\NormalFont\ShortTitle{Esias}

{\MT ESIAS


\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The vision which Esaias the son of Amos saw, which he saw against
Juda, and against Jerusalem, in the reign of Ozias, and Joatham, and Achaz, and Ezekias, who reigned over
Judea.

\VS{2}Hear, O heaven, and listen, O earth: for the Lord has spoken,
{\ADD{saying}}, I have begotten and reared up children, but they have
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 1:2 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{'set me at nothing.'
}}} rebelled against me.

\VS{3}The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel does not know
me, and the people has not regarded me.

\VS{4}Ah sinful nation, a people full of sins, an evil seed, lawless children: you⌃
have forsaken the Lord, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

\VS{5}Why should you⌃ be struck
{\ADD{any}} more, transgressing more and more? the whole head is pained, and the whole heart sad.

\VS{6}From the feet to the head, there is no soundness in them; neither wound, nor
bruise, nor festering ulcer
{\ADD{are healed}}: it is not possible to apply a plaister, nor oil, nor bandages.

\VS{7}Your land is desolate, your cities burnt with fire: your land, strangers devour
it in your presence, and it is made desolate, overthrown by strange nations.

\VS{8}The daughter of Sion shall be deserted as a tent in a vineyard, and as a storehouse
of fruits in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

\VS{9}\XREF{✡}{{\XO 1:9 }{\XT{Rom 9:29
}}} And if the Lord of Sabaoth had not left us a seed, we should have been as Sodom, and we should
have been made like Gomorrha.

\VS{10}Hear the word of the Lord, you⌃ rulers of Sodoma; attend to the law of God,
you people of Gomorrha.

\VS{11}Of what
{\ADD{value}} to me is the abundance of your sacrifices? says the Lord: I am full of whole burnt offerings
of rams; and I delight not in the fat of lambs, and the blood of bulls and goats:

\VS{12}neither shall you⌃ come
{\ADD{with these}} to appear before me; for who has required these things at your hands? You⌃ shall
no more tread my court.

\VS{13}Though you⌃ bring fine flour,
{\ADD{it is}} vain; incense is an abomination to me; I can’t bear your new moons, and your sabbaths,
and the great day;

\VS{14}{\ADD{your}} fasting, and rest from work, your new moons also, and your feasts my soul hates: you⌃
have become loathsome to me; I will no more pardon your sins.

\VS{15}When you⌃ stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and
though you⌃ make many supplications, I will not listen to you; for your hands are full of blood.

\VS{16}Wash you, be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before my eyes;
cease from your iniquities;

\VS{17}learn to do well; diligently seek judgement, deliver him that is suffering
wrong, plead for the orphan, and obtain justice for the widow.

\VS{18}And come, let us reason together, says the Lord: and though your sins be as
purple, I will make them white as snow; and though they be as scarlet, I will make
{\ADD{them}} white as wool.

\VS{19}And if you⌃ be willing, and listen to me, you⌃ shall eat the good of the land:

\VS{20}but if you⌃ be not willing, nor listen to me, a sword shall devour you: for
the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.

\VS{21}How has the faithful city Sion,
{\ADD{once}} full of judgement, become a harlot! wherein righteousness lodged, but now murderers.

\VS{22}Your silver is worthless, your wine merchants mix the wine with water.

\VS{23}Your princes are rebellious, companions of thieves, loving bribes, seeking
after rewards; not pleading for orphans, and not heeding the cause of widows.

\VS{24}Therefore thus says the Lord, the Lord of hosts, Woe to the mighty
{\ADD{men}} of Israel; for my wrath shall not cease against my adversaries, and I will execute judgement
on my enemies.

\VS{25}And I will bring my hand upon you, and purge you
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 1:25 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{to pureness.
}}} completely, and I will destroy the rebellious, and will take away from you all transgressors.

\VS{26}And I will establish your judges as before, and your counsellors as at the
beginning: and afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful mother-city of Sion.

\VS{27}For her captives shall be saved with judgement, and with mercy.

\VS{28}And the transgressors and the sinners shall be crushed together, and they
that forsake the Lord shall be utterly consumed.

\VS{29}For they shall be ashamed of their idols, which they delighted in, and they
are made ashamed of the gardens which they coveted.

\VS{30}For they shall be as a turpentine tree that has cast its leaves, and as a
garden that has no water.

\VS{31}And their strength shall be as a thread of tow, and their works as sparks,
and the transgressors and the sinners shall be burnt up together, and there shall be none to quench
{\ADD{them}}.



\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The word which came to Esaias the son of Amos concerning Judea,
and concerning Jerusalem.

\VS{2}For in the last days the mountain of the Lord shall be
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 2:2 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{conspicuous.
}}} glorious, and the house of God
{\ADD{shall be}} on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations
shall come to it.

\VS{3}And many nations shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of
the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will tell us his way, and we will walk in it: for
out of Sion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem.

\VS{4}And he shall judge amongst the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they
shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles: and nation shall not take up
sword against nation, neither shall they learn to war any more.

\VS{5}And now, O house of Jacob, come,
{\ADD{and}} let us walk in the light of the Lord.

\VS{6}For he has forsaken his people the house of Israel, because their land is filled
as at the beginning with divinations, as the
{\ADD{land}} of the
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 2:6 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{aliens, or Philistines. The LXX. generally render by Φιλιστεὶμ or Φυλιστιὶμ till about the middle
of Judges, after which the word almost always used is ἀλλόφυλοι. In this there was probably some accommodation
of sound to tense.
}}} Philistines, and many strange children were born to them.

\VS{7}For their land is filled with silver and gold, and there was no number of their
treasures; their land also is filled with horses, and there was no number of chariots.

\VS{8}And the land is filled with abominations,
{\ADD{even}} the works of their hands; and they have worshipped
{\ADD{the works}} which their fingers made.

\VS{9}And the mean man bowed down, and the great man was humbled: and I will not pardon
them.

\VS{10}Now therefore enter you⌃ into the rocks, and hide yourselves in the earth,
for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly
the earth.

\VS{11}For the eyes of the Lord are high, but man is low; and the haughtiness of
men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

\VS{12}For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and
haughty, and upon every one that is high and towering, and they shall be brought down;

\VS{13}and upon every cedar of Libanus, of them that are high and towering, and upon
every oak of Basan,

\VS{14}and upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill,

\VS{15}and upon every high tower, and upon every high wall,

\VS{16}and upon every ship of the sea, and upon every display of fine ships.

\VS{17}And every man shall be brought low, and the pride of men shall fall: and the
Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

\VS{18}And they shall hide all
{\ADD{idols}} made with hands,

\VS{19}having carried
{\ADD{them}} into the caves, and into the clefts of the rocks, and into the caverns of the earth, for
fear of the Lord, and
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 2:19 }{\FT{See ver 10.
}}} by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.

\VS{20}For in that day a man shall cast forth his silver and gold abominations, which
they made
{\ADD{in order}} to worship vanities and bats;

\VS{21}to enter into the caverns of the solid rock, and into the clefts of the rocks,
for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly
the earth.



\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Behold now, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem
and from Judea the mighty man and mighty woman, the strength of bread, and the strength of water,

\VS{2}the great and mighty man, the warrior and the judge, and the prophet, and the
counsellor, and the elder,

\VS{3}the captain of fifty also, and the honourable counsellor, and the wise artificer,
and the intelligent hearer.

\VS{4}And I will make youths their princes, and mockers shall have dominion over them.

\VS{5}And the people shall fall, man upon man, and
{\ADD{every}} man upon his neighbour: the child shall insult the elder man, and the base the honourable.

\VS{6}For a man shall lay hold of his brother, as one of his father's household, saying,
You have raiment, be you our ruler, and let my meat be under you.

\VS{7}And he shall answer in that day, and say, I will not be your ruler; for I have
no bread in my house, nor raiment: I will not be the ruler of this people.

\VS{8}For Jerusalem is
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 3:8 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{forsaken,
}}{\FL{or,
}}{\FT{let go.
}}} ruined, and Judea has fallen, and their tongues
{\ADD{have spoken}} with iniquity, disobedient
{\ADD{as they are}} towards the Lord.

\VS{9}Therefore now their glory has been brought low, and the shame of their countenance
has withstood them, and they have proclaimed their sin as Sodom, and made it manifest.

\VS{10}Woe to their soul, for they have devised an evil counsel against themselves,
saying against themselves, Let us bind the just, for he is burdensome to us: therefore shall they eat
the fruits of their works.

\VS{11}Woe to the transgressor! evils shall happen to him according to the works
of his hands.

\VS{12}O my people, your exactors
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 3:12 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{glean you.
}}} strip you, and extortioners rule over you: O my people, they that pronounce you blessed lead
you astray, and pervert the path of your feet.

\VS{13}But now the Lord will stand up for judgement, and will enter into judgement
with his people.

\VS{14}The Lord himself shall enter into judgement with the elders of the people,
and with their rulers: but why have you⌃ set my vineyard on fire, and
{\ADD{why is}} the spoil of the poor in your houses?

\VS{15}Why do you⌃ wrong my people, and shame the face of the poor?

\VS{16}Thus says the Lord, Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and have walked
with an outstretched neck, and with winking of the eyes, and motion of the feet, at the same time drawing
their garments in trains, and at the same time sporting with their feet:

\VS{17}therefore the Lord will humble the chief daughters of Sion, and the Lord will
expose their form in that day;

\VS{18}and the Lord will take away the glory of their raiment, the curls and the
fringes, and the crescents,

\VS{19}and the chains, and the ornaments of their faces,

\VS{20}and the array of glorious ornaments, and the armlets, and the bracelets, and
the wreathed work, and the finger-rings, and the ornaments for the right hand,

\VS{21}and the ear-rings, and the garments with scarlet borders, and the garments
with purple grounds, and the shawls to be worn in the house, and the Spartan transparent dresses, and
those made of fine linen, and the purple
{\ADD{ones}}, and the scarlet
{\ADD{ones}}, and the fine linen, interwoven with gold and purple, and the light coverings for couches.

\VS{22}And there shall be instead of a sweet smell, dust; and instead of a girdle,
you shall gird yourself with a rope; and instead of a golden ornament for the head, you shall have baldness
on account of your works; and instead of a tunic with a scarlet ground, you shall gird yourself with sackcloth.

\VS{23}And your most beautiful son whom you love shall fall by the sword; and your
mighty men shall fall by the sword, and shall be brought low.

\VS{24}And the
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 3:24 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{cases,
}}{\FL{or,
}}{\FT{repositories.
}}} stores of your ornaments shall mourn, and you shall be left alone, and shall be levelled with
the ground.



\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat
our own bread, and wear our own raiment: only let your name be called upon us,
{\ADD{and}} take away our reproach.

\VS{2}And in that day God shall shine gloriously in counsel on the earth, to exalt
and glorify the remnant of Israel.

\VS{3}And it shall be,
{\ADD{that}} the remnant left in Sion, and the remnant left in Jerusalem,
{\ADD{even}} all that are
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 4:3 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{written for life.
}}} appointed to life in Jerusalem, shall be called holy.

\VS{4}For the Lord shall wash away the filth of the sons and daughters of Sion, and
shall purge out the blood from the midst of them, with the spirit of judgement, and the spirit of burning.

\VS{5}And he shall come, and it shall be with regard to every place of mount Sion,
yes, all the region round about it shall a cloud overshadow by day, and
{\ADD{there shall be}} as it were the smoke and light of fire burning by night: and upon all the glory
shall be a defence.

\VS{6}And it shall be for a shadow from the heat, and as a shelter and a hiding place
from inclemency
{\ADD{of weather}} and from rain.



\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now I will sing to
{\ADD{my}} beloved a song of my beloved concerning my vineyard.
{\ADD{My}} beloved had a vineyard on a
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 5:1 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{horn, so
}}{\FQA{Heb.
}}} high hill in a fertile place.

\VS{2}And I made a hedge round it, and dug a trench, and planted a choice vine, and
built a tower in the midst of it, and dug a place for the wine-vat in it: and I waited
{\ADD{for it}} to bring forth grapes, and it brought forth thorns.

\VS{3}And now, you⌃ dwellers in Jerusalem, and
{\ADD{every}} man of Juda, judge between me and my vineyard.

\VS{4}What shall I do any more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? Whereas
I expected
{\ADD{it}} to bring forth grapes, but it has brought forth thorns.

\VS{5}And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its
hedge, and it shall be for a spoil; and I will pull down its walls, and it shall be
{\ADD{left}} to be trodden down.

\VS{6}And I will forsake my vineyard; and it shall not be pruned, nor dug, and thorns
shall come up upon it as on barren land; and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.

\VS{7}For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 5:7 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{a man.
}}} the men of Juda
{\ADD{his}} beloved plant: I expected
{\ADD{it}} to bring forth judgement, and it brought forth iniquity; and not righteousness, but a cry.

\VS{8}Woe
{\ADD{to them}} that join house to house, and add field to field, that they may take away something
of their neighbour's: will you⌃ dwell alone upon the land?

\VS{9}For these things have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts: for though many
houses should be built, many and fair houses shall be desolate, and there shall be no inhabitants in them.

\VS{10}For where ten yoke of oxen plough
{\ADD{the land}} shall yield one , and he that sows six homers shall produce three measures.

\VS{11}Woe
{\ADD{to them}} that rise up in the morning, and follow strong drink; who wait
{\ADD{at it till}} evening: for the wine shall inflame them.

\VS{12}For they drink wine with harp, and lute, and drums, and pipes: but they regard
not the works of the Lord, and consider not the works of his hands.

\VS{13}Therefore my people have been taken captive, because they know not the Lord:
and there has been a multitude of dead
{\ADD{bodies}}, because of hunger and of thirst for water.

\VS{14}Therefore
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 5:14 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{Hades.
}}} hell has enlarged its desire and opened its mouth without ceasing: and her glorious and great,
and her rich and her pestilent men shall go down
{\ADD{into it}}.

\VS{15}And the mean man shall be brought low, and the great man shall be disgraced,
and the lofty eyes shall be brought low.

\VS{16}But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgement, and the holy God shall
be glorified in righteousness.

\VS{17}And they that were spoiled shall be fed as bulls, and lambs shall feed on
the waste places of them that are taken away.

\VS{18}Woe
{\ADD{to them}} that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and iniquities as with a thong of the heifer's
yoke:

\VS{19}who say, Let him speedily hasten what he will do, that we may see
{\ADD{it}}: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know
{\ADD{it}}.

\VS{20}Woe
{\ADD{to them}} that call evil good, and good evil; who make darkness light, and light darkness; who
make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter.

\VS{21}Woe
{\ADD{to them}} that are wise in their own conceit, and knowing in their own sight.

\VS{22}Woe to the strong
{\ADD{ones}} of you that drink wine, and the mighty
{\ADD{ones}} that mingle strong drink:

\VS{23}who justify the ungodly for rewards, and take away the righteousness of the
righteous.

\VS{24}Therefore as stubble shall be burnt by a coal of fire, and shall be consumed
by a violent flame, their root shall be as chaff, and their flower shall go up as dust: for they rejected
the law of the Lord of hosts, and insulted the word of the Holy One of Israel.

\VS{25}Therefore the Lord of hosts was greatly angered against his people, and he
reached forth his hand upon them, and struck them: and the mountains were troubled, and their carcasses
were as dung in the midst of the way: yet for all this his anger has not been turned away, but his hand
is yet
\FTNT{§}{{\FR 5:25 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{High.
}}} raised.

\VS{26}Therefore shall he lift up a signal to the nations that are afar, and shall
hiss for them from the end of the earth; and, behold, they are coming very quickly.

\VS{27}They shall not hunger nor be weary, neither shall they slumber nor sleep;
neither shall they loose their girdles from their loins, neither shall their shoe-latchets be broken.

\VS{28}Whose arrows are sharp, and their bows bent; their horses' hoofs are counted
as solid rock: their chariot-wheels are as a storm.

\VS{29}They rage as lions, and draw near as a lion's whelps: and he shall seize,
and roar as a wild beast, and he shall cast
{\ADD{them}} forth, and there shall be none to deliver them.

\VS{30}And he shall roar on account of them in that day, as the sound of the swelling
sea; and they shall look to the land, and, behold,
{\ADD{there shall be}} thick darkness in their perplexity.



\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And it came to pass in the year in which king Ozias died,
{\ADD{that}} I saw the Lord sitting on a high and exalted throne, and the house was full of his glory.

\VS{2}And seraphs stood round about him: each one had six wings: and with two they
covered
{\ADD{their}} face, and with two they covered
{\ADD{their}} feet, and with two they flew.

\VS{3}And one cried to the other, and they said, Holy, holy, holy
{\ADD{is the}} Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

\VS{4}And the lintel
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 6:4 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{was lifted.
}}} shook at the voice they uttered, and the house was filled with smoke.

\VS{5}And I said, Woe is me, for I am pricked to the heart; for being a man, and having
unclean lips, I dwell in the midst of a people having unclean lips; and I have seen with my eyes the King,
the Lord of hosts.

\VS{6}And there was sent to me one of the seraphs, and he had in his hand a coal,
which he had taken off the altar with the tongs:

\VS{7}and he touched my mouth, and said, Behold, this has touched your lips, and will
take away your iniquities, and will purge off your sins.

\VS{8}And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 6:8 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{should I send?
}}} shall I send, and who will go to this people? And I said, behold, I am
{\ADD{here}}, send me. And he said, Go, and say to this people,

\VS{9}You⌃ shall hear indeed, but you⌃ shall not understand; and you⌃ shall see indeed,
but you⌃ shall not perceive.

\VS{10}\XREF{✡}{{\XO 6:10 }{\XT{Matt 13:15;
Mark 4:12
}}} For the heart of this people has become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their
eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand
with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

\VS{11}And I said, How long, O Lord? And he said, Until cities be deserted
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 6:11 }{\FT{Compare use of παρὰ, Jer 40.(33) 10,12; also 1 Cor 12.15,16.
}}} by reason of their not being inhabited, and the houses by reason of there being no men, and
the land shall be left desolate.

\VS{12}And after this God shall remove the men far off, and they that are left upon
the land shall be multiplied.

\VS{13}And yet there
\FTNT{§}{{\FR 6:13 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{is.
}}} shall be a tenth upon it, and again it shall be for a spoil, as a turpentine tree, and as an
acorn when it falls out of its husk.



\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And it came to pass in the days of Achaz
{\ADD{the son}} of Joatham, the son of Ozias, king of Juda, there came up Rasim king of Aram, and Phakee
son of Romelias, king of Israel, against Jerusalem to war against it, but they could not
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 7:1 }{\FL{Lit.
}}{\FT{besiege See
}}{\FQA{Heb.
}}} take it.

\VS{2}And a message was brought to the house of David, saying, Aram has conspired
with Ephraim. And his soul was amazed, and the soul of his people, as in a wood a tree is moved by the
wind.

\VS{3}And the Lord said to Esaias, Go forth to meet Achaz, you, and your son Jasub
who is left, to the pool of the upper way of the fuller's field.

\VS{4}And you shall say to him, Take care to be quiet, and fear not, neither let your
soul be disheartened because of these two smoking firebrands: for when my fierce anger is over, I will
heal again.

\VS{5}And
{\ADD{as for}} the son of Aram, and the son of Romelias, forasmuch as they have devised an evil counsel,
{\ADD{saying}},

\VS{6}We will go up against Judea, and having conferred with them we will turn them
away to our side, and we will make the son of Tabeel king of it;

\VS{7}thus says the Lord of hosts, This counsel shall not abide, nor come to pass.

\VS{8}But the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus, Rasim; and yet within
sixty and five years the kingdom of Ephraim shall cease from
{\ADD{being}} a people.

\VS{9}And the head of Ephraim is Somoron, and the head of Somoron the son of Romelias:
but
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 7:9 }{\FT{Comp.
}}{\FQA{Heb.
}}} if you⌃ believe not, neither will you⌃ at all understand.

\VS{10}And the Lord again spoke to Achaz, saying,

\VS{11}Ask for yourself a sign of the Lord your God, in the depth or in the height.

\VS{12}And Achaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.

\VS{13}And he said, Hear you⌃ now, O house of David; is it a little thing for you
to contend with men? and how do you⌃ contend against the Lord?

\VS{14}Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign;
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 7:14 }{\XT{Matt 1:23
}}} behold, a virgin shall conceive in the womb, and shall bring forth a son, and you shall call
his name Emmanuel.

\VS{15}Butter and honey shall he eat, before he knows either to prefer evil
{\ADD{or}} choose the good.

\VS{16}For before the child shall know good or evil, he refuses evil, to choose the
good; and the land shall be forsaken which you are afraid of because of the two kings.

\VS{17}But God shall bring upon you, and upon your people, and upon the house of
your father, days which have never come, from the day that Ephraim took away from Juda the king of the
Assyrians.

\VS{18}And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall hiss for the flies,
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 7:18 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{which part
{\ADD{of the enemy,
}} etc. shall rule over the river of Egypt; but according to
}}{\FL{Alex.
}}{\FT{the reading in the text is the right one.
}}} which
{\ADD{insect}} shall rule over a part of the river of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of
the Assyrians.

\VS{19}And they all shall enter into the clefts of the land, and into the holes of
the rocks, and into the caves, and into every ravine.

\VS{20}In that day the Lord shall shave with the hired razor of the king of Assyria
beyond the river the head, and the hairs of the feet, and will remove the beard.

\VS{21}And it shall come to pass in that day,
{\ADD{that}} a man shall rear a heifer, and two sheep.

\VS{22}And it shall come to pass from their
\FTNT{§}{{\FR 7:22 }{\FL{Alex.
}}{\FT{ποιεῖν, 'giving.'
}}} drinking an abundance of milk,
{\ADD{that}} every one that is left on the land shall eat butter and honey.

\VS{23}And it shall come to pass in that day,
{\ADD{for}} every place where there shall be a thousand vines at a thousand shekels, they shall become
\FTNT{**}{{\FR 7:23 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{for land and for a thorn.
}}} barren land and thorns.

\VS{24}{\ADD{Men}} shall enter there with arrow and bow; for all the land shall be
{\ADD{barren}} ground and thorns.

\VS{25}And every mountain shall be certainly ploughed: there shall no fear come there:
for there shall be from
{\ADD{amongst}} the
{\ADD{barren}} ground and thorns that whereon cattle shall feed and oxen shall tread.



\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And the Lord said to me, Take to yourself a volume of a great new
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 8:1 }{\FL{Alex.
}}{\FT{paper,
}}{\FL{or,
}}{\FT{parchment.
}}}
{\ADD{book}}, and write in it with a man's pen concerning the making a rapid plunder of spoils; for
it is near at hand.

\VS{2}And make me witnesses
{\ADD{of}} faithful men, Urias, and Zacharias the son of Barachias.

\VS{3}And I went in to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. And the
Lord said to me, Call his name, Spoil quickly, plunder speedily.

\VS{4}For before the child shall know
{\ADD{how}} to call
{\ADD{his}} father or
{\ADD{his}} mother,
{\ADD{one}} shall take the power of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria before the king of the Assyrians.

\VS{5}And the Lord spoke to me yet again,
{\ADD{saying}},

\VS{6}Because this people chooses not the water of Siloam that goes softly, but wills
to have Rassin, and the son of Romelias
{\ADD{to be}} king over you;

\VS{7}therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon you the water of the river, strong
and abundant,
{\ADD{even}} the king of the Assyrians, and his glory: and he shall come up over every valley of yours,
and shall walk over every wall of yours:

\VS{8}and he shall take away from Juda
{\ADD{every}} man who shall be able to lift up his head,
{\ADD{and every one}} able to accomplish anything; and his camp shall fill the breadth of your land,
{\ADD{O}}
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 8:8 }{\FQA{Heb. Immanuel.
}}} God with us.

\VS{9}Know, you⌃ Gentiles, and be conquered; listen you⌃, even to the extremity of
the earth: be conquered, after you⌃ strengthened yourselves; for even if you⌃ should again strengthen
yourselves, you⌃ shall again be conquered.

\VS{10}And whatever counsel you⌃ shall take, the Lord shall bring it to nothing;
and whatever word you⌃ shall speak, it shall not stand amongst you: for God is with us.

\VS{11}Thus says the Lord, With a strong hand they
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 8:11 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{disobey.
}}} revolt from the course of the way of this people, saying,

\VS{12}Let them not say,
{\ADD{It is}} hard, for whatever this people says, is hard: but fear not you⌃ their fear, neither be
dismayed.

\VS{13}Sanctify you⌃ the Lord himself; and
\FTNT{§}{{\FR 8:13 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{let him be.
}}} he shall be your fear.

\VS{14}And if you shall trust in him, he shall be to you for a sanctuary; and you⌃
shall not come against
{\ADD{him}} as against
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 8:14 }{\XT{Rom 9:33
}}} a stumbling-stone, neither as against the falling of a rock: but the houses of Jacob are in
a snare, and the dwellers in Jerusalem in a pit.

\VS{15}Therefore many amongst them shall be weak, and fall, and be crushed; and they
shall draw near, and men shall be taken securely.

\VS{16}Then shall those who seal themselves that they may
\FTNT{**}{{\FR 8:16 }{\FL{Alex.
}}{\FT{— 'not.'
}}} not learn the law be made manifest.

