Isaiah (continued 2)

30:27 Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire. 30:28 His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples. 30:29 You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh's mountain, to Israel's Rock. 30:30 Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones. 30:31 For through the voice of Yahweh the Assyrian will be dismayed. He will strike him with his rod. 30:32 Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which Yahweh will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons. 30:33 For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is made ready. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh's breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

31:1

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help,

and rely on horses,

and trust in chariots because they are many,

and in horsemen because they are very strong,

but they don't look to the Holy One of Israel,

and they don't seek Yahweh!

31:2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster,

and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evil-doers,

and against the help of those who work iniquity.

31:3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God;

and their horses flesh, and not spirit.

When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble,

and he who is helped shall fall,

and they all shall be consumed together.

31:4 For thus says Yahweh to me,

"As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey,

if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him,

will not be dismayed at their voice,

nor abase himself for the noise of them,

so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.

31:5 As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect Jerusalem.

He will protect and deliver it.

He will pass over and preserve it."

31:6

Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel. 31:7 For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold--sin which your own hands have made for you.

31:8

"The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man;

and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him.

He will flee from the sword,

and his young men will become subject to forced labor.

31:9 His rock will pass away by reason of terror,

and his princes will be afraid of the banner,"

says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion,

and his furnace in Jerusalem.

32:1

Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness,

and princes shall rule in justice.

32:2 A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind,

and a covert from the storm,

as streams of water in a dry place,

as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.

32:3 The eyes of those who see will not be dim,

and the ears of those who hear will listen.

32:4 The heart of the rash will understand knowledge,

and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.

32:5 The fool will no longer be called noble,

nor the scoundrel be highly respected.

32:6 For the fool will speak folly,

and his heart will work iniquity,

to practice profanity,

and to utter error against Yahweh,

To make empty the soul of the hungry,

and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

32:7 The ways of the scoundrel are evil.

He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words,

even when the needy speaks right.

32:8 But the noble devises noble things;

and he will continue in noble things.

32:9 Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice!

You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!

32:10 For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women;

for the vintage shall fail.

The harvest won't come.

32:11 Tremble, you women who are at ease!

Be troubled, you careless ones!

Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked,

and put sackcloth on your waist.

32:12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,

for the fruitful vine.

32:13 Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land;

yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

32:14 For the palace will be forsaken.

The populous city will be deserted.

The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever,

a delight for wild donkeys,

a pasture of flocks;

32:15 Until the Spirit is poured on us from on high,

and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,

and the fruitful field is considered a forest.

32:16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness;

and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.

32:17 The work of righteousness will be peace;

and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

32:18 My people will abide in a peaceful habitation,

in safe dwellings,

and in quiet resting places.

32:19 Though hail flattens the forest,

and the city is leveled completely.

32:20 Blessed are you who sow beside all waters,

who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.

33:1 Woe to you who destroy, but you weren't destroyed;

and who betray, but nobody betrayed you!

When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed;

and when you have made an end of betrayal, you will be betrayed.

33:2 Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you.

Be our strength every morning,

our salvation also in the time of trouble.

33:3 At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled.

When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.

33:4 Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers.

Men will leap on it as locusts leap.

33:5 Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high.

He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

33:6 There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.

The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.

33:7 Behold, their valiant ones cry outside;

the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.

33:8 The highways are desolate.

The traveling man ceases.

The covenant is broken.

He has despised the cities.

He doesn't regard man.

33:9 The land mourns and languishes.

Lebanon is confounded and withers away.

Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.

33:10 "Now I will arise," says Yahweh;

"Now I will lift myself up.

Now I will be exalted.

33:11 You will conceive chaff.

You will bring forth stubble.

Your breath is a fire that will devour you.

33:12 The peoples will be like the burning of lime,

like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.

33:13 Hear, you who are far off, what I have done;

and, you who are near, acknowledge my might."

33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid.

Trembling has seized the godless ones.

Who among us can live with the devouring fire?

Who among us can live with everlasting burning?

33:15 He who walks righteously,

and speaks blamelessly;

He who despises the gain of oppressions,

who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe,

who stops his ears from hearing of blood,

and shuts his eyes from looking at evil--

33:16 he will dwell on high.

His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks.

His bread will be supplied.

His waters will be sure.

33:17 Your eyes will see the king in his beauty.

They will see a distant land.

33:18 Your heart will meditate on the terror.

Where is he who counted?

Where is he who weighed?

Where is he who counted the towers?

33:19 You will no longer see the fierce people,

a people of a deep speech that you can't comprehend,

with a strange language that you can't understand.

33:20 Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals.

Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation,

a tent that won't be removed.

Its stakes will never be plucked up,

nor will any of its cords be broken.

33:21 But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty,

a place of broad rivers and streams,

in which no galley with oars will go,

neither will any gallant ship pass by there.

33:22 For Yahweh is our judge.

Yahweh is our lawgiver.

Yahweh is our king.

He will save us.

33:23 Your rigging is untied.

They couldn't strengthen the foot of their mast.

They couldn't spread the sail.

Then the prey of a great spoil was divided.

The lame took the prey.

33:24 The inhabitant won't say, "I am sick."

The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.

34:1 Come near, you nations, to hear!

Listen, you peoples.

Let the earth and all it contains hear;

the world, and everything that comes from it.

