ISA 1:1
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, concerning
Judah and Jerusalem which he saw during the reigns
of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of
Judah.
ISA 1:2 Listen, O heavens, and hear, O earth;
For the Lord speaks, "Sons I have reared and brought
up, But they have revolted against Me.
ISA 1:3 "An ox knows its owner, And a donkey
its master's manger, But Israel does not know, My
people do not understand."
ISA 1:4 Alas, sinful nation, People weighed
down with iniquity, Offspring of evildoers, Sons who
act corruptly! They have abandoned the Lord, They
have despised the Holy One of Israel, They have
turned away from Him.
ISA 1:5 Where will you be stricken again, As
you continue in your rebellion? The whole head is
sick, And the whole heart is faint.
ISA 1:6 From the sole of the foot even to the
head There is nothing sound in it, Only bruises,
welts, and raw wounds, Not pressed out or bandaged,
Nor softened with oil.
ISA 1:7 Your land is desolate, Your cities
are burned with fire, Your fields - - strangers are
devouring them in your presence; It is desolation,
as overthrown by strangers.
ISA 1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left like
a shelter in a vineyard, Like a watchman's hut in a
cucumber field, like a besieged city.
ISA 1:9 Unless the Lord of hosts Had left us
a few survivors, We would be like Sodom, We would be
like Gomorrah.
ISA 1:10 Hear the word of the Lord, You
rulers of Sodom; Give ear to the instruction of our
God, You people of Gomorrah.
ISA 1:11 "What are your multiplied sacrifices
to Me?" Says the Lord."I have had enough of burnt
offerings of rams, And the fat of fed cattle. And I
take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs, or
goats.
ISA 1:12 "When you come to appear before Me,
Who requires of you this trampling of My courts?
ISA 1:13 "Bring your worthless offerings no
longer, Incense is an abomination to Me. New moon
and sabbath, the calling of assemblies - - I cannot
endure iniquity and the solemn assembly.
ISA 1:14 "I hate your new moon festivals and
your appointed feasts, They have become a burden to
Me. I am weary of bearing them.
ISA 1:15 "So when you spread out your hands
in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you, Yes, even
though you multiply prayers, I will not listen. Your
hands are covered with blood.
ISA 1:16 "Wash yourselves, make yourselves
clean; Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight.
Cease to do evil,
ISA 1:17 Learn to do good; Seek justice,
Reprove the ruthless; Defend the orphan, Plead for
the widow.
ISA 1:18 "Come now, and let us reason
together," Says the Lord, "Though your sins are as
scarlet, They will be as #663300 as snow; Though
they are red like crimson, They will be like wool.
ISA 1:19 "If you consent and obey, You will
eat the best of the land;
ISA 1:20 "But if you refuse and rebel, You
will be devoured by the sword." Truly, the mouth of
the Lord has spoken.
ISA 1:21 How the faithful city has become a
harlot, She who was full of justice! Righteousness
once lodged in her, But now murderers.
ISA 1:22 Your silver has become dross, Your
drink diluted with water.
ISA 1:23 Your rulers are rebels, And
companions of thieves; Everyone loves a bribe, And
chases after rewards. They do not defend the orphan,
Nor does the widow's plea come before them.
ISA 1:24 Therefore the Lord God of hosts, The
Mighty One of Israel declares, "Ah, I will be
relieved of My adversaries, And avenge Myself on My
foes.
ISA 1:25 "I will also turn My hand against
you, And will smelt away your dross as with lye, And
will remove all your alloy.
ISA 1:26 "Then I will restore your judges as
at the first, And your counselors as at the
beginning; After that you will be called the city of
righteousness, A faithful city."
ISA 1:27 Zion will be redeemed with justice,
And her repentant ones with righteousness.
ISA 1:28 But transgressors and sinners will
be crushed together, And those who forsake the Lord
shall come to an end.
ISA 1:29 Surely, you will be ashamed of the
oaks which you have desired, And you will be
embarrassed at the gardens which you have chosen.
ISA 1:30 For you will be like an oak whose
leaf fades away, Or as a garden that has no water.
ISA 1:31 And the strong man will become
tinder, His work also a spark. Thus they shall both
burn together, And there will be none to quench
them.
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ISA 2:1
The word which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning
Judah and Jerusalem.
ISA 2:2 Now it will come about that In the
last days, The mountain of the house of the Lord
Will be established as the chief of the mountains,
And will be raised above the hills; And all the
nations will stream to it.
ISA 2:3 And many peoples will come and say,
"Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, To
the house of the God of Jacob; That He may teach us
concerning His ways, And that we may walk in His
paths." For the law will go forth from Zion, And the
word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
ISA 2:4 And He will judge between the
nations, And will render decisions for many peoples;
And they will hammer their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not
lift up sword against nation, And never again will
they learn war.
ISA 2:5 Come, house of Jacob, and let us walk
in the light of the Lord.
ISA 2:6 For Thou hast abandoned Thy people,
the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with
influences from the east, And they are soothsayers
like the Philistines, And they strike bargains with
the children of foreigners.
ISA 2:7 Their land has also been filled with
silver and gold, And there is no end to their
treasures; Their land has also been filled with
horses, And there is no end to their chariots.
ISA 2:8 Their land has also been filled with
idols; They worship the work of their hands, That
which their fingers have made.
ISA 2:9 So the common man has been humbled,
And the man of importance has been abased, But do
not forgive them.
ISA 2:10 Enter the rock and hide in the dust
From the terror of the Lord and from the splendor of
His majesty.
ISA 2:11 The proud look of man will be
abased, And the loftiness of man will be humbled,
And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
ISA 2:12 For the Lord of hosts will have a
day of reckoning Against everyone who is proud and
lofty, And against everyone who is lifted up, That
he may be abased.
ISA 2:13 And it will be against all the
cedars of Lebanon that are lofty and lifted up,
Against all the oaks of Bashan,
ISA 2:14 Against all the lofty mountains,
Against all the hills that are lifted up,
ISA 2:15 Against every high tower, Against
every fortified wall,
ISA 2:16 Against all the ships of Tarshish,
And against all the beautiful craft.
ISA 2:17 And the pride of man will be
humbled, And the loftiness of men will be abased,
And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
ISA 2:18 But the idols will completely
vanish.
ISA 2:19 And men will go into caves of the
rocks, And into holes of the ground Before the
terror of the Lord, And before the splendor of His
majesty, When He arises to make the earth tremble.
ISA 2:20 In that day men will cast away to
the moles and the bats Their idols of silver and
their idols of gold, Which they made for themselves
to worship,
ISA 2:21 In order to go into the caverns of
the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs, Before the
terror of the Lord and the splendor of His majesty,
When He arises to make the earth tremble.
ISA 2:22 Stop regarding man, whose breath of
life is in his nostrils; For why should he be
esteemed?
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ISA 3:1
For behold, the Lord God of hosts is going to remove
from Jerusalem and Judah Both supply and support,
the whole supply of bread, And the whole supply of
water;
ISA 3:2 The mighty man and the warrior, The
judge and the prophet, The diviner and the elder,
ISA 3:3 The captain of fifty and the
honorable man, The counselor and the expert artisan,
And the skillful enchanter.
ISA 3:4 And I will make mere lads their
princes And capricious children will rule over them,
ISA 3:5 And the people will be oppressed,
Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor;
The youth will storm against the elder, And the
inferior against the honorable.
ISA 3:6 When a man lays hold of his brother
in his father's house, saying, "You have a cloak,
you shall be our ruler, And these ruins will be
under your charge,"
ISA 3:7 On that day will he protest, saying,
"I will not be your healer, For in my house there is
neither bread nor cloak; You should not appoint me
ruler of the people."
ISA 3:8 For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah
has fallen, Because their speech and their actions
are against the Lord, To rebel against His glorious
presence.
ISA 3:9 The expression of their faces bears
witness against them. And they display their sin
like Sodom; They do not even conceal it. Woe to
them! For they have brought evil on themselves.
ISA 3:10 Say to the righteous that it will go
well with them, For they will eat the fruit of their
actions.
ISA 3:11 Woe to the wicked! It will go badly
with him, For what he deserves will be done to him.
ISA 3:12 O My people! Their oppressors are
children, And women rule over them. O My people!
Those who guide you lead you astray, And confuse the
direction of your paths.
ISA 3:13 The Lord arises to contend, And
stands to judge the people.
ISA 3:14 The Lord enters into judgment with
the elders and princes of His people, "It is you who
have devoured the vineyard; The plunder of the poor
is in your houses.
ISA 3:15 "What do you mean by crushing My
people, And grinding the face of the poor?" Declares
the Lord God of hosts.
ISA 3:16 Moreover, the Lord said, "Because
the daughters of Zion are proud, And walk with heads
held high and seductive eyes, And go along with
mincing steps, And tinkle the bangles on their feet,
ISA 3:17 Therefore the Lord will afflict the
scalp of the daughters of Zion with scabs, And the
Lord will make their foreheads bare."
ISA 3:18 In that day the Lord will take away
the beauty of their anklets, headbands, crescent
ornaments,
ISA 3:19 dangling earrings, bracelets, veils,
ISA 3:20 headdresses, ankle chains, sashes,
perfume boxes, amulets,
ISA 3:21 finger rings, nose rings,
ISA 3:22 festal robes, outer tunics, cloaks,
money purses,
ISA 3:23 hand mirrors, undergarments,
turbans, and veils.
ISA 3:24 Now it will come about that instead
of sweet perfume there will be putrefaction; Instead
of a belt, a rope; Instead of well-set hair, a
plucked-out scalp; Instead of fine clothes, a
donning of sackcloth; And branding instead of
beauty.
ISA 3:25 Your men will fall by the sword, And
your mighty ones in battle.
ISA 3:26 And her gates will lament and mourn;
And deserted she will sit on the ground.
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ISA 4:1
For seven women will take hold of one man in 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 reproach!"
ISA 4:2 In that day the Branch of the Lord
will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the
earth will be the pride and the adornment of the
survivors of Israel.
ISA 4:3 And it will come about that he who is
left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called
holy - - everyone who is recorded for life in
Jerusalem.
ISA 4:4 When the Lord has washed away the
filth of the daughters of Zion, and purged the
bloodshed of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit
of judgment and the spirit of burning,
ISA 4:5 then the Lord will create over the
whole area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a
cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a
flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will
be a canopy.
ISA 4:6 And there will be a shelter to give
shade from the heat by day, and refuge and
protection from the storm and the rain.
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ISA 5:1
Let me sing now for my well-beloved A song of my
beloved concerning His vineyard. My well-beloved had
a vineyard on a fertile hill.
ISA 5:2 And He dug it all around, removed its
stones, And planted it with the choicest vine. And
He built a tower in the middle of it, And hewed out
a wine vat in it; Then He expected it to produce
good grapes, But it produced only worthless ones.
ISA 5:3 "And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem
and men of Judah, Judge between Me and My vineyard.
ISA 5:4 "What more was there to do for My
vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I
expected it to produce good grapes did it produce
worthless ones?
ISA 5:5 "So now let Me tell you what I am
going to do to My vineyard: I will remove its hedge
and it will be consumed; I will break down its wall
and it will become trampled ground.
ISA 5:6 "And I will lay it waste; It will not
be pruned or hoed, But briars and thorns will come
up. I will also charge the clouds to rain no rain on
it."
ISA 5:7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah His
delightful plant. Thus He looked for justice, but
behold, bloodshed; For righteousness, but behold, a
cry of distress.
ISA 5:8 Woe to those who add house to house
and join field to field, Until there is no more
room, So that you have to live alone in the midst of
the land!
ISA 5:9 In my ears the Lord of hosts has
sworn, "Surely, many houses shall become desolate,
Even great and fine ones, without occupants.
ISA 5:10 "For ten acres of vineyard will
yield only one bath of wine, And a homer of seed
will yield but an ephah of grain."
ISA 5:11 Woe to those who rise early in the
morning that they may pursue strong drink; Who stay
up late in the evening that wine may inflame them!
ISA 5:12 And their banquets are accompanied
by lyre and harp, by tambourine and flute, and by
wine; But they do not pay attention to the deeds of
the Lord, Nor do they consider the work of His
hands.
ISA 5:13 Therefore My people go into exile
for their lack of knowledge; And their honorable men
are famished, And their multitude is parched with
thirst.
ISA 5:14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its
throat and opened its mouth without measure; And
Jerusalem's splendor, her multitude, her din of
revelry, and the jubilant within her, descend into
it.
ISA 5:15 So the common man will be humbled,
and the man of importance abased, The eyes of the
proud also will be abased.
ISA 5:16 But the Lord of hosts will be
exalted in judgment, And the holy God will show
Himself holy in righteousness.
ISA 5:17 Then the lambs will graze as in
their pasture, And strangers will eat in the waste
places of the wealthy.
ISA 5:18 Woe to those who drag iniquity with
the cords of falsehood, And sin as if with cart
ropes;
ISA 5:19 Who say, "Let Him make speed, let
Him hasten His work, that we may see it; And let the
purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near And come
to pass, that we may know it!"
ISA 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and
good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and
light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet,
and sweet for bitter!
ISA 5:21 Woe to those who are wise in their
own eyes, And clever in their own sight!
ISA 5:22 Woe to those who are heroes in
drinking wine, And valiant men in mixing strong
drink;
ISA 5:23 Who justify the wicked for a bribe,
And take away the rights of the ones who are in the
right!
ISA 5:24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire
consumes stubble, And dry grass collapses into the
flame, So their root will become like rot and their
blossom blow away as dust; For they have rejected
the law of the Lord of hosts, And despised the word
of the Holy One of Israel.
ISA 5:25 On this account the anger of the
Lord has burned against His people, And He has
stretched out His hand against them and struck them
down, And the mountains quaked; and their corpses
lay like refuse in the middle of the streets. For
all this His anger is not spent, But His hand is
still stretched out.
ISA 5:26 He will also lift up a standard to
the distant nation, And will whistle for it from the
ends of the earth; And behold, it will come with
speed swiftly.
ISA 5:27 No one in it is weary or stumbles,
None slumbers or sleeps; Nor is the belt at its
waist undone, Nor its sandal strap broken.
ISA 5:28 Its arrows are sharp, and all its
bows are bent; The hoofs of its horses seem like
flint, and its chariot wheels like a whirlwind.
ISA 5:29 Its roaring is like a lioness, and
it roars like young lions; It growls as it seizes
the prey, And carries it off with no one to deliver
it.
ISA 5:30 And it shall growl over it in that
day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the
land, behold, there is darkness and distress; Even
the light is darkened by its clouds.
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ISA 6:1
In the year of King Uzziah's death, I saw the Lord
sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the
train of His robe filling the temple.
ISA 6:2 Seraphim stood above Him, each having
six wings; with two he covered his face, and with
two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
ISA 6:3 And one called out to another and
said, "Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts, The
whole earth is full of His glory."
ISA 6:4 And the foundations of the thresholds
trembled at the voice of him who called out, while
the temple was filling with smoke.
ISA 6:5 Then I said, "Woe is me, for I am
ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I
live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes
have seen the King, the Lord of hosts."
ISA 6:6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me,
with a burning coal in his hand which he had taken
from the altar with tongs.
ISA 6:7 And he touched my mouth with it and
said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; and your
iniquity is taken away, and your sin is forgiven."
ISA 6:8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord,
saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?"
Then I said, "Here am I. Send me!"
ISA 6:9 And He said, "Go, and tell this
people: 'Keep on listening, but do not perceive;
Keep on looking, but do not understand.'
ISA 6:10 "Render the hearts of this people
insensitive, Their ears dull, And their eyes dim,
Lest they see with their eyes, Hear with their ears,
Understand with their hearts, And return and be
healed."
ISA 6:11 Then I said, "Lord, how long?" And
He answered, "Until cities are devastated and
without inhabitant, Houses are without people, And
the land is utterly desolate,
ISA 6:12 "The Lord has removed men far away,
And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the
land.
ISA 6:13 "Yet there will be a tenth portion
in it, And it will again be subject to burning, Like
a terebinth or an oak Whose stump remains when it is
felled. The holy seed is its stump."
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ISA 7:1
Now it came about in the days of Ahaz, the son of
Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin
the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king
of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to wage war against
it, but could not conquer it.
ISA 7:2 When it was reported to the house of
David, saying, "The Arameans have camped in
Ephraim," his heart and the hearts of his people
shook as the trees of the forest shake with the
wind.
ISA 7:3 Then the Lord said to Isaiah, "Go out
now to meet Ahaz, you and your son Shear-jashub, at
the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the
highway to the fuller's field,
ISA 7:4 and say to him,' Take care, and be
calm, have no fear and do not be fainthearted
because of these two stubs of smoldering firebrands,
on account of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram,
and the son of Remaliah.
ISA 7:5 'Because Aram, with Ephraim and the
son of Remaliah, has planned evil against you,
saying,
ISA 7:6 "Let us go up against Judah and
terrorize it, and make for ourselves a breach in its
walls, and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the
midst of it,"
ISA 7:7 thus says the Lord God, "It shall not
stand nor shall it come to pass.
ISA 7:8 "For the head of Aram is Damascus and
the head of Damascus is Rezin (now within another 65
years Ephraim will be shattered, so that it is no
longer a people),
ISA 7:9 and the head of Ephraim is Samaria
and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If
you will not believe, you surely shall not last."'"
ISA 7:10 Then the Lord spoke again to Ahaz,
saying,
ISA 7:11 "Ask a sign for yourself from the
Lord your God; make it deep as Sheol or high as
heaven."
ISA 7:12 But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, nor
will I test the Lord!"
ISA 7:13 Then he said, "Listen now, O house
of David! Is it too slight a thing for you to try
the patience of men, that you will try the patience
of my God as well?
ISA 7:14 "Therefore the Lord Himself will
give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child
and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.
ISA 7:15 "He will eat curds and honey at the
time He knows enough to refuse evil and choose good.
ISA 7:16 "For before the boy will know enough
to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two
kings you dread will be forsaken.
ISA 7:17 "The Lord will bring on you, on your
people, and on your father's house such days as have
never come since the day that Ephraim separated from
Judah, the king of Assyria."
ISA 7:18 And it will come about in that day,
that the Lord will whistle for the fly that is in
the remotest part of the rivers of Egypt, and for
the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
ISA 7:19 And they will all come and settle on
the steep ravines, on the ledges of the cliffs, on
all the thorn bushes, and on all the watering
places.
ISA 7:20 In that day the Lord will shave with
a razor, hired from regions beyond the Euphrates
(that is, with the king of Assyria), the head and
the hair of the legs; and it will also remove the
beard.
ISA 7:21 Now it will come about in that day
that a man may keep alive a heifer and a pair of
sheep;
ISA 7:22 and it will happen that because of
the abundance of the milk produced he will eat
curds, for everyone that is left within the land
will eat curds and honey.
ISA 7:23 And it will come about in that day,
that every place where there used to be a thousand
vines, valued at a thousand shekels of silver, will
become briars and thorns.
ISA 7:24 People will come there with bows and
arrows because all the land will be briars and
thorns.
ISA 7:25 And as for all the hills which used
to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not go there
for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become
a place for pasturing oxen and for sheep to trample.
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ISA 8:1
Then the Lord said to me, "Take for yourself a large
tablet and write on it in ordinary letters: Swift is
the booty, speedy is the prey.
ISA 8:2 "And I will take to Myself faithful
witnesses for testimony, Uriah the priest and
Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah."
ISA 8:3 So I approached the prophetess, and
she conceived and gave birth to a son. Then the Lord
said to me, "Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz;
ISA 8:4 for before the boy knows how to cry
out' My father' or' My mother,' the wealth of
Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried
away before the king of Assyria."
ISA 8:5 And again the Lord spoke to me
further, saying,
ISA 8:6 "Inasmuch as these people have
rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah, And
rejoice in Rezin and the son of Remaliah;
ISA 8:7 "Now therefore, behold, the Lord is
about to bring on them the strong and abundant
waters of the Euphrates, Even the king of Assyria
and all his glory; And it will rise up over all its
channels and go over all its banks.
ISA 8:8 "Then it will sweep on into Judah, it
will overflow and pass through, It will reach even
to the neck; And the spread of its wings will fill
the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
ISA 8:9 "Be broken, O peoples, and be
shattered; And give ear, all remote places of the
earth. Gird yourselves, yet be shattered; Gird
yourselves, yet be shattered.
ISA 8:10 "Devise a plan but it will be
thwarted; State a proposal, but it will not stand,
For God is with us."
ISA 8:11 For thus the Lord spoke to me with
mighty power and instructed me not to walk in the
way of this people, saying,
ISA 8:12 "You are not to say, 'It is a
conspiracy!' In regard to all that this people call
a conspiracy, And you are not to fear what they fear
or be in dread of it.
ISA 8:13 "It is the Lord of hosts whom you
should regard as holy. And He shall be your fear,
And He shall be your dread.
ISA 8:14 "Then He shall become a sanctuary;
But to both the houses of Israel, a stone to strike
and a rock to stumble over, And a snare and a trap
for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
ISA 8:15 "And many will stumble over them,
Then they will fall and be broken; They will even be
snared and caught."
ISA 8:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law
among my disciples.
ISA 8:17 And I will wait for the Lord who is
hiding His face from the house of Jacob; I will even
look eagerly for Him.
ISA 8:18 Behold, I and the children whom the
Lord has given me are for signs and wonders in
Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount
Zion.
ISA 8:19 And when they say to you, "Consult
the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and
mutter," should not a people consult their God?
Should they consult the dead on behalf of the
living?
ISA 8:20 To the law and to the testimony! If
they do not speak according to this word, it is
because they have no dawn.
ISA 8:21 And they will pass through the land
hard-pressed and famished, and it will turn out that
when they are hungry, they will be enraged and curse
their king and their God as they face upward.
ISA 8:22 Then they will look to the earth,
and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of
anguish; and they will be driven away into darkness.
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ISA 9:1
But there will be no more gloom for her who was in
anguish; in earlier times He treated the land of
Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with contempt, but
later on He shall make it glorious, by the way of
the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the
Gentiles.
ISA 9:2 The people who walk in darkness Will
see a great light; Those who live in a dark land,
The light will shine on them.
ISA 9:3 Thou shalt multiply the nation, Thou
shalt increase their gladness; They will be glad in
Thy presence As with the gladness of harvest, As men
rejoice when they divide the spoil.
ISA 9:4 For Thou shalt break the yoke of
their burden and the staff on their shoulders, The
rod of their oppressor, as at the battle of Midian.
