2 Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for the LORD has spoken. Children have I nourished and raise[d], but they have rebelled against me.  

3 The ox knows its owner, and the ass its masters’ manger; Israel does not know, and my people does not un[dersta]nd.  

4 Ah, sinful nation, people laden with iniquity, seed of evil-doers, corrupt children! They have abandoned the LO[RD], they have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged, gone backward.  

5 Why would you sti[ll] be beaten, that you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart weak.  

6 From sole of foot to head there is no healthy spot, but bruises and sores and bleeding wounds; they have not been pressed out nor bound up nor softened with oil.  

7 Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your land—right in front of you foreigners are devouring it. They have brought devastation upon it, as overthrown by for[eign]ers..

8 And the daughter of Zion is left like a hut in a vineyard and like a shelter in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.

  9 If the LORD of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.

10 Hear the [word] of the LORD, rulers of Sodom, and listen to the instruction of our God, people of Gomorrah!

11 What is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? says the LORD. I have had enough burnt offerings of rams and fat of fed beasts. I do not delight in the blood of bulls or lambs or goats.

12 That you enter to see my face—who has required this of you, to trample my courts?

3 Do not continue to bring meaningless offerings! Incense is an abomination unto me. New moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies—I cannot bear iniquity with her solemnity.

14 Your new moons and your feasts I detest. They have become a burden to me that I am weary of carrying.  

15 When you spread out your hands, I will turn my eyes away from you. Even multiply prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are filled with blood, your fingers with iniquity.

16 Wash and make yourselves clean; and remove the evil of your actions from my sight. Cease to do evil,

17 learn to do good. Seek justice, guide the injured, get justice for the orphan, defend the widow.

18 Come n[ow], and let us reason together, says the LORD. Though your sins be like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be like wool.

19 If you are willing and obey, you shall eat the good of the land.

20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

21 Alas, she has become a harlot, the faithful c[i]ty! She was filled with justice; righteousness dwelled [within her, but now] murderers.

22 Your silver has turned to dross, your wine mixed with water.

23 Your rulers are r[ebels and friends of] thieves. They all love bribes and chase after rewards. They do not seek just[ice] for the orphan, [nor does the cause of] the widow reach them.

24 Therefore says the Lord, the LORD of hosts, [the Mighty One of Israel], Ah, I will take vengeance on his adversaries and avenge myself on his enemies.  

25 He will turn my hand against you, and I will [refine . . .] your dross and will take aw[ay] all your alloy.

26 I will restore your judges as at first [and your counselors] as at the beginning. Afterward they will call you the City of Righteousness, Faithful Town.

27 Zion will be redeemed with justice, and her repentant ones with righteousness.

28 But rebels and sinners will both be crushed, and those who abandon the LORD will perish.  

29 For they will be ashamed of the terebinths that you desired, and you will blush for the gardens that you chose.

30 For you will be like a terebinth whose leaves are withering and like a garden that has no water.

31 Your strong one will become as tow, and your work a spark; they will both burn together, with none to quench them.

1 The word that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

2 It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established above mountains and be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow over it.

3 Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let us go up to the house of the God of Jacob, so they may teach us his ways, so we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion goes forth instruction, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

4 He will judge between the nations and give judgment for many peoples; they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning-hooks; and nation will not lift up sword against nation, nor will they earn war anymore.

5 House of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the LORD.  

6 Indeed you have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled (with practices) from the east and are soothsayers like the Philistines; they shake hands with the children of foreigners.

7 Their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no limit to their treasures. Their land is full of horses, and there is no end to their chariots.

8 Their land is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.

9 But humanity will be humbled and a mortal brought low.

10 [Not included in the Great Isaiah Scroll]

11 And the haughty looks of humankind will be brought low, and human pride will be abased; the LORD alone will be exalted on that day.

12 Indeed the LORD of hosts will have his day: against all that is proud and haughty and lifted up, and it will be brought low;

13 against all the cedars of Lebanon, tall and lofty, and against all the oaks of Bashan;

14 against all the [hig]h mountains and against all the lofty hills;

15 against every tall tower and against every fortified [wall];

16 against all the Tarshish ships and against all the stately vessels.

17 The haughtiness of humanity will be humbled, and human pride will be brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted on that day.

18 The idols will totally vanish.

19 People will go into caves in the rocks and into holes in the earth, before the [terror of the LO]RD and before the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.

20 [On t]hat [day] humans will throw away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which their [fin]gers [have made] to worship.

21 They will go into the crevices [in the rocks and into the cr]acks in the cliffs, before the terror of the LORD and before the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.

22 Have no more to do with mortals, who have but a breath in their nostrils, for what are they worth?

1 Indeed, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, is removing from Jerusalem and from Judah support and staff, the entire supply of food, and the entire supply of water;  

2 soldier and warrior, judge and prophet, diviner and elder,

3 captain of fifty, and dignitary and counselor, expert artificer and skillful enchanter.

4 I will make young boys their rulers, and infants will govern them.

5 The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The young will be disrespectful of the old, and the base of the honorable.

6 One person will take hold of another in his own house and say, “You have clothing; be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your command.”

7 But in that day he will lift up his voice, saying, “I will not be a healer. In my house there is neither food nor clothing. You will not make me ruler of the people.”

8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their speech and their actions are against the LORD, provoking his glorious eyes.

:9 The expressions on their faces bear witness against them. They announce their sin like Sodom, and they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have worked evil on themselves.

10 Say to the righteous that it will be well. For they will eat the fruit of their actions.

11 Woe to the wicked! It will be ill. For the recompense of his hand will be repaid to him.  

12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders mislead and confuse the courses of your paths.

13 The LORD rises to argue a case, stands up to judge the peoples.  

14 The LORD will enter into judgment against the elders of his people and his princes: You have consumed the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.  

15 What do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the face of the poor? says my Lord, the LORD of hosts.

16 The LORD said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks and roving eyes, mincing along as they go and tinkling with their feet,

17 the LORD will afflict the scalps of the daughters of Zion with scabs, and my Lord will lay bare their secret parts.

18 In that day my Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets and headbands, crescents,  

19 and pendants, and bracelets, veils

20 and turbans, armlets and sashes, perfume boxes, amulets,

21 and signet rings and nose rings,

22 and festal robes, mantles, purses,  

23 mirrors, fine linen, headdresses and veils.

24 Then, instead of perfume there will be stench; instead of a sash, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a fine robe, sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.

25 Your men will fall by the sword and your forces in battle.

26 Her gates will lament and mourn, and she will be cleaned out and sit upon the ground.  

1 Seven women will take hold of one man on that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes. Only let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace.”

2 On that day the branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and boast of the escaped remnant of Israel and Judah.

3 Then, whoever is left in Zion and whoever remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, everyone in Jerusalem inscribed for life,  

4 when my Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the blood of Jerusalem from within it by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of storm.

5 The LORD will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over its assembly a cloud by day

6 from the heat, and a refuge and hiding place from storm and rain.  

1 I will sing for my beloved my love-song about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.

2 He dug it out, cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines. He built a watchtower within it and also hewed out a winepress in it. Then he waited for it to produce grapes, but it produced wild grapes.

3 Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.

4 What more could have been done in my vineyard than what I have done for it? Why, when I expected it to produce grapes, did it raise wild grapes?

5 Now I will tell you what I intend to do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be devoured. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.

6 I will make it a waste. It will not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns will spring up. I will command the clouds to drop no rain upon it.  

7 Now, the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are his delightful plant. He expected justice, but there was bloodshed; righteousness, but there was an outcry.

8 Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, till there is no more room, and you place yourselves alone in the midst of the land!

9 In my hearing, the LORD of hosts declared, Surely many houses will be desolate, large and beautiful houses without inhabitant.

10 For ten acres of vineyard will yield only one bath, and a [homer of] see[d will yie]ld only an ephah.

11 W[oe to those who rise early in the] morning to pursue strong drink, holding on in the darkness while wine inflames them.

12 They have banquets with [lyre and harp, timbrel and flu]te, [and] wine, but they pay no attention to the deeds of the LORD, nor [do they consider] the work of [his hands].  

13 [Therefore] my people are [exil]ed without knowledge. My nobles die of hunger, and their multitude is [parched with thirst.  

14 Therefore] Sheol has increased its appetite and opened its mouth without limit. Splendor and multitude, the uproarious and jubil[ant] descend into it.  

15 People are bowed down, humans are humbled, the eyes of the haughty are lowered.

16 But the LORD of hosts is lifted up in justice; the holy God proves himself holy in righteousness.

17 Then the lambs will feed as in their pasture, and the fatlings and the aliens will eat among the waste places.

18 Woe to those who pull iniquity with ropes of falsehood, sin with a cart rope,

19 who say, “Let him hurry, let him expedite his work, so that we can see it. Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel happen, so that we can recognize it.”

20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!  

21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and discerning in their own sight!

22 Woe to those who are mighty at drinking wine and powerful at mixing strong drinks,  

23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe and remove the innocent status of the righteous from him!  

24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble and as fire sinks down in the flames, just so their root will become rotten and their blossom will go up like dust, because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

25 Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against his people, and he stretched out his hands against them and afflicted them. The mountains tremble, and their corpses are like refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this his anger has not turned away, his hands are stretched out still.

26 He will send up a signal to the nations far away and will whistle for them from the end of the earth. And, indeed, they come speedily and swiftly.

27 No one is weary or stumbles. And no one slumbers or sleeps. The belts around their waists will not come undone, nor will their sandal-thongs break.  

28 Their arrows are sharpened and all their bows bent. Their horses’ hooves are like flint and their chariots like a whirlwind.  

29 With a roar like a lion, they roar. And like young lions, they growl, lay hold of the prey, and carry it off, and there is no one to rescue it.  

30 They will roar over it on that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, there is darkness and distress. The light grows dark in the clouds.

1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw my Lord sitting on his throne, high and exalted, and the skirts of his robe filled the temple.

2 Seraphs stood above him, each with six wings. With two they covered their face, with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew.

3 They called to each other: “Holy, holy is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.”  

4 The foundations of the thresholds shook when they called, and the house was full of smoke.  

5 Then I said, “Woe is me! for I am lost; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips. [In]deed my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.”

6 Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding a live coal in his hand, which he had taken fr[o]m the [altar] with tongs.

7 He [touched my mouth and] said, “Now this has touched your lips; your iniquity is removed, and your sins forgiven.”

8 And I heard the voice of my Lord saying, “Whom will I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here am I; send me.”  

9 So he said, “Go, and say to this people: Hear indeed, but do not understand; see indeed, but do not comprehend.  

10 Make the heart of this people fat, dull their ears, and blind their eyes; so they do not see with their eyes, or hear with their ears, with their heart understand, or turn back and be healed.”

11 Then I said, “How long, LORD?” And he answered, “Until cities lie waste, without inhabitant, and houses without occupant, and the land becomes utterly desolate,  

12 and the LORD banishes the inhabitants, and desolate places are multiplied in the midst of the land.

13 Even if a tenth remain in it, it too will in turn be burnt, like a terebinth or oak, the stump of which, felled, remains.” The holy seed is its stump.

1 In the days of Ahaz son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to attack Jerusalem, but they were unsuccessful.

2 When it was reported to the house of David that Aram had allied itself with Ephraim, the heart of his people trembled, as the trees of the forest tremble in the wind.

3 Then the LORD said to Isaiah, Go meet Ahaz, you and Shear-jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway to the fuller's field.

4 Say to him, Take care, be calm, and do not be afraid. Do not lose heart over these two smoldering stumps of torches, because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah,

5 because Aram, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have plotted against you, saying,

6 'Let us go up against Judah and terrify it. Let us conquer it for ourselves and install the son of Tabeel as king in it.'

7 Thus says my Lord, the LORD: It will not stand. It will not happen.

8 For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin—within sixty-[fiv]e years Ephraim will be shattered, no longer a people—

9 the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of [Samaria is] Remaliah's [son]; if you will not believe, surely you will not be established.

10 [The LORD again] spoke to Ahaz, 

11 “Ask for a sign from the LORD your God, [one as deep as Sh]eol or as high as heaven above.” 

12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask. [I will] not [test] the LORD.” 

13 So he answered, “Listen, house of David! Is it not enough that you [weary] people; must you weary my God also? 

14 Therefore the LORD himself will give y[ou a sign. Loo]k, the young woman has conceived and is bearing a son, and his name will be Immanuel. 

15 He will eat cur[ds and honey] by the time he knows to refuse evil and choose good. 

16 For before the child knows to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be deserted. 

17 And the LORD will bring on you, your people, and your father’s house days that have not come since the day that Ephraim separated from Judah—the king of Assyria.” 

18 On that day, the LORD will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the rivers of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 

19 They will all come and settle in the steep ravines and in the clefts of the rocks and on all thorn bushes and in all pastures. 

20 On that day the LORD will shave with a razor hired from the region beyond the River—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will cut off the beard as well. 

21 On that day, a man will keep alive a young heifer and two sheep. 

22 And from the abundance of milk which they produce he will eat curds. Indeed, the one left within the land will eat curds and honey. 

23 On that day, every place where there once were a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver will be grown over with briers and thorn bushes.

24 With bows and arrows, people will go out, because the entire land will be briers and thorns. 

25 As for all the hills that used to be cultivated with a hoe, you will not go near for fear of iron briers and thorns, but they will be rangeland for cattle and sheep to trample. 

1 The LORD said to me, Take a large tablet and write on it in ordinary script, For Maher-shalal-hash-baz,

2 and call faithful witnesses, Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah, to testify for me.

3 I went in to the prophet, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the LORD said to me, Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

4 For before the child can call his father or his mother, the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.

5 The LORD spoke to me yet again, saying,

6 Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that flow gently and rejoice in Rezin and [Remaliah's] son

7 now then, the LORD God will indeed bring up against them the waters of the River, [strong and many—the kin]g of Assyria and all his glory—and it will rise [above all its channels and overflow all] its banks.

8 It will sweep into Judah; it will overflow and pass through. It will reach up to the neck, and its outstretched wings will fill the breadth of your land. Immanuel!

9 Band together, nations, but be shattered. Listen, all distant countries, gird yourselves but be shattered.

10 Take counsel together, but it will be brought to nothing. Speak a word, but it will not stand. For Immanuel!

11 For the LORD spoke to me with great power, instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

12 Do not call a conspiracy everything that this people calls a conspiracy. Do revere or be in awe of what they revere.

13 The LORD of hosts—consider him holy, revere him, be in awe of him.

14 He will be a sanctuary but also a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

15 Many among them will stumble and fall, be broken, snared, and captured.

16 Bind up the testimony, and seal the instruction among my disciples.

17 I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope for him.

18 Here I am, with the children the LORD has given me as a sign and a wonder in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells in Mount Zion.

19 When they say to you, Consult the ghosts and familiar spirits which chirp and mutter. Should not a people consult their god, or the dead for the sake of the living,

20 for instruction and testimony?—surely there will be no dawn for one who speaks like this.

21 They will go through it, while severely distressed and hungry. When he is hungry, he will become angry and curse by his king and by his god, and look up.

22 Then he will look to the land, and there will be distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. Then they will be driven into darkness.

23 For if there were to be any break of day for that [land] which is in straits, only the former [king] would have brought abasement to the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali—while the later one would have brought honor to the Way of the Sea, the other side of the Jordan, and Galilee of the Nations.

1 ¶ For one who was in anguish there will be no gloom. In the former time he treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with contempt, but in the latter time he will make it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

2 ¶ The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. On those who lived in the land of deep shadows, light has shined.