\VS{17}And
{\ADD{one}} shall say, I will wait for God, who has turned away his face from the house of Jacob, and
I will trust in him.

\VS{18}\XREF{✡}{{\XO 8:18 }{\XT{Heb 2:13
}}} Behold I and the children which God has given me: and they shall be
{\ADD{for}} signs and wonders in the house of Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells in mount Sion.

\VS{19}And if they should say to you, Seek
\FTNT{††}{{\FR 8:19 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{ventriloquists.
}}} those who have in them a divining spirit, and them that speak out of the earth, them that speak
vain words, who speak out of their belly: shall not a nation diligently seek to their God? why do they
seek to the dead concerning the living?

\VS{20}For he has given the law for a help, that they should not speak according
to this word, concerning which there are no
\FTNT{‡‡}{{\FR 8:20 }{\FT{See
}}{\FQA{Heb.
}}} gifts to give for it.

\VS{21}And famine shall come sorely upon you, and it shall come to pass,
{\ADD{that}} when you⌃ shall be hungry, you⌃ shall be grieved, and you⌃ shall speak ill of the prince
and your fathers' ordinances: and they shall look up to heaven above,

\VS{22}and they shall look on the earth below, and behold severe distress, and darkness,
affliction, and
\FTNT{§§}{{\FR 8:22 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{a strait.
}}} anguish, and darkness so that
{\ADD{one can’t}} see; and he that is in anguish shall not be distressed only for a time.



\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Drink this first.
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 9:1 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{do it quickly,
}}{\FL{i.e.
}}{\FT{‘drink’; See
}}{\FQA{Hebrew.
}}} Act quickly,
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 9:1 }{\XT{Matt 4:15,16
}}} O land of Zabulon, land of Nephthalim, and the rest
{\ADD{inhabiting}} the sea-coast, and
{\ADD{the land}} beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles.

\VS{2}O people walking in darkness, behold a great light: you⌃ that dwell in the region
{\ADD{and}} shadow of death, a light shall shine upon you.

\VS{3}The
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 9:3 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{greatest part
}}} multitude of the people which you have brought down in your joy, they shall even rejoice before
you as they that rejoice in harvest, and as they that divide the spoil.

\VS{4}Because the yoke that was laid upon them has been taken away, and the rod that
was on their neck: for he has broken the rod of the exactors, as in the day of Madiam.

\VS{5}For they shall compensate for every garment that has been acquired by deceit,
and
{\ADD{all}} raiment with
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 9:5 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{reconciliation,
}}{\FL{or,
}}{\FT{exchange
}}} restitution; and they shall be willing,
{\ADD{even}} if they were burnt with fire.

\VS{6}For a child is born to us, and a son is given to us, whose government is upon
his shoulder: and his name is called the Messenger of great counsel:
\FTNT{§}{{\FR 9:6 }{\FL{Alex.
}}{\FT{+ Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty One, Potentate, Prince of Peace, Father of the age to come; Compare
Heb 2:2.
}}} for I will bring peace upon the princes, and health to him.

\VS{7}His government shall be great, and of his peace there is no end:
{\ADD{it shall be}} upon the throne of David, and
{\ADD{upon}} his kingdom, to establish it, and to support
{\ADD{it}} with judgement and with righteousness, from henceforth and forever. The seal of the Lord
of hosts shall perform this.

\VS{8}The Lord has sent death upon Jacob, and it has come upon Israel.

\VS{9}And all the people of Ephraim, and they that lived in Samaria shall know, who
say in their pride and lofty heart,

\VS{10}The bricks are fallen down, but come, let us hew stones, and cut down sycamores
and cedars, and let us build for ourselves a tower.

\VS{11}And God shall dash down them that rise up against him on mount Sion, and shall
scatter his enemies;

\VS{12}{\ADD{even}} Syria from the rising of the sun, and the Greeks from the setting of the sun, who devour
Israel with open mouth. For all this
{\ADD{his}} anger is not turned away, but still
{\ADD{his}} hand is exalted.

\VS{13}But the people turned not until they were struck, and they sought not the
Lord.

\VS{14}So the Lord took away from Israel the head and tail, great and small, in one
day:

\VS{15}the old man, and them that respect persons, this is the head; and the prophet
teaching unlawful things, he is the tail.

\VS{16}And they that pronounce this people blessed shall mislead them; and they mislead
them that they may devour them.

\VS{17}Therefore the Lord shall not take pleasure in their young men, neither shall
he have pity on their orphans or on their widows: for they are all transgressors and wicked, and every
mouth speaks unjustly. For all this
{\ADD{his}} anger is not turned away, but
{\ADD{his}} hand is yet exalted.

\VS{18}And iniquity shall burn as fire, and shall be devoured by fire as dry grass:
and it shall burn in the thickets of the wood, and shall devour all that is round about the hills.

\VS{19}The whole earth is set on fire because of the fierce anger of the Lord, and
the people shall be as men burnt by fire: no man shall pity his brother.

\VS{20}But
{\ADD{one}} shall turn aside to the right hand, for he shall be hungry; and shall eat on the left,
and a man shall by no means be satisfied with eating the flesh of his own arm.

\VS{21}For Manasses shall eat
{\ADD{the flesh}} of Ephraim, and Ephraim
{\ADD{the flesh}} of Manasses; for they shall besiege Juda together. For all this
{\ADD{his}} anger is not turned away, but
{\ADD{his}} hand is yet exalted.



\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Woe to them that write wickedness; for when they write they do
write wickedness,

\VS{2}perverting the cause of the poor, violently wresting the judgement of the needy
ones of my people, that the widow may be a prey to them, and the orphan a spoil.

\VS{3}And what will they do in the day of visitation? for affliction shall come to
you from afar: and to whom will you⌃ flee for help? and where will you⌃ leave your glory,

\VS{4}that you⌃ may not fall into
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 10:4 }{\FL{Heb.
}}{\FT{and
}}{\FL{Alex.
}}{\FT{+ ‘and they shall fall under the slain’
}}} captivity? For all this
{\ADD{his}} wrath is not turned away, but
{\ADD{his}} hand is yet exalted.

\VS{5}Woe to the Assyrians; the rod of my wrath, and anger are in their hands.

\VS{6}I will send my wrath against a sinful nation, and I will charge my people to
take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make them dust.

\VS{7}But he meant not thus, neither did he devise thus in his soul: but his mind
shall change, and
{\ADD{that}} to destroy nations not a few.

\VS{8}And if they should say to him, You alone are ruler;

\VS{9}then shall he say, Have I not taken the country above Babylon and Chalanes,
where the tower was built? and have I
{\ADD{not}} taken Arabia, and Damascus, and Samaria?

\VS{10}As I have taken them, I will also take all the kingdoms: howl, you⌃ idols
in Jerusalem, and in Samaria.

\VS{11}For as I did to Samaria and her idols, so will I do also to Jerusalem and
her idols.

\VS{12}And it shall come to pass, when the Lord shall have finished doing all things
on Mount Sion and Jerusalem,
{\ADD{that}} I will visit upon the
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 10:12 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{great mind
}}} proud heart,
{\ADD{even}} upon the ruler of the Assyrians, and upon the boastful haughtiness of his eyes.

\VS{13}For he said, I will act in strength, and in the wisdom of
{\ADD{my}} understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and will spoil their strength.

\VS{14}And I will shake the inhabited cities: and I will take with my hand all the
world as a nest: and I will even take them as eggs that have been left; and there is none that shall escape
me, or contradict me.

\VS{15}Shall the axe glorify itself without him that hews with it? or shall the
saw lift up itself without him that uses it, as if one should lift a rod or staff? but it shall not be
so;

\VS{16}but the Lord of hosts shall send dishonour upon your honour, and burning
fire shall be kindled upon your glory.

\VS{17}And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and he shall sanctify him with
burning fire, and it shall devour the wood as grass.

\VS{18}In that day the mountains shall be consumed, and the hills, and the forests,
and
{\ADD{fire}} shall devour
{\ADD{both}} soul and body: and he that flees shall be as one fleeing from burning flame.

\VS{19}And they that are left of them shall be a
{\ADD{small}} number, and a child shall write them.

\VS{20}And it shall come to pass in that day
{\ADD{that}} the remnant of Israel shall no more
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 10:20 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{repeat their offence
}}} join themselves with, and the saved of Jacob shall no more trust in, them that injured them;
but they shall trust in the Holy God of Israel, in truth.

\VS{21}And the remnant of Jacob shall
{\ADD{trust}} on the mighty God.

\VS{22}\XREF{✡}{{\XO 10:22 }{\XT{Rom 9:27,28
}}} And though the people of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them shall be saved.

\VS{23}\FTNT{§}{{\FR 10:23 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{finishing — cutting
}}} He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because the Lord will make a short
work in all the world.

\VS{24}Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, Be not afraid, my people who dwell
in Sion, of the Assyrians, because he shall strike you with a rod: for I am bringing a stroke upon you,
that
{\ADD{you}} may see the way of Egypt.

\VS{25}For yet a little while, and the indignation shall cease: but my wrath shall
be against their
\FTNT{**}{{\FR 10:25 }{\FL{sc.
}}{\FT{of their enemies
}}} council.

\VS{26}And God will stir up
{\ADD{enemies}} against them, according to the stroke of Madiam in the place of affliction: and his
wrath shall be by the way of the sea,
{\ADD{even}} to the way that leads to Egypt.

\VS{27}And it shall come to pass in that day,
{\ADD{that}} his yoke shall be taken away from your shoulder, and his fear from you, and the yoke shall
be destroyed from off your shoulders.

\VS{28}For he shall arrive at the city of Angai, and shall pass on to Maggedo, and
shall lay up his stores in Machmas.

\VS{29}And he shall pass by the valley, and shall arrive at Angai: fear shall seize
upon Rama, the city of Saul.

\VS{30}The daughter of Gallim shall flee; Laisa shall hear; one shall hear in Anathoth.

\VS{31}Madebena also is amazed, and the inhabitants of Gibbir.

\VS{32}Exhort you⌃
{\ADD{them}} today to remain in the way: exhort you⌃
{\ADD{beckoning}} with the hand the mountain, the daughter of Sion, even you⌃ hills that are in Jerusalem.

\VS{33}Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will mightily confound the glorious
ones; and the haughty in pride shall be crushed, and the lofty shall be brought low:

\VS{34}and the lofty ones shall fall by the sword, and the Libanus shall fall with
his lofty ones.



\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}\XREF{✡}{{\XO 11:1 }{\XT{Rom 15:12
}}} And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a blossom shall come up from
{\ADD{his}} root:

\VS{2}and the Spirit of God shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and godliness shall fill him;

\VS{3}the spirit of the fear of God. He shall not judge according to appearance,
nor reprove according to report:

\VS{4}but he shall judge the cause of the lowly, and shall reprove the lowly of the
earth: and he shall strike the earth with the word of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall
he destroy the ungodly one.

\VS{5}And he shall have his loins girded with righteousness, and his sides clothed
with truth.

\VS{6}And the wolf shall feed with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with
the kid; and the young calf and bull and lion shall feed together; and a little child shall lead them.

\VS{7}And the ox and bear shall feed together; and their young shall be together:
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

\VS{8}And an infant shall put his hand on the holes of asps, and on the nest of young
asps.

\VS{9}And they shall not hurt, nor shall they at all be able to destroy any one on
my holy mountain: for the whole
{\ADD{world}} is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as much water
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 11:9 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{may cover
}}} covers the seas.

\VS{10}And in that day
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 11:10 }{\XT{Rom 15:12
}}} there shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall arise to rule over the Gentiles; in him shall
the Gentiles trust, and his rest shall be glorious.

\VS{11}And it shall be in that day,
{\ADD{that}} the Lord shall again show his hand, to be zealous for the remnant that is left of the
people, which shall be left by the Assyrians, and
{\ADD{that}} from Egypt, and from the country of Babylon, and from Ethiopia, and from the Elamites,
and from the rising of the sun, and out of Arabia.

\VS{12}And he shall lift up a standard for the nations, and he shall gather the
lost ones of Israel, and he shall gather the dispersed of Juda from the four corners of the earth.

\VS{13}And the envy of Ephraim shall be taken away, and the enemies of Juda shall
perish: Ephraim shall not envy Juda, and Juda shall not afflict Ephraim.

\VS{14}And they shall fly in the ships of the Philistines: they shall at the same
time spoil the
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 11:14 }{\FL{sc.
}}{\FT{the west
}}} sea, and them
{\ADD{that come}} from the east, and Idumea: and they shall lay their hands on Moab first; but the
children of Ammon shall first obey
{\ADD{them.}}

\VS{15}And the Lord shall make desolate the sea of Egypt; and he shall lay his hand
on the river with a strong wind, and he shall
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 11:15 }{\FL{q. d.
}}{\FT{form by striking.
}}} strike the seven channels, so that men shall pass through it dry-shod.

\VS{16}And there shall be a passage for my people that is left in Egypt: and it
shall be to Israel as the day when he came forth out of the land of Egypt.



\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And in that day you shall say, I
{\ADD{will}} bless you, O Lord; for you were angry with me, but you have turned aside your wrath, and
have pitied me.

\VS{2}Behold, my God is my Saviour; I will trust in him, and not be afraid: for the
Lord is my glory and my praise, and is become my salvation.

\VS{3}Draw you⌃ therefore water with joy out of the wells of salvation.

\VS{4}And in that day you shall say, sing to the Lord, call aloud upon his name,
proclaim his glorious
{\ADD{deeds}} amongst the Gentiles; make mention that his name is exalted.

\VS{5}Sing praise to the name of the Lord; for he has done great
{\ADD{things}}: declare this in all the earth.

\VS{6}Exalt and rejoice, you⌃ that dwell in Sion: for the Holy One of Israel is exalted
in the midst
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 12:6 }{\FL{Heb.
}}{\FT{and
}}{\FL{Alex.
}}{\FT{‘of you’
}}} of her.



\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}THE VISION WHICH ESAIAS SON OF AMOS SAW AGAINST BABYLON.

\VS{2}Lift up a standard on the mountain of the plain, exalt the voice to them, beckon
with the hand, open
{\ADD{the gates}}, you⌃ rulers.

\VS{3}I give command, and I bring them: giants are coming to fulfil my wrath, rejoicing
at the same time and insulting.

\VS{4}A voice of many nations on the mountains,
{\ADD{even}} like
{\ADD{to that}} of many nations; a voice of kings and nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts
has given command to
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 13:4 }{\FL{Lit.
}}{\FT{fighting with armour or weapons
}}} a warlike nation,

\VS{5}to come from a land afar off, from the utmost foundation of heaven; the Lord
and his warriors
{\ADD{are coming}} to destroy all the world.

\VS{6}Howl you⌃, for the day of the Lord is near, and destruction from God shall
arrive.

\VS{7}Therefore every hand shall become powerless, and every soul of man shall be
dismayed.

\VS{8}The elders shall be troubled, and pangs shall seize them, as of a woman in
travail: and they shall mourn one to another, and shall be amazed, and shall change their countenance
as a flame.

\VS{9}For behold! the day of the Lord is coming which can’t be
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 13:9 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{healed
}}} escaped,
{\ADD{a day}} of wrath and anger, to make the world desolate, and to destroy sinners out of it.

\VS{10}For the stars of heaven, and Orion, and all the host of heaven, shall not
give their light; and it shall be dark at sunrise, and the moon shall not give her light.

\VS{11}And I will command evils for the whole world, and
{\ADD{will visit}} their sins on the ungodly: and I will destroy the pride of transgressors, and will
bring low the pride of the haughty.

\VS{12}And they that are left shall be more precious than gold tried in the fire;
and a man shall be more precious than the stone that is in Suphir.

\VS{13}For the heaven shall be enraged, and the earth shall be shaken from her foundation,
because of the fierce anger of the Lord of hosts, in the day in which his wrath shall come on.

\VS{14}And they that are left shall be as a fleeing fawn, and as a stray sheep,
and there shall be none to gather
{\ADD{them}}: so that a man shall turn back to his people, and a man shall flee to his own land.

\VS{15}For whoever shall be taken shall be overcome; and they that are gathered
together shall fall by the sword.

\VS{16}And they shall dash their children before their eyes; and they shall spoil
their houses, and shall take their wives.

\VS{17}Behold, I will stir up against you the Medes, who do not regard silver, neither
have they need of gold.

\VS{18}They shall break the bows of the young men; and they shall have no mercy
on your children; nor shall their eyes spare your children.

\VS{19}And Babylon, which is called glorious by the king of the Chaldeans, shall
be as
{\ADD{when}} God overthrew Sodoma, and Gomorrha.

\VS{20}It shall never be inhabited, neither shall any enter into it for many generations:
neither shall the Arabians pass through it; nor shall shepherds at all rest in it.

\VS{21}But wild beasts shall rest there; and the houses shall be filled with howling;
and
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 13:21 }{\FT{See
Job 30:29;
Isa 34:13, etc.
}}} monsters shall rest there, and devils shall dance there, and satyrs shall dwell there; and hedgehogs
shall make their nests in their houses.
\FTNT{§}{{\FR 13:21 }{\FT{See Heb 10.37; Hab 2.3
}}} It will come soon, and will not wait.



\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel,
and they shall rest on their land: and the stranger shall be added to them, yes, shall be added to the
house of Jacob.

\VS{2}And the Gentiles shall take them, and bring them into their place: and they
shall
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 14:2 }{\FL{i.e.
}}{\FT{the Israelites
}}} inherit them, and
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 14:2 }{\FL{i.e.
}}{\FT{the Gentiles
}}} they shall be multiplied upon the land for servants and handmaidens: and they that took them
captives shall become captives
{\ADD{to them}}; and they that had lordship over them shall be under
{\ADD{their}} rule.

\VS{3}And it shall come to pass in that day,
{\ADD{that}} the Lord shall give you rest from your sorrow and vexation,
{\ADD{and from}} your hard servitude wherein you did serve them.

\VS{4}And you shall take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon,
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 14:4 }{\FL{Alex.
}}{\FT{+ 'and you shall say in that day'
}}} How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!

\VS{5}The Lord has broken the yoke of sinners, the yoke of princes.

\VS{6}Having struck a nation in wrath, with an incurable plague, striking a nation
with a wrathful plague, which spared
{\ADD{them}} not, he rested in quiet.

\VS{7}All the earth cries aloud with joy:

\VS{8}the trees also of Libanus rejoice against you, and the cedar of Libanus,
{\ADD{saying}}, From the time that you have been laid low, no one has come up to cut us down.

\VS{9}Hell from beneath is provoked to meet you: all the great ones that have ruled
over the earth have risen up together against you, they that have raised up from their thrones all the
kings of the nations.

\VS{10}All shall answer and say to you, You also have been taken, even as we; and
you are numbered amongst us.

\VS{11}Your glory has come down to Hades, and your great mirth: under you they shall
spread corruption, and the worm shall be your covering.

\VS{12}How has Lucifer, that rose in the morning, fallen from heaven! He that sent
{\ADD{orders}} to all the nations is crushed to the earth.

\VS{13}But you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will set my throne
above the stars of heaven: I will sit on a lofty mount, on the lofty mountains towards the north:

\VS{14}I will go up above the clouds: I will be like the Most High.

\VS{15}But now you shall go down to hell, even to the foundations of the earth.

\VS{16}They that see you shall wonder at you, and say,
\FTNT{§}{{\FR 14:16 }{\FT{See chap 5:25.
}}} This is the man that troubled the earth, that made kings to shake;

\VS{17}that made the whole world desolate, and destroyed its cities; he loosed not
those who were in captivity.

\VS{18}All the kings of the nations lie in honour,
{\ADD{every}} man in his house.

\VS{19}But you shall be cast forth on the mountains, as a loathed carcass, with
many dead who have been pierced with swords, going down to the grave.

\VS{20}As a garment defiled with blood shall not be pure, so neither shall you be
pure; because you have destroyed my land, and have slain my people: you shall not endure for ever, —{\ADD{you}}
an evil seed.

\VS{21}Prepare your children to be slain for the sins of their father; that they
arise not, and inherit the earth, nor fill the earth with wars.

\VS{22}And I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts, and I will destroy
their name, and remnant, and seed: thus says the Lord.

\VS{23}And I will make the region of Babylon desert, so that hedgehogs shall dwell
{\ADD{there}}, and it shall come to nothing: and I will make it a pit of clay for destruction.

\VS{24}Thus says the Lord of hosts, As I have said, so it shall be: and as I have
purposed, so
{\ADD{the matter}} shall remain:

\VS{25}{\ADD{even}} to destroy the Assyrians upon my land, and upon my mountains: and they shall be for trampling;
and their yoke shall be taken away from them, and their glory shall be taken away from their shoulders.

\VS{26}This is the purpose which the Lord has purposed upon the whole earth: and
this the hand that is uplifted against all the nations.

\VS{27}For what the Holy God has purposed, who shall frustrate? and who shall turn
back his uplifted hand?

\VS{28}In the year in which king Achaz died this word came.

\VS{29}Rejoice not, all you⌃ Philistines, because the yoke of him that struck you
is broken: for out of the seed of the serpent shall come forth the young asps, and their young shall come
forth flying serpents,

\VS{30}And the poor shall be fed by him, and poor men shall rest in peace: but he
shall destroy your seed with hunger, and shall destroy your remnant.

\VS{31}Howl, you⌃ gates of cities; let the cities be troubled and cry,
{\ADD{even}} all the Philistines: for smoke is coming from the north, and there is no
{\ADD{possibility}}
\FTNT{**}{{\FR 14:31 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{of being
}}} of living.

\VS{32}And what shall the kings of the nations answer? That the Lord has founded
Sion, and by him the poor of the people shall be saved.



\par }\Chap{15}{\PP \VerseOne{1}THE WORD AGAINST THE LAND OF MOAB. By night the land of Moab shall
be destroyed; for by night the wall of the land of Moab shall be destroyed.

\VS{2}Grieve for yourselves; for even Debon, where your altar is, shall be destroyed:
there shall you⌃ go up to weep, over Nabau of the land of Moab: howl you⌃: baldness shall be on every
head,
{\ADD{and}} all arms
{\ADD{shall be}}
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 15:2 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{cut to pieces
}}} wounded.

\VS{3}Gird yourselves with sackcloth in her streets: and lament upon her roofs, and
in her streets, and in her ways; howl all of you with weeping.

\VS{4}For Esebon and Eleale have cried: their voice was heard to Jassa: therefore
the loins of the region of Moab cry aloud; her soul shall know.

\VS{5}The heart of the region of Moab cries within her to Segor; for it is
{\ADD{as}} a heifer of three years old: and on the ascent of Luith they shall go up to you weeping
by the way of Aroniim: she cries, Destruction, and trembling.

\VS{6}The water of Nemerim shall be desolate, and the grass thereof shall fail: for
there shall be no green grass.

\VS{7}Shall
{\ADD{Moab}} even thus be delivered? for I
{\ADD{will}} bring the Arabians upon the valley, and they shall take it.

\VS{8}For the cry has reached the border of the region of Moab,
{\ADD{even}} of Agalim; and her howling
{\ADD{has gone}} as far as the well of Aelim.

\VS{9}And the water of Dimon shall be filled with blood: for I will bring Arabians
upon Dimon, and I will take away the seed of Moab, and Ariel, and the remnant of Adama.



\par }\Chap{16}{\PP \VerseOne{1}I will send as it were reptiles on the land: is
{\ADD{not}} the mount of the daughter of Sion a desolate rock?

\VS{2}For you shall be as a young bird taken away from a bird that has flown:
{\ADD{even}} you shall be
{\ADD{so}}, daughter of Moab: and then do you, O Arnon,

\VS{3}take farther counsel, and continually make you a shelter from grief: they flee
in darkness at mid-day; they are amazed; be not you led captive.

\VS{4}The fugitives of Moab shall sojourn with you; they shall be to you a shelter
from the face of the pursuer: for your alliance has been taken away, and the oppressing ruler has perished
from off the earth.

\VS{5}And a throne shall be established with mercy; and one shall sit upon it with
truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and earnestly seeking judgements, and hasting righteousness.

\VS{6}We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud. I have cut off his pride:
your prophecy shall not be thus,
{\ADD{no}} not thus.

\VS{7}Moab shall howl; for all shall howl in the land of Moab: but you shall care
for them that dwell in Seth, and you shall not be ashamed.

\VS{8}The plains of Esebon shall mourn, the vine of Sebama: swallowing up the nations,
trample you⌃ her vines, even to Jazer: you⌃ shall not come together; wander you⌃ in the desert: they that
were sent are deserted, for they have gone over to the sea.

\VS{9}Therefore will I weep as with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sebama;
Esebon and Eleale have cast down your trees; for I will trample on your harvest and on your vintages,
and all
{\ADD{your plants}} shall fall.

\VS{10}And gladness and rejoicing shall be taken away from the vineyards; and they
shall not at all tread wine into the vats; for
{\ADD{the vintage}} has ceased.

\VS{11}Therefore my belly shall sound as a harp for Moab, and
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 16:11 }{\FT{Compare the Hebrew
}}} you have repaired my inward parts as a wall.