ISA 9:5 For every boot of the booted warrior
in the battle tumult, And cloak rolled in blood,
will be for burning, fuel for the fire.
ISA 9:6 For a child will be born to us, a son
will be given to us; And the government will rest on
His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful
Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of
Peace.
ISA 9:7 There will be no end to the increase
of His government or of peace, On the throne of
David and over his kingdom, To establish it and to
uphold it with justice and righteousness From then
on and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts
will accomplish this.
ISA 9:8 The Lord sends a message against
Jacob, And it falls on Israel.
ISA 9:9 And all the people know it, That is,
Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, Asserting in
pride and in arrogance of heart:
ISA 9:10 "The bricks have fallen down, But we
will rebuild with smooth stones; The sycamores have
been cut down, But we will replace them with
cedars."
ISA 9:11 Therefore the Lord raises against
them adversaries from Rezin, And spurs their enemies
on,
ISA 9:12 The Arameans on the east and the
Philistines on the west; And they devour Israel with
gaping jaws. In spite of all this His anger does not
turn away, And His hand is still stretched out.
ISA 9:13 Yet the people do not turn back to
Him who struck them, Nor do they seek the Lord of
hosts.
ISA 9:14 So the Lord cuts off head and tail
from Israel, Both palm branch and bulrush in a
single day.
ISA 9:15 The head is the elder and honorable
man, And the prophet who teaches falsehood is the
tail.
ISA 9:16 For those who guide this people are
leading them astray; And those who are guided by
them are brought to confusion.
ISA 9:17 Therefore the Lord does not take
pleasure in their young men, Nor does He have pity
on their orphans or their widows; For every one of
them is godless and an evildoer, And every mouth is
speaking foolishness. In spite of all this His anger
does not turn away, And His hand is still stretched
out.
ISA 9:18 For wickedness burns like a fire; It
consumes briars and thorns; It even sets the
thickets of the forest aflame, And they roll upward
in a column of smoke.
ISA 9:19 By the fury of the Lord of hosts the
land is burned up, And the people are like fuel for
the fire; No man spares his brother.
ISA 9:20 And they slice off what is on the
right hand but still are hungry, And they eat what
is on the left hand but they are not satisfied; Each
of them eats the flesh of his own arm.
ISA 9:21 Manasseh devours Ephraim, and
Ephraim Manasseh, And together they are against
Judah. In spite of all this His anger does not turn
away, And His hand is still stretched out.
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ISA 10:1
Woe to those who enact evil statutes, And to those
who constantly record unjust decisions,
ISA 10:2 So as to deprive the needy of
justice, And rob the poor of My people of their
rights, In order that widows may be their spoil, And
that they may plunder the orphans.
ISA 10:3 Now what will you do in the day of
punishment, And in the devastation which will come
from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where
will you leave your wealth?
ISA 10:4 Nothing remains but to crouch among
the captives Or fall among the slain. In spite of
all this His anger does not turn away, And His hand
is still stretched out.
ISA 10:5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger
And the staff in whose hands is My indignation,
ISA 10:6 I send it against a godless nation
And commission it against the people of My fury To
capture booty and to seize plunder, And to trample
them down like mud in the streets.
ISA 10:7 Yet it does not so intend Nor does
it plan so in its heart, But rather it is its
purpose to destroy, And to cut off many nations.
ISA 10:8 For it says, "Are not my princes all
kings?
ISA 10:9 "Is not Calno like Carchemish, Or
Hamath like Arpad, Or Samaria like Damascus?
ISA 10:10 "As my hand has reached to the
kingdoms of the idols, Whose graven images were
greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
ISA 10:11 Shall I not do to Jerusalem and her
images Just as I have done to Samaria and her
idols?"
ISA 10:12 So it will be that when the Lord
has completed all His work on Mount Zion and on
Jerusalem, He will say, "I will punish the fruit of
the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the
pomp of his haughtiness."
ISA 10:13 For he has said, "By the power of
my hand and by my wisdom I did this, For I have
understanding; And I removed the boundaries of the
peoples, And plundered their treasures, And like a
mighty man I brought down their inhabitants,
ISA 10:14 And my hand reached to the riches
of the peoples like a nest, And as one gathers
abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth; And there
was not one that flapped its wing or opened its beak
or chirped."
ISA 10:15 Is the axe to boast itself over the
one who chops with it? Is the saw to exalt itself
over the one who wields it? That would be like a
club wielding those who lift it, Or like a rod
lifting him who is not wood.
ISA 10:16 Therefore the Lord, the God of
hosts, will send a wasting disease among his stout
warriors; And under his glory a fire will be kindled
like a burning flame.
ISA 10:17 And the light of Israel will become
a fire and his Holy One a flame, And it will burn
and devour his thorns and his briars in a single
day.
ISA 10:18 And He will destroy the glory of
his forest and of his fruitful garden, both soul and
body; And it will be as when a sick man wastes away.
ISA 10:19 And the rest of the trees of his
forest will be so small in number That a child could
write them down.
ISA 10:20 Now it will come about in that day
that the remnant of Israel, and those of the house
of Jacob who have escaped, will never again rely on
the one who struck them, but will truly rely on the
Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
ISA 10:21 A remnant will return, the remnant
of Jacob, to the mighty God.
ISA 10:22 For though your people, O Israel,
may be like the sand of the sea, Only a remnant
within them will return; A destruction is
determined, overflowing with righteousness.
ISA 10:23 For a complete destruction, one
that is decreed, the Lord God of hosts will execute
in the midst of the whole land.
ISA 10:24 Therefore thus says the Lord God of
hosts, "O My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear
the Assyrian who strikes you with the rod and lifts
up his staff against you, the way Egypt did.
ISA 10:25 "For in a very little while My
indignation against you will be spent, and My anger
will be directed to their destruction."
ISA 10:26 And the Lord of hosts will arouse a
scourge against him like the slaughter of Midian at
the rock of Oreb; and His staff will be over the
sea, and He will lift it up the way He did in Egypt.
ISA 10:27 So it will be in that day, that his
burden will be removed from your shoulders and his
yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be broken
because of fatness.
ISA 10:28 He has come against Aiath, He has
passed through Migron; At Michmash he deposited his
baggage.
ISA 10:29 They have gone through the pass,
saying, "Geba will be our lodging place." Ramah is
terrified, and Gibeah of Saul has fled away.
ISA 10:30 Cry aloud with your voice, O
daughter of Gallim! Pay attention, Laishah and
wretched Anathoth!
ISA 10:31 Madmenah has fled. The inhabitants
of Gebim have sought refuge.
ISA 10:32 Yet today he will halt at Nob; He
shakes his fist at the mountain of the daughter of
Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
ISA 10:33 Behold, the Lord, the God of hosts,
will lop off the boughs with a terrible crash; Those
also who are tall in stature will be cut down, And
those who are lofty will be abased.
ISA 10:34 And He will cut down the thickets
of the forest with an iron axe, And Lebanon will
fall by the Mighty One.
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ISA 11:1
Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, And
a branch from his roots will bear fruit.
ISA 11:2 And the Spirit of the Lord will rest
on Him, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The
spirit of counsel and strength, The spirit of
knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
ISA 11:3 And He will delight in the fear of
the Lord, And He will not judge by what His eyes
see, Nor make a decision by what His ears hear;
ISA 11:4 But with righteousness He will judge
the poor, And decide with fairness for the afflicted
of the earth; And He will strike the earth with the
rod of His mouth, And with the breath of His lips He
will slay the wicked.
ISA 11:5 Also righteousness will be the belt
about His loins, And faithfulness the belt about His
waist.
ISA 11:6 And the wolf will dwell with the
lamb, And the leopard will lie down with the kid,
And the calf and the young lion and the fatling
together; And a little boy will lead them.
ISA 11:7 Also the cow and the bear will
graze; Their young will lie down together; And the
lion will eat straw like the ox.
ISA 11:8 And the nursing child will play by
the hole of the cobra, And the weaned child will put
his hand on the viper's den.
ISA 11:9 They will not hurt or destroy in all
My holy mountain, For the earth will be full of the
knowledge of the Lord As the waters cover the sea.
ISA 11:10 Then it will come about in that day
That the nations will resort to the root of Jesse,
Who will stand as a signal for the peoples; And His
resting place will be glorious.
ISA 11:11 Then it will happen on that day
that the Lord Will again recover the second time
with His hand The remnant of His people, who will
remain, From Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam,
Shinar, Hamath, And from the islands of the sea.
ISA 11:12 And He will lift up a standard for
the nations, And will assemble the banished ones of
Israel, And will gather the dispersed of Judah From
the four corners of the earth.
ISA 11:13 Then the jealousy of Ephraim will
depart, And those who harass Judah will be cut off;
Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah, And Judah will
not harass Ephraim.
ISA 11:14 And they will swoop down on the
slopes of the Philistines on the west; Together they
will plunder the sons of the east; They will possess
Edom and Moab; And the sons of Ammon will be subject
to them.
ISA 11:15 And the Lord will utterly destroy
The tongue of the Sea of Egypt; And He will wave His
hand over the River With His scorching wind; And He
will strike it into seven streams, And make men walk
over dry-shod.
ISA 11:16 And there will be a highway from
Assyria For the remnant of His people who will be
left, Just as there was for Israel In the day that
they came up out of the land of Egypt.
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ISA 12:1
Then you will say on that day, "I will give thanks
to Thee, O Lord; For although Thou wast angry with
me, Thine anger is turned away, And Thou dost
comfort me.
ISA 12:2 "Behold, God is my salvation, I will
trust and not be afraid; For the Lord God is my
strength and song, And He has become my salvation."
ISA 12:3 Therefore you will joyously draw
water From the springs of salvation.
ISA 12:4 And in that day you will say, "Give
thanks to the Lord, call on His name. Make known His
deeds among the peoples; Make them remember that His
name is exalted."
ISA 12:5 Praise the Lord in song, for He has
done excellent things; Let this be known throughout
the earth.
ISA 12:6 Cry aloud and shout for joy, O
inhabitant of Zion, For great in your midst is the
Holy One of Israel.
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ISA 13:1
The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son
of Amoz saw.
ISA 13:2 Lift up a standard on the bare hill,
Raise your voice to them, Wave the hand that they
may enter the doors of the nobles.
ISA 13:3 I have commanded My consecrated
ones, I have even called My mighty warriors, My
proudly exulting ones, To execute My anger.
ISA 13:4 A sound of tumult on the mountains,
Like that of many people! A sound of the uproar of
kingdoms, Of nations gathered together! The Lord of
hosts is mustering the army for battle.
ISA 13:5 They are coming from a far country
From the farthest horizons, The Lord and His
instruments of indignation, To destroy the whole
land.
ISA 13:6 Wail, for the day of the Lord is
near! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
ISA 13:7 Therefore all hands will fall limp,
And every man's heart will melt.
ISA 13:8 And they will be terrified, Pains
and anguish will take hold of them; They will writhe
like a woman in labor, They will look at one another
in astonishment, Their faces aflame.
ISA 13:9 Behold, the day of the Lord is
coming, Cruel, with fury and burning anger, To make
the land a desolation; And He will exterminate its
sinners from it.
ISA 13:10 For the stars of heaven and their
constellations Will not flash forth their light; The
sun will be dark when it rises, And the moon will
not shed its light.
ISA 13:11 Thus I will punish the world for
its evil, And the wicked for their iniquity; I will
also put an end to the arrogance of the proud, And
abase the haughtiness of the ruthless.
ISA 13:12 I will make mortal man scarcer than
pure gold, And mankind than the gold of Ophir.
ISA 13:13 Therefore I shall make the heavens
tremble, And the earth will be shaken from its place
At the fury of the Lord of hosts In the day of His
burning anger.
ISA 13:14 And it will be that like a hunted
gazelle, Or like sheep with none to gather them,
They will each turn to his own people, And each one
flee to his own land.
ISA 13:15 Anyone who is found will be thrust
through, And anyone who is captured will fall by the
sword.
ISA 13:16 Their little ones also will be
dashed to pieces Before their eyes; Their houses
will be plundered And their wives ravished.
ISA 13:17 Behold, I am going to stir up the
Medes against them, Who will not value silver or
take pleasure in gold,
ISA 13:18 And their bows will mow down the
young men, They will not even have compassion on the
fruit of the womb, Nor will their eye pity children.
ISA 13:19 And Babylon, the beauty of
kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans' pride, Will be
as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
ISA 13:20 It will never be inhabited or lived
in from generation to generation; Nor will the Arab
pitch his tent there, Nor will shepherds make their
flocks lie down there.
ISA 13:21 But desert creatures will lie down
there, And their houses will be full of owls,
Ostriches also will live there, and shaggy goats
will frolic there.
ISA 13:22 And hyenas will howl in their
fortified towers And jackals in their luxurious
palaces. Her fateful time also will soon come And
her days will not be prolonged.
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ISA 14:1
When the Lord will have compassion on Jacob, and
again choose Israel, and settle them in their own
land, then strangers will join them and attach
themselves to the house of Jacob.
ISA 14:2 And the peoples will take them along
and bring them to their place, and the house of
Israel will possess them as an inheritance in the
land of the Lord as male servants and female
servants; and they will take their captors captive,
and will rule over their oppressors.
ISA 14:3 And it will be in the day when the
Lord gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and
harsh service in which you have been enslaved,
ISA 14:4 that you will take up this taunt
against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the
oppressor has ceased, And how fury has ceased!
ISA 14:5 "The Lord has broken the staff of
the wicked, The scepter of rulers
ISA 14:6 Which used to strike the peoples in
fury with unceasing strokes, Which subdued the
nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.
ISA 14:7 "The whole earth is at rest and is
quiet; They break forth into shouts of joy.
ISA 14:8 "Even the cypress trees rejoice over
you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, 'Since you
were laid low, no tree cutter comes up against us.'
ISA 14:9 "Sheol from beneath is excited over
you to meet you when you come; It arouses for you
the spirits of the dead, all the leaders of the
earth; It raises all the kings of the nations from
their thrones.
ISA 14:10 "They will all respond and say to
you, 'Even you have been made weak as we, You have
become like us.
ISA 14:11 'Your pomp and the music of your
harps Have been brought down to Sheol; Maggots are
spread out as your bed beneath you, And worms are
your covering.'
ISA 14:12 "How you have fallen from heaven, O
star of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been
cut down to the earth, You who have weakened the
nations!
ISA 14:13 "But you said in your heart, 'I
will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above
the stars of God, And I will sit on the mount of
assembly In the recesses of the north.
ISA 14:14 'I will ascend above the heights of
the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.'
ISA 14:15 "Nevertheless you will be thrust
down to Sheol, To the recesses of the pit.
ISA 14:16 "Those who see you will gaze at
you, They will ponder over you, saying, 'Is this the
man who made the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,
ISA 14:17 Who made the world like a
wilderness And overthrew its cities, Who did not
allow his prisoners to go home?'
ISA 14:18 "All the kings of the nations lie
in glory, Each in his own tomb.
ISA 14:19 "But you have been cast out of your
tomb Like a rejected branch, Clothed with the slain
who are pierced with a sword, Who go down to the
stones of the pit, Like a trampled corpse.
ISA 14:20 "You will not be united with them
in burial, Because you have ruined your country, You
have slain your people. May the offspring of
evildoers not be mentioned forever.
ISA 14:21 "Prepare for his sons a place of
slaughter Because of the iniquity of their fathers.
They must not arise and take possession of the earth
And fill the face of the world with cities."
ISA 14:22 "And I will rise up against them,"
declares the Lord of hosts, "and will cut off from
Babylon name and survivors, offspring and
posterity," declares the Lord.
ISA 14:23 "I will also make it a possession
for the hedgehog, and swamps of water, and I will
sweep it with the broom of destruction," declares
the Lord of hosts.
ISA 14:24 The Lord of hosts has sworn saying,
"Surely, just as I have intended so it has happened,
and just as I have planned so it will stand,
ISA 14:25 to break Assyria in My land, and I
will trample him on My mountains. Then his yoke will
be removed from them, and his burden removed from
their shoulder.
ISA 14:26 "This is the plan devised against
the whole earth; and this is the hand that is
stretched out against all the nations.
ISA 14:27 "For the Lord of hosts has planned,
and who can frustrate it? And as for His
stretched-out hand, who can turn it back?"
ISA 14:28 In the year that King Ahaz died
this oracle came:
ISA 14:29 "Do not rejoice, O Philistia, all
of you, Because the rod that struck you is broken;
For from the serpent's root a viper will come out,
And its fruit will be a flying serpent.
ISA 14:30 "And those who are most helpless
will eat, And the needy will lie down in security; I
will destroy your root with famine, And it will kill
off your survivors.
ISA 14:31 "Wail, O gate; cry, O city; Melt
away, O Philistia, all of you; For smoke comes from
the north, And there is no straggler in his ranks.
ISA 14:32 "How then will one answer the
messengers of the nation? That the Lord has founded
Zion, And the afflicted of His people will seek
refuge in it."
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ISA 15:1
The oracle concerning Moab. Surely in a night Ar of
Moab is devastated and ruined; Surely in a night Kir
of Moab is devastated and ruined.
ISA 15:2 They have gone up to the temple and
to Dibon, even to the high places to weep. Moab
wails over Nebo and Medeba; Everyone's head is bald
and every beard is cut off.
ISA 15:3 In their streets they have girded
themselves with sackcloth; On their housetops and in
their squares Everyone is wailing, dissolved in
tears.
ISA 15:4 Heshbon and Elealeh also cry out,
Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz; Therefore
the armed men of Moab cry aloud; His soul trembles
within him.
ISA 15:5 My heart cries out for Moab; His
fugitives are as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah,
For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping; Surely
on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress
over their ruin.
ISA 15:6 For the waters of Nimrim are
desolate. Surely the grass is withered, the tender
grass died out, There is no green thing.
ISA 15:7 Therefore the abundance which they
have acquired and stored up They carry off over the
brook of Arabim.
ISA 15:8 For the cry of distress has gone
around the territory of Moab, Its wail goes as far
as Eglaim and its wailing even to Beer-elim.
ISA 15:9 For the waters of Dimon are full of
blood; Surely I will bring added woes upon Dimon, A
lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant
of the land.
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ISA 16:1
Send the tribute lamb to the ruler of the land, From
Sela by way of the wilderness to the mountain of the
daughter of Zion.
ISA 16:2 Then, like fleeing birds or
scattered nestlings, The daughters of Moab will be
at the fords of the Arnon.
ISA 16:3 "Give us advice, make a decision;
Cast your shadow like night at high noon; Hide the
outcasts, do not betray the fugitive.
ISA 16:4 "Let the outcasts of Moab stay with
you; Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer."
For the extortioner has come to an end, destruction
has ceased, Oppressors have completely disappeared
from the land.
ISA 16:5 A throne will even be established in
lovingkindness, And a judge will sit on it in
faithfulness in the tent of David; Moreover, he will
seek justice And be prompt in righteousness.
ISA 16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab,
an excessive pride; Even of his arrogance, pride,
and fury; His idle boasts are false.
ISA 16:7 Therefore Moab shall wail; everyone
of Moab shall wail. You shall moan for the raisin
cakes of Kir-hareseth As those who are utterly
stricken.
ISA 16:8 For the fields of Heshbon have
withered, the vines of Sibmah as well; The lords of
the nations have trampled down its choice clusters
Which reached as far as Jazer and wandered to the
deserts; Its tendrils spread themselves out and
passed over the sea.
ISA 16:9 Therefore I will weep bitterly for
Jazer, for the vine of Sibmah; I will drench you
with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; For the
shouting over your summer fruits and your harvest
has fallen away.
ISA 16:10 And gladness and joy are taken away
from the fruitful field; In the vineyards also there
will be no cries of joy or jubilant shouting, No
treader treads out wine in the presses, For I have
made the shouting to cease.
ISA 16:11 Therefore my heart intones like a
harp for Moab, And my inward feelings for
Kir-hareseth.
ISA 16:12 So it will come about when Moab
presents himself, When he wearies himself upon his
high place, And comes to his sanctuary to pray, That
he will not prevail.
ISA 16:13 This is the word which the Lord
spoke earlier concerning Moab.
ISA 16:14 But now the Lord speaks, saying,
"Within three years, as a hired man would count
them, the glory of Moab will be degraded along with
all his great population, and his remnant will be
very small and impotent."
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ISA 17:1
The oracle concerning Damascus."Behold, Damascus is
about to be removed from being a city, And it will
become a fallen ruin.
ISA 17:2 "The cities of Aroer are forsaken;
They will be for flocks to lie down in, And there
will be no one to frighten them.
ISA 17:3 "The fortified city will disappear
from Ephraim, And sovereignty from Damascus And the
remnant of Aram; They will be like the glory of the
sons of Israel," Declares the Lord of hosts.
ISA 17:4 Now it will come about in that day
that the glory of Jacob will fade, And the fatness
of his flesh will become lean.
ISA 17:5 It will be even like the reaper
gathering the standing grain, As his arm harvests
the ears, Or it will be like one gleaning ears of
grain In the valley of Rephaim.
ISA 17:6 Yet gleanings will be left in it
like the shaking of an olive tree, Two or three
olives on the topmost bough, Four or five on the
branches of a fruitful tree, Declares the Lord, the
God of Israel.
ISA 17:7 In that day man will have regard for
his Maker, And his eyes will look to the Holy One of
Israel.
ISA 17:8 And he will not have regard for the
altars, the work of his hands, Nor will he look to
that which his fingers have made, Even the Asherim
and incense stands.
ISA 17:9 In that day their strong cities will
be like forsaken places in the forest, Or like
branches which they abandoned before the sons of
Israel; And the land will be a desolation.
ISA 17:10 For you have forgotten the God of
your salvation And have not remembered the rock of
your refuge. Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine slips of a strange god.
ISA 17:11 In the day that you plant it you
carefully fence it in, And in the morning you bring
your seed to blossom; But the harvest will be a heap
In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.
ISA 17:12 Alas, the uproar of many peoples
Who roar like the roaring of the seas, And the
rumbling of nations Who rush on like the rumbling of
mighty waters!
ISA 17:13 The nations rumble on like the
rumbling of many waters, But He will rebuke them and
they will flee far away, And be chased like chaff in
the mountains before the wind, Or like whirling dust
before a gale.
ISA 17:14 At evening time, behold, there is
terror! Before morning they are no more. Such will
be the portion of those who plunder us, And the lot
of those who pillage us.
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ISA 18:1
Alas, oh land of whirring wings Which lies beyond
the rivers of Cush,
ISA 18:2 Which sends envoys by the sea, Even
in papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters. Go,
swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, To a
people feared far and wide, A powerful and
oppressive nation Whose land the rivers divide.
