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Index of the Chapters from the Book of Isaiah
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(1)The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and
Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of
Judah.(2)Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the L-rd has spoken, I
have reared and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.(3)The
ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel does not know, my
people does not consider.(4)Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a
seed of evildoers, children who are corrupters; they have forsaken the L-rd,
they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they have turned
backwards.(5)Where should you still be stricken that you revolt again? Every
head is sick, and every heart is faint.(6)From the sole of the foot to the head
there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and sores; they have not
been pressed, nor bound up, nor softened with oil.(7)Your country is desolate,
your cities are burned with fire; as for your land, strangers devour it in your
presence, and it is desolate, as if overthrown by strangers.(v.8)And the
daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a lodge in a garden
of cucumbers, like a besieged city.(9)If the L-rd of hosts had not left us a
very small remnant, we should have been like Sodom, and we should have been
like Gomorrah:(10)Hear the word of the L-rd, rulers of Sodom; give ear to the Torah of ourG-d, people of Gomorrah.(11)To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices
to me? said the L-rd; I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of
fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male
goats.(12)When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your
hand, to trample my courts.(13)Bring no more vain offerings; incense of
abomination they are to me; as for new moons and sabbaths, and the calling of
assemblies, I cannot bear iniquity along with solemn meeting.(14)Your new moons
and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they are a trouble to me; I am weary
of enduring them.(15)And when you stretch out your hands, I will hide my
eyes from you; and, when you make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are
full of blood.(16)Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of
your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil.(17)Learn to do well; seek
judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the orphan, plead for the widow.(18)Come
now, and let us reason together, said the L-rd; though your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be
as wool.(19)If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the
land.(20)But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for
the mouth of the L-rd has spoken it.(21)How the faithful city has become a
harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now
murderers.(22)Your silver has become dross, your wine is mixed with
water.(23)Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one
loves bribes, and follows after rewards; they judge not the orphans neither
does the cause of the widow reach them.(24)Therefore said the L-rd, the L-rd of
hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of my adversaries, and
avenge me of my enemies.(25)And I will turn my hand upon you, and smelt away
your dross as with lye, and take away all your base alloy.(26)And I will
restore your judges as at the first, and your counsellors as at the beginning;
afterward you shall be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful
city.(27)Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and those who return to her with
righteousness.(28)And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners
shall be together, and those who forsake the L-rd shall be consumed.(29)For
they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be
confounded because of the gardens that you have chosen.(30)For you shall be
like an oak whose leave withers, and like a garden that has no water.(31)And
the strong shall be as tow, and his work a spark, and they shall both burn
together, and none shall quench them:
Isaiah 6
(1)In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the L-rd sitting upon a throne,
high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.(2)Above it stood the
seraphim; each one had six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he
covered his feet, and with two he did fly.(3)And one cried to another, and
said, Holy, holy, holy, is the L-rd of hosts; the whole earth is full of his
glory.(4)And the posts of the door moved at the voice of he who cried, and
the house was filled with smoke.(5)Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone;
because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of
unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the L-rd of hosts.(6)Then flew
one of the seraphim to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken
with the tongs from off the altar.(7)And he laid it upon my mouth, and said,
Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your
sin purged.(8)Also I heard the voice of the L-rd, saying, Whom shall I send,
and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.(9)And he said, Go, and
tell this people, Hear hear, but do not understand; See see, but do not
perceive.(10)Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and
shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and
understand with their heart, and return, and be healed.(11)Then said I, L-rd,
how long? And he answered, Until the cities are destroyed without inhabitants,
and the houses without man, and the land is completely desolate.(12)And the
L-rd has moved men far away, and there is a great forsaking in the midst of the
land.(13)And if one tenth remain in it, then that shall again be consumed; but
like a terebinth tree, or like an oak, whose stump remains, when they cast
their leaves; so the holy seed shall be its stump:
Isaiah 8
(1)Moreover the L-rd said to me, Take a great roll, and write on it with common
characters, The spoil speeds, the prey hastens.(2)And I took to myself faithful
witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of
Jeberechiah.(3)And I went to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son;
Then said the L-rd to me, Call his name Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz The spoil speeds,
the prey hastens.(4)For before the child shall know how to cry, My father, and
my mother, the riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria shall be taken
away before the king of Assyria.(5)The L-rd spoke also to me again,
saying.(6)Because this people refuse the waters of Shiloah that flow gently,
and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son.(7)Now therefore, behold, the L-rd
