Isaiah 42 Cross References - Ottley

¹ Jacob (is) my servant, on him will I take hold; Israel (is) my chosen, my soul hath received him; I have put my spirit upon him, he shall bring forth judgment for the nations. ² He shall not cry out, nor send forth (his voice), nor shall his voice be heard without. ³ A bruised reed shall he not crush, and smoking flax shall he not quench, but shall bring forth judgment unto truth. ⁴ He shall shine out, and shall not be shattered, until he have set judgment upon the earth; and in his name shall nations hope. ⁵ Thus saith the Lord, the God who made the heaven and fixed it, who established the earth and the things therein, and gave breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that tread thereon, ⁶ I the Lord God have called thee in righteousness, and will hold fast thine hand, and will strengthen thee, and have given thee for a covenant of a race, for a light of nations. ⁷ To open blind men's eyes, to lead out from bonds them that are bound, and men that sit in darkness out of a prison house. ⁸ I am the Lord God: this is my name; my glory will I not give to another, nor my excellences to the graven images. ⁹ The things from of old, behold, they are come; and new things do I proclaim, and before they sprang up they were made plain to you. ¹⁰ Sing unto the Lord a new song; it is his dominion; glorify his name at the end of the earth, ye that go down unto the sea and sail upon it: the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. ¹¹ Be glad, O wilderness and the villages thereof; ye lodges, and the inhabitants of Kedar. They that dwell in a rock shall be glad, upon the tops of the mountains. ¹² They shall give glory to God, they shall proclaim his excellences in the isles. ¹³ The Lord, the God of powers, shall come forth, and shall break war in pieces: he shall stir up jealousy, and shall shout against his enemies with might. ¹⁴ I have been silent: shall I be silent even for ever, and hold my peace? I endured, as she that travaileth; I will amaze, and I will dry up together. ¹⁵ And I will turn rivers into islands, and will dry up pools. ¹⁶ And I will lead blind men by a way that they had not learnt, and will make them to tread paths which they knew not; I will make their darkness into light, and the crooked things into (a) straight (path); these (are) the things which I will do, and will not forsake them. ¹⁷ But they turned away backward. Be utterly ashamed, ye that trust in the graven images; that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods. ¹⁸ Hear, ye deaf; and look up, ye blind, and see. ¹⁹ And who is blind, but my servants? and deaf, but they that are lords over them? and the slaves of God are blinded. ²⁰ Full oft have ye seen, and taken not heed; your ears are opened, and ye heard not. ²¹ The Lord God took counsel, that he might be justified, and might magnify praise. ²² And I saw, and the people was plundered and spoiled; for the snare is in treasuries everywhere, and in houses together; where they hid themselves, they became a prey; and there was none that set free a prey, and there was none that said, Restore. ²³ Who is there among you that will give ear to this? he shall hearken, for the time to come. ²⁴ Who gave Jacob for a prey, and Israel to them that plunder him? Is it not God, before whom they sinned, and they would not walk in his ways, nor hear his law? ²⁵ And he brought upon them the fury of his wrath, and war overpowered them, and they that set them on fire round about, and they understood not, each of them, neither laid it to heart.

⁴ And he shall judge between the nations, and shall convince much people; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; and nation shall not any more take a sword against nation, and they shall not learn to war any more.

² And there shall rest upon him a spirit of God, a spirit of wisdom and understanding, a spirit of counsel and might, a spirit of knowledge and of reverence; ³ A spirit of the fear of God shall fill him; he shall not judge according to the seeming, nor convict according to report, ⁴ But he shall judge judgment for the humble, and shall convict the humble ones of the earth, and shall smite the earth with the word of his mouth, and with the breath through his lips shall he slay the impious man: ⁵ And he shall be girded with righteousness about his loins, and bound with truth about his sides.

¹⁶ And judgment shall rest in the wilderness, and righteousness shall dwell in Carmel.

⁸ But thou, Israel, (art) my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham whom I loved:

¹⁰ Be ye witnesses to me, and I am witness, saith the Lord God, and the servant whom I have chosen out; that ye may learn, and believe me, and understand that I am; before me there came no other God, and after me there shall be none.