3 You have expanded the nation, you have increased its joy. They rejoice in your presence, as with the joy at harvest, as people cheer when they divide spoil.

4 For the yoke of their burden and the pole on their shoulder, the rod of their oppressors, and you have broken, as in the day of Midiam.

5 For every boot tramping in the tumult and the garments rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for fire.

6 ¶ For a child is born to us, a son is given to us. The government will be on his shoulders. He is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.

7 His government will expand, and peace will be endless for the throne of David and his kingdom, to establish it and to sustain it with justice and righteousness from now on and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

8 The LORD sent a word against Jacob, and it fell upon Israel.

9 All the people were evil—Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who said in arrogance and pride of heart,

10 The bricks have fallen, but we will build with hewn stone. The sycamores have been cut down, but we will substitute cedars.

11 The L[ORD] raised the adversaries of Rezin against him and spurred his enemies on—

12 Aram from the east and the Philis[tines from the w]est—and they devoured Israel with an open mouth. And for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hands are stretched out still.

13 The people did not turn to him who afflicted them, nor did they seek the LORD of hosts.

14 So the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day.

15 The elder and dignitary is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.

16 Those who guide this people mislead, and those who are guided by them are confused.

17 For that reason my Lord does not spare their young men or have compassion on their orphans and widows. For everyone is godless and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks profanity. For all this, his anger is not turned away, his hands are stretched out still.

18 For evil consumed like a fire. It devoured the briers and thorns. It kindled in the thickets of the forest, and they rolled upward in a column of smoke.

19 From the wrath of the LORD of hosts the land was burned up, and the people were like the fuel for a fire—no one spared his neighbor.

20 On the right hand, they snatched but remained hungry. On the left, they ate but were not satisfied. Everyone ate the flesh of his own arm.

21 Manasseh devoured Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh, and together they went against Judah. And for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hands are stretched out still.

1 Woe to ones enacting iniquitous decrees and writing oppressive documents,

2 to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, so that widows may be their spoil, so that they may make orphans their booty!

3 What will you do in the day of punishment, when the calamity comes from far away? To whom will you run for help, where will you leave your wealth,

4 to keep from sinking down under those in fetters and falling under the slain? And for all this his anger is not turned away, his hands are stretched out still.

5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger! The staff in their hands is my punishing wrath.

6 Against an ungodly nation I will send him, and against the people of my fury I will command him to take spoil and to seize booty and to trample them down like the mire of the streets.

7 This is not what he intends nor is he aware of this; rather he intends to destroy and to cut off many nations.

8 For he says, "Are not my commanders all kings?

9 Was not Calno just like Carchemish? Was not [Ha]math just like Arpad? Was not Samaria just like Damascus?

10 Because my power has found the kingdoms of the worthless gods, whose images were greater than those of Jerusalem and of Samaria,

11 will I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Samaria and her worthless gods?"

12 For my Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem; I will punish the product of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and his haughty boasting.

13 For he says, I have done this with my own strength and understanding—[fo]r I am intelligent. I have moved the boundaries of nations and pl[u]ndered their treasuries. [Like a bull,] I have brought down those [who sit on thrones].

14 My hand has found the wealth of the peoples like a nest. Just as they gather [abandoned] eggs, I myself have gathered [the entire wor]ld, and none moved a wing or opened a mouth to chirp.

15 Does the ax vaunt itself over the one who chops with it, or the saw think itself better than the one who uses it? As if a rod raised the person who lifted it, or a staff lifted one that is not wood!

16 Therefore my Lord, the LORD of hosts, will send leanness to those who are fat, and under their weight will kindle a flame, burning like fire.

17 The light of Israel will become a fire and his holy one a flame, and it will burn and consume its thorns and thistles in a single day.

18 He will destroy the bounty of its forest and farm land, both soul and body, and it will be like a sick person wasting away.

19 So few trees will remain of its forest that a child could record them.

20 From that day, what remains of Israel and those of the house of Jacob who have escaped will never again rely on the one who beat them, but will sincerely rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

21 Only a remnant will return, a remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

22 For though your people, Israel, were like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, overwhelming victory.

23 For my Lord, the LORD of hosts will execute the decreed annihilation, throughout the land.

24 Therefore thus says my Lord, the LORD of hosts: My people living in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrian, of the rod that strikes you or the staff lifted up against you, in the fashion of Egypt.

25 For very soon, my indignation will cease. Then my anger will be directed to his destruction.

26 The LORD of hosts will brandish a whip against it, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Horeb. His rod will be against the sea, and he will lift it up, as he did against Egypt.

27 On that day, his burden will be removed from your shoulder and his [y]oke from your neck, and the yoke will be broken because of fatness.

28 He has come on Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stored his baggage.

29 He has crossed by the pass. He has lodged at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.

30 Cry aloud, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laish! Answer her, Anathoth!

31 Marmenah retreated. The inhabitants of Gebim fled for safety.

32 This very day he will halt at Nob. He will shake his fists at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

33 See, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, will lop off treetops with terror, and the tall trees will be hewn down, and the lofty will be brought lo

34 He will cut down the thick[et]s of the forest with an ax, and Lebanon in its majesty will fall.

1 A shoot will come forth from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots will bear fruit.

2 The spirit of the LORD will rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and mig[h]t, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.

3 His delight will be in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by appearances, nor decide by what he hears,

4 but with righteousness he will obtain justice for the poor and decide with equity for the meek of the land. He will strike the land with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips the wicked will be killed.

5 Righteousness will be the belt around his waist and faithfulness the belt around his loins.

6 The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion will graze together, and a little child will herd them.

7 The cow and the bear will graze together, and their young will lie down, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.

8 A baby will play on the viper's hole, and the toddler will put his hand on the dens of adders.

9 They will not hurt or destroy on my holy mountain. For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

10 On that day, the root of Jesse, which stands as a signal for the peoples—the nations will seek him, and his dwelling will be honored.

11 On that day, my Lord will extend his hand a second time to recover the remnant of his people that are left, from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Nubia, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the coastlands.

12 He will raise a signal for the nations and assemble the banished of Israel and gather the dispersed of Judah from the corners of the earth.

13 Ephraim's envy will cease, and Judah's hostility will end. Ephraim will not envy Judah, and Judah will not be hostile toward Ephraim.

14 They will swoop down on the back of the Philistines in the west together, and they will plunder the peoples of the east, extending their hand against Edom and Moab. And the Ammonites will obey them.

15 The LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea, and with a scorching wind he will wave his hands over the River and split it into seven streams, so that people can march over in sandals.

16 There will be a highway for the remnant of his people who remain from Assyria, just as there was for Israel on the day that it came up out of the land of Egypt.

1 On that day you will say, I [give thanks] to you, LORD. You had been angry with me, but your anger turned and you comforted me.

2 God, God is truly my salvation. I will trust and not be afraid, because the LORD is my strength and song; he has become my salvation.

3 With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.

4 On that day you will say, I give thanks to the LORD, call on his name, declare his deeds among the peoples, celebrate that his name is exalted.

5 Sing to the LORD, because he has done excellent things. This should be known through all the earth.

6 Shout and cheer, inhabitant of Zion, because great in your presence is the Holy One of Israel.

1 The oracle of Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

2 Raise a signal on a windswept mountain, shout to them, wave your hand, for him to enter the gates of the nobles.

3 I have commanded my holy ones; I have called my warriors to carry out my wrath, my proudly [b]oasting ones.

4 The roar of a mob on the mountains, like a large army! The noise of kingdoms, nations gathering together! The LORD of hosts is mustering an army for battle,

5 coming from a far country, from the end of the heavens, the LORD and the instruments of his wrath, to destroy the whole earth.

6 Wail, because the day of the LORD is near, like destruction from the Almighty it comes.

7 Therefore all hands will be weak, and all human courage will fail.

8 They will be terrified. Seized by pangs and throes, they will writhe like a woman in childbirth. They will look at one another in astonishment, and their faces will be afire.

9 Indeed, the day of the LORD is coming, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make earth desolate and to destroy sinners from it.

10 Indeed the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not shine their light—when it rises, the sun will be dark, and the moon will not glow.

11 I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their sins. I will end the pride of the insolent and lay low the haughtiness of the tyrants.

12 I will make people scarcer than fine gold, mortals than the pure gold of Ophir.

13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth will be dislodged by the wrath of the LORD of hosts, on the day of his rage.

14 Like a hunted gazelle and like unherded sheep, all will seek their own people and flee to their own land.

15 Everyone who is found will be [thrust throu]gh, and everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

16 Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, and their houses will be plundered, and their wives [tak]en.

17 Indeed, I am stirring up the Medes against them, people [w]ho have no regard for silver and no pleasure in gold.

18 Their bows will destroy the youth, and on infants they will have no pity, and their eyes will have no compassion on children.

19 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty and pride of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God over[thr]ew them.

20 It will never again be inhabited; it will not be lived in from generation to generation. Arabs will not pitch tents there; shepherds will not make their flocks lie down there.

21 Rather wild creatures will lie down there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will live there, and wild goats will dance there.

22 Wolves will howl in their towers and jackals in their luxurious palaces. Its time is drawing near, and its days will not be drawn out any further.

1 For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land; and the sojourner will join himself with them, and they will cleave to the house of Jacob.

2 And many peoples will take them and bring them to their land and their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the land of the LORD as servants and as handmaids. They will take captive those whose captives they were, and will be rulers over their oppressors.

3 And then, on the day the LORD will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service with which they made you serve,

4 you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, saying: How the oppressor has ceased! How (his) assault has ceased!

5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers

6 who smote the peoples in anger with unending blows, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one could restrain.

7 The whole earth is at rest and is quiet; they break forth into singing.

8 Indeed, the fir trees rejoice at you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, "Since you have been laid low, and no hewer has come up against us."

9 Sheol from below is excited over you to meet you at your arrival. It stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up all the kings of the nations from their thrones.

10 They will all answer and say to you, "Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?"

11 Your pomp and the noise of your harps have been brought down to Sheol; the worm has spread under you, and your covering is a worm.

12 How you are fallen from the heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! How you have been cut down to the ground—you who laid low the nation!

13 You said in your heart, "I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit upon the mount of gathering in the furthest parts of the north.

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High."

15 Yet you will be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the Pit.

16 They who see you will gaze at you; they will think about you, saying, "Is this the man, the one who made the earth tremble, the one who shook kingdoms,

17 who made the world like a wilderness (and) overthrew its cities, who did not release his prisoners to their homes?"

18 All the kings of the nations sleep in glory, each in his own house.

19 But you have been cast away from your grace like a reprehensible branch, clothed with the slain who have been pierced through with the sword, who go down to the Pit, just like a dead body trodden underfoot.

20 You will not be under with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land and have slain your people; the seed of evildoers will never be remembered again.

21 Prepare slaughter for his children because of their ancestors' iniquity, so that they will not rise up and possess the earth, and cover the surface of the world with cities.

22 I will rise up against them, says the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and offspring (and) posterity, says the LORD.

23 I will also make (it) a possession for the hedgehog, pools of water; and I will sweep (it) with the broom of destruction, says the LORD of hosts.

24 The LORD of hosts has sworn: Surely as I have thought, so will she be; and as I have purposed, so it will stand.

25 I will defeat the Assyrian in my land, and tread him underfoot on my mountains. Then his yoke will depart from you, and his burden from your shoulder.

26 This is the plan that has been imposed on the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

27 For the LORD of hosts has planned this, so who will cancel it? His hands are stretched out, so who will turn it back?

28 This oracle happened in the year that king Ahaz died.

29 Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod which struck you has been broken; for an adder will come forth from the serpent's, and its issue will be a fiery flying serpent.

30 The firstborn of the poor will feed, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and I will slay your remnant.

31 Wail, O gate; cry, O city. You have melted away, all you Philistines; for smoke is coming out of the north, and there is none who metes out payment among its kinsmen.

32 What then will they say to the kings of the nation? That the LORD has founded Zion, and in it the afflicted of his people take refuge.

1 The oracle concerning Moab: Yes, in a night Ar of Moab has been laid waste and brought to nothing; yes, in a night the city of Moab has been laid waste and brought to nothing.

2 They have gone up to Bayith and Dibon, to the high places to weep; Moab wails over Nebo, and over Medeba. There is baldness on all its head, and every beard is cut off.

3 In its streets they dress themselves with sackcloth; on its housetops and in its open squares everyone is wailing and melting into tears.

4 Heshbon and Elealeh are crying out, their voice is heard as far as Jahaz; this is why the armed men of Moab cry aloud, each man's soul trembles within him.

5 My heart cries out for Moab; her nobles are fleeing to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For they go up with weeping by the ascent of Luhith; for they raise up a cry of destruction in the road of Horonaim.

6 For the waters of Nimrim will be deserted; the grass has withered away, the tender grass is gone, and nothing green remains.

7 Therefore they will carry away over the Brook of the Arabs the wealth they have amassed and what they have accumulated.

8 For the cry has traveled around the borders of Moab, whose wail has reached Eglaim, whose wail has reached Beer-elim.

9 For the waters of Dibon are full of blood; indeed, I will bring still more upon Dibon, like a lion upon the Moabites who escape, upon those who remain in the land.

1 Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to Mount Zion's daughter.

2 For the daughters of Moab will be like wandering birds, like a scattered nest, at the fords of the (river) Arnon.

3 Give counsel and execute justice; make your shade like the night in the middle of the day; hide outcasts and do not betray fugitives.

4 Let my outcasts dwell with you. As for Moab, be a hiding-place to him from the destroyer's presence. For the extortioner has been brought to nothing, destruction ceases, the oppressor is eliminated from the land.

5 Then a throne will be established in mercy, and one will sit upon it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and being quick to do what is right.

6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, how he became very proud; (we have heard) of his arrogance, his pride, and his anger—indeed, of his boastings.

7 Therefore let not Moab wail, (but) let everyone wail for Moab! You will mourn for the raisin-cakes of Kir-hareseth, being utterly devastated.

8 For the fields of Heshbon and the vineyards of Sibmah languish.

9 I will water you with my tears, Heshbon and Elealeh, for the battle cry has fallen upon your summer fruits and upon your harvest.

10 Gladness has been taken away, as well as joy from the fruitful field; in the vineyards people will sing no songs and there will be no joyful noise. No treader will tread out wine in the presses; I have made the vintage cry out to end.

11 Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my innermost being for Kir- heres.

12 When Moab presents himself—when he comes upon the high place and comes to its sanctuary to pray—he will not prevail.

13 This is the word that the LORD spoke concerning Moab in times past.

14 But now the LORD has spoken again: Within three years, just like the years of a hired laborer, Moab's glory will be disgraced together with all its great multitude; and the remnant will be very small and of no account.

1 The oracle concerning Dramascus: See, Dramascus is eliminated from being a city but will be a heap of ruins.

2 The cities of Oraru are deserted; they will be places for flocks, which will lie down with no one to make them afraid.

3 Fortresses will come to an end in Ephraim, and the kingdom in Dramascus. As for the remnant of Syria, it will be like the glory of the children of Israel, says the LORD of hosts.

4 On that day the glory of Jacob will be diminished, and the health of his body will be reduced.

5 It will be like when harvesters gather standing grain, and their arms reap the ears of corn; indeed, it will be like when people glean corn in the valley of Rephaim.

6 Yet gleanings will be left in them, just like the shaking of an olive tree, with two or three berries on the top of the highest bough and four or five on the branches of a fruitful tree, says the LORD, the God of Israel.

7 On that day people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will concentrate on the Holy One of Israel.

8 They will not look upon the altars, their works; they will not concentrate on what their fingers have made, (whether) the Asherim or the sun-images.