brings upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, the king of Assyria
and all his glory; and it will rise over all its channels, and go over all its
banks.(8)And it shall pass through Judah; it shall overflow and go over, it
shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill
the breadth of your land, O Immanu-El.(9)Be broken up, O you people, and be
dismayed; and give ear, all you of far countries; gird yourselves, and you
shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in
pieces.(10)Take counsel together, and it shall come to nothing; speak the word,
and it shall not stand; for G-d is with us:(11)For the L-rd spoke thus to me
with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this
people, saying.(12)Do not say, It is a conspiracy, to all that this people
shall call a conspiracy; neither fear their fear, nor be afraid.(13)Sanctify
the L-rd of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your
dread.(14)And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for
a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a trap to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem.(15)And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and
be broken, and be trapped, and be taken.(16)Bind up the testimony, seal the
Torah among my disciples:(17)And I will wait upon the L-rd, who hides his face
from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.(18)Behold, I and the children
whom the L-rd has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the
L-rd of hosts, who dwells in mount Zion:(19)And when they shall say to you,
Consult mediums and wizards who peep and mutter; Should not a people consult
their G-d? Why seek the living among the dead:(20)For Torah and for testimony;
if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in
them.(21)And they shall pass through it, greatly distressed and hungry; and it
shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they will be enraged, and
curse their king and their G-d, and look upward.(22)And they shall look to the
earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be
driven to darkness.(23)For there is no weariness to him who is set against
her; at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun, and the land of
Naphtali, and afterwards he afflicted her more grievously by the way of the
sea, beyond the Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.(9:1)The people who walked in
darkness have seen a great light; they who dwell in the land of the shadow of
death, upon them has the light shined
Isaiah 9
(1)The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; they who dwell in
the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined.(2)You have
multiplied the nation, and increased the joy; they joy before you according to
the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.(3)For you
have broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of
his oppressor, as in the days of Midian.(4)For every shoe of the stormy
warrior, and every garment rolled in blood shall be burned as fuel of
fire.(5)For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government
is upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful counsellor of the
mighty G-d, of the everlasting Father, of the Prince of peace.(6)For the
increase of the realm and for peace there without end, upon the throne of
David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and
with justice from now and forever; The zeal of the L-rd of hosts performs
this.(7)The L-rd sent a word to Jacob, and it will descend upon
Israel.(8)And all the people shall know, Ephraim and the inhabitant of
Samaria, who say in the pride and arrogance of heart.(9)The bricks have fallen
down, but we will build with cut stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but
we will change them into cedars.(10)Therefore the L-rd shall set up the
adversaries of Rezin against him, and stirs up their enemies.(11)The Arameans
before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open
mouth; For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still
stretched out.(12)For the people turns not to him who strikes them, neither do
they seek the L-rd of hosts.(13)Therefore the L-rd will cut off from Israel
head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.(14)The elder and honorable, he is
the head; and the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.(15)For the leaders
of this people cause them to err; and those who are led by them are
destroyed.(16)Therefore the L-rd shall have no joy in their young men, neither
shall have mercy on their orphans and widows; for every one is an hypocrite and
an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly; For all this his anger is not turned
away, but his hand is still stretched out.(17)For wickedness burns as the fire;
it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the
forest, and they shall mount up in a billow of smoke.(18)Through the anger of
the L-rd of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of
the fire; no man shall spare his brother.(19)And he shall snatch on the right
hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be
satisfied; they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm.(20)Manasseh
against Ephraim; and Ephraim against Manasseh; and they together shall be
against Judah; For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still
stretched out:
Isaiah 11
(1)And there shall come forth a rod from the stem of Jesse, and a branch
shall grow from his roots.(2)And the spirit of the L-rd shall rest upon
him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the L-rd.(3)And his delight shall be
in the fear of the L-rd; and he shall not judge by what his eyes see, nor
decide by what his ears hear.(4)But with righteousness shall he judge the poor,
and decide with equity for the humble of the earth; and he shall strike the
earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay
the wicked.(5)And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and
faithfulness the girdle of his reins.(6)The wolf also shall live with the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion
and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.(7)And the cow and
the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion
shall eat straw like the ox.(8)And the sucking child shall play on the hole of
the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper's den.(9)They
shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full
of the knowledge of the L-rd, as the waters cover the sea.(10)And in that
day there shall be a root of Jesse, who shall stand for a banner of the people;
to it shall the nations seek; and his resting place shall be
glorious.(11)And it shall come to pass in that day, that the L-rd shall set
his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, who shall