³ And said unto me, Thou art my bondman, Israel, and in thee will I be glorified. ⁴ And I said, Vainly have I laboured, in vain and for nought have I given my strength; therefore my judgment is from the Lord, and my toil before my God. ⁵ And now thus saith the Lord, that formed me from the womb his bondslave, to gather together Jacob and Israel unto him, I will be gathered, and will be glorified before the Lord, and my God shall be my strength. ⁶ And he said to me, It is a great thing for thee, that thou mayest be called my servant, that thou mayest set up the tribes of Jacob, and turn again the dispersion of Israel; behold. I have set thee for a light of nations, that thou mayest be for salvation unto the end of the earth. ⁷ Thus saith the Lord thy deliverer, the God of Israel, Sanctify him that lightly esteemeth his soul, him that is held abominable by the nations, the slaves of the rulers; kings shall see him, and rulers shall rise up and worship him for the Lord's sake: for faithful is the Holy One of Israel, and I chose thee. ⁸ Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time I heard thee, and in a day of salvation I helped thee, and gave thee for a covenant of nations, to establish the earth, and to cause to inherit desolate heritages,

⁴ The Lord giveth me a tongue of instruction, to perceive in season when I must speak a word; he gave me in the morning, he added unto me an ear to hear, ⁵ And the instruction of the Lord openeth mine ears, and I am not disobedient, nor gainsay (it). ⁶ I have given my back for scourges, and my cheeks for blows, and my face I turned not away from the shame of spittings, ⁷ And the Lord became my helper; therefore I turned not back; but I set my face as a solid rock, and I perceived that I should not be ashamed. ⁸ For he draweth near that justified me: who is he that contendeth with me; let him stand up against me together; yea, who is he that contendeth with me? let him draw near to me. ⁹ Behold, the Lord helpeth me: who shall harm me? behold, all ye shall wax old as a garment, and as it were a moth shall eat you up.

¹³ Behold, my servant shall understand, and shall be exalted, and be glorified exceedingly.

¹¹ To show to him a light, and to form him with understanding, to justify a just one that serveth many aright, and their sins shall he himself bear.

²¹ And this is the covenant to them from me, saith the Lord; my spirit which is upon thee, and the words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not fail out of thy mouth, and out of the mouth of thy seed: the Lord hath spoken it, henceforth and for ever.

¹ The spirit of the Lord is upon me; wherefore he hath anointed me to preach glad tidings to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to captives, and recovery of sight to the blind:

³ A spirit of the fear of God shall fill him; he shall not judge according to the seeming, nor convict according to report, ⁴ But he shall judge judgment for the humble, and shall convict the humble ones of the earth, and shall smite the earth with the word of his mouth, and with the breath through his lips shall he slay the impious man:

³ Be strong, ye slackened hands, and feeble knees: ⁴ Give comfort, ye faint hearted; be strong, fear not; behold, our God will give a recompense of judgment, yea, will give; he himself will come and save us.

¹¹ As a shepherd shall he tend his flock, and with his arm shall he gather lambs, and shall comfort those with young.

²⁹ Giving strength to the hungry, and pain to them that suffer not. ³⁰ For youths shall hunger, and young men shall be weary, and chosen men shall be without strength: ³¹ But they that wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall put forth wings as eagles; they shall run, and shall not be weary; they shall walk, and shall not hunger.

⁴ The Lord giveth me a tongue of instruction, to perceive in season when I must speak a word; he gave me in the morning, he added unto me an ear to hear,

¹⁰ Who among you is he that feareth the Lord? let him listen to the voice of his servant: ye that walk in darkness, they have no light, trust ye in the name of the Lord, and stay yourselves upon God.

¹⁵ Thus saith the Lord, the highest among the high, that inhabiteth eternity, Holy among the holy is his name, the Lord, the highest, resting among the holy, and giving patience to the faint hearted, and giving life to them whose hearts are crushed: ¹⁶ And not for ever will I punish you, nor will I alway be angry with you; for a spirit shall go forth from me, and I have made every breath. ¹⁷ For sin I troubled him a little while, and I smote him, and turned my face from him; and he was troubled, and went gloomily in his ways. ¹⁸ I have seen his ways, and I healed him, and comforted him, and gave him true comfort,

¹ The spirit of the Lord is upon me; wherefore he hath anointed me to preach glad tidings to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to captives, and recovery of sight to the blind: ² To call it an acceptable year of the Lord, and a day of requital; to comfort all them that mourn; ³ That there be given to the mourners of Zion glory instead of ashes, the anointing of joy to the mourners, a robe of glory instead of a spirit of despair; and they shall be called generations of righteousness, a plant of the Lord for glory.