\VS{12}And it shall be to your shame, (for Moab is wearied at the altars,) that
he shall go in to the idols thereof to pray, but they shall not be at all able to deliver him.

\VS{13}This is the word which the Lord spoke against Moab, when he spoke.

\VS{14}And now I say, in three years, of the years of an hireling, the glory of
Moab shall be dishonoured
{\ADD{with}} all his great wealth; and he shall be left few in number, and not honoured.



\par }\Chap{17}{\PP \VerseOne{1}THE WORD AGAINST DAMASCUS. Behold, Damascus shall be taken away
from amongst cities, and shall become a ruin;

\VS{2}abandoned for ever, to
{\ADD{be}} a fold and resting-place for flocks, and there shall be none to go after them.

\VS{3}And she shall no longer be a strong place for Ephraim to flee to, and there
shall no longer be a kingdom in Damascus, or a remnant of Syrians; for you are no better than the children
of Israel,
{\ADD{even}} than their glory; thus says the Lord of hosts.

\VS{4}There shall be in that day a failure of the glory of Jacob, and the riches
of his glory shall be shaken.

\VS{5}And it shall be as if one should gather standing corn, and reap the grain of
the ears; and it shall be as if one should gather ears in a rich valley;

\VS{6}and
{\ADD{as if}} there should be left stubble therein, or
{\ADD{as it were}} the berries of an olive tree, two or three on the topmost bough, or
{\ADD{as if}} four or five should be left on their branches; thus says the Lord, the God of Israel.

\VS{7}In that day a man shall trust in him that made him, and his eyes shall have
respect to the Holy One of Israel.

\VS{8}And they shall not at all trust in their altars, nor in the works of their
hands, which their fingers made; and they shall not look to the trees, nor to their abominations.

\VS{9}In that day your cities shall be deserted, as the Amorites and the Evaeans
deserted
{\ADD{theirs}}, because of the children of Israel; and they shall be desolate.

\VS{10}Because you have forsaken God your Saviour, and have not been mindful of
the Lord your helper; therefore shall you plant a
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 17:10 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{faithless
}}} false plant, and a false seed.

\VS{11}In the day wherein you shall plant you shall be deceived; but if you sow
in the morning,
{\ADD{the seed}} shall spring up for a crop in the day wherein you shall obtain an inheritance, and
as a man's father, you shall obtain an inheritance for your sons.

\VS{12}Woe
{\ADD{to}} the multitude of many nations, as the swelling sea, so shall you⌃ be confounded; and the
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 17:12 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{back; Complut. reads ἠχος, ‘noise’
}}} force of many nations shall sound like water;

\VS{13}many nations like much water, as when much water rushes violently: and they
shall drive him away, and pursue him afar, as the dust of chaff when men winnow before the wind, and as
a storm whirling the dust of the wheel.

\VS{14}Towards evening, and there shall be grief; before the morning, and he shall
not be. This is the portion of them that spoiled you, and the inheritance to them that robbed you of your
inheritance.



\par }\Chap{18}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Woe to you, you⌃ wings of the land of ships, beyond the rivers
of Ethiopia.

\VS{2}\FTNT{*}{{\FR 18:2 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{He that sends
}}} He sends messengers by the sea, and paper letters on the water: for swift messengers shall go
to a lofty nation, and to a strange and harsh people. Who is beyond it? a nation not looked for, and trodden
down.

\VS{3}Now all the rivers of the land shall be inhabited as an inhabited country;
their land shall be as when a signal is raised from a mountain; it shall be audible as the sound of a
trumpet.

\VS{4}For thus said the Lord to me, There shall be security in my city, as the light
of noonday heat, and it shall be as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.

\VS{5}Before the reaping time, when the flower has been completely formed, and the
unripe grape has put forth its flower and blossomed, then shall he take away the little clusters with
pruning-hooks, and shall take away the small branches, and cut them off;

\VS{6}And he shall leave
{\ADD{them}} together to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth: and the fowls of
the sky shall be gathered upon them, and all the beasts of the land shall come upon him.

\VS{7}In that time shall presents be brought to the Lord of hosts from a people afflicted
and peeled, and from a people great from henceforth and for ever; a nation hoping and
{\ADD{yet}} trodden down, which is in a part of a river of his land, to the place where is the name
of the Lord of hosts, the mount Sion.



\par }\Chap{19}{\PP \VerseOne{1}THE VISION OF EGYPT. Behold, the Lord sits on a swift cloud, and
shall come to Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and their heart shall faint
within them.

\VS{2}And the Egyptians shall be stirred up against the Egyptians: and a man shall
fight against his brother, and a man against his neighbour, city against city, and
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 19:2 }{\FL{Alex.
}}{\FT{‘district,’ the accent being different
}}} law against
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 19:2 }{\FL{Alex.
}}{\FT{‘district,’ the accent being different
}}} law.

\VS{3}And the spirit of the Egyptians shall be troubled within them; and I will frustrate
their counsel: and they shall enquire of their gods and their images, and
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 19:3 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{the ventriloquists
}}} them that speak out of the earth, and them that have in them a divining spirit.

\VS{4}And I will deliver Egypt into the hands of men, of cruel lords; and cruel kings
shall rule over them: thus says the Lord of hosts.

\VS{5}And the Egyptians shall drink the water that is by the sea, but the river shall
fail, and be dried up.

\VS{6}And the streams shall fail, and the canals of the river; and every
\FTNT{§}{{\FR 19:6 }{\FL{Lit.
}}{\FT{gathering; See Gen 1.9: also Jer 28. (51) 32.
}}} reservoir of water shall be dried up, in every marsh also of reed and papyrus.

\VS{7}And all the green herbage round about the river, and everything sown by the
side of the river, shall be blasted with the wind and dried up.

\VS{8}And the fishermen shall groan, and all that cast a hook into the river shall
groan; they also that cast nets, and the anglers shall mourn.

\VS{9}And shame shall come upon them that work fine flax, and them that
\FTNT{**}{{\FR 19:9 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{work at
}}} make fine linen.

\VS{10}And they that work at them shall be in pain, and all that make beer shall
be grieved, and be pained in their souls.

\VS{11}And the princes of Tanis shall be fools:
{\ADD{as for}} the king's wise counsellors, their counsel shall be turned into folly: how will you⌃
say to the king, we are sons of wise men, sons of ancient kings?

\VS{12}Where are now your wise men? and let them declare to you, and say, What has
the Lord of hosts purposed upon Egypt?

\VS{13}The princes of Tanis have failed, and the princes of Memphis are lifted up
{\ADD{with pride}}, and they shall cause Egypt to wander by tribes.

\VS{14}For the Lord has prepared for them a spirit of error, and they have caused
Egypt to err in all their works, as one staggers who is drunken and vomits also.

\VS{15}And there shall be no work to the Egyptians, which shall make head or tail,
or beginning or end.

\VS{16}But in that day the Egyptians shall be as women, in fear and in trembling
because of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he shall bring upon them.

\VS{17}And the land of the Jews shall be for a terror to the Egyptians: whoever
shall name it to them, they shall fear, because of the counsel which the Lord of hosts has purposed concerning
it.

\VS{18}In that day there shall be five cities in Egypt speaking the language of
Chanaan, and swearing by the name of the Lord of hosts; one city shall be called the
\FTNT{††}{{\FR 19:18 }{\FQA{Heb. city of destruction
}}} city of Asedec.

\VS{19}In that day there shall be an altar to the Lord in the land of the Egyptians,
and a pillar to the Lord by its border.

\VS{20}And it shall be for a sign to the Lord for ever in the land of Egypt: for
they shall presently cry to the Lord by reason of them that afflict them, and he shall send them a man
who shall save them; he shall judge and save them.

\VS{21}And the Lord shall be known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians shall know
the Lord in that day; and they shall offer sacrifices, and shall vow vows to the Lord, and pay
{\ADD{them}}.

\VS{22}And the Lord shall strike the Egyptians with a stroke, and shall completely
heal them: and they shall return to the Lord, and he shall hear them, and thoroughly heal them.

\VS{23}In that day there shall be a way from Egypt to the Assyrians, and the Assyrians
shall enter into Egypt, and the Egyptians shall go to the Assyrians, and the Egyptians shall serve the
Assyrians.

\VS{24}In that day shall Israel be third with the Egyptians and the Assyrians, blessed
in the land which the Lord of hosts has blessed,

\VS{25}saying, Blessed be my people that is in Egypt, and that is amongst the Assyrians,
and Israel my inheritance.



\par }\Chap{20}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In the year when Tanathan came to Azotus, when he was sent by
Arna king of the Assyrians, and warred against Azotus, and took it;

\VS{2}then the Lord spoke to Esaias the son of Amos, saying, Go and take the sackcloth
off your loins, and loose your sandals from off your feet, and do thus, going naked and barefoot.

\VS{3}And the Lord said, As my servant Esaias has walked naked and barefoot three
years, there shall be three years for signs and wonders to the Egyptians and Ethiopians;

\VS{4}for thus shall the king of the Assyrians lead the captivity of Egypt and the
Ethiopians, young men and old, naked and barefoot, having the shame of Egypt exposed.

\VS{5}And the Egyptians being defeated shall be ashamed of the Ethiopians, in whom
they had trusted; for they were their glory.

\VS{6}And they that dwell in this island shall say in that day, Behold, we trusted
to flee to them for help, who could not save themselves from the king of the Assyrians: and how shall
we be saved?



\par }\Chap{21}{\PP \VerseOne{1}THE VISION OF THE DESERT. As though a whirlwind should pass through
the desert, coming from a desert,
{\ADD{even}} from such a land,

\VS{2}{\ADD{so}} a fearful and a grievous vision was declared to me: he that is treacherous deals treacherously,
the transgressor transgresses. The Elamites are upon me, and the ambassadors of the Persians come against
me: now will I groan and comfort myself.

\VS{3}Therefore are my loins filled with feebleness, and pangs have seized me as
a travailing woman: I dealt wrongfully that I might not hear; I hasted that I might not see.

\VS{4}My heart wanders, and transgression
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 21:4 }{\FL{Lit.
}}{\FT{baptises
}}} overwhelms me; my soul is occupied with fear.

\VS{5}Prepare the table, eat, drink: arise, you⌃ princes, and prepare
{\ADD{your}} shields.

\VS{6}For thus said the Lord to me, Go and station a watchman for yourself, and declare
whatever you shall see.

\VS{7}And I saw two mounted horsemen, and a rider on an ass, and a rider on a camel.

\VS{8}Listen with great attention, and call you Urias to the watch-tower: the Lord
has spoken. I stood continually during the day, and I stood in the camp all night:

\VS{9}and, behold, he comes riding in a chariot and pair: and he answered and said,
Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all her images and her idols have been crushed to the ground.

\VS{10}Hear, you⌃ that are left, and you⌃ that are in pain, hear what things I have
heard of the Lord of hosts
{\ADD{which}} the God of Israel has declared to us. THE VISION OF IDUMEA.

\VS{11}Call to me out of Seir; guard you⌃ the bulwarks.

\VS{12}I watch in the morning and the night: if you would enquire, enquire, and
dwell by me.

\VS{13}You may lodge in the forest
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 21:13 }{\FQA{Heb. of Arabia
}}} in the evening, or in the way of Daedan.

\VS{14}You⌃ that dwell in the country of Thaeman, bring water to meet him that is
thirsty;

\VS{15}meet the fugitives with bread, because of the multitude of the slain, and
because of the multitude of them that lose their way, and because of the multitude of swords, and because
of the multitude of bent bows, and because of the multitude of them that have fallen in war.

\VS{16}For thus said the Lord to me, Yet a year, as the year of an hireling,
{\ADD{and}} the glory of the sons of Kedar shall fail:

\VS{17}and the remnant of the strong bows of the sons of Kedar shall be small: for
the Lord God of Israel has spoken
{\ADD{it}}.



\par }\Chap{22}{\PP \VerseOne{1}THE WORD OF THE VALLEY OF SION. What has happened to you, that
now you⌃ are all gone up to the housetops which help you not?

\VS{2}The city is filled with shouting
{\ADD{men}}: your slain are not slain with swords, nor are your dead those who have died in battle.

\VS{3}All your princes have fled, and
{\ADD{your}} captives are tightly bound, and the mighty
{\ADD{men}} in you have fled far away.

\VS{4}Therefore I said, Let me alone, I will weep bitterly; labour not to comfort
me for the breach of the daughter of my people.

\VS{5}For
{\ADD{it is}} a day of trouble, and of destruction, and of treading down, and
{\ADD{there is}} perplexity
{\ADD{sent}} from the Lord of hosts: they wander in the valley of Sion; they wander from the least
to the greatest on the mountains.

\VS{6}And the Elamites took
{\ADD{their}} quivers, and
{\ADD{there were}} men mounted on horses, and
{\ADD{there was}} a gathering for battle.

\VS{7}And it shall be
{\ADD{that}} your choice valleys shall be filled with chariots, and horsemen shall block up your gates.

\VS{8}And they shall uncover the gates of Juda, and they shall look in that day on
the choice houses of the city.

\VS{9}And they shall uncover the secret places of the houses of the citadel of David:
and they saw that they were many, and that one
{\ADD{had}} turned the water of the old pool into the city;

\VS{10}and that they
{\ADD{had}} pulled down the houses of Jerusalem, to fortify the wall of the city.

\VS{11}And you⌃ procured to yourselves water between the two walls within the ancient
pool: but you⌃ looked not to him that made it from the beginning, and regarded not him that created it.

\VS{12}And the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation,
and
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 22:12 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{shaving
}}} baldness, and for girding with sackcloth:

\VS{13}but they engaged in joy and gladness, slaying calves, and killing sheep,
so as to eat flesh, and drink wine; saying, Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.

\VS{14}And these things are revealed in the ears of the Lord of hosts: for this
sin shall not be forgiven you, until you⌃ die.

\VS{15}Thus says the Lord of hosts, Go into the chamber, to Somnas the
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 22:15 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{steward
}}} treasurer, and say to him, Why are you here?

\VS{16}and what have you to do here, that you have here hewn yourself a sepulchre,
and made yourself a sepulchre on high, and have graven for yourself a dwelling in the rock?

\VS{17}Behold now, the Lord of hosts casts forth and will utterly destroy
{\ADD{such}} a man, and will take away your robe and your glorious crown,

\VS{18}and will cast you into a great and unmeasured land, and there you shall die:
and he will bring your fair chariot to shame, and the house of your prince to be trodden down.

\VS{19}And you shall be removed from your stewardship, and from your place.

\VS{20}And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim
the son of Chelcias:

\VS{21}and I will put on him your robe, and I will grant him your crown with power,
and I will give your stewardship into his hands: and he shall be as a father to them that dwell in Jerusalem,
and to them that dwell in Juda.

\VS{22}And I will give him the glory of David; and he shall rule, and there shall
be none to speak against him: and I will give him the key
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 22:22 }{\XT{Rev 3:7
}}} of the house of David
{\ADD{upon}} his shoulder; and he shall open, and there shall be none to shut; and he shall shut, and
there shall be none to open.

\VS{23}And I will make him a ruler in a sure place, and he shall be for a glorious
throne of his father's house.

\VS{24}And every one that is glorious in the house of his father shall trust in
him, from the least to the greatest; and they shall depend upon him in that day.

\VS{25}Thus says the Lord of hosts, The man that is fastened in the sure place shall
be removed and be taken away, and shall fall; and the glory that is upon him shall be utterly destroyed:
for the Lord has spoken it.



\par }\Chap{23}{\PP \VerseOne{1}THE WORD CONCERNING TYRE. Howl, you⌃ ships of Carthage; for she
has perished, and
{\ADD{men}} no longer arrive from the land of the Citians: she is led captive.

\VS{2}To whom are the dwellers in the island become like, the merchants of Phoenice,
passing over the sea

\VS{3}in great waters, a generation of merchants? as when the harvest is gathered
in,
{\ADD{so are}} these traders with the nations.

\VS{4}Be ashamed, O Sidon: the sea has said, yes, the strength of the sea has said,
I have not travailed, nor brought forth, nor have I brought up young men, nor reared virgins.

\VS{5}Moreover when it shall be heard in Egypt, sorrow shall seize them for Tyre.

\VS{6}Depart you⌃ to Carthage; howl, you⌃ that dwell in this island.

\VS{7}Was not this your pride from the beginning, before she was given up?

\VS{8}Who has devised this counsel against Tyre? Is she inferior? or has she no strength?
her merchants were the glorious princes of the earth.

\VS{9}The Lord of hosts has purposed to bring down all the pride of the glorious
ones, and to disgrace every glorious thing on the earth.

\VS{10}Till your land; for ships no more come out of Carthage.

\VS{11}And your hand prevails no more by sea, which
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 23:11 }{\FT{See chap 5. 25; 14:16.
}}} troubled kings: the Lord of hosts has given a command concerning Chanaan, to destroy the strength
thereof.

\VS{12}And
{\ADD{men}} shall say, You⌃ shall no longer at all continue to insult and injure the daughter of Sidon:
and if you depart to the Citians, neither there shall you have rest.

\VS{13}And
{\ADD{if you depart}} to the land of the Chaldeans, this also is laid waste by the Assyrians, for her
wall is fallen.

\VS{14}Howl, you⌃ ships of Carthage: for your strong hold is destroyed.

\VS{15}And it shall come to pass in that day,
{\ADD{that}} Tyre shall be left seventy years, as the time of a king, as the time of a man: and it
shall come to pass after seventy years,
{\ADD{that}} Tyre shall be as the song of a harlot.

\VS{16}Take a harp, go about, O city, you harlot that have been forgotten; play
well on the harp, sing many
{\ADD{songs}}, that you may be remembered.

\VS{17}And it shall come to pass after the seventy years,
{\ADD{that}} God will visit Tyre, and she shall be again restored to her primitive state, and she shall
be a mart for all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

\VS{18}And her trade and her gain shall be holiness to the Lord: it shall not be
gathered for them, but for those that dwell before the Lord,
{\ADD{even}} all her trade, to eat and drink and be filled, and for a covenant
{\ADD{and}} a memorial before the Lord.



\par }\Chap{24}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Behold, the Lord is about to lay waste the world, and will make
it desolate, and will lay bare the surface of it, and scatter them that dwell therein.

\VS{2}And the people shall be as the priest, and the servant as the lord, and the
maid as the mistress; the buyer shall be as the seller, the lender as the borrower, and the debtor as
his creditor.

\VS{3}The earth shall be completely laid waste, and the earth shall be utterly spoiled:
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken these things.

\VS{4}The earth mourns, and the world is ruined, the lofty ones of the earth are
mourning.

\VS{5}And she has sinned by reason of her inhabitants; because they have transgressed
the law, and changed the ordinances,
{\ADD{even}} the everlasting covenant.

\VS{6}Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, because the inhabitants thereof
have sinned: therefore the dwellers in the earth shall be poor, and few men shall be left.

\VS{7}The wine shall mourn, the vine shall mourn, all the merry-hearted shall sigh.

\VS{8}The mirth of timbrels has ceased, the sound of the harp has ceased.

\VS{9}They are ashamed, they have not drunk wine; strong drink has become bitter
to them that drink
{\ADD{it}}.

\VS{10}All the city has become desolate: one shall shut his house so that none shall
enter.

\VS{11}There is a howling for the wine everywhere; all the mirth of the land has
ceased, all the mirth of the land has departed.

\VS{12}And cities shall be left desolate, and houses being left shall fall to ruin.

\VS{13}All this shall be in the land in the midst of the nations, as if one should
strip an olive tree, so shall they strip them; but when the vintage is done,

\VS{14}these shall cry aloud; and they that are left on the land shall rejoice together
in the glory of the Lord: the water of the sea shall be troubled.

\VS{15}Therefore shall the glory of the Lord be in the isles of the sea; the name
of the Lord shall be glorious.

\VS{16}O Lord God of Israel, from the ends of the earth we have heard wonderful
things,
{\ADD{and there is}} hope to the godly: but they shall say, Woe to the despisers, that despise the
law.

\VS{17}Fear, and a pit, and a snare, are upon you that dwell on the earth.

\VS{18}And it shall come to pass,
{\ADD{that}} he that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that comes up out of the pit
shall be caught by the snare: for windows have been opened in heaven, and the foundations of the earth
shall be shaken,

\VS{19}the earth shall be utterly confounded, and the earth shall be completely
perplexed.

\VS{20}It reels as a drunkard and one oppressed with wine, and the earth shall be
shaken as a storehouse of fruits; for iniquity has prevailed upon it, and it shall fall, and shall not
be able to rise.

\VS{21}And God shall bring
{\ADD{his}} hand upon the host of heaven, and upon the kings of the earth.

\VS{22}And they shall gather the multitude thereof into prisons, and they shall
shut them into a strong hold: after many generations they shall be visited.

\VS{23}And the brick shall decay, and the wall shall fall; for the Lord shall reign
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 24:23 }{\FQA{Heb. and
}}{\FL{Alex.
}}{\FT{‘in’
}}} from out of Sion, and out of Jerusalem, and shall be glorified before
{\ADD{his}} elders.



\par }\Chap{25}{\PP \VerseOne{1}O Lord God, I will glorify you, I will sing to your name; for
you have done wonderful things,
{\ADD{even}} an ancient
{\ADD{and}} faithful counsel. So be it.

\VS{2}For you have made cities a heap,
{\ADD{even}} cities
{\ADD{made}} strong that their foundations should not fall: the city of ungodly men shall not be built
for ever.

\VS{3}Therefore shall the poor people bless you, and cities of injured men shall
bless you.

\VS{4}For you have been a helper to every lowly city, and a shelter to them that
were disheartened by reason of poverty: you shall deliver them from wicked men:
{\ADD{you have been}} a shelter of them that thirst, and a refreshing air to injured men.

\VS{5}{\ADD{We were}} as faint-hearted men thirsting in Sion, by reason of ungodly men to whom you did deliver
us.

\VS{6}And the Lord of hosts shall make
{\ADD{a feast}} for all the nations: on this mount they shall drink gladness, they shall drink wine:

\VS{7}they shall anoint themselves with ointment in this mountain. Impart you all
these things to the nations; for this is
{\ADD{God's}} counsel upon all the nations.

\VS{8}\XREF{✡}{{\XO 25:8 }{\XT{1 Cor 15:54
}}} Death has prevailed and swallowed
{\ADD{men}} up; but again the Lord God has taken away every tear from every face. He has taken away
the reproach of
{\ADD{his}} people from all the earth: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.

\VS{9}And in that day they shall say, behold our God in whom we have trusted, and
he shall save us: this
{\ADD{is}} the Lord; we have waited for him, and we have exulted, and will rejoice in our salvation.

\VS{10}God will give rest on this mountain, and the country of Moab shall be trodden
down, as they tread the floor with wagons.

\VS{11}And he shall spread forth his hands, even as he also brings down
{\ADD{man}} to destroy
{\ADD{him}}: and he shall bring low his pride
{\ADD{in regard to the thing}} on which he has laid his hands.

\VS{12}And he shall bring down the height of the refuge of the wall, and it shall
come down even to the ground.



\par }\Chap{26}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In that day they shall sing this song in the land of Judea; Behold
a strong city; and he shall make salvation
{\ADD{its}} wall and bulwark.

\VS{2}Open you⌃ the gates, let the nation enter that keeps righteousness, and keeps
truth,

\VS{3}supporting truth, and keeping peace: for on you, O Lord,

\VS{4}they have trusted with confidence for ever, the great, the eternal God;

\VS{5}who have humbled and brought down them that dwell on high, you shall cast down
strong cities, and bring them to the ground.

\VS{6}And the feet of the meek and lowly shall trample them.

\VS{7}The way of the godly is made straight: the way of the godly is also prepared.

\VS{8}For the way of the Lord is judgement: we have hoped in your name, and on the
remembrance
{\ADD{of you}},

\VS{9}which our soul longs for: my spirit seeks you very early in the morning, O
God, for your commandments are a light on the earth: learn righteousness, you⌃ that dwell upon the earth.

\VS{10}For the ungodly one is put down: no one who will not learn righteousness
on the earth, shall be able to do the truth: let the ungodly be taken away, that he see not the glory
of the Lord.

\VS{11}O Lord, your arm is exalted, yet they knew it not: but when they know they
shall be ashamed: jealousy shall seize upon an untaught nation, and now fire shall devour the adversaries.

\VS{12}O Lord our God, give us peace: for you have rendered to us all things.

\VS{13}O Lord our God, take possession of us: O Lord, we know not
{\ADD{any}} other beside you: we name your name.

\VS{14}But the dead shall not see life, neither shall
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 26:14 }{\FT{See
Job 26:5.
}}} physicians by any means raise
{\ADD{them}} up: therefore you have brought
{\ADD{wrath}} upon
{\ADD{them}}, and slain
{\ADD{them}}, and have taken away every male of them. Bring more evils upon them, O Lord;

\VS{15}bring more evils on the glorious ones of the earth.

\VS{16}Lord, in affliction I remembered you; your chastening was to us with small
affliction.

\VS{17}And as a woman in travail draws near to be delivered,
{\ADD{and}} cries out in her pain; so have we been to your beloved.