be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Kush, and
from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the
sea.(12)And he shall set up a banner for the nations, and shall assemble the
outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four
corners of the earth.(13)The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the
adversaries of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah
shall not harass Ephraim.(14)But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the
Philistines toward the west; they shall plunder together those of the east;
they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the Ammonites shall obey
them.(15)And the L-rd shall completely destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea;
and with his scorching wind shall shake his hand over the river, and shall
strike it in the seven streams, and make men go over dry.(16)And there shall be
a highway for the remnant of his people, who shall be left, from Assyria; like
it was for Israel in the day when he came up out of the land of Egypt:
Isaiah 25
(1)O L-rd, you are my G-d; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you
have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and
truth.(2)For you have made of a city a heap; of a fortified city a ruin; a
palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be rebuilt.(3)Therefore shall
the strong people glorify you, the city of the terrible nations shall fear
you.(4)For you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his
distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of
tyrants was like a storm against the wall.(5)You shall bring down the noise of
strangers, as the heat in a dry place; as the heat is removed by the shadow of
a cloud; so the song of tyrants shall be brought low.(6)And in this mountain
shall the L-rd of hosts make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of
wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well
refined.(7)And he will destroy in this mountain the covering that is cast over
all the people, and the veil that is spread over all nations.(8)He will destroy
death for ever; and the L-rd G-d will wipe away tears from off all faces; and
the insult of his people shall he take away from off all the earth; for the
L-rd has spoken it.(9)And it shall be said on that day, Behold, this is our
G-d; we have waited for him, and he will save us; this is the L-rd; we have
waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.(10)For in
this mountain shall the hand of the L-rd rest, and Moab shall be trampled down
in his own place, like straw is trampled down in the dunghill.(11)And he shall
spread out his hands in the midst of them, as he who swims spreads out his
hands to swim; and he shall bring down their pride together with the plunder of
their hands.(12)And the high fortifications of your walls shall he bring down,
lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust:
Isaiah 29
(1)Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let
the feasts come round.(2)Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be
heaviness and sorrow; and it shall be to me as an Ariel.(3)And I will camp
around against you, and will lay siege against you with a mound, and I will
raise siege works against you.(4)And you shall be brought down, and shall speak
from the ground, and your speech shall be low from the dust, and your voice
shall be, as of a medium, from the ground, and your speech shall whisper from
the dust.(5)And the multitude of your strangers shall be like small dust, and
the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passes away; and it
shall be in an instant suddenly.(6)You shall be visited by the L-rd of hosts
with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and
the flame of devouring fire.(7)And the multitude of all the nations that fight
against Ariel, all who fight against her and her fortress, and who distress
her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.(8)It shall be as when a hungry man
dreams, and, behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his soul is empty; or as when
a thirsty man dreams, and, behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and, behold, he is
weak, and his soul longs for water; so shall the multitude of all the nations
be, that fight against Mount Zion:
(9)Amaze yourselves, and be amazed; blind yourselves and be blind; be drunk but
not with wine; stagger, but not with strong drink.(10)For the L-rd has poured
out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets;
and has covered your heads, the seers.(11)And the vision of all has become to
you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is
learned, saying, Read this, I beseech you; and he says, I cannot; for it is
sealed.(12)And the book is delivered to him who is not learned, saying, Read
this, I beseech you; and he says, I am not learned.(13)And the L-rd said,
Since this people draw near me, and with their mouth, and with their lips honor
me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a
commandment of men learned by rote.(14)Therefore, behold, I will proceed to
do a marvelous work among this people, marvelous and wonderful; and the wisdom
of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men
shall be be hidden.(15)Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel from
the L-rd, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and Who
knows us.(16)Your turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as the
clay? Shall the work say of him who made it, He did not make me! Or shall the
thing framed say of him who framed it, He has no understanding.(17)Is it not
yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and
the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest.(18)And on that day shall the
deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of
obscurity, and out of darkness.(19)The humble also shall increase their joy in
the L-rd, and the poorest among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of
Israel.(20)For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scorner is
consumed, and all who watch for iniquity are cut off.(21)Who, by a word, make a
man an offender, and lay a trap for him who reproves in the gate, and turn
aside the just for nothing.(22)Therefore thus said the L-rd, who redeemed
Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, nor
shall his face now become pale.(23)But when he sees his children, the work of
my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the
Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the G-d of Israel.(24)Those who erred in
spirit shall come to understand, and those who murmured shall learn a lesson:
(1)Woe to the plunderer, and you were not plundered; and the traitor and they
dealt not treacherously with you! when you shall cease to plunder, you shall be