9 On that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the Hivites and the Amorites, which were deserted before the Israelites; it will all be desolation.

10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength; this is why you plant attractive plants but dress them with foreign slips.

11 At the time when you plant you hedge it in, and in the morning you make your seed blossom—but the harvest flees away at the time of grief and tragic sorrow.

12 Ah yes, the cries of many peoples who cry out like the roaring of the seas; and the tumult of nations who rush along like the rushing of mighty waters!

13 The nations will be in tumult like the rushing of many waters, but he will rebuke them; and they will flee far away and will be chased like mountain-chaff before the wind, and like the whirling dust before a storm.

14 At dusk—look, there is terror! And before morning comes and they are no more. This is the portion of those who despoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.

1 Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,

2 which sends out ambassadors by sea in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, saying, Go, swift messengers, to a tall and handsome nation, to a people that were frightening from their very beginning, a nation that metes out and tramples, whose land is divided by the rivers!

3 All you inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth: when a signal is lifted up on the mountains, then watch; and when the trumpet is sounded, then listen!

4 For this is what the LORD has told me: I will be still, and I will watch in my dwelling- place, like clear heat in sunshine and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

5 For before the harvest, when the budding is over and the blossoms become ripening grapes, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and take away and cut down the spreading branches.

6 And they will be left together for the ravenous mountain birds and for the wild animals; the ravenous birds will feast all summer long on them, and all the wild animals will feast all the winter on them.

7 At that time a present will be brought to the LORD of hosts from a tall and handsome people, from a people that were frightening from their very beginning, a nation that metes out and tramples, whose land is divided by the rivers, to the place of the name of the LORD, to Mount Zion.

1 The oracle concerning Egypt: See, the LORD is riding on a swift cloud and coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.

2 And I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians; everyone will fight against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor, and city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

3 The spirit of the Egyptians will fail within them, and I will confound their plans. They will consult idols and the spirits of the dead, the mediums and the spiritists.

4 I will deliver the Egyptians into the hand of a hard master; a fierce king will rule over them, says the LORD GOD of hosts.

5 The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will become parched and dry.

6 And the canals will become foul; and the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up, reeds and rushes, and they will wither away.

7 The reeds along the Nile, on the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will dry up and be driven away, and there will be nothing in it.

8 Those who fish will mourn, and all who cast hooks into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets upon the waters will pine away.

9 Those who work with combed flax and the weavers of white cloth will be in despair.

10 Its weavers will be broken in pieces, and all who work for wages will be sick at heart.

11 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the advice of Pharaoh's wisest counselors has become stupid. How can you say to Pharaoh, I am one of the wise men, a disciple of ancient kings?

12 Where are your wise men now? Please let them tell you and make known what the LORD has planned against Egypt.

13 The princes of Zoan have become fools, the princes of Memphis are deluded; those who are the cornerstones of her peoples led Egypt astray.

14 The LORD has mixed in its midst a spirit of confusion; and they have led Egypt astray in everything it does, like a drunkard staggers around in his own vomit.

15 And there will be no work for Egypt which its head or tail, palm branch or rush, can do.

16 On that day the Egyptians will be like women; they will tremble and be afraid at the uplifted hand of the LORD of hosts when he brandishes his hand against her.

17 The land of Judah will become a terror to the Egyptians; everyone to whom Judah is mentioned will be afraid, because of the plan that the hand of the LORD of hosts is planning against them.

18 On that day there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of hosts. One of these will be called the City of the Sun.

19 On that day will there be an altar to the LORD in the heart of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD at its border.

20 It will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt; for when they cry to the LORD because of their oppressors he will send them a savior and he will go down and will rescue them.

21 So the LORD will make himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will acknowledge the LORD on that day. They will even worship with sacrifices and burnt offerings; they will make vows to the LORD and will carry them out.

22 The LORD will strike Egypt, striking but healing. Then they will return to the LORD, and he will respond to them and will heal them.

23 On that day will there be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will come to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria, and they will worship with the Assyrians.

24 On that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth,

25 whom the LORD of hosts has blessed, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my heritage.

1 In the year that the supreme commander, who was sent by Sargon the king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked Ashdod and took it—

2 at that time the LORD spoke through Isaiah the son of Amoz: Go and loosen the sackcloth from your hips, and take your sandals off your feet. And he did so, walking around naked and barefoot.

3 Then the LORD said, Just as my servant Isaiah has walked around naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Ethiopia,

4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the Egyptians as captives and the Ethiopians as exiles, both young and old—naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks bared, to the shame of Egypt.

5 And they will be afraid and put to shame because of Ethiopia their hope and Egypt their boast.

6 At that time the inhabitants of this coastland will say, "See, this is what has happened to those we relied on and on whom we rely for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we ourselves escape?"

1 The oracle concerning the pasture by the sea: As whirlwinds in the Negev sweep on, it comes from the desert, from a distant land.

2 A dire vision has been shown to me; the traitor betrays, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam, lay siege, Media! I am bringing to an end all the groaning she has caused.

3 Therefore my loins are racked with pain; pangs have seized me like the pangs of a woman in labor. I am so staggered that I cannot hear, I am so bewildered I cannot see as I reel.

4 And as for my mind, horror has appalled me; the twilight of my desire has been turned into trembling for me.

5 They set the tables, they prepare the rugs, they eat, they drink! Rise up, you commanders, oil the shields!

6 For this is what the LORD said to me: Go, post a lookout, and let him announce what he sees.

7 When he sees chariots, each man with a pair of horses, riders on donkeys or riders on camels, let him listen diligently, very diligently.

8 The lookout shouted, O LORD, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and am stationed at my post throughout the night.

9 Look, there comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs. Then he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon, and they have shattered all the images of her gods to the ground.

10 O my threshed one and child of my stone wall, I am telling you what I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel.

11 The oracle concerning Dumah. Someone is calling to me from Seir: Watchman, what (is left) of the night? Watchman, what (is left) of the night?

12 The watchman says, Morning is coming but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire; come back again.

13 The oracle concerning Arabia. You will lodge in the scrub in Arabia, you caravans of Dedanites.

14 Bring water for the thirsty, O inhabitants of the land of Tema, meet the fugitive with bread.

15 For he has fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.

16 This is what the LORD says to me: Within three years, according to the years of a hired worker, the pomp of Kedar will come to an end.

17 The surviving numbers of the bowmen, the warriors of the sons of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.

1 The oracle concerning the Valley of Vision: What troubles you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops,

2 you that were full of noise, tumultuous city, joyful town? Your slain have not been killed with the sword, nor are they dead in battle.

3 All your rulers have fled together; she is captured without any bow. All of you who were found were captured, although they fled (while the enemy was) still far away.

4 Therefore I said, Look away from me, and let me weep bitterly. Do not try to console me over the destruction of my beloved people.

5 For the LORD GOD of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision, a battering down of his holiness on the mountains.

6 Elam bore the quiver with charioteers and cavalry, and Kir uncovered the shield.

7 And it comes to pass that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the cavalry took their positions at the gate.

8 He has taken away the defense of Judah. On that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest,

9 and you saw that the breaches in the city of David were many, and you stored up the waters of the lower pool.

10 Then you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and broke down the houses in order to fortify the wall.

11 You also made a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the old pool. But you did not look upon the One who made it, or have regard for the One who planned it long ago.

12 And in that day the LORD GOD of hosts, called (you) to weeping and mourning, to baldness and putting on sackcloth;

13 but see, there is joy and revelry, slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die!

14 But the LORD of hosts has revealed himself in my hearing: Surely for you this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die, says the LORD GOD of hosts.

15 This is what the LORD GOD of hosts says: Come, go to this steward, to Shebna who is in charge of the household, and say,

16 What are you doing here, and who are your relatives here that you have cut out a tomb here for yourself, cutting your tomb on the height and chiseling a resting-place for yourself in the rock?

17 Beware, the LORD is about to hurl you away violently, my strong fellow. And he is about to seize you firmly,

18 whirl you round and round, and toss you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there your splendid chariots will lie—you disgrace to your master's house!

19 I will depose you from your office, and you are pulled down from your position.

20 On that day I will summon my servant Eliakim son of Hilkiah,

21 and will clothe him with your robes and fasten your girdle on him. I will entrust your authority into his hand, and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

22 I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David; he will open and no one will shut it, he will shut and no one will open it.

23 And I will fasten him like a peg in a firm place, and he will become a throne of honor to his father's house.

24 So they will hang on him all the glory of his father's house: its offspring and issue—every lesser vessel, from the cups to all the flagons.

25 On that day, says the LORD of hosts, the peg that was fastened in a firm place will give way; it will be cut down and will fall, and the load that was on it will be cut off. The LORD has spoken.

1 The oracle concerning Tyre: Wail, you ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is destroyed and left without house or harbor. From the land of Cyprus it was reported to them.

2 Be silent, O you inhabitants of the coast, you merchants of Sidon, whose messengers crossed over the sea

3 and were on many waters. Her revenue was the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, and she became the marketplace of nations.

4 Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea: I have neither labored nor given birth, I have neither reared young men nor brought up young women.

5 When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report concerning Tyre.

6 O you crossing over to Tarshish; wail, you inhabitants of the coast!

7 Is this your happy city whose origin is from days of old, and whose feet carried her to settle far away?

8 Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?

9 The LORD of hosts has planned it, to defile all the pride of glory, to shame all the honored of the earth.

10 Cultivate your own land like the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish, for there is no longer a harbor.

11 He has stretched out his hand over the sea, he has made the kingdoms tremble; the LORD has given orders concerning Canaan to destroy her fortresses.

12 He said, You will rejoice no longer, O crushed virgin daughter of Sidon; get up, cross over to Cyprus—even there you will find no rest.

13 Look at the land of the Chaldeans, this is the people; it was not Assyria. They made Tyre (a place) for desert creatures; they erected her siege towers, they stripped her palaces, they made her a ruin.

14 Wail, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is destroyed.

15 And it will happen at that time to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

16 Take up a harp, walk about the city, you forgotten prostitute! Make sweet melody, sing many songs, so that you will be remembered.

17 At the end of seventy years the LORD will deal with Tyre. Then she will return to her trade, and will prostitute herself with the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

18 Yet her merchandise and her earnings will be set apart for the LORD; they will not be stored or hoarded but her merchandise will become abundant food and choice attire for those who dwell in the presence of the LORD.

1 See, the LORD is about to lay waste the land and devastate it; he will turn it upside down and scatter abroad its inhabitants.

2 And as it will be with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with his debtor.

3 The earth will be totally emptied and completely laid waste; for the LORD has spoken this word.

4 The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and fades away; heaven fades away together with the earth.

5 The earth also lies polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

6 Therefore a curse consumes, and those dwelling in it are held guilty; therefore the inhabitants of earth are burned up, and few people are left.

7 The new wine dries up, the vine, the oil decays, all the merrymakers groan.

8 The gaiety of timbrels ceases, the noise of merrymakers ends, the mirth of the harp is silent.

9 No longer do they drink wine with singing, and strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

10 The chaotic city is broken down; every house is shut up so that no one can enter.

11 There is an outcry for wine in the streets; all gaiety turns to gloom, the gladness of the land is banished.

12 Desolation is left in the city, its gate is battered to ruins.

13 For so it will be on the earth and among the peoples, as when an olive tree is beaten, or as at the gleaning when the grape harvest is ended.

14 They lift up their voices, they shout for joy; they cry out from the west over the majesty of the LORD.

15 Therefore in the east glorify the LORD, in the coastlands of the sea glorify the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

16 From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise: Glory to the Righteous One. But I say, I am pining away, I am pining away. Woe is me! For the treacherous deal treacherously—the treacherous deal very treacherously!

17 Terror, and the pit, and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth!

18 Then whoever flees at the sound of the terror will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows above are opened, and the foundations of the earth shake.

19 The earth is utterly broken, the earth is torn asunder, the earth is violently shaken.

20 The earth staggers like a drunkard, it sways to and fro and like a hut. Its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls—never to rise again.

21 On that day the LORD will punish the host of the high ones in heaven, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

22 They will be gathered together in a dungeon; they will be shut up in prison, and after many days will be punished.

23 Then the moon will be abashed and the sun will be ashamed; for the LORD of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his elders there will be glory.

1 O LORD, you are my God! I will exalt you and praise your name, for you have done marvelous things, plans formed long in faithfulness and truth.

2 For you have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified city a ruin, the foreigners' palace a city no more—it will never be built.

3 Therefore strong peoples will glorify you, cities of ruthless nations will fear you.

4 For you have been a refuge to the poor, a refuge to the needy in their distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,

5 like heat in a dry place. You subdue the uproar of foreigners like heat with the shade of clouds; the song of the ruthless will be stilled.

6 On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of aged wine, of choice meats filled with marrow, of refined and aged wines.

7 And on this mountain he will destroy the shroud that covers all peoples, the sheet that is spread over all nations;

8 he has swallowed up death forever. Then the LORD GOD will wipe away the tears from all faces, and he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth—for the LORD has spoken.

9 And you will say on that day: See, the LORD—THIS IS OUR GOD; WE HAVE WAITED FOR HIM SO THAT HE MIGHT SAVE US. THIS IS THE LORD for whom we have waited; let us be glad and we will rejoice in his salvation!

10 For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. The Moabites will be trodden down in their place, just as straw is trodden down in the water of a manure pit.

11 They will spread forth his hands in the midst of it, as swimmers spread out their hands to swim, but the LORD will lay low their pride together with the cleverness of their hands.

12 He brings down the high fortifications of your walls and lays them low; he will cast them to the ground, even to the very dust.

1 On that day one will sing that song in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; God makes victory its walls and ramparts.

2 Open your gates, so that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.

3 You will keep in perfect peace the one whose mind is fixed on you, because he is in you.

4 Trust in the LORD forever, for in the LORD GOD we have an everlasting rock.

5 For he has made drunk those who dwell on high; as for the lofty city, he lays it low to the ground and casts it to the dust.

6 The feet of the oppressed trample—the footsteps of the needy.

7 The way of righteousness is level; O Upright One, you bring to safety the path of justice.

8 Yes, LORD, we wait in the path of your judgments; your name and your law are our soul's desire.

9 My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me diligently seeks you; for when your judgments are on the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

10 Although favor is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness; even in the land of uprightness they act perversely and do not see the majesty of the LORD.

11 O LORD, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see it. And let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame; yes, let the fire reserved for your adversaries consume them.

12 LORD, you will decide peace for us, for all that we have accomplished you have done for us.

13 O LORD our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us, but through you alone we acknowledge your name.

14 The dead will not live, and the departed spirits will not rise. You punished and destroyed them, and imprisoned all memory of them.

15 But you have enlarged the nation, O LORD, you have enlarged the nation. You are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.

16 O LORD, in distress they sought you; they were distressed, they poured out their magical prayer when your chastenings were upon them.

17 Like a woman with child who writhes in pain and cries out in her pangs as she approaches her time, so have we been before you, O LORD.

18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, but we gave birth only to wind. We have not won your deliverance for the earth, nor have inhabitants of the world been born.

19 But your dead will live, their dead bodies will rise. The dwellers in the dust will awake and shout for joy! For your dew is like the dew of the dawn, and the earth will give birth to the dead.

20 Come, my people, enter your chambers and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves for a little moment until the wrath is past.

21 For the LORD is coming from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their sins; the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no longer conceal its slain.