34:2 For Yahweh is enraged against all the nations,

and angry with all their armies.

He has utterly destroyed them.

He has given them over for slaughter.

34:3 Their slain will also be cast out,

and the stench of their dead bodies will come up;

and the mountains will melt in their blood.

34:4 All of the army of the sky will be dissolved.

The sky will be rolled up like a scroll,

and all its armies will fade away,

as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.

34:5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky.

Behold, it will come down on Edom,

and on the people of my curse, for judgment.

34:6 Yahweh's sword is filled with blood.

It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats,

with the fat of the kidneys of rams;

for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah,

And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

34:7 The wild oxen will come down with them,

and the young bulls with the mighty bulls;

and their land will be drunken with blood,

and their dust made greasy with fat.

34:8 For Yahweh has a day of vengeance,

a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

34:9 Its streams will be turned into pitch,

its dust into sulfur,

And its land will become burning pitch.

34:10 It won't be quenched night nor day.

Its smoke will go up forever.

From generation to generation, it will lie waste.

No one will pass through it forever and ever.

34:11 But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it.

The owl and the raven will dwell in it.

He will stretch the line of confusion over it,

and the plumb line of emptiness.

34:12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there;

and all its princes shall be nothing.

34:13 Thorns will come up in its palaces,

nettles and thistles in its fortresses;

and it will be a habitation of jackals,

a court for ostriches.

34:14 The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves,

and the wild goat will cry to his fellow.

Yes, the night creature shall settle there,

and shall find herself a place of rest.

34:15 The arrow snake will make her nest there,

and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade.

Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one with her mate.

34:16 Search in the book of Yahweh, and read:

not one of these will be missing.

none will lack her mate.

For my mouth has commanded,

and his Spirit has gathered them.

34:17 He has cast the lot for them,

and his hand has divided it to them with a measuring line.

They shall possess it forever.

From generation to generation they will dwell in it.

35:1 The wilderness and the dry land will be glad.

The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.

35:2 It will blossom abundantly,

and rejoice even with joy and singing.

Lebanon's glory Lebanon will be given to it,

the excellence of Carmel and Sharon.

They will see Yahweh's glory,

the excellence of our God.

35:3 Strengthen the weak hands,

and make firm the feeble knees.

35:4 Tell those who have a fearful heart, "Be strong.

Don't be afraid.

Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God's retribution.

He will come and save you.

35:5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened,

and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

35:6 Then the lame man will leap like a deer,

and the tongue of the mute will sing;

for waters will break out in the wilderness,

and streams in the desert.

35:7 The burning sand will become a pool,

and the thirsty ground springs of water.

Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay.

35:8 A highway will be there, a road,

and it will be called The Holy Way.

The unclean shall not pass over it,

but it will be for those who walk in the Way.

Wicked fools will not go there.

35:9 No lion will be there,

nor will any ravenous animal go up on it.

They will not be found there;

but the redeemed will walk there.

35:10 The Yahweh's ransomed ones will return,

and come with singing to Zion;

and everlasting joy will be on their heads.

They will obtain gladness and joy,

and sorrow and sighing will flee away."

36:1 Now it happened in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah, and captured them. 36:2 The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller's field highway. 36:3 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder came out to him. 36:4 Rabshakeh said to them, "Now tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, "What confidence is this in which you trust? 36:5 I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? 36:6 Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. 36:7 But if you tell me, 'We trust in Yahweh our God,' isn't that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall worship before this altar?'" 36:8 Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them. 36:9 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? 36:10 Have I come up now without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, "Go up against this land, and destroy it."'"

36:11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and don't speak to us in the Jews' language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall."

36:12 But Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?" 36:13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! 36:14 Thus says the king, 'Don't let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you. 36:15 Don't let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, "Yahweh will surely deliver us. This city won't be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."' 36:16 Don't listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria, 'Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern; 36:17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 36:18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, "Yahweh will deliver us." Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria? 36:19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand? 36:20 Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'"

36:21 But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king's commandment was, "Don't answer him."

36:22 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

37:1 It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh's house. 37:2 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. 37:3 They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth. 37:4 It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.'" 37:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

37:6 Isaiah said to them, "Tell your master, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Don't be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 37:7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land."'"

37:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. 37:9 He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, "He has come out to fight against you." When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 37:10 "Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, 'Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, "Jerusalem won't be given into the hand of the king of Assyria." 37:11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered? 37:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar? 37:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?'"

37:14 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh's house, and spread it before Yahweh. 37:15 Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying, 37:16 "Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. 37:17 Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God. 37:18 Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the countries and their land, 37:19 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. 37:20 Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only."

37:21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, 37:22 this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you. 37:23 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel. 37:24 By your servants, have you defied the Lord, and have said, "With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice fir trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field. 37:25 I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt." 37:26 Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps. 37:27 Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown. 37:28 But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me. 37:29 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came. 37:30 This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from the same; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 37:31 The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. 37:32 For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go forth, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.' 37:33 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, 'He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. 37:34 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come to this city,' says Yahweh. 37:35 'For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.'"

37:36 The angel of Yahweh went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. 37:37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there. 37:38 It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

38:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.'"

38:2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh, 38:3 and said, "Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight." Hezekiah wept bitterly.