² For all these things hath my hand made; and all these things are mine, saith the Lord; and unto whom shall I look, save to him that is humble, and quiet, and trembleth at my words?

² For in the last days shall the mountain of the Lord be clearly seen, and the house of God upon the top of the mountains, and it shall be uplifted above the hills, and all the nations shall come unto it. ³ And many nations shall go, and shall say, Come, let us go up into the mountain of the Lord, and into the house of the God of Jacob; and he will proclaim to us his way, and we will walk in it. For out of Zion shall a law come forth, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. ⁴ And he shall judge between the nations, and shall convince much people; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; and nation shall not any more take a sword against nation, and they shall not learn to war any more.

⁷ Great is his rule, and of his peace there is no limit, upon the throne of David, and his kingdom, to order it and to take hold upon it in righteousness and in judgment from henceforth and for ever; the jealousy of the Lord of hosts will do this.

⁹ And they shall not do evil, neither shall they be able to destroy any upon my holy mountain; for the whole (earth) is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as much water covereth seas. ¹⁰ And in that day shall be the root of Jesse, and he that standeth up to rule over nations; in him shall nations hope. And his rest shall be honour. ¹¹ And it shall be in that day, the Lord shall again show his hand to be jealous for the remnant which is left of the people, whatever be left from the Assyrians, and from Egypt, and Babylonia, and Ethiopia, and from the Elamites, and from the rising up of the sun, and from Arabia. ¹² And he shall lift up a signal toward the nations, and shall bring together them that are perished of Israel, and them that are scattered of Judah shall he bring together from the four corners of the earth.

¹⁵ Therefore the glory of the Lord shall be in the isles of the sea, the name of the Lord shall be glorious. ¹⁶ O Lord God of Israel, from the corners of the earth have we heard wonders, Hope (is) for the righteous. And they shall say, Woe to them that set at nought; as for them that set at nought the law,

⁵ The nations saw, and were afraid, the ends of the earth drew near, and came together,

¹² They shall give glory to God, they shall proclaim his excellences in the isles.

¹ Hearken to me, ye isles, and attend to me, ye nations; after long time shall it stand, saith the Lord. From my mother's womb he called my name,

⁵ And now thus saith the Lord, that formed me from the womb his bondslave, to gather together Jacob and Israel unto him, I will be gathered, and will be glorified before the Lord, and my God shall be my strength. ⁶ And he said to me, It is a great thing for thee, that thou mayest be called my servant, that thou mayest set up the tribes of Jacob, and turn again the dispersion of Israel; behold. I have set thee for a light of nations, that thou mayest be for salvation unto the end of the earth. ⁷ Thus saith the Lord thy deliverer, the God of Israel, Sanctify him that lightly esteemeth his soul, him that is held abominable by the nations, the slaves of the rulers; kings shall see him, and rulers shall rise up and worship him for the Lord's sake: for faithful is the Holy One of Israel, and I chose thee. ⁸ Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time I heard thee, and in a day of salvation I helped thee, and gave thee for a covenant of nations, to establish the earth, and to cause to inherit desolate heritages, ⁹ Saying to them that are in bonds, Go forth, and (bidding) them that are in darkness be revealed. And in all the ways they shall feed, and in all paths is their pasture. ¹⁰ They shall not hunger nor thirst, neither shall burning heat nor sun smite them; but he that hath mercy on them shall comfort them, and lead them through springs of waters:

¹³ Behold, my servant shall understand, and shall be exalted, and be glorified exceedingly. ¹⁴ Like as many shall be amazed at thee,—so shall thy form be despised from among men, and thy glory from among men— ¹⁵ So shall many nations marvel at him, and kings shall shut their mouth; for (they) to whom it was not declared shall see concerning him, and they who have not heard shall understand.