1 On that day the LORD will punish with his cruel and great and strong sword Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent, and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

2 On that day: A diminishing vineyard, sing about it!

3 I the LORD am its keeper; every moment I water it. I guard it night and day so that no one can harm it.

4 I have no anger. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me in battle! I would march against them, and I would set them all on fire.

5 Or else let it rely on my protection; let it make peace with me, let it make peace with me.

6 In days to come Jacob will take root, and Israel will blossom and put forth shoots, and fill the whole world with fruit.

7 Has (the LORD) struck them down as he struck down those who struck them? Or have they been slain as their slayers were slain?

8 By banishment, by exile you contended with them; he removed them in the day of the east wind with his fierce blast.

9 Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be forgiven, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalkstones, no Asherim or incense-altars will remain standing.

10 For the fortified city is desolate, a habitation abandoned and forsaken like the desert; there the calves graze, there they lie down and strip its branches bare.

11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken off; women make a fire of them. For this is a people without understanding; so he who made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.

12 And on that day the LORD will thresh from the river Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you will be gathered one by one, O people of Israel.

13 And on that day a great trumpet will be sounded, and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and bow down to the LORD in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

1 Woe to the proud garland of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the bloated valley of those overcome with wine!

2 See, the LORD has one who is powerful and strong. Like a hailstorm, a destroying tempest, like a storm of mighty overflowing waters and he will bring it forcefully to the ground.

3 The proud garland of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trampled underfoot.

4 And the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the bloated valley, will be like a first-ripe fig before the summer; when someone sees it, he swallows it as soon as it is in his hand.

5 In that day the LORD of hosts will be a glorious crown and a beautiful diadem for the remnant of his people,

6 and a spirit of justice to the one who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

7 These reel with wine and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up with wine and stagger with strong drink; they err in vision and stumble in judgment.

8 For all the tables are covered with vomit and filth, so that no place is clean.

9 To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he interpret the message? Those who are weaned from milk, and taken from the breast?

10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.

11 But by men of strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people,

12 to whom he said, This is the rest, give rest to him that is weary, and this is the refreshing; yet they would not listen.

13 Therefore the word of the LORD will be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little—so that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

14 Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers, who rule this people that is in Jerusalem.

15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol; when the overflowing scourge examines, it will not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood we have hid ourselves.

16 Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I am laying in Zion a foundation stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of sure foundation; whoever believes will not be in panic.

17 And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding-place.

18 And your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trodden down by it.

19 As often as it passes through, it will take you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night—sheer terror to understand the message.

20 For the bed is too short for people to stretch themselves on it, and the covering to wrap themselves in it.

21 For the LORD will rise up on Mount Perazim; he will be angry in the valley of Gibeon, so that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

22 But as for you, do not be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the LORD of hosts, upon the whole earth.

23 Give ear, and hear my voice; listen, and hear my speech.

24 Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he continually open and harrow his ground?

25 When he has leveled its surface, does he not cast abroad the caraway, and scatter the cumin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the designated place, and the spelt as its borders?

26 For his God instructs him aright, and teaches him.

27 For caraway is not threshed with a sharp threshing instrument, neither is a cartwheel rolled over the cumin; but the caraway is beaten out with a staff, and the cumin with a rod.

28 It is ground, but one does not always thresh it; although his cart and his horses may scatter it, he does not grind it.

29 This also comes from the LORD of hosts, who is distinguished in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

1 Ah, Aruel, Aruel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year, let the feasts come round;

2 then I will distress Aruel, and there will be mourning and lamentation, and she will be to me as Aruel.

3 And I will encamp against you all around, and will lay siege against you with towers, and I will raise siegeworks against you.

4 And you will be brought down, and will speak from the ground, and your speech will be low from the dust; your voice will be like that of a ghost from the ground, and your speech will whisper from the dust.

5 But the multitude of your enemies will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Suddenly, in an instant

6 you will be punished by the LORD of hosts with thunder, with an earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.

7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Aruel, even all that fight against her and her fortification and distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night.

8 And it will be as when a hungry man dreams, and see—he eats but awakes and is empty; or it will be like when a thirsty man dreams, and see—he drinks but wakes up faint, and is still thirsty. So will the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.

9 Tarry and wonder, take your pleasure and be blind; they are drunken, but not from wine; they stagger, but (not) with strong drink.

10 For the LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, you prophets; and he has covered your heads, you seers.

11 And this whole vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which people deliver to one who is learned, saying, "Read this, I pray you"; but he says, "I cannot, for it is sealed."

12 Then they deliver the book to one who is not learned, saying, "Read this, I pray you"; but he says, "I am not learned."

13 And the LORD said, Inasmuch as this people draw near to honor me with their mouth and with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from me, and fear of me has been like a human commandment that has been taught them;

14 therefore, see, as for me I am about to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the insights of their prudent men will be hidden.

15 Woe to those who hide deep their counsel from the LORD, and whose works have been in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us?" and "Who has known us?"

16 He has overturned things from you. Will it be thought of like the potter's heat, so that the thing made should say of the one who made it, "He did not make me"; or the thing formed say of the ones who formed it, "He has no understanding"?

17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?

18 And on that day the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of gloom and darkness.

19 The meek also will increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

20 For the terrible one is brought to naught, and the scoffer ceases, and all who watch for iniquity are cut off,

21 those who make a man an offender in his cause, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just with meaningless arguments.

22 Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob will not now be ashamed, neither will his face now grow pale.

23 But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they will sanctify my name; yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

24 Moreover, those who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who complain will receive instruction.

1 Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, who take counsel, but not of me; and who make a league, but not of my spirit, so that they may add sin to sin;

2 who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my counsel; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

3 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt will be your longing.

4 For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.

5 Destruction is odious to a people that cannot profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame and also a reproach.

6 The oracle concerning the beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and dryness and anguish, where there is no water, the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, which carries their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that will not profit them.

7 For Egypt helps in vain and to no purpose; therefore I have called her "Rahab who sits still."

8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, so that it may be for times to come forever and ever.

9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the LORD,

10 who say to the seers, "Do not see," and to the prophets, "Do not prophesy right things to us; speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits,

11 get out of the way, turn aside from the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease before us."

12 Therefore, thus says the Holy One of Israel: Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and you rejoice, and rely on it,

13 therefore this iniquity will be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose crash comes suddenly, in an instant.

14 And he will break it like a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there will not be found among its pieces a shard with which to take fire from a hearth, or to scoop up water from a cistern.

15 For thus said the LORD, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest you will be saved; in quietness and in confidence will be your strength. But you were unwilling;

16 but you said, "No, for we will flee upon horses." Therefore you will flee; and, "We will ride upon the swift"; therefore those who pursue you will be swift.

17 One thousand will flee before one; at the threat of five you will flee, until you are left like a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and like an ensign on a hill.

18 And therefore the LORD will wait, so that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, so that he may have mercy upon you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.

19 For the people will dwell in Zion and in Jerusalem; you will weep no more, the LORD will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when he hears, he will answer you.

20 And although the LORD gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers will not hide themselves anymore, but your eyes will see your teachers.

21 And your ears will hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in it"; when you turn to the right hand and when you turn to the left.

22 And you will defile your graven images overlaid with silver, and your molten images plated with gold: you will cast them away like an unclean thing; you will say to them, "Away with you!"

23 And he will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground, and bread of the increase of the ground; it will be abundant and plenteous. On that day your cattle will feed in large pastures;

24 the oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground will eat leavened fodder, which one winnows with shovels and forks.

25 And there will be upon every lofty mountain, and upon every high hill, brooks and canals of water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

26 Moreover, the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, like the light of seven days, on the day when the LORD binds up the hurt of his people, and heals the wound he has inflicted.

27 See, the name of the LORD comes from afar, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is like a devouring fire,

28 and his breath is like an overflowing stream; and it reaches even to the neck, to winnow the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that causes people to err will be in the mouths of the peoples.

29 You will have a song as in the night when people keep a holy feast, and gladness of heart as when one goes with a pipe to come to the LORD's mountain, to the Rock of Israel.

30 And the LORD will make heard, make heard his glorious voice, and will show the descending blow of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, a tempest, and hailstones.

31 For through the voice of the LORD the Assyrians will be dismayed, with his rod he will smite them.

32 And every stroke of the staff of his foundation, which the LORD will lay upon them, will be with the sound of timbrels and harps, and in battles with the brandishing of his arm he will fight with her.

33 For an opening place has been prepared of old; yes, it was for the king; it will be made ready, he has made it deep and large, and its pile is fire and much wood. The breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, kindles it.

1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in the chariot because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong—but do not look to the Holy One of Israel nor seek the LORD!

2 Yet he is also wise and will bring disaster, and will not recall his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

3 Now the Egyptians are humans, not God; and their horses are flesh, not spirit; when the LORD stretches out his hand, both he who helps will stumble, and he who is helped will fall; they all will be consumed together

4 For thus says the LORD to me: Just as the lion or the young lion growling over his objects of prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor daunted at their noise, so the LORD of hosts will come down to fight upon Mount Zion and upon its hill.

5 Like birds hovering, so the LORD of hosts will protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver it, and he will pass over and bring it to safety.

6 Turn back to him whom, to him whom you have deeply betrayed, O children of Israel.

7 For on that day everyone will cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have sinfully made for you.

8 And the Assyrians will fall by a sword not of man; and a sword not of men will devour them; and they will flee not before the sword, and their young men will be put to forced labor.

9 And their rock will pass away by reason of terror, and their princes will be dismayed at the banner, says the LORD, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

1 Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice.

2 And each will be like a refuge from the wind and a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, in the shade of a great rock in a weary land.

3 And the eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

4 And the heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongues of stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.

5 People will no longer call a fool noble, nor a villain said to be honorable.

6 For a fool speaks nonsense, and his heart plans iniquity, in order to practice profaneness and to speak error against the LORD, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.

7 And the villainies of a villain are evil; and he devises evil plans to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the needy ones speak what is right.

8 But the noble person devises noble things, and by noble deeds he stands.

9 Rise up, you women who are at ease, and hear my voice; you careless daughters, give ear to my speech.

10 For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage will fail, the ingathering will not come.

11 Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you careless ones; strip yourselves and make yourselves bare, and put on sackcloth and beat your breasts around your loins.

12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,

13 for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers; yes, for all the joyous houses in the jubilant city.

14 For the palace will be forsaken, the populous city will be deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens forever, a delight of wild asses, a pasture for flocks;

15 until a spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.

16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness will abide in the fruitful field.

17 The effect of righteousness will be for peace, and the result of righteousness will be quietness and confidence forever.

18 And my people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.

19 But it will hail when the forest comes down, and the wood will be completely laid low.

20 Happy will be you who sow beside every stream, and who let out freely the ox and the donkey.

1 Woe to you, O destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed; woe to you, O traitor, with whom no one has dealt treacherously! When you have sunk down in destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished dealing treacherously, you will be dealt with treacherously.

2 O LORD, be gracious to us; we long for you. And be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble.

3 At the sound of tumult peoples fled; at your silence nations scattered.

4 And your spoil is gathered like the caterpillar gathers; like locusts leap men have leapt upon it.

5 The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

6 There will be stability in your times, abundance and salvation, wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is your treasure.

7 Look, their brave men cry out in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.

8 The highways lie deserted, travelers have left the road; (the enemy) has broken the covenant, has despised witnesses and has regard for no one.

9 The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and withers, Sharon is like a desert, Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

10 Now will I arise, the LORD has said, now will I lift myself up; now I will be exalted.

11 You conceive chaff, you bring forth stubble; your breath is a fire that will devour you.

12 And the peoples will be like the burnings of lime, like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.

13 Those who are far away have heard what I have done; and those that are near have acknowledged my might.

14 The sinners in Zion are afraid, trembling has seized the godless: Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burnings?

15 The one who walks righteously and he has spoken uprightly; the one who despises the gain of oppression, who waves his hand from taking a bribe, who blocks his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and who shuts his eyes from looking on evil—

16 such a person will dwell on high; his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks, his bread will be given him, his waters will be sure.

17 Your eyes will see the king in his beauty; they will behold a land that reaches afar.

18 Your heart will muse on the terror: Where is that one who counted? Where is the one who weighed the tribute? Where is the one who counted the towers?

19 You will not see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you cannot comprehend, of a strange tongue that you cannot understand.

20 Look on Zion, the city of our appointed festivals! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful habitation, a tent that will not be removed; its stakes will never be pulled up, nor any of its cords be broken.

21 But there the LORD in majesty will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams, where no galley with oars can go, nor any stately ship can pass.

22 For the LORD is our judge, and the LORD is our lawgiver, and the LORD is our king, and he will save us.

23 Your rigging hangs loose; it cannot hold indeed the base of the mast, nor keep the sail spread out. Then prey and abundant spoil will be divided; even the lame will carry off plunder.

24 And no inhabitant will say, "I am sick"; the people who live there will be forgiven their iniquity.

1 Come near, nations, to hear; and pay attention, peoples. Let the earth hear and everything in it, the world and all that it brings forth.

2 For the LORD is angry against all the nations and furious at all their host. He has doomed them and has determined that they be slaughtered.

3 Their slain and their corpses will be cast down, and their stench will rise up. The mountains will be soaked with their blood.

4 The valleys will be split, all the host of the heavens will fall, and the heavens will be rolled up like a scroll. All their host will wither, like a leaf withering off the vine or like withering off the fig tree.

5 Indeed my sword will be seen in the heavens. Watch, it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have doomed for judgment.

6 The LORD has a sword filled with blood, gorged with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of rams' kidneys. Indeed the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

7 The wild oxen will fall with them and the young bulls with the mighty steers. Their land will be drunk with blood and their soil saturated with fat.

8 Indeed the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

9 Its streams will be turned into pitch, and its soil into sulfur, and its land will become pitch.

10 It will burn night and day and will never be extinguished. Its smoke will go up from generation to generation, and it will lie waste forever and ever. No one will pass through it.

11 The pelican and the porcupine will possess it, and the owl and the raven will dwell in it. Over it he will stretch a line, and chaos, and plumb lines of emptiness, and its nobles.

12 They will call it No Kingdom There, and all its princes will be nothing.

13 Thorns will grow in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It will be a habitation of jackals, an abode for ostriches.

14 Desert cats will meet hyenas, and goat-demons will call to each other. There too, liliths will settle, and they will find themselves a place of rest.

15 The owl will make its nest there, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; indeed, indeed, buzzards will gather there, every one with its mate.

16 Study and read from the book of the LORD: and not one will be missing, each its mate. For it is his mouth that has commanded, and it is his spirit that has gathered them.

17 It is he who has cast the lot for them, and his hands divided it for them with the line forever.

3 Strengthen the weak hands, support the stumbling knees.

4 Say to those who are disheartened, "Be strong, do not fear; see, your God will bring vengeance, he will bring divine recompense to save you."

5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will unclose.

6 Then the lame will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing. Yes, water will burst out in the wilderness, and streams will run through the desert.

7 The scorching desert will become a pool, and the thirsting ground fountains of water; in the habitation of jackals, a grassy resting place with reeds and rushes.

8 A highway will be there, and they will call it The Holy Way. The unclean will not pass over it; it and for whomever is traveling, even fools, will not go astray.

9 There will be no lion or violent beast there; it will not come up on it, and it will not be found there. But the redeemed will walk,

10 and the ransomed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing. Everlasting joy will be upon their heads. They will attain joy and happiness, and sorrow and mourning will flee away.

1 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.

2 The king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a very large army. He stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway of Fuller's Field.

3 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder came out to him.

4 The Rabshakeh said to them, "Say to Hezekiah king of Judah, 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: What is this source of confidence that you yourself are trusting in?