38:4 Then the word of Yahweh came to Isaiah, saying, 38:5 "Go, and tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, "I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life. 38:6 I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city. 38:7 This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken. 38:8 Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down."'"

38:9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness.

38:10

I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol.

I am deprived of the residue of my years."

38:11 I said, "I won't see Yah,

Yah in the land of the living.

I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

38:12 My dwelling is removed,

and is carried away from me like a shepherd's tent.

I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life.

He will cut me off from the loom.

From day even to night you will make an end of me.

38:13 I waited patiently until morning.

He breaks all my bones like a lion.

From day even to night you will make an end of me.

38:14 I chattered like a swallow or a crane.

I moaned like a dove.

My eyes weaken looking upward.

Lord, I am oppressed.

Be my security."

38:15 What will I say?

He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it.

I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

38:16 Lord, men live by these things;

and my spirit finds life in all of them:

you restore me, and cause me to live.

38:17 Behold, for peace I had great anguish,

but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption;

for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

38:18 For Sheol can't praise you.

Death can't celebrate you.

Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.

38:19 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day.

The father shall make known your truth to the children.

38:20 Yahweh will save me.

Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of Yahweh.

38:21 Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover." 38:22 Hezekiah also had said, "What is the sign that I will go up to the house of Yahweh?"

39:1 At that time, Merodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and had recovered. 39:2 Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn't show them. 39:3 Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and asked him, "What did these men say? Where did they come from to you?"

Hezekiah said, "They have come from a country far from me, even from Babylon."

39:4 Then he asked, "What have they seen in your house?"

Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them."

39:5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of Yahweh of Armies: 39:6 'Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up until this day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,' says Yahweh. 39:7 'They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon's palace.'"

39:8 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "Yahweh's word which you have spoken is good." He said moreover, "For there will be peace and truth in my days."

40:1 "Comfort, comfort my people," says your God. 40:2 "Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh's hand double for all her sins."

40:3

The voice of one who calls out,

"Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness!

Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

40:4 Every valley shall be exalted,

and every mountain and hill shall be made low.

The uneven shall be made level,

and the rough places a plain.

40:5 The glory of Yahweh shall be revealed,

and all flesh shall see it together;

for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it." 40:6 The voice of one saying, "Cry!"

One said, "What shall I cry?"

"All flesh is like grass,

and all its glory is like the flower of the field.

40:7 The grass withers,

the flower fades,

because Yahweh's breath blows on it.

Surely the people are like grass.

40:8 The grass withers,

the flower fades;

but the word of our God stands forever."

40:9 You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain.

You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength.

Lift it up. Don't be afraid.

Say to the cities of Judah, "Behold, your God!"

40:10 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one,

and his arm will rule for him.

Behold, his reward is with him,

and his recompense before him.

40:11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd.

He will gather the lambs in his arm,

and carry them in his bosom.

He will gently lead those who have their young.

40:12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,

and marked off the sky with his span,

and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure,

and weighed the mountains in scales,

and the hills in a balance?

40:13 Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh,

or has taught him as his counselor?

40:14 Who did he take counsel with,

and who instructed him,

and taught him in the path of justice,

and taught him knowledge,

and showed him the way of understanding?

40:15 Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket,

and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance.

Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

40:16 Lebanon is not sufficient to burn,

nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.

40:17 All the nations are like nothing before him.

They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

40:18 To whom then will you liken God?

Or what likeness will you compare to him?

40:19 A workman has cast an image,

and the goldsmith overlays it with gold,

and casts silver chains for it.

40:20 He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot.

He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.

40:21 Haven't you known?

Haven't you heard, yet?

Haven't you been told from the beginning?

Haven't you understood from the foundations of the earth?

40:22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,

and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;

who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,

and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

40:23 who brings princes to nothing;

who makes the judges of the earth like meaningless.

40:24 They are planted scarcely.

They are sown scarcely.

Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground.

He merely blows on them, and they wither,

and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

40:25 "To whom then will you liken me?

Who is my equal?" says the Holy One.

40:26 Lift up your eyes on high,

and see who has created these,

who brings out their army by number.

He calls them all by name.

by the greatness of his might,

and because he is strong in power,

Not one is lacking.

40:27 Why do you say, Jacob,

and speak, Israel,

"My way is hidden from Yahweh,

and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?"

40:28 Haven't you known?

Haven't you heard?

The everlasting God, Yahweh,

The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint.

He isn't weary.

His understanding is unsearchable.

40:29 He gives power to the weak.

He increases the strength of him who has no might.

40:30 Even the youths faint and get weary,

and the young men utterly fall;

40:31 But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength.

They will mount up with wings like eagles.

They will run, and not be weary.

They will walk, and not faint.

41:1 "Keep silent before me, islands,

and let the peoples renew their strength.

Let them come near,

then let them speak.

Let's meet together for judgment.

41:2 Who has raised up one from the east?

Whom called him to his foot in righteousness?

He hands over nations to him,

and makes him rule over kings.

He gives them like the dust to his sword,

like the driven stubble to his bow.

41:3 He pursues them,

and passes by safely,

Even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.

41:4 Who has worked and done it,

calling the generations from the beginning?

I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he."

41:5 The islands have seen, and fear.

The ends of the earth tremble.

They approach, and come.

41:6 Everyone helps his neighbor.