plundered; and when you shall make an end to betraying, they shall betray
you.(2)O L-rd, be gracious to us; we have waited for you; be you their arm
every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.(3)At the noise of the
tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of yourself the nations were
scattered.(4)And your plunder shall be gathered like the gathering of the
caterpillar; as the running of locusts shall he run upon them.(5)The L-rd is
exalted; for he dwells on high; he has filled Zion with judgment and
righteousness.(6)And he shall be the stability of your times, a store of
salvation, wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the L-rd is his
treasure.(7)Behold, their brave ones shall cry outside; the ambassadors of
peace shall weep bitterly.(8)The highways lie destroyed, the wayfaring man
ceases; he has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, he regards no
man.(9)The earth mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and withers; the
Sharon is like the Arabah; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.(10)Now
will I rise, says the L-rd; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up
myself.(11)You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble; your breath
is a fire that shall devour you.(12)And the people shall be as the burnings of
lime; as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.(13)Hear, you who are
far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.(14)The
sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness has surprised the flatterers; Who among
us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with
everlasting burnings.(15)He who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he who
despises the gain of oppression, he who shakes his hands from holding bribes,
he who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing
evil.(16)He shall dwell on high; his place of defense shall be the fortresses
of rocks; bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.(17)Your eyes
shall see the king in his beauty; they shall behold the land that is very far
off.(18)Your heart shall meditate on terror; Where is the scribe? Where is the
receiver? Where is he who counted the towers.(19)You shall not see the fierce
people, the people of a deeper speech than you can not understand; of a
stammering tongue, that you can not apprehend.(20)Look upon Zion, the city of
our solemn feasts; your eyes shall see Jerusalem a safe habitation, a tent that
shall not be taken down; not one of its pegs shall ever be removed, neither
shall any of its cords be broken.(21)But there the glorious L-rd will be to us
a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars,
neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.(22)For the L-rd is our judge, the
L-rd is our lawgiver, the L-rd is our king; he will save us.(23)Your
tacklings hang loose; they could not strengthen the socket of their mast; they
could not spread the sail; then is the prey of a great plunder divided; the
lame take the prey.(24)And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick; the people
who dwell there shall be forgiven their iniquity:
Isaiah 40
(1)Comfort my people, comfort them, says your G-d.(2)Speak comfortably to
Jerusalem, and cry to her, that her fighting is ended, that her iniquity is
pardoned; for she has received from the L-rd's hand double for all her
sins.(3)A voice cries, Prepare in the wilderness the way of the L-rd, make
straight in the desert a highway for our G-d.(4)Every valley shall be
exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked shall
be made straight, and the rough places plain.(5)And the glory of the L-rd shall
be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the L-rd has
spoken it.(6)The voice said, Cry; And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is
grass, and all its grace is as the flower of the field.(7)The grass withers,
the flower fades; when the breath of the L-rd blows upon it; surely the people
is like grass.(8)The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our G-d
shall endure forever.(9)You who bring good news to Zion, get up to the high
mountain; You who bring good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with
strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say to the cities of Judah, Behold your
G-d.(10)Behold, the L-rd G-d will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule
for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his hire before him.(11)He shall
feed his flock like a shepherd; he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and
carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with
young.(12)Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked out
the heavens with a span, and enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure, and
weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance.(13)Who has
directed the spirit of the L-rd, or being his counsellor has taught
him.(14)With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in
the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of
understanding.(15)Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are
counted as the small dust of the balance; behold, he takes up the islands as
fine dust.(16)And Lebanon is not sufficient for fuel, nor are its beasts
sufficient for a burnt offering.(17)All nations before him are as nothing; and
they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.(18)To whom then will you
liken G-d? or what likeness will you compare to him.(19)The workman melts an
engraved image, and the goldsmith plates it over with gold, and casts silver
chains.(20)He who is too poor for such a gift chooses a tree that will not rot;
he seeks for himself a skilful workman to prepare a carved idol, that shall not
be moved.(21)Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from
the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth.(22)It
is he who sits upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are as
grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them
out like a tent to dwell in.(23)Who brings princes to nothing; he makes the
judges of the earth as vanity.(24)Scarcely are they planted; scarcely are they
sown; scarcely has their stock taken root in the earth; and he merely blows
upon them, and they wither, and the stormy wind takes them away as
stubble.(25)To whom then will you liken me, that I should be his equal? said
the Holy One.(26)Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these
things; who brings out their host by number, he calls them all by names by the
greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is
missing.(27)Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from
the L-rd, and my judgment is passed over from my G-d.(28)Have you not known?