ISA 18:3 All you inhabitants of the world and
dwellers on earth, As soon as a standard is raised
on the mountains, you will see it, And as soon as
the trumpet is blown, you will hear it.
ISA 18:4 For thus the Lord has told me, "I
will look from My dwelling place quietly Like
dazzling heat in the sunshine, Like a cloud of dew
in the heat of harvest."
ISA 18:5 For before the harvest, as soon as
the bud blossoms And the flower becomes a ripening
grape, Then He will cut off the sprigs with pruning
knives And remove and cut away the spreading
branches.
ISA 18:6 They will be left together for
mountain birds of prey, And for the beasts of the
earth; And the birds of prey will spend the summer
feeding on them, And all the beasts of the earth
will spend harvest time on them.
ISA 18:7 At that time a gift of homage will
be brought to the Lord of hosts From a people tall
and smooth, Even from a people feared far and wide,
A powerful and oppressive nation, Whose land the
rivers divide - - To the place of the name of the
Lord of hosts, even Mount Zion.
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ISA 19:1
The oracle concerning Egypt. Behold, the Lord is
riding on a swift cloud, and is about to come to
Egypt; The idols of Egypt will tremble at His
presence, And the heart of the Egyptians will melt
within them.
ISA 19:2 "So I will incite Egyptians against
Egyptians; And they will each fight against his
brother, and each against his neighbor, City against
city, and kingdom against kingdom.
ISA 19:3 "Then the spirit of the Egyptians
will be demoralized within them; And I will confound
their strategy, So that they will resort to idols
and ghosts of the dead, And to mediums and
spiritists.
ISA 19:4 "Moreover, I will deliver the
Egyptians into the hand of a cruel master, And a
mighty king will rule over them," declares the Lord
God of hosts.
ISA 19:5 And the waters from the sea will dry
up, And the river will be parched and dry.
ISA 19:6 And the canals will emit a stench,
The streams of Egypt will thin out and dry up; The
reeds and rushes will rot away.
ISA 19:7 The bulrushes by the Nile, by the
edge of the Nile And all the sown fields by the Nile
Will become dry, be driven away, and be no more.
ISA 19:8 And the fishermen will lament, And
all those who cast a line into the Nile will mourn,
And those who spread nets on the waters will pine
away.
ISA 19:9 Moreover, the manufacturers of linen
made from combed flax And the weavers of #663300
cloth will be utterly dejected.
ISA 19:10 And the pillars of Egypt will be
crushed; All the hired laborers will be grieved in
soul.
ISA 19:11 The princes of Zoan are mere fools;
The advice of Pharaoh's wisest advisers has become
stupid. How can you men say to Pharaoh, "I am a son
of the wise, a son of ancient kings"?
ISA 19:12 Well then, where are your wise men?
Please let them tell you, And let them understand
what the Lord of hosts Has purposed against Egypt.
ISA 19:13 The princes of Zoan have acted
foolishly, The princes of Memphis are deluded; Those
who are the cornerstone of her tribes Have led Egypt
astray.
ISA 19:14 The Lord has mixed within her a
spirit of distortion; They have led Egypt astray in
all that it does, As a drunken man staggers in his
vomit.
ISA 19:15 And there will be no work for Egypt
Which its head or tail, its palm branch or bulrush,
may do.
ISA 19:16 In that day the Egyptians will
become like women, and they will tremble and be in
dread because of the waving of the hand of the Lord
of hosts, which He is going to wave over them.
ISA 19:17 And the land of Judah will become a
terror to Egypt; everyone to whom it is mentioned
will be in dread of it, because of the purpose of
the Lord of hosts which He is purposing against
them.
ISA 19:18 In that day five cities in the land
of Egypt will be speaking the language of Canaan and
swearing allegiance to the Lord of hosts; one will
be called the City of Destruction.
ISA 19:19 In that day there will be an altar
to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a
pillar to the Lord near its border.
ISA 19:20 And it will become a sign and a
witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt;
for they will cry to the Lord because of oppressors,
and He will send them a Savior and a Champion, and
He will deliver them.
ISA 19:21 Thus the Lord will make Himself
known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know the Lord
in that day. They will even worship with sacrifice
and offering, and will make a vow to the Lord and
perform it.
ISA 19:22 And the Lord will strike Egypt,
striking but healing; so they will return to the
Lord, and He will respond to them and will heal
them.
ISA 19:23 In that day there will be a highway
from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians will come
into Egypt and the Egyptians into Assyria, and the
Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.
ISA 19:24 In that day Israel will be the
third party with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in
the midst of the earth,
ISA 19:25 whom the Lord of hosts has blessed,
saying, "Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the
work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance."
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ISA 20:1
In the year that the commander came to Ashdod, when
Sargon the king of Assyria sent him and he fought
against Ashdod and captured it,
ISA 20:2 at that time the Lord spoke through
Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go and loosen the
sackcloth from your hips, and take your shoes off
your feet." And he did so, going naked and barefoot.
ISA 20:3 And the Lord said, "Even as My
servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot three
years as a sign and token against Egypt and Cush,
ISA 20:4 so the king of Assyria will lead
away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush,
young and old, naked and barefoot with buttocks
uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
ISA 20:5 "Then they shall be dismayed and
ashamed because of Cush their hope and Egypt their
boast.
ISA 20:6 "So the inhabitants of this
coastland will say in that day, 'Behold, such is our
hope, where we fled for help to be delivered from
the king of Assyria; and we, how shall we escape?'"
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ISA 21:1
The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As
windstorms in the Negev sweep on, It comes from the
wilderness, from a terrifying land.
ISA 21:2 A harsh vision has been shown to me;
The treacherous one still deals treacherously, and
the destroyer still destroys. Go up, Elam, lay
siege, Media; I have made an end of all the groaning
she has caused.
ISA 21:3 For this reason my loins are full of
anguish; Pains have seized me like the pains of a
woman in labor. I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so
terrified I cannot see.
ISA 21:4 My mind reels, horror overwhelms me;
The twilight I longed for has been turned for me
into trembling.
ISA 21:5 They set the table, they spread out
the cloth, they eat, they drink; "Rise up, captains,
oil the shields,"
ISA 21:6 For thus the Lord says to me, "Go,
station the lookout, let him report what he sees.
ISA 21:7 "When he sees riders, horsemen in
pairs, A train of donkeys, a train of camels, Let
him pay close attention, very close attention."
ISA 21:8 Then the lookout called, "O Lord, I
stand continually by day on the watchtower, And I am
stationed every night at my guard post.
ISA 21:9 "Now behold, here comes a troop of
riders, horsemen in pairs." And one answered and
said, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; And all the images
of her gods are shattered on the ground."
ISA 21:10 O my threshed people, and my
afflicted of the threshing floor! What I have heard
from the Lord of hosts, The God of Israel, I make
known to you.
ISA 21:11 The oracle concerning Edom. One
keeps calling to me from Seir, "Watchman, how far
gone is the night? Watchman, how far gone is the
night?"
ISA 21:12 The watchman says, "Morning comes
but also night. If you would inquire, inquire; Come
back again."
ISA 21:13 The oracle about Arabia. In the
thickets of Arabia you must spend the night, O
caravans of Dedanites.
ISA 21:14 Bring water for the thirsty, O
inhabitants of the land of Tema, Meet the fugitive
with bread.
ISA 21:15 For they have fled from the swords,
From the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, And
from the press of battle.
ISA 21:16 For thus the Lord said to me, "In a
year, as a hired man would count it, all the
splendor of Kedar will terminate;
ISA 21:17 and the remainder of the number of
bowmen, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be
few; for the Lord God of Israel has spoken."
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ISA 22:1
The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What is
the matter with you now, that you have all gone up
to the housetops?
ISA 22:2 You who were full of noise, You
boisterous town, you exultant city; Your slain were
not slain with the sword, Nor did they die in
battle.
ISA 22:3 All your rulers have fled together,
And have been captured without the bow; All of you
who were found were taken captive together, Though
they had fled far away.
ISA 22:4 Therefore I say, "Turn your eyes
away from me, Let me weep bitterly, Do not try to
comfort me concerning the destruction of the
daughter of my people."
ISA 22:5 For the Lord God of hosts has a day
of panic, subjugation, and confusion In the valley
of vision, A breaking down of walls And a crying to
the mountain.
ISA 22:6 And Elam took up the quiver With the
chariots, infantry, and horsemen; And Kir uncovered
the shield.
ISA 22:7 Then your choicest valleys were full
of chariots, And the horsemen took up fixed
positions at the gate.
ISA 22:8 And He removed the defense of Judah.
In that day you depended on the weapons of the house
of the forest,
ISA 22:9 And you saw that the breaches In the
wall of the city of David were many; And you
collected the waters of the lower pool.
ISA 22:10 Then you counted the houses of
Jerusalem, And you tore down houses to fortify the
wall.
ISA 22:11 And you made a reservoir between
the two walls For the waters of the old pool. But
you did not depend on Him who made it, Nor did you
take into consideration Him who planned it long ago.
ISA 22:12 Therefore in that day the Lord God
of hosts, called you to weeping, to wailing, To
shaving the head, and to wearing sackcloth.
ISA 22:13 Instead, there is gaiety and
gladness, Killing of cattle and slaughtering of
sheep, Eating of meat and drinking of wine: "Let us
eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die."
ISA 22:14 But the Lord of hosts revealed
Himself to me, "Surely this iniquity shall not be
forgiven you Until you die," says the Lord God of
hosts.
ISA 22:15 Thus says the Lord God of hosts,
"Come, go to this steward, To Shebna, who is in
charge of the royal household,
ISA 22:16 'What right do you have here, And
whom do you have here, That you have hewn a tomb for
yourself here, You who hew a tomb on the height, You
who carve a resting place for yourself in the rock?
ISA 22:17 'Behold, the Lord is about to hurl
you headlong, O man. And He is about to grasp you
firmly,
ISA 22:18 And roll you tightly like a ball,
To be cast into a vast country; There you will die,
And there your splendid chariots will be, You shame
of your master's house.'
ISA 22:19 "And I will depose you from your
office, And I will pull you down from your station.
ISA 22:20 "Then it will come about in that
day, That I will summon My servant Eliakim the son
of Hilkiah
ISA 22:21 And I will clothe him with your
tunic, And tie your sash securely about him, I will
entrust him with your authority, And he will become
a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the
house of Judah.
ISA 22:22 "Then I will set the key of the
house of David on his shoulder, When he opens no one
will shut, When he shuts no one will open.
ISA 22:23 "And I will drive him like a peg in
a firm place, And he will become a throne of glory
to his father's house.
ISA 22:24 "So they will hang on him all the
glory of his father's house, offspring and issue,
all the least of vessels, from bowls to all the
jars.
ISA 22:25 "In that day," declares the Lord of
hosts, "the peg driven in a firm place will give
way; it will even break off and fall, and the load
hanging on it will be cut off, for the Lord has
spoken."
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ISA 23:1
The oracle concerning Tyre. Wail, O ships of
Tarshish, For Tyre is destroyed, without house or
harbor; It is reported to them from the land of
Cyprus.
ISA 23:2 Be silent, you inhabitants of the
coastland, You merchants of Sidon; Your messengers
crossed the sea
ISA 23:3 And were on many waters. The grain
of the Nile, the harvest of the River was her
revenue; And she was the market of nations.
ISA 23:4 Be ashamed, O Sidon; For the sea
speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying, "I have
neither travailed nor given birth, I have neither
brought up young men nor reared virgins."
ISA 23:5 When the report reaches Egypt, They
will be in anguish at the report of Tyre.
ISA 23:6 Pass over to Tarshish; Wail, O
inhabitants of the coastland.
ISA 23:7 Is this your jubilant city, Whose
origin is from antiquity, Whose feet used to carry
her to colonize distant places?
ISA 23:8 Who has planned this against Tyre,
the bestower of crowns, Whose merchants were
princes, whose traders were the honored of the
earth?
ISA 23:9 The Lord of hosts has planned it to
defile the pride of all beauty, To despise all the
honored of the earth.
ISA 23:10 Overflow your land like the Nile, O
daughter of Tarshish, There is no more restraint.
ISA 23:11 He has stretched His hand out over
the sea, He has made the kingdoms tremble; The Lord
has given a command concerning Canaan to demolish
its strongholds.
ISA 23:12 And He has said, "You shall exult
no more, O crushed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise,
pass over to Cyprus; even there you will find no
rest."
ISA 23:13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans -
- this is the people which was not; Assyria
appointed it for desert creatures - - they erected
their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they
made it a ruin.
ISA 23:14 Wail, O ships of Tarshish, For your
stronghold is destroyed.
ISA 23:15 Now it will come about in that day
that Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years like
the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it
will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:
ISA 23:16 Take your harp, walk about the
city, O forgotten harlot; Pluck the strings
skillfully, sing many songs, That you may be
remembered.
ISA 23:17 And it will come about at the end
of seventy years that the Lord will visit Tyre. Then
she will go back to her harlot's wages, and will
play the harlot with all the kingdoms on the face of
the earth.
ISA 23:18 And her gain and her harlot's wages
will be set apart to the Lord; it will not be stored
up or hoarded, but her gain will become sufficient
food and choice attire for those who dwell in the
presence of the Lord.
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ISA 24:1
Behold, the Lord lays the earth waste, devastates
it, distorts its surface, and scatters its
inhabitants.
ISA 24:2 And the people will be like the
priest, the servant like his master, the maid like
her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender
like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor.
ISA 24:3 The earth will be completely laid
waste and completely despoiled, for the Lord has
spoken this word.
ISA 24:4 The earth mourns and withers, the
world fades and withers, the exalted of the people
of the earth fade away.
ISA 24:5 The earth is also polluted by its
inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated
statutes, broke the everlasting covenant.
ISA 24:6 Therefore, a curse devours the
earth, and those who live in it are held guilty.
Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned,
and few men are left.
ISA 24:7 The new wine mourns, The vine
decays, All the merry-hearted sigh.
ISA 24:8 The gaiety of tambourines ceases,
The noise of revelers stops, The gaiety of the harp
ceases.
ISA 24:9 They do not drink wine with song;
Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
ISA 24:10 The city of chaos is broken down;
Every house is shut up so that none may enter.
ISA 24:11 There is an outcry in the streets
concerning the wine; All joy turns to gloom. The
gaiety of the earth is banished.
ISA 24:12 Desolation is left in the city, And
the gate is battered to ruins.
ISA 24:13 For thus it will be in the midst of
the earth among the peoples, As the shaking of an
olive tree, As the gleanings when the grape harvest
is over.
ISA 24:14 They raise their voices, they shout
for joy. They cry out from the west concerning the
majesty of the Lord.
ISA 24:15 Therefore glorify the Lord in the
east, The name of the Lord, the God of Israel In the
coastlands of the sea.
ISA 24:16 From the ends of the earth we hear
songs, "Glory to the Righteous One," But I say, "Woe
to me! Woe to me! Alas for me! The treacherous deal
treacherously, And the treacherous deal very
treacherously."
ISA 24:17 Terror and pit and snare Confront
you, O inhabitant of the earth.
ISA 24:18 Then it will be that he who flees
the report of disaster will fall into the pit, And
he who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the
snare; For the windows above are opened, and the
foundations of the earth shake.
ISA 24:19 The earth is broken asunder, The
earth is split through, The earth is shaken
violently.
ISA 24:20 The earth reels to and fro like a
drunkard, And it totters like a shack, For its
transgression is heavy upon it, And it will fall,
never to rise again.
ISA 24:21 So it will happen in that day, That
the Lord will punish the host of heaven, on high,
And the kings of the earth, on earth.
ISA 24:22 And they will be gathered together
Like prisoners in the dungeon, And will be confined
in prison; And after many days they will be
punished.
ISA 24:23 Then the moon will be abashed and
the sun ashamed, For the Lord of hosts will reign on
Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, And His glory will be
before His elders.
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ISA 25:1
O Lord, Thou art my God; I will exalt Thee, I will
give thanks to Thy name; For Thou hast worked
wonders, Plans formed long ago, with perfect
faithfulness.
ISA 25:2 For Thou hast made a city into a
heap, A fortified city into a ruin; A palace of
strangers is a city no more, It will never be
rebuilt.
ISA 25:3 Therefore a strong people will
glorify Thee; Cities of ruthless nations will revere
Thee.
ISA 25:4 For Thou hast been a defense for the
helpless, A defense for the needy in his distress, A
refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat; For
the breath of the ruthless Is like a rain storm
against a wall.
ISA 25:5 Like heat in drought, Thou dost
subdue the uproar of aliens; Like heat by the shadow
of a cloud, the song of the ruthless is silenced.
ISA 25:6 And the Lord of hosts will prepare a
lavish banquet for all peoples on this mountain; A
banquet of aged wine, choice pieces with marrow, And
refined, aged wine.
ISA 25:7 And on this mountain He will swallow
up the covering which is over all peoples, Even the
veil which is stretched over all nations.
ISA 25:8 He will swallow up death for all
time, And the Lord God will wipe tears away from all
faces, And He will remove the reproach of His people
from all the earth; For the Lord has spoken.
ISA 25:9 And it will be said in that day,
"Behold, this is our God for whom we have waited
that He might save us. This is the Lord for whom we
have waited; Let us rejoice and be glad in His
salvation."
ISA 25:10 For the hand of the Lord will rest
on this mountain, And Moab will be trodden down in
his place As straw is trodden down in the water of a
manure pile.
ISA 25:11 And he will spread out his hands in
the middle of it As a swimmer spreads out his hands
to swim, But the Lord will lay low his pride
together with the trickery of his hands.
ISA 25:12 And the unassailable fortifications
of your walls He will bring down, Lay low, and cast
to the ground, even to the dust.
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ISA 26:1
In that day this song will be sung in the land of
Judah: "We have a strong city; He sets up walls and
ramparts for security.
ISA 26:2 "Open the gates, that the righteous
nation may enter, The one that remains faithful.
ISA 26:3 "The steadfast of mind Thou wilt
keep in perfect peace, Because he trusts in Thee.
ISA 26:4 "Trust in the Lord forever, For in
God the Lord, we have an everlasting Rock.
ISA 26:5 "For He has brought low those who
dwell on high, the unassailable city; He lays it
low, He lays it low to the ground, He casts it to
the dust.
ISA 26:6 "The foot will trample it, The feet
of the afflicted, the steps of the helpless."
ISA 26:7 The way of the righteous is smooth;
O Upright One, make the path of the righteous level.
ISA 26:8 Indeed, while following the way of
Thy judgments, O Lord, We have waited for Thee
eagerly; Thy name, even Thy memory, is the desire of
our souls.
ISA 26:9 At night my soul longs for Thee,
Indeed, my spirit within me seeks Thee diligently;
For when the earth experiences Thy judgments The
inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
ISA 26:10 Though the wicked is shown favor,
He does not learn righteousness; He deals unjustly
in the land of uprightness, And does not perceive
the majesty of the Lord.
ISA 26:11 O Lord, Thy hand is lifted up yet
they do not see it. They see Thy zeal for the people
and are put to shame; Indeed, fire will devour Thine
enemies.
ISA 26:12 Lord, Thou wilt establish peace for
us, Since Thou hast also performed for us all our
works.
ISA 26:13 O Lord our God, other masters
besides Thee have ruled us; But through Thee alone
we confess Thy name.
ISA 26:14 The dead will not live, the
departed spirits will not rise; Therefore Thou hast
punished and destroyed them, And Thou hast wiped out
all remembrance of them.
ISA 26:15 Thou hast increased the nation, O
Lord, Thou hast increased the nation, Thou art
glorified; Thou hast extended all the borders of the
land.
ISA 26:16 O Lord, they sought Thee in
distress; They could only whisper a prayer, Thy
chastening was upon them.
ISA 26:17 As the pregnant woman approaches
the time to give birth, She writhes and cries out in
her labor pains, Thus were we before Thee, O Lord.
ISA 26:18 We were pregnant, we writhed in
labor, We gave birth, as it were, only to wind. We
could not accomplish deliverance for the earth Nor
were inhabitants of the world born.
ISA 26:19 Your dead will live; Their corpses
will rise. You who lie in the dust, awake and shout
for joy, For your dew is as the dew of the dawn, And
the earth will give birth to the departed spirits.
ISA 26:20 Come, my people, enter into your
rooms, And close your doors behind you; Hide for a
little while, Until indignation runs its course.
ISA 26:21 For behold, the Lord is about to
come out from His place To punish the inhabitants of
the earth for their iniquity; And the earth will
reveal her bloodshed, And will no longer cover her
slain.
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ISA 27:1
In that day the Lord will punish Leviathan the
fleeing serpent, With His fierce and great and
mighty sword, Even Leviathan the twisted serpent;
And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.
ISA 27:2 In that day, "A vineyard of wine,
sing of it!
ISA 27:3 "I, the Lord, am its keeper; I water
it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I guard it
night and day.
ISA 27:4 "I have no wrath. Should someone
give Me briars and thorns in battle, Then I would
step on them, I would burn them completely.
ISA 27:5 "Or let him rely on My protection,
Let him make peace with Me, Let him make peace with
Me."
ISA 27:6 In the days to come Jacob will take
root, Israel will blossom and sprout; And they will
fill the whole world with fruit.
ISA 27:7 Like the striking of Him who has
struck them, has He struck them? Or like the
slaughter of His slain, have they been slain?
ISA 27:8 Thou didst contend with them by
banishing them, by driving them away. With His
fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the
east wind.
ISA 27:9 Therefore through this Jacob's
iniquity will be forgiven; And this will be the full
price of the pardoning of his sin: When he makes all
the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones; When
Asherim and incense altars will not stand.
ISA 27:10 For the fortified city is isolated,
A homestead forlorn and forsaken like the desert;
There the calf will graze, And there it will lie
down and feed on its branches.
ISA 27:11 When its limbs are dry, they are
broken off; Women come and make a fire with them.
For they are not a people of discernment, Therefore
their Maker will not have compassion on them. And
their Creator will not be gracious to them.
ISA 27:12 And it will come about in that day,
that the Lord will start His threshing from the
flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of
Egypt; and you will be gathered up one by one, O
sons of Israel.
ISA 27:13 It will come about also in that day
that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who
were perishing in the land of Assyria and who were
scattered in the land of Egypt will come and worship
the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
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ISA 28:1
Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim,
And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
Which is at the head of the fertile valley Of those
who are overcome with wine!