They say to their brothers, "Be strong!"

41:7 So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith.

He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil,

saying of the soldering, "It is good;"

and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.

41:8 "But you, Israel, my servant,

Jacob whom I have chosen,

the seed of Abraham my friend,

41:9 You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth,

and called from its corners,

and said to you, 'You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you away;'

41:10 Don't you be afraid, for I am with you.

Don't be dismayed, for I am your God.

I will strengthen you.

Yes, I will help you.

Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

41:11 Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded.

Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.

41:12 You will seek them, and won't find them,

even those who contend with you.

Those who war against you will be as nothing,

as a non-existent thing.

41:13 For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand,

saying to you, 'Don't be afraid.

I will help you.'

41:14 Don't be afraid, you worm Jacob,

and you men of Israel.

I will help you," says Yahweh,

"and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

41:15 Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth.

You will thresh the mountains,

and beat them small,

and will make the hills like chaff.

41:16 You will winnow them,

and the wind will carry them away,

and the whirlwind will scatter them.

You will rejoice in Yahweh.

You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

41:17 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none.

Their tongue fails for thirst.

I, Yahweh, will answer them.

I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

41:18 I will open rivers on the bare heights,

and springs in the midst of the valleys.

I will make the wilderness a pool of water,

and the dry land springs of water.

41:19 I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness.

I will set fir trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;

41:20 that they may see, know, consider, and understand together,

that the hand of Yahweh has done this,

and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

41:21 Produce your cause," says Yahweh.

"Bring forth your strong reasons," says the King of Jacob.

41:22 "Let them announce, and declare to us what shall happen.

Declare the former things, what they are,

that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them;

or show us things to come.

41:23 Declare the things that are to come hereafter,

that we may know that you are gods.

Yes, do good, or do evil,

that we may be dismayed,

and see it together.

41:24 Behold, you are of nothing,

and your work is of nothing.

He who chooses you is an abomination.

41:25 "I have raised up one from the north, and he has come;

from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name;

and he shall come on rulers as on mortar,

and as the potter treads clay.

41:26 Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know?

And before, that we may say, 'He is right?'

Surely, there is no one who declares.

Surely, there is no one who shows.

Surely, there is no one who hears your words.

41:27 I am the first to say to Zion, 'Behold, look at them;'

and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem.

41:28 When I look, there is no man;

even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.

41:29 Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing.

Their molten images are wind and confusion.

42:1 "Behold, my servant, whom I uphold;

my chosen, in whom my soul delights--

I have put my Spirit on him.

He will bring justice to the nations.

42:2 He will not shout,

nor raise his voice,

nor cause it to be heard in the street.

42:3 He won't break a bruised reed.

He won't quench a dimly burning wick.

He will faithfully bring justice.

42:4 He will not fail nor be discouraged,

until he has set justice in the earth,

and the islands will wait for his law."

42:5 Thus says God Yahweh,

he who created the heavens and stretched them out,

he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it,

he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.

42:6 "I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness,

and will hold your hand,

and will keep you,

and make you a covenant for the people,

as a light for the nations;

42:7 to open the blind eyes,

to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon,

and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

42:8 "I am Yahweh.

That is my name.

I will not give my glory to another,

nor my praise to engraved images.

42:9 Behold, the former things have happened,

and I declare new things.

I tell you about them before they come up."

42:10 Sing to Yahweh a new song,

and his praise from the end of the earth,

you who go down to the sea,

and all that is therein,

the islands and their inhabitants.

42:11 Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices,

with the villages that Kedar inhabits.

Let the inhabitants of Sela sing.

Let them shout from the top of the mountains!

42:12 Let them give glory to Yahweh,

and declare his praise in the islands.

42:13 Yahweh will go out like a mighty man.

He will stir up zeal like a man of war.

He will raise a war cry.

Yes, he will shout aloud.

He will triumph over his enemies.

42:14 "I have been silent a long time.

I have been quiet and restrained myself.

Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.

42:15 I will destroy mountains and hills,

and dry up all their herbs.

I will make the rivers islands,

and will dry up the pools.

42:16 I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know.

I will lead them in paths that they don't know.

I will make darkness light before them,

and crooked places straight.

I will do these things,

and I will not forsake them.

42:17 "Those who trust in engraved images,

who tell molten images,

'You are our gods'

will be turned back.

They will be utterly disappointed.

42:18 "Hear, you deaf,

and look, you blind,

that you may see.

42:19 Who is blind, but my servant?

Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send?

Who is as blind as he who is at peace,

and as blind as Yahweh's servant?

42:20 You see many things, but don't observe.

His ears are open, but he doesn't listen.

42:21 It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law,

and make it honorable.

42:22 But this is a robbed and plundered people.

All of them are snared in holes,

and they are hidden in prisons.

They have become a prey, and no one delivers;

and a spoil, and no one says, 'Restore them!'

42:23 Who is there among you who will give ear to this?

Who will listen and hear for the time to come?

42:24 Who gave Jacob as plunder,

and Israel to the robbers?

Didn't Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned?

For they would not walk in his ways,

and they disobeyed his law.

42:25 Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him,

and the strength of battle;

and it set him on fire all around, but he didn't know;

and it burned him, but he didn't take it to heart."

43:1 But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob,

and he who formed you, Israel:

"Don't be afraid, for I have redeemed you.