² We declared him as a child before him, as (is) a root in a thirsty land; he hath no form nor glory. And we saw him, and he had no form nor comeliness, ³ But his form was unhonoured, and failing among all men; a man under a stroke, and one that knew how to bear sickness; for his face is turned away, he was dishonoured and not esteemed. ⁴ This is he that beareth our sins, and sorroweth for us; and we esteemed him to be in trouble, and under a stroke, and calamity. ⁵ But he was wounded for our transgressions, and was sick because of our sins; the discipline of our peace was upon him; with his stripe we were healed. ⁶ All we like sheep did go astray, each strayed by his own way; and the Lord gave him over to our sins. ⁷ And he, for that he hath been evil intreated, openeth not his mouth; he was led as a sheep to slaughter, and as a lamb dumb before the shearer, so he openeth not his mouth. ⁸ In his humiliation his judgment was taken away; who shall describe his generation? for his life is removed from the earth; from the transgressions of my people was he led to death. ⁹ And I will give the wicked instead of his burial, and the rich instead of his death; because he committed no transgression, neither was guile found in his mouth. ¹⁰ And the Lord desireth to cleanse him from his plague: if ye offer for sin, your soul shall see a long lived seed: and the Lord desireth to take (him) away from the trouble of his soul, ¹¹ To show to him a light, and to form him with understanding, to justify a just one that serveth many aright, and their sins shall he himself bear. ¹² Therefore he shall make many to inherit, and the spoils of the mighty shall he divide; because his soul was given over unto death; and he was reckoned among the transgressors; and himself bare the sins of many, and was given over because of their sins.

⁵ Nations which knew not thee shall call upon thee; and peoples which understand not thee shall flee unto thee, for thy God's sake, the Holy One of Israel; for he glorifieth thee.

⁹ For me did the isles wait, and the ships of Tarshish first of all, to bring thy children from far, and their silver and their gold with them, because of the name of the Lord, which is holy, and because the Holy One of Israel is glorious.

¹⁹ And I will leave signs upon them, and I will send forth from them those that are saved to the nations, to Tarshish, and Phut, and Lud, and Meshech, and Tubal, and to Greece, and to the isles afar off; men who have not heard my name, neither have seen my glory: and they shall declare my glory among the nations.

¹² Who measured the water with his hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth with a handful? Who hath weighed the mountains with a scale, and the valleys with a balance?

²² (It is) he that holdeth the circle of the earth, and they that dwell in it are as locusts; he that setteth up the heaven as a canopy, and stretcheth it out as a tent to dwell in,

²⁸ And now, hast thou not learnt? hast thou not heard? the everlasting God, God who hath framed the ends of the earth, will not hunger, nor grow weary,—nor is there any finding out of his understanding—,

²⁴ Thus saith the Lord, that redeemeth thee, and formeth thee from the womb, I am the Lord, that accomplish this; I alone stretched out the heaven, and established the earth.

¹² I made the earth, and man upon it; I with my hand established the heaven, I commanded all the stars.

¹⁸ Thus saith the Lord, that made the heaven:—he is the God that showed forth the earth and made it, he himself set its bounds; he made it not for a void, but to be inhabited: I am, and there is none beside.

¹³ And my hand laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand established the heaven; I will call them, and they shall stand together.

³ Laying hold of righteousness and keeping peace. For in thee

¹ For behold, a just king shall reign, and rulers shall rule with judgment.

¹³ For I am God, that hold fast thy mght hand, that say to thee, Fear not,

¹ Jacob (is) my servant, on him will I take hold; Israel (is) my chosen, my soul hath received him; I have put my spirit upon him, he shall bring forth judgment for the nations.

¹ And now thus saith the Lord God, who created thee, O Jacob, he that formed thee, O Israel. Fear not, for I have redeemed thee; I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine.

¹³ I raised him up with righteousness, and all his ways (shall be) straight; he shall build my city, and shall turn the captivity of my people, not with ransom, nor with gifts, saith the Lord of hosts.

¹ Hearken to me, ye isles, and attend to me, ye nations; after long time shall it stand, saith the Lord. From my mother's womb he called my name, ² And set my mouth as a sharp sword, and under the shelter of his hand he hid me; he made me as a chosen arrow, and in his quiver he sheltered me, ³ And said unto me, Thou art my bondman, Israel, and in thee will I be glorified.

⁶ And he said to me, It is a great thing for thee, that thou mayest be called my servant, that thou mayest set up the tribes of Jacob, and turn again the dispersion of Israel; behold. I have set thee for a light of nations, that thou mayest be for salvation unto the end of the earth.