Have you not heard, that the everlasting G-d, the L-rd, the Creator of the ends
of the earth, faints not, nor is he weary? There is no searching of his
understanding.(29)He gives power to the faint; and to those who have no might
he increases strength.(30)Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the
young men shall fall.(31)But those who wait upon the L-rd shall renew their
strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be
weary; and they shall walk, and not faint:
Isaiah 42
(1)Behold my servant, whom I uphold; my elect, in whom my soul delights; I
have put my spirit upon him; he shall bring forth judgment to the
nations.(2)He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard
in the street.(3)A bruised reed shall he not break, and the dimly burning flax
shall he not quench; he shall bring forth judgment to truth.(4)He shall not
fail nor be discouraged, till he has set judgment in the earth; and the islands
shall wait for his Torah.(5)Thus said G-d the L-rd, he who created the heavens,
and stretched them out; he who spread forth the earth, and that which comes out
of it; he who gives breath to the people upon it, and spirit to those who walk
in it.(6)I the L-rd have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand,
and will keep you, and give you for a covenant of the people, for a light to
the nations.(7)To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the
prison, and those who sit in darkness, out of the prison house.(8)I am the
L-rd; that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my
praise to carved idols.(9)Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new
things do I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.(10)Sing to
the L-rd a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down
to the sea, and all that is in it; the islands, and their inhabitants.(11)Let
the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar
inhabits; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the
mountains.(12)Let them give glory to the L-rd, and declare his praise in the
islands.(13)The L-rd shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up his fury
like a man of war; he shall cry, yes, roar; he shall prevail against his
enemies.(14)I have long time held my peace; I have kept still, and refrained
myself; now will I cry like a woman in labor; I will gasp and pant
together.(15)I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs;
and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.(16)And I will
bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them by paths that
they have not known; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things
straight; These are the things I will do, and not forsake them.(17)They shall
be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, those who trust in carved idols,
who say to the molten images, You are our G-ds.()Hear, you deaf; and look, you
blind, that you may see.(18)Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my
messenger whom I sent? Who is blind as he who is perfect, and blind as the
L-rd's servant:
(19)Seeing many things, but you observe not; opening the ears, but he hears
not.(20)The L-rd is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify
the Torah, and make it glorious.(21)But this is a people robbed and plundered;
they are all of them trapped in holes, and hidden in prison houses; they have
become a prey, and none rescues; for a plunder, and none says, Restore.(22)Who
among you will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to
come.(23)Who gave Jacob for a plunder, and Israel to the robbers? did not the
L-rd, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways,
neither were they obedient to his Torah.(24)Therefore he has poured upon him
the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it has set him on fire
around, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart:
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(1)But now thus says the Lord who created you, O Jacob, and he who formed you,
O Israel, Fear not; for I have redeemed you, I have called you by your name;
you are mine:(2)When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and
through the rivers, they shall not overflow you; when you walk through the
fire, you shall not be burned; nor shall the flame kindle upon you:(3)For I
am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your savior; I gave Egypt for
your ransom, Kush and Seba instead of you:(4)Since you were precious in my
sight, you were honored, and I have loved you; therefore will I give men for
you, and people for your life:(5)Fear not; for I am with you; I will bring your
seed from the east, and gather you from the west:(6)I will say to the north,
Give up; and to the south, Keep not back; bring my sons from far, and my
daughters from the ends of the earth:(7)Every one who is called by my name; for
I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yes, I have made
him:(8)Bring forth the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have
ears:(9)Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be
assembled; who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them
bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and
say, It is truth:(10)You are my witnesses, said the Lord, and my servant whom I
have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he;
before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me:(11)I, I
myself, am the Lord; and beside me there is no savior:(12)I have declared, and
have saved, and I have proclaimed, and there was no strange god among you;
therefore you are my witnesses, said the Lord, that I am God:(13)Yes, from the
first I am he; and there is none who can deliver from my hand; I will work, and
who shall reverse it:(14)Thus said the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of
Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and will bring down all of them
as fugitives, the Chaldeans, in the ships of their songs;:(15)I am the Lord,
your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King:(16)Thus says the Lord, who
makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters:(17)Who brings forth
the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together,
they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched like a
wick:(18)Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of
old:(19)Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall you not
know it? I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert:(20)The
beast of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the owls; because I give
waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people,
my chosen:(20)This people have I formed for myself; they shall proclaim my
praise:(21)But you have not called upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of
me, O Israel:(22)You have not brought me the small cattle of your burnt
offerings; neither have you honored me with your sacrifices; I have not