ISA 28:2 Behold, the Lord has a strong and
mighty agent; As a storm of hail, a tempest of
destruction, Like a storm of mighty overflowing
waters, He has cast it down to the earth with His
hand.
ISA 28:3 The proud crown of the drunkards of
Ephraim is trodden under foot.
ISA 28:4 And the fading flower of its
glorious beauty, Which is at the head of the fertile
valley, Will be like the first-ripe fig prior to
summer; Which one sees, And as soon as it is in his
hand, He swallows it.
ISA 28:5 In that day the Lord of hosts will
become a beautiful crown And a glorious diadem to
the remnant of His people;
ISA 28:6 A spirit of justice for him who sits
in judgment, A strength to those who repel the
onslaught at the gate.
ISA 28:7 And these also reel with wine and
stagger from strong drink: The priest and the
prophet reel with strong drink, They are confused by
wine, they stagger from strong drink; They reel
while having visions, They totter when rendering
judgment.
ISA 28:8 For all the tables are full of
filthy vomit, without a single clean place.
ISA 28:9 "To whom would He teach knowledge?
And to whom would He interpret the message? Those
just weaned from milk? Those just taken from the
breast?
ISA 28:10 "For He says, 'Order on order,
order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little
here, a little there.'"
ISA 28:11 Indeed, He will speak to this
people Through stammering lips and a foreign tongue,
ISA 28:12 He who said to them, "Here is rest,
give rest to the weary," And, "Here is repose," but
they would not listen.
ISA 28:13 So the word of the Lord to them
will be, "Order on order, order on order, Line on
line, line on line, A little here, a little there,"
That they may go and stumble backward, be broken,
snared, and taken captive.
ISA 28:14 Therefore, hear the word of the
Lord, O scoffers, Who rule this people who are in
Jerusalem,
ISA 28:15 Because you have said, "We have
made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we have
made a pact. The overwhelming scourge will not reach
us when it passes by, For we have made falsehood our
refuge and we have concealed ourselves with
deception."
ISA 28:16 Therefore thus says the Lord God,
"Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested
stone, A costly cornerstone for the foundation,
firmly placed. He who believes in it will not be
disturbed.
ISA 28:17 "And I will make justice the
measuring line, And righteousness the level; Then
hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, And the
waters shall overflow the secret place.
ISA 28:18 "And your covenant with death shall
be canceled, And your pact with Sheol shall not
stand; When the overwhelming scourge passes through,
Then you become its trampling place.
ISA 28:19 "As often as it passes through, it
will seize you. For morning after morning it will
pass through, anytime during the day or night. And
it will be sheer terror to understand what it
means."
ISA 28:20 The bed is too short on which to
stretch out, And the blanket is too small to wrap
oneself in.
ISA 28:21 For the Lord will rise up as at
Mount Perazim, He will be stirred up as in the
valley of Gibeon; To do His task, His unusual task,
And to work His work, His extraordinary work.
ISA 28:22 And now do not carry on as
scoffers, Lest your fetters be made stronger; For I
have heard from the Lord God of hosts, Of decisive
destruction on all the earth.
ISA 28:23 Give ear and hear my voice, Listen
and hear my words.
ISA 28:24 Does the farmer plow continually to
plant seed? Does he continually turn and harrow the
ground?
ISA 28:25 Does he not level its surface, And
sow dill and scatter cummin, And plant wheat in
rows, Barley in its place, and rye within its area?
ISA 28:26 For his God instructs and teaches
him properly.
ISA 28:27 For dill is not threshed with a
threshing sledge, Nor is the cartwheel driven over
cummin; But dill is beaten out with a rod, and
cummin with a club.
ISA 28:28 Grain for bread is crushed, Indeed,
he does not continue to thresh it forever. Because
the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually
damage it, He does not thresh it longer.
ISA 28:29 This also comes from the Lord of
hosts, Who has made His counsel wonderful and His
wisdom great.
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ISA 29:1
Woe, O Ariel, Ariel the city where David once
camped! Add year to year, observe your feasts on
schedule.
ISA 29:2 And I will bring distress to Ariel,
And she shall be a city of lamenting and mourning;
And she shall be like an Ariel to me.
ISA 29:3 And I will camp against you
encircling you, And I will set siegeworks against
you, And I will raise up battle towers against you.
ISA 29:4 Then you shall be brought low; From
the earth you shall speak, And from the dust where
you are prostrate, Your words shall come. Your voice
shall also be like that of a spirit from the ground,
And your speech shall whisper from the dust.
ISA 29:5 But the multitude of your enemies
shall become like fine dust, And the multitude of
the ruthless ones like the chaff which blows away;
And it shall happen instantly, suddenly.
ISA 29:6 From the Lord of hosts you will be
punished with thunder and earthquake and loud noise,
With whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a
consuming fire.
ISA 29:7 And the multitude of all the nations
who wage war against Ariel, Even all who wage war
against her and her stronghold, and who distress
her, Shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.
ISA 29:8 And it will be as when a hungry man
dreams - - And behold, he is eating; But when he
awakens, his hunger is not satisfied, Or as when a
thirsty man dreams - - And behold, he is drinking,
But when he awakens, behold, he is faint, And his
thirst is not quenched. Thus the multitude of all
the nations shall be, Who wage war against Mount
Zion.
ISA 29:9 Be delayed and wait. Blind
yourselves and be blind. They become drunk, but not
with wine; They stagger, but not with strong drink.
ISA 29:10 For the Lord has poured over you a
spirit of deep sleep, He has shut your eyes, the
prophets; And He has covered your heads, the seers.
ISA 29:11 And the entire vision shall be to
you like the words of a sealed book, which when they
give it to the one who is literate, saying, "Please
read this," he will say, "I cannot, for it is
sealed."
ISA 29:12 Then the book will be given to the
one who is illiterate, saying, "Please read this."
And he will say, "I cannot read."
ISA 29:13 Then the Lord said, "Because this
people draw near with their words And honor Me with
their lip service, But they remove their hearts far
from Me, And their reverence for Me consists of
tradition learned by rote,
ISA 29:14 Therefore behold, I will once again
deal marvelously with this people, wondrously
marvelous; And the wisdom of their wise men shall
perish, And the discernment of their discerning men
shall be concealed."
ISA 29:15 Woe to those who deeply hide their
plans from the Lord, And whose deeds are done in a
dark place, And they say, "Who sees us?" or "Who
knows us?"
ISA 29:16 You turn things around! Shall the
potter be considered as equal with the clay, That
what is made should say to its maker, "He did not
make me"; Or what is formed say to him who formed
it, "He has no understanding"?
ISA 29:17 Is it not yet just a little while
Before Lebanon will be turned into a fertile field,
And the fertile field will be considered as a
forest?
ISA 29:18 And on that day the deaf shall hear
words of a book, And out of their gloom and darkness
the eyes of the blind shall see.
ISA 29:19 The afflicted also shall increase
their gladness in the Lord, And the needy of mankind
shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
ISA 29:20 For the ruthless will come to an
end, and the scorner will be finished, Indeed all
who are intent on doing evil will be cut off;
ISA 29:21 Who cause a person to be indicted
by a word, And ensnare him who adjudicates at the
gate, And defraud the one in the right with
meaningless arguments.
ISA 29:22 Therefore thus says the Lord, who
redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob,
"Jacob shall not now be ashamed, nor shall his face
now turn pale;
ISA 29:23 But when he sees his children, the
work of My hands, in his midst, They will sanctify
My name; Indeed, they will sanctify the Holy One of
Jacob, And will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
ISA 29:24 "And those who err in mind will
know the truth, And those who criticize will accept
instruction.
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ISA 30:1
"Woe to the rebellious children," declares the Lord,
"Who execute a plan, but not Mine, And make an
alliance, but not of My Spirit, In order to add sin
to sin;
ISA 30:2 Who proceed down to Egypt, Without
consulting Me, To take refuge in the safety of
Pharaoh, And to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
ISA 30:3 "Therefore the safety of Pharaoh
will be your shame, And the shelter in the shadow of
Egypt, your humiliation.
ISA 30:4 "For their princes are at Zoan, And
their ambassadors arrive at Hanes.
ISA 30:5 "Everyone will be ashamed because of
a people who cannot profit them, Who are not for
help or profit, but for shame and also for
reproach."
ISA 30:6 The oracle concerning the beasts of
the Negev. Through a land of distress and anguish,
From where come lioness and lion, viper and flying
serpent, They carry their riches on the backs of
young donkeys And their treasures on camels' humps,
To a people who cannot profit them;
ISA 30:7 Even Egypt, whose help is vain and
empty. Therefore, I have called her "Rahab who has
been exterminated."
ISA 30:8 Now go, write it on a tablet before
them And inscribe it on a scroll, That it may serve
in the time to come As a witness forever.
ISA 30:9 For this is a rebellious people,
false sons, Sons who refuse to listen To the
instruction of the Lord;
ISA 30:10 Who say to the seers, "You must not
see visions"; And to the prophets, "You must not
prophesy to us what is right, Speak to us pleasant
words, Prophesy illusions.
ISA 30:11 "Get out of the way, turn aside
from the path, Let us hear no more about the Holy
One of Israel."
ISA 30:12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of
Israel, "Since you have rejected this word, And have
put your trust in oppression and guile, and have
relied on them,
ISA 30:13 Therefore this iniquity will be to
you Like a breach about to fall, A bulge in a high
wall, Whose collapse comes suddenly in an instant.
ISA 30:14 "And whose collapse is like the
smashing of a potter's jar; So ruthlessly shattered
That a sherd will not be found among its pieces To
take fire from a hearth, Or to scoop water from a
cistern."
ISA 30:15 For thus the Lord God, the Holy One
of Israel, has said, "In repentance and rest you
shall be saved, In quietness and trust is your
strength." But you were not willing,
ISA 30:16 And you said, "No, for we will flee
on horses," Therefore you shall flee! "And we will
ride on swift horses," Therefore those who pursue
you shall be swift.
ISA 30:17 One thousand shall flee at the
threat of one man, You shall flee at the threat of
five; Until you are left as a flag on a mountain
top, And as a signal on a hill.
ISA 30:18 Therefore the Lord longs to be
gracious to you, And therefore He waits on high to
have compassion on you. For the Lord is a God of
justice; How blessed are all those who long for Him.
ISA 30:19 O people in Zion, inhabitant in
Jerusalem, you will weep no longer. He will surely
be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He
hears it, He will answer you.
ISA 30:20 Although the Lord has given you
bread of privation and water of oppression, He, your
Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes
will behold your Teacher.
ISA 30:21 And your ears will hear a word
behind you, "This is the way, walk in it," whenever
you turn to the right or to the left.
ISA 30:22 And you will defile your graven
images, overlaid with silver, and your molten images
plated with gold. You will scatter them as an impure
thing; and say to them, "Be gone!"
ISA 30:23 Then He will give you rain for the
seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread
from the yield of the ground, and it will be rich
and plenteous; on that day your livestock will graze
in a roomy pasture.
ISA 30:24 Also the oxen and the donkeys which
work the ground will eat salted fodder, which has
been winnowed with shovel and fork.
ISA 30:25 And on every lofty mountain and on
every high hill there will be streams running with
water on the day of the great slaughter, when the
towers fall.
ISA 30:26 And the light of the moon will be
as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun
will be seven times brighter, like the light of
seven days, on the day the Lord binds up the
fracture of His people and heals the bruise He has
inflicted.
ISA 30:27 Behold, the name of the Lord comes
from a remote place; Burning is His anger, and dense
is His smoke; His lips are filled with indignation,
And His tongue is like a consuming fire;
ISA 30:28 And His breath is like an
overflowing torrent, Which reaches to the neck, To
shake the nations back and forth in a sieve, And to
put in the jaws of the peoples the bridle which
leads to ruin.
ISA 30:29 You will have songs as in the night
when you keep the festival; And gladness of heart as
when one marches to the sound of the flute, To go to
the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.
ISA 30:30 And the Lord will cause His voice
of authority to be heard. And the descending of His
arm to be seen in fierce anger, And in the flame of
a consuming fire, In cloudburst, downpour, and
hailstones.
ISA 30:31 For at the voice of the Lord
Assyria will be terrified, When He strikes with the
rod.
ISA 30:32 And every blow of the rod of
punishment, Which the Lord will lay on him, Will be
with the music of tambourines and lyres; And in
battles, brandishing weapons, He will fight them.
ISA 30:33 For Topheth has long been ready,
Indeed, it has been prepared for the king. He has
made it deep and large, A pyre of fire with plenty
of wood; The breath of the Lord, like a torrent of
brimstone, sets it afire.
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ISA 31:1
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, And rely
on horses, And trust in chariots because they are
many, And in horsemen because they are very strong,
But they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor
seek the Lord!
ISA 31:2 Yet He also is wise and will bring
disaster, And does not retract His words, But will
arise against the house of evildoers, And against
the help of the workers of iniquity.
ISA 31:3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not
God, And their horses are flesh and not spirit; So
the Lord will stretch out His hand, And he who helps
will stumble And he who is helped will fall, And all
of them will come to an end together.
ISA 31:4 For thus says the Lord to me, "As
the lion or the young lion growls over his prey,
Against which a band of shepherds is called out,
Will not be terrified at their voice, nor disturbed
at their noise, So will the Lord of hosts come down
to wage war on Mount Zion and on its hill."
ISA 31:5 Like flying birds so the Lord of
hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and
deliver it; He will pass over and rescue it.
ISA 31:6 Return to Him from whom you have
deeply defected, O sons of Israel.
ISA 31:7 For in that day every man will cast
away his silver idols and his gold idols, which your
hands have made as a sin.
ISA 31:8 And the Assyrian will fall by a
sword not of man, And a sword not of man will devour
him. So he will not escape the sword, And his young
men will become forced laborers.
ISA 31:9 "And his rock will pass away because
of panic, And his princes will be terrified at the
standard," Declares the Lord, whose fire is in Zion
and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
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ISA 32:1
Behold, a king will reign righteously, And princes
will rule justly.
ISA 32:2 And each will be like a refuge from
the wind, And a shelter from the storm, Like streams
of water in a dry country, Like the shade of a huge
rock in a parched land.
ISA 32:3 Then the eyes of those who see will
not be blinded, And the ears of those who hear will
listen.
ISA 32:4 And the mind of the hasty will
discern the truth, And the tongue of the stammerers
will hasten to speak clearly.
ISA 32:5 No longer will the fool be called
noble, Or the rogue be spoken of as generous.
ISA 32:6 For a fool speaks nonsense, And his
heart inclines toward wickedness, To practice
ungodliness and to speak error against the Lord, To
keep the hungry person unsatisfied And to withhold
drink from the thirsty.
ISA 32:7 As for a rogue, his weapons are
evil; He devises wicked schemes To destroy the
afflicted with slander, Even though the needy one
speaks what is right.
ISA 32:8 But the noble man devises noble
plans; And by noble plans he stands.
ISA 32:9 Rise up you women who are at ease,
And hear my voice; Give ear to my word, You
complacent daughters.
ISA 32:10 Within a year and a few days, You
will be troubled, O complacent daughters; For the
vintage is ended, And the fruit gathering will not
come.
ISA 32:11 Tremble, you women who are at ease;
Be troubled, you complacent daughters; Strip,
undress, and put sackcloth on your waist,
ISA 32:12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant
fields, for the fruitful vine,
ISA 32:13 For the land of my people in which
thorns and briars shall come up; Yea, for all the
joyful houses, and for the jubilant city.
ISA 32:14 Because the palace has been
abandoned, the populated city forsaken. Hill and
watch-tower have become caves forever, A delight for
wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks;
ISA 32:15 Until the Spirit is poured out upon
us from on high, And the wilderness becomes a
fertile field And the fertile field is considered as
a forest.
ISA 32:16 Then justice will dwell in the
wilderness, And righteousness will abide in the
fertile field.
ISA 32:17 And the work of righteousness will
be peace, And the service of righteousness,
quietness and confidence forever.
ISA 32:18 Then my people will live in a
peaceful habitation, And in secure dwellings and in
undisturbed resting places;
ISA 32:19 And it will hail when the forest
comes down, And the city will be utterly laid low.
ISA 32:20 How blessed will you be, you who
sow beside all waters, Who let out freely the ox and
the donkey.
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ISA 33:1
Woe to you, O destroyer, While you were not
destroyed; And he who is treacherous, while others
did not deal treacherously with him. As soon as you
shall finish destroying, you shall be destroyed; As
soon as you shall cease to deal treacherously,
others shall deal treacherously with you.
ISA 33:2 O Lord, be gracious to us; we have
waited for Thee. Be Thou their strength every
morning, Our salvation also in the time of distress.
ISA 33:3 At the sound of the tumult peoples
flee; At the lifting up of Thyself nations disperse.
ISA 33:4 And your spoil is gathered as the
caterpillar gathers; As locusts rushing about, men
rush about on it.
ISA 33:5 The Lord is exalted, for He dwells
on high; He has filled Zion with justice and
righteousness.
ISA 33:6 And He shall be the stability of
your times, A wealth of salvation, wisdom, and
knowledge; The fear of the Lord is his treasure.
ISA 33:7 Behold, their brave men cry in the
streets, The ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
ISA 33:8 The highways are desolate, the
traveler has ceased, He has broken the covenant, he
has despised the cities, He has no regard for man.
ISA 33:9 The land mourns and pines away,
Lebanon is shamed and withers; Sharon is like a
desert plain, And Bashan and Carmel lose their
foliage.
ISA 33:10 "Now I will arise," says the Lord,
"Now I will be exalted, now I will be lifted up.
ISA 33:11 "You have conceived chaff, you will
give birth to stubble; My breath will consume you
like a fire.
ISA 33:12 "And the peoples will be burned to
lime, Like cut thorns which are burned in the fire.
ISA 33:13 "You who are far away, hear what I
have done; And you who are near, acknowledge My
might."
ISA 33:14 Sinners in Zion are terrified;
Trembling has seized the godless."Who among us can
live with the consuming fire? Who among us can live
with continual burning?"
ISA 33:15 He who walks righteously, and
speaks with sincerity, He who rejects unjust gain,
And shakes his hands so that they hold no bribe; He
who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshed, And
shuts his eyes from looking upon evil;
ISA 33:16 He will dwell on the heights; His
refuge will be the impregnable rock; His bread will
be given him; His water will be sure.
ISA 33:17 Your eyes will see the King in His
beauty; They will behold a far-distant land.
ISA 33:18 Your heart will meditate on terror:
"Where is he who counts? Where is he who weighs?
Where is he who counts the towers?"
ISA 33:19 You will no longer see a fierce
people, A people of unintelligible speech which no
one comprehends, Of a stammering tongue which no one
understands.
ISA 33:20 Look upon Zion, the city of our
appointed feasts; Your eyes shall see Jerusalem an
undisturbed habitation, A tent which shall not be
folded, Its stakes shall never be pulled up Nor any
of its cords be torn apart.
ISA 33:21 But there the majestic One, the
Lord, shall be for us A place of rivers and wide
canals, On which no boat with oars shall go, And on
which no mighty ship shall pass - -
ISA 33:22 For the Lord is our judge, The Lord
is our lawgiver, The Lord is our king; He will save
us - -
ISA 33:23 Your tackle hangs slack; It cannot
hold the base of its mast firmly, Nor spread out the
sail. Then the prey of an abundant spoil will be
divided; The lame will take the plunder.
ISA 33:24 And no resident will say, "I am
sick"; The people who dwell there will be forgiven
their iniquity.
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ISA 34:1
Draw near, O nations, to hear; and listen, O
peoples! Let the earth and all it contains hear, and
the world and all that springs from it.
ISA 34:2 For the Lord's indignation is
against all the nations, And His wrath against all
their armies; He has utterly destroyed them, He has
given them over to slaughter.
ISA 34:3 So their slain will be thrown out,
And their corpses will give off their stench, And
the mountains will be drenched with their blood.
ISA 34:4 And all the host of heaven will wear
away, And the sky will be rolled up like a scroll;
All their hosts will also wither away As a leaf
withers from the vine, Or as one withers from the
fig tree.
ISA 34:5 For My sword is satiated in heaven,
Behold it shall descend for judgment upon Edom, And
upon the people whom I have devoted to destruction.
ISA 34:6 The sword of the Lord is filled with
blood, It is sated with fat, with the blood of lambs
and goats, With the fat of the kidneys of rams. For
the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great
slaughter in the land of Edom.
ISA 34:7 Wild oxen shall also fall with them,
And young bulls with strong ones; Thus their land
shall be soaked with blood, And their dust become
greasy with fat.
ISA 34:8 For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
A year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
ISA 34:9 And its streams shall be turned into
pitch, And its loose earth into brimstone, And its
land shall become burning pitch.
ISA 34:10 It shall not be quenched night or
day; Its smoke shall go up forever; From generation
to generation it shall be desolate; None shall pass
through it forever and ever.
ISA 34:11 But pelican and hedgehog shall
possess it, And owl and raven shall dwell in it; And
He shall stretch over it the line of desolation And
the plumb line of emptiness.
ISA 34:12 Its nobles - - there is no one
there Whom they may proclaim king - - And all its
princes shall be nothing.
ISA 34:13 And thorns shall come up in its
fortified towers, Nettles and thistles in its
fortified cities; It shall also be a haunt of
jackals And an abode of ostriches.
ISA 34:14 And the desert creatures shall meet
with the wolves, The hairy goat also shall cry to
its kind; Yes, the night monster shall settle there
And shall find herself a resting place.
ISA 34:15 The tree snake shall make its nest
and lay eggs there, And it will hatch and gather
them under its protection. Yes, the hawks shall be
gathered there, Every one with its kind.
ISA 34:16 Seek from the book of the Lord, and
read: Not one of these will be missing; None will
lack its mate. For His mouth has commanded, And His
Spirit has gathered them.
ISA 34:17 And He has cast the lot for them,
And His hand has divided it to them by line. They
shall possess it forever; From generation to
generation they shall dwell in it.
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ISA 35:1
The wilderness and the desert will be glad, And the
Arabah will rejoice and blossom; Like the crocus
ISA 35:2 It will blossom profusely And
rejoice with rejoicing and shout of joy. The glory
of Lebanon will be given to it, The majesty of
Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the
Lord, The majesty of our God.
ISA 35:3 Encourage the exhausted, and
strengthen the feeble.
ISA 35:4 Say to those with anxious heart,
"Take courage, fear not. Behold, your God will come
with vengeance; The recompense of God will come, But
He will save you."
ISA 35:5 Then the eyes of the blind will be
opened, And the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
ISA 35:6 Then the lame will leap like a deer,
And the tongue of the dumb will shout for joy. For
waters will break forth in the wilderness And
streams in the Arabah.