\VS{18}We have conceived, O Lord, because of your fear, and have been in pain, and
have brought forth the breath of your salvation, which we have wrought upon the earth: we shall not fall,
but all that dwell upon the land shall fall.

\VS{19}The dead shall rise, and they that are in the tombs shall be raised, and
they that are in the earth shall rejoice: for
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 26:19 }{\FT{See Ps 110 (109)
}}} the dew from you is healing to them: but the land of the ungodly shall perish.

\VS{20}Go, my people, enter into your closets, shut your door, hide yourself for
a little season, until the anger of the Lord have passed away.

\VS{21}For, behold, the Lord is bringing wrath from
{\ADD{his}} holy place upon the dwellers on the earth: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and
shall not cover her slain.



\par }\Chap{27}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In that day God shall bring
{\ADD{his}} holy and great and strong sword upon the dragon, even the serpent that flees, upon the
dragon, the crooked serpent: he shall destroy the dragon.

\VS{2}In that day
{\ADD{there shall be}} a fair vineyard,
{\ADD{and}} a desire to commence
{\ADD{a song}} concerning it.

\VS{3}I am a strong city, a city in a siege: in vain shall I water it; for it shall
be taken by night, and by day the wall shall fall.

\VS{4}There is no woman that has not taken hold of it; who will set me to watch stubble
in the field? because of this enemy I have set her aside; therefore on this account the Lord has done
all that he appointed.

\VS{5}I am burnt up; they that dwell in her shall cry, Let us make peace with him,
let us make peace,

\VS{6}they that are coming are the children of Jacob. Israel shall bud and blossom,
and the world shall be filled with his fruit.

\VS{7}Shall he himself be thus struck, even as he struck? and as he killed, shall
he be thus slain?

\VS{8}Fighting and reproaching he will dismiss them; did you not meditate with a
harsh spirit, to kill them with a wrathful spirit?

\VS{9}Therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be taken away; and this is his blessing,
when I shall have taken away his sin; when they shall have broken to pieces all the stones of the altars
as fine dust, and their trees shall not remain, and their idols shall be cut off, as a thicket afar off.

\VS{10}The flock that lived
{\ADD{there}} shall be left, as a deserted flock; and
{\ADD{the ground}} shall be for a long time for pasture, and there shall flocks lie down to rest.

\VS{11}And after a time there shall be in it no green thing because of
{\ADD{the grass}} being parched. Come hither, you⌃ women that come
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 27:11 }{\FT{See
}}{\FQA{Heb.
}}} from a sight; for it is a people of no understanding; therefore he that made them shall have
no pity upon them, and he that formed them shall have no mercy
{\ADD{upon them}}.

\VS{12}And it shall come to pass in that day
{\ADD{that}} God shall fence
{\ADD{men}} off from the channel of the river as far as Rhinocorura; but do you⌃ gather one by one
the children of Israel.

\VS{13}And it shall come to pass in that day
{\ADD{that}} they shall blow the great trumpet, and the lost ones in the land of the Assyrians shall
come, and the lost ones in Egypt, and shall worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.



\par }\Chap{28}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Woe to the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, the flower
that has fallen from the glory of the top of the fertile mountain, they that are drunken without wine.

\VS{2}Behold, the anger of the Lord is strong and severe, as descending hail where
there is no shelter, violently descending; as a great body of water sweeping away the soil, he shall make
rest for the land.

\VS{3}The crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, shall be beaten down with the
hands and with the feet.

\VS{4}And the fading flower of the
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 28:4 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{hope of glory
}}} glorious hope on the top of the high mountain shall be as the early fig; he that sees it, before
he takes it into his hand, will desire to swallow it down.

\VS{5}In that day the Lord of hosts shall be the crown of hope, the woven
{\ADD{crown}} of glory, to the remnant of the people.

\VS{6}They shall be left in the spirit of judgement for judgement, and for the strength
of them that hinder slaying.

\VS{7}For these have trespassed through wine; they have erred through strong drink:
the priest and the prophet are mad through strong drink, they are swallowed up by reason of wine, they
have staggered
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 28:7 }{\FL{Lit.
}}{\FT{from
}}} through drunkenness; they have erred: this is
{\ADD{their}} vision.

\VS{8}A curse shall devour this counsel, for this
{\ADD{is their}} counsel for the sake of covetousness.

\VS{9}To whom have we reported evils? and to whom have we reported a message?
{\ADD{even to those}} that are weaned from the milk, who are drawn from the breast.

\VS{10}Expect you affliction on affliction, hope upon hope: yet a little,
{\ADD{and}} yet a little,

\VS{11}\XREF{✡}{{\XO 28:11 }{\XT{1 Cor 14:21
}}} by reason of the contemptuous
{\ADD{words}} of the lips, by means of another language: for they shall speak to this people, saying
to them,

\VS{12}This is the rest to him that is hungry, and this is the calamity: but they
would not hear.

\VS{13}Therefore the oracle of God shall be to them affliction on affliction, hope
on hope, yet a little,
{\ADD{and}} yet a little, that they may go and fall backward; and they shall be crushed and shall be
in danger, and shall be taken.

\VS{14}Therefore hear you⌃ the word of the Lord, you⌃ afflicted men, and you⌃ princes
of this people that is in Jerusalem.

\VS{15}Because you⌃ have said, We have made a covenant with Hades, and agreements
with death; if the rushing storm should pass, it shall not come upon us: we have made falsehood our hope,
and by falsehood shall we be protected:

\VS{16}Therefore thus says the Lord,
{\ADD{even}} the Lord,
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 28:16 }{\XT{Rom 9:33;
1 Pe 2:6
}}} Behold, I lay for the foundations of Sion a costly stone, a choice, a corner-stone, a precious
{\ADD{stone}}, for its foundations; and he that believes
{\ADD{on him}} shall by no means be ashamed.

\VS{17}And I will cause judgement
{\ADD{to be}} for hope, and my compassion shall be for
{\ADD{just}} measures, and you⌃ that trust vainly in falsehood
{\ADD{shall fall}}: for the storm shall by no means pass by you,

\VS{18}\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 28:18 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{shall it not also? etc.
}}} except it also take away your covenant of death, and your trust in Hades shall by no means stand:
if the rushing storm should come upon you, you⌃ shall be beaten down by it.

\VS{19}Whenever it shall pass by, it shall take you; morning by morning it shall
pass by in the day, and in the night there shall be an evil hope. Learn to hear,

\VS{20}you⌃ that are distressed; we can’t fight, but we are ourselves too weak for
you to be gathered.

\VS{21}The Lord shall rise up as a mountain of ungodly
{\ADD{men}}, and shall be in the valley of Gabaon; he shall perform his works with wrath,
{\ADD{even}} a work of bitterness, and his wrath shall deal strangely, and his destruction shall be
strange.

\VS{22}Therefore do not you⌃ rejoice, neither let your bands be made strong; for
I have heard of works finished and cut short by the Lord of hosts, which he will execute upon all the
earth.

\VS{23}Listen, and hear my voice; attend, and hear my words.

\VS{24}Will the ploughman plough all the day? or will he prepare the seed beforehand,
before he tills the ground?

\VS{25}Does he not, when he has levelled the surface thereof, then sow the small
black poppy, or cumin, and afterward sow wheat, and barley, and millet, and bread-corn in your borders?

\VS{26}So you shall be chastened by the judgement of your God, and shall rejoice.

\VS{27}For the black poppy is not cleansed with harsh treatment, nor will a wagon-wheel
pass over the cumin; but the black poppy is threshed with a rod, and the cumin shall be eaten with bread;

\VS{28}for
\FTNT{§}{{\FR 28:28 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{I am
}}} I will not be angry with you for ever, neither shall the voice of
\FTNT{**}{{\FR 28:28 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{bitterness trample you
}}} my anger crush you.

\VS{29}And these signs came forth from the Lord of hosts. Take counsel, exalt vain
comfort.



\par }\Chap{29}{\PP \VerseOne{1}\FTNT{*}{{\FR 29:1 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{woe to
}}} Alas for the city of Ariel, which David
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 29:1 }{\FT{See
}}{\FQA{Heb.
}}} besieged. Gather you⌃ fruits year by year; eat you⌃, for you⌃ shall eat with Moab.

\VS{2}For I will grievously afflict Ariel: and her strength and her wealth shall
be mine.

\VS{3}And I will compass you about like David, and will raise a mound about you,
and set up towers round you.

\VS{4}And your words shall be brought down to the earth, and your words shall sink
down to the earth, and your voice shall be as they that speak out of the earth, and your voice shall
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 29:4 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{become weak
}}} be lowered to the ground.

\VS{5}But the wealth of the ungodly shall be as dust from a wheel, and the multitude
of them that oppress you as flying chaff, and it shall be suddenly as a moment,

\VS{6}from the Lord of Hosts: for there shall be a visitation with thunder, and earthquake,
and a loud
\FTNT{§}{{\FR 29:6 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{voice
}}} noise, a rushing tempest, and devouring flame of fire.

\VS{7}And the wealth of all the nations together, as many as have fought against
Ariel, and all they that war against Jerusalem, and all who are gathered against her, and they that distress
her, shall be as one that dreams in sleep by night.

\VS{8}And as men drink and eat in sleep, and when they have arisen, the dream is
vain: and as a thirsty man dreams as if he drank, and having arisen is still thirsty, and his soul has
desired in vain: so shall be the wealth of all the nations, as many as have fought against the mount Sion.

\VS{9}Faint you⌃, and be amazed, and be overpowered, not with strong drink nor with
wine.

\VS{10}For the Lord has made you to drink a spirit of deep sleep; and he shall close
their eyes, and
{\ADD{the eyes}} of their prophets and of their rulers, who see secret things.

\VS{11}And all these things shall be to you as the words of this sealed book, which
if they shall give to a learnt man, saying, Read this, he shall then say, I can’t read
{\ADD{it}}, for it is sealed.

\VS{12}And this book shall be given into the hands of a man that is unlearned, and
{\ADD{one}} shall say to him, Read this; and he shall say, I am not learnt.

\VS{13}And the Lord has said,
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 29:13 }{\XT{Matt 8:9
}}} This people draw near to me with their mouth, and they honour me with their lips, but their
heart is far from me: but in vain do they worship me, teaching the commandments and doctrines of men.

\VS{14}Therefore behold I will proceed to remove this people, and I will remove
them: and
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 29:14 }{\XT{1 Cor 1:19
}}} I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will hide the understanding of the prudent.

\VS{15}Woe to them that deepen their counsel, and not by the Lord. Woe to them that
take secret counsel, and whose works
\FTNT{**}{{\FR 29:15 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{shall be
}}} are in darkness, and they say, Who has seen us? and who shall know us, or what we do?

\VS{16}Shall you⌃ not be counted as clay of the potter?
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 29:16 }{\XT{Rom 9:20
}}} Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, You did not form me? or the work to the maker,
You have not made me wisely?

\VS{17}{\ADD{Is it}} not yet a little while, and Libanus shall be changed as the mountains of Chermel, and
Chermel shall be reckoned as a forest?

\VS{18}And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and they that
are in darkness, and they that are in mist: the eyes of the blind shall see,

\VS{19}and the poor shall rejoice with joy because of the Lord, and they that had
no hope amongst men shall be filled with joy.

\VS{20}The lawless man has come to nothing, and the proud man has perished, and
they that transgress mischievously have been utterly destroyed:

\VS{21}and they that cause men to sin by a word: and men shall make all that reprove
in the gates an offence, because they have unjustly turned aside the righteous.

\VS{22}Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the house of Jacob, whom he set apart
from Abraam, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall he now change countenance.

\VS{23}But when their children shall have seen my works, they shall sanctify my
name for my sake, and they sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.

\VS{24}And they that erred in spirit shall know understanding, and the murmurers
shall learn obedience, and the stammering tongues shall learn to speak peace.



\par }\Chap{30}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Woe to the apostate children, says the Lord: you⌃ have framed
counsel, not by me, and covenants not by my Spirit, to add sins to sins:

\VS{2}{\ADD{even}} they that proceed to go down into Egypt, but they have not enquired of me, that they might
be helped by Pharao, and protected by the Egyptians.

\VS{3}For the protection of Pharaoh shall be to you a disgrace, and
{\ADD{there shall be}} a reproach to them that trust in Egypt.

\VS{4}For there are princes in Tanes, evil messengers.

\VS{5}In vain shall they labour
{\ADD{in seeking}} to a people, which shall not profit them for help, but
{\ADD{shall be}} for a shame and reproach.

\VS{6}THE VISION OF THE QUADRUPEDS IN THE DESERT. In affliction and distress,
{\ADD{where are}} the lion and lion's whelp, thence
{\ADD{come}} also asps, and the young of flying asps,
{\ADD{there shall they be}} who bore their wealth on asses and camels to a nation which shall not profit
them.

\VS{7}The Egyptians shall help you utterly in vain: tell them, This your consolation
is vain.

\VS{8}Now then sit down and write these words on a tablet, and in a book; for these
things shall be
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 30:8 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{for days in time.
}}{\FL{Alex.
}}{\FT{seasons
}}} for
{\ADD{many long}} days, and even for ever.

\VS{9}For the people is disobedient, false children, who would not hear the law of
God:

\VS{10}who say to the prophets, Report not to us; and to them that see visions,
Speak
{\ADD{them}} not to us, but speak and report to us another error;

\VS{11}and turn us aside from this way; remove from us this path, and remove from
us the oracle of Israel.

\VS{12}Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you⌃ have refused to
obey these words, and have trusted in falsehood; and because you have murmured, and been confident in
this respect:

\VS{13}therefore shall this sin be to you as a wall suddenly falling when a strong
city has been taken, of which the fall is very near at hand.

\VS{14}And the fall thereof shall be as the breaking of an earthen vessel,
{\ADD{as}} small fragments of a pitcher, so that you should not find amongst them a sherd, with which
you might take up fire, and with which you should draw a little water.

\VS{15}Thus says the Lord, the Holy Lord of Israel; When you shall turn and mourn,
then you shall be saved; and you shall know where you were, when you did trust in vanities:
{\ADD{then}} your strength became vain, yet you⌃ would not listen:

\VS{16}but you⌃ said, We will flee upon horses; therefore shall you⌃ flee: and,
We will be aided by swift riders; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

\VS{17}A thousand shall flee because of the voice of one, and many shall flee on
account of the voice of five; until you⌃ be left as a signal-post upon a mountain, and as one bearing
an ensign upon a hill.

\VS{18}And the Lord will again wait, that he may pity you, and will therefore be
exalted that he may have mercy upon you: because the Lord your God is a judge: blessed are they that
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 30:18 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{wait for
}}} stay themselves upon him.

\VS{19}For the holy people shall dwell in Sion: and
{\ADD{whereas}} Jerusalem has
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 30:19 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{with weeping
}}} wept bitterly,
{\ADD{saying}}, Pity me; he shall pity you: when he perceived the voice of your cry, he listened to
you.

\VS{20}And
{\ADD{though}} the Lord shall give you the bread of affliction and scant water, yet they that cause
you to err shall no more at all draw near to you; for your eyes shall see those that cause you to err,

\VS{21}and your ears shall hear the words of them that went after you to lead you
astray, who say, This
{\ADD{is}} the way, let us walk in it, whether to the right or to the left.

\VS{22}And you shall pollute the plated idols, and you shall grind to powder the
gilt ones, and shall scatter them as the water of a removed
{\ADD{woman}}, and you shall thrust them forth as dung.

\VS{23}Then shall there be rain to the seed of your land; and the bread of the fruit
of your land shall be plenteous and rich: and your cattle shall feed in that day in a fertile and spacious
place.

\VS{24}Your bulls and your oxen that till the ground, shall eat chaff mixed with
winnowed barley.

\VS{25}And there shall be upon every lofty mountain and upon every high hill, water
running in that day, when many shall perish, and when the towers shall fall.

\VS{26}And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light
of the sun shall be sevenfold in the day when the Lord shall heal the breach of his people, and shall
heal the pain of your wound.

\VS{27}Behold, the name of the Lord comes after a
{\ADD{long}} time, burning wrath: the word of his lips is with glory, a word full of anger, and the
anger of his wrath shall devour as fire.

\VS{28}And his breath, as rushing water in a valley, shall reach as far as the neck,
and be divided, to confound the nations for
{\ADD{their}} vain error: error also shall pursue them, and
\FTNT{§}{{\FR 30:28 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{take them to their face
}}} overtake them.

\VS{29}Must you⌃ always rejoice, and go into my holy places continually, as they
that keep a feast? and must you⌃ go with a pipe, as those that rejoice, into the mountain of the Lord,
to the God of Israel?

\VS{30}And the Lord shall make his glorious voice to be heard, and the wrath of
his arm, to make a display with wrath and anger and devouring flame: he shall lighten terribly, and
{\ADD{his wrath shall be}} as water and violent hail.

\VS{31}For by the voice of the Lord the Assyrians shall be overcome,
{\ADD{even}} by the stroke wherewith he shall strike them.

\VS{32}And it shall happen to him from every side,
{\ADD{that}} they from whom their hope of assistance was, in which he trusted, themselves shall war
against him in turn with drums and with harp.

\VS{33}For you shall be required before
{\ADD{your}} time: has it been prepared for you also to reign? nay, God has
{\ADD{prepared for you}} a deep trench, wood piled, fire and much wood: the wrath of the Lord
{\ADD{shall be}} as a trench kindled with sulphur.



\par }\Chap{31}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, who trust in horses
and chariots, for they are many; and in horses,
{\ADD{which are}} a great multitude; and have not trusted in the Holy One of Israel, and have not sought
the Lord.

\VS{2}Therefore he has wisely brought evils upon them, and his word shall not be
frustrated; and he shall rise up against the houses of wicked men, and against their vain hope,

\VS{3}{\ADD{even}} an Egyptian, a man, and not God; the flesh of horses, and there
is no help
{\ADD{in them}}: but the Lord shall bring his hand upon them, and the helpers shall fail, and all shall
perish together.

\VS{4}For thus said the Lord to me, As a lion would roar, or a lion's whelp over
prey which he has taken, and cry over it, until the mountains are filled with his voice, and
{\ADD{the animals}} are awe-struck and tremble at the fierceness of his wrath: so the Lord of hosts
shall descend to fight upon the mount Sion,
{\ADD{even}} upon her mountains.

\VS{5}As birds flying, so shall the Lord of hosts defend; he shall defend Jerusalem,
and he shall rescue, and save and deliver.

\VS{6}Turn, you⌃ children of Israel, who devise a deep and sinful counsel.

\VS{7}For in that day men shall renounce their silver idols and
{\ADD{their}} golden idols, which their hands made.

\VS{8}And the Assyrian shall fall: not the sword of a great man, nor the sword of
a mean man shall devour him; neither shall he flee from the face of the sword: but the young men shall
be overthrown:

\VS{9}for they shall be compassed with rocks as with a trench, and shall be worsted;
and he that flees shall be taken. Thus says the Lord, Blessed is he that has a seed in Sion, and household
friends in Jerusalem.



\par }\Chap{32}{\PP \VerseOne{1}For, behold, a righteous king shall reign, and princes shall govern
with judgement.

\VS{2}And a man shall hide his words, and be hidden, as from rushing water, and shall
appear in Sion as a rushing river, glorious in a thirsty land.

\VS{3}And they shall no more trust in men, but they shall incline their ears to hear.

\VS{4}And the heart of the weak ones shall attend to hear, and the stammering tongues
shall soon learn to speak peace.

\VS{5}And they shall no more at all tell a fool to rule, and your servants shall
no more at all say, Be silent.

\VS{6}For the fool shall speak foolish words, and his heart shall meditate vanities,
and to perform lawless deeds and to speak error against the Lord, to scatter hungry souls, and he will
cause the thirsty souls to be empty.

\VS{7}For the counsel of the wicked will devise iniquity, to destroy the poor with
unjust words, and
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 32:7 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{disperse the words
}}} ruin the cause of the poor in judgement.

\VS{8}But the godly have devised wise
{\ADD{measures}}, and this counsel shall stand.

\VS{9}Rise up, you⌃ rich women, and hear my voice;
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 32:9 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{daughters in hope
}}} you⌃ confident daughters, listen to my words.

\VS{10}Remember for a full year in pain, yet with hope: the vintage has been cut
off; it has ceased, it shall by no means come again.

\VS{11}Be amazed, be pained, you⌃ confident ones: strip you, bare yourselves, gird
your loins;

\VS{12}and beat your breasts, because of the pleasant field, and the fruit of the
vine.

\VS{13}{\ADD{As for}} the land of my people, the thorn and grass shall come upon
{\ADD{it}}, and joy shall be removed from every house.

\VS{14}{\ADD{As for}} the rich city, the houses are deserted; they shall abandon the wealth of the city,
{\ADD{and}} the pleasant houses: and the villages shall be caves for ever, the joy of wild asses, shepherds'
pastures;

\VS{15}until the Spirit shall come upon you from on high, and Chermel shall be desert,
and Chermel shall be counted for a forest.

\VS{16}Then judgement shall abide in the wilderness, and righteousness shall dwell
in Carmel.

\VS{17}And the works of righteousness shall be peace; and righteousness shall ensure
rest, and
{\ADD{the righteous}} shall be confident for ever.

\VS{18}And his people shall inhabit a city of peace, and dwell in
{\ADD{it}} in confidence, and they shall rest with wealth.

\VS{19}And if the hail should come down, it shall not come upon you; and they that
dwell in the forests shall be in confidence, as those in the plain country.

\VS{20}Blessed are they that sow by every water, where the ox and ass tread.



\par }\Chap{33}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Woe to them that afflict you; but no one makes you miserable:
and he that deals perfidiously with you does not deal perfidiously: they that deal perfidiously shall
be taken and given up, and as a moth on a garment, so shall they be spoiled.

\VS{2}Lord, have mercy upon us; for we have trusted in you: the seed of the rebellious
is gone to destruction, but our deliverance was in a time of affliction.

\VS{3}By reason of the terrible sound the nations were dismayed for fear of you,
and the heathen were scattered.

\VS{4}And now shall the spoils of your small and great be gathered: as if one should
gather locusts, so shall they mock you.

\VS{5}The God who dwells on high is holy: Sion is filled with judgement and righteousness.

\VS{6}They shall be delivered up to the law: our salvation is our treasure: there
are wisdom and knowledge and piety towards the Lord; these are the treasures of righteousness.

\VS{7}Behold now, these shall be terrified with fear of you: those whom you⌃ feared
shall cry out because of you: messengers shall be sent, bitterly weeping, entreating for peace.

\VS{8}For the ways of these shall be made desolate: the terror of the nations has
been made to cease, and the covenant with these is taken away, and you⌃ shall by no means deem them men.

\VS{9}The land mourns; Libanus is ashamed: Saron is become marshes; Galilee shall
be
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 33:9 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{manifest
}}} laid bare, and Chermel.

\VS{10}Now will I arise, says the Lord, now will I be glorified; now will I be exalted.

\VS{11}Now shall you⌃ see, now shall you⌃ perceive; the strength of your breath,
shall be vain; fire shall devour you.

\VS{12}And the nations shall be burnt up; as a thorn in the field cast out and burnt
up.

\VS{13}They that are afar off shall hear what I have done; they that draw near shall
know my strength.

\VS{14}The sinners in Sion have departed; trembling shall seize the ungodly. Who
will tell you that a fire is kindled? Who will tell you of the eternal place?

\VS{15}He that walks in righteousness, speaking rightly, hating transgression and
iniquity, and shaking his hands from gifts, stopping his ears that he should not hear the judgement of
blood, shutting his eyes that he should not see injustice.

\VS{16}he shall dwell in a high cave of a strong rock: bread shall be given him,
and his water shall be sure.

\VS{17}You⌃ shall see a king with glory: your eyes shall behold a land from afar.

\VS{18}Your soul shall meditate terror. Where are the scribes? where are the counsellors,
where is he that numbers them that are growing up,

\VS{19}{\ADD{even}} the small and great people? with whom he took not counsel, neither did he understand
{\ADD{a people}} of deep speech, so that a despised people should not hear, and there is no understanding
to him that hears.

\VS{20}Behold the city of Sion,
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 33:20 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{salvation
}}} our refuge: your eyes shall behold Jerusalem, a rich city, tabernacles which shall not be shaken,
neither shall the pins of her tabernacle be moved for ever, neither shall her cords be at all broken:

\VS{21}for the name of the Lord is great to you: you⌃ shall have a place,
{\ADD{even}} rivers and wide and spacious channels: you shall not go this way, neither a vessel with
oars go
{\ADD{thereby}}.

\VS{22}For my God is great: the Lord our judge shall not pass me by: the Lord is
our prince, the Lord is our king; the Lord, he shall save us.

\VS{23}Your cords are broken, for they had no strength: your meat has given way,
it shall not spread the sails, it shall not bear a signal, until it be given up for plunder; therefore
shall many lame men take spoil.

\VS{24}And the people dwelling amongst them shall by no means say,
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 33:24 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{I am sick
}}} I am in pain: for their sin shall be forgiven them.



\par }\Chap{34}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Draw near, you⌃ nations; and listen, you⌃ princes; let the earth
hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the people that are therein.