I have called you by your name.

You are mine.

43:2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;

and through the rivers, they will not overflow you.

When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned,

and flame will not scorch you.

43:3 For I am Yahweh your God,

the Holy One of Israel,

your Savior.

I have given Egypt as your ransom,

Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

43:4 Since you have been precious and honored in my sight,

and I have loved you;

therefore I will give people in your place,

and nations instead of your life.

43:5 Don't be afraid; for I am with you.

I will bring your seed from the east,

and gather you from the west.

43:6 I will tell the north, 'Give them up!'

and tell the south, 'Don't hold them back!

Bring my sons from far,

and my daughters from the ends of the earth--

43:7 everyone who is called by my name,

and whom I have created for my glory,

whom I have formed,

yes, whom I have made.'"

43:8 Bring out the blind people who have eyes,

and the deaf who have ears.

43:9 Let all the nations be gathered together,

and let the peoples be assembled.

Who among them can declare this,

and show us former things?

Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified;

or let them hear, and say, "That is true."

43:10 "You are my witnesses," says Yahweh,

"With my servant whom I have chosen;

that you may know and believe me,

and understand that I am he.

Before me there was no God formed,

neither will there be after me.

43:11 I myself am Yahweh;

and besides me there is no savior.

43:12 I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown;

and there was no strange god among you.

Therefore you are my witnesses,"

says Yahweh, "and I am God.

43:13 Yes, since the day was I am he;

and there is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

I will work, and who can hinder it?"

43:14 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing. 43:15 I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King."

43:16

Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea,

and a path in the mighty waters;

43:17 who brings forth the chariot and horse,

the army and the mighty man

(they lie down together, they shall not rise;

they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick):

43:18 "Don't remember the former things,

and don't consider the things of old.

43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing.

It springs forth now.

Don't you know it?

I will even make a way in the wilderness,

and rivers in the desert.

43:20 The animals of the field shall honor me,

the jackals and the ostriches;

because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert,

to give drink to my people, my chosen,

43:21 the people which I formed for myself,

that they might set forth my praise.

43:22 Yet you have not called on me, Jacob;

but you have been weary of me, Israel.

43:23 You have not brought me of your sheep for burnt offerings;

neither have you honored me with your sacrifices.

I have not burdened you with offerings,

nor wearied you with frankincense.

43:24 You have bought me no sweet cane with money,

nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices;

but you have burdened me with your sins.

You have wearied me with your iniquities.

43:25 I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake;

and I will not remember your sins.

43:26 Put me in remembrance.

Let us plead together.

Set forth your case,

that you may be justified.

43:27 Your first father sinned,

and your teachers have transgressed against me.

43:28 Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary;

and I will make Jacob a curse,

and Israel a reviling."

44:1 Yet listen now, Jacob my servant,

and Israel, whom I have chosen.

44:2 This is what Yahweh who made you,

and formed you from the womb,

who will help you says:

"Don't be afraid, Jacob my servant;

and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

44:3 For I will pour water on him who is thirsty,

and streams on the dry ground.

I will pour my Spirit on your seed,

and my blessing on your offspring:

44:4 and they will spring up among the grass,

as willows by the watercourses.

44:5 One will say, 'I am Yahweh's;'

and another will be called by the name of Jacob;

and another will write with his hand 'to Yahweh,'

and honor the name of Israel."

44:6 This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel,

and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says:

"I am the first, and I am the last;

and besides me there is no God.

44:7 Who is like me?

Who will call,

and will declare it,

and set it in order for me,

since I established the ancient people?

Let them declare the things that are coming,

and that will happen.

44:8 Don't fear,

neither be afraid.

Haven't I declared it to you long ago,

and shown it?

You are my witnesses.

Is there a God besides me?

Indeed, there is not.

I don't know any other Rock."

44:9 Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain.

The things that they delight in will not profit.

Their own witnesses don't see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.

44:10 Who has fashioned a god,

or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?

44:11 Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed;

and the workmen are mere men.

Let them all be gathered together.

Let them stand up.

They will fear.

They will be put to shame together.

44:12 The blacksmith takes an axe,

works in the coals,

fashions it with hammers,

and works it with his strong arm.

He is hungry,

and his strength fails;

he drinks no water,

and is faint.

44:13 The carpenter stretches out a line.

He marks it out with a pencil.

He shapes it with planes.

He marks it out with compasses,

and shapes it like the figure of a man,

with the beauty of a man,

to reside in a house.

44:14 He cuts down cedars for himself,

and takes the cypress and the oak,

and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest.

He plants a fir tree,

and the rain nourishes it.

44:15 Then it will be for a man to burn;

and he takes some of it, and warms himself.

Yes, he burns it, and bakes bread.

Yes, he makes a god, and worships it;

he makes it an engraved image, and falls down to it.

44:16 He burns part of it in the fire.

With part of it, he eats meat.

He roasts a roast, and is satisfied.

Yes, he warms himself,

and says, "Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire."

44:17 The rest of it he makes into a god,

even his engraved image.

He bows down to it and worships,

and prays to it, and says, "Deliver me; for you are my god!"

44:18 They don't know, neither do they consider:

for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see;

and their hearts, that they can't understand.