⁸ Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time I heard thee, and in a day of salvation I helped thee, and gave thee for a covenant of nations, to establish the earth, and to cause to inherit desolate heritages,

⁴ Hearken to me, hearken, my people; and ye kings, give ear unto me; for a law shall go forth from me, and my judgment for a light of the nations. ⁵ My righteousness draweth quickly near; and my salvation also shall go forth, and in my arm shall the nations hope; the isles shall wait for me, and in my arm shall they hope.

¹ Shine, shine, Jerusalem; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. ² Behold, darkness and gloom covereth the earth upon (the) nations; upon thee shall the Lord appear, and his glory shall be seen upon thee: ³ And kings shall walk by thy light, and nations by thy brightness.

² O people that sittest in darkness, see ye a great light; ye that dwell in the land and in the shadow of death, a light shall shine upon you.

¹⁸ And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of a book, and they that are in the darkness, and that are in the mist, the eyes of the blind shall see.

⁵ Then shall the eyes of the blind men be opened, and the ears of deaf men shall hear.

¹⁶ And I will lead blind men by a way that they had not learnt, and will make them to tread paths which they knew not; I will make their darkness into light, and the crooked things into (a) straight (path); these (are) the things which I will do, and will not forsake them.

²² And I saw, and the people was plundered and spoiled; for the snare is in treasuries everywhere, and in houses together; where they hid themselves, they became a prey; and there was none that set free a prey, and there was none that said, Restore.

⁹ Saying to them that are in bonds, Go forth, and (bidding) them that are in darkness be revealed. And in all the ways they shall feed, and in all paths is their pasture.

¹¹ I am God, and beside me there is no Saviour.

¹¹ For mine own sake will I do it unto thee; for my name is polluted, and my glory will I not give to another.

²² Let them draw near, and declare unto you what shall come to pass; or tell ye (of) the former things, what they were, and we will apply our thoughts; and perceive what the last things be: and tell us the things that are coming. ²³ Declare the things that are coming at the last, and we shall perceive that ye are gods: do good, and do evil, and we will wonder.

¹⁹ Behold, I do new things which shall now arise, and ye shall learn them: and I will make a path in the desert, and rivers in the waterless land:

⁷ Who is as I am? let him stand, let him call, and make ready for me, since I made man for everlasting; and let them declare to you the coming things before they come. ⁸ Hide not yourselves; did ye not give ear from the beginning, and I declared it to you? ye are witnesses, whether there be a God beside me; and they were not, at that time.

⁹ And remember the former things from eternity; for I am God, (and there is none beside me:) ¹⁰ Declaring the last things before they come to pass, and therewith they are fulfilled; and I said, All my counsel shall stand, and all that I have counselled will I do.

¹⁴ These shall cry aloud with their voice, but they that are left upon the earth shall rejoice together with the glory of the Lord, the water of the sea shall be troubled.

⁴ He shall shine out, and shall not be shattered, until he have set judgment upon the earth; and in his name shall nations hope.

²³ Rejoice, ye heavens, for God hath had mercy upon Israel: sound the trumpet, ye foundations of the earth; shout, ye mountains, in joy, ye hills, and all the trees upon them; for the Lord hath had mercy on Jacob, and Israel shall be glorified.

¹³ Rejoice, ye heavens, and let the earth exult: let the mountains break out in joy, because God hath had mercy on his people, and hath comforted the humble among his people.

⁵ My righteousness draweth quickly near; and my salvation also shall go forth, and in my arm shall the nations hope; the isles shall wait for me, and in my arm shall they hope.

¹⁴ Behold, they that serve me shall exult in joyfulness, but ye shall cry out for weariness of your heart, and shall wail because of the breaking of spirit.

¹ I will send as it were creeping things upon the earth: is the mount of Zion a desolate rock?

¹⁶ For thus said the Lord to me, Yet a year, as the year of a hireling, the glory of the sons of Kedar shall fail,

¹ Be thou glad, O thirsting desert; let the wilderness rejoice, and blossom as a lily;

⁶ Then shall a lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of stammerers shall be clear, for there hath broken out water in the wilderness, and a torrent in a thirsting land.

³ A voice, of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.

