be called . For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit , and a wife of youth , when thou wast refused , saith thy God . For a small moment have I forsaken thee ; but with great mercies will I gather thee . In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment ; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee , saith the LORD thy Redeemer . For this is as the waters of Noah unto me : for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth ; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee , nor rebuke thee . For the mountains shall depart , and the hills be removed ; but my kindness shall not depart from thee , neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed , saith the LORD that hath 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 agates , and thy gates of carbuncles , and all thy borders of pleasant 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 : thou shalt be far from oppression ; for thou shalt not fear : and from terror ; for it shall not come near thee . Behold , they shall surely gather together , but not by me : whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake . Behold , I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire , and that bringeth 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 their righteousness is of me , saith the LORD . Ho , every one that thirsteth , come ye to the waters , and he that hath no money ; come ye , buy , and eat ; yea , come , buy wine and milk without money and without price . Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread ? and your labour for that which satisfieth not ? hearken diligently unto me , and eat ye that which is good , and let your soul delight itself in fatness . Incline your ear , and come unto me : hear , and your soul shall live ; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you , even the sure mercies of David . Behold , I have given him for a witness to the people , a leader and commander to the people . Behold , thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not , and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God , and for the Holy One of Israel ; for he hath glorified thee . Seek ye the LORD while he may be found , call ye upon him while he is near : Let the wicked forsake his way , and the unrighteous man his thoughts : and let him return unto the LORD , and he will have mercy upon him ; and to our God , for he will abundantly pardon . For my thoughts are not your thoughts , neither are your ways my ways , saith 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 cometh down , and the snow from heaven , and returneth not thither , but watereth the earth , and maketh it bring forth and bud , that it may give seed to the sower , and bread to the eater : So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth : it shall not return unto me void , but it shall accomplish that which I please , and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it . For ye shall go out with joy , and be led forth with peace : the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing , and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands . Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree , and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree : and it shall be to the LORD for a name , for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off . Thus saith the LORD , Keep ye judgment , and do justice : for my salvation is near to come , and my righteousness to be revealed . Blessed is the man that doeth this , and the son of man that layeth hold on it ; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it , and keepeth his hand from doing any evil . Neither let the son of the stranger , that hath joined himself to the LORD , speak , saying , The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people : neither let the eunuch say , Behold , I am a dry tree . For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths , and choose the things that please me , and take hold of my covenant ; Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters : I will give them an everlasting name , that shall 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 keepeth the sabbath from polluting it , and taketh hold of 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 upon mine altar ; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people . The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith , Yet will I gather others to him , beside those that are gathered unto him . All ye beasts of the field , come to devour , yea , all ye beasts in the forest . His watchmen are blind : they are all ignorant , they are all dumb dogs , they cannot bark ; sleeping , lying down , loving to slumber . Yea , they are greedy dogs which can never have enough , and they are shepherds that cannot understand : they all look to their own way , every one for his gain , from his quarter . Come ye , 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 perisheth , and no man layeth it to heart : and merciful men are taken away , none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come . He shall enter into peace : they shall rest in their beds , each one walking in his uprightness . But draw near hither , ye sons of the sorceress , the seed of the adulterer and the whore . Against whom do ye sport yourselves ? against whom make ye a wide mouth , and draw out the tongue ? are ye not children of transgression , a seed of falsehood , Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree , slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks ? Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion ; they , they are thy lot : even to them hast thou poured a drink offering , thou hast offered a meat offering . Should I receive comfort in these ? Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed : even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice . Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance : for thou hast discovered 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 sawest it . And thou wentest to the king with ointment , and didst increase thy perfumes , and didst send thy messengers far off , and didst debase thyself even unto hell . Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way ; yet saidst thou not , There is no hope : thou hast found the life of thine hand ; therefore thou wast not grieved . And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared , that thou hast lied , and hast not remembered me , nor laid it to thy heart ? have not I held my peace even of old , and thou fearest me not ? I will declare thy righteousness , and thy works ; for they shall not profit thee . When thou criest , let thy companies deliver thee ; but the wind shall carry them all away ; vanity shall take them : but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land , and shall inherit my holy mountain ; And shall say , Cast ye up , cast ye up , prepare the way , take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people . For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity , whose name is Holy ; I dwell in the high and holy place , with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit , to revive the spirit of the humble , and to revive the heart of the contrite ones . For I will not contend for ever , neither will I be always wroth : for the spirit should fail before me , and the souls which I have made . 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 . I have seen his ways , and will heal him : I will lead him also , and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners . I create the fruit of the lips ; Peace , peace to him that is far off , and to him that is near , saith the LORD ; and I will heal him . But the wicked are like the troubled sea , when it cannot rest , whose waters cast up mire and dirt . There is no peace , saith my God , to the wicked . Cry aloud , spare not , lift up thy voice like a trumpet , and shew my people their transgression , and the house of Jacob their sins . Yet they seek me daily , and delight to know my ways , as a nation that did righteousness , and forsook not the ordinance of their God : they ask of me the ordinances of justice ; they take delight in approaching to God . Wherefore have we fasted , say they , and thou seest not ? wherefore have we afflicted our soul , and thou takest no knowledge ? Behold , in the day of your fast ye find pleasure , and exact all your labours . Behold , ye fast for strife and debate , and to smite with the fist of wickedness : ye shall not fast as ye do this day , to make your voice to be heard on high . Is it such a fast that I have chosen ? a day for a man to afflict his soul ? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush , and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ? wilt thou call this a fast , and an acceptable day to the LORD ? Is not this the fast that I have chosen ? to loose the bands of wickedness , to undo the heavy burdens , and to let the oppressed go free , and that ye break every yoke ? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry , and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house ? when thou seest the naked , that thou cover him ; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh ? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning , and thine health shall spring forth speedily : and thy righteousness shall go before thee ; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward . Then shalt thou call , and the LORD shall answer ; thou shalt cry , and he shall say , Here I am . If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke , the putting forth of the finger , and speaking vanity ; And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry , and satisfy the afflicted soul ; then shall thy light rise in obscurity , and thy darkness be as the noonday : And the LORD shall guide thee continually , and satisfy thy soul 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 . 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 turn away thy foot from the sabbath , from doing thy pleasure on my holy day ; and call the sabbath a delight , the holy of the LORD , honourable ; and shalt honour him , not doing thine own ways , nor finding thine own pleasure , nor speaking thine own words : Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD ; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth , and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father : for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it . Behold , the LORD's hand is not shortened , that it cannot save ; neither his ear heavy , that it cannot hear : But your iniquities have separated 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 hath muttered perverseness . None calleth for justice , nor any pleadeth for truth : they trust in vanity , and speak lies ; they conceive mischief , and bring forth iniquity . They hatch cockatrice' eggs , and weave the spider's web : he that eateth of their eggs dieth , and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper . 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 hast 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 : whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace . Therefore is judgment far from us , neither doth justice overtake us : we wait for light , but behold obscurity ; for brightness , but we walk in darkness . 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 ; we are in desolate places as dead men . We roar all like bears , and mourn sore like doves : we look for judgment , but there is none ; for salvation , but it is far off from us . 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 lying against 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 backward , and justice standeth afar off : for truth is fallen in the street , and equity cannot enter . Yea , truth faileth ; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey : and the LORD saw it , and it displeased him that there was no judgment . And he saw that there was no man , and wondered that there was no intercessor : therefore his arm brought salvation unto him ; and his righteousness , it sustained him . For he put on righteousness as a breastplate , and an helmet of salvation upon his head ; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing , and was clad with zeal as a cloke . According to their deeds , accordingly he will repay , fury to his adversaries , recompence to his enemies ; to the islands he will repay recompence . So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west , and his glory from the rising of the sun . When the enemy shall come in like a flood , the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him . And the Redeemer shall come to Zion , and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob , saith the LORD . As for me , this is my covenant with them , saith 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 , saith 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 people : but the LORD shall arise upon thee , and his glory shall be seen upon thee . And the Gentiles shall come to thy light , and kings to the brightness of thy rising . Lift up thine eyes round about , and see : all they gather themselves together , they come to thee : thy sons shall come from far , and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side . Then thou shalt see , and flow together , and thine heart shall fear , and be enlarged ; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee , the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee . The multitude of camels shall cover thee , the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah ; all they from Sheba shall come : they shall bring gold and incense ; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD . All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee , the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee : they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar , and I will glorify the house of my glory . 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 , unto the name of the LORD thy God , and to the Holy One of Israel , because he hath glorified thee . And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls , and their kings shall minister unto thee : for in my wrath I smote thee , but in my favour have I had mercy on thee . Therefore thy gates shall be open continually ; they shall not be shut day nor night ; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles , and that their kings may be brought . For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish ; yea , those nations shall be utterly wasted . The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee , the fir tree , the pine tree , and the box together , to beautify the place of my sanctuary ; and I will make the place of my feet glorious . The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee ; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet ; and they shall call thee , The city of the LORD , The Zion of the Holy One of Israel . 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 Gentiles , and shalt suck the breast of kings : and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer , the mighty One of Jacob . For brass I will bring gold , and for iron I will bring silver , and for wood brass , and for stones iron : I will also make thy officers peace , and thine exactors righteousness . 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 unto thee : but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light , and thy God thy glory . Thy sun shall no more go down ; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself : for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light , and the days of thy mourning shall be ended . Thy people also shall be all righteous : they shall inherit the land for ever , the branch of my planting , the work of my hands , that I may be glorified . A little one shall become a thousand , and a small one a strong nation : I the LORD will hasten it in his time . The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me ; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek ; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted , to proclaim liberty to the captives , and the opening of the prison to them that are bound ; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD , and the day of vengeance of our God ; to comfort all that mourn ; To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion , to give unto them beauty for ashes , the oil of joy for mourning , the garment of praise for 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 repair 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 plowmen and your vinedressers . But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD : men shall call you the Ministers of our God : ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles , and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves . For your shame ye shall have double ; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion : therefore in their land they shall possess the double : everlasting joy shall be unto them . For I the LORD love judgment , I hate robbery for burnt offering ; and I will direct their work in truth , and I will make an everlasting covenant with them . And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles , and their offspring among the people : all that see them shall acknowledge them , that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed . I will greatly rejoice in the LORD , my soul shall be joyful in my God ; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation , he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness , as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments , and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels . For as the earth bringeth forth her bud , and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth ; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations . For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace , and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest , until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness , and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth . And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness , and all kings thy glory : and thou shalt be called by a new name , which the mouth of the LORD shall name . 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 Hephzi-bah , and thy land Beulah : for the LORD delighteth in thee , and thy land shall be married . For as a young man marrieth a virgin , so shall thy sons marry thee : and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride , so shall thy God rejoice over thee . I have set watchmen upon thy walls , O Jerusalem , which shall never hold their peace day nor night : ye that make mention of the LORD , keep not silence , And give him no rest , till he establish , and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth . The LORD hath sworn by his right hand , and by the arm of his strength , Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies ; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine , for the which thou hast 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 holiness . Go through , go through the gates ; prepare ye the way of the people ; cast up , cast up the highway ; gather out the stones ; lift up a standard for the people . Behold , the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world , Say ye to the daughter of Zion , Behold , thy salvation cometh ; behold , his reward is with him , and his work before him . And they shall call them , The holy people , The redeemed of the LORD : and thou shalt be called , Sought out , A city not forsaken . Who is this that cometh from Edom , with dyed garments from Bozrah ? this that is glorious in his apparel , travelling in the greatness of his strength ? I that speak in righteousness , mighty to save . Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel , and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat ? I have trodden the winepress alone ; and of the people there was none with me : for I will tread them in mine anger , and trample them in my fury ; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments , and I will stain all my raiment . For the day of vengeance is in mine heart , and the year of my redeemed is come . And I looked , and there was none to help ; and I wondered that there was none to uphold : therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me ; and my fury , it upheld me . And I will tread down the people in mine anger , and make them drunk in my fury , and I will bring down their strength to the earth . I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD , and the praises of the LORD , according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us , and the great goodness toward the house of Israel , which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies , and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses . For he said , Surely they are my people , children that will not lie : so he was their Saviour . In all their affliction he was afflicted , and the angel of his presence saved them : in his love and in his pity he redeemed them ; and he bare them , and carried them all the days of old . 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 , Moses , and his people , saying , Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock ? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him ? That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm , dividing the water before them , to make himself an everlasting name ? That led them through the deep , as an horse in the wilderness , that they should not stumble ? As a beast goeth down into the valley , the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest : so didst thou lead thy people , to make thyself a glorious name . Look down from heaven , and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory : where is thy zeal and thy strength , the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me ? are they restrained ? Doubtless thou art our father , though Abraham be ignorant of us , and Israel acknowledge us not : thou , O LORD , art our father , our redeemer ; thy name is from everlasting . O LORD , why hast thou made us to err from thy ways , and hardened our heart from thy fear ? Return for thy servants' sake , the tribes of thine inheritance . The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while : our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary . We are thine : thou never barest rule over them ; they were not called by thy name . Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens , that thou wouldest come down , that the mountains might flow down at thy presence , As when the melting fire burneth , the fire causeth the waters to boil , to make thy name known to thine adversaries , that the nations may tremble at thy presence ! When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for , thou camest 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 hath the eye seen , O God , beside thee , what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him . Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness , those that remember thee in thy ways : behold , thou art wroth ; for we have sinned : in those is continuance , and we shall be saved . But we are all as an unclean thing , and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags ; and we all do fade as a leaf ; and our iniquities , like the wind , have taken us away . And there is none that calleth upon thy name , that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee : for thou hast hid thy face from us , and hast consumed us , because of our iniquities . 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 wroth very sore , O LORD , neither remember iniquity for ever : behold , see , we beseech thee , we are all thy people . Thy holy cities are a wilderness , Zion is a wilderness , Jerusalem a desolation . Our holy and our beautiful house , where our fathers praised thee , is burned up with fire : and all our pleasant things are laid waste . Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things , O LORD ? wilt thou hold thy peace , and afflict us very sore ? I am sought of them that asked not for me ; I am found of them that sought me not : I said , Behold me , behold me , unto a nation that was not called by my name . I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people , which walketh in a way that was not good , after their own thoughts ; A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face ; that sacrificeth in gardens , and burneth incense upon altars of brick ; Which remain among the graves , and lodge in the monuments , which eat swine's flesh , and broth of abominable things is in their vessels ; Which say , Stand by thyself , come not near to me ; for I am holier than thou . These are a smoke in my nose , a fire that burneth all the day . Behold , it is written before me : I will not keep silence , but will recompense , even recompense into their bosom , Your iniquities , and the iniquities of your fathers together , saith the LORD , which have burned incense upon the mountains , and blasphemed me upon the hills : therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom . Thus saith the LORD , As the new wine is found in the cluster , and one saith , Destroy it not ; for a blessing is in it : so will I do for my servants' sakes , that I may not destroy them all . And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob , and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains : and mine elect shall inherit it , and my servants shall dwell there . And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks , and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in , for my people that have sought me . But ye are they that forsake the LORD , that forget my holy mountain , that prepare a table for that troop , and that furnish the drink offering unto that number . Therefore will I number you to the sword , and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter : because when I called , ye did not answer ; when I spake , ye did not hear ; but did evil before mine eyes , and did choose that wherein I delighted not . Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD , Behold , my servants shall eat , but ye shall be hungry : behold , my servants shall drink , but ye shall be thirsty : behold , my servants shall rejoice , but ye shall be ashamed : Behold , my servants shall sing for joy of heart , but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart , and shall howl for vexation of spirit . And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen : for the Lord GOD shall slay thee , and call his servants by another name : That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth ; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth ; because the former troubles are forgotten , and because they are hid from mine eyes . For , behold , I create new heavens and a new earth : and the former shall not be remembered , nor come into mind . But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create : for , behold , I create Jerusalem a rejoicing , and her people a joy . And I will rejoice in Jerusalem , and joy in my people : and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her , nor the voice of crying . There shall be no more thence an infant of days , nor an old man that hath not filled his days : for the child shall die an hundred years old ; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be 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 are the days of my people , and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands . They shall not labour in vain , nor bring forth for trouble ; 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 bullock : and dust shall be the serpent's meat . They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain , saith the LORD . Thus saith the LORD , The heaven is my throne , and the earth is my footstool : where is the house that ye build unto me ? and where is the place of my rest ? For all those things hath mine hand made , and those things have been , saith the LORD : but to this man will I look , even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit , and trembleth at my word . He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man ; he that sacrificeth a lamb , as if he cut off a dog's neck ; he that offereth an oblation , as if he offered swine's blood ; he that burneth incense , as if he blessed an idol . Yea , they have chosen their own ways , and their soul delighteth in their abominations . I also will choose their delusions , and will bring their fears upon them ; because when I called , none did answer ; when I spake , they did not hear : but they did evil before mine eyes , and chose that in which I delighted not . Hear the word of the LORD , ye that tremble at his word ; your brethren that hated you , that cast you out for my name's sake , said , Let the LORD be glorified : but he shall appear to your joy , and they shall be ashamed . A voice of noise from the city , a voice from the temple , a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies . Before she travailed , she brought forth ; before her pain came , she was delivered of a man child . Who hath heard such a thing ? who hath seen such things ? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day ? or shall a nation be born at once ? for as soon as Zion travailed , she brought forth her children . Shall I bring to the birth , and not cause to bring forth ? saith the LORD : shall I cause to bring forth , and shut the womb ? saith thy God . Rejoice ye with Jerusalem , and be glad with her , all ye that love her : rejoice for joy with her , all ye that mourn for her : That ye may suck , and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations ; that ye may milk out , and be delighted with the abundance of her glory . For thus saith the LORD , Behold , I will extend peace to her like a river , and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream : then shall ye suck , ye shall be borne upon her sides , and be dandled upon her knees . As one whom his mother comforteth , so will I comfort you ; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem . And when ye see this , your heart shall rejoice , and your bones shall flourish like an herb : and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants , and his indignation toward his enemies . For , behold , the LORD will come with fire , and with his chariots like a whirlwind , to render his anger with fury , and his rebuke with flames of fire . For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh : and the slain of the LORD shall be many . They that sanctify themselves , and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst , eating swine's flesh , and the abomination , and the mouse , shall be consumed together , saith the LORD . For I know their works and their thoughts : it 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 unto the nations , to Tarshish , Pul , and Lud , that draw the bow , to Tubal , and Javan , to the isles afar off , that have not heard my fame , neither have seen my glory ; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles . And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses , and in chariots , and in litters , and upon mules , and upon swift beasts , to my holy mountain Jerusalem , saith the LORD , as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD . And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites , saith the LORD . For as the new heavens and the new earth , which I will make , shall remain before me , saith the LORD , so shall your seed and your name remain . And it shall come to pass , that from one new moon to another , and from one sabbath to another , shall all flesh come to worship before me , saith the LORD . And they shall go forth , and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me : for their worm shall not die , neither shall their fire be quenched ; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh .