The desolation of the church's enemies. ISAIAH. Rabshakeh's blasphemy leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling those: the wayfaring man, though fools, shall fig from the fig-tree. not err therein. 3 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: be- 9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous hold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and up-beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found on the people of my curse, to judgment. there; but the redeemed shall walk there : 6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, 10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood and come to Zion with songs and everlasting of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and of rams for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Boz- gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. rah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. CHAP. XXXVI. 7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, Sennacherib invadeth Judah. and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land NOW it came to pass in the fourteenth year shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king fat with fatness. of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them. 8 For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion. 9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. 2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field. 3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder. 4¶ And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now 11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of thou trustest? confusion, and the stones of emptiness. 5 I say, sayest thou (but they are but vain 12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the king-words) I have counsel and strength for war: dom, but none shall be there, and all her princes now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellshall be nothing. est against me? 13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof and it shall be a habitation of dragons, and a court for owls. 14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech-owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. 15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate. 16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his spirit, it hath gathered them. 17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein. CHAP. XXXV. 6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him. 7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall wor ship before this altar? 8 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. 9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen ? 10 And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. 11 Then said Eliakim, and Shebna, and Joah, The blessings of the gospel. unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy serHE wilderness and the solitary place shall vants in the Syrian language; for we understand THE be glad for them; and the desert shall re-it and speak not to us in the Jews' language, joice, and blossom as the rose. in the ears of the people that are on the wall. 12 1 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you? 2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice, even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God. 3 T Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. 4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you. 13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews'language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria 14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you. 15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. 5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 6 Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness 16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by 7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every and the thirsty land springs of water: in the one of his vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. 8 And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called, The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern; 17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Sennacherib's letter to Hezekiah. CHAP. XXXVII. Isaiah's prophecy The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods 17 Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open of the nations delivered his land out of the hand thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the of the king of Assyria? words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God. 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? 20 Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? 18 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries, 19 And have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them. 21 But they held their peace, and answered 20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from 22 1 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, CHAP. XXXVII. Hezekiah sendeth to Isaiah. AND it came to pass, when king Hezekiah to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken heard it, that he rent his clothes, and co-her head at thee. vered himself with sackcloth, and went into the 23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphehouse of the LORD. med; and against whom hast thou exalted thy 2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders against the Holy One of Israel. of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah_24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the the prophet, the son of Amoz. LORD, and hast said, By the multitude of my 3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, chariots am I come up to the height of the mounThis day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and tains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut of blasphemy: for the children are come to the down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice firbirth, and there is not strength to bring forth. trees thereof: and I will enter into the height 4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear the of his border, and the forest of his Carmel. words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria 25 I have digged, and drunk water; and with his master hath sent to reproach the living God, the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers and will reprove the words which the LORD thy of the besieged places. God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left. 5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6 ¶ And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 26 Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps. 27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house-tops, and 7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he as corn blasted before it be grown up. shall hear a rumour, and return to his own 28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. in his own land. 29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, 8T So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, heard that he was departed from Lachish. and I will turn thee back by the way by which 9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king thou camest. of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with 30 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall thee. And when he heard it, he sent messen-eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the gers to Hezekiah, saying, second year that which springeth of the same 10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof. trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall 31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. of Judah shall again take root downward, and 11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of bear fruit upward: Assyria have done to all lands by destroying 32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remthem utterly; and shalt thou be delivered? nant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this. which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, 33 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this Eden which were in Telassar? city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king it with shields, nor cast a bank against it. of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sephar- 34 By the way that he came, by the same shall vaim, Hena, and Ivah? he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD. 14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. 35 For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake. 36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and 15 And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying, smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred 16 O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwell- and fourscore and five thousand: and when they est between the cherubims, thou art the God, arose early in the morning, behold, they were all even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; dead corpses. thou hast made heaven and earth. 37 ¶ So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed Hezekiah s song of thanksgiving. ISAIAH. The preaching of John Baptist. and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. 22 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign 38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping that I shall go up to the house of the LORD? in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the CHAP. XXXIX. sword; and they escaped into the land of Ar. A that time Merodach-baladan, the son of menia and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his CHAP. XXXVIII. N those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered. a 2 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed * · them the house of his precious things, the silver, came the gold, and the spices, precious unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thy house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live. ment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his-treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that ? Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the Hezekiah shewed them not. wall, and prayed unto the LORD, 3 And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. 4 Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying, 5 Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. 6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city. 7 And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken; 3 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? and Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon. 4 Then said he, What have they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them. 5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hosts: 6 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD. 7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. 