5 Do you think that words alone equate to counsel and strength for battle? Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

6 Indeed, you are depending on Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which pierces the palm of anyone who leans on it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.'

7 "But if you say to me, 'We trust in the LORD our God'—is he not the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, after which he said to Judah and Jerusalem, 'You will worship before this altar in Jerusalem? '—

8 come now, make a wager with my lord, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to supply riders for them.

9 How can you reject one captain from among the least of my master's servants, and entrust yourselves to Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

10 Now do you think that it is without the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? It was the LORD who said to me, 'Go up to this land to destroy it.'"

11 Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to him, "Please speak with your servants in Aramaic since we understand it. But do not speak this message so that the men sitting on the wall can hear."

12 But the Rabshakeh said, "Was it to you and against your lord that my lord sent me to speak this message? Was it not rather against the men sitting on the wall, who will have to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?"

13 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out with a loud voice in Judean. He said, "Listen to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.

14 Thus says the king of Assyria, 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you.

15 Do not let Hezekiah compel you to trust in the LORD, thinking, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the power of the king of Assyria.'

16 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: 'Make your peace with me, and come out to me; then everyone will eat from his vine and everyone from his fig tree, and everyone will drink from the water of his own cistern

17 until I come and take you to a land like your own land, to a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you by saying, The LORD will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations saved his land from the power of the king of Assyria?

19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharyaim? Have they saved Samaria from my power?

20 Which among all the gods of those countries has delivered their country from my power, so that the LORD might deliver Jerusalem from my power?'"

21 But they did not speak or answer at all, for the king's command was: "Do not respond to him."

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

1 When Hezekiah the king heard this, he rent his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

2 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz.

3 They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of disgrace; for children are at the point of birth, but there is no strength to bring them forth.

4 Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to scorn the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard: therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that is left in this city. "

5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

6 And Isaiah said to them, "Thus you will say to your master, 'Thus says the LORD: Do not be afraid of the words that you have heard, those with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he will hear a rumor, and he will return to his own land; I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.' "

8 So the Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting Libnah; for he had heard that he had left Lachish.

9 He heard a report about Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, "He is coming out to fight you." When he heard this, he returned and sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

10 "Say this to Hezekiah king of Judah, 'Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by saying, Jerusalem will not be delivered into the power of the king of Assyria.

11 Indeed, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, absolutely annihilating them. Will you be rescued?

12 Have the gods of the nations rescued them, those nations which my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?

13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of Lair and of Sepharyaim and of Na, Ivvah, and Samaria?'"

14 Hezekiah received the letters from the messengers and read them. Then Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.

15 Hezekiah prayed to the LORD, saying,

16 "LORD of hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you alone are God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you made heaven and earth.

17 Incline your ear, LORD, and listen. Open your eyes, LORD, and see. Listen to every word of Sennacherib, which he sent to mock the living God.

18 Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have devastated all the lands,

19 and they have cast their gods into the fire—for they were not gods but the works of human hands, wood and stone; thus they have destroyed them.

20 Now, LORD our God, I will save us from his power, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone, LORD, are God. "

21 Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel to whom you prayed about Sennacherib king of Assyria;

22 this is the word which the LORD spoke concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and mocked you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

23 Whom have you mocked and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and arrogantly lifted up your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel.

24 By your servants you have reviled my Lord and said, 'With my many chariots I myself have climbed the highest mountains, to the farthest parts of Lebanon where I cut it down, its tallest cedars and its choicest cypresses. I entered its highest point, its most fertile forest.

25 I myself cried out and drank foreign waters, and with the sole of my foot I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.'

26 Did you not hear how in the distant past I decided to do it, in ancient times planned it? Now I have made it happen that fortified cities should become devastated, besieged heaps.

27 Their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and ashamed. They were wild plants, grassy sprouts, grass on the roofs, scorched by the east wind.

28 But I know your rising up and sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.

29 I have heard of your arrogance, so I will put my hook in your nose and my bit on your lips, and I will turn you back on the way on which is destruction.

30 "This will be the sign for you: Eat this year what grows of itself and in the second year what springs from that. In the third year sow seed, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

31 The escapees of the house of Judah will gather and those who are found will take root below ground and bear fruit above.

32 For a remnant will go forth out of Zion and escapees from Jerusalem. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

33 "Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: He will not enter this city, nor build up a siege-mound against it, nor shoot an arrow there, nor oppose it with a shield.

34 By the way he came, he will return. He will not enter this city, says the LORD.

35 I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for my servant David's sake."

36 Then the angel of the LORD went out, and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. When morning came, there they were, all of them dead bodies.

37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp, left, and returned, and remained at Nineveh.

38 As he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch his god, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.

1 In those days Hezekiah became deathly ill. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: Set your house in order, because you are going to die, you will not live."

2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the LORD,

3 and said, "Remember, LORD, how I have conducted myself before you faithfully and wholeheartedly and have done what is good in your eyes." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

4 Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah,

5 "Go, tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer, and I have seen your tears. See now, I will add fifteen years to your life.

6 Moreover I will rescue you and this city from the power of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my sake and my servant David's sake. '

7 This will be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD does this thing which he has spoken:

8 See now, I will make the shadow on the steps of the upper dial of Ahaz, marking the setting sun, return backward ten steps." Then the sun returned ten steps on the dial, steps on which it had descended.

9 A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, after he had been sick and recovered from his illness:

10 I said, At the height of my life I must go. I must visit the gates of Sheol—bitter are my years.

11 I said, I will not see the LORD in the land of the living. And I, among the inhabitants of the grave, will no longer look upon humans.

12 My dwelling is pulled up and vanishes from me like a shepherd's tent. Like a weaver, I make an accounting of my life. My threads are cut from the loom. Day and night you bring me to the finish.

13 I am laid bare until morning. Just like a lion, he breaks all my bones. Day and night you bring me to the finish.

14 Like a swallow or a crane I chirp, I moan like a dove. My eyes look feebly on high. My Lord, I am in distress; so be my security.

15 What can I say, I tell myself, since he has done this to me? I will walk slowly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

16 My Lord is against them yet they live, and all of them who live have his spirit. Now you have restored my health and let me live.

17 Indeed, for my own good it was exceedingly bitter for me. You yourself loved my life, delivering it from the pit of its confinement. Yes, you have tossed all my sins behind your back.

18 For Sheol cannot glorify you, death cannot praise you, and those who descend into the grave cannot hope for your loyalty.

19 The living, it is the living who will praise you, as I do this day. Parents will make your faithful God known to their children.

20 O LORD, save me! The living, the living will praise you, as I do this day. Parents will make your loyalty known to their children. O LORD, save me! And we will make music with stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.

21 Isaiah said, "Have them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil so that he may recover. "

22 Hezekiah said, "What will be the sign for me to go up to the house of the LORD?"

1 At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, when he heard that he had been sick but he lived.

2 Hezekiah was delighted that they came and showed them all of his treasure- houses: the silver, gold, spices, precious oil, all his armor, and everything that was in his storehouses. There was nothing in his palace or his entire kingdom that Hezekiah failed to show them.

3 Then the prophet Isaiah came to King Hezekiah and said to him, "What did these men say, and where did they come from to visit you?" Hezekiah said, "From a far country—they came to visit me from Babylon."

4 Then he said, "What did they see in your palace?" Hezekiah answered, "They saw everything in my palace. There is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them."

5 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Listen to the word of the LORD of hosts:

6 The time will indeed come when everything that is in your palace and that your ancestors have stored up till now will be carried to Babylon. They will come in, and nothing will be left, says the LORD.

7 Some of your own sons who will have come from your loins, whom you will have begotten, they will take away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon."

8 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD which you have spoken is good," since he thought, "There will be peace and stability in my lifetime."

1 Comfort, comfort my people! says your God.

2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and declare to her that her hard service is completed, that her punishment is accepted. Indeed she has received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins.

3 A voice cries out, "In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD, and in the desert make a smooth highway for our God.

4 Let every valley be raised and every mountain and hill be lowered. Let the uneven spots be leveled and the rough places made a plain.

5 The glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all flesh together will see it. The mouth of the LORD has spoken."

6 A voice says, "Proclaim!" So I said, "What am I to proclaim?" "All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flowers of the field.

7 The grass withers, the flowers fade, when the breath of • • • • blows on it." (Surely the people are the grass.)

8 The grass withers, the flowers fade, but the word of our God, but the word of our God stands forever.

9 Climb up a high mountain, messenger to Zion! Raise your voice powerfully, messenger to Jerusalem! Raise it; do not be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, "Here is your God!"

10 Look, the Lord GOD comes with power, and his arm rules for him. Look, his payment is with him, and his reward before him.

11 Like a shepherd he pastures his flock; he gathers the lambs in his arms, carries them near his heart, and gently leads the nursing sheep.

12 Who has measured the waters of the sea in his palm? marked out the heavens with his compass and measured out the dust of the earth in a measuring bowl? weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?

13 Who has directed the spirit of the LORD, or as his counselor has taught him?

14 With whom did he consult, to instruct him and guide him in the ways of justice? or taught him knowledge or showed him the ways of wisdom?

15 Look, the nations are like a drop from a bucket and are considered but dust on the balance. Look, he even lifts up the islands like powder.

16 Lebanon is not sufficient fuel, nor are its beasts a sufficient burnt offering.

17 All the nations are as nothing to him, and he considers them as nothingness and chaos.

18 To whom will you compare me—God? or what likeness will you compare to me?

19 The idol?—a craftsman made the image, and a smith with gold and hammered it out and cast silver chains;

20 the poor person an offering, wood that will not rot, and chooses a skillful artisan and seeks to set up an image that will not topple.

21 Have you not known? Have you not heard? Have you not been told from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

22 He is the one who dwells above the disk of the earth, whose inhabitants are like grasshoppers. He is the one who stretches the skies like a curtain and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,

23 who brings princes to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth like a void.

24 Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely have their stalk taken root in the earth, and then he blows on them and they wither, and the whirlwind carries them away like stubble.

25 To whom will you compare me that I should be similar? says the Holy One.

26 Raise your eyes heavenward and see: Who has created these? He who draws out their host by number, who calls them all by name, by his great might and his powerful strength, and not one is missing.

27 Why do you say, Jacob, and claim, Israel, "My way is ignored by the LORD, and my case is passed over by my God?"

28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the eternal God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint, he does not grow weary, and his understanding is unfathomable.

29 The one who gives might to the faint will make power abound in those without strength.

30 Even youths faint and grow weary and young men collapse,

31 but those who wait for the LORD will renew their strength. Then they will ascend with wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will march and not faint.

1 Be silent before me, coastlands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near then speak together; let us approach for a ruling.

2 Who has roused victory from the east and summoned it to his path and delivers nations before him and brings down kings, and makes their swords like dust, their bows like wind-driven chaff?

3 And he pursues them and travels on safely, by a way that his feet had not known.

4 Who has acted and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, the first and with the last, I am he.

5 The coastlands have seen and are afraid. The ends of the earth, together; they have drawn near and come.

6 They all help their neighbor. They say to each other, "Take heart."

7 The carpenter encourages the smith, and the one who smoothes with the hammer encourages the one who strikes the anvil. He says of the soldering, "It is good," and reinforces it with nails, so that it cannot loosen.

8 But you, Israel my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, seed of Abraham my friend,

9 you whom I encouraged at the ends of the earth and called from its corners and said to you, "You are my servant. I have chosen you, and I have not rejected you."

10 Do not fear, for I am with you. Do not be anxious, for I am your God. I strengthen you. I indeed help you. I indeed hold you up with my vindicating right hand.

11 Look! All who are incensed at you will be disgraced and put to shame. Those who contend with you will all die.

12 Those who quarrel with you will be nothing, and non-existent those who fight you.

13 For I am the LORD your God, who strengthens your right hand, who says to you, "Do not be afraid. I will help you."

14 Do not fear, you worm Jacob and people of Israel. I will help you, says the LORD and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

15 See, I will make you into a new, sharp, multi-edged thresher. You will thresh and crush mountains and turn the hills to chaff.

16 You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in the LORD, and you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

17 The poor, the needy, those seeking water when there is none, whose tongues are parched with thirst—I, the LORD, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not abandon them.

18 I will open up rivers on the bare heights and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water and the dry land springs of water.

19 In the wilderness, I will put the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive; in the desert, I will set the cypress, the yew, and the elm together;

20 so that together they may see and recognize, consider and comprehend, that the hand of the LORD has done this, and the Holy One of Israel created it.

21 Present your case, says the LORD. Submit your arguments, says the King of Jacob.

22 Let them approach and tell us what will happen. The former things, what were they? Tell us, so that we may consider them and know. Or the latter things or the things to come, let us hear.

23 Report on what is to come in the future, so that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good or do evil, so that we together may hear and see it.

24 Indeed, you and your work are nothing, and whoever chooses you is an abomination.

25 You are stirring one up from the north, and they are coming from the rising of the sun. And he is called by his name. Rulers will come like mire and like the potter, and he will trample the clay.

26 Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? beforehand, that we may say, "It is right"? Indeed, no one declared it, no one made a proclamation, no one heard your words.

27 First, for Zion, there is slumber. To Jerusalem, I will send a messenger.

28 When I look, no one is there among them, no one gives counsel or responds when I inquire of them.

29 Indeed, none of them exists, and their works are nothing. Their molten images are formless wind.

1 Here is my servant, whom I support, my chosen, in whom my soul delights. I have placed my spirit on him so that he may deliver his justice to the nations.

2 He will not cry out or raise his voice or make it heard in the street.

3 A crushed reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench. He will truly bring forth justice.

4 And he will not grow faint or be crushed until he has established justice on earth; and the coastlands will inherit his law.

5 Thus says the God, and God who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its produce, who gives breath to the people upon it, and spirit to those who walk on it:

6 I have called you in righteousness and have taken hold of your hand. I have preserved you and established you as a covenant to the people, as a light to the nations,

7 to open blind eyes, to lead those bound out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out of the prison.

8 I the LORD am the one, and I will not give my name or my glory to another nor my praise to idols.

9 See, the former things have come about, and I am announcing the new things. Before they unfold I am making you aware of them.

10 Sing to the LORD a new song and his praise from the end of the earth, you who travel the sea and everything in it, coastlands and their inhabitants.

11 Let the desert cry out, its cities and the villages that Kedar inhabits, and let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy. Let them shout aloud from the tops of the mountains.

12 Let them give glory to the LORD and declare his praise in the coastlands.

13 The LORD goes forth like a warrior. He fires up his furor like a man of war. Showing his anger, he shouts aloud. He prevails against his enemies.

14 Certainly I have kept silent for a long time. I have kept still and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a woman giving birth; I will gasp and pant together.

15 I will devastate mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will make the rivers islands and dry up the ponds.

16 I will help the blind walk by a way that they do not know. In paths they do not know I will lead them. I will make the dark places before them light and rough places level. I will do these things and I will not abandon them.

17 Those who trust in idols will be turned back and utterly shamed, who say to images, "You are our gods."

18 Listen, you who are deaf; look, you who are blind, and see.

19 Who is blind but my servant or deaf like my messenger whom I send? Who is blind like the one allied with me and blind like the LORD's servant?

20 You have seen many things, but you do not observe. His ears are open, but he does not hear.

21 The LORD had desired, for the sake of his vindication, that he should increase his torah and glorify it.

22 Instead, this is a people despoiled and plundered. All of them are trapped in holes and hidden in prisons. They have become prey whom no one rescues, a spoil and no one says, "Restore."