burdened you with a meal offering, nor wearied you with incense:(23)You have
bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled me with the fat of your
sacrifices; but you have burdened me with your sins, you have wearied me with
your iniquities:(24)I, I myself, am he who blots out your transgressions for my
own sake, and will not remember your sins:(25)Put me in remembrance; let us
plead together; declare you, that you may be justified:(26)Your first father
has sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me:(27)Therefore I have
profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to destruction, and
Israel to reviling:
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(1)Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held,
to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open
before him doors and gates; and the gates shall not be closed:(2)I will go
before you, and make the hilly places level; I will break in pieces the gates
of bronze, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:(3)And I will give you the
treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know
that I, the Lord, who call you by your name, am the God of Israel:(4)For Jacob
my servant's sake, and Israel my elect, I have called you by your name; I have
surnamed you, though you have not known me:(5)I am the Lord, and there is no
one else, there is no God beside me; I girded you, though you have not known
me:(6)That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that
there is none beside me; I am the Lord, and there is no one else: (7)I form the
light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I the Lord do all
these things:(8)Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down
righteousness; let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let
righteousness spring up also; I, the Lord, have created it:(9)Woe to him who
strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the
earth; Shall the clay say to him who fashions it, What do you make? or your
work, He has no hands:(10)Woe to him who says to his father, What are you
begetting? or to the woman, With what are you in labor:(11)Thus says the Lord,
the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my
sons, and concerning the work of my hands command me:(12)I have made the earth,
and created man upon it; I, my own hands, have stretched out the heavens, and
all their host have I commanded:(13)I have raised him up in righteousness, and
I will direct all his ways; he shall build my city, and he shall let go my
captives, not for price nor reward, says the Lord of hosts:(14)Thus says the
Lord, The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Kush and of the Sebaim, men of
stature, shall come over to you, and they shall be yours; they shall come after
you; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down to you, they
shall make supplication to you, saying, Surely God is in you; and there is no
one else, there is no God:(15)Truly you are a God who hides yourself, O God of
Israel, who saves them: (16)They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of
them; they shall go to confusion together those who are makers of
idols:(17)But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting
salvation; you shall not be ashamed nor confounded to all eternity: (18)For
thus says the Lord who created the heavens; God himself who formed the earth
and made it; he has established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to
be inhabited; I am the Lord; and there is no one else:(19)I have not spoken in
secret, in a dark place of the earth; I do not say to the seed of Jacob, Seek
me in vain; I, the Lord, speak righteousness, I declare things that are
right:(20)Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you of the nations
who have escaped; they have no knowledge those who carry the wood of their
carved idols, and pray to a god who cannot save:(21)Declare, and bring them
near; yes, let them take counsel together; Who has declared this from ancient
time? Who has told it from that time? Did not I the Lord? And there is no other
God beside me; a just God and a savior; there is none beside me:(22)Look to me,
and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no one
else:(23)I have sworn by myself, a word of righteousness is gone out of my
mouth, and shall not be reversed, That to me every knee shall bow, every tongue
shall swear: (24)Surely, he said to me, in the Lord have I righteousness and
strength; to him shall men come; and all who are incensed against him shall be
ashamed:(25)In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall
glory:
Isaiah 49
(1)Listen, O islands, to me; and listen, you people, from far; The Lord has
called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my
name:(2)And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand
he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver he hid me:(3)And said to
me, You are my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified:
(4)Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing,
and in vain; yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my
God:(5)And now, says the Lord who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to
bring Jacob back to him, that Israel should be gathered to him, and I was
honored in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength:(6)And he
says, It is a light thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes
of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel; I will also give you for a
light to the nations, that may salvation may be to the end of the
earth:(7)Thus says the Lord, the redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to him
whom man despises, to him whom the nation loathes, to a servant of rulers,
Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall prostrate themselves, because of
the Lord who is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen
you:(8)Thus says the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard you, and in a day
of salvation have I helped you; and I will preserve you, and give you for a
covenant of the people, to restore the land, and to assign desolate
inheritances to their owners:(9)That you may say to the prisoners, Go forth; to
those who are in darkness, Show yourselves; They shall feed in the ways, and
their pastures shall be in all high places:(10)They shall not hunger nor
thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them; for he who has mercy on
them shall lead them, by the springs of water shall he guide them:(11)And I
will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be raised
up:(12)Behold, these shall come from far; and, lo, these from the north and
from the west; and these from the land of Sinim:(13)Sing, O heavens; and be
joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing O mountains; for the Lord has
comforted his people, and has mercy upon his afflicted:(14)But Zion says, The
Lord has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me:(15)Can a woman forget her
sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes,
even they may forget, but I will not forget you:(16)Behold, I have engraved you
upon the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me:(17)Your
children shall make haste; your destroyers and those who destroyed you shall go
away from you:(18)Lift up your eyes around, and behold; all these gather
themselves together, and come to you; As I live, says the Lord, you shall
surely dress yourself with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on you,
as a bride does:(19)For your destruction and your desolate places, and the land
of your destruction, shall now be too narrow for your inhabitants; and those
who swallowed you up shall be far away:(20)The children who were taken away
from you shall say again in your ears, The place is too narrow for me; give me
room to dwell in:(21)Then shall you say in your heart, Who has borne me these,
seeing I have lost my children, a solitary, an exile, and a wanderer to and
fro? and who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where have
they been:(22)Thus says the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the
nations, and set up my standard to the people; and they shall bring your sons
in their arms, and your daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders:(23)And
kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers; they
shall bow down to you with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of
your feet; and you shall know that I am the Lord; for those who wait for me
shall not be ashamed:(24)Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the
captive of the victorious rescued:(25)But thus says the Lord, Even the captives
of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be saved;
for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your
children:(26)And I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and
they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine; and all flesh
shall know that I the Lord am your savior and your redeemer, the mighty One of
Jacob:
Isaiah 50
(1)Thus says the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, with
which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold
you? Behold, for your iniquities have you sold yourselves, and for your
transgressions your mother was put away:(2)Why, when I came, was there no man?
When I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it
cannot redeem? or have I no power to save? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the
sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish stink because there is no
water, and die for thirst:(3)I dress the heavens with blackness, and I make
sackcloth their covering:(4)The Lord God has given me the tongue of the
learned, that I should know how to sustain with a word him who is weary; he
wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as the learned:(5)The Lord
God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, nor did I turn away:(6)I
gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the
hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting:(7)For the Lord God has
helped me; therefore I have not been confounded; therefore have I set my face
like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed:(8)He who justifies me is
near; who will contend with me? let us stand together; who is my adversary? Let
him come near to me:(9)Behold, the Lord God will help me; who is he who shall
condemn me? Lo, they shall all become old as a garment; the moth shall eat them
up:(10)Who is among you who fears the Lord, who obeys the voice of his servant,
who walks in darkness, and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord,
and stay upon his God:(11)Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who surround
yourselves with sparks; walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that
you have kindled; This came to you from my hand; you shall lie down in
sorrow:
Isaiah 52
(1)Awake, awake; put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem, the holy city; from now on there shall no more come to you the
uncircumcised and the unclean:(2)Shake yourself from the dust; arise, and sit
down, O Jerusalem; loose yourself from the bands of your neck, O captive
daughter of Zion:(3)For thus says the Lord, You have sold yourselves for
nothing; and you shall be redeemed without money:(4)For thus says the Lord God,
My people went down the first time to Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian
oppressed them without cause:(5)Now therefore, what have I here, says the Lord,
that my people is taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them howl, says
the Lord; and my name continually every day is blasphemed:
(6)Therefore my people shall know my name; therefore they shall know in that
day that I am he who speaks; behold, here I am:(7)How beautiful upon the
mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who announces peace; who
brings good news of good, who announces salvation; who says to Zion, Your God
reigns:(8)The voice of your watchmen is heard; together shall they sing; for
they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord returns to Zion:(9)Break forth
into joy, sing together, you ruins of Jerusalem; for the Lord has comforted his
people, he has redeemed Jerusalem:(10)The Lord has made bare his holy arm in
the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the
salvation of our God:(11)Depart, depart, go out from there, touch no unclean
thing; go out from her midst; be clean, you who bear the utensils of the
Lord:(12)For you shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight; for the Lord
will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear guard:(13)Behold,
my servant shall prosper, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very
high:(14)As many were astonished at you; saying His appearance is too marred to
be that of a man, and his forms to be that of the sons of men:(15)So shall he
startle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths at him; for that which had
not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they
perceive:
Isaiah 53
(1)Who has believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord
revealed:(2)For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a
dry ground; he had no form nor comeliness that we should look at him, there was
no countenance that we should desire him:(3)He was despised and rejected by
men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with sickness; and we hid as it were our
faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not:(4)Surely he has borne
our sicknesses, and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, struck
by God, and afflicted:(5)But he was wounded because of our transgressions, he
was bruised because of our iniquities; his sufferings were that we might have
peace; and by his injury we are healed:(6)All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the
iniquity of us all: (7)He was oppressed, but he humbled himself and opened not
his mouth; he was brought like a lamb to the slaughter, and like a sheep, that
is dumb before its shearers, he did not open his mouth:(8)By oppression and
false judgment was he taken away; and of his generation who considered? For he
was cut off from the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my
people:(9)And they made his grave among the wicked, and his tomb among the
rich; although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his
mouth:(10)Yet it pleased the Lord to crush him by sickness; if his soul shall
consider it a reward for guilt, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his
days, and the purpose of the Lord shall prosper in his hand:(11)He shall see
the labor of his soul, and shall be satisfied; by his knowledge did my servant
justify the righteous One to the many, and did bear their
iniquities:(12)Therefore I will give him a portion with the great, and he shall
divide the plunder with the strong; because he has poured out his soul to
death; and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors:
Isaiah 54
(1)Sing, O barren, you who did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry
aloud, you who did not labor with child; for more are the children of the
desolate than the children of the married wife, says the Lord:(2)Enlarge
the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your
habitations; spare not, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes: (3)For
you shall break forth on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall
possess nations, and make desolate cities to be inhabited:(4)Fear not; for you
shall not be ashamed; neither be confounded; for you shall not be put to shame;
for you shall forget the shame of your youth, and shall not remember the
reproach of your widowhood any more:(5)For your Maker is your husband; the Lord
of hosts is his name; and your redeemer the Holy One of Israel; He is called
the God of the earth:(6)For the Lord has called you as a woman forsaken and
grieved in spirit, but a wife of youth, Can she be rejected? says your
God:(7)For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercy will I
gather you:(8)In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but
with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you, says the Lord your
redeemer:(9)For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for just as I have sworn
that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that
I would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you:(10)For the mountains shall
depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from you,
nor shall the covenant of my peace be removed, says the Lord who has mercy on
you: (11)O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I
will lay your stones with fair colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires:
(12)And I will make your windows of rubies, and your gates of beryl, and all
your borders of precious stones:(13)And all your children shall be taught of
the Lord; and great shall be the peace of your children:(14)In righteousness
shall you be established; you shall be far from oppression, and you shall not
fear; and from terror, and it shall not come near you: (15)Behold, they may
gather together, but not by me; whoever shall gather together against you shall
fall for your sake:(16)Behold, I have created the metal worker who blows upon
the coals in the fire, and produces an instrument for his work; and I have
created the destroyer to destruct:(17)No weapon that is made against you shall
prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall
condemn; This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and the reward of
their righteousness appointed by me, says the Lord:
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Isaiah 59
(1)Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor is his
ear heavy, that it cannot hear:(2)But your iniquities have separated between
you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, that he will not
hear:(3)For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness:(4)None calls
in uprightness, nor any pleads for truth; they trust in vanity, and speak lies;
they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity:(5)They hatch vipers' eggs,
and weave the spider's web; he who eats of their eggs dies, and from that which
is crushed breaks out a viper: (6)Their webs shall not become garments, nor
shall they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of
iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands:(6)Their feet run to evil,
and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of
iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths:(7)The way of peace they
know not; and there is no judgment in their goings; they have made them crooked
paths; whoever goes in there shall not know peace:(8)Therefore is justice far
from us, nor does righteousness overtake us; we wait for light, but behold
darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom:(9)We grope for the wall like
the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes; we stumble at noonday as in the
night; among the strong we are as dead men:(10)We roar all like bears, and moan
like doves; we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is
far off from us:(11)For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our
sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us; and as for our
iniquities, we know them:(12)In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and
departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and
uttering from the heart words of falsehood: (14)And judgment is turned away
backward, and justice stands far off; for truth is fallen in the street, and
upright dealing cannot enter:(13)And truth is absent; and he who departs from
evil makes himself a prey; and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that
there was no judgment:(15)And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that
there was no one to intervene; therefore his arm brought salvation to him; and
his righteousness sustained him:(16)For he put on righteousness as a
breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the
garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak:
(17)According to their deeds, so will he repay, fury to his adversaries,
recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense:(18)So shall
they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of
the sun; When affliction comes like a flood, the wind of the Lord shall drive
it forth:(19)And a redeemer shall come to Zion, and to those in Jacob who turn
from transgression, says the Lord:(20)As for me, this is my covenant with
them, says the Lord; My spirit that is upon you, and my words which I have put
in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your
seed, nor from the mouth of your seed's seed, says the Lord, from now on and
forever:
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