44:19 No one thinks,

neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say,

"I have burned part of it in the fire.

Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals.

I have roasted meat and eaten it.

Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination?

Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?"

44:20 He feeds on ashes.

A deceived heart has turned him aside;

and he can't deliver his soul,

nor say, "Isn't there a lie in my right hand?"

44:21 Remember these things, Jacob and Israel;

for you are my servant.

I have formed you.

You are my servant.

Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.

44:22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions,

and, as a cloud, your sins.

Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

44:23 Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it!

Shout, you lower parts of the earth!

Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees,

for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob,

and will glorify himself in Israel.

44:24 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer,

and he who formed you from the womb:

"I am Yahweh, who makes all things;

who alone stretches out the heavens;

who spreads out the earth by myself;

44:25 who frustrates the signs of the liars,

and makes diviners mad;

who turns wise men backward,

and makes their knowledge foolish;

44:26 who confirms the word of his servant,

and performs the counsel of his messengers;

who says of Jerusalem, 'She will be inhabited;'

and of the cities of Judah, 'They will be built,'

and I will raise up its waste places;'

44:27 who says to the deep, 'Be dry,'

and 'I will dry up your rivers;'

44:28 Who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,'

even saying of Jerusalem, 'She will be built;'

and of the temple, 'Your foundation will be laid.'"

45:1 Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

45:2 "I will go before you,

and make the rough places smooth.

I will break the doors of brass in pieces,

and cut apart the bars of iron.

45:3 I will give you the treasures of darkness,

and hidden riches of secret places,

that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name,

even the God of Israel.

45:4 For Jacob my servant's sake,

and Israel my chosen,

I have called you by your name.

I have surnamed you,

though you have not known me.

45:5 I am Yahweh, and there is none else.

Besides me, there is no God.

I will strengthen you,

though you have not known me;

45:6 that they may know from the rising of the sun,

and from the west,

that there is none besides me.

I am Yahweh, and there is no one else.

45:7 I form the light,

and create darkness.

I make peace,

and create calamity.

I am Yahweh,

who does all these things.

45:8 Distil, you heavens, from above,

and let the skies pour down righteousness.

Let the earth open, that it may bring forth salvation,

and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it.

I, Yahweh, have created it.

45:9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker--

a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth!

Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, 'What are you making?'

or your work, 'He has no hands?'

45:10 Woe to him who says to a father, 'What have you become the father of?'

or to a mother, 'To what have you given birth?'"

45:11 Thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel,

and his Maker:

"You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons,

and you command me concerning the work of my hands!

45:12 I have made the earth, and created man on it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens; and all their army have I commanded. 45:13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward, says Yahweh of Armies. 45:14 Thus says Yahweh: "The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you, and they shall be yours. They shall go after you. In chains they shall come over; and they shall fall down to you. They shall make supplication to you: 'Surely God is in you; and there is none else, there is no other god. 45:15 Most certainly you are a God who hid yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.'"

45:16 They shall be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion together who are makers of idols. 45:17 But Israel shall be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation: you shall not be disappointed nor confounded world without end. 45:18 For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn't create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: I am Yahweh; and there is no one else. 45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: I, Yahweh, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right. 45:20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations: they have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can't save. 45:21 Declare you, and bring it forth; yes, let them take counsel together: who has shown this from ancient time? who has declared it of old? Haven't I, Yahweh? and there is no God else besides me, a just God and a Savior; there is no one besides me. 45:22 Look to me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else. 45:23 By myself have I sworn, the word is gone forth from my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. 45:24 Only in Yahweh, it is said of me, is righteousness and strength; even to him shall men come; and all those who were incensed against him shall be disappointed. 45:25 In Yahweh shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.

46:1 Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols are on the animals, and on the livestock: the things that you carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary animal. 46:2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. 46:3 Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne by me from their birth, that have been carried from the womb; 46:4 and even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs will I carry you. I have made, and I will bear; yes, I will carry, and will deliver. 46:5 To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like? 46:6 Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down--yes, they worship. 46:7 They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands, from its place it shall not move: yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer, nor save him out of his trouble. 46:8 Remember this, and show yourselves men; bring it again to mind, you transgressors. 46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me; 46:10 declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure; 46:11 calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country; yes, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will also do it. 46:12 Listen to me, you stout-hearted, who are far from righteousness: 46:13 I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not wait; and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

47:1 Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate. 47:2 Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers. 47:3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man. 47:4 Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name, the Holy One of Israel. 47:5 Sit you silent, and get you into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called The mistress of kingdoms. 47:6 I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand: you did show them no mercy; on the aged have you very heavily laid your yoke. 47:7 You said, I shall be mistress forever; so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end of it. 47:8 Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: 47:9 but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments. 47:10 For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, None sees me; your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me. 47:11 Therefore evil will come on you; you won't know when it dawns: and mischief wil fall on you; you will not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come on you suddenly, which you don't know. 47:12 Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail. 47:13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from the things that shall come on you. 47:14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before. 47:15 Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored: those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you.