ISA 35:7 And the scorched land will become a
pool, And the thirsty ground springs of water; In
the haunt of jackals, its resting place, Grass
becomes reeds and rushes.
ISA 35:8 And a highway will be there, a
roadway, And it will be called the Highway of
Holiness. The unclean will not travel on it, But it
will be for him who walks that way, And fools will
not wander on it.
ISA 35:9 No lion will be there, Nor will any
vicious beast go up on it; These will not be found
there. But the redeemed will walk there,
ISA 35:10 And the ransomed of the Lord will
return, And come with joyful shouting to Zion, With
everlasting joy upon their heads. They will find
gladness and joy, And sorrow and sighing will flee
away.
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ISA 36:1
Now it came about in the fourteenth year of King
Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up
against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized
them.
ISA 36:2 And the king of Assyria sent
Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah
with a large army. And he stood by the conduit of
the upper pool on the highway of the fuller's field.
ISA 36:3 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who
was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and
Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to
him.
ISA 36:4 Then Rabshakeh said to them, "Say
now to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the great king, the king
of Assyria," What is this confidence that you have?
ISA 36:5 "I say, 'Your counsel and strength
for the war are only empty words.' Now on whom do
you rely, that you have rebelled against me?
ISA 36:6 "Behold, you rely on the staff of
this crushed reed, even on Egypt; on which if a man
leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is
Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.
ISA 36:7"But if you say to me, 'We trust in
the Lord our God,' is it not He whose high places
and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has
said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall worship
before this altar'?
ISA 36:8 "Now therefore, come make a bargain
with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give
you two thousand horses, if you are able on your
part to set riders on them.
ISA 36:9 "How then can you repulse one
official of the least of my master's servants, and
rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
ISA 36:10 "And have I now come up without the
Lord's approval against this land to destroy it? The
Lord said to me, 'Go up against this land, and
destroy it.'"' "
ISA 36:11 Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah
said to Rabshakeh, "Speak now to your servants in
Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak with
us in Judean, in the hearing of the people who are
on the wall."
ISA 36:12 But Rabshakeh said, "Has my master
sent me only to your master and to you to speak
these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall,
doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own
urine with you?"
ISA 36:13 Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with
a loud voice in Judean, and said, "Hear the words of
the great king, the king of Assyria.
ISA 36:14 "Thus says the king, 'Do not let
Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to
deliver you;
ISA 36:15 nor let Hezekiah make you trust in
the Lord, saying, "The Lord will surely deliver us,
this city shall not be given into the hand of the
king of Assyria."
ISA 36:16 'Do not listen to Hezekiah,' for
thus says the king of Assyria,' Make your peace with
me and come out to me, and eat each of his vine and
each of his fig tree and drink each of the waters of
his own cistern,
ISA 36:17 until I come and take you away to a
land like your own land, a land of grain and new
wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
ISA 36:18 'Beware lest Hezekiah misleads you,
saying, "The Lord will deliver us." Has any one of
the gods of the nations delivered his land from the
hand of the king of Assyria?
ISA 36:19 'Where are the gods of Hamath and
Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? And when
have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
ISA 36:20 'Who among all the gods of these
lands have delivered their land from my hand, that
the Lord should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?' "
ISA 36:21 But they were silent and answered
him not a word; for the king's commandment was, "Do
not answer him."
ISA 36:22 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,
who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe
and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to
Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the
words of Rabshakeh.
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ISA 37:1
And when King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his
clothes, covered himself with sackcloth and entered
the house of the Lord.
ISA 37:2 Then he sent Eliakim who was over
the household with Shebna the scribe and the elders
of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah
the prophet, the son of Amoz.
ISA 37:3 And they said to him, "Thus says
Hezekiah, 'This day is a day of distress, rebuke,
and rejection; for children have come to birth, and
there is no strength to deliver.
ISA 37:4 'Perhaps the Lord your God will hear
the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of
Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and
will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has
heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the remnant
that is left.' "
ISA 37:5 So the servants of King Hezekiah
came to Isaiah.
ISA 37:6 And Isaiah said to them, "Thus you
shall say to your master, 'Thus says the Lord," Do
not be afraid because of the words that you have
heard, with which the servants of the king of
Assyria have blasphemed Me.
ISA 37:7 "Behold, I will put a spirit in him
so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own
land. And I will make him fall by the sword in his
own land."' "
ISA 37:8 Then Rabshakeh returned and found
the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he
had heard that the king had left Lachish.
ISA 37:9 When he heard them say concerning
Tirhakah king of Cush, "He has come out to fight
against you," and when he heard it he sent
messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
ISA 37:10 "Thus you shall say to Hezekiah
king of Judah, 'Do not let your God in whom you
trust deceive you, saying," Jerusalem shall not be
given into the hand of the king of Assyria."
ISA 37:11 'Behold, you have heard what the
kings of Assyria have done to all the lands,
destroying them completely. So will you be spared?
ISA 37:12 'Did the gods of those nations
which my fathers have destroyed deliver them, even
Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who
were in Telassar?
ISA 37:13 'Where is the king of Hamath, the
king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim,
and of Hena and Ivvah?' "
ISA 37:14 Then Hezekiah took the letter from
the hand of the messengers and read it, and he went
up to the house of the Lord and spread it out before
the Lord.
ISA 37:15 And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord
saying,
ISA 37:16 "O Lord of hosts, the God of
Israel, who art enthroned above the cherubim, Thou
art the God, Thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the
earth. Thou hast made heaven and earth.
ISA 37:17 "Incline Thine ear, O Lord, and
hear; open Thine eyes, O Lord, and see; and listen
to all the words of Sennacherib, who sent them to
reproach the living God.
ISA 37:18 "Truly, O Lord, the kings of
Assyria have devastated all the countries and their
lands,
ISA 37:19 and have cast their gods into the
fire, for they were not gods but the work of men's
hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.
ISA 37:20 "And now, O Lord our God, deliver
us from his hand that all the kingdoms of the earth
may know that Thou alone, Lord, art God."
ISA 37:21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent
word to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the Lord, the
God of Israel, 'Because you have prayed to Me about
Sennacherib king of Assyria,
ISA 37:22 this is the word that the Lord has
spoken against him: "She has despised you and mocked
you, The virgin daughter of Zion; She has shaken her
head behind you, The daughter of Jerusalem!
ISA 37:23 "Whom have you reproached and
blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your
voice, And haughtily lifted up your eyes? Against
the Holy One of Israel!
ISA 37:24 "Through your servants you have
reproached the Lord, And you have said, 'With my
many chariots I came up to the heights of the
mountains, To the remotest parts of Lebanon; And I
cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypresses.
And I will go to its highest peak, its thickest
forest.
ISA 37:25 'I dug wells and drank waters, And
with the sole of my feet I dried up All the rivers
of Egypt.'
ISA 37:26 "Have you not heard? Long ago I did
it, From ancient times I planned it. Now I have
brought it to pass, That you should turn fortified
cities into ruinous heaps.
ISA 37:27 "Therefore their inhabitants were
short of strength, They were dismayed and put to
shame; They were as the vegetation of the field and
as the green herb, As grass on the housetops is
scorched before it is grown up.
ISA 37:28 "But I know your sitting down, And
your going out and your coming in, And your raging
against Me.
ISA 37:29 "Because of your raging against Me,
And because your arrogance has come up to My ears,
Therefore I will put My hook in your nose, And My
bridle in your lips, And I will turn you back by the
way which you came.
ISA 37:30 "Then this shall be the sign for
you: you shall eat this year what grows of itself,
in the second year what springs from the same, and
in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and
eat their fruit.
ISA 37:31 "And the surviving remnant of the
house of Judah shall again take root downward and
bear fruit upward.
ISA 37:32 "For out of Jerusalem shall go
forth a remnant, and out of Mount Zion survivors.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts shall perform this."'
ISA 37:33 "Therefore, thus says the Lord
concerning the king of Assyria, 'He shall not come
to this city, or shoot an arrow there; neither shall
he come before it with a shield, nor throw up a
mound against it.
ISA 37:34 'By the way that he came, by the
same he shall return, and he shall not come to this
city,' declares the Lord.
ISA 37:35 'For I will defend this city to
save it for My own sake and for My servant David's
sake.' "
ISA 37:36 Then the angel of the Lord went
out, and struck 185,000 in the camp of the
Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning,
behold, all of these were dead.
ISA 37:37 So Sennacherib, king of Assyria,
departed and returned home, and lived at Nineveh.
ISA 37:38 And it came about as he was
worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that
Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons killed him with
the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat.
And Esarhaddon his son became king in his place.
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Chapter 38
ISA 38:1
In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. And
Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and
said to him, "Thus says the Lord, 'Set your house in
order, for you shall die and not live.'"
ISA 38:2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the
wall, and prayed to the Lord,
ISA 38:3 and said, "Remember now, O Lord, I
beseech Thee, how I have walked before Thee in truth
and with a whole heart, and have done what is good
in Thy sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
ISA 38:4 Then the word of the Lord came to
Isaiah, saying,
ISA 38:5 "Go and say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says
the Lord, the God of your father David," I have
heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I
will add fifteen years to your life.
ISA 38:6 "And I will deliver you and this
city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I
will defend this city."'
ISA 38:7 "And this shall be the sign to you
from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that
He has spoken:
ISA 38:8 "Behold, I will cause the shadow on
the stairway, which has gone down with the sun on
the stairway of Ahaz, to go back ten steps." So the
sun's shadow went back ten steps on the stairway on
which it had gone down.
ISA 38:9 A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah,
after his illness and recovery:
ISA 38:10 I said, "In the middle of my life I
am to enter the gates of Sheol; I am to be deprived
of the rest of my years."
ISA 38:11 I said, "I shall not see the Lord,
The Lord in the land of the living; I shall look on
man no more among the inhabitants of the world.
ISA 38:12 "Like a shepherd's tent my dwelling
is pulled up and removed from me; As a weaver I
rolled up my life. He cuts me off from the loom;
From day until night Thou dost make an end of me.
ISA 38:13 "I composed my soul until morning.
Like a lion - - so He breaks all my bones, From day
until night Thou dost make an end of me.
ISA 38:14 "Like a swallow, like a crane, so I
twitter; I moan like a dove; My eyes look wistfully
to the heights; O Lord, I am oppressed, be my
security.
ISA 38:15 "What shall I say? For He has
spoken to me, and He Himself has done it; I shall
wander about all my years because of the bitterness
of my soul.
ISA 38:16 "O Lord, by these things men live;
And in all these is the life of my spirit; O restore
me to health, and let me live!
ISA 38:17 "Lo, for my own welfare I had great
bitterness; It is Thou who hast kept my soul from
the pit of nothingness, For Thou hast cast all my
sins behind Thy back.
ISA 38:18 "For Sheol cannot thank Thee, Death
cannot praise Thee; Those who go down to the pit
cannot hope for Thy faithfulness.
ISA 38:19 "It is the living who give thanks
to Thee, as I do today; A father tells his sons
about Thy faithfulness.
ISA 38:20 "The Lord will surely save me; So
we will play my songs on stringed instruments All
the days of our life at the house of the Lord."
ISA 38:21 Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take
a cake of figs, and apply it to the boil, that he
may recover."
ISA 38:22 Then Hezekiah had said, "What is
the sign that I shall go up to the house of the
Lord?"
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Chapter 39
ISA 39:1
At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king
of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah,
for he heard that he had been sick and had
recovered.
ISA 39:2 And Hezekiah was pleased, and showed
them all his treasure house, the silver and the gold
and the spices and the precious oil and his whole
armory and all that was found in his treasuries.
There was nothing in his house, nor in all his
dominion, that Hezekiah did not show them.
ISA 39:3 Then Isaiah the prophet came to King
Hezekiah and said to him, "What did these men say,
and from where have they come to you?" And Hezekiah
said, "They have come to me from a far country, from
Babylon."
ISA 39:4 And he said, "What have they seen in
your house?" So Hezekiah answered, "They have seen
all that is in my house; there is nothing among my
treasuries that I have not shown them."
ISA 39:5 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear
the word of the Lord of hosts,
ISA 39:6 'Behold, the days are coming when
all that is in your house, and all that your fathers
have laid up in store to this day shall be carried
to Babylon; nothing shall be left,' says the Lord.
ISA 39:7 'And some of your sons who shall
issue from you, whom you shall beget, shall be taken
away; and they shall become officials in the palace
of the king of Babylon.' "
ISA 39:8 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The
word of the Lord which you have spoken is good." For
he thought, "For there will be peace and truth in my
days."
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Chapter 40
ISA 40:1
"Comfort, O comfort My people," says your God.
ISA 40:2 "Speak kindly to Jerusalem; And call
out to her, that her warfare has ended, That her
iniquity has been removed, That she has received of
the Lord's hand Double for all her sins."
ISA 40:3 A voice is calling, "Clear the way
for the Lord in the wilderness; Make smooth in the
desert a highway for our God.
ISA 40:4 "Let every valley be lifted up, And
every mountain and hill be made low; And let the
rough ground become a plain, And the rugged terrain
a broad valley;
ISA 40:5 Then the glory of the Lord will be
revealed, And all flesh will see it together; For
the mouth of the Lord has spoken."
ISA 40:6 A voice says, "Call out." Then he
answered, "What shall I call out?" All flesh is
grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of
the field.
ISA 40:7 The grass withers, the flower fades,
When the breath of the Lord blows upon it; Surely
the people are grass.
ISA 40:8 The grass withers, the flower fades,
But the word of our God stands forever.
ISA 40:9 Get yourself up on a high mountain,
O Zion, bearer of good news, Lift up your voice
mightily, O Jerusalem, bearer of good news; Lift it
up, do not fear. Say to the cities of Judah, "Here
is your God!"
ISA 40:10 Behold, the Lord God will come with
might, With His arm ruling for Him. Behold, His
reward is with Him, And His recompense before Him.
ISA 40:11 Like a shepherd He will tend His
flock, In His arm He will gather the lambs, And
carry them in His bosom; He will gently lead the
nursing ewes.
ISA 40:12 Who has measured the waters in the
hollow of His hand, And marked off the heavens by
the span, And calculated the dust of the earth by
the measure, And weighed the mountains in a balance,
And the hills in a pair of scales?
ISA 40:13 Who has directed the Spirit of the
Lord, Or as His counselor has informed Him?
ISA 40:14 With whom did He consult and who
gave Him understanding? And who taught Him in the
path of justice and taught Him knowledge, And
informed Him of the way of understanding?
ISA 40:15 Behold, the nations are like a drop
from a bucket, And are regarded as a speck of dust
on the scales; Behold, He lifts up the islands like
fine dust.
ISA 40:16 Even Lebanon is not enough to burn,
Nor its beasts enough for a burnt offering.
ISA 40:17 All the nations are as nothing
before Him, They are regarded by Him as less than
nothing and meaningless.
ISA 40:18 To whom then will you liken God? Or
what likeness will you compare with Him?
ISA 40:19 As for the idol, a craftsman casts
it, A goldsmith plates it with gold, And a
silversmith fashions chains of silver.
ISA 40:20 He who is too impoverished for such
an offering Selects a tree that does not rot; He
seeks out for himself a skillful craftsman To
prepare an idol that will not totter.
ISA 40:21 Do you not know? Have you not
heard? Has it not been declared to you from the
beginning? Have you not understood from the
foundations of the earth?
ISA 40:22 It is He who sits above the vault
of the earth, And its inhabitants are like
grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a
curtain And spreads them out like a tent to dwell
in.
ISA 40:23 He it is who reduces rulers to
nothing, Who makes the judges of the earth
meaningless.
ISA 40:24 Scarcely have they been planted,
Scarcely have they been sown, Scarcely has their
stock taken root in the earth, But He merely blows
on them, and they wither, And the storm carries them
away like stubble.
ISA 40:25 "To whom then will you liken Me
That I should be his equal?" says the Holy One.
ISA 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high And see
who has created these stars, The One who leads forth
their host by number, He calls them all by name;
Because of the greatness of His might and the
strength of His power Not one of them is missing.
ISA 40:27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and
assert, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the Lord,
And the justice due me escapes the notice of my
God"?
ISA 40:28 Do you not know? Have you not
heard? The Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of
the ends of the earth Does not become weary or
tired. His understanding is inscrutable.
ISA 40:29 He gives strength to the weary, And
to him who lacks might He increases power.
ISA 40:30 Though youths grow weary and tired,
And vigorous young men stumble badly,
ISA 40:31 Yet those who wait for the Lord
Will gain new strength; They will mount up with
wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired,
They will walk and not become weary.
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Chapter 41
ISA 41:1
"Coastlands, listen to Me in silence, And let the
peoples gain new strength; Let them come forward,
then let them speak; Let us come together for
judgment.
ISA 41:2 "Who has aroused one from the east
Whom He calls in righteousness to His feet? He
delivers up nations before him, And subdues kings.
He makes them like dust with his sword, As the
wind-driven chaff with his bow.
ISA 41:3 "He pursues them, passing on in
safety, By a way he had not been traversing with his
feet.
ISA 41:4 "Who has performed and accomplished
it, Calling forth the generations from the
beginning? 'I, the Lord, am the first, and with the
last. I am He.'"
ISA 41:5 The coastlands have seen and are
afraid; The ends of the earth tremble; They have
drawn near and have come.
ISA 41:6 Each one helps his neighbor, And
says to his brother, "Be strong!"
ISA 41:7 So the craftsman encourages the
smelter, And he who smooths metal with the hammer
encourages him who beats the anvil, Saying of the
soldering, "It is good"; And he fastens it with
nails, That it should not totter.
ISA 41:8 "But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob
whom I have chosen, Descendant of Abraham My friend,
ISA 41:9 You whom I have taken from the ends
of the earth, And called from its remotest parts,
And said to you,' You are My servant, I have chosen
you and not rejected you.
ISA 41:10 'Do not fear, for I am with you; Do
not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I
will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely
I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.'
ISA 41:11 "Behold, all those who are angered
at you will be shamed and dishonored; Those who
contend with you will be as nothing, and will
perish.
ISA 41:12 "You will seek those who quarrel
with you, but will not find them, Those who war with
you will be as nothing, and non-existent.
ISA 41:13 "For I am the Lord your God, who
upholds your right hand, Who says to you, 'Do not
fear, I will help you.'
ISA 41:14 "Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you
men of Israel; I will help you," declares the Lord,
"and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
ISA 41:15 "Behold, I have made you a new,
sharp threshing sledge with double edges; You will
thresh the mountains, and pulverize them, And will
make the hills like chaff.
ISA 41:16 "You will winnow them, and the wind
will carry them away, And the storm will scatter
them; But you will rejoice in the Lord, You will
glory in the Holy One of Israel.
ISA 41:17 "The afflicted and needy are
seeking water, but there is none, And their tongue
is parched with thirst; I, the Lord, will answer
them Myself, As the God of Israel I will not forsake
them.
ISA 41:18 "I will open rivers on the bare
heights, And springs in the midst of the valleys; I
will make the wilderness a pool of water, And the
dry land fountains of water.
ISA 41:19 "I will put the cedar in the
wilderness, The acacia, and the myrtle, and the
olive tree; I will place the juniper in the desert,
Together with the box tree and the cypress,
ISA 41:20 That they may see and recognize,
And consider and gain insight as well, That the hand
of the Lord has done this, And the Holy One of
Israel has created it.
ISA 41:21 "Present your case," the Lord
says."Bring forward your strong arguments," The King
of Jacob says.
ISA 41:22 Let them bring forth and declare to
us what is going to take place; As for the former
events, declare what they were, That we may consider
them, and know their outcome; Or announce to us what
is coming.
ISA 41:23 Declare the things that are going
to come afterward, That we may know that you are
gods; Indeed, do good or evil, that we may anxiously
look about us and fear together.
ISA 41:24 Behold, you are of no account, And
your work amounts to nothing; He who chooses you is
an abomination.
ISA 41:25 "I have aroused one from the north,
and he has come; From the rising of the sun he will
call on My name; And he will come upon rulers as
upon mortar, Even as the potter treads clay."
ISA 41:26 Who has declared this from the
beginning, that we might know? Or from former times,
that we may say, "He is right!"? Surely there was no
one who declared, Surely there was no one who
proclaimed, Surely there was no one who heard your
words.
ISA 41:27 "Formerly I said to Zion, 'Behold,
here they are.' And to Jerusalem, 'I will give a
messenger of good news.'
ISA 41:28 "But when I look, there is no one,
And there is no counselor among them Who, if I ask,
can give an answer.
ISA 41:29 "Behold, all of them are false;
Their works are worthless, Their molten images are
wind and emptiness.
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Chapter 42
ISA 42:1
"Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in
whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon
Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations.
ISA 42:2 "He will not cry out or raise His
voice, Nor make His voice heard in the street.
ISA 42:3 "A bruised reed He will not break,
And a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish; He
will faithfully bring forth justice.
ISA 42:4 "He will not be disheartened or
crushed, Until He has established justice in the
earth; And the coastlands will wait expectantly for
His law."
ISA 42:5 Thus says God the Lord, Who created
the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread out
the earth and its offspring, Who gives breath to the
people on it, And spirit to those who walk in it,
ISA 42:6 "I am the Lord, I have called you in
righteousness, I will also hold you by the hand and
watch over you, And I will appoint you as a covenant
to the people, As a light to the nations,
ISA 42:7 To open blind eyes, To bring out
prisoners from the dungeon, And those who dwell in
darkness from the prison.
ISA 42:8 "I am the Lord, that is My name; I
will not give My glory to another, Nor My praise to
graven images.
ISA 42:9 "Behold, the former things have come
to pass, Now I declare new things; Before they
spring forth I proclaim them to you."
ISA 42:10 Sing to the Lord a new song, Sing
His praise from the end of the earth! You who go
down to the sea, and all that is in it. You islands
and those who dwell on them.
ISA 42:11 Let the wilderness and its cities
lift up their voices, The settlements where Kedar
inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing aloud,
Let them shout for joy from the tops of the
mountains.
ISA 42:12 Let them give glory to the Lord,
And declare His praise in the coastlands.
ISA 42:13 The Lord will go forth like a
warrior, He will arouse His zeal like a man of war.
He will utter a shout, yes, He will raise a war cry.
He will prevail against His enemies.
ISA 42:14 "I have kept silent for a long
time, I have kept still and restrained Myself. Now
like a woman in labor I will groan, I will both gasp
and pant.
ISA 42:15 "I will lay waste the mountains and
hills, And wither all their vegetation; I will make
the rivers into coastlands, And dry up the ponds.