8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun-dial of Ahaz ten degrees backward. So the sun returned 8 'Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. He 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth when he had been sick, and was recovered of in my days. his sickness: 10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. CHAP. XL. The promulgation of the gospel. COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the 2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that man no more with the inhabitants of the world. her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received 12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from of the LORD's hand double for all her sins. me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a 3 ¶ The voice of him that crieth in the wilderweaver my life: he will cut me off with pining ness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make sickness from day even to night wilt thou make straight in the desert a highway for our God. an end of me. 13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. 14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: 5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken i. 6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall 15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul. 16 O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live. 17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. 18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. 19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth. thereof is as the flower of the field: 7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. 8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. 9 TO Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain: O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God! 10 Behold the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. 11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he 20 The LORD was ready to save me: therefore shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those all the days of our life in the house of the LORD. that are with young. 21 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump 12 T Who hath measured the waters in the holof figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the bile, and low of his hand, and meted out heaven with the he shall recover. span, and comprehended the dust of the earth God's incomparable power. CHAP. XLI. In a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance ? 13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him? The vanity of idols. 5 The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came. 6 They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage. 14 With whom took he counsel, and who in- 7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, structed him, and taught him in the path of and he that smootheth with the hammer him judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shew-that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the ed to him the way of understanding? sodering; and he fastened it with nails, that st 15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, should not be moved. and are counted as the small dust of the balance: 8 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. 16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor 9 Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering. the earth, and called thee from the chief men 17 All nations before him are as nothing; and thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my ser they are counted to him less than nothing, and vant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away vanity. 10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be no 18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen likeness will ye compare unto him? 19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. 20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved. 21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretchethout the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: 23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. 24 Yea, they shall not be planted: yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. 25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. 26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names, by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one failetli. 27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? 28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. 29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold 12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought. 13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. 14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. 15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp thresh ing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. 16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scat ter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. 17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I 18 I will open rivers in high places, and foun tains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. 19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah-tree, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the fir-tree, and the pine, and the box-tree together: 20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it. 21 Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. 22 Let them bring them forth, and shew us what 31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall re-shall happen: let them shew the former things, new their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. CHAP. XLI. God's mercies to his church. KEEP silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment. what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. 23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. 24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you. 2 Who raised up the righteous man from the 25 I have raised up one from the north, and he east, called him to his foot, gave the nations be-shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he fore him, and made him rule over kings? he gave call upon my name: and he shall come upon them as the dust to his sword, and as driven princes as upon mortar, and as the potter tread. stubble to his bow. eth clay. 3 He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet. 4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he. 26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words. The office of Christ. ISAIAH. Babylon's destruction foretold. 27 The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold 22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they them and I will give to Jerusalem one that are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid bringeth good tidings. in prison-houses; they are for a prey, and none delivereth, for a spoil, and none saith, Restore. 23 Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken, and hear for the time to come? 24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the 28 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word. 29 Behold, they are all vanity, their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and con-robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom fusion. CHAP. XLII. Christ's mission to the Gentiles. we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law. 25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury BEHOLD my servant, whom I uphold; mine of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew my Spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judg- not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart ment to the Gentiles. 2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. 3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. CHAP. XLIII. God comforteth the church. UT now thus saith the LORD that created B thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. 2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through 5 T Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the heavens, and stretched them out; he that the flame kindle upon thee. 4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law. spread forth the earth, and that which cometh 3 For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ran upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: som, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. 6 I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thy hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; 7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house. 4 Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. 5 Fear not; for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west: 6 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the 8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, glory will I not give to another, neither my and my daughters from the ends of the earth; praise to graven images. 7 Even every one that is called by my name: 9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, for I have created him for my glory, I have forand new things do I declare: before they spring med him; yea, I have made him. forth I tell you of them. 8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears. 10 Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down 9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and let the people be assembled: who among them the inhabitants thereof. can declare this, and shew us former things? let 11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift them bring forth their witnesses, that they may up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth in- be justified; or let them hear, and say, It is truth. habit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. 12 Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands. 10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. 13 The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall 11 I, even I, am the LORD; and besides me there cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. is no saviour. 14 I have long time holden my peace; I have 12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry shewed, when there was no strange god among like a travailing woman; I will destroy and de- yo: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God. vour at once. 15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. 13 Yea, before the day was, I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it? 16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they 14 T Thus saith the LORD, your Redeemer, the knew not; I will lead them in paths that they Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent have not known: I will make darkness light be- to Babylon, and have brought down all their nofore them, and crooked things straight. These bles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. 15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator 17 They shall be turned back, they shall be of Israel, your King. greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods. 18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. 19 Who is blind, but my servant ? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent ? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD's servant? 20 Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not. 16 Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; 17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall he down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow. 18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. 19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall 21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteous-spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even ness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make make & way in the wilderness, and rivers in the it honourable. desert. |