48:1 Hear you this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Yahweh, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness 48:2 (for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name): 48:3 I have declared the former things from of old; yes, they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them: suddenly I did them, and they happened. 48:4 Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass; 48:5 therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I showed it to you; lest you should say, My idol has done them, and my engraved image, and my molten image, has commanded them. 48:6 You have heard it; see all this; and you, will you not declare it? I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known. 48:7 They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day you didn't hear them; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them. 48:8 Yes, you didn't hear; yes, you didn't know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you did deal very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb. 48:9 For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for you, that I not cut you off. 48:10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. 48:11 For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it; for how should my name be profaned? and my glory I will not give to another. 48:12 Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. 48:13 Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together. 48:14 Assemble yourselves, all you, and hear; who among them has declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves shall perform his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans. 48:15 I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him; I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous. 48:16 Come you near to me, hear you this; from the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, and his Spirit. 48:17 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go. 48:18 Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea: 48:19 your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your body like its grains: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me. 48:20 Go you forth from Babylon, flee you from the Chaldeans; with a voice of singing declare you, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth: say you, Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob. 48:21 They didn't thirst when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out. 48:22 There is no peace, says Yahweh, to the wicked.

49:1 Listen, islands, to me; and listen, you peoples, from far: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name: 49:2 and he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand has he hid me: and he has made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he kept me close: 49:3 and he said to me, You are my servant; Israel, in whom I will be glorified. 49:4 But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my recompense with my God. 49:5 Now says Yahweh who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered to him (for I am honorable in the eyes of Yahweh, and my God is become my strength); 49:6 yes, he says, It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth. 49:7 Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you. 49:8 Thus says Yahweh, In an acceptable time have I answered you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you; and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage: 49:9 saying to those who are bound, Go forth; to those who are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture. 49:10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them, even by springs of water he will guide them. 49:11 I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted. 49:12 Behold, these shall come from far; and behold, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim. 49:13 Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth; and break forth into singing, mountains: for Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted. 49:14 But Zion said, Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me. 49:15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you. 49:16 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me. 49:17 Your children make haste; your destroyers and those who made you waste shall go forth from you. 49:18 Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live, says Yahweh, you shall surely clothe you with them all as with an ornament, and gird yourself with them, like a bride. 49:19 For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now you shall be too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall be far away. 49:20 The children of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears, The place is too small for me; give place to me that I may dwell. 49:21 Then you will say in your heart, Who has conceived these for me, seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering back and forth? and who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they? 49:22 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my banner to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders. 49:23 Kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed. 49:24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered? 49:25 But thus says Yahweh, 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 who contends with you, and I will save your children. 49:26 I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

50:1 Thus says Yahweh, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away. 50:2 Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't 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 stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst. 50:3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. 50:4 The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. 50:5 The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward. 50:6 I gave my back to the strikers, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair; I didn't hide my face from shame and spitting. 50:7 For the Lord Yahweh will help me; therefore I have not been confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be disappointed. 50:8 He is near who justifies me; who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together: who is my adversary? Let him come near to me. 50:9 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me; who is he who shall condemn me? Behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up. 50:10 Who is among you who fears Yahweh, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of Yahweh, and rely on his God. 50:11 Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who gird yourselves about with firebrands; walk you in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that you have kindled. You shall have this of my hand; you shall lie down in sorrow.

51:1 Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock whence you were cut, and to the hold of the pit whence you were dug. 51:2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many. 51:3 For Yahweh has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. 51:4 Attend to me, my people; and give ear to me, my nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish my justice for a light of the peoples. 51:5 My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the peoples; the islands shall wait for me, and on my arm shall they trust. 51:6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment; and those who dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. 51:7 Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; don't you fear the reproach of men, neither be you dismayed at their insults. 51:8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation to all generations. 51:9 Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn't it you who did cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster? 51:10 Isn't it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over? 51:11 The ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. 51:12 I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass; 51:13 and have forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he makes ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor? 51:14 The captive exile shall speedily be freed; and he shall not die and go down into the pit, neither shall his bread fail. 51:15 For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar: Yahweh of Armies is his name. 51:16 I have put my words in your mouth, and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, You are my people. 51:17 Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of Yahweh the cup of his wrath; you have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it. 51:18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought forth; neither is there any who takes her by the hand among all the sons who she has brought up. 51:19 These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you? 51:20 Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Yahweh, the rebuke of your God. 51:21 Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, but now with wine: 51:22 Thus says your Lord Yahweh, and your God who pleads the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; you shall no more drink it again: 51:23 and I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and you have laid your back as the ground, and as the street, to those who go over.

52:1 Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean. 52:2 Shake yourself from the dust; arise, sit on your throne, Jerusalem: loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion. 52:3 For thus says Yahweh, You were sold for nothing; and you shall be redeemed without money. 52:4 For thus says the Lord Yahweh, My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause. 52:5 Now therefore, what do I here, says Yahweh, seeing that my people is taken away for nothing? those who rule over them do howl, says Yahweh, and my name continually all the day is blasphemed. 52:6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who does speak; behold, it is I. 52:7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of good, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, Your God reigns! 52:8 The voice of your watchmen! they lift up the voice, together do they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, when Yahweh returns to Zion. 52:9 Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem. 52:10 Yahweh has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. 52:11 Depart you, depart you, go you out from there, touch no unclean thing; go you out of the midst of her; cleanse yourselves, you who bear the vessels of Yahweh. 52:12 For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight: for Yahweh will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rearward. 52:13 Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high. 52:14 Like as many were astonished at you (his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men), 52:15 so shall he sprinkle many nations; 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 understand.