ISA 42:16 "And I will lead the blind by a way
they do not know, In paths they do not know I will
guide them. I will make darkness into light before
them And rugged places into plains. These are the
things I will do, And I will not leave them undone."
ISA 42:17 They shall be turned back and be
utterly put to shame, Who trust in idols, Who say to
molten images, "You are our gods."
ISA 42:18 Hear, you deaf! And look, you
blind, that you may see.
ISA 42:19 Who is blind but My servant, Or so
deaf as My messenger whom I send? Who is so blind as
he that is at peace with Me, Or so blind as the
servant of the Lord?
ISA 42:20 You have seen many things, but you
do not observe them; Your ears are open, but none
hears.
ISA 42:21 The Lord was pleased for His
righteousness' sake To make the law great and
glorious.
ISA 42:22 But this is a people plundered and
despoiled; All of them are trapped in caves, Or are
hidden away in prisons; They have become a prey with
none to deliver them, And a spoil, with none to say,
"Give them back!"
ISA 42:23 Who among you will give ear to
this? Who will give heed and listen hereafter?
ISA 42:24 Who gave Jacob up for spoil, 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 law they did not obey?
ISA 42:25 So He poured out on him the heat of
His anger And the fierceness of battle; And it set
him aflame all around, Yet he did not recognize it;
And it burned him, but he paid no attention.
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Chapter 43
ISA 43:1
But now, thus says the Lord, your Creator, O Jacob,
And He who formed you, O Israel, "Do not fear, for I
have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you
are Mine!
ISA 43:2 "When you pass through the waters, I
will be with you; And through the rivers, they will
not overflow you. When you walk through the fire,
you will not be scorched, Nor will the flame burn
you.
ISA 43:3 "For I am the Lord your God, The
Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I have given Egypt
as your ransom, Cush and Seba in your place.
ISA 43:4 "Since you are precious in My sight,
Since you are honored and I love you, I will give
other men in your place and other peoples in
exchange for your life.
ISA 43:5 "Do not fear, for I am with you; I
will bring your offspring from the east, And gather
you from the west.
ISA 43:6 "I will say to the north, 'Give them
up!' And to the south, 'Do not hold them back.'
Bring My sons from afar, And My daughters from the
ends of the earth,
ISA 43:7 Everyone who is called by My name,
And whom I have created for My glory, Whom I have
formed, even whom I have made."
ISA 43:8 Bring out the people who are blind,
even though they have eyes, And the deaf, even
though they have ears.
ISA 43:9 All the nations have gathered
together In order that the peoples may be assembled.
Who among them can declare this And proclaim to us
the former things? Let them present their witnesses
that they may be justified, Or let them hear and
say, "It is true."
ISA 43:10 0 "You are My witnesses," declares
the Lord, "And My servant whom I have chosen, In
order that you may know and believe Me, And
understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God
formed, And there will be none after Me.
ISA 43:11 "I, even I, am the Lord; And there
is no savior besides Me.
ISA 43:12 "It is I who have declared and
saved and proclaimed, And there was no strange god
among you; So you are My witnesses," declares the
Lord, "And I am God.
ISA 43:13 "Even from eternity I am He; And
there is none who can deliver out of My hand; I act
and who can reverse it?"
ISA 43:14 Thus says the Lord your Redeemer,
the Holy One of Israel, "For your sake I have sent
to Babylon, And will bring them all down as
fugitives, Even the Chaldeans, into the ships in
which they rejoice.
ISA 43:15 "I am the Lord, your Holy One, The
Creator of Israel, your King."
ISA 43:16 Thus says the Lord, Who makes a way
through the sea And a path through the mighty
waters,
ISA 43:17 Who brings forth the chariot and
the horse, The army and the mighty man (They will
lie down together and not rise again; They have been
quenched and extinguished like a wick):
ISA 43:18 "Do not call to mind the former
things, Or ponder things of the past.
ISA 43:19 "Behold, I will do something new,
Now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of
it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness,
Rivers in the desert.
ISA 43:20 "The beasts of the field will
glorify Me; The jackals and the ostriches; Because I
have given waters in the wilderness And rivers in
the desert, To give drink to My chosen people.
ISA 43:21 "The people whom I formed for
Myself, Will declare My praise.
ISA 43:22 "Yet you have not called on Me, O
Jacob; But you have become weary of Me, O Israel.
ISA 43:23 "You have not brought to Me the
sheep of your burnt offerings; Nor have you honored
Me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you
with offerings, Nor wearied you with incense.
ISA 43:24 "You have bought Me no sweet cane
with money, Neither have you filled Me with the fat
of your sacrifices; Rather you have burdened Me with
your sins, You have wearied Me with your iniquities.
ISA 43:25 "I, even I, am the one who wipes
out your transgressions for My own sake; And I will
not remember your sins.
ISA 43:26 "Put Me in remembrance; let us
argue our case together, State your cause, that you
may be proved right.
ISA 43:27 "Your first forefather sinned, And
your spokesmen have transgressed against Me.
ISA 43:28 "So I will pollute the princes of
the sanctuary; And I will consign Jacob to the ban,
and Israel to revilement.
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Chapter 44
ISA 44:1
"But now listen, O Jacob, My servant; And Israel,
whom I have chosen:
ISA 44:2 Thus says the Lord who made you And
formed you from the womb, who will help you,' Do not
fear, O Jacob My servant; And you Jeshurun whom I
have chosen.
ISA 44:3 'For I will pour out water on the
thirsty land And streams on the dry ground; I will
pour out My Spirit on your offspring, And My
blessing on your descendants;
ISA 44:4 And they will spring up among the
grass Like poplars by streams of water.'
ISA 44:5 "This one will say, 'I am the
Lord's'; And that one will call on the name of
Jacob; And another will write on his hand,
'Belonging to the Lord,' And will name Israel's name
with honor.
ISA 44:6 "Thus says the Lord, the King of
Israel And his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: 'I am
the first and I am the last, And there is no God
besides Me.
ISA 44:7 'And who is like Me? Let him
proclaim and declare it; Yes, let him recount it to
Me in order, From the time that I established the
ancient nation. And let them declare to them the
things that are coming And the events that are going
to take place.
ISA 44:8 'Do not tremble and do not be
afraid; Have I not long since announced it to you
and declared it? And you are My witnesses. Is there
any God besides Me, Or is there any other Rock? I
know of none.' "
ISA 44:9 Those who fashion a graven image are
all of them futile, and their precious things are of
no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or
know, so that they will be put to shame.
ISA 44:10 Who has fashioned a god or cast an
idol to no profit?
ISA 44:11 Behold, all his companions will be
put to shame, for the craftsmen themselves are mere
men. Let them all assemble themselves, let them
stand up, let them tremble, let them together be put
to shame.
ISA 44:12 The man shapes iron into a cutting
tool, and does his work over the coals, fashioning
it with hammers, and working it with his strong arm.
He also gets hungry and his strength fails; he
drinks no water and becomes weary.
ISA 44:13 Another shapes wood, he extends a
measuring line; he outlines it with red chalk. He
works it with planes, and outlines it with a
compass, and makes it like the form of a man, like
the beauty of man, so that it may sit in a house.
ISA 44:14 Surely he cuts cedars for himself,
and takes a cypress or an oak, and raises it for
himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a
fir, and the rain makes it grow.
ISA 44:15 Then it becomes something for a man
to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself;
he also makes a fire to bake bread. He also makes a
god and worships it; he makes it a graven image, and
falls down before it.
ISA 44:16 Half of it he burns in the fire;
over this half he eats meat as he roasts a roast,
and is satisfied. He also warms himself and says,
"Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire."
ISA 44:17 But the rest of it he makes into a
god, his graven image. He falls down before it and
worships; he also prays to it and says, "Deliver me,
for thou art my god."
ISA 44:18 They do not know, nor do they
understand, for He has smeared over their eyes so
that they cannot see and their hearts so that they
cannot comprehend.
ISA 44:19 And no one recalls, nor is there
knowledge or understanding to say, "I have burned
half of it in the fire, and also have baked bread
over its coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then I make
the rest of it into an abomination, I fall down
before a block of wood!"
ISA 44:20 He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart
has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver himself,
nor say, "Is there not a lie in my right hand?"
ISA 44:21 "Remember these things, O Jacob,
And Israel, for you are My servant; I have formed
you, you are My servant, O Israel, you will not be
forgotten by Me.
ISA 44:22 "I have wiped out your
transgressions like a thick cloud, And your sins
like a heavy mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed
you."
ISA 44:23 Shout for joy, O heavens, for the
Lord has done it! Shout joyfully, you lower parts of
the earth; Break forth into a shout of joy, you
mountains, O forest, and every tree in it; For the
Lord has redeemed Jacob And in Israel He shows forth
His glory.
ISA 44:24 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer,
and the one who formed you from the womb, "I, the
Lord, am the maker of all things, Stretching out the
heavens by Myself, And spreading out the earth all
alone,
ISA 44:25 Causing the omens of boasters to
fail, Making fools out of diviners, Causing wise men
to draw back, And turning their knowledge into
foolishness,
ISA 44:26 Confirming the word of His servant,
And performing the purpose of His messengers. It is
I who says of Jerusalem,' She shall be inhabited!'
And of the cities of Judah,' They shall be built.'
And I will raise up her ruins again.
ISA 44:27 "It is I who says to the depth of
the sea, 'Be dried up!' And I will make your rivers
dry.
ISA 44:28 "It is I who says of Cyrus, 'He is
My shepherd! And he will perform all My desire.' And
he declares of Jerusalem, 'She will be built,' And
of the temple, 'Your foundation will be laid.'"
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Chapter 45
ISA 45:1
Thus says the Lord to Cyrus His anointed, Whom I
have taken by the right hand, To subdue nations
before him, And to loose the loins of kings; To open
doors before him so that gates will not be shut:
ISA 45:2 "I will go before you and make the
rough places smooth; I will shatter the doors of
bronze, and cut through their iron bars.
ISA 45:3 "And I will give you the treasures
of darkness, And hidden wealth of secret places, In
order that you may know that it is I, The Lord, the
God of Israel, who calls you by your name.
ISA 45:4 "For the sake of Jacob My servant,
And Israel My chosen one, I have also called you by
your name; I have given you a title of honor Though
you have not known Me.
ISA 45:5 "I am the Lord, and there is no
other; Besides Me there is no God. I will gird you,
though you have not known Me;
ISA 45:6 That men may know from the rising to
the setting of the sun That there is no one besides
Me. I am the Lord, and there is no other,
ISA 45:7 The One forming light and creating
darkness, Causing well-being and creating calamity;
I am the Lord who does all these.
ISA 45:8 "Drip down, O heavens, from above,
And let the clouds pour down righteousness; Let the
earth open up and salvation bear fruit, And
righteousness spring up with it. I, the Lord, have
created it.
ISA 45:9 "Woe to the one who quarrels with
his Maker - - An earthenware vessel among the
vessels of earth! Will the clay say to the potter,
'What are you doing?' Or the thing you are making
say, 'He has no hands'?
ISA 45:10 "Woe to him who says to a father,
'What are you begetting?' Or to a woman, 'To what
are you giving birth?'"
ISA 45:11 Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of
Israel, and his Maker: "Ask Me about the things to
come concerning My sons, And you shall commit to Me
the work of My hands.
ISA 45:12 "It is I who made the earth, and
created man upon it. I stretched out the heavens
with My hands, And I ordained all their host.
ISA 45:13 "I have aroused him in
righteousness, And I will make all his ways smooth;
He will build My city, and will let My exiles go
free, Without any payment or reward," says the Lord
of hosts.
ISA 45:14 Thus says the Lord, "The products
of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush And the Sabeans,
men of stature, Will come over to you and will be
yours; They will walk behind you, they will come
over in chains And will bow down to you; They will
make supplication to you: 'Surely, God is with you,
and there is none else, No other God.'"
ISA 45:15 Truly, Thou art a God who hides
Himself, O God of Israel, Savior!
ISA 45:16 They will be put to shame and even
humiliated, all of them; The manufacturers of idols
will go away together in humiliation.
ISA 45:17 Israel has been saved by the Lord
With an everlasting salvation; You will not be put
to shame or humiliated To all eternity.
ISA 45:18 For thus says the Lord, who created
the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and
made it, He established it and did not create it a
waste place, But formed it to be inhabited), "I am
the Lord, and there is none else.
ISA 45:19 "I have not spoken in secret, In
some dark land; I did not say to the offspring of
Jacob, 'Seek Me in a waste place'; I, the Lord,
speak righteousness Declaring things that are
upright.
ISA 45:20 "Gather yourselves and come; Draw
near together, you fugitives of the nations; They
have no knowledge, Who carry about their wooden
idol, And pray to a god who cannot save.
ISA 45:21 "Declare and set forth your case;
Indeed, let them consult together. Who has announced
this from of old? Who has long since declared it? Is
it not I, the Lord? And there is no other God
besides Me, A righteous God and a Savior; There is
none except Me.
ISA 45:22 "Turn to Me, and be saved, all the
ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no
other.
ISA 45:23 "I have sworn by Myself, The word
has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness And
will not turn back, That to Me every knee will bow,
every tongue will swear allegiance.
ISA 45:24 "They will say of Me, 'Only in the
Lord are righteousness and strength.' Men will come
to Him, And all who were angry at Him shall be put
to shame.
ISA 45:25 "In the Lord all the offspring of
Israel Will be justified, and will glory."
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Chapter 46
ISA 46:1
Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over; Their images
are consigned to the beasts and the cattle. The
things that you carry are burdensome, A load for the
weary beast.
ISA 46:2 They stooped over, they have bowed
down together; They could not rescue the burden, But
have themselves gone into captivity.
ISA 46:3 "Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, And
all the remnant of the house of Israel, You who have
been borne by Me from birth, And have been carried
from the womb;
ISA 46:4 Even to your old age, I shall be the
same, And even to your graying years I shall bear
you! I have done it, and I shall carry you; And I
shall bear you, and I shall deliver you.
ISA 46:5 "To whom would you liken Me, And
make Me equal and compare Me, That we should be
alike?
ISA 46:6 "Those who lavish gold from the
purse And weigh silver on the scale Hire a
goldsmith, and he makes it into a god; They bow
down, indeed they worship it.
ISA 46:7 "They lift it upon the shoulder and
carry it; They set it in its place and it stands
there. It does not move from its place. Though one
may cry to it, it cannot answer; It cannot deliver
him from his distress.
ISA 46:8 "Remember this, and be assured;
Recall it to mind, you transgressors.
ISA 46:9 "Remember the former things long
past, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God,
and there is no one like Me,
ISA 46:10 Declaring the end from the
beginning And from ancient times things which have
not been done, Saying,' My purpose will be
established, And I will accomplish all My good
pleasure';
ISA 46:11 Calling a bird of prey from the
east, The man of My purpose from a far country.
Truly I have spoken; truly I will bring it to pass.
I have planned it, surely I will do it.
ISA 46:12 "Listen to Me, you stubborn-minded,
Who are far from righteousness.
ISA 46:13 "I bring near My righteousness, it
is not far off; And My salvation will not delay. And
I will grant salvation in Zion, And My glory for
Israel.
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Chapter 47
ISA 47:1
"Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of
Babylon; Sit on the ground without a throne, O
daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no longer
be called tender and delicate.
ISA 47:2 "Take the millstones and grind meal.
Remove your veil, strip off the skirt, Uncover the
leg, cross the rivers.
ISA 47:3 "Your nakedness will be uncovered,
Your shame also will be exposed; I will take
vengeance and will not spare a man."
ISA 47:4 Our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts is
His name, The Holy One of Israel.
ISA 47:5 "Sit silently, and go into darkness,
O daughter of the Chaldeans; For you will no more be
called The queen of kingdoms.
ISA 47:6 "I was angry with My people, I
profaned My heritage, And gave them into your hand.
You did not show mercy to them, On the aged you made
your yoke very heavy.
ISA 47:7 "Yet you said, 'I shall be a queen
forever.' These things you did not consider, Nor
remember the outcome of them.
ISA 47:8 "Now, then, hear this, you sensual
one, Who dwells securely, Who says in your heart, 'I
am, and there is no one besides me. I shall not sit
as a widow, Nor shall I know loss of children.'
ISA 47:9 "But these two things shall come on
you suddenly in one day: Loss of children and
widowhood. They shall come on you in full measure In
spite of your many sorceries, In spite of the great
power of your spells.
ISA 47:10 "And you felt secure in your
wickedness and said, 'No one sees me,' Your wisdom
and your knowledge, they have deluded you; For you
have said in your heart, 'I am, and there is no one
besides me.'
ISA 47:11 "But evil will come on you Which
you will not know how to charm away; And disaster
will fall on you For which you cannot atone, And
destruction about which you do not know Will come on
you suddenly.
ISA 47:12 "Stand fast now in your spells And
in your many sorceries With which you have labored
from your youth; Perhaps you will be able to profit,
Perhaps you may cause trembling.
ISA 47:13 "You are wearied with your many
counsels; Let now the astrologers, Those who
prophesy by the stars, Those who predict by the new
moons, Stand up and save you from what will come
upon you.
ISA 47:14 "Behold, they have become like
stubble, Fire burns them; They cannot deliver
themselves from the power of the flame; There will
be no coal to warm by, Nor a fire to sit before!
ISA 47:15 "So have those become to you with
whom you have labored, Who have trafficked with you
from your youth; Each has wandered in his own way.
There is none to save you.
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Chapter 48
ISA 48:1
"Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are named Israel
And who came 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.
ISA 48:2 "For they call themselves after the
holy city, And lean on the God of Israel; The Lord
of hosts is His name.
ISA 48:3 "I declared the former things long
ago And they went forth from My mouth, and I
proclaimed them. Suddenly I acted, and they came to
pass.
ISA 48:4 "Because I know that you are
obstinate, And your neck is an iron sinew, And your
forehead bronze,
ISA 48:5 Therefore I declared them to you
long ago, Before they took place I proclaimed them
to you, Lest you should say,' My idol has done them,
And my graven image and my molten image have
commanded them.'
ISA 48:6 "You have heard; look at all this.
And you, will you not declare it? I proclaim to you
new things from this time, Even hidden things which
you have not known.
ISA 48:7 "They are created now and not long
ago; And before today you have not heard them, Lest
you should say, 'Behold, I knew them.'
ISA 48:8 "You have not heard, you have not
known. Even from long ago your ear has not been
open, Because I knew that you would deal very
treacherously; And you have been called a rebel from
birth.
ISA 48:9 "For the sake of My name I delay My
wrath, And for My praise I restrain it for you, In
order not to cut you off.
ISA 48:10 "Behold, I have refined you, but
not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of
affliction.
ISA 48:11 "For My own sake, for My own sake,
I will act; For how can My name be profaned? And My
glory I will not give to another.
ISA 48:12 "Listen to Me, O Jacob, even Israel
whom I called; I am He, I am the first, I am also
the last.
ISA 48:13 "Surely My hand founded the earth,
And My right hand spread out the heavens; When I
call to them, they stand together.
ISA 48:14 "Assemble, all of you, and listen!
Who among them has declared these things? The Lord
loves him; he shall carry out His good pleasure on
Babylon, And His arm shall be against the Chaldeans.
ISA 48:15 "I, even I, have spoken; indeed I
have called him, I have brought him, and He will
make his ways successful.
ISA 48:16 "Come near to Me, listen to this:
From the first I have not spoken in secret, From the
time it took place, I was there. And now the Lord
God has sent Me, and His Spirit."
ISA 48:17 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 in the way you
should go.
ISA 48:18 "If only you had paid attention to
My commandments! Then your well-being would have
been like a river, And your righteousness like the
waves of the sea.
ISA 48:19 "Your descendants would have been
like the sand, And your offspring like its grains;
Their name would never be cut off or destroyed from
My presence."
ISA 48:20 Go forth from Babylon! Flee from
the Chaldeans! Declare with the sound of joyful
shouting, proclaim this, Send it out to the end of
the earth; Say, "The Lord has redeemed His servant
Jacob."
ISA 48:21 And they did not thirst when He led
them through the deserts. He made the water flow out
of the rock for them; He split the rock, and the
water gushed forth.
ISA 48:22 "There is no peace for the wicked,"
says the Lord.
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Chapter 49
ISA 49:1
Listen to Me, O islands, And pay attention, you
peoples from afar. The Lord called Me from the womb;
From the body of My mother He named Me.
ISA 49:2 And He has made My mouth like a
sharp sword; In the shadow of His hand He has
concealed Me, And He has also made Me a select
arrow; He has hidden Me in His quiver.
ISA 49:3 And He said to Me, "You are My
Servant, Israel, In Whom I will show My glory."
ISA 49:4 But I said, "I have toiled in vain,
I have spent My strength for nothing and vanity; Yet
surely the justice due to Me is with the Lord, And
My reward with My God."
ISA 49:5 And now says the Lord, who formed Me
from the womb to be His Servant, To bring Jacob back
to Him, in order that Israel might be gathered to
Him (For I am honored in the sight of the Lord, And
My God is My strength),
ISA 49:6 He says, "It is too small a thing
that You should be My Servant To raise up the tribes
of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones of
Israel; I will also make You a light of the nations
So that My salvation may reach to the end of the
earth."
ISA 49:7 Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of
Israel, and its Holy One, To the despised One, To
the One abhorred by the nation, To the Servant of
rulers, "Kings shall see and arise, Princes shall
also bow down; Because of the Lord who is faithful,
the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You."
ISA 49:8 Thus says the Lord, "In a favorable
time I have answered You, And in a day of salvation
I have helped You; And I will keep You and give You
for a covenant of the people, To restore the land,
to make them inherit the desolate heritages;
ISA 49:9 Saying to those who are bound,' Go
forth,' To those who are in darkness,' Show
yourselves.' Along the roads they will feed, And
their pasture will be on all bare heights.
ISA 49:10 "They will not hunger or thirst,
Neither will the scorching heat or sun strike them
down; For He who has compassion on them will lead
them, And will guide them to springs of water.
ISA 49:11 "And I will make all My mountains a
road, And My highways will be raised up.
ISA 49:12 "Behold, these shall come from
afar; And lo, these will come from the north and
from the west, And these from the land of Sinim."
ISA 49:13 Shout for joy, O heavens! And
rejoice, O earth! Break forth into joyful shouting,
O mountains! For the Lord has comforted His people,
And will have compassion on His afflicted.
ISA 49:14 But Zion said, "The Lord has
forsaken me, And the Lord has forgotten me."