23 Who is among you that will hear this? Indeed let him pay attention and listen for the time to come.

24 Who gave Jacob over to be despoiled and Israel to plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they were not willing to walk and whose instruction they would not obey?

25 So he poured upon him the heat of his anger and the fierceness of war. It set hi[m] on fire all around, but he did not recognize it. It burned him, but he did not think about it.

1 But now thus says the LORD who created you, Jacob, and who formed you, Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by name; you are mine.

2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched, nor will the flame burn you.

3 I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Redeemer. And I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and the people of Seba in exchange for you.

4 Because you are precious in my sight and honored, and I love you, I give people in your stead and nations in exchange for your life.

5 Do not fear, for I am with you. I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west.

6 I will say to the north, "Give up!" and to the south, "Do not hold back!" Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth,

7 everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed, whom I made.

8 Bring forth the blind who have eyes and the deaf who have ears.

9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who is among them that could declare this or announce the former things? Let them produce their witnesses so they can be vindicated. Let them proclaim so people will say, "It is true."

10 You are my witnesses, says the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you might know and trust me and understand that I am the one; before me no God was formed nor will there be after me.

11 I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior.

12 I declared, I saved, I made it known. There was no strange god among you. You are my witnesses, says the LORD: I am God.

13 From this day forth, I am the one, and no one can deliver out of my hand. I work, and who can undo it?

14 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I will send to Babylon, and I will break down all the bars, and the Chaldeans' ringing cry will become lamentation.

15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.

16 Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea and a path through the mighty waters,

17 who brings forth chariot and horse and army and warrior together. They lie down, they cannot rise. They are extinguished, quenched like a wick.

18 Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old.

19 I am about to do a new thing, and it is now springing up. Do you not recognize it? I am making a road in the wilderness and paths in the desert.

20 Wild animals, jackals and ostriches, will honor me, because I am putting water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, for my people, my chosen, to drink,

21 the people which I formed for myself, and that they might speak my praise.

22 And yet you have not invoked me, Jacob; indeed you are weary of me, Israel.

23 You have not brought me sheep for a burnt offering, nor have you honored me with your sacrifices. You have not made meal offerings for me. I have not wearied you about frankincense.

24 You have not bought me sweet cane with silver, nor satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. Instead, you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.

25 I, I am the one who blots out your transgression for my own sake, and I will remember your sins no longer.

26 Recall it for me. Let us argue together. Present your case, so that you may be vindicated.

27 Your first ancestor sinned, and your interpreters have transgressed against me.

28 Therefore I profaned the holy princes; I devoted Jacob to destruction, and Israel to reviling.

1 But now hear, Jacob my servant and Israel whom I have chosen:

2 Thus says the LORD who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you: Do not fear, Jacob my servant and Jeshurun whom I have chosen.

3 For I will pour water upon thirsty ground and streams on parched land. Just so will I pour my spirit upon your descendants and my blessing upon your posterity.

4 They will spring up like that which grows in the green grass, like willows by watercourses.

5 One will say, "I am the LORD’s," and another will go by the name of Jacob, and another will have inscribed on his hand, "the LORD’s," and adopt the name of Israel.

6 Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and its Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name: I am the first and I am the last, and apart from me there is no God.

7 Who is like me? Let him proclaim and announce it and set it in order for himself, making them an ancient people. And the future let him say; what is to come let them declare to them.

8 Do not be in awe. Do not be afraid. Have I not declared to you of old? I announced it. You are my witnesses. Is there a god besides me? I know that there is no other rock.

9 Now, all forming of images is nothing, and the things they value will not profit. Their own witnesses do not see; they do not know. So they will be put to shame.

10 Who would fashion a god or cast an image that is useless?

11 Certainly, all associated with it will be put to shame. The artisans, they are only human. Let them all gather together and stand up. Then let them be in awe. They will be put to shame together.

12 The ironworker prepares a tool with the coals and hammer, and fashions it, working by the strength of his arm. Yes, if he were hungry, he would have no strength. If he were to drink no water, he would become faint.

13 The woodworker stretches it out with a line; he traces its shape with a stylus. He fashions it with planes and shapes it with a compass. He makes it like a human figure, with human beauty, to dwell in a shrine.

14 He cuts down cedars and takes a holm tree [or an o]ak. He secures for himself trees from the forest. He plants a fir tree, and the rain makes it grow.

15 He divides it up for humans to burn. He takes part of it and warms himself. He kindles a fire and bakes bread. Or perhaps he constructs a god and worships it; he makes it an idol and bows down to it.

16 Half of it he burns in the fire, and over that half is meat so he may eat. He sits by its coals, warms himself, and says, "Ah, I am warm in front of the fire."

17 The remainder of it he makes into a god. To blocks of wood he bows down to it and worships, prays to it and says, "Deliver me, for you are my god."

18 They do not know. They do not understand. For their eyes are smeared, they cannot see; and their minds, they cannot think.

19 No one gives it any thought; there is no knowledge or understanding to think to think, "Half of it I burned in the fire. I also baked food on its coals. And I roasted meat and ate it. And the rest of it I will make into abominations? Will I bow down to blocks of wood?"

20 He tends ashes. A deceived mind has turned him from the way. It cannot his life, nor does he say, "There is a lie in my right hand."

21 Remember these things, Jacob, Israel, for you are my servant. I have formed you; you are a servant to me. Israel, you must not mislead me.

22 I have blotted out your transgression like a cloud and your sins like mist. Return to me; for I have redeemed you.

23 Shout, heavens, for the LORD has done it. Shout aloud, depths of the earth. Burst out with singing, mountains, forest, and every tree in it. For the LORD has redeemed Jacob and will glorify himself in Israel.

24 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer and the one who formed you in the womb: I am the LORD who made everything, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth unassisted;

25 who frustrates the omens of the idle talkers and makes diviners mad, who turns the sages back and renders their knowledge foolish;

26 who confirms the word of his servant and brings to fruition the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, "It will be inhabited," and of the cities of Judah, "They will be rebuilt, and I will raise up their ruins";

27 who says to the deep, "Be dry; I will dry up your rivers";

28 who says of Cyrus, "He is my shepherd and will carry out everything I desire," saying of Jerusalem, "It will be rebuilt," and of my temple, "Your foundation will be laid again."

1 Thus says the LORD to his anointed, Cyrus, whose right hand I have strengthened to subdue nations before him, as I expose the loins of kings, to open the doors before him and gates they cannot keep shut:

2 I myself will go before you, and he will make the mountains level. I will shatter bronze doors, cut through iron bars.

3 I will give you concealed treasures and secret riches hidden away, so that you will know that I, the LORD, who call you by name, am the God of Israel.

4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, Israel my chosen, I have called you, and he has established you with a name, though you did not know me.

5 I am the LORD, and there is none else besides me; and there are no gods. I will help you, though you did not know me,

6 so that they may know from east to west that there is none besides me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.

7 I form light and create darkness; I make goodness and create evil. I am the LORD, who does all these things.

8 Shout out, skies above and clouds, and let righteousness stream down. The one who says to the earth, "Let salvation blossom, and let righteousness sprout forth."

9 Woe to the one who contends with his makers, being just a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth. Woe to the one who says [to] the one who [f]orms him, "What are you doing?" or "Your work has no human hands?"

10 Woe to the one who says to a father, "What are you begetting?" or to a woman, ["What are you] bearing?"

11 Thus says the LORD, the creator of the signs: Question me concerning my children, and concerning the work [of my hands co]mmand me?

12 I myself made the earth and humanity I created upon it. My own hand stretched out the skies; I commanded all [their host].

13 I have aroused him with righteousness, and I will make all his paths smooth. It is he who will rebuild [my city] and free my [ex]iles, not for price nor reward, says the LORD of hosts.

14 [Thus says] the LORD: The wealth of Egypt, and the merchandise of Cush, the Sabeans, men of height, will come over to you, and they will be yours. They will walk [behind you]; in chains they will come over. They will bow down to you; they will pray to you, "Surely God is in you; and there is no other [Go]d [at all]."

15 Truly you are a hidden God, O God of Israel, the Savior.

16 They will be shamed, indeed, disgraced, all of them to[gether]; the makers of idols will walk in confusion.

17 But Israel will be saved by the LORD with everlasting salvation. You will not be shamed or disgraced ever again.

18 For thus says the LORD who created the heavens—he is God and the one who fashioned the earth and made it; and he is the one who established it; not for chaos did he create it, but to be inhabited he formed it—I am the LORD and there is no other.

19 I have not spoken in secret, at a place in a land of darkness; I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, "Seek me in chaos"; I, the LORD, spea[k] righteousness, declaring what is right.

20 Assemble and enter; draw near and come, escapees from the nations. Those who carry their wooden idols know nothing, nor do those who pray to a god that cannot save.

21 Explain, present a case, even let them take counsel together. Who announced this long ago, declared it of old? Was it not I, the LORD? There is no other god besides me; a just God and Savior, and there is none besides me.

22 Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

23 By myself I have sworn, from my mouth righteousness has gone forth, a word that will not come back: that to me every knee will bow, and every tongue will swear.

24 "Only in the LORD," one will say of me, "are victories and might; to him will come all who were incensed against him and they will be shamed.

25 In the LORD all the descendants of Israel will have victory and glory."

1 Bel bows down, Nebo stoops. Their images are on beasts, on cattle. Your loads are more burdensome than their reports.

2 They stoop, they bow down together, and they are not able to rescue the burden, but themselves go into captivity.

3 Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, carried from birth, and borne from the womb:

4 Even till old age I am he, and even till I have grown gray I will carry you. It is I who have made, and I who will bear, and I who will carry and save.

5 To whom will you liken me, and consider me equal, or compare me, that I may seem similar?

6 Those who pour gold into a purse and weigh silver in a balance hire a goldsmith, that he may make a god; and they prostrate themselves and even worship it.

7 And they lift it onto their shoulder and carry it and set it in its place. It stands there and does not move from its place. Indeed, one may cry out to it, but it cannot answer nor deliver anyone from distress.

8 Remember this, and remain firm; recall it to mind, you sinners.

9 Remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other. I am God, and there is none like me,

10 declaring from the beginning things to follow, and from ancient times things that have not yet happened, saying, My counsel will stand, and whatever I desire he will do;

11 calling a bird of prey from the east, and from a distant country a man with his purpose. Indeed, I have spoken, I will certainly bring it to pass; I planned it, I will certainly do it.

12 Listen to me, you bold-hearted, who are far from triumph:

13 my triumph is brought near, and it is not far off, and my deliverance, and it will not tarry. I will give deliverance in Zion, and to Israel my glory.

1 Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans; for no more will they call you delicate and attractive.

2 Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, strip off your robes, uncover your leg, pass through the rivers.

3 Your nakedness will be uncovered, and your shame will also be seen. I will exact vindication, and no mortal will I spare.

4 Our Redeemer—the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.

5 Sit silent, and enter into the darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for no more will they call you mistress of kingdoms.

6 I was angry with my people, and I profaned my heritage and gave them into your power. You showed them no mercy; upon the elderly you laid your yoke very heavily.

7 You said, "Always shall I be mistress forever." You did not take these things into your thinking nor were you mindful of their consequences.

8 Now hear this, voluptuous one, sitting securely enthroned, who says in her heart: "I am the one, and there will be none besides me; I will not live as a widow, nor will I see the loss of children."

9 Both these things will come upon you suddenly on a single day: childlessness and widowhood. They will come upon you in full, despite the multitude of your incantations and your very powerful spells.

10 You trusted in your knowledge. You said, "No one sees me"—but your wisdom and your knowledge have misled you. You said in your heart, "I am the one, and there will be none besides me"—

11 but evil will come upon you and you will not know how to charm it away; disaster will befall you of which you will not be able to rid yourself, and devastation will come upon you suddenly, and you will have no foreknowledge of it.

12 But stand up now with your spells and with the multitude of your incantations, with which you have toiled from your youth until today

13 according to your multiple schemes. Let them stand up now and save you, those who conjure the heavens and gaze at the stars, predicting at the new moons what is about to happen to them.

14 See, they are like stubble that the fire burns. They did not deliver themselves from the power of the flame. This is no coal for warming oneself, no hearthfire to sit before.

15 So will those be to you, those with whom you have toiled, those with whom you have trafficked from your youth. They each wander on their far-off way; there is none to save you.

1 Hear this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and have come forth from the loins of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD and invoke the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness—

2 for they call themselves after the holy city, and rely upon the God of Israel; the LORD of hosts is his name:

3 I announced the former things long ago; it went forth out of my mouth, and I disclosed them. Suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.

4 Because of my knowledge that you are stubborn, that your neck is an iron sinew, and your forehead brass,

5 I had declared it to you long ago; before it happened I had announced it to you, lest you should say, "My idol did them; my carved or metal idol commanded them."

6 You had heard it. Observe all this; and yourselves, will you not declare it? From now on, I make new things known to you, hidden things which you have not known.

7 They are created now, not long ago. Before today you had not heard them, lest you should say, "Look, I knew them."

8 And neither had you heard, nor did you know, nor was your ear uncovered long ago. Indeed, I knew that you would act very deceitfully, and they would call you a rebel from the womb.

9 For my name’s sake I delay my anger, and for my beginning I restrain it for you, so that I need not cut you off.

10 Look, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have purified you in the furnace of affliction.

11 For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it; indeed, how can I be profaned? And my glory I will not give to another.

12 Listen to these things, Jacob, and Israel whom I have called: I am he; I am the first, I am also the last.

13 Moreover, my hands laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens. I call to them, and they stand up at once.

14 Let all of them assemble and listen. Who is there among them that could declare these things? The LORD loves me, and he will accomplish my purpose against Babylon, its army the Chaldeans.

15 I myself have spoken; indeed, I have called and I have brought him, and his path will be successful.

16 Draw near to me, and hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret; at the time it came to be, I was there. And now the LORD God has sent me and his spirit.

17 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you on the way by which you should go.

18 But would that you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your peace would be like a river, and your vindication like the waves of the sea.

19 Your descendants would be like the sand, and your offspring like the grains of sand. Their name would not be cut off or destroyed from before me.

20 Go forth from Babylon; flee from the Chaldeans! With a festive shout declare, and announce this to the ends of the earth: "The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob."

21 They did not thirst when he led him through the desolate places. He made water flow from a rock for them; he split a rock, and water flowed forth.

22 And there is no peace, says the LORD, for the wicked.

1 Listen to me, O coastlands; pay attention, peoples from afar. The LORD has called me from the womb; while yet inside my mother my name he pronounced.

2 He made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hands he hid me. He made me like a polished arrow; in his quivers he concealed me.

3 He said to me, "You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will glorify myself."

4 I said, "For nothing have I labored. I have exhausted my strength on worthlessness and on emptiness. Yet my cause is with the LORD, and my reward is with my God."

5 And now says the LORD—who formed you from the womb as his servant, to bring Jacob back to him again, that Israel might be gathered to him; I have gained honor in the sight of the LORD, and my God has been my help—

6 he says, "It is too small a thing that you should be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Israel and bring back the preserved of Jacob. I will also give you as a light to the nations, to be my salvation to the ends of the earth."

7 Thus says my Lord, the LORD your Redeemer, Israel, and his Holy One, to one despised, to ones abhorred as a nation, to a servant of rulers—kings see and rise, and princes will bow down, because of the LORD who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, the one who chose you—

8 thus says the LORD: In a time of favor I will answer you, and in a day of salvation I will help you. I have protected you, and given you as a covenant of the people, to reestablish the land, to redistribute the inheritances that have been devastated;

9 saying to prisoners, "Come out!" and to those who are in darkness, "Go free!" They will feed upon all the mountains, and their pasture will be on all the heights.