¹⁸ But I will open rivers upon the mountains, and fountains in the midst of the plains; I will make the wilderness into pools, and the thirsty land into watercourses. ¹⁹ I will plant in the waterless land cedar and box, and myrtle and cypress, and white poplar;

⁷ Like beauty upon the mountains, like the feet of one bringing glad tidings of news of peace, like one that bringeth glad tidings of good things; for I will make thy salvation heard, saying to Zion, God shall reign over thee.

⁷ And all the sheep of Kedar shall be gathered together, and the rams of Nebaioth shall come for thee, and acceptable (offerings) shall be brought unto mine altar, and my house of prayer shall be glorified.

¹⁸ And I (know) their works, and their reasoning; I am coming to gather together all the nations and the tongues, and they shall come, and shall see my glory. ¹⁹ And I will leave signs upon them, and I will send forth from them those that are saved to the nations, to Tarshish, and Phut, and Lud, and Meshech, and Tubal, and to Greece, and to the isles afar off; men who have not heard my name, neither have seen my glory: and they shall declare my glory among the nations.

¹¹ Lord, thy arm is uplifted, and they knew it not; but when they learn it, they shall be ashamed; jealousy shall take hold of a people that is untaught, and now shall fire devour the enemies.

⁴ For thus saith the Lord to me, Like as if the lion or the whelp crieth out over the prey, which he hath taken, and roareth over it until the mountains be filled with his voice; and they were vanquished, and cowered before the greatness of his wrath; so shall the Lord of Hosts come down to fight against the mount Zion, and against her mountains.

¹⁶ And he saw, and there was no man, and he perceived, and there was none that would take hold; and he defended them with his arm, and with his mercy he supported them. ¹⁷ And he put on righteousness as a breast-plate, and put on an helmet of salvation upon his head, and clothed himself in a cloke of vengeance, and his clothing ¹⁸ As ready to requite, a requital of shame unto his adversaries. ¹⁹ And they from the setting (of the sun) shall fear the name of the Lord, and they from the rising of the sun his glorious name; for the anger of the Lord shall come like a rushing river, it shall come with wrath.

¹ Who is this that approacheth from Edom, a redness of garments from Bozrah? so beauteous in his apparel, in violence with might? I discourse righteousness, and judgment of salvation. ² Wherefore are thy garments red, and thy raiment as from a trodden winepress? ³ (I am) full with the trodden (press); and of the nations there is no man with me; and I trode them down in wrath, and ground them down as the earth, and brought down their blood to the earth. ⁴ For a day of recompense is come upon them, and a year of ransom is here.

¹⁴ And your heart shall see and rejoice, and your bones shall grow up as herbage: and the hand of the Lord shall be made known to them that worship him, and he shall threaten the disobedient.

¹² For there is a day of the Lord of Hosts against every worker of pride, and overweening one, and against every one that is high and lofty, and they shall be humbled: ¹³ And against every cedar of Lebanon, of them that are high and lofty, and against every oak-tree of Bashan, ¹⁴ And against every mountain, and against every high hill, ¹⁵ And against every high tower, and against every high wall, ¹⁶ And against every ship of the sea, and against every sight of the beauty of ships:

¹⁵ And the Lord shall make the sea of Egypt desolate, and shall lay his hand upon the river with a mighty wind, and shall smite seven channels, so that he go over (dry) shod, ¹⁶ And there shall be a way for my people that are left in Egypt, and it shall be to Israel as the aay when he came out of the land of Egypt.

²⁷ That saith to the deep, Thou shalt be made desolate, and I will dry up thy rivers:

¹¹ And I will turn every mountain into a way, and every path into a pasture for them.

² Why was it that I came, and there was no man? I called, and he listened not? Is not my hand strong to deliver? or have I not strength to rescue? behold, by my threat I will make the sea a desolation, and make rivers desolate, and their fishes shall be dried up because there is no water, and shall die for thirst.

²⁴ And they that wander in spirit shall learn prudence, but they that murmur shall learn to hearken, and the stammering tongue shall learn to speak peace.

²¹ And thine ears shall hear the words of the beguilers behind thee; it is they who say, This is the way, let us walk in it, whether to the right hand or to the left.

³ And no longer shall they put their trust in men, but they shall lend their ears to hear.

⁸ A pure way shall be there, and it shall be called a holy way, and no unclean person shall pass by there, neither shall an unclean way be there; but the dispersed shall walk upon it, and they shall not err.