\VS{2}For the wrath of the Lord is upon all nations, and
{\ADD{his}} anger upon the number of them, to destroy them, and give them up to slaughter.

\VS{3}And their slain shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their
{\ADD{ill}} savour shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood.

\VS{4}And all the powers of the heavens shall melt, and the sky shall be rolled up
like a scroll: and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a vine, and as leaves fall from a fig tree.

\VS{5}My sword has been made drunk in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea,
and with judgement upon the people doomed to destruction.

\VS{6}The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is glutted with fat, with the
blood of goats and lambs, and with the fat of goats and rams: for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bosor, and
a great slaughter in Idumea.

\VS{7}And the mighty ones shall fall with them, and the rams and the bulls; and the
land shall be
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 34:7 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{made drunken
}}} soaked with blood, and shall be filled with their fat.

\VS{8}For it is the day of judgement of the Lord, and the year of the recompence
of Sion in judgement.

\VS{9}And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and
her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;

\VS{10}and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up: it shall be made
desolate throughout her generations,

\VS{11}and for a long time birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall dwell
in it: and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it, and
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 34:11 }{\FL{Vide supra,
}}{\FT{ 13:22.
}}} satyrs shall dwell in it.

\VS{12}Her princes shall be no more; for her kings and her great men shall be destroyed.

\VS{13}And thorns shall spring up in their cities, and in her strong holds: and
they shall be habitations of
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 34:13 }{\FL{Vide supra,
}}{\FT{Job 30. 29; Isa. 13. 21, etc.
}}} monsters, and a court of ostriches.

\VS{14}And devils shall meet with satyrs, and they shall cry one to the other: there
shall satyrs rest, having found for themselves
{\ADD{a place of}} rest.

\VS{15}There has the hedgehog made its nest, and the earth has safely preserved
its young: there have the deer met, and seen one another's faces.

\VS{16}They passed by in
{\ADD{full}} number, and not one of them perished: they sought not one another; for the Lord commanded
them, and his Spirit gathered them.

\VS{17}And he shall cast lots for them, and his hand has portioned out
{\ADD{their}} pasture,
{\ADD{saying}}, You⌃ shall inherit
{\ADD{the land}} for ever: they shall rest on it
{\ADD{through}} all generations.



\par }\Chap{35}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Be glad, you thirsty desert: let the wilderness exult, and flower
as the lily.

\VS{2}And the desert places of Jordan shall blossom and rejoice; the glory of Libanus
has been given to it, and the honour of Carmel; and my people shall see the glory of the Lord, and the
majesty of God.

\VS{3}\XREF{✡}{{\XO 35:3 }{\XT{Heb 12:12
}}} Be strong, you⌃ relaxed hands and palsied knees.

\VS{4}Comfort one another, you⌃ faint-hearted; be strong, fear not; behold, our God
renders judgement, and he will render
{\ADD{it}}; he will come and save us.

\VS{5}Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall
hear.

\VS{6}Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the stammerers shall
speak plainly; for water has burst forth in the desert, and a channel
{\ADD{of water}} in a thirsty land.

\VS{7}And the dry land shall become pools, and a fountain of water shall
{\ADD{be poured}} into the thirsty land; there shall there be a joy of birds, ready habitations and
marshes.

\VS{8}There shall be there a pure way, and it shall be called a holy way; and there
shall not pass by there any unclean person, neither shall there be there an unclean way; but the dispersed
shall walk on it, and they shall not go astray.

\VS{9}And there shall be no lion there, neither shall any evil beast go up upon it,
nor at all be found there; but the redeemed and gathered on the Lord's behalf, shall walk in it,

\VS{10}and shall return, and come to Sion with joy, and everlasting joy
{\ADD{shall be}} over their head; for on their head
{\ADD{shall be}} praise and exultation, and joy shall take possession of them: sorrow and pain, and
groaning have fled away.



\par }\Chap{36}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of the reign of Ezekias,
{\ADD{that}} Sennacherim, king of the Assyrians, came up against the strong cities of Judea, and took
them.

\VS{2}And the king of the Assyrians sent Rabsaces out of Laches to Jerusalem to king
Ezekias with a large force: and he stood by the
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 36:2 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{in
}}} conduit of the upper pool in the way of the fuller's field.

\VS{3}And there went forth to him Heliakim the steward, the
{\ADD{son}} of Chelcias, and Somnas the scribe, and Joach the
{\ADD{son}} of Asaph, the recorder.

\VS{4}And Rabsaces said to them, Say to Ezekias, Thus says the great king, the king
of the Assyrians, Why are you secure?

\VS{5}Is war carried on with counsel and
{\ADD{mere}} words of the lips? and now on whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?

\VS{6}Behold, you trust on this bruised staff of reed, on Egypt:
{\ADD{as soon}} as a man leans upon it, it shall go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharao king
of Egypt and all that trust in him.

\VS{7}But if you⌃ say, We trust in the Lord our God;

\VS{8}yet now make an agreement with my lord the king of the Assyrians, and I will
give you two thousand horses, if you⌃ shall be able to set riders upon them.

\VS{9}And how can you⌃
{\ADD{then}} turn to the face of the
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 36:9 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{local governors
}}} satraps? They that trust on the Egyptians for horse and rider, are
{\ADD{our}} servants.

\VS{10}And now, Have we come up against this land to fight against it without the
Lord? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

\VS{11}Then Eliakim and Somnas and Joach said to him, Speak to your servants in
the Syrian tongue; for we understand
{\ADD{it}}: and speak not to us in the Jewish tongue: and therefore speak you in the ears of the men
on the wall?

\VS{12}And Rabsaces said to them, Has my lord sent me to your lord or to you, to
speak these words?
{\ADD{has he}} not
{\ADD{sent}} me to the men that sit on the wall, that they may eat dung, and drink
{\ADD{their}} water together with you?

\VS{13}And Rabsaces stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jewish language, and
said, Hear you⌃ the words of the great king, the king of the Assyrians:

\VS{14}thus says the king, Let not Ezekias deceive you with words: he will not be
able to deliver you.

\VS{15}And let not Ezekias say to you, That God will deliver you, and this city
will not at all be delivered into the hand of the king of the Assyrians.

\VS{16}Listen not to Ezekias: thus says the king of the Assyrians, If you⌃ wish
to be blessed, come out to me: and you⌃ shall eat every one
{\ADD{of}} his vine and his fig-trees, and you⌃ shall drink water out of your own cisterns:

\VS{17}until I come and take you to a land, like your own land, a land of corn and
wine, and bread, and vineyards.

\VS{18}Let not Ezekias deceive you, saying, God will deliver you. Have the gods
of the nations delivered each one his own land out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians?

\VS{19}Where is the god of Emath, and Arphath? and where is the god of Eppharuaim?
have they been able to deliver Samaria out of my hand?

\VS{20}Which is the god of all these nations, that has delivered his land out of
my hand, that God should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

\VS{21}And they were silent, and none answered him a word; because the king had
commanded that none should answer.

\VS{22}And Heliakim the
{\ADD{son}} of Chelcias, the steward, and Somnas the military scribe, and Joach the
{\ADD{son}} of Asaph, the recorder, came in to Ezekias, having their garments torn, and they reported
to him the words of Rabsaces.



\par }\Chap{37}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And it came to pass, when king Ezekias heard
{\ADD{it, that}} he tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth, and went up to the house of the Lord.

\VS{2}And he sent Heliakim the steward, and Somnas the scribe, and the elders of
the priests clothed with sackcloth, to Esaias the son of Amos, the prophet. And they said to him, Thus
says Ezekias,

\VS{3}To-day is a day of affliction, and reproach, and rebuke, and anger: for the
pangs are come upon the travailing
{\ADD{woman}}, but she has not strength to bring forth.

\VS{4}May the Lord your God hear the words of Rabsaces, which the king of the Assyrians
has sent, to reproach the living God, even to reproach with the words which the Lord your God has heard:
therefore you shall pray to your Lord for these that are left.

\VS{5}So the servants of king Ezekias came to Esaias.

\VS{6}And Esaias said to them, Thus shall you⌃ say to your master, Thus says the
Lord, Be not you afraid at the words which you have heard, wherewith the ambassadors of the king of the
Assyrians have reproached me,

\VS{7}Behold, I
{\ADD{will}} send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a report, and return to his own country, and
he shall fall by the sword in his own land.

\VS{8}So Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna:
for he had heard that he had departed from Lachis.

\VS{9}And Tharaca king of the Ethiopians went forth to
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 37:9 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{besiege
}}} attack him. And when he heard it, he turned aside, and sent messengers to Ezekias, saying,

\VS{10}Thus shall you⌃ say to Ezekias king of Judea, Let not your God, in whom you
trust, deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of the Assyrians.

\VS{11}Have you not heard what the kings of the Assyrians have done, how they have
destroyed the whole earth? and shall you be delivered?

\VS{12}Have the gods of the nations which my fathers destroyed delivered them, both
Gozan, and Charrhan, and Rapheth, which are in the land of Theemath?

\VS{13}Where are the kings of Emath? and where
{\ADD{is the king of}} Arphath? and where
{\ADD{is the king}} of the city of Eppharuaim,
{\ADD{and of}} Anagugana?

\VS{14}And Ezekias received the letter from the messengers, and read it, and went
up to the house of the Lord, and opened it before the Lord.

\VS{15}And Ezekias prayed to the Lord, saying,

\VS{16}O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, who sit upon the cherubs, you alone are the
God of every kingdom of the world: you have made heaven and earth.

\VS{17}Incline your ear, O Lord, listen, O Lord; open your eyes, O Lord, look, O
Lord: and behold the words of Sennacherim, which he has sent to reproach the living God.

\VS{18}For of a truth, Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste the whole
world, and the countries thereof,

\VS{19}and have cast their idols into the fire: for, they were no gods, but the
work of men's hands, wood and stone; and they have cast them away.

\VS{20}But now, O Lord our God, deliver us from his hands, that every kingdom of
the earth may know that you are God alone.

\VS{21}And Esaias the son of Amos was sent to Ezekias, and said to him, Thus says
the Lord, the God of Israel, I have heard your prayer to me concerning Sennacherim king of the Assyrians.

\VS{22}This is the word which God has spoken concerning him; The virgin daughter
of Sion has despised you, and mocked you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

\VS{23}Whom have you reproached and provoked? and against whom have you lifted up
your voice? and have you not lifted up your eyes on high against the Holy One of Israel?

\VS{24}For you have reproached the Lord by messengers; for you have said, With the
multitude of chariots have I ascended to the height of mountains, and to the sides of Libanus; and I have
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 37:24 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{cut
}}} cropped the height of his cedars and the beauty of his cypresses; and I entered into the height
of the forest region:

\VS{25}and I have made a bridge, and dried up the waters, and every pool of water.

\VS{26}Have you not heard of these things which I did of old? I appointed
{\ADD{them}} from ancient times; but now have I manifested
{\ADD{my purpose}} of desolating nations in
{\ADD{their}} strong holds, and them that dwell in strong cities.

\VS{27}I weakened
{\ADD{their}} hands, and they withered; and they became as dry grass on the housetops, and as grass.

\VS{28}But now I know your rest, and your going out, and your coming in.

\VS{29}And your wrath wherewith you have been enraged, and your rancour has come
up to me; therefore I will put a hook in your nose, and a bit in your lips, and will turn you back by
the way by which you came.

\VS{30}And this shall be a sign to you, Eat this year what you have sown; and the
second year that which is left: and the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit
of them.

\VS{31}And they that are left in Judea shall take root downward, and bear fruit
upward:

\VS{32}for out of Jerusalem there shall be
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 37:32 }{\FL{Lit.
}}{\FT{the left men
}}} a remnant, and the saved ones out of mount Sion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall perform
this.

\VS{33}Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians, He shall
not enter into this city, nor cast a weapon against it, nor bring a shield against it, nor make a rampart
round it.

\VS{34}But by the way by which he came, by it shall he return, and shall not enter
into this city: thus says the Lord.

\VS{35}I will protect this city to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David's
sake.

\VS{36}And the angel of the Lord went forth, and killed out of the camp of the Assyrians
one hundred and eighty-five thousand: and they arose in the morning and found all
{\ADD{these}} bodies dead.

\VS{37}And Sennacherim king of the Assyrians turned and departed, and lived in Nineve.

\VS{38}And while he was worshipping Nasarach his country's god in the house, Adramelech
and Sarasar his sons struck him with swords; and they escaped into Armenia: and Asordan his son reigned
in his stead.



\par }\Chap{38}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And it came to pass at that time,
{\ADD{that}} Ezekias was sick even to death. And Esaias the prophet the son of Amos came to him, and
said to him, Thus says the Lord, Give orders concerning your house: for you shall die, and not live.

\VS{2}And Ezekias turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, saying,

\VS{3}Remember, O Lord, how I have walked before you in truth, with a true heart,
and have done that which was pleasing in your sight. And Ezekias wept bitterly.

\VS{4}And the word of the Lord came to Esaias, saying, Go, and say to Ezekias,

\VS{5}Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer,
and seen your tears: behold, I
{\ADD{will}} add to your time fifteen years.

\VS{6}And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians:
and I will defend this city.

\VS{7}And this
{\ADD{shall be}} a sign to you from the Lord, that God will do this thing;

\VS{8}behold, I will turn back the shadow of the degrees
{\ADD{of the dial}} by which ten degrees on the house of your father the sun has gone down—I will turn
back the sun the ten degrees; so the sun went back the ten degrees by which the shadow had gone down.

\VS{9}THE PRAYER OF EZEKIAS KING OF JUDEA, WHEN HE
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 38:9 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{was sick
}}} HAD BEEN SICK, AND WAS RECOVERED FROM HIS SICKNESS.

\VS{10}I said in the end of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I shall
part with the remainder of my years.

\VS{11}I said, I shall no more at all see the salvation of God in the land of the
living: I shall no more at all see the salvation of Israel on the earth: I shall no more at all see man.

\VS{12}{\ADD{My life}} has failed from amongst my kindred: I have parted with the remainder of my life: it
has gone forth and departed from me, as one that having pitched a tent takes it down
{\ADD{again}}: my breath was with me as a weaver's web, when she that weaves draws near to cut off
{\ADD{the}} thread.

\VS{13}In that day I was given up as to a lion until the morning: so has he broken
all my bones: for I was so given up from day
{\ADD{even}} to night.

\VS{14-15}As a swallow, so will I cry, and as a dove, so do I mourn: for my eyes
have failed with looking to the height of heaven to the Lord, who has delivered me, and removed the sorrow
of my soul.

\VS{16}{\ADD{Yes}}, O Lord, for it was told you concerning this; and you have revived my breath; and I am
comforted, and live.

\VS{17}For you have chosen my soul, that it should not perish: and you have cast
all
{\ADD{my}} sins behind me.

\VS{18}For they that are in the grave shall not praise you, neither shall the dead
bless you, neither shall they that are in Hades hope for your mercy.

\VS{19}The living shall bless you, as I also
{\ADD{do}}: for from this day shall I beget children, who shall declare your righteousness,

\VS{20}O God of my salvation; and I will not cease blessing you with the lute all
the days of my life before the house of God.

\VS{21}Now Esaias had said to Ezekias; Take a cake of figs, and mash them, and apply
them as a plaster, and you shall be well.

\VS{22}And Ezekias said, This is a sign to Ezekias, that I shall go up to the house
of God.



\par }\Chap{39}{\PP \VerseOne{1}At that time Marodach Baladan, the son of Baladan, the king of
Babylonia, sent letters and ambassadors and gifts to Ezekias: for he had heard that he
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 39:1 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{was
}}} had been sick
{\ADD{even}} to death, and was recovered.

\VS{2}And Ezekias was glad of their coming, and he showed them the house of
{\ADD{his}} spices, and of silver, and gold, and myrrh, and incense, and ointment, and all the houses
of his treasures, and all that he had in his stores: and there was nothing in his house, nor in all his
dominion, which Ezekias did not show.

\VS{3}And Esaias the prophet came to king Ezekias, and said to him, What say these
men? and whence came they to you? and Ezekias said, They are come to me from a land afar off, from Babylon.

\VS{4}And Esaias said, What have they seen in your house? and Ezekias said, They
have seen everything in my house; and there is nothing in my house which they have not seen: yes, also
the
{\ADD{possessions}} in my treasuries.

\VS{5}And Esaias said to him, Hear the word of the Lord of hosts:

\VS{6}Behold, the days come, when they shall take all the
{\ADD{things that are}} in your house, and all that your fathers have gathered until this day, shall
go to Babylon; and they shall not leave anything at all: and God has said,

\VS{7}that they shall take also of your children whom you shall beget; and they shall
make them eunuchs in the house of the king of the Babylonians.

\VS{8}And Ezekias said to Esaias, Good is the word of the Lord, which he has spoken:
let there, I pray, be peace and righteousness in my days.



\par }\Chap{40}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Comfort you⌃, comfort you⌃ my people, says God.

\VS{2}Speak, you⌃ priests, to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation
is accomplished, her sin is put away: for she has received of the Lord's hand double
{\ADD{the amount of}} her sins.

\VS{3}\XREF{✡}{{\XO 40:3 }{\XT{Matt 3:3;
John 1:23
}}} The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you⌃ the way of the Lord, make straight the
paths of our God.

\VS{4}Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought
low:
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 40:4 }{\FT{See Luke 3. 5, with which
}}{\FL{Alex.
}}{\FT{agrees
}}} and all the crooked
{\ADD{ways}} shall become straight, and the rough
{\ADD{places}} plains.

\VS{5}And the glory of the Lord shall appear, and all flesh shall see the salvation
of God: for the Lord has spoken
{\ADD{it}}.

\VS{6-7}The voice of one saying, Cry; and I said, What shall I cry?
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 40:6-7 }{\XT{1 Pe 1:24
}}} All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass:

\VS{8}The grass withers, and the flower fades: but the word of our God abides for
ever.

\VS{9}O you that bring glad tidings to Zion, go up on the high mountain; lift up
your voice with strength, you that bring glad tidings to Jerusalem; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities
of Juda, Behold your God!

\VS{10}Behold the Lord! The Lord is coming with strength, and
{\ADD{his}} arm is with power: behold, his reward is with him, and
{\ADD{his}} work before him.

\VS{11}He shall tend his flock as a shepherd, and he shall gather the lambs with
his arm, and shall soothe them that are with young.

\VS{12}Who has measured the water in his hand, and the heaven with a span, and all
the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance?

\VS{13}\XREF{✡}{{\XO 40:13 }{\XT{Rom 11:34
}}} Who has known the mind of the Lord? and who has been his counsellor, to instruct him?

\VS{14}Or with whom has he taken counsel, and he has instructed him? or who has
taught him judgement, or who has taught him the way of understanding;
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 40:14 }{\FL{Alex.
}}{\FT{+ Or who has first given to him, and it shall be recompensed to him again? Ro 11. 35;
}}{\FQA{Heb. omits.
}}}

\VS{15}since all the nations are counted as a drop from a bucket, and as the turning
of a balance,
{\ADD{and}} shall be counted as spittle?

\VS{16}And Libanus is not enough to burn, nor all beasts enough for a whole burnt
offering:

\VS{17}and all the nations are as nothing, and counted as nothing.

\VS{18}To whom have you⌃ compared the Lord? and with what likeness have you⌃ compared
him?

\VS{19}Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold,
gilt it over,
{\ADD{and}} made it a similitude?

\VS{20}For the artificer chooses out a wood that will not rot, and will wisely enquire
how he shall set up his image, and
{\ADD{that so}} that it should not be moved.

\VS{21}Will you⌃ not know? will you⌃ not hear? has it not been told you of old?
Have you⌃ not known the foundations of the earth?

\VS{22}{\ADD{It is}} he that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers;
he that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched
{\ADD{it}} out as a tent to dwell in:

\VS{23}he that appoints princes to rule as nothing, and has made the earth as nothing.

\VS{24}For they shall not plant, neither shall they sow, neither shall their root
be fixed in the ground: he has blown upon them, and they are withered, and a storm shall carry them away
like sticks.

\VS{25}Now then to whom have you⌃ compared me, that I may be exalted? says the Holy
One.

\VS{26}Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things?
{\ADD{even}} he that brings forth his host by number: he shall call them all by name by
{\ADD{means of his}} great glory, and by the power of his might: nothing has escaped you.

\VS{27}For say not you, O Jacob, and why have you spoken, Israel,
{\ADD{saying}}, My way is hid from God, and my God has taken away
{\ADD{my}} judgement, and has departed?

\VS{28}And now, have you not known? have you not heard? the eternal God, the God
that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and there is no searching of his understanding.

\VS{29}He gives strength to the hungry, and sorrow to them that are not suffering.

\VS{30}For the young
{\ADD{men}} shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice
{\ADD{men}} shall be powerless:

\VS{31}but they that wait on God shall renew
{\ADD{their}} strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary;
they shall walk, and not hunger.



\par }\Chap{41}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Hold a feast to me, you⌃ islands: for the princes shall renew
{\ADD{their}} strength: let them draw near and speak together: then let them declare judgement.

\VS{2}Who raised up righteousness from the east,
{\ADD{and}} called it to his feet, so that it should go? shall appoint
{\ADD{it}} an adversary of Gentiles, and shall dismay kings, and bury their swords in the earth, and
cast forth their bows and arrows as sticks?

\VS{3}And he shall pursue them; the way of his feet shall proceed in peace.

\VS{4}Who has wrought and done these things? he has called it who called it from
the generations of old; I God,
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 41:4 }{\XT{Rev 1:17
}}} the first and to
{\ADD{all}} futurity, I AM.

\VS{5}The nations saw, and feared; the ends of the earth drew near, and came together,

\VS{6}every one judging for his neighbour and
{\ADD{that}} to assist his brother: and one will say,

\VS{7}The artificer has become strong, and the coppersmith that smites with the hammer,
{\ADD{and}} forges also: sometimes he will say, It is a piece well joined: they have fastened them
with nails; they will fix them, and they shall not be moved.

\VS{8}But you, Israel, are my servant Jacob, and he whom I have chosen, the seed
of Abraam, whom I have loved:

\VS{9}whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and from the high places
of it I have called you, and said to you, You are my servant; I have chosen you, and I have not forsaken
you.

\VS{10}Fear not; for I am with you: wander not; for I am your God, who have strengthened
you; and I have helped you, and have established you with my just right hand.

\VS{11}Behold, all your adversaries shall be ashamed and confounded; for they shall
be as if they were not: and all your opponents shall perish.

\VS{12}You shall seek them, and you shall not find the men who shall
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 41:12 }{\FL{Lit.
}}{\FT{transgress by wine against
}}} insolently rage against you: for they shall be as if they were not, and they that war against
you shall not be.

\VS{13}For I am your God, who holds your right hand, who says to you,

\VS{14}Fear not, Jacob,
{\ADD{and you}} Israel few in number; I have helped you, says your God, he that redeems you, O Israel.

\VS{15}Behold, I have made you as new saw-shaped threshing wheels of a wagon; and
you shall thresh the mountains, and beat the hills to powder, and make
{\ADD{them}} as chaff:

\VS{16}and you shall winnow
{\ADD{them}}, and the wind shall carry them away, and a tempest shall scatter them: but you shall rejoice
in the holy ones of Israel.

\VS{17}And the poor and the needy shall exult; for
{\ADD{when}} they shall seek water, and there shall be none,
{\ADD{and}} their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord God, I the God of Israel will hear, and
will not forsake them:

\VS{18}but I will open rivers on the mountains, and fountains in the midst of plains:
I will make the desert pools of water, and a thirsty land watercourses.

\VS{19}I will plant in the dry land the cedar and box, the myrtle and cypress, and
white poplar:

\VS{20}that they may see, and know, and perceive, and understand together, that
the hand of the Lord has wrought these
{\ADD{works}}, and the Holy One of Israel has displayed
{\ADD{them}}.

\VS{21}Your judgement draws near, says the Lord God; your counsels have drawn near,
says the King of Jacob.

\VS{22}Let them draw near, and declare to you what things shall come to pass; or
tell
{\ADD{us}} what things were of old, and we will apply
{\ADD{our}} understanding, and we shall know what are the last and the future things:

\VS{23}tell us, declare you⌃ to us the things that are coming on at the last
{\ADD{time}}, and we shall know that you⌃ are gods: do good, and do evil, and we shall wonder, and
see at the same time

\VS{24}whence you⌃ are, and whence is your works: they have chosen you an abomination
out of the earth.

\VS{25}But I have raised up him that
{\ADD{comes}} from the north, and him that
{\ADD{comes}} from the rising of the sun: they shall be called by my name: let the princes come, and
as potter's clay, and as a potter treading clay, so shall you⌃ be trodden down.

\VS{26}For who will declare the things from the beginning, that we may know also
the former things,
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 41:26 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{and say
}}} and we will say that they are true? there is no one that speaks beforehand, nor anyone that
hears your words.

\VS{27}I will give dominion to Sion, and will comfort Jerusalem by the way.

\VS{28}For from amongst the nations, behold,
{\ADD{there was}} no one; and of their idols there was none to declare
{\ADD{anything}}: and if I should ask them, Whence are you⌃? they could not answer me.