53:1 Who has believed our message?

To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?

53:2 For he grew up before him as a tender plant,

and as a root out of dry ground.

He has no form nor comeliness.

When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

53:3 He was despised,

and rejected by men;

a man of suffering,

and acquainted with disease.

He was despised as one from whom men hide their face;

and we didn't respect him.

53:4 Surely he has borne our sickness,

and carried our suffering;

yet we considered him plagued,

struck by God, and afflicted.

53:5 But he was pierced for our transgressions.

He was crushed for our iniquities.

The punishment that brought our peace was on him;

and by his wounds we are healed.

53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray.

Everyone has turned to his own way;

and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

53:7 He was oppressed,

yet when he was afflicted he didn't open his mouth.

As a lamb that is led to the slaughter,

and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute,

so he didn't open his mouth.

53:8 He was taken away by oppression and judgment;

and as for his generation,

who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living

and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

53:9 They made his grave with the wicked,

and with a rich man in his death;

although he had done no violence,

neither was any deceit in his mouth.

53:10 Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him.

He has caused him to suffer.

When you make his soul an offering for sin,

he shall see his seed.

He shall prolong his days,

and the pleasure of Yahweh shall prosper in his hand.

53:11 After the suffering of his soul,

he will see the light and be satisfied.

My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself;

and he will bear their iniquities.

53:12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great,

and he shall divide the spoil with the strong;

because he poured out his soul to death,

and was numbered with the transgressors;

yet he bore the sin of many,

and made intercession for the transgressors.

54:1 Sing, barren, you who didn't bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says Yahweh. 54:2 Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations; don't spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. 54:3 For you shall spread aboard on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. 54:4 Don't be afraid; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be confounded; for you shall not be disappointed: for you shall forget the shame of your youth; and the reproach of your widowhood you shall remember no more. 54:5 For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called. 54:6 For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off, says your God. 54:7 For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you. 54:8 In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting loving kindness will I have mercy on you, says Yahweh your Redeemer. 54:9 For this is as the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you. 54:10 For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, says Yahweh who has mercy on you. 54:11 You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires. 54:12 I will make your pinnacles of rubies, and your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones. 54:13 All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of your children. 54:14 In righteousness you shall be established: you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not be afraid; and from terror, for it shall not come near you. 54:15 Behold, they may gather together, but not by me: whoever shall gather together against you shall fall because of you. 54:16 Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and brings forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. 54:17 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness which is of me, says Yahweh.

55:1 Ho, everyone who thirsts, come you to the waters, and he who has no money; come you, buy, and eat; yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 55:2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. 55:3 Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. 55:4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples. 55:5 Behold, you shall call a nation that you don't know; and a nation that didn't know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you. 55:6 Seek you Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near: 55:7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says Yahweh. 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 55:10 For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater; 55:11 so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do. 55:12 For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands. 55:13 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 Yahweh for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

56:1 Thus says Yahweh, Keep you justice, and do righteousness; for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed. 56:2 Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil. 56:3 Neither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh, speak, saying, Yahweh will surely separate me from his people; neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. 56:4 For thus says Yahweh of the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant: 56:5 To them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. 56:6 Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh, to minister to him, and to love the name of Yahweh, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant; 56:7 even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples. 56:8 The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, Yet will I gather others to him, besides his own who are gathered. 56:9 All you animals of the field, come to devour, yes, all you animals in the forest. 56:10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. 56:11 Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter. 56:12 Come you, say they, I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, a day great beyond measure.

57:1 The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. 57:2 He enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness. 57:3 But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute. 57:4 Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood, 57:5 you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? 57:6 Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion; they, they are your lot; even to them have you poured a drink offering, you have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things? 57:7 On a high and lofty mountain have you set your bed; there also you went up to offer sacrifice. 57:8 Behind the doors and the posts have you set up your memorial: for you have uncovered yourself to another than me, and are gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and made you a covenant with them: you loved their bed where you saw it. 57:9 You went to the king with oil, and did increase your perfumes, and did send your ambassadors far off, and did debase yourself even to Sheol. 57:10 You were wearied with the length of your way; yet you didn't say, It is in vain: you found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren't faint. 57:11 Of whom have you been afraid and in fear, that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven't I held my peace even of long time, and you don't fear me? 57:12 I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you. 57:13 When you cry, let those who you have gathered deliver you; but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain. 57:14 He will say, Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people. 57:15 For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite. 57:16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who I have made. 57:17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him; I hid my face and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart. 57:18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners. 57:19 I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near, says Yahweh; and I will heal him. 57:20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt. 57:21 There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked.

58:1 Cry aloud, don't spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins. 58:2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and didn't forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God. 58:3 Why have we fasted, say they, and you don't see? why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find your own pleasure, and exact all your labors. 58:4 Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you don't fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high. 58:5 Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh? 58:6 Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? 58:7 Isn't it to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh? 58:8 Then your light shall break forth as the morning, and your healing shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of Yahweh shall be your rear guard. 58:9 Then you shall call, and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly; 58:10 and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday; 58:11 and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don't fail. 58:12 Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. 58:13 If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words: 58:14 then you shall delight yourself in Yahweh; and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth; and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.