⁴ Every valley shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked places shall become a straight (path), and the rough land smooth ways.

³ And he shall pursue them, and the way of his feet shall pass over in peace.

² I will go before him, and will level mountains, will break down doors of brass, and will snap asunder bolts of iron:

¹⁷ Thus saith the Lord, thy deliverer, the Holy One of Israel: [[I am thy God,]] I have shown to thee, that thou mayest find the way wherein thou shalt walk.

¹³ And (I will make) all thy sons instructed of the Lord, and thy children (to be) in great peace.

¹ Shine, shine, Jerusalem; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. ² Behold, darkness and gloom covereth the earth upon (the) nations; upon thee shall the Lord appear, and his glory shall be seen upon thee:

¹⁹ And the sun shall not be thy light by day, nor shall the rising of the moon enlighten thy night; but the Lord shall be to thee an everlasting light, and God thy glory. ²⁰ For thy sun shall not go down, and the moon shall not fail thee; for the Lord shall be to thee an everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be fulfilled.

²⁹ For they shall be ashamed for their idols, which themselves desired, and shall be ashamed for their gardens, which they longed for.

¹¹ And all are withered from whence they sprang, and (are) dumb from among men; let them all be gathered together, and they shall stand together, let them be turned backward and be ashamed together.

¹⁷ But the rest of it he maketh a graven god, and worshippeth it, and prayeth to it, saying, Deliver me, for thou art my god.

¹⁶ All they that resist him shall be ashamed, and turned backward, and shall walk in shame. Be ye made new toward me, ye isles. ¹⁷ Israel is being saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation; they shall not be ashamed, nor be turned backward for ever.

⁸ And I led forth a blind people, and their eyes are likewise blind, and they are deaf, though they have ears.

⁹ And he said, Go, and say to this people, By hearing ye shall hear, and not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive.

⁹ Faint ye, and fall away, and stagger drunkenly, not with strong drink, nor with wine. ¹⁰ For the Lord hath given you to drink with a spirit of slumber, and will close their eyes, and their prophets' and their rulers' eyes; they it is that see the hidden things. ¹¹ And all these words shall be as the sayings of this book that is sealed, and if they give it to a man that knoweth letters, saying, Read these; then he shall say, I cannot read, for it is sealed. ¹² And this book shall be given into the hands of a man such as knoweth not letters, and one shall say to him, Read this; and he shall say, I know not letters. ¹³ And the Lord said, This people draweth near me, with their lips they honour me, but their heart is far from me; but in vain do they worship me, teaching the commandments of men, and doctrines. ¹⁴ Therefore behold, I will proceed further to change this people; and I will change them, and will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the prudence of the prudent will I hide.

²⁶ And establishing the words of his servants, and making true the counsel of his messengers? he that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited, and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built; and her desolate places shall arise:

¹⁰ See ye, that all are utterly blinded, they have not learnt to have understanding; dumb dogs all, they will not be able to bark; dreaming on their couch, prone to slumber.

³ The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel knoweth me not, and the people understandeth me not.

⁶ Ye have heard all, and ye perceived not; but I have also made to be heard of thee the new things from henceforth which shall come to pass; and thou saidst not, ⁷ Now come they to pass, and not long since, and not in former days didst thou hear of them; lest thou shouldest say, Yea, I perceive them. ⁸ Thou didst neither perceive nor know, nor did I open thine ears from the beginning; for I perceived that thou wouldest utterly set them at nought, and thou shalt be called a transgressor even from the womb.

² They will seek me day by day, and desire to know my ways: as a people that hath practised the righteousness of God, and hath not forsaken the judgment of its God; they ask of me now righteous judgment, and desire to draw near to God,

²⁴ Therefore thus saith the Ruler, the Lord of Hosts, Ah, the strong ones of Israel! for my wrath shall not cease upon mine adversaries, and I will exact judgment from mine enemies. ²⁵ And I will turn mine hand upon thee, and burn thee into purity, and the disobedient will I destroy, and take away all transgressors from thee, and will humble all arrogant ones. ²⁶ And I will set up thy judges as in former time, and thy counsellors as from the beginning; and after that thou shalt be called City of righteousness, faithful mother-city Zion. ²⁷ For with judgment shall her captivity be saved, and with mercy.