\VS{29}For
{\ADD{these}} are your makers,
{\ADD{as you⌃ think}}, and they that cause you to err in vain.



\par }\Chap{42}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Jacob is
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 42:1 }{\FT{See Mat 12. 18, etc.
}}} my servant, I will help him: Israel is my chosen, my soul has accepted him; I have put my Spirit
upon him; he shall bring forth judgement to the Gentiles.

\VS{2}He shall not cry, nor lift up
{\ADD{his voice}}, nor shall his voice be heard without.

\VS{3}A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench; but
he shall bring forth judgement to truth.

\VS{4}He shall shine out, and shall not be
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 42:4 }{\FL{Lit.
}}{\FT{broken
}}} discouraged, until he have set judgement on the earth: and in his name shall the Gentiles trust.

\VS{5}Thus says the Lord God, who made the heaven, and established it; who settled
the earth, and the things in it, and gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to them that tread on
it:

\VS{6}I the Lord God have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and
will strengthen you: and I have given you for the covenant of a race, for a light of the Gentiles:

\VS{7}to open the eyes of the blind, to bring the bound and them that sit in darkness
out of bonds and the prison-house.

\VS{8}I am the Lord God: that is my name: I will not give my glory to another, nor
my praises to graven images.

\VS{9}Behold, the ancient things have come to pass, and
{\ADD{so will}} the new things which I tell you: yes, before I tell
{\ADD{them}} they are made known to you.

\VS{10}Sing a new hymn to the Lord: you⌃
{\ADD{who are}} his dominion, glorify his name from the end of the earth: you⌃ that go down to the
sea, and sail upon it; the islands, and they that dwell in them.

\VS{11}Rejoice, you wilderness, and the villages thereof, the hamlets, and the dwellers
in Kedar: the inhabitants of the rock shall rejoice, they shall shout from the top of the mountains.

\VS{12}They shall give glory to God,
{\ADD{and}} shall proclaim his praises in the islands.

\VS{13}The Lord God of hosts shall go forth, and crush the war: he shall stir up
jealousy, and shall shout mightily against his enemies.

\VS{14}I have been silent: shall I also always be silent and forbear: I have endured
like a travailing
{\ADD{woman}}: I will
{\ADD{now}} amaze and wither at once.

\VS{15}I will make desolate mountains and hills, and will dry up all their grass;
and I will make the rivers islands, and dry up the pools.

\VS{16}And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, and I will cause
them to tread paths which they have not known: I will turn darkness into light for them, and crooked things
into straight. These things will I do, and will not forsake them.

\VS{17}But they are turned back: be you⌃ utterly ashamed that trust in graven
{\ADD{images}}, who say to the molten
{\ADD{images}}, You⌃ are our gods.

\VS{18}Hear, you⌃ deaf, and look up, you⌃ blind, to see.

\VS{19}And who is blind, but my servants? and deaf, but they that rule over them?
yes, the servants of God have been made blind.

\VS{20}You⌃ have often seen, and have not taken heed;
{\ADD{your}} ears have been opened, and you⌃ have not heard.

\VS{21}The Lord God has taken counsel that he might be justified, and might magnify
{\ADD{his}} praise.

\VS{22}And I saw, and the people were spoiled and plundered: for
{\ADD{there is}} a snare in the secret chambers everywhere, and in the houses also, where they have
hidden them: they became a spoil, and there was no one that delivered the prey, and there was none who
said, Restore.

\VS{23}Who
{\ADD{is there}} amongst you that will give ear to these things? listen you⌃ to the things which are
coming to pass.

\VS{24}\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 42:24 }{\FT{Some read τίς, who
}}} For what did he give to Jacob up to spoil, and Israel to them that plundered him? Did not God
{\ADD{do it}} against whom they sinned?
{\ADD{and}} they would not walk in his ways, nor listen to his law.

\VS{25}So he brought upon them the fury of his wrath; and the war, and those that
burnt round about them, prevailed against them; yet no one of them knew
{\ADD{it}}, neither did they lay
{\ADD{it}} to heart.



\par }\Chap{43}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And now thus says the Lord God that made you, O Jacob, and formed
you, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed you, I have called you
{\ADD{by}} your name; you are mine.

\VS{2}And if you pass through water, I am with you; and the rivers shall not overflow
you: and if you go through fire, you shall not be burnt; the flame shall not burn you.

\VS{3}For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, that saves you: I have
made Egypt and Ethiopia your ransom, and
{\ADD{given}} Soene for you.

\VS{4}Since you became precious in my sight, you have become glorious, and I have
loved you: and I will give men for you, and princes for
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 43:4 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{head
}}} your life.

\VS{5}Fear not; for I am with you: I will bring your seed from the east, and will
gather you from the west.

\VS{6}I will say to the north, Bring; and to the south, Keep not back; bring my sons
from the
{\ADD{land}} afar off, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;

\VS{7}{\ADD{even}} all who are called by my name: for I have prepared him for my glory, and I have formed
him, and have made him:

\VS{8}and I have brought forth the blind people; for
{\ADD{their}} eyes are alike blind, and they that have ears are deaf.

\VS{9}All the nations are gathered together, and princes shall be gathered out of
them: who will declare these things? or who will declare to you things from the beginning? let them bring
forth their witnesses, and be justified; and let them hear, and declare the truth.

\VS{10}Be you⌃ my witnesses, and I
{\ADD{too am}} a witness, says the Lord God, and my servant whom I have chosen: that you⌃ may know,
and believe, and understand that I am
{\ADD{he}}: before me there was no other God, and after me there shall be none.

\VS{11}I am God; and beside me there is no Saviour.

\VS{12}I have declared, and have saved; I have reproached, and there was no strange
{\ADD{god}} amongst you: you⌃ are my witnesses, and I am the Lord God,

\VS{13}even from the beginning; and there is none that can deliver out of my hands:
I will work, and who shall turn it back?

\VS{14}Thus says the Lord God that redeems you, the Holy One of Israel; for your
sakes I will send to Babylon, and I will stir up all that flee, and the Chaldeans shall be bound in ships.

\VS{15}I am the Lord God, your Holy One, who have appointed for Israel your king.

\VS{16}Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty
water;

\VS{17}who brought forth chariots and horse, and a mighty multitude: but they have
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 43:17 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{gone to sleep; See Ps. 75 (76) 5,6
}}} lain down, and shall not rise: they are extinct, as quenched flax.

\VS{18}Remember you⌃ not the former things, and consider not the ancient things.

\VS{19}Behold, I
{\ADD{will}} do new things, which shall presently spring forth, and you⌃ shall know them: and I will
make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the dry land.

\VS{20}the beasts of the field shall bless me, the owls and young ostriches; for
I have given water in the wilderness, and rivers in the dry land, to give drink to my chosen race,

\VS{21}my people whom I have preserved to tell forth my praises.

\VS{22}I have not now called you, O Jacob; neither have I made you weary, O Israel.

\VS{23}You have not brought me the sheep of your whole burnt offering; neither have
you glorified me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to serve with sacrifices, neither have I
wearied you with frankincense.

\VS{24}Neither have you purchased for me victims for silver, neither have I desired
the fat of your sacrifices: but you did stand before me in your sins, and in your iniquities.

\VS{25}\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 43:25 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{I am, I am
}}} I,
{\ADD{even}} I, am he that blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and your sins; and I will
not remember
{\ADD{them}}.

\VS{26}But do you remember, and let us plead
{\ADD{together}}: do you first confess your transgressions, that you may be justified.

\VS{27}Your fathers first, and your princes have transgressed against me.

\VS{28}And the princes have defiled my sanctuaries: so I gave Jacob
{\ADD{to enemies}} to destroy, and Israel to reproach.



\par }\Chap{44}{\PP \VerseOne{1}But now hear, Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen.

\VS{2}Thus says the Lord God that made you, and he that formed you from the womb;
You shall yet be helped: fear not, my servant Jacob; and beloved Israel, whom I have chosen.

\VS{3}For I will give water to the thirsty that walk in a dry land: I will put my
Spirit upon your seed, and my blessings upon your children:

\VS{4}and they shall spring up as grass between brooks, and as willows on
{\ADD{the banks of}} running water.

\VS{5}One shall say, I am God's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob;
and another shall write with his hand, I am God's, and shall call himself by the name of Israel.

\VS{6}Thus says God the King of Israel, and the God of hosts that delivered him;
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 44:6 }{\XT{Rev 1:17
}}} I am the first, and I am hereafter: beside me there is no God.

\VS{7}Who is like me? let him stand, and call, and declare, and prepare for me from
the time that I made man for ever; and let them tell you the things that are coming before they arrive.

\VS{8}Hide not yourselves, nor go astray: have you⌃ not heard from the beginning,
and
{\ADD{have not}} I told you? you⌃ are witnesses if there is a God beside me.

\VS{9}But they that framed
{\ADD{false gods}} did not then listen; and they that graved
{\ADD{images}} are all vain, performing their own desires, which shall not profit them, but they shall
be ashamed

\VS{10}that form a god, and all that grave worthless things:

\VS{11}and all by whom they were made are withered: yes, let all the deaf be gathered
from
{\ADD{amongst}} men, and let them stand together; and let them be ashamed and confounded together:

\VS{12}For the artificer sharpens the iron; he fashions
{\ADD{the idol}} with an axe, and fixes it with an awl, and fashions it with the strength of his arm:
and he will be hungry and weak, and will drink no water.

\VS{13}The artificer having chosen a piece of wood, marks it out with a rule, and
fits it with glue, and makes it as the form of a man, and as the beauty of a man, to set it up in the
house.

\VS{14}He cuts wood out of the forest, which the Lord planted,
{\ADD{even}} a pine tree, and the rain made it grow,

\VS{15}that it might be for men to burn: and having taken part of it he warms himself;
yes, they burn part of it, and bake loaves thereon; and
{\ADD{of}} the rest they make for themselves gods, and they worship them.

\VS{16}Half thereof he burns in the fire, and with half of it he bakes loaves on
the coals; and having roasted flesh on it he eats, and is satisfied, and having warmed himself he says,
I am comfortable, for I have warmed myself, and have seen the fire.

\VS{17}And the rest he makes a graven god, and worships, and prays, saying, Deliver
me; for you are my God.

\VS{18}They have no understanding to perceive; for they have been blinded so that
they should not see with their eyes, nor perceive with their heart.

\VS{19}And one has not considered in his mind, nor known in his understanding, that
he has burnt up half of it in the fire, and baked loaves on the coals thereof and has roasted and eaten
flesh, and of the rest of it he has made an abomination, and they worship it.

\VS{20}Know you that their heart is ashes, and they err, and no one is able to deliver
his soul: see, you⌃ will not say,
{\ADD{There is a}} lie in my right hand.

\VS{21}Remember these things, O Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant; I have
formed you
{\ADD{to be}} my servant: and do you, Israel, not forget me.

\VS{22}For behold, I have blotted out as a cloud your transgressions, and your sin
as darkness: turn to me, and I will redeem you.

\VS{23}Rejoice, you⌃ heavens; for God has had mercy upon Israel: sound the trumpet,
you⌃ foundations of the earth: you⌃ mountains, shout
{\ADD{with}} joy, you⌃ hills, and all the trees therein: for God has redeemed Jacob, and Israel shall
be glorified.

\VS{24}Thus says the Lord that redeems you, and who formed you from the womb, I
am the Lord that performs all things: I stretched out the heaven alone, and established the earth.

\VS{25}Who else will frustrate the tokens of
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 44:25 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{ventriloquists
}}} those that have divining spirits, and prophecies
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 44:25 }{\FT{See
}}{\FQA{Heb.
}}} from the heart of
{\ADD{man}}? turning the wise back, and making their counsel foolishness;

\VS{26}and confirming the word of his servant, and verifying the counsel of his
messengers: who says to Jerusalem, You shall be inhabited; and to the cities of Idumea, You⌃ shall be
built, and her desert places shall spring forth.

\VS{27}Who says to the deep, You shall be dried up, and I will dry up the rivers.

\VS{28}Who bids Cyrus be wise, and he shall perform all my will: who says to Jerusalem,
You shall be built, and I will lay the foundation of my holy house.



\par }\Chap{45}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Thus says the Lord God to my anointed Cyrus, whose right hand
I have held, that nations might be obedient before him; and I will break through the strength of kings;
I will open doors before him, and cities shall not be closed.

\VS{2}I will go before you, and will level mountains: I will break to pieces brazen
doors, and burst iron bars.

\VS{3}And I will give you the treasures of darkness, I will open to you hidden, unseen
{\ADD{treasures}}, that you may know that I, the Lord your God, that call you by name, am the God of
Israel.

\VS{4}For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my elect, I will call you by your
name, and accept you: but you have not known me.

\VS{5}For I am the Lord God, and there is no other God beside me; I strengthened
you, and you have not known me.

\VS{6}That they that
{\ADD{come}} from the east and they that
{\ADD{come}} from the west may know that there is no God but me. I am the Lord God, and there is none
beside.

\VS{7}I am he that prepared light, and formed darkness; who make peace, and create
evil; I am the Lord God, that does all these things.

\VS{8}Let the heaven rejoice from above, and let the clouds rain righteousness: let
the earth bring forth, and blossom
{\ADD{with}} mercy, and bring forth righteousness likewise: I am the Lord that created you.

\VS{9}What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the ploughman
plough the earth all day?
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 45:9 }{\XT{Rom 9:20
}}} shall the clay say to the potter, What are you doing that you do not work, nor have hands? shall
the thing formed answer him that formed it?

\VS{10}As though one should say to
{\ADD{his}} father, What will you beget me? and to his mother, What are you bringing forth?

\VS{11}For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, who has formed the things
that are to come, Enquire of me concerning my sons, and concerning the works of my hands command me.

\VS{12}I have made the earth, and man upon it: I with my hand have established the
heaven; I have given commandment to all the stars.

\VS{13}I have raised him up
{\ADD{to be}} a king with righteousness, and all his ways are right: he shall build my city, and shall
turn the captivity of my people, not
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 45:13 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{with.
}}} for ransoms, nor for rewards, says the Lord of hosts.

\VS{14}Thus says the Lord of hosts, Egypt has laboured
{\ADD{for you}}; and the merchandise of the Ethiopians, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall pass
over to you, and shall be your servants; and they shall follow after you bound in fetters, and shall pass
over to you, and shall do obeisance to you, and make supplication to you: because God is in you; and there
is no God beside you,
{\ADD{O Lord}}.

\VS{15}For you are God, yet we knew
{\ADD{it}} not, the God of Israel, the Saviour.

\VS{16}All that are opposed to him shall be ashamed and confounded, and shall walk
in shame: you⌃ isles,
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 45:16 }{\FT{See chap 41:1.
}}} keep a feast to me.

\VS{17}Israel is saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation: they shall not
be ashamed nor confounded for evermore.

\VS{18}Thus says the Lord that made the heaven, this God that
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 45:18 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{showed.
}}} created the earth, and made it; he marked it out, he made it not in vain, but formed it to be
inhabited: I am the Lord, and there is none beside.

\VS{19}I have not spoken in secret, nor in a dark place of the earth: I said not
to the seed of Jacob, Seek vanity:
\FTNT{§}{{\FR 45:19 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{I am, I am.
}}} I, even I, am the Lord, speaking righteousness, and proclaiming truth.

\VS{20}Assemble yourselves and come; take counsel together, you⌃ that escape of
the nations: they that set up wood,
{\ADD{even}} their graven image, have no knowledge, nor they who pray to gods that do not save.

\VS{21}If they will declare, let them draw near, that they may know together, who
has caused these things to be heard from the beginning: then was it told you. I am God, and there is not
another beside me; a just
{\ADD{God}} and a Saviour; there is none but me.

\VS{22}Turn you⌃ to me, and you⌃ shall be saved, you⌃ that
{\ADD{come}} from the end of the earth: I am God, and there is none other.

\VS{23}By myself
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 45:23 }{\XT{Rom 14:11
}}} I swear, righteousness shall surely proceed out of my mouth; my words shall not be frustrated;
that to me every knee shall bend, and every tongue shall swear by God,

\VS{24}saying, Righteousness and glory shall come to him: and all that remove them
from their borders shall be ashamed.

\VS{25}By the Lord shall they be justified, and in God shall all the seed of the
children of Israel be glorified.



\par }\Chap{46}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Bel has fallen, Nabo is broken to pieces, their graven images
are gone to the wild beasts and the cattle: you⌃ take them packed up as a burden to the weary, exhausted,
hungry, and
{\ADD{at the same time}} helpless man;

\VS{2}who will not be able to save themselves from war, but they themselves are led
{\ADD{away}} captive.

\VS{3}Hear me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of Israel, who are borne
{\ADD{by me}} from the womb, and taught
{\ADD{by me}} from infancy,
{\ADD{even}} to old age:

\VS{4}I am
{\ADD{he}}; and until you⌃ shall have grown old, I am
{\ADD{he}}: I bear you, I have made, and I will
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 46:4 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{put up with.
}}} relieve, I will take up and save you.

\VS{5}To whom have you⌃ compared me? see, consider, you⌃ that go astray.

\VS{6}They that furnish gold out of a purse, and silver by weight, will weigh it
in a scale, and they hire a goldsmith and make
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 46:6 }{\FL{Gr. things
}}{\FT{made with hands.
}}} idols, and bow down, and worship them.

\VS{7}They bear it upon the shoulder, and go; and if they put it upon its place,
it remains, it can’t move: and whoever shall cry to it, it can’t hear; it can’t save him from trouble.

\VS{8}Remember you⌃ these things, and groan: repent, you⌃ that have gone astray,
return in your heart;

\VS{9}and remember the former things
{\ADD{that were}} of old: for I am God, and there is none other beside me,

\VS{10}telling beforehand the latter events before they come to pass, and they are
accomplished together: and I said, all my counsel shall stand, and I will do all things that I have planned:

\VS{11}calling a bird from the east, and from a land afar off, for the things which
I have planned: I have spoken, and brought
{\ADD{him}}; I have created and made
{\ADD{him}}; I have brought him, and prospered his way.

\VS{12}Listen to me, you⌃ senseless ones, that are far from righteousness:

\VS{13}I have brought near my righteousness, and I will not be slow with the salvation
that is from me: I have given salvation in Sion to Israel for glory.



\par }\Chap{47}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Come down, sit on the ground, O virgin daughter of Babylon: sit
on the ground, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and luxurious.

\VS{2}Take a millstone, grind meal: remove your veil, uncover your white hairs, make
bare the leg, pass through the rivers.

\VS{3}Your shame shall be uncovered, your reproaches shall be brought to light: I
will exact of you due vengeance, I will no longer deliver you to men.

\VS{4}Your deliverer is the Lord of hosts, the Holy One of Israel is his name.

\VS{5}Sit you down pierced with woe, go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans:
you shall no more be called the strength of a kingdom.

\VS{6}I have been provoked with my people; you have defiled my inheritance: I gave
them into your hand, but you did not extend mercy to them: you made the yoke of the aged man very heavy,

\VS{7}and said, I shall be a princess for ever: you did not perceive these things
in your heart, nor did you remember the latter end.

\VS{8}But now hear these words, you luxurious one,
{\ADD{who are}} the one that sits
{\ADD{at ease}}, that is secure, that says in her heart, I am, and there is not another; I shall not
sit a widow, neither shall I know bereavement.

\VS{9}But now these two things shall come upon you suddenly in one day, the loss
of children and widowhood shall come suddenly upon you, for your sorcery, for the strength of your enchantments,

\VS{10}for your
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 47:10 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{the hope of your wickedness.
}}} trusting in wickedness: for you said, I am, and there is not another: know you, the understanding
of these things and your harlotry shall be your shame; for you said in your heart, I am, and there is
not another.

\VS{11}And destruction shall come upon you, and you shall not be aware;
{\ADD{there shall be a}} pit, and you shall fall into it: and grief shall come upon you, and you shall
not be able to be
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 47:11 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{pure.
}}} clear; and destruction shall come suddenly upon you, and you shall not know.

\VS{12}Stand now with your enchantments, and with the abundance of your sorcery,
which you have learnt from your youth; if you can be profited.

\VS{13}You are wearied in your counsels. Let now the astrologers of the heaven stand
and deliver you, let them that see the stars tell you what is about to come upon you.

\VS{14}Behold, they all shall be burnt up as sticks in the fire; neither shall they
at all deliver their life from the flame. Because you have coals of fire, sit you upon them;

\VS{15}these shall be your help. You have wearied yourself with traffic from your
youth: every man has wandered to his own home, but you shall have no deliverance.



\par }\Chap{48}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Hear these
{\ADD{words}}, you⌃ house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of
Juda, who swear by the name of the Lord God of Israel, making mention
{\ADD{of it, but}} not with truth, nor with righteousness;

\VS{2}maintaining also the name of the holy city, and staying themselves on the God
of Israel: the Lord of hosts is his name. The former things I have already declared;

\VS{3}and they that have proceeded out of my mouth, and it became well known; I wrought
suddenly, and
{\ADD{the events}} came to pass.

\VS{4}I know that you are stubborn, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your forehead
brazen.

\VS{5}And I told you
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 48:5 }{\FL{Alex.
}}{\FT{the ancient things before they came.
}}} of old what
{\ADD{should be}} before it came upon you; I made it known to you, lest you should say,
{\ADD{My}} idols have done
{\ADD{it}} for me; and should say,
{\ADD{My}} graven and molten images have commanded me.

\VS{6}You⌃ have heard all this, but you⌃ have not known: yet I have made
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 48:6 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{audible.
}}} known to you the new things from henceforth, which are coming to pass, and you said not,

\VS{7}Now they come to pass, and not formerly: and you heard not of them in former
days: say not you, Yes, I know them.

\VS{8}You have neither known, nor understood, neither from the beginning have I opened
your ears: for I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and would be called a transgressor even
from the womb.

\VS{9}For my own sake will I show you my wrath, and will bring before you my glorious
acts, that I may not utterly destroy you.

\VS{10}Behold, I have sold you,
{\ADD{but}} not for silver; but I have rescued you from the furnace of affliction.

\VS{11}For my own sake I will do
{\ADD{this}} for you, because my name is profaned; and I will not give my glory to another.

\VS{12}Hear me, O Jacob, and Israel whom I call; I am the first, and I
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 48:12 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{am.
}}} endure for ever.

\VS{13}My hand also has founded the earth, and my right hand has fixed the sky:
I will call them, and they shall stand together.

\VS{14}And all shall be gathered, and shall hear: who has told them these things?
Out of love to you I have fulfilled your desire on Babylon, to abolish the seed of the Chaldeans.

\VS{15}I have spoken, I have called, I have brought him, and made his way prosperous.

\VS{16}Draw near to me, and hear you⌃ these words; I have not spoken in secret from
the beginning: when it took place, there was I, and now the Lord,
{\ADD{even}} the Lord, and his Spirit, has sent me.

\VS{17}Thus says the Lord that delivered you, the Holy One of Israel; I am your
God, I have shown you how you should find the way wherein you should walk.

\VS{18}And if you had listened to my commandments,
{\ADD{then}} would your peace have been like a river, and your righteousness as a wave of the sea.

\VS{19}Your seed also would have been as the sand, and the offspring of your belly
as the dust of the ground: neither now shall you by any means be utterly destroyed, neither shall your
name perish before me.

\VS{20}Go forth of Babylon, you that flee from the Chaldeans: utter aloud a voice
of joy, and let this be made known, proclaim it to the end of the earth; say you⌃, The Lord has delivered
his servant Jacob.

\VS{21}And if they shall thirst, he shall lead them through the desert; he shall
bring forth water to them out of the rock: the rock shall be cloven, and the water shall flow forth, and
my people shall drink.

\VS{22}There is no joy, says the Lord, to the ungodly.



\par }\Chap{49}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Listen to me, you⌃ islands; and attend, you⌃ Gentiles; after a
long time it shall come to pass, says the Lord: from my mother's womb he has called my name:

\VS{2}and he has made my mouth as a sharp sword, and he has hid me under the shadow
of his hand; he has made me as a choice shaft, and he has hid me in his quiver;

\VS{3}and said to me, You are my servant, O Israel, and in you I will be glorified.

\VS{4}Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have given my strength for vanity and
for nothing: therefore is my judgement with the Lord, and my labour before my God.

\VS{5}And now, thus says the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his own servant,
to gather Jacob to him and Israel. I shall be gathered and glorified before the Lord, and my God shall
be my strength.

\VS{6}And he said to me,
{\ADD{It is}} a great thing for you to be called my servant, to establish the tribes of Jacob, and
to recover the dispersion of Israel: behold,
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 49:6 }{\XT{Acts 13:47
}}} I have given you for the
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 49:6 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{a perpetual covenant.
}}} covenant of a race, for a light of the Gentiles, that you should be for salvation to the end
of the earth.

\VS{7}Thus says the Lord that delivered you, the God of Israel, Sanctify him that
despises his life, him that is abhorred by the nations that are the servants of princes: kings shall behold
him, and princes shall arise, and shall worship him, for the Lord's sake: for the Holy One of Israel is
faithful, and I have chosen you.