ISA 49:15 "Can a woman forget her nursing
child, And have no compassion on the son of her
womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget
you.
ISA 49:16 "Behold, I have inscribed you on
the palms of My hands; Your walls are continually
before Me.
ISA 49:17 "Your builders hurry; Your
destroyers and devastators Will depart from you.
ISA 49:18 "Lift up your eyes and look around;
All of them gather together, they come to you. As I
live," declares the Lord, "You shall surely put on
all of them as jewels, and bind them on as a bride.
ISA 49:19 "For your waste and desolate
places, and your destroyed land - - Surely now you
will be too cramped for the inhabitants, And those
who swallowed you will be far away.
ISA 49:20 "The children of whom you were
bereaved will yet say in your ears, 'The place is
too cramped for me; Make room for me that I may live
here.'
ISA 49:21 "Then you will say in your heart,
'Who has begotten these for me, Since I have been
bereaved of my children, And am barren, an exile and
a wanderer? And who has reared these? Behold, I was
left alone; From where did these come?'"
ISA 49:22 Thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I
will lift up My hand to the nations, And set up My
standard to the peoples; And they will bring your
sons in their bosom, And your daughters will be
carried on their shoulders.
ISA 49:23 "And kings will be your guardians,
And their princesses your nurses. They will bow down
to you with their faces to the earth, And lick the
dust of your feet; And you will know that I am the
Lord; Those who hopefully wait for Me will not be
put to shame.
ISA 49:24 "Can the prey be taken from the
mighty man, Or the captives of a tyrant be rescued?"
ISA 49:25 Surely, thus says the Lord, "Even
the captives of the mighty man will be taken away,
And the prey of the tyrant will be rescued; For I
will contend with the one who contends with you, And
I will save your sons.
ISA 49:26 "And I will feed your oppressors
with their own flesh, And they will become drunk
with their own blood as with sweet wine; And all
flesh will know that I, the Lord, am your Savior,
And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."
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Chapter 50
ISA 50:1
Thus says the Lord, "Where is the certificate of
divorce, By which I have sent your mother away? Or
to whom of My creditors did I sell you? Behold, you
were sold for your iniquities, And for your
transgressions your mother was sent away.
ISA 50:2 "Why was there no man when I came?
When I called, why was there none to answer? Is My
hand so short that it cannot ransom? Or have I no
power to deliver? Behold, I dry up the sea with My
rebuke, I make the rivers a wilderness; Their fish
stink for lack of water, And die of thirst.
ISA 50:3 "I clothe the heavens with
blackness, And I make sackcloth their covering."
ISA 50:4 The Lord God has given Me the tongue
of disciples, That I may know how to sustain the
weary one with a word. He awakens Me morning by
morning, He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.
ISA 50:5 The Lord God has opened My ear; And
I was not disobedient, Nor did I turn back.
ISA 50:6 I gave My back to those who strike
Me, And My cheeks to those who pluck out the beard;
I did not cover My face from humiliation and
spitting.
ISA 50:7 For the Lord God helps Me,
Therefore, I am not disgraced; Therefore, I have set
My face like flint, And I know that I shall not be
ashamed.
ISA 50:8 He who vindicates Me is near; Who
will contend with Me? Let us stand up to each other;
Who has a case against Me? Let him draw near to Me.
ISA 50:9 Behold, the Lord God helps Me; Who
is he who condemns Me? Behold, they will all wear
out like a garment; The moth will eat them.
ISA 50:10 Who is among you that fears the
Lord, That obeys the voice of His servant, That
walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in
the name of the Lord and rely on his God.
ISA 50:11 Behold, all you who kindle a fire,
Who encircle yourselves with firebrands, Walk in the
light of your fire And among the brands you have set
ablaze. This you will have from My hand; And you
will lie down in torment.
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Chapter 51
ISA 51:1
"Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, Who
seek the Lord: Look to the rock from which you were
hewn, And to the quarry from which you were dug.
ISA 51:2 "Look to Abraham your father, And to
Sarah who gave birth to you in pain; When he was one
I called him, Then I blessed him and multiplied
him."
ISA 51:3 Indeed, the Lord will comfort Zion;
He will comfort all her waste places. And her
wilderness He will make like Eden, And her desert
like the garden of the Lord; Joy and gladness will
be found in her, Thanksgiving and sound of a melody.
ISA 51:4 "Pay attention to Me, O My people;
And give ear to Me, O My nation; For a law will go
forth from Me, And I will set My justice for a light
of the peoples.
ISA 51:5 "My righteousness is near, My
salvation has gone forth, And My arms will judge the
peoples; The coastlands will wait for Me, And for My
arm they will wait expectantly.
ISA 51:6 "Lift up your eyes to the sky, Then
look to the earth beneath; For the sky will vanish
like smoke, And the earth will wear out like a
garment, And its inhabitants will die in like
manner, But My salvation shall be forever, And My
righteousness shall not wane.
ISA 51:7 "Listen to Me, you who know
righteousness, A people in whose heart is My law; Do
not fear the reproach of man, Neither be dismayed at
their revilings.
ISA 51:8 "For the moth will eat them like a
garment, And the grub will eat them like wool. But
My righteousness shall be forever, And My salvation
to all generations."
ISA 51:9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm
of the Lord; Awake as in the days of old, the
generations of long ago. Was it not Thou who cut
Rahab in pieces, Who pierced the dragon?
ISA 51:10 Was it not Thou who dried up the
sea, The waters of the great deep; Who made the
depths of the sea a pathway For the redeemed to
cross over?
ISA 51:11 So the ransomed of the Lord will
return, And come with joyful shouting to Zion; And
everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will
obtain gladness and joy, And sorrow and sighing will
flee away.
ISA 51:12 "I, even I, am He who comforts you.
Who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, And
of the son of man who is made like grass;
ISA 51:13 That you have forgotten the Lord
your Maker, Who stretched out the heavens, And laid
the foundations of the earth; That you fear
continually all day long because of the fury of the
oppressor, As he makes ready to destroy? But where
is the fury of the oppressor?
ISA 51:14 "The exile will soon be set free,
and will not die in the dungeon, nor will his bread
be lacking.
ISA 51:15 "For I am the Lord your God, who
stirs up the sea and its waves roar (the Lord of
hosts is His name).
ISA 51:16 "And I have put My words in your
mouth, and have covered you with the shadow of My
hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth,
and to say to Zion, 'You are My people.'"
ISA 51:17 Rouse yourself! Rouse yourself!
Arise, O Jerusalem, You who have drunk from the
Lord's hand the cup of His anger; The chalice of
reeling you have drained to the dregs.
ISA 51:18 There is none to guide her among
all the sons she has borne; Nor is there one to take
her by the hand among all the sons she has reared.
ISA 51:19 These two things have befallen you;
Who will mourn for you? The devastation and
destruction, famine and sword; How shall I comfort
you?
ISA 51:20 Your sons have fainted, They lie
helpless at the head of every street, Like an
antelope in a net, Full of the wrath of the Lord,
The rebuke of your God.
ISA 51:21 Therefore, please hear this, you
afflicted, Who are drunk, but not with wine:
ISA 51:22 Thus says your Lord, the Lord, even
your God Who contends for His people, "Behold, I
have taken out of your hand the cup of reeling; The
chalice of My anger, You will never drink it again.
ISA 51:23 "And I will put it into the hand of
your tormentors, Who have said to you, 'Lie down
that we may walk over you.' You have even made your
back like the ground, And like the street for those
who walk over it."
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Chapter 52
ISA 52:1
Awake, awake, Clothe yourself in your strength, O
Zion; Clothe yourself in your beautiful garments, O
Jerusalem, the holy city. For the uncircumcised and
the unclean Will no more come into you.
ISA 52:2 Shake yourself from the dust, rise
up, O captive Jerusalem; Loose yourself from the
chains around your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
ISA 52:3 For thus says the Lord, "You were
sold for nothing and you will be redeemed without
money."
ISA 52:4 For thus says the Lord God, "My
people went down at the first into Egypt to reside
there, then the Assyrian oppressed them without
cause.
ISA 52:5 "Now therefore, what do I have
here," declares the Lord, "seeing that My people
have been taken away without cause?" Again the Lord
declares, "Those who rule over them howl, and My
name is continually blasphemed all day long.
ISA 52:6 "Therefore My people shall know My
name; therefore in that day I am the one who is
speaking, 'Here I am.'"
ISA 52:7 How lovely on the mountains Are the
feet of him who brings good news, Who announces
peace And brings good news of happiness, Who
announces salvation, And says to Zion, "Your God
reigns!"
ISA 52:8 Listen! Your watchmen lift up their
voices, They shout joyfully together; For they will
see with their own eyes When the Lord restores Zion.
ISA 52:9 Break forth, shout joyfully
together, You waste places of Jerusalem; For the
Lord has comforted His people, He has redeemed
Jerusalem.
ISA 52:10 The Lord has bared His holy arm In
the sight of all the nations, That all the ends of
the earth may see The salvation of our God.
ISA 52:11 Depart, depart, go out from there,
Touch nothing unclean; Go out of the midst of her,
purify yourselves, You who carry the vessels of the
Lord.
ISA 52:12 But you will not go out in haste,
Nor will you go as fugitives; For the Lord will go
before you, And the God of Israel will be your rear
guard.
ISA 52:13 Behold, My servant will prosper, He
will be high and lifted up, and greatly exalted.
ISA 52:14 Just as many were astonished at
you, My people, So His appearance was marred more
than any man, And His form more than the sons of
men.
ISA 52:15 Thus He will sprinkle many nations,
Kings will shut their mouths on account of Him; For
what had not been told them they will see, And what
they had not heard they will understand.
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Chapter 53
ISA 53:1
Who has believed our message? And to whom has the
arm of the Lord been revealed?
ISA 53:2 For He grew up before Him like a
tender shoot, And like a root out of parched ground;
He has no stately form or majesty That we should
look upon Him, Nor appearance that we should be
attracted to Him.
ISA 53:3 He was despised and forsaken of men,
A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; And
like one from whom men hide their face, He was
despised, and we did not esteem Him.
ISA 53:4 Surely our griefs He Himself bore,
And our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves
esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and
afflicted.
ISA 53:5 But He was pierced through for our
transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities;
The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And
by His scourging we are healed.
ISA 53:6 All of us like sheep have gone
astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But
the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all To fall
on Him.
ISA 53:7 He was oppressed and He was
afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth; Like a
lamb that is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that
is silent before its shearers, So He did not open
His mouth.
ISA 53:8 By oppression and judgment He was
taken away; And as for His generation, who
considered That He was cut off out of the land of
the living, For the transgression of my people to
whom the stroke was due?
ISA 53:9 His grave was assigned with wicked
men, Yet He was with a rich man in His death,
Because He had done no violence, Nor was there any
deceit in His mouth.
ISA 53:10 But the Lord was pleased To crush
Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render
Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His
offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good
pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.
ISA 53:11 As a result of the anguish of His
soul, He will see it and be satisfied; By His
knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will
justify the many, As He will bear their iniquities.
ISA 53:12 Therefore, I will allot Him a
portion with the great, And He will divide the booty
with the strong; Because He poured out Himself to
death, And was numbered with the transgressors; Yet
He Himself bore the sin of many, And interceded for
the transgressors.
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Chapter 54
ISA 54:1
"Shout for joy, O barren one, you who have borne no
child; Break forth into joyful shouting and cry
aloud, you who have not travailed; For the sons of
the desolate one will be more numerous Than the sons
of the married woman," says the Lord.
ISA 54:2 "Enlarge the place of your tent;
Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, spare
not; Lengthen your cords, And strengthen your pegs.
ISA 54:3 "For you will spread abroad to the
right and to the left. And your descendants will
possess nations, And they will resettle the desolate
cities.
ISA 54:4 "Fear not, for you will not be put
to shame; Neither feel humiliated, for you will not
be disgraced; But you will forget the shame of your
youth, And the reproach of your widowhood you will
remember no more.
ISA 54:5 "For your husband is your Maker,
Whose name is the Lord of hosts; And your Redeemer
is the Holy One of Israel, Who is called the God of
all the earth.
ISA 54:6 "For the Lord has called you, Like a
wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, Even like a
wife of one's youth when she is rejected," Says your
God.
ISA 54:7 "For a brief moment I forsook you,
But with great compassion I will gather you.
ISA 54:8 "In an outburst of anger I hid My
face from you for a moment; But with everlasting
lovingkindness I will have compassion on you," Says
the Lord your Redeemer.
ISA 54:9 "For this is like the days of Noah
to Me; When I swore that the waters of Noah Should
not flood the earth again, So I have sworn that I
will not be angry with you, Nor will I rebuke you.
ISA 54:10 "For the mountains may be removed
and the hills may shake, But My lovingkindness will
not be removed from you, And My covenant of peace
will not be shaken," Says the Lord who has
compassion on you.
ISA 54:11 "O afflicted one, storm-tossed, and
not comforted, Behold, I will set your stones in
antimony, And your foundations I will lay in
sapphires.
ISA 54:12 "Moreover, I will make your
battlements of rubies, And your gates of crystal,
And your entire wall of precious stones.
ISA 54:13 "And all your sons will be taught
of the Lord; And the well-being of your sons will be
great.
ISA 54:14 "In righteousness you will be
established; You will be far from oppression, for
you will not fear; And from terror, for it will not
come near you.
ISA 54:15 "If anyone fiercely assails you it
will not be from Me. Whoever assails you will fall
because of you.
ISA 54:16 "Behold, I Myself have created the
smith who blows the fire of coals, And brings out a
weapon for its work; And I have created the
destroyer to ruin.
ISA 54:17 "No weapon that is formed against
you shall prosper; And every tongue that accuses you
in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage
of the servants of the Lord, And their vindication
is from Me," declares the Lord.
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Chapter 55
ISA 55:1
"Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters; And
you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy
wine and milk Without money and without cost.
ISA 55:2 "Why do you spend money for what is
not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And
delight yourself in abundance.
ISA 55:3 "Incline your ear and come to Me.
Listen, that you may live; And I will make an
everlasting covenant with you, According to the
faithful mercies shown to David.
ISA 55:4 "Behold, I have made him a witness
to the peoples, A leader and commander for the
peoples.
ISA 55:5 "Behold, you will call a nation you
do not know, And a nation which knows you not will
run to you, Because of the Lord your God, even the
Holy One of Israel; For He has glorified you."
ISA 55:6 Seek the Lord while He may be found;
Call upon Him while He is near.
ISA 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, And
the unrighteous man his thoughts; And let him return
to the Lord, And He will have compassion on him; And
to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.
ISA 55:8 "For My thoughts are not your
thoughts, Neither are your ways My ways," declares
the Lord.
ISA 55:9 "For as the heavens are higher than
the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And
My thoughts than your thoughts.
ISA 55:10 "For as the rain and the snow come
down from heaven, And do not return there without
watering the earth, And making it bear and sprout,
And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the
eater;
ISA 55:11 So shall My word be which goes
forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me
empty, Without accomplishing what I desire, And
without succeeding in the matter for which I sent
it.
ISA 55:12 "For you will go out with joy, And
be led forth with peace; The mountains and the hills
will break forth into shouts of joy before you, And
all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
ISA 55:13 "Instead of the thorn bush the
cypress will come up; And instead of the nettle the
myrtle will come up; And it will be a memorial to
the Lord, For an everlasting sign which will not be
cut off."
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Chapter 56
ISA 56:1
Thus says the Lord, "Preserve justice, and do
righteousness, For My salvation is about to come And
My righteousness to be revealed.
ISA 56:2 "How blessed is the man who does
this, And the son of man who takes hold of it; Who
keeps from profaning the sabbath, And keeps his hand
from doing any evil."
ISA 56:3 Let not the foreigner who has joined
himself to the Lord say, "The Lord will surely
separate me from His people." Neither let the eunuch
say, "Behold, I am a dry tree."
ISA 56:4 For thus says the Lord, "To the
eunuchs who keep My sabbaths, And choose what
pleases Me, And hold fast My covenant,
ISA 56:5 To them I will give in My house and
within My walls a memorial, And a name better than
that of sons and daughters; I will give them an
everlasting name which will not be cut off.
ISA 56:6 "Also the foreigners who join
themselves to the Lord, To minister to Him, and to
love the name of the Lord, To be His servants, every
one who keeps from profaning the sabbath, And holds
fast My covenant;
ISA 56:7 Even those I will bring to My holy
mountain, And make them joyful in My house of
prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
will be acceptable on My altar; For My house will be
called a house of prayer for all the peoples."
ISA 56:8 The Lord God, who gathers the
dispersed of Israel, declares, "Yet others I will
gather to them, to those already gathered."
ISA 56:9 All you beasts of the field, All you
beasts in the forest, Come to eat.
ISA 56:10 His watchmen are blind, All of them
know nothing. All of them are dumb dogs unable to
bark, Dreamers lying down, who love to slumber;
ISA 56:11 And the dogs are greedy, they are
not satisfied. And they are shepherds who have no
understanding; They have all turned to their own
way, Each one to his unjust gain, to the last one.
ISA 56:12 "Come," they say, "let us get wine,
and let us drink heavily of strong drink; And
tomorrow will be like today, only more so."
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Chapter 57
ISA 57:1
The righteous man perishes, and no man takes it to
heart; And devout men are taken away, while no one
understands. For the righteous man is taken away
from evil,
ISA 57:2 He enters into peace; They rest in
their beds, Each one who walked in his upright way.
ISA 57:3 "But come here, you sons of a
sorceress, Offspring of an adulterer and a
prostitute.
ISA 57:4 "Against whom do you jest? Against
whom do you open wide your mouth And stick out your
tongue? Are you not children of rebellion, Offspring
of deceit,
ISA 57:5 Who inflame yourselves among the
oaks, Under every luxuriant tree, Who slaughter the
children in the ravines, Under the clefts of the
crags?
ISA 57:6 "Among the smooth stones of the
ravine Is your portion, they are your lot; Even to
them you have poured out a libation, You have made a
grain offering. Shall I relent concerning these
things?
ISA 57:7 "Upon a high and lofty mountain You
have made your bed. You also went up there to offer
sacrifice.
ISA 57:8 "And behind the door and the
doorpost You have set up your sign; Indeed, far
removed from Me, you have uncovered yourself; And
have gone up and made your bed wide. And you have
made an agreement for yourself with them, You have
loved their bed, You have looked on their manhood.
ISA 57:9 "And you have journeyed to the king
with oil And increased your perfumes; You have sent
your envoys a great distance, And made them go down
to Sheol.
ISA 57:10 "You were tired out by the length
of your road, Yet you did not say, 'It is hopeless.'
You found renewed strength, Therefore you did not
faint.
ISA 57:11 "Of whom were you worried and
fearful, When you lied, and did not remember Me, Nor
give Me a thought? Was I not silent even for a long
time So you do not fear Me?
ISA 57:12 "I will declare your righteousness
and your deeds, But they will not profit you.
ISA 57:13 "When you cry out, let your
collection of idols deliver you. But the wind will
carry all of them up, And a breath will take them
away. But he who takes refuge in Me shall inherit
the land, And shall possess My holy mountain."
ISA 57:14 And it shall be said, "Build up,
build up, prepare the way, Remove every obstacle out
of the way of My people."
ISA 57:15 For thus says the high and exalted
One Who lives forever, whose name is Holy, "I dwell
on a high and holy place, And also with the contrite
and lowly of spirit In order to revive the spirit of
the lowly And to revive the heart of the contrite.
ISA 57:16 "For I will not contend forever,
Neither will I always be angry; For the spirit would
grow faint before Me, And the breath of those whom I
have made.
ISA 57:17 "Because of the iniquity of his
unjust gain I was angry and struck him; I hid My
face and was angry, And he went on turning away, in
the way of his heart.
ISA 57:18 "I have seen his ways, but I will
heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him
and to his mourners,
ISA 57:19 Creating the praise of the lips.
Peace, peace to him who is far and to him who is
near, "Says the Lord," and I will heal him."
ISA 57:20 But the wicked are like the tossing
sea, For it cannot be quiet, And its waters toss up
refuse and mud.
ISA 57:21 "There is no peace," says my God,
"for the wicked."
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Chapter 58
ISA 58:1
"Cry loudly, do not hold back; Raise your voice like
a trumpet, And declare to My people their
transgression, And to the house of Jacob their sins.
ISA 58:2 "Yet they seek Me day by day, and
delight to know My ways, As a nation that has done
righteousness, And has not forsaken the ordinance of
their God. They ask Me for just decisions, They
delight in the nearness of God.
ISA 58:3 'Why have we fasted and Thou dost
not see? Why have we humbled ourselves and Thou dost
not notice?' Behold, on the day of your fast you
find your desire, And drive hard all your workers.
ISA 58:4 "Behold, you fast for contention and
strife and to strike with a wicked fist. You do not
fast like you do today to make your voice heard on
high.
ISA 58:5 "Is it a fast like this which I
choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it for
bowing one's head like a reed, And for spreading out
sackcloth and ashes as a bed? Will you call this a
fast, even an acceptable day to the Lord?
ISA 58:6 "Is this not the fast which I
choose, To loosen the bonds of wickedness, To undo
the bands of the yoke, And to let the oppressed go
free, And break every yoke?
ISA 58:7 "Is it not to divide your bread with
the hungry, And bring the homeless poor into the
house; When you see the naked, to cover him; And not
to hide yourself from your own flesh?
ISA 58:8 "Then your light will break out like
the dawn, And your recovery will speedily spring
forth; And your righteousness will go before you;
The glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.
ISA 58:9 "Then you will call, and the Lord
will answer; You will cry, and He will say, 'Here I
am.' If you remove the yoke from your midst, The
pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,
ISA 58:10 And if you give yourself to the
hungry, And satisfy the desire of the afflicted,
Then your light will rise in darkness, And your
gloom will become like midday.
ISA 58:11 "And the Lord will continually
guide you, And satisfy your desire in scorched
places, And give strength to your bones; And you
will be like a watered garden, And like a spring of
water whose waters do not fail.
ISA 58:12 "And those from among you will
rebuild the ancient ruins; You will raise up the
age-old foundations; And you will be called the
repairer of the breach, The restorer of the streets
in which to dwell.
ISA 58:13 "If because of the sabbath, you
turn your foot From doing your own pleasure on My
holy day, And call the sabbath a delight, the holy
day of the Lord honorable, And shall honor it,
desisting from your own ways, From seeking your own
pleasure, And speaking your own word,
ISA 58:14 Then you will take delight in the
Lord, And I will make you ride on the heights of the
earth; And I will feed you with the heritage of
Jacob your father, For the mouth of the Lord has
spoken."