¹² Hearken to me, ye that have lost your heart, ye that are far from righteousness. ¹³ I have brought near my righteousness, and the salvation that cometh from me will I not delay: I have given salvation in Zion to Israel for a glorifying.

⁷ Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire; your country, strangers devour it before your face, and it has been desolated, ruined by stranger peoples.

¹⁷ He that maketh the whole world desolate, [[and his cities hath he destroyed,]] those in (his) train hath he not loosed.

² He that sendeth forth hostages upon the sea, and letters on papyrus above the water. For swift messengers shall go to a nation that is high, and a stranger people and a cruel; (what is beyond it?) a nation not looked for, and trodden down. Now (as for) the rivers of the land

¹⁸ And it shall be, he that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh out from the pit shall be caught by the snare; for windows are opened out of heaven, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken.

²² And they shall gather them together, and shut them into a fastness, and into a prison; after many generations shall there be a visitation of them.

¹ And it came to pass, in the fourteenth year of the reign of Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of the Assyrians came up against the cities of Judah, that were strong, and took them.

⁷ To open blind men's eyes, to lead out from bonds them that are bound, and men that sit in darkness out of a prison house.

²³ And I will put it into the hands of them that did thee wrong, and them that humbled thee; which said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may pass by; and thou laidest thy back even with the ground, without, for them that went by.

⁴ Thus saith the Lord, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there, and by force were they led to the Assyrians. ⁵ And now, why are ye here? Thus saith the Lord, Because my people were seized for nought, ye marvel and wail. Thus saith the Lord, Because of you my name is continually blasphemed among the nations.

⁹ All ye wild beasts of the field, come hither and eat, all ye wild beasts of the forest.

¹⁸ And come, and let us be convicted, saith the Lord; and if your sins be as a scarlet thing, I will make them white as snow; and if they be as crimson, I will make them white as wool. ¹⁹ And if ye be willing, and hearken unto me, ye shall eat the good things of the land: ²⁰ But if ye be not willing, neither hearken unto me, a sword shall devour you; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken this.

¹⁸ And if thou hadst hearkened to my commandments, thy peace should have been made as a river, and thy righteousness as a wave of the sea;

⁵ Ah, for the Assyrians; the rod of my wrath and of anger (is) in their hands. ⁶ I do send mine anger against a transgressing nation, and to my people will I give a charge to take spoils and plunder, and to tread down the cities and turn them to a dust cloud.

¹⁵ Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, When thou shalt turn and lament, then shalt thou be saved, and learn where thou wast (placed): when thou hadst thy trust in vanities, your strength became vain: and ye would not hear.

⁷ I, that establish light, and make darkness, that make peace, and create evils: I am the Lord God that doeth all these things.

⁶ I was provoked at my people, thou defiledst mine inheritance: I gave (them) into thine hand, and thou showedst them no mercy; thou didst make the yoke of the elder very heavy.

¹ Thus saith the Lord, Of what kind is the bill of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I sent her away? or to what debtor have I sold you? Behold, for your sins were ye sold, and for your transgressions sent I your mother away. ² Why was it that I came, and there was no man? I called, and he listened not? Is not my hand strong to deliver? or have I not strength to rescue? behold, by my threat I will make the sea a desolation, and make rivers desolate, and their fishes shall be dried up because there is no water, and shall die for thirst.

¹ Is not the Lord's hand mighty to save? or hath he made his ear heavy, that it hear not? ² But your sins separate between you [[and your God,]] and because of your sins hath he turned his face away from you, not to have mercy upon you.

¹⁰ But they disobeyed, and provoked the holy Spirit; and he was turned to enmity against them, himself fought against them.

¹³ And the people turned not back until it was smitten, and they sought not out the Lord.

¹³ And the Lord said, This people draweth near me, with their lips they honour me, but their heart is far from me; but in vain do they worship me, teaching the commandments of men, and doctrines.

⁷ And thou saidst, I shall be a princess for ever; thou perceivedst not this in thy heart, neither didst remember the last things.

¹ See ye, how the righteous hath perished, and no man accepts it in his heart, and righteous men are taken away, and no man considereth; for from the face of wrong hath the righteous been taken away.

¹¹ Of whom wast thou ware, and fearedst; and didst deceive me, and rememberedst me not, neither tookest me into thy thought? and I saw thee, and looked aside, and thou fearedst not me.