10 They will not hunger or thirst, nor will the scorching desert or sun harm them; for one who has compassion on them will lead them and guide them along springs of water.

11 I will turn all my mountains into a road, and my highways will be elevated.

12 See, they will come from afar: these from the north and from the west, and others from the land of Syene.

13 Sing out, heavens, and rejoice, earth! Break out, mountains into song! The LORD is comforting his people and will have compassion upon his oppressed ones.

14 But Zion had said, "The LORD has abandoned me; my God has forgotten me."

15 Can a woman forget her infant, lack compassion for the child of her womb? Even these may forget; I, however, I will not forget you.

16 Look, I have inscribed you upon the palms of my hands, and your walls are constantly before me.

17 Your builders are working faster than your destroyers, and those who devastated you will depart from you.

18 Look up all around and see: they have all gathered to come to you. As I live, says the LORD, you will be clothed with all of them like ornaments and adorn yourself with them like a bride.

19 Indeed, your ruins, your desolate places, your destroyed land—indeed now you will be too cramped for inhabitants, and those who would swallow you up will be far distant.

20 You will yet hear the children of your bereavement say, "This place is too cramped for me. Make space for me where I may settle."

21 Then you will say to yourself, "Who has begotten these for me—though I was bereaved and barren, and an exile and cast away—who has raised these? Behold, I was left in solitude; these, from where did they come?"

22 For thus says the LORD: Watch, I will lift up my hand to the nations and raise my signal to the peoples. They will bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.

23 Ho, kings will be your foster fathers and their princesses those nursing for you. They will bow to you with their faces to the earth and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD. Those who wait for me will not be shamed.

24 Can they seize prey from a warrior, or the captives of a tyrant be rescued?

25 Thus says the LORD: Even the prey of the warrior will be seized, and the captives of the tyrant will be rescued. I myself will oppose those who oppose you, and I myself will save your children.

26 Those who maltreat you I will make eat their own flesh; and they will be drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine. Then all flesh will know that I am the LORD, your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

1 Thus says the LORD: Where is your mother’s divorce decree, by which I sent her away? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Look, because of your sins you were sold, and because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.

2 Why, when I came, was there no one there? When I called, was there no answer? Was my hand too limited to redeem? Have I no strength to rescue? Look, with my rebuke I dry up the sea, transform the rivers into a wilderness. Their fish stink for lack of water and die of thirst.

3 I spread darkness over the heavens and make sackcloth their covering.

4 My Lord the LORD has given me a learned tongue to know how to sustain the weary with words. And he stirs morning after morning, and he stirs my ear to listen like those being instructed.

5 My Lord God has opened my ear, and I did not rebel; I have not shrunk back.

6 I gave my back to those who beat me and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard. My face I did not turn aside from insults and spitting.

7 My Lord the LORD will help me, so I will not be shamed. So I have made my face like flint, and I know that I will not be put to shame.

8 He who justifies me is near. Who will dispute with me? Let us stand up together. Who has a case against me? Let him approach me.

9 See, my Lord the LORD will help me. Who is it that will condemn me? See, they will all wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them.

10 Who among you revere the LORD, obeying the voice of his servant? Who walk in darkness and have no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD, and rely upon his God.

11 But, all those who light a fire, who surround yourselves with torches, walk by the light of your fire, and by the torches that you have set ablaze. You will have this from my hand: you will lie down in the place of torment.

1 Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, who seek the LORD. Look to the rock from which you were hewn, to the quarry from which you were dug.

2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you. For when he was only one person I called him. I made him fruitful and made him many.

3 For the LORD will comfort Zion, comfort all her waste places. He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of music. Sorrow and mourning will flee away.

4 Pay attention to me, my people! Listen to me, my nation! For a law will go forth from me, and my justice will be a light for the peoples. I will quickly bring

5 my victory near; my salvation will go forth. His arm will judge the peoples, the coastlands will wait for him, and in his arm they will hope.

6 Raise your eyes to the heavens, and look to the earth beneath, and see who created these. Its inhabitants will die like a gnat, but my salvation will be forever, and my victory will not fail.

7 Listen to me, you who know righteousness, people who have my law in their hearts. Do not fear the insults of mortals, nor be dismayed at their hateful words.

8 For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my victory will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.

9 Awake, awake, be clothed with strength, arm of the LORD! Awake, as in the days of old, ancient times. Was it not you who broke Rehob to pieces, who pierced the sea monster?

10 Was it not you who dried up Sea, the waters of the great deep, who made in the depths of the sea a path for the redeemed to pass over?

11 The dispersed of the LORD will return, and enter Zion with singing. Everlasting joy will be upon their heads. They will attain joy and gladness,andsorrow and mourning will flee away.

12 I, I am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of humans who will die, and of mortals made like grass?

13 that you forgot the LORD who made you, who stretched out the heavens and established the earth, and you continue to fear every day the fury of the oppressor since he is ready to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?

14 Distress will quickly be freed. He will not die for the Pit, nor will he lack food.

15 I am the LORD your God, stirring up the sea, so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is his name.

16 I have put my words in your mouth, and with the shadow of my hand have covered you, to plant the heavens and to establish the earth, to say to Zion, "You are my people."

17 Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, who drank at the hand of the LORD the cup of his anger. To the bottom of the cup of staggering you drank and drained it.

18 There is no one to guide you out of all the children she bore, none to take her by the hand out of all the children she raised.

19 These two things have come upon you—who will empathize with you? ruin and destruction, famine and the sword. Who will comfort you?

20 Your sons have fainted. They lie at the end of every street, like an antelope in a trap, filled with the anger of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.

21 Therefore listen to this, afflicted one, drunken one, but not with wine:

22 Thus says your Lord, the LORD your God, who pleads the cause of his people: See, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering. The deep cup of my anger you will never again drink.

23 I will put it into the hand of those who afflicted and oppressed you, who said to you, "Bow down, so that we may step over," so that you had to make your back like the ground, like the street, for them to step over.

1 Awake, awake, put on strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for the uncircumcised and the unclean will not enter you.

2 Shake yourself from the dust;andarise,andsit on your throne, O Jerusalem; loose the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

3 For thus says the LORD: You were sold for nothing; and you will be redeemed without money.

4 For thus says the LORD: My people went down long ago into Egypt to sojourn there; the Assyrian, too, has oppressed them without cause.

5 Now therefore, what am I doing here, says the LORD, seeing that my people are taken away without cause? Those who rule over them are deluded, says the LORD, and continually, all the day long, my name is blasphemed.

6 Therefore my people will know my name; in that day they will know that it is I who speaks; here am I.

7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the one who brings news of peace, who announces good things, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns!"

8 Listen, your watchmen lift up their voices, together they sing for joy; for in plain sight they will see the return of the LORD to Zion with compassion.

9 Break forth together into singing, you ruins of Jerusalem; for the LORD has comforted his people,andhe has redeemed Jerusalem.

10 The LORD has bared his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.

11 Depart, depart, go out from there, touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her. Purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.

12 For you will not go out in haste, nor will you go in flight; for the LORD will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard. He is called the God of all the earth.

13 See, my servant will prosper,and he will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.

14 Just as many were astonished at you—so was he marred in his appearance, more than any human, and his form beyond that of the sons of humans—

15 so will he startle many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for what had not been told them they will see; and what they had not heard they will understand.

1 Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

2 For he grew up before him like a tender plant, and like a root out of a dry ground; he had no form and he had no majesty that we should look at him, and had no attractiveness that we should desire him.

3 He was despised and rejected by others,anda man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering; and like one from whom people hide their faces and we despised him, and we did not value him.

4 Surely he has borne our sufferings, and carried our sorrows; yet we considered him stricken,andstruck down by God, and afflicted.

5 But he was wounded for our transgressions,andhe was crushed for our iniquities, and the punishment that made us whole was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed.

6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, each of us, to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

7 He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

8 From detentionandjudgment he was taken away —and who can even think about his descendants? For he was cut off from the land of the living, he was stricken for the transgression of my people.

9 Then they made his grave with the wicked, and with rich people his tomb —although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

10 Yet the LORD was willing to crush him, and he made him suffer. Although you make his soul an offering for sin,andhe will see his offspring,andhe will prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will triumph in his hand.

11 Out of the suffering of his soul he will see light, and find satisfaction.Andthrough his knowledge his servant, the righteous one, will make many righteous, and he will bear their iniquities.

12 Therefore will I allot him a portion with the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong; because he poured out his life to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sins of many, and made intercession for their transgressions.

1 Sing, O woman barrenandwho never bore a child; burst into song, and shout for joy,andyou who were never in labor! For the children of the desolate woman will be more than the children of her that is married, says the LORD.

2 Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your dwellings be stretched wide;anddo not hold back, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.

3 For you will spread out to the right hand and to the left, and your descendants will possess the nations and will populate the deserted towns.

4 Do not be afraid; for you will not be ashamed; and do not fear shame, for you will not be humiliated. For you will forget the disgrace of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.

5 For your maker is your husband; the LORD of hosts is his name, and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of the whole earth.

6 For the LORD has called you back like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit, like the wife of a man’s youth when she is cast off, says the LORD your God.

7 For a brief moment I abandoned you; but with great compassion I will gather you.

8 In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with my everlasting lovingkindness I will have compassion on you, says the LORD your Redeemer.

9 For this is to me like the waters of Noah: when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be angry with you again and will not rebuke you.

10 For the mountains may collapse and the hills reel, but my steadfast love will not depart from you, neither will my covenant of peace totter, says the LORD who has compassion on you.

11 O afflicted (city), passed back and forth and not comforted, behold, I am about to set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.

12 And I will make your battlements of rubies, and your gates of jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.

13 And all your children will be taught by the LORD; and great will be your children’s prosperity.

14 In righteousness you will be established; you will be far from tyranny, for you will not be afraid, and far from terror, for it will not come near you.

15 See, if anyone does attack you, it will not be from me; whoever will attack you, they will fall because of you.

16 See, it is I who have created the blacksmith who fans coals in the fire, and produces a weapon for his purpose. It is I who have created the ravager to wreak havoc.

17 No weapon that is forged against you will be effective. This is the heritage of the LORD’s servants, and their righteousness from me, says the LORD.

1 Ho, everyone who is thirsty, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy wine and milk without money and at no cost.

2 Why spend your money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in rich food.

3 Incline your ear, and come to me;andlisten, so that you may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my faithful, sure love for David.

4 See, I have made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander of the peoples.

5 See, you will call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that does not know you will run to you, because of the LORD your God, even the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.

6 Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near.

7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous person his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.

9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

10 For as the rain and snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth and making it bring forth and sprout, yielding seed for the sower and bread for eating,

11 so will my word be that goes out of my mouth; it will not return to me empty, but it will accomplish what I desire, and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

12 For you will go out in joy, and come back with peace; the mountains and the hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.

13 Instead of thorn bushes pine trees will grow,andinstead of briers myrtles will grow; and they will be for the LORD’s sign and for an everlasting renown that will not be cut down.

1 For thus says the LORD: Maintain justice, and do what is right, for soon my salvation will come, and soon my deliverance will be revealed.

2 Blessed is the one who does this, and the person that holds it fast, who observes the sabbath without profaning it, and restrains his hands from doing any evil.

3 Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, "The LORD will surely exclude me from his people"; and let no eunuch say, "I am just a dry tree."

4 For thus says the LORD: To the eunuchs who observe my sabbaths, and who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant:

5 to them I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.

6 Also the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, to be his servants,and to bless the LORD’S name and observing the sabbath without profaning it, and who hold fast my covenant:

7 these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will rise up to be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.

8 Thus says the Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of Israel: I will gather still others to them besides those already gathered.

9 All you wild animals, come and devour—even all you wild animals.

10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they dream, lie down, love to sleep.

11 The dogs have a voracious appetite, they can never have enough. And as for them, they are the shepherds who lack understanding; they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, each and every one.

12 Come, they say, let us fetch wine, and let us fill ourselves with strong drink! And tomorrow will be like today, or even much better.

1 And the righteous person perishes, but no one takes it to heart; devout people are taken away, while none understands that the righteous are taken away from calamity.

2And he enters into peace,and they will rest on his couches, each one walking in her uprightness.

3 But as for you—come here, you children of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!

4 Whom are you mocking? And against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of lies,

5 you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every spreading tree, who slaughter your children in the ravines, under the clefts of the rocks?

6 Among the smooth stones of the ravines is your portion. There they go as your lot; to them you have poured out drink offerings, you have brought grain offerings. Am I to be appeased for these things?

7 You have made your bed on a high and lofty mountain, and there you went up to offer sacrifice.

8 Behind the doors and the doorposts you have set up your pagan sign; for in deserting me you have uncovered your bed, you have climbed up into it and have opened it wide, and you have made a pact for yourself with them; you have loved their bed, you have looked on their pen

9 You went to Molech with olive oil and increased your perfumes; you sent your ambassadors far away, you sent them down to Sheol itself!

10 You grew weary with your many wanderings, but you would not say, "It is useless." You found new strength for your desire, and so you felt no regret.

11 Whom did you dreadand you feared me, that you lied and you did not remember meand did not lay to heart these things? Have I not kept silent for a long time, and so that you do not fear me?

12 I will denounce your righteousness and your works, for your contingents (of idols) will not benefit you.

13 When you cry out, let your contingents deliver you! The wind will carry them all off, and a mere breath will take them all away. But whoever takes refuge in me will possess the land, and inherit my holy mountain.

14 And one has said, "Build up, build up the road, prepare the highway! Remove every obstacle from my people’s way."

15 For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: he will dwell in the height and in the holy place, and also with the one who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

16 For I will not accuse forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit would grow faint before me—the souls that I have created.

17 At his wicked covetousness I was angry and I struck him,and I hid my face and was angry—but he kept turning back in his willful ways.

18 I have seen his ways, but I will heal him, and restore to him comfort to him and to those who mourn for him, when I create the fruit of the lips, (saying),

19 Peace to the one who is far away and near, says the LORD, and I will heal him.

20 But the wicked are tossed like the sea; for it is not able to keep still, and its waters toss up mire and mud.

21 But there is no peace, says my God, for the wicked.

1 Shout aloud, do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their rebellions, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

2 They seek me day after day, and are eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that practices righteousness and has not forsaken the justice of their God. They ask me for just decisions; they are eager to draw near to God.

3 Why have we fasted (they say), but you do not see? Why have we humbled ourselves, but you take no notice? Look, on your fast day you serve your own interest and oppress all your workers.

4 Look, you fast only for quarreling, and for fighting, and for hitting with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice heard on high.

5 Is this the kind of fast that I have chosen, only a day for a person to humble himself? Is it only for bowing down one’s head like a bulrush, for lying on sackcloth and ashes? Is this what you call a fast, an acceptable day to the LORD?

6 Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice,and to untie the cords of the yoke,and to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and to bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him with clothing, and not to raise yourself up from your own flesh and blood?

8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will spring up quickly; and your vindication will go before you,and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.

9 Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say, Here I am. If you do away with the yoke among you,and with the pointing finger, and with evil talk,

10 if you spend yourself for the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your gloom will be like the noonday.

11 And the LORD will guide you always, and satisfy your soul in parched places, and they will strengthen your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters never fail.

12 And your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will raise up the age-old foundations, and people will call you Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Streets to Live In.