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Chapter 59
ISA 59:1
Behold, the Lord's hand is not so short That it
cannot save; Neither is His ear so dull That it
cannot hear.
ISA 59:2 But your iniquities have made a
separation between you and your God, And your sins
have hidden His face from you, so that He does not
hear.
ISA 59:3 For your hands are defiled with
blood, And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips
have spoken falsehood, Your tongue mutters
wickedness.
ISA 59:4 No one sues righteously and no one
pleads honestly. They trust in confusion, and speak
lies; They conceive mischief, and bring forth
iniquity.
ISA 59:5 They hatch adders' eggs and weave
the spider's web; He who eats of their eggs dies,
And from that which is crushed a snake breaks forth.
ISA 59:6 Their webs will not become clothing,
Nor will they cover themselves with their works;
Their works are works of iniquity, And an act of
violence is in their hands.
ISA 59:7 Their feet run to evil, And they
hasten to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are
thoughts of iniquity; Devastation and destruction
are in their highways.
ISA 59:8 They do not know the way of peace,
And there is no justice in their tracks; They have
made their paths crooked; Whoever treads on them
does not know peace.
ISA 59:9 Therefore, justice is far from us,
And righteousness does not overtake us; We hope for
light, but behold, darkness; For brightness, but we
walk in gloom.
ISA 59:10 We grope along the wall like blind
men, We grope like those who have no eyes; We
stumble at midday as in the twilight, Among those
who are vigorous we are like dead men.
ISA 59:11 All of us growl like bears, And
moan sadly like doves; We hope for justice, but
there is none, For salvation, but it is far from us.
ISA 59:12 For our transgressions are
multiplied before Thee, And our sins testify against
us; For our transgressions are with us, And we know
our iniquities:
ISA 59:13 Transgressing and denying the Lord,
And turning away from our God, Speaking oppression
and revolt, Conceiving in and uttering from the
heart lying words.
ISA 59:14 And justice is turned back, And
righteousness stands far away; For truth has
stumbled in the street, And uprightness cannot
enter.
ISA 59:15 Yes, truth is lacking; And he who
turns aside from evil makes himself a prey. Now the
Lord saw, And it was displeasing in His sight that
there was no justice.
ISA 59:16 And He saw that there was no man,
And was astonished that there was no one to
intercede; Then His own arm brought salvation to
Him; And His righteousness upheld Him.
ISA 59:17 And He put on righteousness like a
breastplate, And a helmet of salvation on His head;
And He put on garments of vengeance for clothing,
And wrapped Himself with zeal as a mantle.
ISA 59:18 According to their deeds, so He
will repay, Wrath to His adversaries, recompense to
His enemies; To the coastlands He will make
recompense.
ISA 59:19 So they will fear the name of the
Lord from the west And His glory from the rising of
the sun, For He will come like a rushing stream,
Which the wind of the Lord drives.
ISA 59:20 "And a Redeemer will come to Zion,
And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,"
declares the Lord.
ISA 59:21 "And as for Me, this is My covenant
with them," says the Lord: "My Spirit which is upon
you, and My words which I have put in your mouth,
shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth
of your offspring, nor from the mouth of your
offspring's offspring," says the Lord, "from now and
forever."
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Chapter 60
ISA 60:1
"Arise, shine; for your light has come, And the
glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
ISA 60:2 "For behold, darkness will cover the
earth, And deep darkness the peoples; But the Lord
will rise upon you, And His glory will appear upon
you.
ISA 60:3 "And nations will come to your
light, And kings to the brightness of your rising.
ISA 60:4 "Lift up your eyes round about, and
see; They all gather together, they come to you.
Your sons will come from afar, And your daughters
will be carried in the arms.
ISA 60:5 "Then you will see and be radiant,
And your heart will thrill and rejoice; Because the
abundance of the sea will be turned to you, The
wealth of the nations will come to you.
ISA 60:6 "A multitude of camels will cover
you, The young camels of Midian and Ephah; All those
from Sheba will come; They will bring gold and
frankincense, And will bear good news of the praises
of the Lord.
ISA 60:7 "All the flocks of Kedar will be
gathered together to you, The rams of Nebaioth will
minister to you; They will go up with acceptance on
My altar, And I shall glorify My glorious house.
ISA 60:8 "Who are these who fly like a cloud,
And like the doves to their lattices?
ISA 60:9 "Surely the coastlands will wait for
Me; And the ships of Tarshish will come first, To
bring your sons from afar, Their silver and their
gold with them, For the name of the Lord your God,
And for the Holy One of Israel because He has
glorified you.
ISA 60:10 "And foreigners will build up your
walls, And their kings will minister to you; For in
My wrath I struck you, And in My favor I have had
compassion on you.
ISA 60:11 "And your gates will be open
continually; They will not be closed day or night,
So that men may bring to you the wealth of the
nations, With their kings led in procession.
ISA 60:12 "For the nation and the kingdom
which will not serve you will perish, And the
nations will be utterly ruined.
ISA 60:13 "The glory of Lebanon will come to
you, The juniper, the box tree, and the cypress
together, To beautify the place of My sanctuary; And
I shall make the place of My feet glorious.
ISA 60:14 "And the sons of those who
afflicted you will come bowing to you, And all those
who despised you will bow themselves at the soles of
your feet; And they will call you the city of the
Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
ISA 60:15 "Whereas you have been forsaken and
hated With no one passing through, I will make you
an everlasting pride, A joy from generation to
generation.
ISA 60:16 "You will also suck the milk of
nations, And will suck the breast of kings; Then you
will know that I, the Lord, am your Savior, And your
Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
ISA 60:17 "Instead of bronze I will bring
gold, And instead of iron I will bring silver, And
instead of wood, bronze, And instead of stones,
iron. And I will make peace your administrators, And
righteousness your overseers.
ISA 60:18 "Violence will not be heard again
in your land, Nor devastation or destruction within
your borders; But you will call your walls
salvation, and your gates praise.
ISA 60:19 "No longer will you have the sun
for light by day, Nor for brightness will the moon
give you light; But you will have the Lord for an
everlasting light, And your God for your glory.
ISA 60:20 "Your sun will set no more, Neither
will your moon wane; For you will have the Lord for
an everlasting light, And the days of your mourning
will be finished.
ISA 60:21 "Then all your people will be
righteous; They will possess the land forever, The
branch of My planting, The work of My hands, That I
may be glorified.
ISA 60:22 "The smallest one will become a
clan, And the least one a mighty nation. I, the
Lord, will hasten it in its time."
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Chapter 61
ISA 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, Because the
Lord has anointed me To bring good news to the
afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the
brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to captives, And
freedom to prisoners;
ISA 61:2 To proclaim the favorable year of
the Lord, And the day of vengeance of our God; To
comfort all who mourn,
ISA 61:3 To grant those who mourn in Zion,
Giving them a garland instead of ashes, The oil of
gladness instead of mourning, The mantle of praise
instead of a spirit of fainting. So they will be
called oaks of righteousness, The planting of the
Lord, that He may be glorified.
ISA 61:4 Then they will rebuild the ancient
ruins, They will raise up the former devastations,
And they will repair the ruined cities, The
desolations of many generations.
ISA 61:5 And strangers will stand and pasture
your flocks, And foreigners will be your farmers and
your vinedressers.
ISA 61:6 But you will be called the priests
of the Lord; You will be spoken of as ministers of
our God. You will eat the wealth of nations, And in
their riches you will boast.
ISA 61:7 Instead of your shame you will have
a double portion, And instead of humiliation they
will shout for joy over their portion. Therefore
they will possess a double portion in their land,
Everlasting joy will be theirs.
ISA 61:8 For I, the Lord, love justice, I
hate robbery in the burnt offering; And I will
faithfully give them their recompense, And I will
make an everlasting covenant with them.
ISA 61:9 Then their offspring will be known
among the nations, And their descendants in the
midst of the peoples. All who see them will
recognize them Because they are the offspring whom
the Lord has blessed.
ISA 61:10 I will rejoice greatly in the Lord,
My soul will exult in my God; For He has clothed me
with garments of salvation, He has wrapped me with a
robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself
with a garland, And as a bride adorns herself with
her jewels.
ISA 61:11 For as the earth brings forth its
sprouts, And as a garden causes the things sown in
it to spring up, So the Lord God will cause
righteousness and praise To spring up before all the
nations.
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Chapter 62
ISA 62:1
For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, And for
Jerusalem's sake I will not keep quiet, Until her
righteousness goes forth like brightness, And her
salvation like a torch that is burning.
ISA 62:2 And the nations will see your
righteousness, And all kings your glory; And you
will be called by a new name, Which the mouth of the
Lord will designate.
ISA 62:3 You will also be a crown of beauty
in the hand of the Lord, And a royal diadem in the
hand of your God.
ISA 62:4 It will no longer be said to you,
"Forsaken," Nor to your land will it any longer be
said, "Desolate"; But you will be called, "My
delight is in her," And your land, "Married"; For
the Lord delights in you, And to Him your land will
be married.
ISA 62:5 For as a young man marries a virgin,
So your sons will marry you; And as the bridegroom
rejoices over the bride, So your God will rejoice
over you.
ISA 62:6 On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have
appointed watchmen; All day and all night they will
never keep silent. You who remind the Lord, take no
rest for yourselves;
ISA 62:7 And give Him no rest until He
establishes And makes Jerusalem a praise in the
earth.
ISA 62:8 The Lord has sworn by His right hand
and by His strong arm, "I will never again give your
grain as food for your enemies; Nor will foreigners
drink your new wine, for which you have labored."
ISA 62:9 But those who garner it will eat it,
and praise the Lord; And those who gather it will
drink it in the courts of My sanctuary.
ISA 62:10 Go through, go through the gates;
Clear the way for the people; Build up, build up the
highway; Remove the stones, lift up a standard over
the peoples.
ISA 62:11 Behold, the Lord has proclaimed to
the end of the earth, Say to the daughter of Zion,
"Lo, your salvation comes; Behold His reward is with
Him, and His recompense before Him."
ISA 62:12 And they will call them, "The holy
people, The redeemed of the Lord"; And you will be
called, "Sought out, a city not forsaken."
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Chapter 63
ISA 63:1
Who is this who comes from Edom, With garments of
glowing colors from Bozrah, This One who is majestic
in His apparel, Marching in the greatness of His
strength? "It is I who speak in righteousness,
mighty to save."
ISA 63:2 Why is Your apparel red, And Your
garments like the one who treads in the wine press?
ISA 63:3 "I have trodden the wine trough
alone, And from the peoples there was no man with
Me. I also trod them in My anger, And trampled them
in My wrath; And their lifeblood is sprinkled on My
garments, And I stained all My raiment.
ISA 63:4 "For the day of vengeance was in My
heart, And My year of redemption has come.
ISA 63:5 "And I looked, and there was no one
to help, And I was astonished and there was no one
to uphold; So My own arm brought salvation to Me;
And My wrath upheld Me.
ISA 63:6 "And I trod down the peoples in My
anger, And made them drunk in My wrath, And I poured
out their lifeblood on the earth."
ISA 63:7 I shall make mention of the
lovingkindnesses of the Lord, the praises of the
Lord, According to all that the Lord has granted us,
And the great goodness toward the house of Israel,
Which He has granted them according to His
compassion, And according to the multitude of His
lovingkindnesses.
ISA 63:8 For He said, "Surely, they are My
people, Sons who will not deal falsely." So He
became their Savior.
ISA 63:9 In all their affliction He was
afflicted, And the angel of His presence saved them;
In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them; And
He lifted them and carried them all the days of old.
ISA 63:10 But they rebelled And grieved His
Holy Spirit; Therefore, He turned Himself to become
their enemy, He fought against them.
ISA 63:11 Then His people remembered the days
of old, of Moses. Where is He who brought them up
out of the sea with the shepherds of His flock?
Where is He who put His Holy Spirit in the midst of
them,
ISA 63:12 Who caused His glorious arm to go
at the right hand of Moses, Who divided the waters
before them to make for Himself an everlasting name,
ISA 63:13 Who led them through the depths?
Like the horse in the wilderness, they did not
stumble;
ISA 63:14 As the cattle which go down into
the valley, The Spirit of the Lord gave them rest.
So didst Thou lead Thy people, To make for Thyself a
glorious name.
ISA 63:15 Look down from heaven, and see from
Thy holy and glorious habitation; Where are Thy zeal
and Thy mighty deeds? The stirrings of Thy heart and
Thy compassion are restrained toward me.
ISA 63:16 For Thou art our Father, though
Abraham does not know us, And Israel does not
recognize us. Thou, O Lord, art our Father, Our
Redeemer from of old is Thy name.
ISA 63:17 Why, O Lord, dost Thou cause us to
stray from Thy ways, And harden our heart from
fearing Thee? Return for the sake of Thy servants,
the tribes of Thy heritage.
ISA 63:18 Thy holy people possessed Thy
sanctuary for a little while, Our adversaries have
trodden it down.
ISA 63:19 We have become like those over whom
Thou hast never ruled, Like those who were not
called by Thy name.
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Chapter 64
ISA 64:1
Oh, that Thou wouldst rend the heavens and come
down, That the mountains might quake at Thy presence
- -
ISA 64:2 As fire kindles the brushwood, as
fire causes water to boil - - To make Thy name known
to Thine adversaries, That the nations may tremble
at Thy presence!
ISA 64:3 When Thou didst awesome things which
we did not expect, Thou didst come down, the
mountains quaked at Thy presence.
ISA 64:4 For from of old they have not heard
nor perceived by ear, Neither has the eye seen a God
besides Thee, Who acts in behalf of the one who
waits for Him.
ISA 64:5 Thou dost meet him who rejoices in
doing righteousness, Who remembers Thee in Thy ways.
Behold, Thou wast angry, for we sinned, We continued
in them a long time; And shall we be saved?
ISA 64:6 For all of us have become like one
who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like
a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf,
And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
ISA 64:7 And there is no one who calls on Thy
name, Who arouses himself to take hold of Thee; For
Thou hast hidden Thy face from us, And hast
delivered us into the power of our iniquities.
ISA 64:8 But now, O Lord, Thou art our
Father, We are the clay, and Thou our potter; And
all of us are the work of Thy hand.
ISA 64:9 Do not be angry beyond measure, O
Lord, Neither remember iniquity forever; Behold,
look now, all of us are Thy people.
ISA 64:10 Thy holy cities have become a
wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem
a desolation.
ISA 64:11 Our holy and beautiful house, Where
our fathers praised Thee, Has been burned by fire;
And all our precious things have become a ruin.
ISA 64:12 Wilt Thou restrain Thyself at these
things, O Lord? Wilt Thou keep silent and afflict us
beyond measure?
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Chapter 65
ISA 65:1
"I permitted Myself to be sought by those who did
not ask for Me; I permitted Myself to be found by
those who did not seek Me. I said, 'Here am I, here
am I,' To a nation which did not call on My name.
ISA 65:2 "I have spread out My hands all day
long to a rebellious people, Who walk in the way
which is not good, following their own thoughts,
ISA 65:3 A people who continually provoke Me
to My face, Offering sacrifices in gardens and
burning incense on bricks;
ISA 65:4 Who sit among graves, and spend the
night in secret places; Who eat swine's flesh, And
the broth of unclean meat is in their pots.
ISA 65:5 "Who say, 'Keep to yourself, do not
come near me, For I am holier than you!' These are
smoke in My nostrils, A fire that burns all the day.
ISA 65:6 "Behold, it is written before Me, I
will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will even
repay into their bosom,
ISA 65:7 Both their own iniquities and the
iniquities of their fathers together, "says the
Lord." Because they have burned incense on the
mountains, And scorned Me on the hills, Therefore I
will measure their former work into their bosom."
ISA 65:8 Thus says the Lord, "As the new wine
is found in the cluster, And one says, 'Do not
destroy it, for there is benefit in it,' So I will
act on behalf of My servants In order not to destroy
all of them.
ISA 65:9 "And I will bring forth offspring
from Jacob, And an heir of My mountains from Judah;
Even My chosen ones shall inherit it, And My
servants shall dwell there.
ISA 65:10 "And Sharon shall be a pasture land
for flocks, And the valley of Achor a resting place
for herds, For My people who seek Me.
ISA 65:11 "But you who forsake the Lord, Who
forget My holy mountain, Who set a table for
Fortune, And who fill cups with mixed wine for
Destiny,
ISA 65:12 I will destine you for the sword,
And all of you shall bow down to the slaughter.
Because I called, but you did not answer; I spoke,
but you did not hear. And you did evil in My sight,
And chose that in which I did not delight."
ISA 65:13 Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
"Behold, My servants shall eat, but you shall be
hungry. Behold, My servants shall drink, but you
shall be thirsty. Behold, My servants shall rejoice,
but you shall be put to shame.
ISA 65:14 "Behold, My servants shall shout
joyfully with a glad heart, But you shall cry out
with a heavy heart, And you shall wail with a broken
spirit.
ISA 65:15 "And you will leave your name for a
curse to My chosen ones, And the Lord God will slay
you. But My servants will be called by another name.
ISA 65:16 "Because he who is blessed in the
earth Shall be blessed by the God of truth; And he
who swears in the earth Shall swear by the God of
truth; Because the former troubles are forgotten,
And because they are hidden from My sight!
ISA 65:17 "For behold, I create new heavens
and a new earth; And the former things shall not be
remembered or come to mind.
ISA 65:18 "But be glad and rejoice forever in
what I create; For behold, I create Jerusalem for
rejoicing, And her people for gladness.
ISA 65:19 "I will also rejoice in Jerusalem,
and be glad in My people; And there will no longer
be heard in her The voice of weeping and the sound
of crying.
ISA 65:20 "No longer will there be in it an
infant who lives but a few days, Or an old man who
does not live out his days; For the youth will die
at the age of one hundred And the one who does not
reach the age of one hundred Shall be thought
accursed.
ISA 65:21 "And they shall build houses and
inhabit them; They shall also plant vineyards and
eat their fruit.
ISA 65:22 "They shall not build, and another
inhabit, They shall not plant, and another eat; For
as the lifetime of a tree, so shall be the days of
My people, And My chosen ones shall wear out the
work of their hands.
ISA 65:23 "They shall not labor in vain, Or
bear children for calamity; For they are the
offspring of those blessed by the Lord, And their
descendants with them.
ISA 65:24 "It will also come to pass that
before they call, I will answer; and while they are
still speaking, I will hear.
ISA 65:25 "The wolf and the lamb shall graze
together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox;
and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall do
no evil or harm in all My holy mountain," says the
Lord.
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Chapter 66
ISA 66:1
Thus says the Lord, "Heaven is My throne, and the
earth is My footstool. Where then is a house you
could build for Me? And where is a place that I may
rest?
ISA 66:2 "For My hand made all these things,
Thus all these things came into being," declares the
Lord."But to this one I will look, To him who is
humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at
My word.
ISA 66:3 "But he who kills an ox is like one
who slays a man; He who sacrifices a lamb is like
the one who breaks a dog's neck; He who offers a
grain offering is like one who offers swine's blood;
He who burns incense is like the one who blesses an
idol. As they have chosen their own ways, And their
soul delights in their abominations,
ISA 66:4 So I will choose their punishments,
And I will bring on them what they dread. Because I
called, but no one answered; I spoke, but they did
not listen. And they did evil in My sight, And chose
that in which I did not delight."
ISA 66:5 Hear the word of the Lord, you who
tremble at His word: "Your brothers who hate you,
who exclude you for My name's sake, Have said, 'Let
the Lord be glorified, that we may see your joy.'
But they will be put to shame.
ISA 66:6 "A voice of uproar from the city, a
voice from the temple, The voice of the Lord who is
rendering recompense to His enemies.
ISA 66:7 "Before she travailed, she brought
forth; Before her pain came, she gave birth to a
boy.
ISA 66:8 "Who has heard such a thing? Who has
seen such things? Can a land be born in one day? Can
a nation be brought forth all at once? As soon as
Zion travailed, she also brought forth her sons.
ISA 66:9 "Shall I bring to the point of
birth, and not give delivery?" says the Lord."Or
shall I who gives delivery shut the womb?" says your
God.
ISA 66:10 "Be joyful with Jerusalem and
rejoice for her, all you who love her; Be
exceedingly glad with her, all you who mourn over
her,
ISA 66:11 That you may nurse and be satisfied
with her comforting breasts, That you may suck and
be delighted with her bountiful bosom."
ISA 66:12 For thus says the Lord, "Behold, I
extend peace to her like a river, And the glory of
the nations like an overflowing stream; And you
shall be nursed, you shall be carried on the hip and
fondled on the knees.
ISA 66:13 "As one whom his mother comforts,
so I will comfort you; And you shall be comforted in
Jerusalem."
ISA 66:14 Then you shall see this, and your
heart shall be glad, And your bones shall flourish
like the new grass; And the hand of the Lord shall
be made known to His servants, But He shall be
indignant toward His enemies.
ISA 66:15 For behold, the Lord will come in
fire And His chariots like the whirlwind, To render
His anger with fury, And His rebuke with flames of
fire.
ISA 66:16 For the Lord will execute judgment
by fire And by His sword on all flesh, And those
slain by the Lord will be many.
ISA 66:17 "Those who sanctify and purify
themselves to go to the gardens, Following one in
the center, Who eat swine's flesh, detestable
things, and mice, Shall come to an end altogether,"
declares the Lord.
ISA 66:18 "For I know their works and their
thoughts; the time is coming to gather all nations
and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory.
ISA 66:19 "And I will set a sign among them
and will send survivors from them to the nations:
Tarshish, Put, Lud, Meshech, Rosh, Tubal, and Javan,
to the distant coastlands that have neither heard My
fame nor seen My glory. And they will declare My
glory among the nations.
ISA 66:20 "Then they shall bring all your
brethren from all the nations as a grain offering to
the Lord, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on
mules, and on camels, to My holy mountain
Jerusalem," says the Lord, "just as the sons of
Israel bring their grain offering in a clean vessel
to the house of the Lord.
ISA 66:21 "I will also take some of them for
priests and for Levites," says the Lord.
ISA 66:22 "For just as the new heavens and
the new earth Which I make will endure before Me,"
declares the Lord, "So your offspring and your name
will endure.
ISA 66:23 "And it shall be from new moon to
new moon And from sabbath to sabbath, All mankind
will come to bow down before Me," says the Lord.
ISA 66:24 "Then they shall go forth and look
On the corpses of the men Who have transgressed
against Me. For their worm shall not die, And their
fire shall not be quenched; And they shall be an
abhorrence to all mankind."