\VS{8}Thus says the Lord,
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 49:8 }{\XT{2 Cor 6:2
}}} In an acceptable time have I heard you, and in a day of salvation have I succored you: and I
have formed you, and given you for a covenant of the nations, to establish the earth, and to cause to
inherit the desert heritages:

\VS{9}saying to them that are in bonds, Go forth; and
{\ADD{bidding}} them that are in darkness show themselves. They shall be fed in all the ways, and in
all the paths
{\ADD{shall be}} their pasture.

\VS{10}\XREF{✡}{{\XO 49:10 }{\XT{Rev 7:16
}}} They shall not hunger, neither shall they thirst; neither shall the heat nor the sun strike
them; but he that has mercy on them shall comfort
{\ADD{them}}, and by fountains of waters shall he lead them.

\VS{11}And I will make every mountain a way, and every path a pasture to them.

\VS{12}Behold, these shall come from far:
{\ADD{and}} these from the north and the west, and others from the land of the Persians.

\VS{13}Rejoice, you⌃ heavens; and let the earth be glad: let the mountains break
forth
{\ADD{with}} joy; for the Lard has had mercy on his people, and has comforted the lowly ones of his
people.

\VS{14}But Sion said, The Lord has forsaken me, and, The Lord has forgotten me.

\VS{15}Will a woman forget her child, so as not to have compassion upon the offspring
of her womb? but if a woman should even forget these, yet I will not forget you, says the Lord.

\VS{16}Behold, I have painted your walls on my hands, and you are continually before
me.

\VS{17}And you shall soon be built by those by whom you were destroyed, and they
that made you desolate shall go forth of you.

\VS{18}Lift up your eyes round about, and look on them all; behold, they are gathered
together, and are come to you.
{\ADD{As}} I live, says the Lord, you shall clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and
put them on as a bride her attire.

\VS{19}For your desert and marred and ruined
{\ADD{places}} shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that devoured you shall
be removed far from you.

\VS{20}For your sons whom you have lost shall say in your ears, The place
{\ADD{is too}} narrow for me: make room for me that I may dwell.

\VS{21}And you shall say in your heart, Who has begotten me these? whereas I
{\ADD{was}} childless, and a widow; but who has brought up these for me? and I was left alone; but
whence came these to me?

\VS{22}Thus says the Lord,
{\ADD{even}} the Lord, Behold, I lift up my hand to the nations, and I will lift up my signal to the
islands: and they shall bring your sons in
{\ADD{their}} bosom, and shall bear your daughters on
{\ADD{their}} shoulders.

\VS{23}And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their princesses your nurses,
they shall bow down to you on the face of the earth, and shall lick the dust of your feet; and you shall
know that I am the Lord, and they that wait on me shall not be ashamed.

\VS{24}Will any one take spoils from a giant? and if one should take
{\ADD{a man}} captive unjustly, shall he be delivered?

\VS{25}For thus says the Lord, If one should take a giant captive, he shall take
spoils, and he who takes
{\ADD{them}} from a mighty
{\ADD{man}} shall be delivered: for I will plead your cause, and I will deliver your children.

\VS{26}And they that afflicted you shall eat their own flesh; and they shall drink
their own blood as new wine, and shall be drunken: and all flesh shall perceive that I am the Lord that
delivers you, and that upholds the strength of Jacob.



\par }\Chap{50}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Thus says the Lord, Of what kind is your mother's bill of divorcement,
by which I put her away? or to which debtor have I sold you? Behold, you⌃ are sold for your sins, and
for your iniquities have I put your mother away.

\VS{2}Why did I come, and there was no man?
{\ADD{why}} did I call, and there was none to listen? Is not my hand strong to redeem? or can I not
deliver? behold, by my rebuke I will dry up the sea, and make rivers a wilderness; and their fish shall
be dried up because there is no water, and shall die for thirst.

\VS{3}I will clothe the sky with darkness, and will make its covering as sackcloth.

\VS{4}\FTNT{*}{{\FR 50:4 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{the Lord the Lord. See on 3 Ki. 8. 53
}}} The Lord
{\ADD{even}} God gives me the tongue of instruction, to know when it is fit to speak a word: he has
appointed for me early, he has given me an ear to hear:

\VS{5}and the instruction of the Lord, even the Lord, opens my ears, and I do not
disobey, nor dispute.

\VS{6}I gave my back to scourges, and my cheeks to blows; and I turned not away my
face from the shame of spitting:

\VS{7}but the Lord God became my helper; therefore I was not ashamed, but I set my
face as a solid rock; and I know that I shall never be ashamed,

\VS{8}for he that has justified me draws near; who is he that pleads with me? let
him stand up against me at the same time: yes, who is he that pleads with me? let him draw near to me.

\VS{9}Behold, the Lord, the Lord, will help me; who will hurt me? behold, all you⌃
shall wax old as a garment, and a moth shall devour you.

\VS{10}Who is amongst you that fears the Lord? let him listen to the voice of his
servant: you⌃ that walk in darkness, and have no light, trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon God.

\VS{11}Behold, you⌃ all kindle a fire, and feed a flame: walk in the light of your
fire, and in the flame which you⌃ have kindled. This has happened to you for my sake; you⌃ shall lie down
in sorrow.



\par }\Chap{51}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Listen to me, you⌃ that follow after righteousness, and seek the
Lord: look to the solid rock, which you⌃ have hewn, and to the hole of the pit which you⌃ have dug.

\VS{2}Look to Abraam your father, and to Sarrha that bore you: for he was alone when
I called him, and blessed him, and loved him, and multiplied him.

\VS{3}And now I will comfort you, O Sion: and I have comforted all her desert places;
and I will make her desert places as a garden, and her
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 51:3 }{\FL{Heb.
}}{\FT{שוב ambiguous.
}}} western places as the garden of the Lord; they shall find in her gladness and exultation, thanksgiving
and the voice of praise.

\VS{4}Hear me, hear me, my people; and you⌃ kings, listen to me: for a law shall
proceed from me, and my judgement
{\ADD{shall be}} for a light of
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 51:4 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{the Gentiles.
}}} the nations.

\VS{5}My righteousness speedily draws near, and my salvation shall go forth
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 51:5 }{\FT{Not in
}}{\FL{Heb.
}}{\FT{or
}}{\FL{Alex.}}} as light, and on my arm shall the Gentiles trust: the isles shall wait for me,
and on my arm shall they trust.

\VS{6}Lift up your eyes to the sky, and look on the earth beneath: for the sky was
darkened like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and the inhabitants shall die in like
manner: but my righteousness shall not fail.

\VS{7}Hear me, you⌃ that know judgement, the people in whose heart is my law: fear
not the reproach of men, and be not overcome by their contempt.

\VS{8}For as a garment will be devoured by time, and as wool will be devoured by
a moth,
{\ADD{so shall they be consumed}}; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation for all
generations.

\VS{9}Awake, awake, O Jerusalem, and put on the strength of your arm; awake as
\FTNT{§}{{\FR 51:9 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{the beginning of day.
}}} in the early time, as the ancient generation.

\VS{10}Are you not it that dried the sea, the water,
{\ADD{even}} the abundance of the deep; that made the depths of the sea a way of passage for the delivered
and redeemed?

\VS{11}for by
{\ADD{the help of}} the Lord they shall return, and come to Sion with joy and everlasting exultation,
for praise and joy shall come upon their head: pain, and grief, and groaning, have fled away.

\VS{12}I,
{\ADD{even}} I, am he that comforts you: consider who you are, that you were afraid of mortal man,
and of the son of man, who are withered as grass.

\VS{13}And you have forgotten God who made you, who made the sky and founded the
earth; and you were continually afraid because of the wrath of him that afflicted you: for
{\ADD{whereas}} he counselled to take you away, yet now where is the wrath of him that afflicted you?

\VS{14}For in your deliverance he shall not halt, nor wait;

\VS{15}for I am your God, that troubles the sea, and causes the waves thereof to
roar: the Lord of hosts is my name.

\VS{16}I will put my words into your mouth, and I will shelter you under the shadow
of my hand, with which I fixed the sky, and founded the earth: and
{\ADD{the Lord}} shall say to Sion, You are my people.

\VS{17}Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of the Lord
the cup of his fury: for you have drunk out and drained the cup of calamity, the cup of wrath:

\VS{18}and there was none to comfort you of all the children whom you bore; and
there was none to take hold of your hand, not even of all the children whom you have reared.

\VS{19}Therefore these things are against you; who shall sympathise with you in
your grief? downfall, and destruction, famine, and sword: who shall comfort you?

\VS{20}Your sons are the perplexed ones, that sleep at the top of every street as
a half-boiled beet; they that are full of the anger of the Lord, caused to faint by the Lord God.

\VS{21}Therefore hear, you afflicted one, and drunken,
{\ADD{but}} not with wine;

\VS{22}thus says the Lord God that judges his people, Behold, I have taken out of
your hand the cup of calamity, the cup of my wrath; and you shall not drink it any more.

\VS{23}And I will give it into the hands of them that injured you, and them that
afflicted you; who said to your soul, Bow down, that we may pass over: and you did level your body with
the ground to them passing by without.



\par }\Chap{52}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Awake, awake, Sion; put on your strength, O Sion; and o you put
on your glory, Jerusalem the holy city: there shall no more pass through you, the uncircumcised and unclean.

\VS{2}Shake off the dust and arise; sit down, Jerusalem: put off the band of your
neck, captive daughter of Sion.

\VS{3}For thus says the Lord, You⌃ have been sold for nothing; and you⌃ shall not
be ransomed with silver.

\VS{4}Thus says the Lord, My people went down before to Egypt to sojourn there; and
were carried away forcibly to the Assyrians.

\VS{5}And now why are you⌃ here? Thus says the Lord, Because my people was taken
for nothing, wonder you⌃ and howl. Thus says the Lord, On account of you
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 52:5 }{\XT{Rom 2:24
}}} my name is continually blasphemed amongst the Gentiles.

\VS{6}Therefore shall my people know my name in that day, for I am he that speaks:
I am present,

\VS{7}as
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 52:7 }{\FT{Rom 10:15 Another reading is 'How beautiful are the feet,' etc.
}}{\FL{Lit.
}}{\FT{Why have the feet been made beautiful? See also
Joel 2:2, 'the morning [spread] upon the mountains.'
}}} a season of beauty upon the mountains, as the feet of one preaching glad tidings of peace, as
one preaching good news: for I will publish your salvation, saying, O Sion, your God shall reign.

\VS{8}For the voice of them that guard you is exalted, and with the voice together
they shall rejoice: for eyes shall look to eyes, when the Lord shall have mercy upon Sion.

\VS{9}Let the waste places of Jerusalem break forth
{\ADD{in}} joy together, because the Lord has had mercy upon her, and has delivered Jerusalem.

\VS{10}And the Lord shall reveal his holy arm in the sight of all the nations; and
all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation that
{\ADD{comes}} from our God.

\VS{11}\XREF{✡}{{\XO 52:11 }{\XT{2 Cor 6:17,18
}}} Depart you⌃, depart, go out from thence, and touch not the unclean thing; go you⌃ out from the
midst of her; separate yourselves, you⌃ that bear the vessels of the Lord.

\VS{12}For you⌃ shall not go forth with tumult, neither go by flight: for the Lord
shall go first in advance of you; and the God of Israel shall be he that
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 52:12 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{gathers you.
}}} brings up your rear.

\VS{13}Behold, my servant shall understand, and be exalted, and glorified exceedingly.

\VS{14}As many shall be amazed at you, so shall your face be without glory from
men, and your glory
{\ADD{shall not be honoured}} by the sons of men.

\VS{15}Thus shall many nations wonder at him; and kings shall keep their mouths
shut:
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 52:15 }{\XT{Rom 15:21
}}} for they to whom no report was brought concerning him, shall see; and they who have not heard,
shall consider.



\par }\Chap{53}{\PP \VerseOne{1}O Lord,
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 53:1 }{\XT{John 12:38;
Rom 10:16
}}} who has believed our report? and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

\VS{2}We brought a report as
{\ADD{of}} a child before him;
{\ADD{he is}} as a root in a thirsty land: he has no form nor comeliness; and we saw him, but he had
no form nor beauty.

\VS{3}But his form was ignoble, and inferior to that of the children of men;
{\ADD{he was}} a man in suffering, and acquainted with the bearing of sickness, for his face is turned
from
{\ADD{us}}: he was dishonoured, and not esteemed.

\VS{4}\XREF{✡}{{\XO 53:4 }{\XT{Matt 8:17
}}} He bears our sins, and is pained for us: yet we accounted him to be in trouble, and in suffering,
and in affliction.

\VS{5}But he was wounded on account of our sins, and was
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 53:5 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{made sick.
}}} bruised because of our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him;
{\ADD{and}} by his
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 53:5 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{bruise. 1 Pet. 2:22.
}}} bruises we were healed.

\VS{6}All we as sheep have gone astray; every one has gone astray in his way; and
the Lord gave him up for our sins.

\VS{7}And he, because of his affliction, opens not his mouth:
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 53:7 }{\XT{Acts 8:32,33
}}} he was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is dumb, so he opens
not his mouth.

\VS{8}In
{\ADD{his}} humiliation his judgement was taken away: who shall declare his generation? for his life
is taken away from the earth: because of the iniquities of my people he was led to death.

\VS{9}And I will give the wicked for his burial, and the rich for his death;
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 53:9 }{\XT{1 Pe 2:22
}}} for he practised no iniquity, nor craft with his mouth.

\VS{10}The Lord also is pleased to purge him from his stroke. If you⌃ can give an
offering for sin, your soul shall see a long-lived seed:

\VS{11}the Lord also is pleased to take away from the travail of his soul, to show
him light, and to form
{\ADD{him}} with understanding; to justify the just one who serves many well; and he shall bear their
sins.

\VS{12}Therefore he shall inherit many, and he shall divide the spoils of the mighty;
because his soul was delivered to death: and
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 53:12 }{\XT{Mark 15:28
}}} he was numbered amongst the transgressors; and he bore the sins of many, and was delivered because
of their iniquities.



\par }\Chap{54}{\PP \VerseOne{1}\XREF{✡}{{\XO 54:1 }{\XT{Gal 4:27
}}} Rejoice, you barren that bear not; break forth and cry, you that do not travail: for more are
the children of the desolate than of her that has a husband: for the Lord has said,

\VS{2}Enlarge the place of your tent, and of your curtains: fix
{\ADD{the pins}}, spare not, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your pins;

\VS{3}spread forth
{\ADD{your tent}} yet to the right and the left: for your seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and you
shall make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

\VS{4}Fear not, because you have been put to shame, neither be confounded, because
you were reproached: for you shall forget your
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 54:4 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{ancient
}}{\FL{Or.
}}{\FT{everlasting
}}} former shame, and shall no more at all remember the reproach of your widowhood.

\VS{5}For
{\ADD{it is}} the Lord that made you; the Lord of hosts is his name: and he that delivered you, he
is the God of Israel,
{\ADD{and}} shall be called
{\ADD{so}} by the whole earth.

\VS{6}The Lord has not called you as a deserted and faint-hearted woman, nor as a
woman hated from
{\ADD{her}} youth, says your God.

\VS{7}For a little while I left you: but with great mercy will I have compassion
upon you.

\VS{8}In a little wrath I turned away my face from you; but with everlasting mercy
will I have compassion upon you, says the Lord that delivers you.

\VS{9}From the time of the water of Noe this is my
{\ADD{purpose}}: as I swore to him at that time,
{\ADD{saying}} of the earth, I will no more be angry with you, neither when you are threatened,

\VS{10}shall the mountains depart, nor shall your hills be removed: so neither shall
my mercy fail you, nor shall the covenant of your peace be at all removed: for
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 54:10 }{\FL{Alex.
}}{\FT{κύριος for κύριε adopted here. Compare Mat. 16. 22, with this passage.
}}} the Lord
{\ADD{who is}} gracious to you has spoken
{\ADD{it}}.

\VS{11}Afflicted and outcast you have not been comforted: behold, I
{\ADD{will}} prepare carbuncle
{\ADD{for}} your stones, and sapphire for your foundations;

\VS{12}and I will make your buttresses jasper, and your gates crystal, and your
border precious stones.

\VS{13}\XREF{✡}{{\XO 54:13 }{\XT{John 6:45
}}} And
{\ADD{I will cause}} all your sons
{\ADD{to be}} taught of God, and your children
{\ADD{to be}} in great peace.

\VS{14}And you shall be built in righteousness: abstain from injustice, and you
shall not fear; and trembling shall not come near you.

\VS{15}Behold, strangers shall come to you by me, and shall sojourn with you, and
shall run to you for refuge.

\VS{16}Behold, I have created you, not as the coppersmith blowing coals, and bringing
out a vessel
{\ADD{fit}} for work; but I have created you, not for ruin, that
{\ADD{I}} should destroy
{\ADD{you}}.

\VS{17}I will not suffer any
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 54:17 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{instrument.
}}} weapon formed against you to prosper; and every voice that shall rise up against you for judgement,
you shall vanquish them all; and your adversaries shall be
{\ADD{condemned}} thereby. There is an inheritance to them that serve the Lord, and you⌃ shall be righteous
before me, says the Lord.



\par }\Chap{55}{\PP \VerseOne{1}You⌃ that thirst, go to the water, and all that have no money,
go
{\ADD{and}} buy; and eat
{\ADD{and drink}} wine and fat without money or price.

\VS{2}Therefore do you⌃ value at the price of money, and
{\ADD{give}} your labour
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 55:2 }{\FT{See Col 2. ult.
}}} for that which will not satisfy? listen to me, and you⌃ shall eat that which is good, and your
soul shall feast itself on good things.

\VS{3}Give heed with your ears, and follow my ways: listen to me, and your soul shall
live in prosperity; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 55:3 }{\XT{Acts 13:34
}}} the sure mercies of David.

\VS{4}Behold I have made him a testimony amongst the Gentiles, a prince and commander
to the Gentiles.

\VS{5}Nations which know you not, shall call upon you, and peoples which are not
acquainted with you, shall flee to you for refuge, for the sake of the Lord your God, the Holy One of
Israel; for he has glorified you.

\VS{6}Seek you⌃ the Lord, and when you⌃ find him, call upon him; and when he shall
draw near to you,

\VS{7}let the ungodly leave his ways, and the transgressor his counsels: and let
him return to the Lord, and he shall find mercy; for he shall abundantly pardon your sins.

\VS{8}For my counsels are not as your counsels, nor are my ways as your ways, says
the Lord.

\VS{9}But as the heaven is distant from the earth, so is my way distant from your
ways, and your thoughts from my mind.

\VS{10}For as rain shall come down, or snow, from heaven, and shall not return until
it have saturated the earth, and it bring forth, and bud, and
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 55:10 }{\XT{2 Cor 9:10
}}} give seed to the sower, and bread for food:

\VS{11}so shall my word be, whatever shall proceed out of my mouth, it shall by
no means turn back, until all the things which I willed shall have been accomplished; and I will make
your ways prosperous, and
{\ADD{will effect}} my commands.

\VS{12}For you⌃ shall go forth with joy, and shall be taught with gladness: for
the mountains and the hills shall exult to welcome you with joy, and all the trees of the field shall
applaud with their branches.

\VS{13}And instead of the bramble shall come up the cypress, and instead of the
nettle shall come up the myrtle: and the Lord shall be for a name, and for an everlasting sign, and shall
not fail.



\par }\Chap{56}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Thus says the Lord, Keep you⌃ judgement, and do justice: for my
salvation is near to come, and my mercy to be revealed.

\VS{2}Blessed is the man that does these things, and the man that holds by them,
and keeps the sabbaths from profaning them, and keeps his hands from doing unrighteousness.

\VS{3}Let not the stranger who attaches himself to the Lord, say, Surely the Lord
will separate me from his people: and let not the eunuch say, I am a dry tree.

\VS{4}Thus says the Lord to the eunuchs, as many as shall keep my sabbaths, and choose
the things which I take pleasure in, and take hold of my covenant;

\VS{5}I will give to them in my house and within my walls an honourable place, better
than sons and daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, and it shall not fail.

\VS{6}And
{\ADD{I will give it}} to the strangers that attach themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love
the name of the Lord, to be to him servants and handmaids; and
{\ADD{as for}} all that keep my sabbaths from profaning
{\ADD{them}}, and that take hold of my covenant;

\VS{7}I will bring them to my holy mountain, and gladden them in my house of prayer:
their whole burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be acceptable upon my altar; for
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 56:7 }{\XT{Matt 21:13}}} my house shall be called a house of prayer for
all nations,

\VS{8}says the Lord that gathers the dispersed of Israel; for I will gather to him
a congregation.

\VS{9}All you⌃ beasts of the field, come, devour, all you⌃ beasts of the forest.

\VS{10}See how they are all blinded: they have not known;
{\ADD{they are}} dumb dogs
{\ADD{that}} will not bark; dreaming of rest, loving to slumber.

\VS{11}Yes, they are insatiable dogs, that know not what it is to be filled, and
they are wicked, having no understanding: all have followed their own ways, each according to his
{\ADD{will}}.



\par }\Chap{57}{\PP \VerseOne{1}See how the just man has perished, and no one lays
{\ADD{it}} to heart: and righteous men are taken away, and no one considers: for the righteous has
been removed out of the way of injustice.

\VS{2}His burial shall be in peace: he has been removed out of the way.

\VS{3}But draw you⌃ near hither, you⌃ lawless children, the seed of adulterers and
the harlot.

\VS{4}Wherein have you⌃ been rioting? and against whom have you⌃ opened your mouth,
and against whom have you⌃ loosed your tongue? are you⌃ not children of perdition? a lawless seed?

\VS{5}who call upon idols under the leafy trees, slaying
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 57:5 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{their.
}}} your children in the valleys amongst the rocks?

\VS{6}That is your portion, this is your lot: and to them have you poured forth drink-offerings,
and to these have you offered meat-offerings. Shall I not therefore be angry for these things?

\VS{7}On a lofty and high mountain, there is your bed, and there you carried up your
meat-offerings:

\VS{8}and behind the posts of your door you did place your memorials. Did you think
that if you should depart from me, you would gain? you have loved those that lay with you;

\VS{9}and you have multiplied your whoredom with them, and you have increased the
number of them that are far from you, and have sent ambassadors beyond your borders, and have been debased
even to hell.

\VS{10}You have wearied yourself with your many ways; yet you said not, I will cease
to strengthen myself: for you have done these things; therefore you have not supplicated me.

\VS{11}Through dread of whom have you feared, and lied against me, and has not remembered,
nor
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 57:11 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{taken me into your mind, not into your heart.
}}} considered me, nor regarded me, yes, though when I see you I pass you by, yet you have not feared
me.

\VS{12}And I will declare your righteousness, and your sins, which shall not profit
you.

\VS{13}When you cry out, let them deliver you in your affliction: for all these
the wind shall take, and the tempest shall carry
{\ADD{them}} away: but they that cleave to me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.

\VS{14}And they shall say,
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 57:14 }{\FL{Lit.
}}{\FT{purge.
}}} Clear the ways before him, and take up the stumbling blocks out of the way of my people.

\VS{15}Thus says the Most High, who dwells on high for ever,
\FTNT{§}{{\FR 57:15 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{Most Holy.
}}} Holy in the holies, is his name, the Most High resting in the holies, and giving patience to
the faint-hearted, and giving life to the broken-hearted:

\VS{16}I will not take vengeance on you for ever, neither will I be always angry
with you: for my Spirit shall go forth from me, and I have created all breath.

\VS{17}On account of sin for a little while I grieved him, and struck him, and turned
away my face from him; and he was grieved, and he went on sorrowful in his ways.

\VS{18}I have seen his ways, and healed him, and comforted him, and given him true
comfort;

\VS{19}peace upon peace to them that are far off, and to them that are near: and
the Lord has said, I will heal them.

\VS{20}But the unrighteous shall be tossed as troubled waves, and shall not be able
to rest.

\VS{21}There is no
\FTNT{**}{{\FR 57:21 }{\FT{See chap 48:22.
}}} joy to the ungodly, said God.



\par }\Chap{58}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Cry aloud, and spare not; lift up your voice as with a trumpet,
and declare to my people their sins, and to the house of Jacob their iniquities.

\VS{2}They seek me day by day, and desire to know my ways, as a people that had done
righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgement of their God: they now ask of me righteous judgement,
and desire to draw near to God,

\VS{3}saying, Why have we fasted, and you regard not?
{\ADD{why}} have we afflicted our souls, and you did not know it? Nay, in the days of your fasts you⌃
find your pleasures, and all them that are under your power you⌃ wound.

\VS{4}If you⌃ fast for quarrels and strifes, and strike the lowly with
{\ADD{your}} fists, therefore do you⌃ fast to me as
{\ADD{you⌃ do}} this day, so that your voice may be heard in crying?

\VS{5}I have not chosen this fast, nor
{\ADD{such}} a day for a man to afflict his soul; neither though you should bend down your neck as
a ring, and spread under you sackcloth and ashes, neither thus shall you⌃ call a fast acceptable.

\VS{6}I have not chosen such a fast, says the Lord; but do you loose every burden
of iniquity, do you untie the knots of hard bargains, set the bruised free, and cancel every unjust account.