13 If you keep your feet from trampling the sabbath, from pursuing your own interests on my holy day, if you call the sabbath a delight and the LORD’s holy day honorable; and if you honor it by not going your own ways and seeking your own pleasure or speaking idle words—

14 then you will take delight in the LORD,and he will make you ride upon the heights of the earth;and he will feed you with the heritage of your ancestor Jacob—yes, the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

1 See, the LORD’s hand is not too short to save, nor his ears too dull to hear.

2 Instead, your iniquities have been barriers between you and your God, and your sins have concealed his face from you so that he does not hear.

3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your tongue mutters wickedness.

4 No one sues fairly, and no one pleads his case honestly; they have relied on empty arguments and speak lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.

5 They hatch adders’ eggs and weave a spider’s web; whoever eats their eggs dies, and a crushed (egg) hatches out futility.

6 Their webs cannot become clothing, they cannot cover themselves with what they make. Their deeds are deeds of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.

7 Their feet rush into evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; ruin, destruction,and violence are in their highways.

8 The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths. They have made their roads crooked; no one who walks in them knows peace.

9 Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We wait for light, but see—there is darkness; (we wait) for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

10 Let us grope along the wall like the blind, let us grope like those who have no eyes; we stumble at midday as in the twilight, among vigorous people we are like the dead.

11 We all growl like bears, we moan mournfully like doves; we look for justice, but there is none;and for deliverance, but it is far from us.

12 For our transgressions before you are many, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we acknowledge them:

13 they have rebelled, and denying the LORD, and turning away from following our God,and they have spoken oppression and revolt,and uttering lying words from the heart.

14 I will drive back justice, and righteousness stands at a distance; for truth has fallen in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter.

15 Truth is absent, and whoever avoids evil is plundered. And the LORD saw this, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

16 He saw that there was no one, and was appalled that there was no one to intervene; so his own arm brought him victory, and his righteous acts upheld him.

17 He put on righteousness like a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his heads; he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped himself in fury like a mantle.

18 According to their actions, so he will repay—wrath to his enemies, retribution to his foes; to the coastlands he will render requital.

19 So will they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glories from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a pent-up stream that the breath of the LORD drives along.

20 And a Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression, says the LORD.

21 And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says the LORD:and my spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of your children’s children, from now on and forever.

1 Arise, shine; for your light has come, the glory of the LORD has risen upon you.

2 For see, darkness will cover the earth and thick darkness the peoples, but the LORD will arise upon you, and his glory will appear over you.

3 Nations will come to your light, and kings before your dawn.

4 Lift up your eyes and look around: they all assemble, they come to you; your sons will come from far away, and your daughters will be carried on the hip.

5 Then you will look and be radiant; your heart will swell with joy, because the wealth of the seas will be brought to you, the riches of the nations will come to you.

6 A multitude of camels will cover you, the young camels of Midian and Ephu; all those from Shebu will come. They will bear gold and frankincense, and proclaim the praise of the LORD.

7 All Kedar’s flocks will be gathered to you, the rams of Nebaioth will serve you;and they will come up with acceptance upon on my altar, and I will glorify my glorious house.

8 Who are these that fly like clouds, and like doves to their dovecotes?

9 For the coastlands will wait for me, the ships of Tarshish in the lead, to bring my children from far away, their silver and gold with them, for the name of the LORD your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.

10 Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Though in my wrath I struck you down, in my favor I have shown you mercy.

11 Your gates will always stand open, day or night,and they will not be shut, so that nations will bring you their wealth, with their kings led in procession.

12 For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; those nations will be utterly ruined.

13 He has given you the glory of Lebanon,and it will come to you, the cypress,and the plane, and the pine, to adorn the place of my sanctuary; and I will glorify the place where my feet rest.

14 All the descendants of those who oppressed you will come bowing low before you, and all who despised you will bow down at your feet; they will call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

15 Although you have been forsaken and hated, with no one traveling through, I will make you the everlasting pride, the joy of all generations.

16 You will suck the milk of nations, you will suck the breasts of kings; then you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

17 Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver; instead of wood, bronze, and instead of stones, iron. I will appoint Peace as your sentry and Righteousness as your taskmaster.

18And violence will no longer be heard in your land, nor devastation or destruction within your borders; you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.

19 The sun will no longer be your light by day, nor for brightness will the moon shine on you by night; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.

20 Your sun will not set, or your moon withdraw itself; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning will end.

21 Then your people will all be righteous; they will possess the land forever. They are the shoot that the LORD planted, the works of his hands, so that I might be glorified.

22 The least of them will become a thousand, and the smallest one a mighty nation. I am the LORD; in its time I will do this quickly.

1 The spirit of the LORD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed,and to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives, and release from darkness for the prisoners;

2 to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor, the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;

3 to provide for those who mourn in Zion—to bestow on them a garland instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, a mantle of praise instead of a disheartened spirit. And people will call them oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, in order to display his splendor.

4 They will rebuild the ancient ruins, they will restore the places formerly devastated; they will repair the ruined cities, they will erect again the places devastated for many generations.

5 Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, foreigners will work your land and dress your vines;

6 but you will be called priests of the LORD,and you will be named ministers of our God. You will feed on the wealth of the nations, and in their riches you will glory.

7 Instead of your shame (you will receive) double, and instead of dishonor they will rejoice in your lot; therefore you will inherit a double portion in their land, everlasting joy will be yours.

8 For I the LORD love justice,and I hate robbery and iniquity; I will faithfully give (you) your reward and make an everlasting covenant with you.

9 Your descendants will be known among the nations, and your offspring among the peoples; all who see them will acknowledge them, that they are a people whom the LORD has blessed.

10 I shall greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul will delight in my God; for he has clothed me with garments of salvation, he has arrayed me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom, as a priest with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

11 For as the soil brings forth its shoots, and as a garden makes what is sown in it spring up, so the LORD God will make righteousness and praise spring up before all the nations (62:1) for Zion’s sake.

1 And I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet, until her vindication shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning torch.

2 The nations will see your vindication, and all the kings your glory; and people will call you by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will bestow.

3 You will be a crown of splendor in the LORD’s hand, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

4And you will no longer be called Deserted, and your land will no longer be called Desolate; but people will call you My Delight Is in Her, and your land Married; for the LORD takes delight in you, and your land will be married.

5 For just as a young man marries a maiden, so will your sons marry you, and just as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you.

6 Upon your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; all day and all night they will not be silent. You who acknowledge the LORD, take no rest,

7 and give him no rest until he prepares and establishes Jerusalem and makes it an object of praise throughout the earth.

8 The LORD has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: I will never again give your grain as food for your enemies, foreigners will not drink the wine for which you have toiled;

9 but surely those who harvest it will eat it and praise the name of LORD, and those who gather it will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary, says your God.

10 Pass through the gates, prepare the way for the people! Build up, build up the highway! Clear it of stumbling-stones, speak among the peoples.

11 Behold the LORD! Proclaim to the ends of the earth; say to daughter Zion, "See, your salvation is coming! See, his reward is with him, and his recompenses are before him."

12 People will call them "The Holy People," "The Redeemed of the LORD"; and they will call you "Sought After," "The City Not Deserted."

1 Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with his garments stained crimson? Who is this robed in such splendor, marching in his great strength? It is I, announcing vindication, mighty to save.

2 Why are your robes red, and your garments like theirs who tread the winepress?

3 I have trodden the winepress alone, and from my people no one was with me, and I have stained all my clothing.

4 For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year for my redeeming work had come.

5 I looked, but there was no helper, I was appalled that there was no one to take hold of me; so my own arm brought me victory, and my wrath supported me.

6 I trampled down peoples in my anger; in my wrath I made them drunk, and I poured out their lifeblood on the ground.

7 I will recount the gracious deeds of the LORD, the praiseworthy acts of the LORD, in accordance with all the LORD has done for us, and the great goodness to the house of Israel that he has shown them according to his mercy, according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children who will not act falsely, and so he became their savior.

9 In all their distress he was not distressed, but the angel of his presence that saved them; in his acts of love and in his pity he redeemed them; he carried them and lifted them up all the days of old.

10 Yet they rebelled and grieved his holy spirit; so he changed and became their enemy,and he himself fought against them.

11 Then they remembered the days of old, of Moses his servant. Where is the one who brought up out of the sea the shepherds of his flock? Where is the one who set his holy spirit among them,

12And who made his glorious arm march at Moses’ right hand, who divided the waters before them to win an everlasting name,

13 who led them through the depths? Like a horse in the open desert they did not stumble;

14 like cattle that go down into the plain, the spirit of the LORD gave them rest. For you led your people, to win for yourself a glorious name.

15 Look down from heaven, and see from your holy and glorious dwelling. Where are your zeal and your might? The yearning of your heart and your compassion? They are withheld from me.

16 But you are our father,and Abraham does not know us and Israel has not acknowledged us; you are he, O LORD, our father, our Redeemer from long ago is your name.

17 Why, O LORD, do you make us stray from your ways and harden our hearts, so that we do not fear you? Come back for the sake of your servants, for the sake of the tribes that are your heritage.

18 Your holy people took possession of it for a little while, but now our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.

19 For a long time we have been like those whom you do not rule, like those who are not called by your name.

1 O that you would tear open the heavensand come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence—

2 as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil—to your adversaries to make known your name, to your adversaries before you, so that the nations might quake at your presence!

3 When you did awesome deeds that we looked for, you came down, the mountains quaked before you.

4 Since ancient times no one has heard,and no ear has perceived,and no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.

5 You meet those who gladly do right, those who remember you in your ways. See, you were angry, and we sinned against them for a long time, but we will be saved.

6 All of us have become like one who is unclean; all, all our righteous acts are like a polluted cloth. And we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our iniquities sweep us away.

7 There is no one who calls on your name or strives to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have given us into the hand of our iniquity.

8 But as for you, O LORD, you are our Father;and we are clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hands.

9 Do not be angry beyond measure, O LORD, and do not remember our iniquity for a long time. Please look now, we are all your people.

10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become like a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

11 Our holy temple and our splendor, where our ancestors praised you, have become a conflagration of fire, and all our dearest places have become ruins.

12 After all this, can you hold yourself back, O LORD? Will you keep silent, and punish us so severely?

1 I let myself be sought out by those who did not ask me, be found by those who did not seek me. I said, "Here I am, here I am," to a nation that did not call on my name.

2 I held out my hands all day long to a disobedient people, who walk in a way that is not good, pursuing their own inclinations;

3 a people who continually provoke me to my face, they keep sacrificing in gardens and waving their hands on stone altars;

4 who sit inside tombs, and spend the night in secret places; who eat swine’s flesh, with the broth of detestable things in their pots;

5 who say, "Keep to yourself; do not touch me, I am too holy for you." Such people are smoke in my nostrils, a fire that keeps burning all day long.

6 See, it stands written before me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will indeed repay into their laps

7 both your iniquities and your ancestors’ iniquities together, says the LORD; because they offered incense on the mountains and insulted me on hills, I will measure into their laps full payment for their previous actions.

8 Thus says the LORD: As when wine is found in the cluster, and people have said, "Do not destroy it, for there is a gift in it," so I will do for my servants’ sake, by not destroying them all.

9 I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and from Judah they will inherit my mountains; my chosen people will inherit it, and my servants will settle there.

10 Sharon will become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor for the resting of herds, for my people who have sought me.

11 But as for you who forsake the LORD, who forget my holy mountain, who spread a table for Fortune and fill drink offerings for Destiny;

12 I will destine you for the sword, and all of you will bend down for the slaughter. For I called, but you did not answer; I spoke, but you did not listen—but you did evil in my sight, and chose what I took no pleasure in.

13 Therefore thus says the LORD: See, my servants will eat, but you will go hungry; my servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; my servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame;

14 my servants will sing in gladness of heart, but you will lament from anguish of heart, and will wail from brokenness of spirit.

15 You will leave your name for my chosen ones to use as a curse, and the Lord GOD will put you to death permanently.

16 Then whoever takes an oath by the God of faithfulness, and whoever takes an oath in the land, will swear by the God of faithfulness; for the former troubles are forgotten and are hidden from my eyes.

17 For see, I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.

18 But be glad and rejoice forever in what I am creating; for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy, and its people as a delight.

19 I will rejoice over Jerusalem, and take delight in my people; no longer will the sound of weeping be heard in it, or the cry of distress.

20And there will no longer be in it a young boy who lives but a few days, or an old person who does not live out his days; for one who dies at a hundred years will be considered a mere youth, and one who falls short of a hundred will be considered accursed.

21 They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

22 They will not build for others to inhabit; they will not plant for others to eat; for like the days of a tree so will be the days of my people, and my chosen ones will long enjoy the work of their hands.

23 They will not toil in vain or bear children doomed for calamity; for they will be offspring blessed by the LORD—and their descendants with them.

24 Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear.

25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; but as for the serpent—its food will be dust! They will not harm or destroy on my entire holy mountain, says the LORD.

1 Thus says the LORD: Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house that you would build for me, and where will my resting-place be?

2 All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came into being, says the LORD. But this is the one whom I will look upon: the one who is humble and contrite in spirit, and who trembles at my word.

3 Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who kills a human being; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever makes a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; whoever makes a memorial offering of frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. These have chosen their own ways, and they take delight in their abominations;

4 so I also will choose harsh treatment for them, and will bring upon them what they dread. For when I called, no one answered, when I spoke, they did not listen; but they did what is evil in my sight, and chose what displeases me.

5 Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at his words: Your own brothers who hate you and exclude you because of my name have said, "Let the LORD be glorified, he will see your joy"—but it is they who will be put to shame.

6 Listen, an uproar in the city! A noise from the temple! It is the sound of the LORD, dealing retribution to his enemies!

7 Before she went into labor she gave birth; before her pangs came upon her she delivered a son.

8 Who has ever heard of such a thing? And who ever sees such things? Can a country be born in one day, or can a nation be a child in one moment? Yet no sooner Zion was in labor then she delivered her children.

9 Am I to open the womb and not deliver? says the LORD. And when I bring to delivery, am I to close the womb? asks your God.

10 Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be happy for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in gladness, all you who mourn over her—

11 so that you may nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breasts, and so that you may drink deeply with delight from her glorious bosom.

12 Thus says the LORD: I shall extend prosperity to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream; and you will nurse and you will be carried on her hip, and bounced on her knees.

13 Like a child whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.

14 And when you see this, your heart will rejoice and your bodies will flourish like grass; and the hand of the LORD will be made known beside his servants, but his indignation against his enemies.

15 For see, the LORD will come with fire, and his chariot like the whirlwind, to pay back his anger, yes his anger, in fury, and his rebukes in flames of fire.

16 For with fire and with his sword the LORD will proceed to judgment on all humanity, and those slain by the LORD will be many.

17 Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following the one at the center of those who eat the flesh of pigs, detestable things and rats— together, says the LORD.

18 But as for me, I know their deeds and their thoughts; come and gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see my glory.

19 I will set up signs among them, and from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Put, and Lud—which draw the bow—to Tubal and Javan, to the distant coastlands that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory. Then they will proclaim my glory among the nations.

20 They will bring all, all your kindred from all the nations, to my holy mountain Jerusalem as an offering to the LORD—on horses, in chariots, in wagons, and on mules, yes and on mules, and on camels, says the LORD—just as the Israelites bring a grain offering to the house of the LORD in a clean vessel.

21 And I shall also select some of them for myself as priests and as Levites, says the LORD.

22 For just as the new heavens and the new earth that I am about to make will endure before me, says the LORD, so will your descendants and your name endure.

23 From new moon to new moon, and from sabbath to sabbath, all humanity will come to worship before me, says the LORD.

24 And they will go out and look upon the dead bodies of the people who rebelled against me; for their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be an object of revulsion to all humanity.