\VS{7}Break your bread to the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to your house:
if you see one naked, clothe
{\ADD{him}}, and you shall not disregard the relations of your own seed.

\VS{8}Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your health shall speedily
spring forth: and your righteousness shall go before you, and the glory of God shall compass you.

\VS{9}Then shall you cry, and God shall listen to you; while you are yet speaking
he will say, Behold, I am here. If you remove from you the band, and the stretching forth of the hands,
and murmuring speech;

\VS{10}and
{\ADD{if}} you give bread to the hungry from your heart, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall
your light spring up in darkness, and your darkness
{\ADD{shall be}} as noon-day:

\VS{11}and your God shall be with you continually, and you shall be satisfied according
as your soul desires; and your bones shall be made fat, and shall be as a well-watered garden, and as
a fountain
{\ADD{from}} which the water has not failed.

\VS{12}And your old waste desert
{\ADD{places}} shall be built up, and your foundations shall last through all generations; and you
shall be called a repairer of breaches, and you shall cause your paths between to be in peace.

\VS{13}If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, so as not to do your
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 58:13 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{pleasures.
}}} pleasure on the holy days, and shall call the sabbaths delightful, holy to God;
{\ADD{if}} you shall not lift up your foot to work, nor speak a word in anger out of your mouth,

\VS{14}then shall you trust on the Lord; and he shall bring you up to the good places
of the land, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken
this.



\par }\Chap{59}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Has the hand of the Lord no power to save? or has he made his
ear heavy, so that he should not hear?

\VS{2}Nay, your iniquities separate between you and God, and because of your sins
has he turned away
{\ADD{his}} face from you, so as not to have mercy
{\ADD{upon you}}.

\VS{3}For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips
also have spoken iniquity, and your tongue meditates unrighteousness.

\VS{4}None speaks justly, neither is there true judgement: they trust in vanities,
and speak empty
{\ADD{words}}; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity.

\VS{5}They have hatched asps' eggs, and weave a spider's web: and he that is going
to eat of their eggs, having crushed an addled egg, has found also in it a basilisk.

\VS{6}Their web shall not become a garment, nor shall they at all clothe themselves
with their works; for their works are works of iniquity.

\VS{7}And
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 59:7 }{\XT{Rom 3:15-17}}} their feet run to wickedness, swift to shed blood;
their thoughts also are thoughts
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 59:7 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{from murders, but
}}{\FL{Alex.
}}{\FT{reads ὐφρόνων.
}}} of murder; destruction and misery are in their ways;

\VS{8}and the way of peace they know not, neither is there judgement in their ways;
for their paths by which they go are crooked, and they know not peace.

\VS{9}Therefore has judgement departed from them, and righteousness shall not overtake
them: while they waited for light, darkness came upon them; while they waited for brightness, they walked
in perplexity.

\VS{10}They shall feel for the wall as blind
{\ADD{men}}, and shall feel
{\ADD{for it}} as if they had no eyes: and they shall feel at noon-day as at midnight; they shall groan
as dying men.

\VS{11}They shall proceed together as a bear and as a dove: we have waited for judgement,
and there is no salvation, it is gone far from us.

\VS{12}For our iniquity is great before you, and our sins have risen up against
us: for our iniquities are in us, and we know our unrighteous deeds.

\VS{13}We have sinned, and dealt falsely, and revolted from our God: we have spoken
unrighteous words, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and uttered from our heart unrighteous
words.

\VS{14}And we have turned judgement back, and righteousness has departed afar off:
for truth is consumed in their ways, and they could not pass by a straight
{\ADD{path}}.

\VS{15}And truth has been taken away, and they have turned aside
{\ADD{their}} mind from understanding. And the Lord saw it, and it pleased him not that there was no
judgement.

\VS{16}And he looked, and there was no man, and he observed, and there was none
to help: so he defended them with his arm, and established
{\ADD{them}} with
{\ADD{his}} mercy.

\VS{17}And he put on righteousness as a breast-plate, and placed the helmet of salvation
on his head; and he clothed himself with the garment of vengeance, and with his cloak,

\VS{18}as one about to render a recompence,
{\ADD{even}} reproach to his adversaries.

\VS{19}So shall they of the west fear the name of the Lord, and they
{\ADD{that come}} from the rising of the sun his glorious name: for the wrath of the Lord shall come
as a mighty river, it shall come with fury.

\VS{20}And
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 59:20 }{\XT{Rom 11:26
}}} the deliverer shall come for Sion's sake, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

\VS{21}And this shall be my covenant with them, said the Lord; My Spirit which is
upon you, and the words which I have put in your mouth, shall never fail from your mouth, nor from the
mouth of your seed, for the Lord has spoken it, henceforth and for ever.



\par }\Chap{60}{\PP \VerseOne{1}\XREF{✡}{{\XO 60:1 }{\XT{Eph 5:14
}}} Be enlightened, be enlightened, O Jerusalem, for your light is come, and the glory of the Lord
is risen upon you.

\VS{2}Behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and
{\ADD{there shall be}} gross darkness on the nations: but the Lord shall appear upon you, and his glory
shall be seen upon you.

\VS{3}And kings shall walk in your light, and nations in your brightness.

\VS{4}Lift up your eyes round about, and behold your children gathered: all your
sons have come from far, and your daughters shall be borne on
{\ADD{men's}} shoulders.

\VS{5}Then shall you see, and fear, and be amazed in your heart; for the wealth of
the sea shall come round to you, and of nations and peoples; and herds of camels shall come to you,

\VS{6}and the camels of Madiam and Gaepha shall cover you: all from Saba shall come
bearing gold, and shall bring frankincense, and they shall publish the salvation of the Lord.

\VS{7}And all the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered, and the rams of Nabaeoth shall
come; and acceptable sacrifices shall be offered on my altar, and my house of prayer shall be glorified.

\VS{8}Who are these
{\ADD{that}} fly as clouds, and as doves with young ones to me?

\VS{9}The isles have waited for me, and the ships of Tharsis amongst the first, to
bring your children from afar, and their silver and their gold with them, and
{\ADD{that}} for the sake of the holy name of the Lord, and because the Holy One of Israel is glorified.

\VS{10}And strangers shall build your walls, and their kings shall wait upon you:
for by reason of my wrath I struck you, and by reason of mercy I loved you.

\VS{11}And your gates shall be opened continually; they shall not be shut day nor
night; to bring in to you the power of the Gentiles, and their kings as captives.

\VS{12}For the nations and the kings which will not serve you shall perish; and
those nations shall be made utterly desolate.

\VS{13}And the glory of Libanus shall come to you, with the cypress, and pine, and
cedar together, to glorify my holy place.

\VS{14}And the sons of them that afflicted you, and of them that provoked you, shall
come to you
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 60:14 }{\FL{Lit.
}}{\FT{having feared.
}}} in fear; and you shall be called Sion, the city of the Holy One of Israel.

\VS{15}Because you have become desolate and hated, and there was no helper, therefore
I will make you a perpetual gladness, a joy of many generations.

\VS{16}And you shall suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shall eat the wealth of
kings: and shall know that I am the Lord that saves you and delivers you, the Holy One of Israel.

\VS{17}And for brass I will bring you gold, and for iron I will bring you silver,
and instead of wood I will bring you brass, and instead of stones, iron; and I will make your princes
peaceful, and your overseers righteous.

\VS{18}And injustice shall no more be heard in your land, nor destruction nor misery
in your coasts; but your walls shall be called Salvation, and your gates Sculptured Work.

\VS{19}\XREF{✡}{{\XO 60:19 }{\XT{Rev 21:23-27}}} And you shall no more have the sun for a light
by day, nor shall the rising of the moon lighten your night; but the Lord shall be your everlasting light,
and God your glory.

\VS{20}For the sun shall no more set, nor shall the moon be eclipsed; for the Lord
shall be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be completed.

\VS{21}Your people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land for
ever, preserving that which they have planted,
{\ADD{even}} the works of their hands, for glory.

\VS{22}The
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 60:22 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{people few in number.
}}} little one shall become thousands, and the least a great nation; I the Lord will gather them
in
{\ADD{due}} time.



\par }\Chap{61}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me;
he has sent
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 61:1 }{\XT{Luke 4:18
}}} me to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken in heart, to proclaim liberty to the
captives, and recovery of sight to the blind;

\VS{2}to declare the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of recompence; to comfort
all that mourn;

\VS{3}that there should be given to them that mourn in Sion glory instead of ashes,
the
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 61:3 }{\FL{Alex.
}}{\FT{reads καταστολὴν as one word.
}}} oil of joy to the mourners,
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 61:3 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{anointing.
}}} the garment of glory for the spirit of heaviness: and they shall be called generations of righteousness,
the planting of the Lord for glory.

\VS{4}And they shall build the old waste places, they shall raise up those that were
before made desolate, and shall renew the desert cities,
{\ADD{even}} those that had been desolate for
{\ADD{many}} generations.

\VS{5}And strangers shall come and feed your flocks, and aliens
{\ADD{shall be your}} ploughmen and vine-dressers.

\VS{6}But you⌃ shall be called priests of the Lord, the ministers of God: you⌃ shall
eat the strength of nations, and shall be admired because of their wealth.

\VS{7}Thus shall they inherit the land a second time, and everlasting joy shall be
upon their head.

\VS{8}For I am the Lord who love righteousness, and hate robberies of injustice;
and I will give their labour to the just, and will make an everlasting covenant with them.

\VS{9}And their seed shall be known amongst the Gentiles, and their offspring in
the midst of peoples: every one that sees them shall
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 61:9 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{acknowledge.
}}} take notice of them, that they are a seed blessed of God;

\VS{10}and they shall greatly rejoice in the Lord. Let my soul rejoice in the Lord;
for he has clothed me with the robe of salvation, and the garment of joy: he has put a mitre on me as
on a bridegroom, and adorned me with ornaments as a bride.

\VS{11}And as the earth putting forth her flowers, and as a garden its seed; so
shall the Lord,
{\ADD{even}} the Lord, cause righteousness to spring forth, and exultation before all nations.



\par }\Chap{62}{\PP \VerseOne{1}For Sion's sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's
sake I will not
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 62:1 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{relax.
}}} rest, until her righteousness go forth as light, and my salvation burn as a torch.

\VS{2}And the Gentiles shall see your righteousness, and kings your glory: and one
shall call you
{\ADD{by}} a new name, which the Lord shall name.

\VS{3}And you shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem
in the hand of your God.

\VS{4}And you shall no more be called Forsaken; and your land shall no more be called
Desert: for you shall be called My Pleasure, and your land Inhabited: for the Lord has taken pleasure
in you, and your land shall be inhabited.

\VS{5}And as a young man lives with a virgin, so shall your sons dwell in
{\ADD{you}}: and it shall come to pass
{\ADD{that}} as a bridegroom will rejoice over a bride, so will the Lord rejoice over you.

\VS{6}And on your walls, O Jerusalem, have I set watchmen all day and all night,
who shall never cease making mention of the Lord.

\VS{7}For there is none like you, when he shall have established, and made Jerusalem
a praise on the earth.

\VS{8}For the Lord has sworn by his glory, and by the might of his arm, I will no
more give your corn and your provisions to your enemies; nor shall strangers any more drink your wine,
for which you have laboured.

\VS{9}But they that have gathered them shall eat them, and they shall praise the
Lord; and they that have gathered
{\ADD{the grapes}} shall drink thereof in my holy courts.

\VS{10}Go through my gates, and make a way for my people; and cast the stones out
of the way; lift up a standard for the Gentiles.

\VS{11}For behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth,
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 62:11 }{\XT{Matt 21:5
}}} say you⌃ to the daughter of Sion, Behold, your Saviour has come to you, having his reward and
his work before his face.

\VS{12}And one shall call them the holy people, the redeemed of the Lord: and you
shall be called a city sought out, and not forsaken.



\par }\Chap{63}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Who is this that is come from Edom,
{\ADD{with}} red garments from Bosor? thus fair in his apparel, with mighty strength? I
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 63:1 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{discourse, reason about.
}}} speak of righteousness and saving judgement.

\VS{2}Therefore are your garments red, and your raiment as
{\ADD{if fresh}} from a trodden winepress?

\VS{3}I am full of trodden
{\ADD{grape}}, and of the nations there is not a man with me; and I trampled them in my fury, and dashed
them to pieces as earth, and brought down their blood to the earth.

\VS{4}For the day of recompence has come upon them, and the year of redemption is
at hand.

\VS{5}And I looked, and there was no helper; and I observed, and none upheld: therefore
my arm delivered them, and my anger drew near.

\VS{6}And I trampled them in my anger, and brought down their blood to the earth.

\VS{7}I remembered the mercy of the Lord, the
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 63:7 }{\XT{1 Pe 2:9
}}} praises of the Lord in all things wherein he recompenses us. The Lord is a good judge to the
house of Israel; he deals with us according to his mercy, and according to the abundance of his righteousness.

\VS{8}And he said, Is it not my people? the children surely will not be rebellious:
and he became to them deliverance

\VS{9}out of all their affliction: not an ambassador, nor a messenger, but himself
saved them, because he loved them and spared them: he himself redeemed them, and took them up, and lifted
them up
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 63:9 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{all the days of the age.
}}} all the days of old.

\VS{10}But they disobeyed, and provoked his Holy Spirit: so he turned to be an enemy,
he himself contended against them.

\VS{11}Then he remembered the ancient days,
{\ADD{saying}}, Where is he that brought up from the sea the shepherd of the sheep? where is he that
put his Holy Spirit in them?

\VS{12}who led Moses with his right hand, the arm of his glory? he forced the water
{\ADD{to separate}} from before him, to make himself an everlasting name.

\VS{13}He led them through the deep, as a horse through the wilderness, and they
fainted not,

\VS{14}and as cattle through a plain: the Spirit came down from the Lord, and guided
them: thus you led your people, to make yourself a glorious name.

\VS{15}Turn from heaven, and look from your holy habitation and
{\ADD{from}} your glory: where is your zeal and your strength? where is the abundance of your mercy
and of your compassions, that you have withholden yourself from us?

\VS{16}For you are our Father; for
{\ADD{though}} Abraham knew us not, and Israel did not acknowledge us, yet do you, O Lord, our Father,
deliver us: your name has been upon us from the beginning.

\VS{17}Why have you caused us to err, O Lord, from your way?
{\ADD{and}} has hardened our hearts, that we should not fear you? Return for your servants' sake, for
the sake of the tribes of your inheritance,

\VS{18}that we may inherit a small part of your holy mountain.

\VS{19}\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 63:19 }{\FQA{Heb. and
}}{\FL{Alex.
}}{\FT{+ 'our adversaries have trodden down the sanctuary.'
}}} We are become as at the beginning, when you did not rule over us, and your name was not called
upon us.



\par }\Chap{64}{\PP \VerseOne{1}If you would open the heaven, trembling will take hold upon the
mountains from you, and they shall melt,

\VS{2}as wax melts before the fire; and fire shall burn up the enemies, and your
name shall be manifest amongst the adversaries: at your presence the nations shall be troubled,

\VS{3}whenever you shall work gloriously; trembling from you shall take hold upon
the mountains.

\VS{4}From of old
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 64:4 }{\XT{1 Cor 2:9
}}} we have not heard, neither have our eyes seen a God beside you, and your works which you will
perform to them that wait for mercy.

\VS{5}For
{\ADD{these blessings}} shall happen to them that work righteousness, and they shall remember your
ways: behold, you were angry and we have sinned; therefore we have erred,

\VS{6}and we are all become as unclean, and all our righteousness as a filthy rag:
and we have
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 64:6 }{\FQA{Heb. and
}}{\FL{Lit.
}}{\FT{flowed out.
}}} fallen as leaves because of our iniquities; thus the wind shall carry us
{\ADD{away}}.

\VS{7}And there is none that calls upon your name, or that remembers to take hold
on you: for you have turned your face away from us, and have delivered us up because of our sins.

\VS{8}And now, O Lord, you are our Father, and we are clay, all
{\ADD{of us}} the work of your hands.

\VS{9}Be not very angry with us, and remember not our sins
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 64:9 }{\FT{The
}}{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{ἐν καιρῷ is a Hebraism.
}}} for ever; but now look on
{\ADD{us}}, for we are all your people.

\VS{10}The city of your holiness has become desolate, Sion has become as a wilderness,
Jerusalem a curse.

\VS{11}The house, our sanctuary, and the glory which our fathers blessed, has been
burnt with fire: and all our glorious things have gone to ruin.

\VS{12}And for all these things you, O Lord, has withholden, yourself, and been
silent, and have brought us very low.



\par }\Chap{65}{\PP \VerseOne{1}\XREF{✡}{{\XO 65:1 }{\XT{Rom 10:20,21}}} I became manifest to them that asked not for
me; I was found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold, I am
{\ADD{here}}, to a nation, who called not on my name.

\VS{2}I have stretched forth my hands all day to a disobedient and gainsaying people,
to them that walked in a way that was not good, but after their sins.

\VS{3}This is the people that provokes me continually in my presence; they offer
sacrifices in gardens, and burn incense on bricks to devils, which exist not.

\VS{4}They lie down to sleep in the tombs and in the caves for the sake of dreams,
{\ADD{even}} they that eat swine's flesh, and the broth of
{\ADD{their}} sacrifices: all their vessels are defiled:

\VS{5}who say, Depart from me, draw not near to me, for I am pure. This is the smoke
of my wrath, a fire burns with it continually.

\VS{6}Behold, it is written before me: I will not be silent until I have recompensed
into their bosom,

\VS{7}their sins and
{\ADD{the sins}} of their fathers, says the Lord, who have burnt incense on the mountains, and reproached
me on the hills: I will recompense their works into their bosom.

\VS{8}Thus says the Lord, As a grape-stone shall be found in the cluster, and they
shall say, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for the sake of him that serves me, for
his sake I will not destroy
{\ADD{them}} all.

\VS{9}And I will lead forth the seed
{\ADD{that came}} of Jacob and of Juda, and they shall inherit my holy mountain: and my elect and my
servants shall inherit it, and shall dwell there.

\VS{10}And there shall be in the forest folds of flocks, and the valley of Achor
{\ADD{shall}} be for a resting-place of herds for my people, who have sought me.

\VS{11}But you⌃ are they that have left me, and forget my holy mountain, and prepare
a table for the devil, and fill up the
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 65:11 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{mixture.
}}} drink-offering to Fortune.

\VS{12}I will deliver you up to the sword, you⌃ shall all fall by slaughter: for
I called you, and you⌃ listened not; I spoke, and you⌃ refused to hear; and you⌃ did evil in my sight,
and chose the things wherein I delighted not.

\VS{13}Therefore thus says the Lord, Behold, my servants shall eat, but you⌃ shall
hunger: behold, my servants shall drink, but you⌃ shall thirst: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but
you⌃ shall be ashamed:

\VS{14}behold, my servants shall exult with joy, but you⌃ shall cry for the sorrow
of your heart, and shall howl for the vexation of your spirit.

\VS{15}For you⌃ shall leave your name for a loathing to my chosen, and the Lord
shall destroy you: but my servants shall be called by a new name,

\VS{16}which shall be blessed on the earth; for they shall bless the true God: and
they that swear upon the earth shall swear by the true God; for they shall forget the former affliction,
it shall not come into their mind.

\VS{17}For there shall be a new heaven and a new earth: and they shall not at all
remember the former, neither shall they at all come into their mind.

\VS{18}But they shall find in her joy and exultation; for, behold, I make Jerusalem
a rejoicing, and my people a joy.

\VS{19}And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and will be glad in my people: and there
shall no more be heard in her the voice of weeping, or the voice of crying.

\VS{20}Neither shall there be there any more a
{\ADD{child that dies}} untimely, or an old man who shall not complete his time: for the youth shall
be one hundred years
{\ADD{old}}, and the sinner who dies at one hundred years shall also be accursed:

\VS{21}and they shall build houses, and themselves shall dwell in
{\ADD{them}}; and they shall plant vineyards, and themselves shall eat the fruit thereof.

\VS{22}They shall by no means build, and others inhabit; and they shall by no means
plant, and others eat: for as the days of the tree of life shall be the days of my people, they shall
long enjoy the fruits of their labours.

\VS{23}My chosen shall not toil in vain, neither shall they beget children to be
cursed; for they are a seed blessed of God, and their offspring with them.

\VS{24}And it shall come to pass,
{\ADD{that}} before they call, I will listen to them; while they are yet speaking, I will say, What
is it?

\VS{25}Then wolves and lambs shall feed together, and the lion shall eat chaff like
the ox, and the serpent earth as bread. They shall not injure nor destroy in my holy mountain, says the
Lord.



\par }\Chap{66}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Thus says the Lord,
\XREF{✡}{{\XO 66:1 }{\XT{Acts 7:49,50}}} Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool:
what kind of a house will you⌃ build me? and of what kind
{\ADD{is to be}} the place of my rest?

\VS{2}For all these things are mine, says the Lord: and to whom will I have respect,
but to the humble and meek, and the
{\ADD{man}} that trembles
{\ADD{at}} my words?

\VS{3}But the transgressor that sacrifices a calf to me, is as he that kills a dog;
and he that offers fine flour, as
{\ADD{one that offers}} swine's blood; he that gives frankincense for a memorial, is as a blasphemer.
Yet they have chosen their own ways, and their soul has delighted in their abominations.

\VS{4}I also will choose their mockeries, and will recompense their sins upon them;
because I called them, and they did not listen to me; I spoke, and they heard not: and they did evil before
me, and chose the things wherein I delighted not.

\VS{5}Hear the words of the Lord, you⌃ that tremble at his word; speak you⌃,
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 66:5 }{\FL{Alex.
}}{\FT{ἡμῶν, but
}}{\FL{Heb.
}}{\FT{and
}}{\FL{Vat.
}}{\FT{'your.'
}}} our brethren, to them that hate you and abominate you, that the name of the Lord may be glorified,
and may appear
\FTNT{†}{{\FR 66:5 }{\FL{Or,
}}{\FT{your.
}}} their joy; but they shall be ashamed.

\VS{6}A voice of a cry from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord
rendering recompence to
{\ADD{his}} adversaries.

\VS{7}Before she that travailed brought forth, before the travail-pain came on, she
escaped
{\ADD{it}} and brought forth a male.

\VS{8}Who has heard such a thing? and who has seen after this manner? Has the earth
travailed in one day? or has even a nation been born at once, that Sion has travailed, and brought forth
her children?

\VS{9}But I have raised this expectation, yet you have not remembered me, says the
Lord: behold, have not I made the bearing and barren woman? says your God.

\VS{10}Rejoice, O Jerusalem, and all you⌃ that love her hold in her a general assembly:
rejoice greatly with her, all that
{\ADD{now}} mourn over her:

\VS{11}that you⌃ may suck, and be satisfied with the breast of her consolation;
that you⌃ may milk out, and delight yourselves with the influx of her glory.

\VS{12}For thus says the Lord, Behold, I
\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 66:12 }{\FL{i.e.
}}{\FT{turn myself.
}}} turn towards them as a river of peace, and as a torrent bringing upon them in a flood the glory
of the Gentiles: their children shall be borne upon the shoulders, and comforted on the knees.

\VS{13}As if his mother should comfort one, so will I also comfort you; and you⌃
shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

\VS{14}And you⌃ shall see, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall
\FTNT{§}{{\FR 66:14 }{\FL{Gr.
}}{\FT{spring up.
}}} thrive like grass: and the hand of the Lord shall be known to them that fear him, and he shall
threaten the disobedient.

\VS{15}For, behold, the Lord will come as fire, and his chariots as a storm, to
render his vengeance with wrath, and his rebuke with a flame of fire.

\VS{16}For with the fire of the Lord all the earth shall be judged, and all flesh
with his sword: many shall be slain by the Lord.

\VS{17}They that sanctify themselves and purify themselves in the gardens, and eat
swine's flesh in the porches, and the abominations, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, says the
Lord.

\VS{18}And I
{\ADD{know}} their works and their imagination. I am going to gather all nations and tongues; and they
shall come, and see my glory.

\VS{19}And I will leave a sign upon them, and I will send forth them that have escaped
of them to the nations, to Tharsis, and Phud, and Lud, and Mosoch, and to Thobel, and to Greece, and to
the isles afar off, to those who have not heard my name, nor seen my glory; and they shall declare my
glory amongst the Gentiles.

\VS{20}And they shall bring your brethren out of all nations for a gift to the Lord
with horses, and chariots, in litters
{\ADD{drawn by}} mules with awnings, to the holy city Jerusalem, said the Lord, as though the children
of Israel should bring their sacrifices to me with psalms into the house of the Lord.

\VS{21}And I will take of them priests and Levites, says the Lord.

\VS{22}For as the new heaven and the new earth, which I make, remain before me,
says the Lord, so shall your seed and your name continue.

\VS{23}And it shall come to pass from month to month, and from sabbath to sabbath,
{\ADD{that}} all flesh shall come to worship before me in Jerusalem, says the Lord.

\VS{24}And they shall go forth, and see the carcasses of the men that have transgressed
against me: for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched; and they shall be a spectacle
to all flesh.


\par }